SUMMARY:

• CCNA CCNP Juniper CERTIFIED professional with over around 8 years of experience in network design, implementation, and support. Routing, switching, firewall technologies, system design, implementation and troubleshooting of complex network systems.
• Hands - on experience on Up-gradation of Cisco IOS on different Cisco devices and modules
• Provided services in many industries such as Consulting, Telecommunications and IT Infrastructure. Specializing in LAN, WAN, WLAN, and Data Center networks
• Extensive knowledge with VLAN’s, Trunking, RSTP, SNMP, Ether Channels, HSRP, Port Security, ACL’s, QoS, Traffic Policing, Shaping, EIGRP, OSPF, NAT, PAT, Inspections, VPN’s, DHCP, Wireshark etc
• Expertise in configuring and troubleshooting of Palo Alto, Juniper NetScreen& SRX Firewalls and their implementation Experience in site-to-site and remote access VPN solutions.
• Experience working with Nexus 7K, 5K and 2K.
• Has expertise to work in Cisco/Checkpoint/Juniper/F5/Riverbed Products.
• Has experience in maintaining huge datacenters with Heterogeneous environment.
• Implemented multiple Cisco Nexus based Data-Center environments, as well as 6500/4500/3750 series switches, 7200/3900/2900/1900 series router. Multiple data center migrations and transformation projects, with great expertise on Wireshark.
• Extensive experience in configuring and troubleshooting of protocols RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and MPLS.
• Expertise experience in Architecting SCCM solutions, Building packages in SCCM • Experience in SCCM version 2012
• Worked on network topologies and configurations, TCP/IP, UDP, Frame Relay, ATM, bridges, routers, hubs and switches.
• Hands on Knowledge/experience on F5 load balancers, its methods, implementation and troubleshooting on LTMs and GTMs.
• Worked extensively on Palo Alto, Juniper Net screen and SRX Firewalls.
• Well experienced in configuring HSRP, GLBP, ICMP, PPP, PAP, OSPF, CHAP and SNMP.
• Experience in installing and configuring DNS, DHCP server
• Expertise in installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco Switches (2900, 3500, 7600, 3700 series, 6500 series) Cisco Routers (4800, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2900, 1800, 1700, 800)
• Expertise in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Juniper Routers ( J,M and MX-series)
• Administration and diagnostics of LAN and WAN with in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, NAT, PPP, ISDN and associates network protocols and services.
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in ISP Routing Policies, Network Architecture, IP Sub netting, VLSM, TCP/IP, NAT, DHCP, DNS, FT1 / T1 / FT3 / T3 SONET POS OCX / GigE circuits, Firewalls.
• Extensive experience in designing and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls.
• Implement/Maintain a Juniper Environment of 600 data collection units across USA.
• Extensive experience in dealing with Vendors for MPLS/DSL installations.
• Troubleshooting complex datacenter environment, resolved many critical Severity 1 incidents.
• Designed & Implemented DMZ solutions for data center environment, build checkpoint firewall policies for the same

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Cisco Cat-OS, IOS, Juniper Netscreen, Checkpoint SPLAT, Checkpoint Gaia, HP Procurve switching, Windows flavors.

Network Tools: Solar winds, HP NNMi 8xi (Network Node Manager), Netflow, MRTG and PRTG.Ethereal / Wireshark, TCPDump.

Hardware & Technologies: Cisco Router 1700, 1900, 2500, 2600, 3600, 7200, HP Procurve switches, ASR series routers.Cisco 6500 Series Switches (both 6513, 6509), Cisco 4500 Series, Cisco 4006, Cisco 3750 and Cisco 3550.Successfully migrated a cisco 6500 environment to Cisco Nexus environment with 7k/5k and 2ks.Abundant experience in handling a Datacenter environment built out of Cisco 7K/5K/2K.Maintained the client environment which had Juniper SSG5/SSG20/ISG1000 and SA6500.Installed and maintained Riverbed 2050, 5050 and 7050.Maintained Checkpoint NG AI, SPLAT - NGX - Rx, R65, R70 and R75Cisco ASA 5505, Pix and ASA 5510.Wireless Technology - Has maintained the Wi-Fi networks for corporate, small and home offices. Worked in almost all the models of SOHO Wireless Routers and extensive exp in deploying Cisco Aironet 1100 and Light weight 1000 series access point. Aruba Wireless AP and Controllers and Cisco WirelessLAN controller.Good understanding about how Service Provider network works, WAN Technologies in ISP, MPLS etc...Maintained F5 load balancer and Cisco ACE.Implemented OSPF and BGP for multiple networks.Maintained Radware LinkProof Internet link load balancer.Extensive knowledge in implementing Frame-relay, Point to Point, MPLS and IPSEC tunnels.Supported a Cisco 5500 Wireless controller and cisco 3502 WAP environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, PA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in implementing & Designing the switched network. Configured STP, VTP and DOT1Q in switching network.
• Performed scheduled Virus checks and updates on all servers and desktops.
• Responsibilities also included taking care of the IP Addressing in the organization which included designing new subnets based on the requirements.
• Installed Wireless Access Points WAPs at various locations in the company.
• Analyzed and studied Client requirements to provide solutions for network design, configuration, administration and security.
• Surveyed sites for wireless AP deployment.
• Network diagrams and documentation, Cabling, Direct customer interaction and tech support.
• Responsible for hardware equipment’s list prepared and debugging networking issues an involved.
• Assigned responsibilities of analyzing and evaluating network environment.
• Performed the tasks of designing and implementing cost effective solutions to meet networking issues.
• Involved handled responsibilities of developing, network diagrams, and evaluating network issues at the customer's site.
• Installed and configured network communication technologies and overseeing testing methodologies.
• Responsible for identifying standard testing methodologies and tools and implementing network testing procedures.
• Responsible for identifying standard testing methodologies and tools and implementing network testing procedures.
• Created Excel sheet test data for various types of testing to ensure proper requirement coverage.
• Handled responsibilities of testing Cisco switches and routers as well as investigating test failures.
• Responsible for maintaining traffic generators, prepared WAN tracker information in an excel sheet, verifying networking protocols.
• Had knowledge BOX folder and created shipping Label.
• Provided multi-channeled (Telephone, FM, VHF/UHF, SHF, and EHF radio)
• Designed Communications network for micro-computers for a combat environment.
• Instructed National Guard’s Officers and Army Cadets on all aspects of multi-channel communications.
• Created VLAN & Inter-VLAN Routing with Multilayer Switching.
• LAN Cabling in compliance of CAT5 standards infrastructure like Racking and Stacking.
• Assisted in Troubleshooting LAN connectivity and hardware issues.
• Maintained Redundancy on Cisco 2600, 2800 and 3600 routers with HSRP.
• Performed RIP, OSPF, EIGRP routing protocol administration.
• Involved in monitoring the performance of the network, thereby identifying the bottlenecks in the network, troubleshooting the connectivity problems using Ping, Trace route, and Telnet.
• Involved in troubleshooting IP addressing issues and Updating IOS images using TFTP.
• Worked on troubleshooting customer related issues related to router configuration, L1/L2 issues.
• Daily responsibilities included monitoring network connectivity, administration of the remote location, assisted in design guidance for infrastructure upgrade.
• Performed routine network maintenance checks as well as configure and manage printers, copiers, and other miscellaneous network equipment.

Senior Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated the cisco legacy environment which consist of 6500, 4500 to Cisco Nexus 7k/5k/2k.
• Migrated old Nokia firewalls to standard HP hardware’s.
• Design and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls.
• Security policy review and configuration in Palo Alto and JuniperSRX Firewall in US offices and Datacenter.
• Configuring & managing around 500+ Network &Security Devices that includes Cisco Routers & Switches, Nexus Switches, Juniper and Palo Alto Firewalls, F5 BigIP Load balancers, Blue Coat Proxies and Riverbed WAN Optimizers.
• 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) Cisco Router and Switches, Juniper Routers and Firewalls, Nexus 7k,5k & 2k, f5 BIG IP, Palo Alto Firewalls, BlueCoat Proxy and Riverbed Steelhead appliances
• Configuring various BGP attributes such as Local Preference, MED, Extended Communities, Route-Reflector clusters, Route-maps and route policy implementation.
• Deployed the Nexus 7000/5000/2000 architecture into production securing competitive advantage across multiple verticals.
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Juniper security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the design.
• Converting CatOS to Cisco IOS Config Conversion on distribution layer switches
• Convert Branch WAN links from TDM circuits to MPLS and to convert encryption from IPSec/GRE to GetVPN.
• 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.
• Planning, Designing and assisting in deploying enterprise wide Network Security and High Availability Solutions for ASA.
• Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) on Juniper and Palo ALto firewall for the proper network routing for the B2Bnetwork connectivity.
• Switching technologies like VLAN, Inter-VLAN Routing, Ether-channel, VTP, MLS, HSRP, VRRP,
• UDLD, Spanning Tree Protocol 802.1d, 802.1s and 802.1w.
• Experience of IP/MPLS/Optical Transmission network for access transport & back haul network to
• Facilitate 2/3/4G Network.
• Exchange, IIS, and ISA Server Setup software and network configuration Active Directory, Reset User Account information.
• Active Directory 2003 (account administration/security)
• Understanding of mobile backhaul network on IP, Ethernet, ATM, PW & TDM.
• Have implemented Cisco ACE load balancers across the DC for various projects.
• Have completed two Business integrations with a very strict time line and gained some very good knowledge in understanding the road blocks in Network integration and feasible methods to fix it.
• Have maintained Riverbed for the North American offices.
• I maintain a data collection environment build of ISG1000 Clustered environment at the central site and SSG5/SSG20 at the remote site. This is an IPSEC tunnel environment of 600 sites and my primary responsibility is to maintain, install, troubleshoot. I configure and ship out Juniper SSG5/SSG20 for remote sites.
• Also SPOC for the Data center in Kansas City which collects the Radio data across NA, Canada and Mexico. This environment has a primary Frame-relay link backed up by the IPSEC tunnel built over 5510 and 5505 for remote sites. I configure and ship out devices for any new installation, moves and troubleshoot any day to day issues. I also maintain a F5, Linkproof and Checkpoint firewall in addition to 3500 switches and core 6513 switch for the switching environment.

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of Network security team who will be responsible for Installing/Maintaining the Firewalls.
• Day to day activities includes addressing new installations/troubleshooting existing issue across Checkpoint FW (splat/Nokia), Juniper ISG1000 etc.
• Will be responsible for assessing the vulnerability of port openings requested by business across the Globe.
• Deployed the Nexus 7000/5000/2000 architecture into production securing competitive advantage across multiple verticals.
• Converting CatOS to Cisco IOS Config Conversion on distribution layer switches
• Convert Branch WAN links from TDM circuits to MPLS and to convert encryption from IPSec/GRE to GetVPN.
• 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.
• Planning, Designing and assisting in deploying enterprise wide Network Security and High Availability Solutions for ASA.
• Blocked harmful websites using BlueCoat and harmful executable code
• Handson Experience with Active Directory 2003 support
• Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) on Juniper and Palo ALto firewall for the proper network routing for the B2Bnetwork connectivity.
• Switching technologies like VLAN, Inter-VLAN Routing
• Troubleshooting and management Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, Redback and Extreme devices.
• Have created lot of site to site IPSEC VPN tunnel with Checkpoint, Juniper Netscreen firewalls and Cisco PIX/ASA firewalls. Completed a project to update the patch HFA50 across all the firewall to overcome the bugs in the existing version of R65.
• Migrated the user access switch environment which is of HP 5406 to Cisco 3750X, 3750G and 3750V2 environment to get gigabit speed.
• Maintained a backup environment build out of HP8212ZL and HP5406ZL with 10G uplinks to the core.
• Troubleshooting complex issues with wireshark at source and destination which can’t be resolved by the basic troubleshooting like ARP, firewall logs, switch logs and tcpdump.
• Responsible for logging/Resolving the severity calls logged in by Incident management

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Operations: I was handling all the day-to-day operations along with the existing team that would include the following support.
• 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) Cisco Router and Switches, Juniper Routers and Firewalls, Nexus 7k,5k & 2k, f5 BIG IP, Palo Alto Firewalls, Bluecoat Proxy and Riverbed Steelhead appliances
• Configuring various BGP attributes such as Local Preference, MED, Extended Communities, Route-Reflector clusters, Route-maps and route policy implementation.
• Deployed the Nexus 7000/5000/2000 architecture into production securing competitive advantage across multiple verticals.
• Configured of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls.
• Actively participated Implementation and customization of customer network.
• Designing, Provisioning and Installation of the Customer Sites in Oracle IPSA for MPLS Backbone.
• Implementation and testing of ISDN BRI/PRI circuits.
• Single point of contact for Client networks. I will be the SPOC for maintaining their uptime from addressing new client installations/Client location moves/day to day issues etc.
• Maintained a 3 layer Cisco architecture network with HP Procurve switches in the access layer and 6500 series as core and distribution layers.
• Responsible for maintaining a client environment which is built out of Verizon MPLS with Juniper Cisco 2600/Juniper SSG5 devices.

Senior Engineer

Responsibility:

• Leader of the team who will be the second level Escalation support for Customer issues. And guiding the junior engineers for timely closure of down calls.
• Manage and Troubleshoot mission-critical Wide area networks Using VSAT links, Radio links, and Cisco Routers & Switch Issues.
• Performed troubleshooting, while maintaining trouble ticket tracking, following internal/external escalation procedures and customer notifications. Configured Cisco Routers for OSPF, RIP, IGRP RIPv2, EIGRP, Static and default route.
• Configured the Cisco router as IP Firewall and for NATting.
• Supporting Development team for the access to corporate network and outside world. Providing access to specific IP, Port filter and port access.
• Switching (Ethernet) related tasks included implementing VLANS and configuring ISL trunk on Fast-Ethernet channel between switches.
• Installation and maintenance of new network connections for the customers.
• Configuring all the required devices and equipment for remote vendors at various sites and plants.
• Installing new equipment to RADIUS and worked with MPLS-VPN and TACACS configurations.
• Installing and maintaining local as well as network printers.
• Validating existing infrastructure and suggesting new network designs.
• Working on creating new load balancing policies by employing BGP attributes including Local Preference, AS-Path, and Community, MED.
• Installing and maintaining Windows NT Workstations and Windows NT Server.
• Providing technical support to LAN & WAN systems.
• Monitoring Memory/CPU on various low end routers in a network.
• 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.
• Real time monitoring and network management using Cisco Works LMS.
• Provided technical support on hardware and software related issues to remote production sites.
• Configuring routers and send it to Technical Consultants for new site activations and gives online support at the time of activation.