OBJECTIVE

• I am hardworking and motivated person with great experience in IP Routing Switching and Security for Designing, Integration & Installation troubleshooting large networks. I am a good team player and can lead from the front. I have experienced pressured environments, can work in stress conditions and have accrued a multitude of skills including network operations, network security, handling NOC critical issues. I am seeking new professional challenges and am eager to put my knowledge towards the growth and development of your organization.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

NETWORK Engineer / Video Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge of TCP/IP, ATM network, WAN/LAN principles, basic data base theory, IP Access, Wi - fi principles (Cisco), server cluster configuration, application support and architecture.
• Experience with Tektronix Sentry and Medius setup and troubleshooting.
• Network Operations monitoring mission critical applications.
• Knowledge of Video monitoring system setup and configuration
• Supervises day-to-day activities of NOC technicians (prioritizes workloads, resource planning, overseeing daily/weekly activities, approve time, etc.) to achieve Network Trouble Management (NTM) standards compliance and network reliability metrics (Service Level Agreement (SLA), Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), alarm recovery, Channel Service availability, etc.).
• Ensures compliance with and adherence to all Google & Confidential TV policies and procedures including all internal NOC procedures. Strong understanding of MPEG and MPEG analysis.
• Ensures NOC goals are met by prioritizing and managing projects with the other NOC and National Operations managers, market teams, Regional teams, and vendors.
• Serves as escalation point for all NOC issues while on shift and verifies relieving managers have the matter in hand when they go off shift.
• Maintains engagement even when off shift and remains aware of conditions affecting the NOC on a 24x7 basis unless on PTO or otherwise assigned. Audits and maintains integrity of operations-centric data in all engineering systems, including proper closure of tickets/tasks and work-log updates (InSite, Homer, Net Expert, etc.).
• Worked and performed troubleshooting, implementing, optimizing and testing of static and dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF, OSPFv3, and BGP, MP-BGP, MPLS traffic engineering, L2VPN, L3-VPN ability to interpret and resolve complex route table problems.
• Experience with ARP, SSH and FTP, DNS, HTTPS, and RTP.
• Implemented security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS).
• Develop Mop for the NOC in executing change or troubleshooting an issue.
• Creating custom profiles, health monitors, and also configuring SNAT pools, syslog and SNMP
• Extensive knowledge and experience with hosting SSL certificates on Tek-Probe.
• Upgrade Tektronix and Medius, Everts firmware.
• Knowledge about reverse proxy and full Proxy architecture, Worked with F5-BIG-IP Team in YTV project.
• Configured Palo Alto as a forward proxy for all Web URL Filtering.
• Working with the Tech, on-site and replacing the faulty hardware, and handling the RMA tickets.
• My responsibility was to provide Designing, evaluation, integration, and support for Network and Security project with the clients representing Juniper Networks Professional Services. Also provide Trainings of Juniper Networks Routers and Firewalls.
• Strong experience in upgrading Cisco IOS to Cisco Nexus NX-OS in the data centers.
• In-depth knowledge of routing protocols like BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS and Static routing.
• Expertise in installing, configuring and troubleshooting of Cisco routers (7600, 7200, ASR 12000, 9000) and Cisco switches (Nexus 7000, 5000, Catalyst 6500, 6800).
• Hands-on experience in implementing layer3 security through IPSEC tunneling, Access lists, NAT, PAT and preventing the layer2 attacks like Mac flooding, VLAN hopping and DHCP snooping.
• Strong working experience in layer2 technologies and protocols including VLANs, VTP, Link Aggregation (LACP/PAGP), STP, RSTP, PVST+ and MSTP.
• Expertise in TCP/IP, Subnetting, Network Diagrams, Documentation and troubleshooting L2, L3 connectivity issues.
• Configuration, operation, and implementation of JUNOS Software on the SRX, M/T Series Routers, JUNOS routing and security platforms. Implementation of OSPF, ISIS, BGP, MPLS, Multicast on Juniper Networks Routers. Implementing and monitoring SCREEN, NAT, IPSec VPNs, Update IDP Signatures, IDP policy/templates, High Availability Chassis Cluster, on JUNOS security platforms; Troubleshooting Traffic, VPN, IDP, Upgrading JUNOS for SRX Platforms.
• Testing L2/L3 LAG, Testing Trunk over single and LAG interface, Testing Complete STP
• Testing Quality of Service
• Testing LAN Port Security, Testing Routing OSPF Basics, Testing VRRP
• Testing Management (Syslog, TACACS+, SNMP, Login User, NTP)
• Juniper EX Series (EX2200, EX3200, EX3300, EX4200, EX4500, EX4550, EX8208, XRE200)

Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing, supporting, and maintaining 24x7 network services.
• Coordinated efforts with Engineers to ensure all network devices conformed to defined network standards.
• Configured, Troubleshoot and Maintained Firewalls policies on Cisco NGFW 5500 series and Palo alto including Security, NAT policy definitions; application filtering; Regional based rules; URL filtering, Data filtering, file blocking, User based policies, Configured Active/Passive HA links between PA Firewalls.
• Configured Firewall-security context modes, interfaces, objects and access list, NAT, AAA for network access and advanced network protection on Cisco Firewalls.
• Migrated from Cisco ASA to Palo Alto firewalls.
• Implement advanced Palo Alto Firewall features like URL filtering, User-ID, App-ID, Content-ID on both inbound and outbound traffic.
• Deployed Palo Alto firewalls using Confidential NSX through L2 and L3 interfaces on models such as VM-300, VM-500, and VM-1000-HV.
• Enable file forwarding to Wildfire cloud through Content-ID implementation to identify new threats.
• Leveraged Palo Alto Networks’ Wildfire inspection engine to prevent Zero-Day attacks.
• Manage multiple Palo Alto firewalls centrally through the Palo Alto Panorama M-500 centralized Management appliance.
• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP and routing and switching protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, spanning-tree) is mandatory.
• Implement the Global Protect VPN, IPSec VPNs and SSL VPNs through IKE and PKI on Palo Alto firewalls for site-to-site VPN Connectivity.
• Configured AAA Server (RADIUS and TACACS+) for authentication and authorization of all remote VPN users.
• Fiber Multimode, Single mode, UTP, etc.), Bridging, Switching, Routing, Ethernet and Transport technologies and protocols, Configured static NAT, dynamic NAT, dynamic NAT overloading.
• Analyzing traffic captures with Wireshark or another packet tracing tool.
• Troubleshooting of Cisco 2800, 2900, 3900, 7200, 7600, ASR900, routers.
• Strong experience in working with Network Access Control (NAC) policies using MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) protocol and IEEE 802.1x protocol.
• Worked and performed troubleshooting, implementing, optimizing and testing of static and dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF, and BGP, MP-BGP, HSRP, VRRP.
• Experience with ARP, SSH and FTP, DNS, HTTPS, and RTP.
• Deployed Cisco 2500 and 5800, 1242 Series Wireless Controllers and 1xxx and 2xxx series Access Points
• Setup new node in SolarWinds and configured alarms and integrate with the API’s.

Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing, supporting, and maintaining 24x7 network services.
• Resolved Dell laptop's & Desktop hardware, software, networking connectivity issue's
• Worked in Critical environment created problem solving doc for troubleshooting.
• Monitors network traffic to identify problems and make capacity planning recommendations with the help of NMS and Monitoring tools.
• Good knowledge in using ticketing and software tools to support the current operations.
• Conducts updates of management information systems, including asset management, time tracking and other systems.
• Worked in infrastructure team on installation, configuration and administration of CentOS 5.x/6.x/7, Windows Server and SUSE Linux 10.x/11.
• Experience in Package Management using Red Hat RPM/YUM and Red Hat Satellite server and Linux.
• Experience in Package management like Install, remove and update and querying packages using RPM tool.
• Experience in Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning on UNIX Red Hat Linux Systems.
• Installation and upgrade of Packages and Patches configuration mgmt, version control, service pack & reviewing connectivity issue regarding security problem.
• Experience in Installing Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration on Unix/Linux systems.
• Experience in Configuring Kick start servers to install Red Hat Linux and VMWare ESX on multiple machines.
• Good understanding of OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite (IP, ARP, TCP, UDP, SMTP, FTP, and TFTP)
• Assist with the deployment of new solutions to HQ and Country Offices (remote sites) using a variety of WAN solutions (MPLS, point-to-point, VPN).
• Work as part of a high performing team.
• Installation and configuration of CCTV Cameras and DVR Servers, Lightspeed POS Servers, Configured.
• Troubleshoot, diagnose and repair hardware and software via Lightspeed support.
• Schedule and coordinate installation and maintenance of software/hardware on the network.
• Creation & modification of access list, prefix-list & distribution lists, Route-map NAT (Static, Dynamic & PAT)
• Configuration Cisco Switches 2960, 3550, and 3560” & VLAN setups in Cisco switches. Knowledge of VTP (Dot 1q and ISL) & STP.
• Using Protocol for Load Balancing in L3 devices- HSRP.

Trainee Support Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing, supporting, and maintaining 24x7 network services.
• Set up accounts and passwords for specific users with authorization to access networks.
• Assisted with the maintenance and monitoring of all data communications systems.
• Install and configure all network hardware and equipment, including routers, switches, firewalls, content filters, WAN optimizers, load-balancers, and so on.
• Configure and monitor load-balancing and proxy of applications.
• Maintain all network hardware and equipment, including routers, switches, firewalls, load-balancers, and wireless equipment.
• Consult with end-users, clients, or senior management to supporting business requirements for complex systems and infrastructure development.
• Maintains all software and licensing to ensure compliance/legality of use.
• Participate in network, voice, and collaboration integrations design, planning, and execution for M&A integrations.
• Uses established network monitoring tools to diagnose and troubleshoot network issues based on utilization, packet loss, and latency,
• Upgrade and maintenance of Infrastructure, Installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco Switches (2900, 3500, 7600, 3700 series, 6500 series) Cisco Routers (4800, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2900).