SUMMARY:

• Network Engineer with 7+ years of experience including 2 years of experience in AWS.
• Demonstrated abilities in enterprise wide network design, administration and network integration
• Experience on Industry leading Network appliances including Cisco Routers and Switches.
• Unsurpassed customer service, dedicated, positive, team - oriented attitude with proven leadership and success in highly visible roles for various sized project implementations.
• Strong Routing and Switching skill with Layer 2 & 3 advanced networking skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

LAN Technologies : VLAN, 802.1q, Inter-vlan routing, STP, RSTP, PVST, HSRP, GLBP.

WAN Technologies : Frame Relay, ISDN, PPP, ATM, MPLS, Wan Accelerator exposure to DS1, DS3, OC3, OC12, OC48, OC192, T1 /T3, 10G.

WLAN Technologies : Autonomous AP’s, Lightweight AP’s, WLC, WDS, Standards - 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11G.

Public Cloud : Amazon Web Service VPC,EC2,Route 53, Cloudfront, Security Groups,IAM

Network Hardware : Cisco and other vendor equipment Cisco routers (7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 1800 series), & Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 4900, 3750, 3500, 2900, series Switches, ACS,ASA/PIX Firewalls 5510/5520/5550, Cisco Nexus 5k,2k.

Network Security : NAT/PAT, Firewall Design, IPSec/SSL/AnyConnect VPN Configuration, Firewall Load Balancing, IDS/IPS, RADIUS, TACACS+, and Digital Signatures.

Routing Protocols : EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS-VPNs, RIP & IGRP

Infrastructure Services : DHCP, DNS, SMTP, FTP, TFTP, IIS

Network Management : SNMP, Netcool, Solar winds, Cacti, Cisco Works LMS, MRTG 2.13, Ethereal Sniffer & Wire shark.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Hotwire, CA

Network Engineer II

Responsibilities:

• Worked with design and implementation of VPC’s in AWS Network Infrastructure including IPSEC tunnels,Direct Connect, Security Groups etc.
• Hands on experience in AWS provisioning and good knowledge of AWS services like EC2, S3, Glacier, ELB, RDS, Redshift, IAM, Route 53, VPC,Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Cloud Formation, Security Groups.
• Created tagging standards for proper identification and ownership of EC2 instances and other AWS resources.
• Worked with IAM service creating new IAM users & groups, defining roles and policies and Identity providers.
• Experience in creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using Cloud Watch.
• Provided staff augmentation support for BGP, MPLS, OSPF and Multicast enabled enterprise network using Cisco equipment including 6509s with FWSMs, 3750 Stackwise switches, PIX & ASA firewalls.
• Support WAN connectivity using Level-3, ZAYO MPLS multi-campus infrastructure.
• Performed 24*7 on-call rotation schedule over network monitoring tool interface.
• Configuration of BGP using attributes, route-map, prefix-list etc. configuring BGP features such as load sharing, BGP metrics such as AS Path, Local Preference.
• Worked on Wifi Refresh project to upgrade old wlc’s with 5508 wlc’s.
• Responsible for Configuring SITE TO SITE VPN on Cisco ASA 5500 series firewall between Head office and Branch office
• Responsible for managing activities, Upgrading IOS - Upgrading hardware and installing new devices, Tuning (Configuration), make standardization for the topology.
• Network monitoring, trends, outage tracking, Perform and schedule preventative maintenance and periodic high availability testing on all network equipment.

Confidential, OH

Sr.Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support of all enterprise network hardware, including routers (Cisco 19xx, 29xx, 39xx), switches (37xx, 45xx, 65xx), VPN devices (Concentrators), and Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls, Cisco Catalyst 4507 layer 3 switch.
• Installed and configured Cisco Wireless Access Points 1100, Cisco 2500 Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC) & Mobility Service Engine for a large campus wide wireless LAN infrastructure.
• Stacking (power stack) and Configuration of IDF(3750x) with advanced LAN security features like 802.1x and switch integration with TACACS+ server to accomplish port level security.
• Provided Tier 2 and Tier 3 support of an EIGRP, BGP enabled enterprise wide Cisco environment with redundant ASA firewalls, and several hundred access points.
• Data Center Layer 2 core network design around Nexus 5k/2k architecture using vPCs for server access, port-channel or MST/PVST redundant trunking links, 10 SFP+ fabric extender vPC links and ASR 1ks for implementing OTV across redundant Data Centers.
• Design, implementation and basic troubleshooting experience of Nexus 5k, Nexus 2k and Nexus 1Kv.
• Installation and configuration two sets of Cisco ASA 5520 HA pair and migrated all remote site-2-site VPNs peers to new ASA 5510 platform (from legacy PIX 515 and PIX 506 site-2-site VPN devices). Conversant with both CLI and ASDM.

Confidential, AR

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented, managed, and supported global network consisting of Cisco 2600/2800/7200/ ASR1000 Routers and Cisco 2900/3700/6500 Switches.
• Worked on MPLS, BGP, OSPF and multicast enabled network consisting of Cisco 7600 & 2800 ISR G2 routers.
• Secured network access with Cisco Secure (RADIUS/ TACACS+)
• Enforced network security to DMZ & external Market Data vendors via Cisco PIX 515 and ASA 5500 series firewall rules, and NAT.
• Diagnose and resolve application and network issues through Wire Shark packet capture ensuring end-to-end IP connectivity.
• Break-fix routing issues and implement best practices of OSPF and BGP routing protocols.
• Configuration of 7609, 7606 with OSPF and 4500 switches with VLANS & Trunking. Configured HSRP and VLAN Trunking 802.1Q.
• Implemented Site-to-Site VPNs over the internet utilizing 3DES, AES/AES-256 with ASA Firewalls.
• Upgrades and backups of Cisco router configuration files to a TFTP server
• Conduct extensive root cause analysis to quickly alleviate technical problems. Network documentation creation for all deployed solutions across network environment.
• Proven track record of solving QOS and BGP network issues in a timely and cost efficient manner while maintaining client service level agreement.
• Collaborated extensively with various telecommunications firms including AT&T, Verizon etc and quickly resolved technical issues, specifically related to T1, T3, OCx and Frame-Relay.