SUMMARY:

• Network engineer with three plus years work experience in
• Design, planning, coordination and implementation of high traffic enterprise/industrial Routing & Switching using Cisco/Juniper/Hirschmann/Ruggedcom s devices, cisco VoIP, Aruba wireless, Cisco ASA/Juniper SRX firewalls, Riverbed WAN optimization and VM ware virtualization.
• Troubleshooting operational Incidents related to data center/campus/industrial switches & F5 BIG - IP LTM
• Strong Working experience and understanding of OSI and TCP/IP model
• Self-motivated, able to handle high pressure situations & Multiple priorities very well, Strong Project management, follow-up, teamwork, collaboration skills and willing to travel.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Switch platforms: Cisco Catalyst Layer 2 -2950,2960. Layer3 -3650, 3750, 3560,3850, 4500, 4900 Series Cisco Nexus 7K,5K,2K, Juniper QFX 10008,10016Hirschmann Switches and Seimens Ruggedcom

Router platforms: Cisco ASA 1000,9000 series Cisco ISR 3600, 3800, 3900 Series Juniper MX 460, 980

Firewalls: Cisco ASA 5510, 5550,5580

Load balancers: F5 Big IP LTM 8900 and 6400.

Network Protocols: Physical layer: Fiber optics, Copper twisted pair (UTP & STP), Copper CAT 5/5e/6 Cabling (RJ45, RJ11), 802.11(a/b/g/n/ac), T1, T3, E1,TDM, DWDM Ethernet, VLAN, ISL, 802.1Q trunking, DTP, VTP, Spanning-tree, PVSTP+, MSTP, Ether channel (LAgP,PACP), First hop redundancy( HSRP, VRRP,GLBP), Private Vlan, Port security, Frame Relay, ATM, CoS, CDP, CEF,TCAM, MPLS, Virtual Routing and Forwarding(VRF), VPLS, 802.1x, Multicast, Policy based routing VDC, VPC, VSS, cisco stack wise, Frame Relay, ATM. IPV4, ICMP, ARP, IPV6, Static routing, Dynamic routing (RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP), Routeredistribution, Route filtering, DHCP, NAT, QOS, prefix list, route map, route filtering, VLSMsubnetting/supernetting (VLSM/CIDR), MTU, Policy based routing (PBR). TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, flowcontrol, MSS, SNMP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, TFTP

Voice protocols: NTP, RTP, RTCP, Signaling protocols - SIP, SCCP, MGCP, H323, 802.3af POE, CoDec Standards (g711,g729,g728& g726), T1/DS1, T3/DS3, E1.

Network Monitoring tools: Solar winds Orion, Splunk, Cisco RTMT

Security Protocols: AAA, TACACS+, Radius, NAT/PAT, ACLs, IPsec VPN, GRE, SSL / TLS VPN, SSH, IPS/IDS

Operating Systems: Windows server 2003, Windows 2008, Linux, Windows 7/10

Network Operating Systems: Cisco IOS, NX-OS, CATOS, Aruba, JUNOS, TMOS

Documentation Tools: Microsoft Office, Visio, Project, SharePoint

Softwares: GNS3, Wireshark, netflow, Opnet, Microsoft office (Visio, Word, excel, Power point & Outlook).

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, designing, testing and implementing Industrial networks for Bombardier customers
• Includes the physical and logical design of the network components in a multi - tenant data centres. These components include heavy IP design, switching, routing, security, load-balancing and route selection systems as well as establishing network fail-over capabilities between components.
• Responsible for participating in technology decisions as they relate to the overall network architecture and associated technologies. This includes the IP design possibly creating schemes to resolve IP route conflicts, switching, routing protocols, load-balancing and route selection technologies that include VRF and policy-based routing, policy-based load-balancing, etc.
• Working with other teams such as system architects, system administrators and hardware support groups
• Designed data networks with Cisco catalyst, Juniper, Hirschmann and Ruggedcom switches.
• Designed and implemented Security systems - Firewalls (Cisco ASA 5525, Juniper SRX)
• Designed and implemented fiber optic systems, fiber testing, QOS and Access lists concepts
• Done network Design Documentation work using Microsoft word, Visio and Auto CAD.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured and managed routing protocols- OSPF, EIGRP in high speed (10 Gbps) LAN and BGP routing policy to influence incoming traffic paths.
• Configured and managed switching architecture consisting of Core-spine, distribution (inter Vlan), access(intra Vlan) Switches and terminal servers. handled riverbed steelheads upgradation project to CX5070 model (Serial Configuration) and configured optimization rules through CMC. implemented modular DSCP to prioritize real time Voice & video traffic for all new site network implementations.
• ASA firewall design and installation (Application and URL filtering, Threat Prevention, Data Filtering). Configured and maintained IPSEC and SSL VPN's on ASA Firewalls.
• Got trained in fore scout counteract operation & Linux operating system
• Implemented the Aruba WLAN Infrastructure on 7240 & 6000 series controllers (Controller Configuration- AP groups, SSID profile,Authentication Profile, Controller Clustering) & integrated 1500access points (WAP 105,205) to controllers.
• Worked on Aruba airwave for generating RF Network implementation plan, Create Bill of Materials(BOM), Monitoring Arubainfrastructure, report generation, rogue detection and for end user issues troubleshooting. generated and worked on over 25 Aruba TAC cases related to wireless design and operational issues.
• Implemented Cisco Voice Subscribers on UCS C210 server and integrated to CUCM cluster. Performed the task ofinstalling & integrating phones, Cisco video end points, telepresence equipment, fax machines, E1 lines, configuring CSS, Establish SIP Trunks, partitions, Device pools, hunt groups, route patterns, Route group, route list, trunks, creating user profiles, voice mail profiles in bulk using templates, phone troubleshooting (Phone Models:7911,7937,7962,8811,8832,8861) in CUCM(v8.6).
• Handled the project of Transitioning internal numbers to E.164 numbers, Nortel to cisco Phones
• Integrated Cisco 3900 voice gateways in to the cluster and configured Time division Multiplexing (TDM infrastructure) E1 lines, Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE)and logical partitioning. Configured fax lines on VG224. Implemented SRST for remote sites
• Automate task for system performance, networking monitoring, and configuration management using Perl, Python and Shell Scripting.
• Performed automated network backups using HP Network Automation(HPNA) tool.
• Planned, Created and implemented Change requests(CRQ) for network maintenance, system upgrades and BAU Changes through BMC Remedy during weekends and after work hours in accordance with ITIL. handled operational incidents related to port activation / deactivation, VLAN Addition, initial network support, and network device replacement (RMA), VPC, VDC, VSS, F5 BIG-IP LTM(irules), Cisco phone troubleshooting, integrating cisco/polycom video and voice devices to CUCM, switch end user connectivity issues, Aruba wireless connectivity/authentication(ClearPass) issues and security vulnerabilities with in SLA.
• Documented and maintained network diagrams using Microsoft Visio. prepared and presented network performance metrics from SolarWinds Orion, call detailed record (CDR) logs analysis report and wireless utilization report as power point presentations and assisted in making technical decisions and improvements to maintain technology advancement.
• Worked with both internal (Windows, Web, Desktop, Unix, Development) and external facing clients, vendors, carriers on the circuit installation, connectivity setup. Coordinate necessary steps related to carrier maintenance notices.
• Performed quarterly disaster recovery exercises in data, voice and wireless networks.
• Worked with the Information Security team and ensured security and compliance requirements are met and helped with the investigation, analysis and correction of network vulnerabilities.
• Maintained Network inventory & vendor contact data. worked with vendors to isolate network cabling issues, telecom providers and other Technology teams to bring issues to resolution.
• Got trained in UNIX/Linux during period. mentored junior team members.
• Initiating, replacing and returning Cisco RMA, supporting video surveillance over IP device installation.
• Promoted as Senior Network Engineer on December 2015.