OBJECTIVE:

• Seeking a challenging position of network engineer which will give me an opportunity to prove potential in me and educate me more in the field of networking and to help reach the goal of the organization and its growth.

PROFESSIONAL BACKGOUND:

• An enthusiastic and hardworking network professional with an experience of 8 years in facing and successfully completing the challenges put forth to me in the networking field.
• Proficient expertise in deploying, designing, troubleshooting and administering data networks for organizations.
• Experience in skillful deployment of Layer-2 technologies like VLANS, VTP, STP, RSTP, Inter-VLAN routing, VLAN Trunking, Ether Channels, VLAN access-maps and port security.
• Experience with working on latest cisco switches like Nexus 2000, 5000, 6000 and 7000 series switches while implementing advanced features like VDC, VPC, OTV and Fabric Path.
• Profound knowledge in deploying routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, RIP on Cisco routers like 2600, 2900, 3600, 3900, 7200 and 7600 series.
• Working expertise in troubleshooting, optimizing and documenting LAN/WAN technologies and T1/T3 WAN technologies.
• Expertise in configuring of SSH, TFTP, FTP, DNS, DHCP and Syslog.
• Knowledge gained by working on Cisco firewall technologies like ASA 5580, AAA with cisco ACS.
• Efficient in configuring and implementing load balancers like F5 BIG-IP LTM, GTM series like 3900, 6900, 8900 and cisco CSM
• Experience in implementing network security using NAT, PAT, ACL, IDS, IPS and ASA firewalls.
• Hands-on experience in deploying frame-relay, GRE tunnels, Remote Access VPN and Site-to-Site VPN.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities

• Performing standard network operations via ITIL standard with Incident Management and Change Management.
• Configuring and managing layer-2 technologies like VLANs, STP, VTP port-security.
• Providing gateway redundancy using HSRP creating ACL for layer-3 security.
• Configuring and troubleshooting layer-3 routing protocols like OSPF, EIGRP BGP.
• Creating IP-prefix-list, route-map, offset-list and distribution list for performing route manipulations.
• Creating BGP multi-homed network using BGP attributes like AS-PATH, MED and local-preference as per the environment.
• Migrated catalyst 45XX and 65XX switches to Nexus 7000 switches, where 7018 being the core and 5000, 2000 as the distribution layer switches for data center requirments.
• Performed Enterprise refresh on Switch block that involved replacing legacy catalyst devices with Cisco NEXUS 2000 series fabric-extenders, 5000 series Fabric Interconnects and Nexus 6000, 7000 series core switches. Implemented features like VPC, VDC, OTV and Fabric Path for high availability and redundant server farm environment.
• Worked with Sup 2E for 7018 switch and F cards for L2 switching and few M cards for L3 proxy routing purposes for F cards.
• Worked with Nexus 6001T switch which is used for low- port-to-port latency in the data center using cut-through feature architecture. And configured VPC on these switches along with Nexus 2200 Fabric extenders.
• Worked on OTV to extend L2 VLANs between data centers over IP on Nexus 7018 switches.
• Configured IPSEC Site-to-Site VPNs to provide secure remote access to vendors and partners using SPA modules on Cisco 6500.
• Worked on commissioning WAN links and troubleshooting WAN outages.
• Deployed Cisco 6500 series switches with SUP32 SUP720 and, implemented VSS.
• Maintained checkpoint 41000 and 61000 systems, juniper SRX3600 and PA-5050 firewalls
• Worked on Enterprise application load balancing using F5 BIG-IP LTM 6400 and Cisco CSM. Worked with application and system teams to investigate application high availability requirements to deploy the optimum Load Balancing mechanism and provided network oriented support for end-to-end application life cycle management.
• Worked on Firewall rule management as part of network operations to take care of Firewall ACL requests. Maintained ASA 5580 to ensure high end security on the network with ACLs and Firewall. I also performed firewall troubleshooting to resolve application issues in DMZ and server farm.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities

• Worked on OSPF using features like TSA, SA, NSSA and route summarization. Configured EBGP/IBGP policies also tested BGP attributes such as Local preference, MED, AS-PATH, Community and Weight
• Configured Virtual-link between dis-contiguous backbone areas in the network.
• Configured and worked on VRFs on the CE to support MPLS L3 VPNs. The work also involved fixing MPLS based circuits to effectively resolve communication issues.
• Building configurations for Cisco 6500 sup 720 , 4500 sup 6 3750 catalyst switches with features like port security, VLANS, VTP, PVST .
• Creating ACL policies for Cisco 5540 ASA firewall with access control to NAT and object grouping functions.
• Worked on F5 BIG-IP LTM, configured profiles provided and ensured high availability.

• Designed WAN structure to prevent single point of failure in case of link failure.

Confidential

Jr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities

• Providing documentation by creating MOPs and VISIO diagrams for the network designing team.
• Maintaining the networking devices which mean racking, stacking cabling for the networking devices.
• Involved in troubleshooting IP addressing issues and Updating IOS images using TFTP.
• Creating VLANS and enabling inter-VLAN routing.
• Configuring layer-2 technologies like STP, VTP with suitable parameters as per the network environment.
• Managing network security with respect to port-security on access layer and access control lists on distribution layer.
• Providing gateway redundancy for Cisco 2600, 2800 3600 routers using HSRP.
• Configuring routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF BGP and troubleshooting layer3 issues.