OBJECTIVE:

• To secure a challenging position in a company that would benefit from my skills, experience and qualification. Seeking opportunities for professional growth, and increasing responsibilities.

SUMMARY

• CCNA Certified Network Engineer and AWS Cloud Architect with 8 Years of experience installing, configuring & maintaining Cisco Routers and Switches and configuring and troubleshooting routing protocols.
• Hands on experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), including RDS, EC2, S3, VPC, IAM, security polices and CloudFormation.
• Experience in installation, coninstallation, configuration, and administration of VMware vSphere, ESX 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 VMware vCenter 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 and Windows server 2000/2003/2008 R2 and software’s figuration, and administration of VMware vSphere, ESX 3.0, 3.5 and 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 VMware vCenter 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 and Windows server 2000/2003/2008 R2 and software’s
• Working experience on Cisco Routers series 1700, 1800, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200
• Working experience on Cisco Switches series 2900, 3500, 3700, 4500, 6500
• Expertise in various internetworking protocols such as RIP, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, SNMP, PPP, HDLC, and VRRP.
• Good knowledge in OSI model, TCP/IP model, IP Addressing, Subnetting, VLSM,
• Extensive experience on LAN and WAN Networks.
• Expertise in implementing Layer 2 technologies STP, RSTP, BPDU guard, Portfast, Uplinkfast, Backbonefast, VLAN, VTP.
• Configuring Security policies including NAT & PAT
• Implemented Traffic filters using Standard and Extended Access - lists, Distributed-Lists and Route Maps.
• Implementing and Troubleshooting Route Redistribution between Static, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP protocols.
• Implementing protocols HSRP, VRRP and GLBP.
• Configuration Site-to-Site Tunnels (IPSEC), Remote Access (SSL VPN).
• Basic Knowledge on F5 Load Balancers.
• Network sniffing tools like Wire shark and Solar winds.
• Having Exposure of different operating systems like: Microsoft, Linux, Unix
• Experienced in troubleshooting both connectivity and hardware issues on Cisco based networks. providing operations and maintenance support for AWS cloud resources which includes launching, maintaining, and troubleshooting EC2 instances, S3 buckets, Virtual Private Clouds (VPC), Elastic Load Balancers (ELB)
• Relational Database Services (RDS), Backups.
• Configuration maintenance, and monitoring via CloudWatch.
• Route 53 management
• Sound knowledge on ESXi and ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots
• Excellent communications skills and Interpersonal skills with ability to work with large teams and independently with minimum supervision and a good team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Systems: Windows (XP, Vista, 7), Windows Server 2008, Linux, UNIX

Models: OSI, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, Route 53, DNS

Concepts: IP addressing, Subnetting, FLSM, VLSM

Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, CloudFormation, IAM, Route 53, VPC)

Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP, DHCP, IDS/IPS, RAS, RADIUS, ATM Network, Ethernet, Frame Relay, ISDN, Switching/Routing, Multicasting, Access Lists, SIP/SDP, VLAN, VTP/STP, IPsec/GRE, MPLS, HSRP/VRRP/GLBP, IPv4/Ipv6, Dedicated line

Network Tools: Wireshark, Solar wind, Cloudwatch

Protocols: Static, RIP v1&2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP (Basic), IS-IS, GRE

Network Devices: Cisco Routers Series 1700, 1800, 2600, 3600, 3800, 7200

Cisco Catalyst: Switch 2900, 3500, 3700, 4500, 6500

Network Security: Cisco ASA

General Cabling: network devices, rommon mode, Upgrading IOS versions.

VM Ware: VSphere, VMware ESX and ESXi 3, 3.5, 4.0, ESXi 4.1 and 5.0, Vmware workstation

Mail System: Lotus Notes 6.5x, 7.0x & 8.0x, Outlook 2010

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Marlborough, MA

Network Engineer cum AWS Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of the new devices to meet the requirement and connect to the existing network.
• Configuring and troubleshootingRouting protocols RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, and troubleshoot issues related to routers such as IOS configuration, router operations and hardware issues.
• Performed installation and configuration of Cisco switches, Routers and Telnet.
• Implementing, deploying and troubleshooting VLANs, VTP, STP, MSTP, RSTP, Root Guard, BPDU Guard, Port Fast, Uplink Fast, Backbone Fast, Ether Channel, and 802.1Q.
• Converted networks with multiple routing protocols such as EIGRP, RIP into a single OSPF domain.
• Implementation and verification of GLBP protocol and modifying route maps.
• Design and configuration of LAN and WAN.
• Implementation of IPSec, Static route, IPSEC over GRE, Dynamic routing.
• Implementing secure ACL’s, NAT and PAT.
• Perform IOS upgrades and maintain all the network equipment.
• Deployment and conversion of layer 2 to layer 3 at access level.
• Upgrading and Troubleshooting Cisco IOS to the Cisco routers and switches.
• Technical assistance for LAN/WAN management and customer issues.
• Responsible for building out and improving the reliability and performance of cloud applications and cloud infrastructure deployed on Amazon Web Services
• Create and attach volumes on to EC2 instances
• Configure AWS VPC with public and private subnets
• Run CloudFormation scripts at the direction of developers to launch AWS Infrastucture and resources
• Launch and configure mysql and Mongo DB server instances on both EC2 classic and RDS
• Perform software and infrastructure installations, user management, and AMI backups via Ansible playbooks
• Manage security keys and security groups
• Perform system monitoring using CloudWatch
• Install and configure LAMP application stacks
• Support existing server infrastructure in a 24x7 on-call escalation capacity as part of a team rotation

Confidential - Conshohocken, PA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• One of the Network Engineer in the Networking Team that manages 27 Data Centers all over the USA.
• Handling the Customer Tickets related to all Network issues.
• Experience with Cisco switches, Cisco routers, Building and troubleshooting site-to-site Tunnels (IPSEC), Remote Access Tunnels (SSL VPN).
• Troubleshooting the connectivity issues with the network (worked on the issues related to the Firewalls).
• Access-Lists, Dynamic Access Policies, port forwarding, service policies and NAT/PAT set up.
• Basic working knowledge on F5 Load Balancers.
• Troubleshooting the connectivity issues with the network.
• Troubleshooting routing and switching issues.
• OSPF, BGP, HSRP Protocols.
• Configured and installed ESXi 5.1 on HP DL and BL servers.
• Created VMs, Host Clusters, Storage Clusters, Host Profiles and Storage Profiles.
• Created VM Templates, Configured Templates and deployed Templates.
• Reconfigured Alarms and Alerts for newly deployed ESXi Hosts.

Confidential - Oaks, PA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analysis, optimization and troubleshooting the LAN/WAN.
• Worked with Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3500, 2900 and Cisco 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200 series Routers.
• Configured VLANs, VTP, 802.1q tagging, STP, BPDU guard, port-fast, uplink fast.
• Extensively worked on network management using SSH, Telnet, SNMP and ICMP.
• Configuration and troubleshooting EIGRP.
• Configuration to allow clients applications to be accessed within our company.
• Configured HSRP and GLBP protocols.
• Supported networks that have 2000+ Cisco devices.
• Provided remote support to clients and interfaced with customers to ensure their satisfactions, collaborating with various departments for additional assistance.
• Maintained large scale VMware ESX infrastructure
• Installed and configured ESX 4.0 in large scale, installed vcenter server and configured to manage the ESX servers Designed and configured DMZ environment in virtual environment
• Created VMs in large scale and installed different guest OS and Customized windows 2000/2003 servers in terms of Registry, Audit/Account/Security policy, patching, to sustain Company Standard Operating Environment

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, and maintained Cisco 7200, 3800, 2800 series routers and Cisco 3750, 4560, 6500 series switches including layer 3 switches
• Configured and troubleshot routing protocols Static, RIP v1&2, EIGRP, OSPF and STP
• Configured switches for layer 3 functions such as VLAN, VLAN Routing and VTP
• Designed and Implemented security policies using ACL and NAT/PAT
• Installed and troubleshot network cabling (UTP and Optical Fiber)
• Installed and troubleshot hardware, common network problems and multiple operating systems
• Performed backup for personal computers and servers (Daily, weekly and monthly) and installed and monitored antivirus programs
• Conducted troubleshooting at client side on WAN & LAN networks

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring Cisco Routers series 1800,2600, 2800, 3600
• Configuring Cisco Switches series Cat 5000, Cat 3750
• Loading IOS, COS on Cisco Routers and Switches
• Configuring EIGRP routing protocol
• Troubleshooting routing loops
• Configuring Spanning tree protocol
• Troubleshooting layer2 loops