OBJECTIVE

• Highly motivated, competent and a proactive professional seeking a challenging career Confidential top - notch company that foster learning environment and Confidential the same time enables me to contribute my best to the company.

SUMMARY

• 11 year’s hardcore experience in the field of LAN/WAN Network/Security support & administration.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routers: Up-to Cisco 72xx Series

Switches: Up-to Cisco Catalyst 65xx Series, Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K Series

Load Balancer: F5

Routing Protocols: BGP / EIGRP

High Availability: HSRP, VRRP

Firewalls: Cisco ASA55xx series, PIX, Checkpoint R71, Checkpoint R77.10

Monitoring: HP NNMi, Spectrum, Tivoli

Log server: Syslog, Splunk, Qradar

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - New Jersey, Mount Laurel

Senior Network Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Senior Network Security Engineer to administrate the Security Operation having more than 500+ Checkpoint Firewalls/Cisco ASA/Juniper SSL VPN with enormous production servers (Tier 1, 2&3 Applications) and several remote locations ensuring uptime and support. Investigate network security problems, determine possible solutions, test and implement solutions.
• Lead the Onsite team and provide escalation support.
• To ensure that the Network Security & services are secure round-the-clock and respond to Security incidents on a timely basis and take corrective actions.
• ITIL based Incident, Problem and change management framework
• Deployment of Network and Security architecture solutions.
• Plan & manage the manpower Offshore/Onsite to ensure that the Network & Security Operations is being manned 24x7
• Customer Satisfaction, to do periodic review of quality of service
• Reporting to Management on security violations as defined in procedures.
• Building of technical skills in the respective areas and to improve productivity of the team.
• To ensure that all escalated calls are being attended on time and a solution / work around is given as per SLA, Respond to Security incidents on a timely basis and take corrective actions.
• Provide Management Reports Protection of access control lists & Passwords with safety.
• Audit and Compliance
• Manage, Implement IP Sec VPN and remote access VPN
• Firewall log audit for unauthorized/abnormal activities.
• Create templates for any new changes.
• Audit and Purge unused/temporary firewall policies periodically
• Administrator of All Network and Security devices.

Confidential - Nashville, Tennesse

Project Lead (Security)

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Security devices.
• Manage/Implement/Troubleshoot IPSEC
• TAC Coordination for the Resolution/issues

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Senior Network Engineer to administrate the network having more than 50,000 nodes, having more than 1000+ high-availability production servers (Tier 1, 2&3 Applications) and several remote locations ensuring uptime and support. Investigate network problems, determine possible solutions, test and implement solutions.
• Manage the Offshore team and provide escalation support from Onsite.
• To ensure that the network & services are secure round-the-clock and respond to Security incidents on a timely basis and take corrective actions.
• ITIL based Incident, Problem and change management framework
• Data Center Management
• Deployment of Network and Security architecture solutions.
• Plan & manage the manpower to ensure that the Network & Security Operations is being manned 24x7
• Customer Satisfaction, to do periodic review of quality of service
• Reporting to Management on security violations as defined in procedures.
• Building of technical skills in the respective areas and to improve productivity of the team.
• To ensure that all escalated calls are being attended on time and a solution / work around is given as per SLA, Respond to Security incidents on a timely basis and take corrective actions.
• Provide Management Reports Protection of access control lists & Passwords with safety.
• Audit and Compliance
• Manage, Implement IP Sec VPN and remote access VPN
• Firewall log audit for unauthorized/abnormal activities.
• Create firewall rule template for any new changes.
• Audit and Purge unused/temporary firewall policies periodically
• Administrator of All Network and Security devices.

Confidential

Network Analyst

Responsibilities:

• ITIL based Incident, Problem and change management framework
• Responding to problems that are escalated from Network Level 1 Team
• Performing problem determination, if the problem can’t be fixed, Route call to next level of support, as required.
• Documenting actions in the problem record.
• Providing LAN/WAN Support for Confidential &T Enterprise Customers
• Maintains all the LAN devices for the Customer like Cisco Routers and Switches
• Troubleshoot/Configuration of Routing/Switching Infrastructure.
• Co-ordinate with Client NOC engineer for the Isolation of the issue
• Generate weekly / monthly status reports on tickets
• Creating a changes in the production/UAT environment whenever requested
• Need to interact with the TAC for the solution requirement
• To ensure that all escalated calls are being attended on time and a solution / work around is given as per SLA, Respond to Security incidents on a timely basis and take corrective actions

Confidential

Network engineer

Responsibilities:

• Need to interact with the TAC for the solution requirement
• Provide technical support, including identifying and resolving problems on Cisco supported products.
• Routing related tasks included providing Cisco router configuration and providing technical support for configuration changes and installation for Customer. Configuring EIGRP Protocols
• Configuring VLANs with Change records
• Maintaining the entire network with strictly adhere to defined SLA.
• Documenting the day today incident activities, preplanned maintenance activities and preparing reports in weekly, monthly basis.
• Step-by-step process of network devices integration and maintenance
• Provide network support 24/7 to maintain the stable WAN network connectivity by monitoring the whole network.
• Configuration, Maintenance and Trouble Shooting in core routers and branch routers by providing remote support to the Engineer to resolve the problems when failure occur.
• Configuration, Maintenance and Trouble Shooting of point to point serial link and ISDN
• Maintaining the network for 2000 + branches all over India with optimum efficiency and with 99 % SLA
• Troubleshooting/Configuring Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches
• Troubleshooting, problems encountered while configuring and routing.