SUMMARY:

• Cisco Certified Network Engineer with over 8.3 years of professional experience in IP Networking, Routing Protocols, Network Security Design
• Experienced in trouble - shooting both connectivity issues and hardware problems on Cisco based networks, Routers, Switches, Firewalls.
• Experience and good knowledge over routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, BGP also static route, MPLS, VPN, IPSEC
• Experience in Configuring and implementing VLAN, VTP, LAN switching, STP and 802.x authentication in access layer switches
• Experience in configuring high availability protocols like HSRP, VRRP, GLBP
• Experience with Juniper SRX 240 Firewalls
• Has done the Configuration on BIG IP (F5) Load balancers and also monitored the Packet Flow in the load balancers.
• Implementing the Cisco wireless security solution with (WPA2, WEP) for making the wireless users secure.
• Deployed F5 BigIP load balancers
• Experience with different Network Management Tools and Sniffers like Wireshark (ethereal), Solar winds monitoring tool.
• Worked on Palo Alto Firewall
• Team player and excellent verbal and written communication skills comprehensive problem solving abilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cisco Platforms: Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K & 1K, Cisco routers (7600,7200, 3900, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series) & Cisco Catalyst switches (6500, 4900, 3750, 3500, 4500, 2900 series)Juniper Platforms: SRX, MX, EX Series Routers and Switches

Networking Concepts: Access-lists, Routing, Switching, Subnetting, Designing, CSU/DSU, IPSec, VLAN, VPN, WEP, WAP, MPLS, VoIP, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi

Firewall: ASA Firewall (5505/5510),Checkpoint, Cisco ASA

Network Tools: Solar Winds, SNMP, Cisco Works, Wireshark, Infoblox

Load Balancers: Cisco CSM, F5 Networks (Big-IP)

LAN technologies: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, & 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Port- channel, VLANS, VTP, STP, RSTP, 802.1Q

Security Protocols: IKE, IPSEC, SSL-VPN

Networking Protocols: RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, STP, RSTP, VLANs, VTP, PAGP, LACP, MPLS, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, TACACS+, Radius, AAA, IPv4 and IPv6

Operating System: Windows 7/XP, MAC OS X, Windows Server 2008/2003, Linux, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting of dynamic routing protocols: BGP, OSPF & EIGRP (route redistribution, distribute lists, route-maps, offset-lists, prefix lists, route summarization, route-feedback, BGP attributes) on Cisco Routers 7613 and 3945 E,2960.2650 and nexus switches and more Cisco and dell 4064,3048p, dell power connect devices
• Working knowledge of frame relay, MPLS services, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP routing protocols, nating, sub-netting, also including DNS, LDAP, DHCP, http, HTML, HTTPS, TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, OSPF, RIP, IPSEC, PPTP, VLAN,WISM, STP (Spanning tree Protocol), RTSP & Multicasting protocols
• 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, Work in groups with other engineers to solve customer network complications.
• Monitoring tools: Design, implementation, tuning and troubleshooting. Worked on to pre-configure router in data center for new connection as network design structure.
• Experience in the support and operation of the Orion Solar Winds platform including Network Performance Monitoring (NPM), Network Configuration Manager, and Server & Application Monitor (SAM), NetwFlow, Traffic analyzer and IP address Manager
• Managing data center and network by using solar winds NPM, NTA, NCM and F5 load balancer, .

Network Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of dynamic routing protocols: BGP, OSPF & EIGRP (route redistribution, distribute lists, route-maps, offset-lists, prefix lists, route summarization, route-feedback, BGP attributes) on Cisco Routers 7613, 7201, and 3945E.
• Working knowledge of frame relay, MPLS services, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP routing protocols, nating, sub-netting, also including DNS, LDAP, DHCP, http, HTML, HTTPS, TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, OSPF, RIP, IPSEC, PPTP, VLAN,WISM, STP (Spanning tree Protocol), RTSP & Multicasting protocols
• 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
• Work in groups with other engineers to solve customer network complications.
• Monitoring tools: Design, implementation, tuning and troubleshooting. Worked on to pre-configure router in data center for new connection as network design structure.
• Performing network monitoring, providing analysis using various tools like Wireshark and Solar winds
• Managing data center and network by using solar winds NPM,NTA,NCM and F5 load balancer
• Worked on troubleshooting, implementing and configuring new devices and helping them to build new data center and moving devices from one data center to another by moving all devices.
• Working on to set up OSPF dynamic routing on ASA by using and following their current network structure.
• Working on as security devices such as ASA& Palo Alto firewalls
• Configuring rules and Maintaining Palo Alto Firewalls & Analysis of firewall logs using various tools
• Configured the Switches to add DNS, DHCP Infoblox servers to the network.
• Experience with configuring IPAM on DNS Infoblox like adding the already existing networks and creating new networks on the Infoblox and also creating the domain names
• Hands on Knowledge/experience on F5 load balancers, its methods, implementation and troubleshooting on LTMs and GTMs
• Supporting EIGRP and BGP based on the network by resolving level 2 & 3 problems of internal teams & external customers of all locations
• Racking, Stacking, configuring, Nexus 2K, 5K and 7K.
• Documenting workflow process, managing and implementing standard policy and procedures.

Network Security Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting of complex LAN/WAN infrastructure that include routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF & BGP, MPLS
• Experience configuring VPC, VDC and ISSU software upgrade in Nexus 7010
• Worked on Wireless, WAN installations and configurations
• Experience working with Nexus 7010, 5548, 5596, 2148, 2248 devices.
• Experience configuring VPC(Virtual Port Channel), VDC(Virtual Device Context) in Nexus 7010/7018
• Experience with configuring FCOE using Cisco nexus 5548
• Configured Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) which acts as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 5000 to connect servers and storage devices.
• Experience working with ASR 9000 series switches with IOS-XR
• Experience working with design and deployment of MPLS Layer 3 VPN cloud, involving VRF, Route Distinguisher(RD), Route Target(RT), Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) & MP-BGP
• Experience working with Cisco Nexus 2148 Fabric Extender and Nexus 5000 series to provide a Flexible Access Solution for a datacenter access architecture
• Involved in Configuring and implementing of Composite Network models consists of Cisco7600, 7200, 3800series and ASR 9k, GSR 12K routers and Cisco 2950, 3500, 5000, 6500 Series switches.
• 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.

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of dynamic routing protocols: BGP, OSPF & EIGRP (route redistribution, distribute lists, route-maps, offset-lists, prefix lists, route summarization, route-feedback, BGP attributes) on Cisco Routers 7613, 7201, and 3945E.
• Working knowledge of frame relay, MPLS services, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP routing protocols, NAT’ing, sub-netting, also including DNS, LDAP, DHCP, http, HTML, HTTPS, TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, OSPF, RIP, IPSEC, PPTP, VLAN,WISM, STP (Spanning tree Protocol), RTSP & Multicasting protocols.
• Experience with design and implementation of Virtual Switching System (VSS) for both User segment and server segment using 6509-V-E catalyst switches
• Experience with managing the completed end to end site solutions
• Experience with design and implementation of Data center migration
• Worked on Migration of Juniper SRX firewalls for isolation of network segments and VPN's, ARS(9k,901,903)
• Troubleshooting issues including but not limited to Series Routers, ISR and ASR routers (1Ks, 9Ks), & Series Switches, Cisco Nexus 5000&7000 Series Switches and Nexus fabric extenders FEX2000s, Cisco UCS technologies, Cisco VSS, VPC, fabric path,, OTV, VPLS technologies, WLAN controllers
• Configured F5 GTM solutions, which includes WideIP, Pool Load Balancing Methods, probers and monitors
• Experience with setup and troubleshooting of F5 BIG-IP load balancing administration
• Configuring objects such as Load Balancer pools for local traffic management on F5 Load
• Designing, Implementing and Troubleshooting Cisco 3750, 3550, 3560, 2924, 6509-V-E, 6513, 6504, 6503, 6506, 6500 series switches, GSR, ASR routers with Cisco IOS and IOS-XRIPv4 address space management and sub netting
• Installed, configured and managed Cisco routers such as 7200 series, 3800 series, 3700 series, 2800 series and Cisco Catalyst switch series 6500, 4500, 3500, and 2900.
• Upgraded the data center network environment with Cisco ASA 5520. Configured ACL’s on Cisco Switches as well as configured routers as terminal servers.
• Serve as part of a team of network engineers responsible for base wide network upgrade from Cisco Layer 3 Catalyst switches to Juniper Layer 3 EX4200 & EX3200 switches.
• Design, implement and administer IPv4/IPv6 enterprise network infrastructure utilizing Juniper routers.
• Worked on Juniper MX 480, MX960
• Involved in designing and implementing QOS and policy map to 2800 series routers for all the branches
• Configuring rules and Maintaining Palo Alto Firewalls & Analysis of firewall logs using various tools experience on F5 load balancers, its methods, implementation and troubleshooting on LTMs and GTMs
• Supporting EIGRP and BGP based on the network by resolving level 2 & 3 problems of internal teams & external customers of all locations
• Racking, Stacking, configuring, Nexus 5K and 2K and 7K.
• Configured WIFI APs connected in LAN to reduce cable costing by creating AP, worked on Cisco SP Wifi, troubleshoot in Cisco Aironet3700,1700 and 600 series.
• Worked on configuration and commissioning of the MPLS circuits for various branch offices.
• Providing Daily network support for national wide area network consisting of MPLS, VPN and point-to-point site.
• Configured of ACL’s in Cisco 5520 ASA firewall for internet Access requests for servers, Protocol Handling, Object Grouping and NAT
• Responsible for Data Center Migrations and its operations.
• Documenting workflow process, managing and implementing standard policy and procedures.

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Convert Branch WAN links from point to point circuits to MPLS and to convert encryption from IPSec/GRE to GetVPN.
• Configured, implemented, and troubleshoot routers and switches with various account settings,
• Permissions and parameters including security firewalls.
• Plan Design and assist in deploying enterprise wide Network Security and High Availability Solutions for ASA.
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500 security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the design
• Configuring rules and Maintaining Palo Alto Firewalls & Analysis of firewall logs using various tools
• Has a good experience working with the Trouble Tickets on F5 Load balancers.
• .Configuring routing protocols OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, MPBGP, LDP and BGPV4.
• Worked on Juniper J series j230, M 320 routers and EX 3200 series switch.
• Configuring HSRP between VLANs, Configuring Ether-Channels, Port Channel on 6500 catalyst
• Worked on Extensively on Cisco Firewalls, ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series.
• Worked On UNIX, Linux, and Windows Platforms and also involved in capacity planning of Network Maintenance.
• Worked on F5 LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, 8800 for the corporate applications and their availability
• Implementing and maintaining backup schedules as per the company policy
• Experience with design and implementation of Data center migration at NBC Universal
• Experience in working with Nexus 7010, 5548, 5020, 2148, 2248 devices.
• Worked with IOS upgrade of Juniper devices.
• Data center migration was involved in Access, Distribution and Core layers.
• Created MOPS and get approval from peers to perform configuration add/ remove changes.
• Provided Load Balancing towards access layer from core layer using F5 Network Load Balancers.
• Actively participated in upgrading fast Ethernet, Layer 3 switched/routed LAN infrastructure from Cisco 3640 to Cisco 2811 ISR routers and switches at access level to 2950, 3550.
• Configuring Vlan’s, VTP’s, enabling trunks between switches.
• Configured VLANs with 802.1q tagging. Configured Trunk groups, ether channels, and Spanning tree for creating Access/distribution and core layer switching architecture.
• Experience working with Nexus 7010, 7018, 5020, 2148, 2248 devices.
• Experience working with High performance data center switch like nexus 7000 series
• Performed Configuration on ASR 9K Pairs includes HSRP, Bundle Ethernet Config, Assigning dhcp profiles.
• Belden firewalls: Firewall rules (incoming/outgoing, modem access, management), IP Masquerading, 1-to-1 NAT, DoS Limiter, MAC-Filter, user firewall for ext. activation of FW-rules
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500 security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the design.

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated efforts with Engineer’s to ensure all network devices conformed to defined network standards.
• Configured various Routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, static routing.
• Optimized performance of the WAN network consisting of Cisco 3550/4500/6500 switches by configuring VLANs.
• In-depth expertise in the implementation, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN networking systems.
• Responsible for designing, implementing and troubleshooting temporary infrastructures for Live Webcasting Events
• Involved in F5 BIG IP LTM administration, familiar with enterprise level traffic managers like 6800, 3600, 1600,3400 series
• Involved in updating the VIP’s for pools and pool members, updating iRules for the URL created in the new DNS entry
• Installation and management of overall administration of LAN, WAN, systems involving design of network layouts, configuration and maintenance, Commissioning Routers & Switches, firewalls, IPS and ensuring maximum uptime during site deployment to VoIP.
• Configuring and adding, moving, removing of various IP phones like (7941, 7961, and 7971)
• Performing network monitoring, providing analysis using various tools like WireShark, Solarwinds etc.
• Implementation and configuration of F5 Big-IP LTM-6400 load balancers
• Experience with convert Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution. Migration with both Checkpoint and Cisco ASA VPN experience
• Responsible for Cisco ASA firewall administration across our global networks

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migration of RIP V2 to OSPF, BGP routing protocols.
• Implemented ISL and 802.1Q for communicating through VTP.
• Designing solutions for frozen requirements using Cisco Routers and Switches.
• Created VLAN and Inter-Vlan routing with Multilayer Switching.
• Documenting and Log analyzing the Cisco ASA 5500 series firewall
• Monitor performance of network and servers to identify potential problems and bottleneck.
• Performed administrative support for RIP, OSPF routing protocol.
• Maintained redundancy on Cisco 2600, 2800 and 3600 router with HSRP.

Network Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Configured VLANS to isolate different departments.
• Troubleshoot issues related to VLAN, VLAN Trunking, HSRP failovers, related issues.
• Used TFTP server to backup Cisco configuration files.
• Implementing Routing and Switching using the following protocols; IS-ISOSPG, BGP on Juniper M series routers.
• Design, installation and troubleshooting networks with hand-on experience with OSPF, ISIS, BGP, VPLS, Multicast, VPN, MPLS, & Traffic engineering.
• Configured STP for loop prevention on Cisco Catalyst Switches.
• Configured VTP to manage VLAN database throughout the network for Inter-VLAN Routing.
• Configured RIP, and EIGRP on 2901 and 3925 Cisco routers.