OBJECTIVE

Network Engineer with 7 years of experience in the industry, which includes expertise in the areas of Routing and Switching

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Networking Wireless: Cisco Routers and Switches L3 L2 , Routing protocols RIP v1 v2 ,
• OSPF, EIGRP, CDP, STP, Access Control, VLAN, NAT, Frame Relay, Sound Knowledge of OSI layer, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, Wireless Standards 802.11 WLAN , Wi-Fi, LTE, OSI Layer, MAC/LLC, ADDS, Infoblox DNS, DHCP , Managing user, groups, Computer in MS Active Directory, proficiency in IOS and NxOS troubleshooting, VOIP, Ether Channel, VLAN's, Ethernet troubleshooting,3G/4G mobile nodes, ASA firewall, VMware, VSphere, F5 Load balancing, Wireshark, F5 Viprion, Air magnet.
• Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008, Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, Cisco IOS.
• Languages: C, C , Assembly Language Programming 8086,8051, .Net
• Software's: Packet Tracer, Wireshark, Mat lab, MS Office.
• Hardware Description Language: Verilog-HDL

WORK EXPERIENCE

Network Administrator

• Analyzing and troubleshooting security issues related to ASA firewall.
• Experience working on Cisco ASR 9001 ASR 1006.
• Communicating with Vendors and Telco's to resolve network outages and periods of reduced performance.
• Troubleshooting all network devices like Routers and Switches across the enterprise
• Implemented and Configured Cisco Nexus 5k, 2k 7k 5020, 5596 and 7010 series switches.
• Implementing and maintaining L2 L3 2800,2900,3600,3900,7000 Series Routers and 2900,3650,3750 Series Switches and Cisco 1252 and 1262 Access Points for various sites
• Experience with SIP, H323, MGCP, SCCP.
• Aruba Access points: 802.11a/b/g/n.
• Aruba Remote Access Points.
• Experience with Network Monitoring Solutions Nagios, Solar Winds, etc. .
• Experience with OSPF, BGP, HSRP, STP, ACLs, AAA including TACACS and radius , OSI models, FoIP, Fiber Channel, commonly used protocols, QOS, load balancing and route maps.
• Experience with installing and configuring file servers rack and free standing and installation and configuration of OS including VMware, vSphere, and Windows Server.
• HWIC card installation in various routers.
• Installation and configuration of SNMP protocol, SNMP standards, and SNMP performance and management systems.
• Experience with the installation of Network Access Control NAC .
• Experience establishing and configuring Enterprise Active Directory including firewall settings, group policies, and user/device accounts.
• CA performance center experience.
• Strong Knowledge of ITIL framework.
• We have used CA eHealth for trouble shooting. We would get to know the status of the network devices for different sites. We can know the gateway devices as well. We can also check the subnet mask, model of the network device.
• Proficient with HTTP/HTTPS server load balancing.
• Used Cisco Identity service engine to provide secure and guest access.
• Worked with packet sniffer like Wireshark to trace data flow and troubleshoot networks
• Extensive expert level experience of IDS/IPS.
• Upgrading Cisco IOS and adding AAA authentication commands in various Cisco Routers and Switches using TFTP.
• Involved in troubleshooting IP addressing issues and Updating IOS images using TFTP.
• Maintained redundancy on Cisco 2600, 2800 and 3600 router with HSRP with VRF.
• Worked along with the team in ticketing issues.
• Implementing traffic engineering on top of an existing Multiprotocol Label Switching MPLS /EPLS network using Frame Relay and Open Shortest Path First OSPF .
• Configured Cisco Routers for BGP, OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, Static and default route.
• Experience in F5 ASM Rule updates, customization, testing and troubleshooting.
• Implemented new nodes and Pools in F5 LTM/ F5 load balancers/ HTTP/HTTPS to support newly added servers in Layer 3 environment.
• Provided redundancy in a multi homed Border Gateway Protocol BGP network by tunings AS-path.
• Responsible for day to day management of Cisco Devices, Traffic management and monitoring.

Network Engineer Tribune

Responsibilities:

• Involved in buildup network topology according to client requirement and verification of network topology.
• Involved in Configuring and implementing of Composite Network models consists of L2 L3 devices Cisco 3900,7700 and 2900 series routers and Cisco 3750 , 4500 and 6500 Series switches and large Scale router like CRS-1.
• Experience with Network Monitoring Solutions.
• Experience in ITIL version 2 process planning and implementation.
• Resolved various Router configuration issues to provide redundancy and alternate routing using EBGP attributes like AS-PATH, local Pref.
• Strong Knowledge of ITIL framework.
• Cisco SA DNCS/EC Head end Experience.
• Experience with the installation of Network Access Control NAC .
• Experience establishing and configuring Enterprise Active Directory including firewall settings, group policies, and user/device accounts.
• Working with customers Site-to-Site and Remote Site VPNs using Cisco routers to Cisco routers, ASA Firewall to ASA Firewall, Cisco Router to ASA Firewall and troubleshoot and modify existing VPN.
• Network capacity / planning.
• Experience with OSPF, BGP, HSRP, STP, ACLs, AAA including TACACS and radius , OSI models, FoIP, Fiber Channel, commonly used protocols, QOS, load balancing and route maps.
• We have used CA eHealth for trouble shooting. We would get to know the status of the network devices for different sites. We can know the gateway devices as well. We can also check the subnet mask, model of the network device etc.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory, VMware NSX automation.
• Involved in Wireless networking using protocols like 802.11 a, b, g , 802.1x, 802.11i
• Upgraded IOS on various Cisco Routers like 3945 and 2911 as well as switches like 3750, 4500 and 6500.
• Worked on different networking concepts and routing protocols like OSPF, DNS and other LAN/WAN technologies.
• Configured networks using routing protocols such as EIGRP, RIP, OSPF and BGP.
• In-depth expertise in the implementation, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN networking systems.
• Created standard access lists to allow SNMP, NTP and logging servers.
• Replaced 6500 from access layer and Installed 3750s Switches..
• Proficient with F5 LTM/ F5, HTTP/HTTPS server load balancing.
• Installed PVDM, Network module, VWIC card, secondary power supplies and additional memory to 3900 series routers.
• Co-ordinate with the Data Network and Security team and come up with possible solutions.
• Also involved in Cisco ACE configuration and deployment.
• Identify additional Network operations requirement and improvement opportunity.
• Also worked with different WLAN devices e.g. WAP, Wireless Access Controller etc.

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured networks using routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, BGP and manipulated routing updates using route-map, distribute list and administrative distance for on-demand Infrastructure.
• Configured OSPF redistribution and authentication with type 3 LSA filtering and to prevent LSA flooding.
• HWIC card installation in various routers.
• Cisco/SA DNCS/EC Head end Experience.
• Experience with the installation of Network Access Control NAC .
• Experience establishing and configuring Enterprise Active Directory including firewall settings, group policies, and user/device accounts.
• Experience in ITIL version 2 process planning and implementation.
• Implementing traffic engineering on top of an existing Multiprotocol Label Switching MPLS network using Frame Relay and Open Shortest Path First OSPF .
• Provided redundancy in a multi homed Border Gateway Protocol BGP network by tunings AS-path.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory, VMware NSX automation.
• VM and vNF configuration/re-configuration, Affinity / anti-affinity rules, Software upgrades
• Involved in Configuring and implementing of Composite Network models consists of L2 L3 devices Cisco7600, 7200, 3800 series routers and Cisco 2950, 4500, 3500, 5000, 6500 Series switches. Also worked with Cisco IDS sensor
• Implemented Hot Standby Router Protocol HSRP by tunneling parameters like preemption.
• Implemented various OSPF scenarios on networks consisting of 6900 routers.
• Configured policy based routing for BGP for complex network systems.
• Configured Multiprotocol Label Switching MPLS VPN with Routing Information Protocol RIP on the customer's Site.
• Tuned BGP internal and external peers with manipulation of attributes such as metric, origin and local Preference.
• Cisco Secure Access Control Server ACS for Windows to authenticate users that connects to a VPN 3000 Concentrator.
• Racking and Stacking of Cisco 3750 Switches.
• Responsible for day to day management of Cisco Devices, Traffic management and monitoring.
• Also involved in designing and implementing IP MPLS network.
• Involved in provide higher technical support to NOC and other operation teams regards to IP/MPLS infrastructure.
• Member of Network testing team. Also worked with QoS.
• Responsible for Manual testing, reporting defects and working closely with development in narrowing down issues.
• Developed the necessary libraries for the different to run different Network test.
• Responsible to run different kind of Network test. This includes MPLS, BGP, SNMP, and Firewall. Also worked with testing with traffic generator.