SUMMARY

• Having 7+ years of experience as a Network Engineer in Designing and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, MPLS in Branch, Campus, and Data Center environments.
• Resourceful Network Engineer skilled at executing efficient and reliable solutions to complex enterprise networks.
• Hard - working and driven with diligence to provide routing and switching support for the end client’s business and network requirements.
• Installing and configuring F5 Load balancers and firewalls with LAN/WAN configuration.
• Experience deploying BIG-IP F5LTM, Cisco ACE and A10 Load Balancers for load balancing and Implementation traffic filters on Cisco routers using Standard, extended Access lists.
• Worked on Cisco Routers, Active /Passive Hubs, Switches and Juniper SRX firewall.
• Provided scalable, supportable TCP/IP security solutions along with expert TCP/IP network designs that enable business functionality.
• Knowledge/Experience of Configuring firewalls, routing, and switching to maximize network efficiency and security.
• Installing and Configuring Cisco switches 2960, 3560, 4500, 6500, 4900, 2900, 3750, Nexus 5000, Nexus 7000.
• Extensively exposed to troubleshooting, maintaining devices and migration of technology.
• Strong experience in configuration and troubleshooting of routing protocols RIP, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, HSRP, IPX, IP, IGMP, 802.1q and SNMP with excellent documentation skills.
• Good understanding of Routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIPv1&v2), Switching architecture and protocols (VLANs and Spanning Tree).
• Planning, Designing, Installing, Configuring of Cisco 6500, 4500, 2900, 3500, 3750 XL series switches, Cisco 1800, 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200,7600,ASR1K,9K series Routers.
• Experience in implementing and supporting new technologies throughout client.
• Administration, engineering, and support for various technologies including proficiency in LAN/WAN, routing, switching, security, application load balancing, and wireless.
• Experienced in installation, configuration, design and ongoing maintenance of Cisco router and switches Worked on Cisco Catalyst Switches 6500/4500/3500 series And Experienced in Network LAN/WAN deployment.
• Experience of working with silver peak SD-WAN circuit.
• NetworkAdministration, monitoring networks for vulnerabilities or intrusions.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks, router configuration and wireless security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering, VLANs, and routing in LAN/WAN, Ethernet Port, Patch Panel, and wireless networks.
• Built LAN/WAN TCP/IP network comprised of Cisco Switches (6500, 6509, 7613, 3550, 4900, 2960, 2950, 2900XL), Nexus 2k, 5k, 7k.
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of DNS and DHCP servers.
• Configured IP addresses and subnet masks on workstations.
• A broad understanding of computer hardware and software, including things such as installation configuration, management, troubleshooting, and support.
• Coordinated with network operations center (NOC) for change notifications, alerts, and escalation of security incidents.
• Experience in Layer 3 Routing protocol configurations:RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, & MPLS.
• Experience in set up, configuration and management of Cisco ASA Firewallin various domains such as Internet, DMZ, Business-Partner, and Remote-Access VPNetc.
• Creating Virtual Servers, Nodes, Pools,andI Rules on BIG-IP F5 in LTM module.
• Configuration, Solution Designing and Managing F5 BIG IP LTMGTM APM Load Balancer

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routers: Cisco ASR 1000,ASR 9K,ISR 1800, 1900, 2800, 2900, 3800.Arista 7280. Nexus 9K, 5K, 3K.

Switches: Catalyst9500,6800,6500, 4500, 3650, 3850, 2950,3560and Aruba 2900, 5400.

Wireless: Cisco9800,3504, 5500WLCs, Aruba 7200WLC.Cisco3702, 3602 and 2600 Light Weight Access Points.Aruba 335 Access PointIAP225, 325, 535.

Routing: RIP,IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP,MPLS,Redistribution,Summarization, Static Routing, Policy Based Routing (PBR).

Switching: 802.1x,VLAN, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVST+, Inter VLAN routing & multi-layer switch, Ether channels(PagP, LACP),Optimizing STP (Port Fast, Uplink Fast, Backbone Fast, Root Guard, BPDU Guard).

Routed Protocols: TCP, UDP, and Ipv4/Ipv6.

Load Balancing: HSRP, VRRP, GLBP.

Wireless: CAPWAP.

LAN/WAN: DHCP, PPP, DNS, Layer2/3 switching.

Security (Layer2&3): IPSEC, NAT/PAT, Access Control Lists(ACL),802.1xMac Flooding, Port Security, VLAN Hopping and Snooping attacks.

NetworkManagement Tools: Wireshark,SolarWinds, SNMP,Splunk,XT,Cisco Prime,Cisco ISE,Aruba Airwave,ArubaClearPass, Aruba Central.

Features: SNMP, Syslog, NTP, CDP, TFTP,FTP, SSH

IP Routing: RIP, BGP, OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, Static Routing, IP Addressing

Communication Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, DHCP, DNS, ICMP, SNMP, ARP, RARP, PPP.

SwitchTechnologies: GLBP, HSRP, VRRP VLANs,VTP, STP, DTP, MLPPP, MPLS, ISL

Firewall: Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, Juniper SRX

Operating Systems: Windows,UNIX,Active Directory, Linux

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - NYC, NY

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support the execution of Network Maintenance, Network Enhancements, Disaster Recovery Tests and Client Testing.
• Planning, Designing, Installing, Configuring of Cisco 6500, 4500, 2900, 3500, 3750 XL series switches, Cisco 1800, 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200,7600,ASR1K,9K series Routers.
• Configured and implemented updated ACLs to Routers.
• Maximizing network performance through ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting
• Troubleshooting CISCO ASA firewalls/AnyConnect and related network security measures.
• Switching tasks include VTP, ISL/802.1q, IPsec & GRE Tunneling, VLANs, Ether Channel, Port Security, STP & RSTP.
• L2/L3 switching implementation using VLAN(s), QoS, Port Security, and STP.
• Currently work with network engineering to build and support SDWAN.
• Conversions to BGP WAN routing. Which will be to convert WAN routing from OSPF to BGP (OSPF is used for local routing only) which involves new wan links.
• Suggested LAN, WAN Wi-Fi Network development including IP address planning, designing,
• Migrated Enterprise firewalls from Juniper to Palo Alto Networks using Panorama-managed 5000, 3000 and 200 series firewalls to provide a modular.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of various routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP and OSPF.
• Regular upgrade and maintenance of Infrastructure, Installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco Switches (2900, 3500, 7600, 3700 series, 6500 series) Cisco Routers (4800, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2900, 1800, 1700, 800 Nexus 7k,5k & 2k, f5 BIG IP, Palo Alto Firewalls.
• InstalledPalo Alto PA-3060, 5060firewalls to protectData Centerand providedL3 support for routers/ switches.
• Hands-on experience in configuring Viptela devices and creating device and feature templates on V-Manage required for SD-WAN implementation.
• Working on the SD-WAN implementations at all Greenfield and Brownfield medical facilities/hospitals by deploying Viptela hardware
• Experience on working with silver peak SD-WAN circuit.
• Configuring Catalyst 1900 and 2950 switches, VLAN'S and inter VLAN communication.
• Configuration and Administration of Cisco and Switches.
• Migrating applications from cisco ACE/CSM to F5LTM, and GSS configurations to F5
• Configuration and troubleshooting F5 LTM and providing level 2 and level 3 support for the customers.
• Working with F5 load balancer, its methods, implementation and troubleshooting on LTMs and GTMs.
• Possess good experience working with Trouble Tickets on F5 Load balancers.
• Configuring, troubleshooting, and managing Networks of over 1000 devices by monitoring health of routers, switches and load balancers and working with team to fix any configuration or hardware issue.
• Migrated firewall rules from Cisco ASA to Palo alto
• Firewall technologies include general configuration, risk analysis, security policy, rules creation and modification of Cisco ASA.

Confidential - Fairfax VA

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementing Cisco 3560, 3750X, 4500, 9300 & 9407 series switches, Cisco ASA 5512, 5525, 5525-X firewalls and routers configuring, deploying, and fixing them with various modules like Gig card, NIC, WIC card and Network Modules.
• Cisco ASA Firewall troubleshooting and policy change requests for new IP segments that either come online or that may have been altered during various planned network changes on the network.
• Configure, Manage and Monitor Palo Alto firewall models (Specifically the PA-5050 and the PA-5260).
• Configuring rules and maintaining Palo Alto Firewalls & Analysis of Firewall logs.
• Managing enterprise BGP setup by configuring and troubleshooting BGP related issues.
• Troubleshoot issues related to VLAN, VLAN Trunking, related issues.
• Updating network equipment to the latest firmware releases
• Configuring and troubleshooting F5 BIGIP LTM load balancing and implementing, Creating I rule,Virtual servers, Pools, Nodes with health, Profiles,SNAT,SSL,NAT, Traffic Policies.
• Installing, configuring Cisco Catalyst switches ISR4331, 3750 & 3550 series and Routers configuring routing protocol OSPF, EIGRP, BGP with Access Control lists implemented as per Network Design.
• Responsibilities are Troubleshooting, Snow Cue, Switch Port, Outages, Bandwidth Analysis, High Utilization of LAN, and WAN.
• Troubleshot computer hardware and software in the Windows environment.
• Monitored daily tape backups and reported completion/failure of jobs run, as well as assist with troubleshooting Symantec BackupExec issues.
• Responsible for all user account creation and modifications within Active Directory
• Responsible for writing technical Standard Operating Procedures and System Center Knowledge Base articles for use by other administrators, field IT specialists, and engineers.
• Monitoring power failures, circuits down and other performance issues of Network.

Confidential, Buffalo, NY

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured networks using routing protocols such as OSPF, BGP and manipulated routing updates using route-map, distribute list and administrative distance for on-demand infrastructure
• Worked as part of a team managing EnterpriseNetworkInfrastructure as a Tier 3 SupportEngineer.
• Involved in Configuring and implementing of CompositeNetworkmodels consists ofCisco7600, 7200, 3800 series and ASR 9k, GSR 12Krouters and Cisco 2950, 3500, 5000, 6500 Series switches.
• Configuring and maintenance of layer2 switching tasks which advocate VLAN, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVST, RPVST, configuring of ether channel with LACP and PAGP along with troubleshooting of inter-VLAN routing.
• Managing enterprise BGP setup by configuring and troubleshooting BGP related issues. Responsible for adding new BGP peers for remote branch offices and business partners.
• Troubleshooting the complex VPLS/IPAG setup in the Lab including routing protocols BGP, MPLS, OSPF, LDP and switching protocols VPLS, VLAN, VPWS
• Designed, configured, and administrated Silver-Peak WAN Optimization devices
• Primarily responsible for managing theF5Load balancer infrastructure of the client environment withF5 LTM, GTM, ASM and APM
• Configuring and troubleshootingF5 BIGIP LTMload balancing and implementing, Creating I rule, Virtual servers, Pools, Nodes with health, Profiles, SNAT, SSL, NAT, Traffic Policies.
• Migration from Cisco to Palo Alto Firewall.
• Security policy review and configuration in Palo Alto and Junipers Firewall in US offices and Datacenter. Designed and configured OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls.
• Installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco Switches (2900, 3500, 7600, 3700 series, 6500 series) Cisco Routers (4800, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2900, 1800, 1700, 800)
• Work with Load Balancing team to build connectivity to production and disaster recovery servers through F5 Big IP LTM load balancers.
• Involved in the configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4. Configured IP access filter policies.
• Configure, Manage and Monitor Palo Alto firewall models
• Configured, Troubleshoot and Maintained Firewalls policies on Cisco NGFW 5500 series and Palo alto including Security, NAT policy definitions; application filtering; Regional based rules; URL filtering, Data filtering, file blocking, User based policies
• Responsible for upgradingASA Firewall,troubleshooting, and resolving firewall software issues, Connectivity issues, Logging, and hardware installation for ASA
• Palo Alto Firewall changes, Aruba wireless related tickets, VPN requests on Palo, Access changes, Firewall ACL updates, basic routing/switching.
• Highly motivated with the ability to work independently or as an integral part of a team and committed to highest levels of professional

Confidential

Help Desk Support

Responsibilities:

• Key contributions include troubleshooting of complex LAN/WAN infrastructure that include routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF and BGP
• Ticketing system use and support.
• Routing, switching, firewall technologies, system design, implementation and troubleshooting of complex network systems.
• Also configured and troubleshot the EIGRP and IBGP for the IWAN overlay routing.
• Implanting VLAN routing and VPN security
• Involved in the configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4. Configured IP access filter policies.
• Switching technologies like VLAN, Inter-VLAN Routing, Ether-channel, VTP, MLS, HSRP, VRRP
• Configuration of routing protocol such asRIP, EIGRP, OSPFand switching protocol like STP, RSTP.
• Giving Support for Managed enterprisenetworkof multiple customers spread over multiple countries.
• Work with a highly collaborative team following guidance provided by Solutions Engineers, utilizing a migration and support strategy carefully planned and implemented by Microsoft.
• Supported File Site legal document management systems.
• Supported the incident management process by providing an operational single point of contact for all end users.
• Windows XP to Windows 7 migration support.
• Troubleshot computer hardware and software in the Windows environment.
• Monitored daily tape backups and reported completion/failure of jobs run, as well as assist with troubleshooting Symantec BackupExec issues.
• Responsible for all user account creation and modifications within Active Directory
• Responsible for writing technical Standard Operating Procedures and System Center Knowledge Base articles for use by other administrators, field IT specialists, and engineers.
• AssistedNetworkEngineers in the installation and configuration of firewalls.
• Hands on experience in Maintaining and troubleshooting of Cisco Devices (Router, Switch & ASA)
• Done troubleshooting of TCP/IP problems and connectivity issues in multi-protocol Ethernet environment.
• Worked with wireless technologies troubleshooting and configuration.
• Coordinating and escalating of issues to Different Service Providers for the WAN outages to resolve the issue well within the SLA.
• Coordinating with Data Centre Engineers for replacement, reseating, break fix of faulty devices and changing of the cabling related issue.
• Performed basic security audit of perimeter routers, identifying missing ACL's, writing, and applying ACL's.