PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience as a Network Engineer wif strong hands on experience in planning, designing, implementing, troubleshooting and optimization of WAN/LAN technologies such as Routing & Switching
• Worked on network topologies and configurations, TCP/IP, UDP, Frame Relay, Token ring, ATM, bridges, routers, hubs and Switches
• Experience in working wif Juniper routers such as MX - 480, MX-960 and switches EX-4200, EX-4300, EX-8200 and Juniper firewalls such as Juniper SRX-610, SRX-3600
• Experience in Implementing Check Point Firewalls NG, NGX, NG R55, NGX 60, NGX R65, R70, R75, R77.
• Extensive noledge in implementing and configuring F5 Big-IP LTM-3900, and 6900 Load balancers
• Experience wif Load Balancers for administrating and monitoring global & local traffic using F5 BIG IPLTM & GTM
• Configured Client-to-Site and site to site VPN using SSL Client on Cisco ASA 5520 ver8.2.
• Strong hands on experience in layer-3 Routing and layer-2 Switching. Dealt wif Cisco router models like 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, and 2500, 1800 series and Cisco catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 3500, and 2900 series switches.
• In-depth noledge of deploying and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, Frame-Relay, Ether-channel.
• Expertise in configuring switching protocols such as ARP, RARP, VTP, PPP, VLAN, STP, RSTP, PVST+, HSRP, GLBP, VRRP and Routing Protocols such as RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS, and MPLS.
• Experience in IPSEC VPN design connection and protocols, IPSEC tunnel configuration, encryption and integrity protocols.
• Implemented Checkpoint FW Interface, NAT and VLAN using R77 GAIA Smart Dashboard.
• Advanced noledge, design, installation, configuration, maintenance, migration and administration of Checkpoint R77.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Router platforms: Cisco routers (7600, 7200, 3900, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series) & Cisco Catalyst switches (6500, 4900, 3750, 3500, 4500, 2900, 6807 series), Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K & 1K.

Switch platforms: Cisco 2900XL, 2950, 2960, 3560, 3750, 4500 and 6500, Nexus (2K, 5K, 7K and 9K)

Juniper Platforms: SRX, MX, EX Series Routers and Switches

Networking Concepts: Access-lists, Routing, Switching, Subnetting, Designing, CSU/DSU, IPSec, VLAN, VPN, WEP, WAP, MPLS, VoIP, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi

Firewall: Juniper Netscreen 6500, 6000, 5400, Juniper SSG, SRX5600, SRX5800, CheckPoint (NGX, R65, R70 and R71), Cisco Firewalls (ASA 5505, 5506-X, 5585), Palo Alto Networks (PA-2K, PA-3K and PA-5K).

Network Management/Monitoring: Solar winds, HP NNMi 8xi (Network Node Manager), Net flow and Cisco prime, Ethereal / Wireshark, TCP Dump.

Load Balancers: F-5 BIG-IP LTM 2000, 3900, 5000, 6400, 6800 AND 8900, Bluecoat SG8100, AV 510.

WAN technologies: Frame Relay, ISDN, ATM, MPLS, leased lines & exposure to PPP, DS1, DS3, OC3, T1 /T3 & SONET

LAN technologies: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, & 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Port- channel, VLANS, VTP, STP, RSTP, 802.1Q

Security Protocols: IKE, IPsec, SSL, AAA, Access-lists, prefix-lists, SSL-VPN

Networking Protocols: RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, STP, RSTP, VLANs, VTP, PAGP, LACP, MPLS, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, TACACS+, Radius, AAA, IPv4 and IPv6

Operating System: Windows 7/XP, MAC OS X, Windows Server 2008/2003, Linux, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated the Cisco legacy environment which consist of 6500, 4500 to Cisco Nexus 7k/5k/2k.
• Security policy review and configuration in Palo Alto and Juniper SRX Firewall across multiple locations and Datacenter.
• Configured & managed around 400+ Network &Security Devices that includes Cisco Routers & Switches, Nexus Switches, Juniper and Palo Alto Firewalls, F5 BigIP Load balancers, Blue Coat Proxies and Riverbed WAN Optimizers.
• Regular upgrades and maintenance of Infrastructure, Installations, configurations, and maintenance of Cisco Switches (2900, 3500, 7600, 3700 series, 6500 series) Cisco Routers (4800, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2900, 1800, 1700, 800) Cisco Router and Switches, Juniper Routers and Firewalls, Nexus 7k,5k & 2k, f5 BIG IP, Palo
• Designed and configured OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls.
• Deployed Checkpoint GAIA Firewalls Confidential the Data Centers.
• Migrated Sites From EIGRP to OSPF & Migrated Data Center Backend Firewalls from PIX to the ASA.
• Configured policy statements, routing instances, route manipulation on RIP, OSPF and BGP.
• Coordinated wif Vendors for creating and modifying firewall and NAT rules and Maintaining Site to Site and SSL VPN.
• Coordinating wif Store technician for switch addition, movement and replacement Creating, Managing and maintaining rules thereby adhering to corporate security standards using checkpoint Firewall.
• Switching technologies like VLAN, Inter-VLAN Routing, Ether-channel, VTP, MLS, HSRP, VRRP, UDLD, Spanning Tree Protocol 802.1d, 802.1s and 802.1w.
• Configured switch ports (VLAN tagging, switch port mode, Port Channel) Confidential distribution and Access layers for new server builds and critical server movement as per requirement.
• Well experienced in configuring HSRP, GLBP, ICMP, PPP, PAP, OSPF, CHAP and SNMP.
• Experience in installing and configuring DNS, DHCP server.
• Implement/Maintain a Juniper Environment of 600 data collection units across USA.
• Extensive experience in dealing wif Vendors for MPLS/DSL installations.
• Good understanding of OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite (IP, ARP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, SMTP, FTP, TFTP)
• Worked in HP blade centers for server storage and used HP One view for automated lifecycle management.
• Infrastructure trouble shooting and TCP/IP Protocols Experience.
• Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) on Juniper and PaloAlto firewall for the proper network routing for the B2Bnetwork connectivity.

Confidential - Beloit, WI

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Have deployed the Nexus 7000/5000/2000 architecture into production securing competitive advantage across multiple verticals.
• Involved in Planning, Designing and assisted in deploying Enterprise wide Network Security and High Availability Solutions for ASA.
• Cisco 6500 Series Switches (both 6513, 6509), Cisco 4500 Series, Cisco 4006, Cisco 3750 and Cisco 3550.
• Cisco Router 1700, 1900, 2500, 2600, 3600, 7200, HP Procurve switches, ASR series routers.
• Migrated user access switch environment, which is of HP 5406 to Cisco 3750X, 3750G and 3750V2 environment to get gigabit speed.
• Successfully migrated Cisco 6500 environment to Cisco Nexus environment wif 7k/5k and 2ks.
• Extensive experience in handling a Datacenter environment built out of Cisco 7K/5K/2K.
• Installed and maintained Riverbed 2050, 5050 and 7050.
• Maintained the client environment which had Juniper SSG5/SSG20/ISG1000 and SA6500.
• Converted Branch WAN links from TDM circuits to MPLS and to convert encryption from IPSec/GRE to GetVPN.
• Converted to BGP WAN routing, which will be in-turn to convert WAN routing from OSPF to BGP (OSPF is used for local routing only) which involves new wan links.
• Converted CatOS to Cisco IOS Config Conversion on distribution layer switches.
• Have been involved in configuring the Access lists (ACL) on Juniper and PaloALto firewalls for the proper network routing for the B2B network connectivity.
• Monitoring and Inspecting the throughput on HP Tipping point Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) S330 series through command line interface and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS).
• Have created site to site IPSEC VPN tunnels wif Checkpoint, Juniper Netscreen firewalls and Cisco PIX/ASA firewalls.
• Troubleshot and managed Cisco, Juniper and Extreme devices.
• Maintained a backup environment build out of HP8212ZL and HP5406ZL wif 10G uplinks to the core.
• Completed a project to update the patch HFA50 across all the firewall to overcome the bugs in the existing version of R65.
• Migrated the Cisco legacy environment which consist of 6500, 4500 to Cisco Nexus 7k/5k/2k.
• Maintained Checkpoint NG AI, SPLAT - NGX - Rx, R65, R70 and R75
• Responsible for logging & Resolving the severity calls logged in by Incident management.
• Troubleshot complex issues wif wireshark Confidential source and destination which can’t be resolved by the basic troubleshooting like ARP, firewall logs, switch logs and tcpdump.

Confidential - Pittsburgh, MD

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring HSRP between VLANs, Configuring Ether-Channels, and Port Channel on 6500 catalyst.
• Configuring routing protocols OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, MPBGP, LDP and BGPV4.
• Provided estimated bandwidth requirements for data replication, to best determine adequate timing for migration service levels
• Implemented WLAN Aruba Wireless Access Points and its Controllers Confidential various corporate sites fort 11n Infrastructure and its legacy technologies.
• Setup Access list and configured Firewall.
• Switches Replace branch hardware wif new 2851 routers and 2960 switches.
• Switches: Basic Configuration and VLAN/VTP/Spanning tree setup on Cisco 3800, 6500, WDN 6K Nexus/Fexus Switches.
• LAN/WAN design and implementation using Cisco routers, hubs and switches
• Securing network resources wif shared folder permissions, Implementing file security system.
• Configure Switches (layer 2, 3 and 4 switching)
• Router: Basic Configuration and monitoring of Cisco 9K, 71w.
• Configured Cisco Routers using BundleEthernet, RIP, IGRP, OSPF and EIGRP.
• Working noledge of router management and configuration, networks engineering and sub netting of BGP/MPLS/OSPF Networks
• In depth noledge of CISCO IOS, CISCO MIBs and Catalyst command line interface and Cisco hardware platforms.
• Designed and implemented IT security policies and networked backup systems.
• Reviewed, approved, procured various IT hardware and software products to fulfill strategic and operational needs of various departments.
• Worked wif management and various departments to develop procedures and troubleshoot problems as they arose.
• Maintained all servers & network equipment wif current stable firmware, IOS images & access control lists.
• Documented and maintained technical diagrams, documented logical and physical topology, and other IT procedures.
• Coordinated wif higher-level support and external vendors for resolution
• Supported a Cisco 5500 Wireless controller and Cisco 3502 WAP environment.

Confidential, Middletown NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• TEMPHas experience in maintaining huge datacenters wif Heterogeneous environment.
• Implemented multiple Cisco Nexus based Data-Center environments, as well as 6500/4500/3750 series switches, 7200/3900/2900/1900 series router. Multiple data center migrations and transformation projects, wif great expertise on Wireshark.
• Extensive experience in configuring and troubleshooting of protocols RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and MPLS.
• Worked on network topologies and configurations, TCP/IP, UDP, Frame Relay, ATM, bridges, routers, hubs and switches.
• Hands on Knowledge/experience on F5 load balancers, its methods, implementation and troubleshooting on LTMs and GTMs.
• DHCP, DNS, WINS, TCP/IP, NetBEUI, and IPX/SPX Protocols. 5500 Switches and Cisco 2500, 7200 series Routing and CSU/DSU devices and 3com Super stack switches.
• Designed and Implemented Fault Tolerance Raid 5 systems.
• Secured files and folders on NTFS partitions wif Permissions.
• Administrated Local VLANs based on department function, and configure ports wif static VLAN assignment, static 802.1Q trunks, and dynamic ISL trucking using Pap for layer 2 forwarding. Utilize VLAN Spanning-Tree in conjunction wif PVST+ for compatibility between Cisco and Juniper switches. Configure edge ports for fast-transitioning into the forwarding state to fix workstation startup connectivity delays. Modify spanning-tree parameters for manual root bridge assignment.
• Configured routing policies and service profiles for separate levels in an organizational hierarchy using a Cisco Prime Network Services Controller virtual machine.
• These policies and profiles were applied to Cisco Cloud Service Router 1000v (CSR 1000v) virtual routers.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Monitored the Network and its Users and group policies.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office 2000 use and LOTUS notes Admin. Configuration of routing protocols such as RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP, EBGP, and OSPF, IS-IS, and X.25 configurations.
• Creation of new users and Managing Users accounts.
• Installation of Print Server and HP print devices.
• Security and managing Security system.
• Help desk issues and troubleshooting user issues and problems.
• Backing up the domain wif ARCSERVE backup software.
• Windows 95 rollout for NT operating systems.
• Windows NT Server 4.0 operating systems on Compaq and Dell servers in a 500-user node network. Banyan Vines operating systems and Beyond Email system.
• Microsoft Exchange Server and IIS and SMS. Implementing and Configuring NT Servers in Enterprise.
• Unix Systems and HP printer Networks and VPN stations.
• Implement ether-channels between each switch using Pap for negotiation.
• Set up VLANs and access ports connecting virtual machines using the NX-OS CLI on a Cisco Nexus 1000v virtual machine and VMWare vSphere Client networking.
• Maintained Radware LinkProof Internet link load balancer.
• Extensive noledge in implementing Frame-relay, Point to Point, MPLS and IPSEC tunnels.
• Wireless Technology - TEMPHas maintained the Wi-Fi networks for corporate, small and home offices.
• Worked in almost all the models of SOHO Wireless Routers and extensive exp in deploying Cisco Aironet 1100 and Light weight 1000 series access point.
• Worked wif Aruba Wireless AP and Controllers and Cisco Wireless LAN controller.
• Good understanding about how Service Provider network works, WAN Technologies in ISP, MPLS etc...
• Maintained F5 load balancer and Cisco ACE.
• Implemented OSPF and BGP for multiple networks.
• Implemented strategies for operating systems, virus protection, mail systems and Internet services
• Resolved all computer related problems, monitored and maintained system functionality and reliability by identifying ways to prevent system failures.