SUMMARY

• Expertise with IP sub - netting, VLANs, Load Balancing, and High Availability (HA) architectures
• Configuring Confidential 2600, 2800, 2151 and 3945 Routers
• Strong Knowledge on VMware HA (High Availability), Fault Tolerance, Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and VMware Distributed Power Management
• Configuring Confidential Catalyst 3560, and 3750 Switches.
• Experienced in DHCP DNS, NIS, NFS, SMTP, IMAP, ODBC, FTP, TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, LDAP, HP RDP, MPLS, security management, and system troubleshooting skills.
• Worked on new USH theme park projects, including upgrading park wide LAN/WAN/WLAN infrastructure.
• Knowledge of RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF Routing Protocols.
• Expertise in Confidential ACI, NX-OS and IOS, other SDN products Tiered Domains, QoS, Data center network design, cloud infrastructure design and management, OSPF, BGP,EIGRP VLAN Trunking.
• Switching / Routing Protocols, VLANs, STP, LLDP, TACACS, SNMP, IGMP, DHCP, BGP, OSPF, RIP, PIM, IPv4 and IPv6.
• Strong technical and troubleshooting skills in Confidential Firewalls ASA 5510, 5505 for Site-to-Site VPN and Remote VPN.
• Responsible for monitoring the network with Solarwinds.
• Instructed technicians on how to monitor networking equipment with Solarwinds.
• Configured High availability and implemented it on F5 Load balancer and responsible for Security infrastructure engineering as well as a Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Checkpoint Firewalls, Juniper firewalls, PIX firewalls, Bluecoat Proxies, Juniper Intrusion Prevention devices, and wireless switch Security Management.
• System level monitoring on Linux and Infoblox Appliances to watch process and service statuses, like Performance Monitoring & Tuning - iostat, vmstat & netstat, nfsstat, etc.
• Experience in the V2V and P2V migration of Physical servers to VMware ESX hosts
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESX servers, Virtual Center servers and VMware ESX/ESXi hosts using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching
• Installation and Administration of IIS 6.0
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance
• Experience in ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routers: Confidential 1800, 2600, 2800, 3700, 3800, 3900, 7200, 7600 series, ASR 9k, juniper ACX series routers.

Switches: Confidential Catalyst 3550, 3750, 4500, 6500 series & nexus 7k, 5k, 2k, 1000v, juniper Ex4200, Ex9208, ACX 1000

Routing Protocols: Understanding of RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP, IS-IS, Redistribution, Static Routing, Route Filtering.

WAN Optimization: Confidential WAAS, PPP Multilink, Riverbed

Routing: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, PBR, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization, Static Routing

Switching: VxLAN, VTP, STP, RPVST+, Inter VLAN routing & Multi-Layer Switching Layer 3 Switches, Ether Channels, Transparent Bridging

Proxy: Zscaler

Scripting: Python, Ansible, Java

LAN: Fast Ethernet & Gigabit Ethernet.

WAN: Leased lines 64k - 155Mb (PPP / HDLC), Fiber Optic Circuits, Frame Relay, MPLS, DMVPN

Voice: Confidential call manager 8.x, 7.x

IP Telephony: VOIP, ISDN, PRI, Unified Call Manager

Wireless: Confidential 4400, 5500 Wireless Controller (WLC) and 3500, 3700 series Access Points

Firewalls: Confidential ASA, Juniper Netscreen & SRX, Palo Alto, Checkpoint FW s

Features & Services: IOS and Features, HSRP, GLBP, NAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP, CDP, DNS, FTP and FTP Management

Network Monitor Tool: MRTG, Netbrain & Solarwinds & Confidential Prime Infrastructure

Protocol Analyzer: Wireshark, Netflow

Ticketing tool & Data Center Tool: BMC Remedy 8 & Nlyte

Operating System: Windows (XP, 7, 10), Confidential IOS/XR/XE, JunOS, Pan-OS

Hardware Platform: F5 LTM, GTM, APM, ASM, AFM - EMC Disk Systems (Symmetrix, Centera, CLARiiON) - Confidential Enterprise level routers and switches - Confidential PIX, FWSM - Confidential IPSO - Netscreen Firewalls SSG, Citrix Netscaler

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sunnyvale, California

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on High and Medium Severity (1 and 2 Sev) issues related to company Network
• Led the on-time delivery of 24/7 network monitoring services and provided 1st-level engineering response to issues that boosted subscriber connectivity and network performance
• Configuring OSPF with multiple areas and troubleshooting issues.
• Maintaining EIGRP Autonomous Systems and configuring un-equal load balancing
• Proficiently performed troubleshooting of Confidential switch series
• Configuring switches for different VLANs, Trunking, and troubleshooting switching issues
• Member of a team responsible for onsite LAN/WAN support deployment and configurations of routers, switches, wireless, voice, firewalls and related LAN/WAN technologies.
• Technical responsibilities include but not limited to onsite LAN/WAN support deployment and configurations of routers, switches, wireless, voice, firewalls and related LAN/WAN technologies.
• Configure Confidential routers 2500, 2600, 3600, and Confidential switches Catalyst 2900, 3500, 3750
• Configuring Site to Site, and Remote access VPN with ASA 5510 firewalls
• Control network activity using Access-Lists and writing Firewall Rules
• Address and Network Management (network and sub-netting address)
• Router's Password recovery.
• Configured Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) 10.5
• Expertise in Confidential ACI, NX-OS and IOS, other SDN products Tiered Domains, QoS, Data center network design, cloud infrastructure design and management, OSPF, BGP,EIGRP VLAN Trunking.
• Responsible for implementing BGP routing protocol and route filtering using ipv6 prefix list, ACL’s and route maps, etc.
• Working with QIP, Confidential and DNS with BGP, OSPF, EIGRP and MPLS experience help Build Data Centers.
• Design Layer 1-3 Network Architecture for Lab Network.
• Day to day activity working on Infoblox appliances in DDI (DNS DHCP IPAM) environment with creating new or modifying existing DNS records, DHCP Scopes and Carving Subnets.
• Securing Host Information Data Center Servers with latest Antivirus and Patches
• Good Knowledge of UCS and VMware installation/configuration/troubleshoot.
• Troubleshooting and resolving failures in the network and Maintaining the security posture of the network
• Good understanding of Lab builds and Network topology
• Team player with excellent communication and inter-personal skills

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Network Infra Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Handle high priority and critical technical cases, and troubleshoot with high pressure
• Support Confidential Stadium Vision Director.
• Provide technical service to the customers on Confidential Stadium Vision Director Products and solutions including UCS B-server, UCS C server, Confidential Switch 3750. 3850. Confidential Digital Media Players.
• Assisted in the planning, designing, configurations, deployments and support of Confidential LAN/WAN/WLAN technologies in order to support, design, and integrate complex wireless LANs.
• Coordinate with Field Engineer for physical configuration and hardware troubleshooting of UCS.
• Act as a coordinator between different technical teams and different vendors to troubleshoot complicated issues.
• Using Infoblox GUI, IBCLI, and Perl/Rest APIs; Carving small/big subnets out of given network (IPAM, Subnetting).
• Added all networking equipment including Confidential Routers and Switches, Servers, F5 Load Balancers, Confidential ASA Firewalls, Telecom equipment, and other associated equipment to Solarwinds
• Solarwinds NPM/SAM Configuration Experience.
• Provide Confidential Stadium Vision Director Practice guideline to the customers.
• Assist customer system upgrade during the change window.
• Reproduce customer issues in the lab and report software defects.
• Provide incident reports on customer troubleshooting session.
• Collect and provide product/feature feedback from customer and then to the development team.
• Provide technical and mentorship to the team members.
• Plan/design and built supported lab for the team.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Infrastructure Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of migration strategy for consolidating Data Centers from around the world to centralized locations in US which involves numerous servers of various LINUX versions.
• Installed, configured, and upgraded Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x, 5.x, 6.x on HP Proliant, Dell PowerEdge Servers
• Strong background in creating and maintaining User Accounts, Profiles, Security Rights and Process Monitoring.
• Patch updates for the RHEL
• Installed and configured network-based services such as NIS, NFS, DHCP, DNS, FTP, SFTP, SSH
• Configured Solarwinds Server Application Monitor (SAM) 5.5.
• Spearheaded meetings & discussions with team members regarding network optimization and regarding BGP issues.
• Involved in the configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4.
• Disable and Enable the ports for the Virtual Distributed switches
• Creating port groups tagged with different VLANs and assigning to each individual VM
• Managing the changes through export/import of CSV spreadsheets on Infoblox web interface.
• Performance monitoring of CPU, memory and disks in RHEL servers using various monitoring tools like Nagios Netbrain
• Troubleshooting HP hardware if the ESX Hosts are disconnected in the Vcenter
• Installed Management Server (vCenter Server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple ESXi hosts
• Configuring High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and vNetwork Distributed Switch (VDS).
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
• Administering, troubleshooting and automating vSphere ESXi using Power CLI.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring OSPF with multiple areas and troubleshooting issues
• Maintaining EIGRP Autonomous Systems and configuring un-equal load balancing
• Configuring switches for different VLANs, Trunking, and troubleshooting switching issues
• Configure Confidential routers 2500, 2600, 3600, and Confidential switches Catalyst 2900, 3500
• Site to Site VPN with ASA5510 firewalls
• Address and Network Management (network and sub-netting address)
• Router's Password recovery.
• Utlilized Confidential Prime for troubleshooting WLAN. Used Confidential 5508 Wireless Controllers, for configuring and managing Confidential 3600, 3702, indoor, outdoor, wireless access points.
• Configuring BGP/OSPF routing policies and designs, worked on implementation strategies for the expansion of the MPLS VPN networks.
• Worked on creating and maintaining new subnets, host with several record entries like CNAME, PTR, A, etc) with DHCP scopes using Graphical User Interface as well as IBCLI (Infoblox command line interface).
• Project includes configuring BGP on ISP routers for load balancing towards two ISPs.
• Experience with Solarwinds monitoring and creating link utilization reports.
• Added rules and service objects on firewall.
• Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware server on ESX platform and VMware client, workstation Administrating DNS, DHCP.
• Address and Network Management (network and sub-netting address)
• Design Layer 1-3 Network Architecture for Lab Network
• Coordinated, logistics, project management and technical skills on networking, servers, and on Confidential products.
• Solution implementation and troubleshooting all network related issues
• Manage wide range of Confidential routers, switches, and network appliances
• Good Knowledge of UCS and VMware installation/configuration/troubleshoot

Confidential

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Administrating and maintaining WAN connectivity of the Organization across the Kingdom.
• Responsible for the deployment/implementation of new servers in the Data Center (both physical and virtual) including the deployment & configuration of a standardized OS build
• Researched, recommended and implemented network enhancements that improved system reliability and performance.
• Getting the issues solved in a timely manner and escalating the problems which require intervention from higher levels.
• Installed & configured Microsoft SQL server 2008R2.

Confidential

Network Technical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Securing mail servers, application servers and nodes from any security threats by installing firewalls and other security suites.
• Installed & configured Microsoft SQL server 2008R2.
• Support LANs, WANs, network segments, Internet, and intranet systems.
• Ensure design of system allows all components to work properly together.
• Troubleshoot problems reported by users.
• Make recommendations for future upgrades.
• Maintain network and system security.
• Analyze and isolate issues.
• Monitor networks to ensure security and availability to specific users.
• Evaluate and modify system's performance.
• Maintain integrity of the network, server deployment, and security.
• Perform network address assignment.
• Assign configuration of authentication and authorization of directory services.
• Maintain network servers such as file servers, VPN gateways, and intrusion detection systems.
• Administer servers, desktop computers, printers, routers, switches, firewalls, phones, personal digital assistants, smart phones, software deployment, security updates and patches.