SUMMARY

• An experienced Network and security Administrator with significant design, support, administration and implementation experience of network projects. Over 7 years of IT experience in network protocols, Firewalls, VPN and Communication Network design.
• Efficient use of Microsoft VISIO as technical documentation and presentation tools.
• Excellent experience in Network Planning, Implementing, Configuring, Troubleshooting and Testing of networking system
• Experience with Cybersecurity in security planning, policies, procedures, documentations etc
• Always meets client demands and develops good long - term customer relationships IT Project Engineer in delivering technology based enterprise solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routing / WAN: EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, BGP, IP Routing,MPLS

Switching: Vlan, VTP, STP, Ether channel, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP.

Security: ACL, NAT, VPN IPSec Tunnel, GRE Tunnel, 802.1x, Port Security, Firewalls, TACACS.

NMS / Analysis: Cisco works, IPSwitch what’s up Gold, MRTG, Solarwind Network engineer toolset, Netflow analyzer, Syslog, Visio.

Hardware: Catalyst 2960 / 3550 / 3750 / 4500 / 6500 series switches, 3845 / 3745 / 2821 / 2600 Series Cisco routers, Cisco ASA 5520, Checkpoint SPLAT/GAIA, Nexus 7K/5K/2K

Operating Systems: Cisco IOS, Windows Server 2003 / 2000 / NT and Workstation 98/XP/ 7/10

Network Tools: NetQOS, nagios

Load Balancer: F5 LTM

Management: ITIL training

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, configuration and Implementation of company Network Infrastructure setup.
• Monitoring and Management of Global Customer's Network Security Infrastructure (Firewalls, VPNs).
• Troubleshooting network security related incidents, problems, recommending remediation actions, performing root cause analysis.
• Installation, configuration and management of Checkpoint Firewall Rules/ Policy Configuration, Creation of Site-to-Site VPN Tunnels, C2S tunnel.
• Installation and Configuration of switches, routers, checkpoint appliance, dell servers
• Working with service desk, remedy ticketing tools used for handling incidents and request.
• Working on Clarify and Remedy ticketing system to address customers Network related issues.
• Troubleshooting various network related issues with Service providers (Orange, Verizon, Confidential & Confidential, and Time Warner Cables).
• Firewall and router configuration changes as per the business requirement.
• Work for permanent solution on reoccurring network Incidents.
• Making emergency changes in the network to ensure uninterrupted services.
• Designed and deployed networks using dynamic routing protocol (EIGRP, OSPF and BGP).
• Communicated with local and foreign telecom bodies for procuring and commissioning of various local, MPLS, Internet link, and ISDN circuits to support and data/voice application.
• Developed and documented network diagrams and procedures.
• Devices used Checkpoint Firewall SPLAT/GAIA, ASA 5520, routers 2600, 2800, 3700 3800 series, switches 6500, 4503, 2960, 3548 series.
• Used routing table and firewall logs to troubleshot, tcpdump to track firewall real-time data.
• Used Visio diagram to support the verification of switches and servers in the DMZ
• Configured Checkpoint VPN to tunnel encrypted data over the public network.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of the company network.
• Duties included monitoring network performance using various network tools to ensure the availability, integrity and confidentiality of application and equipment
• Configured and troubleshoot OSPF and EIGRP.
• Troubleshooting of DNS, DHCP and other IP conflict problems
• Planning and configuring the routing protocols such as OSPF and Static Routing on the routers.
• WAN Infrastructure runs OSPF & BGP as core routing protocol.
• Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS, VTP, STP and configuring on the Fast Ethernet channel between switches
• Responsible for configuring a site to site VPN on checkpoint firewall between Head office and Branch office
• Work on tuffin report for rule validation etc.
• Configured Firewall logging, DMZs & related security policies& monitoring
• Worked on Cisco Layer 2 switches (spanning tree, VLAN).
• Hands on experience working with security issues like applying ACL's, configuring NAT and VPN
• Responsible for Internal and external accounts and, managing LAN/WAN and checking for security, Involved in Network Migrations to VSS
• Creating Private VLANs& preventing VLAN hopping attacks& mitigating spoofing with snooping & IP source guard
• Setup and configuration of checkpoint firewall, licenses, routing, enabling rules as per requirement etc.
• Developed and documented network diagrams in Visio
• Generating Bandwidth utilization report for customer to keep track of link utilization
• Participate in security Audits and working on the NC till the closure
• Experience with Supporting both Network and Security infrastructure in the data center environment and Campus environment, which involved with devices such as routers, switches, firewalls and wireless access points.
• Strong hands on experience on Checkpoint GAIA / SPLAT Firewalls. Implemented security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS)
• Experience with implementing Cisco 6500 VSS on the User distribution switches.
• Upgraded IOS on the different checkpoint firewall versions
• Strategies for the expansion of the MPLS VPN networks
• Working Knowledge of Cisco IOS, Cisco Cat OS, Cisco NX-OS, JUNOS
• Experience with configuring BGP in the data center and also using BGP as a WAN protocol and manipulating BGP attributes
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of LAN, WAN, IP Routing, Multilayer Switching.
• Performing on-site data center support including monitoring electrical power, switch alarms, network alerts and access logs.
• Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on switches
• Dealt with monitoring tools like (Solar Winds, Cisco Works), network packet capture tools like Wire shark
• Maintained a Network with more than 6000 Network devices, some 25,000 end hosts, and the other Network devices like DHCP, DNS servers, Firewall servers

Confidential

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Ensure network connectivity of all workstations and sites.
• Performing daily check list to ensure the services are up and running
• Troubleshooting various issues related to LAN, WAN, data.
• Providing project consultation for new projects.
• Managing / providing remote support to customers
• Work in line with Incident Management, Change Management and Problem management to improve and maintain existing SLA.
• Conducting monthly and weekly DRs for critical links to ensure the fallback incase one link or site goes down.
• Configuring Juniper gateway based on the client requirements.
• Configuring Authentication servers like AD, ACE, RADIUS, LDAP, Certificate server in SSL VPN Secure Access device.
• Troubleshooting the problem related with VPN connectivity, Endpoint security.
• Troubleshooting the issues related to VPN client technology like Network Connect, SAM.
• Configuration of Active directory and RSA with Juniper SSL VPN.
• Upgrading the SSL gateway with latest release.
• Providing support for RSA ACE server and RSA remote client software