SUMMARY

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Azure Fundamentals (Azure) and Palo Alto Certified Network Security Administrator (PCNSA) certified with 7+ years of working experience with Cisco products.
• Strong hands on experience on Cisco Catalyst (1900, 2900, 3550, 3750, 6500) series switches, Cisco (2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200) series Routers.
• Experience with converting Cisco 6500 IOS to Cisco Nexus NX - OS in the data center environment. working experience in providing network support, installation and analysis for a broad range of LAN /WAN communication systems.
• Proficient in Cisco IOS, XR and XE for configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: OSPF and BGP.
• Involved in managing, configuration & troubleshooting of TCP/IP, ARP, DNS, DHCP, RSTP & QoS.
• Experience in Infrastructure Topology Design, deployment and configuration of Cisco 6500, ASR 9001,9006,1001x,1002x series routers
• Experience in Infrastructure Topology Design, deployment and configuration of Cisco 2900, 3500, 3650, 3850, 4500-X, 4506, 3850 series switches.
• Experience in Wireless Design, Deployment and configuration of Cisco 5500, 3500, 8500 series and Aruba 7200 series on Wireless LAN controllers.
• Expertise in implementing L2 technologies including VLAN's, VTP, STP, RSTP, Port Channels & Port Security
• Experience and troubleshooting the Multicasting at L2 and L3 Environment.
• Experience in Subnetting & allocation of IPv4 & IPv6 on design topologies.
• Working experience with SERVICE NOW & BMC REMEDY, VSO for incident & change management process.
• Tool Management: BMC Remedy 8.1, Service Now, HPNA, Wireshark, Confidential Visio, Visual Source Safe, Confidential SharePoint, SQL, Ansible, RF wireless tools like Wi-Fi spy, fluke and Terms Investigation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routers: 1800, 2600, 2900, 3500, 3600, 3800, 4500, ASR 1k, ASR 9k.

Routing: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, RIP v1/v2, PBR, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization, and Static Routing.

Switches: Nexus 2K/5K/7K, Cisco Catalyst 2900, 3500,4500, 3750, 2960

Switching: LAN, VTP, STP, PVST+, RPVST+

Firewall: PaloAlto

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)

NetworkSecurity: Cisco ASA 5540, ACL, IPSEC, F5 Load Balancer, Checkpoint

Load Balancer: F5Networks(Big-IP)

LAN: Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet

Gateway Redundancy: HSRP and GLBP, DHCP.

Version Control Tools: GIT

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Network Engineering support for network remediation and Deploying Clusters supporting Cloud Infrastructure. including Cisco Routers/switches, F5 load balancers, LB4M (Custom made switches), Juniper Firewalls, Net scalars, Brocade Routers/Switches, Tipping Point IPS/IDS.
• Responsible to schedule and perform capacity augmentations, maintenance including repairs, upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning of production networks through proper change management process.
• Hands on experience with multi-vendor network devices like Cisco, Dell, Arista and Juniper.
• Worked on deploying Clusters supporting Azure Cloud Infrastructure including which includes NDT
• Creation, Metadata Changes, configuration, and Upgrades.
• Supported the development, testing and integration of new automations, tools, hardware, and software platforms into the network.
• Responsible for developing TSGs related to buildout work, which will be helpful in providing more scope and detailed mitigation steps to resolve a problem / incident.
• Provide Tier 1 and Tier 2 support and collaborate effectively with customers, vendors, and team members to troubleshoot issues and repair of network related issues and provide a root cause of events to the customers.
• Work with Cisco, Arista and Citrix on RMAs, Firmware bugs and feature requests. Responsible for TOR down analysis for unplanned reloads and work with local teams on correcting rack and power cabling and any associated tracking bugs with Vendors.
• Used various troubleshooting guides and standard tooling, troubleshooted and mitigated networking issues in production environments with minimal disruption to business. Engaged senior engineers for assistance on complex issues.
• Firmware upgrades across network for Customer reported and Live Site incidents escalated by DRI teams.
• Responsible to perform fault isolation and trouble resolution on network hardware, software, and circuits.
• Triaged incidents and used problem management tools to discover and drive solutions across the service team. Ensuring MOP/SOP process is provided for changes required.
• Worked with multiple geographically dispersed teams and assisted DCS for troubleshooting and resolving. reported issues and any associated tracking bugs with Vendors.
• Provided Pseudo codes and partnered in the development and iteration of tools and automation systems that improve how we operate the network.
• Migrations from IOS 4948 to NXOS 3064/3048.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrations from IOS 4948 to NXOS 3064/3048.
• Network Engineering support for network remediation and Deploying Clusters supporting Cloud Infrastructure. including Cisco Routers/switches, F5 load balancers, LB4M (Custom made switches), Juniper Firewalls, Net scalars, Brocade Routers/Switches, Tipping Point IPS/IDS.
• Experience with converting Cisco 6500 IOS to Cisco Nexus NX-OS in the data center environment.
• Data center migration was involved in Access, Distribution and Core layers.
• Implementing the necessary changes such as adding, moving and changing as per the requirements of business lines in a data center environment.
• Design and Implement DMZ for FTP, Web and Mail Servers with CISCO PIX 506, PIX515 Building the VPN tunnel and VPN encryption.
• Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) on ASA firewall for the proper network routing for the B2B network connectivity.
• Design, and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls.
• To secure configurations of load balancing in F5, SSL/VPN connections, Troubleshooting CISCO ASA firewalls, and related network security measures.
• Provided proactive threat defense with ASA that stops attacks before they spread through the network.
• BGP with Next-hop, Peering, IBGP, EBGP, Confederation, Filtering, Route redistribution, Summarization, Attributes and other advanced features.
• Deploy 8900/8950 Big-IP F5 Devices, Code Upgrade/Downgrade, Install License, add Profiles and i-rules via CLI.
• Worked on code upgrades of F5 LTM 8950’s local traffic manager which involves upgrading the code from V 10.x to V 11.x using partial automation techniques to reduce the maintenance duration and increase quantity of devices.
• Worked and updated Method of Procedure documents (MOPs), configuration conversions, moving the VIP’s, pools, iRules and servers on Layer 2 to Layer3 from F5’s to A10 environment.
• Worked on creating the rules, objects in Checkpoint firewalls to allow the traffic flow to the new Layer3 VIPs such that the traffic can flow through the A10.
• Worked on updating the F5-GTM Wide IP’s and DNS change records to direct the application traffic to A10 from F5 Load Balancers.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on updating the F5-GTM Wide IP’s and DNS change records to direct the application traffic to A10 from F5 Load Balancers.
• Performed Root Cause Analysis for incidents related to maintenance activities and escalated to Network Escalations if there are any hardware failure which follows the further investigation and then opening a case with the device vendor.
• An understanding of load balancing strategies/ techniques, traffic management, SSL certificates.
• Hands-on and strong working knowledge of F5 load balancer platform suite (LTM/GTM).
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting a wide range of load balanced Services, including iRules, SSL.
• Configuring F5 LTM’s by adding new requested pools, pool members.
• Migrated legacy F5 LTM and GTM appliance to newer version appliances.
• Created complex rules utilizing TCL scripting to perform load balancing decisions
• Configured F5 GTM solutions, which includes WideIP, Pool Load Balancing Methods, probers and monitors.
• Assist various properties/business group by Analyzing VIP Traffic on Various F5 platforms such as 6800/8900/8950 using Wireshark to see what services/servers are used.
• Create process documentation and configuration templates to increase project efficiency and reduce probability of network outages.
• Deploy Cisco 3560 Routers in Edge sites and configure BGP Neighborship with Devices on Orange Telecom Network.
• Troubleshoot Physical and Spanning Tree issues during L2 switch migrations.
• Migrate Production L3 VLAN, update ACL list, Static Routes and BGP.
• Worked with F5 support team to troubleshoot various issues.
• Worked with Data Center/ Remote Site ahead of migrations to do Pre-cable runs, proper optics are used.
• Adhere to Change Management Policies and procedures and ensure site is more stable and robust than before the maintenance began.
• Network Device configuration in support of KI remediation for Lifecycle and GNS standards.
• Replace deprecated hardware ensuring adherence to GNS approved devices providing the same service functionality.
• Remediation of prioritized Hardware related tasks derived from KIDB, NPM & PIR items.
• Insuring MOP/SOP process is provided for changes required.
• Provide front end on-call network support 24x7x365 for all network infrastructures in the co-operation.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gathering the customer's network requirements, coordinating the migration with stakeholders, and executing within the stated downtime requirements.
• Often related to network migrations, also perform the logical decommission work (VLANs, BGP, load balancing) to minimize operational costs.
• As a member of Deployment team, responsible for Deploying, Migrating Network devices providing Confidential Corp Connectivity.
• Involved in Site Survey, determine devices that need to upgraded. Prepare BOM, SOW and Install new network gear and migrate from old devices.
• Gather, document, and present specific customer requirements in a methodical manner.
• Develop and present Local Area and Wireless Network diagrams and drawings that meet customer requirements.
• Documentation to assist in communicating current operational status of networks to the command.
• Provided technical leadership and guidance during deployment activities in our datacenters and POPs, including in the areas of facility power, cooling, rack layout and cable management.
• Performed fault isolation and trouble resolution on network hardware, software, and circuits.
• Scheduled and performed network maintenance including repairs, upgrades, and migrations.
• Maintained asset database for installed network gear and work with Logistics on vendor RMA.
• Participated in on call activities and follow escalation process to support the infrastructure 24/7.
• Created and reviewed basic deployment packages including production network MOPs, rack face elevations (RFE’s), path/circuit maps, and associated bill of materials.
• Have very good competence in configuring and troubleshooting IP routing/switching technologies and protocols including TCP/IP, BGP, ISIS, OSPF in a dual-stack IPv4/6 environment.
• Updating all the monitoring tools pertaining to datacenter deployments, upgrades and decommissions.
• Coordinating with the VC team in all aspects of equipment installation, testing and problem resolution, Improving the documentation and implementation process.

Confidential, Redmond, WA

Network Incident Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Monitor the Confidential s network for issues on network devices and to ticket or triage them in time by ensuring that all service level agreements are met. Also to detect service degradation and/or failures in power, communications equipment, software, or circuits.
• To answer daily calls for support related to NOC issues. To ensure resolutions and documentation requirements are followed in resolving issues and assigning the NOC incident to the proper area for Root Cause Analysis.
• To provide support, coordination and proper documentation for High Priority Incidents on network.
• Provided Load-balancing solution for Applications based on request. Configured Service-Groups, persistence, Health-checks, SSL certs, Load balancing methods on A10 LTM and provide geo redundant solution with F5 GTM config.
• To ticket or triage the issues in time by ensuring that all service level agreements are met. Also to detect service degradation and/or failures in power, communications equipment, software, or circuits.
• Coordinate with Multiple vendors like Cisco, Juniper, F5, Citrix and Arista for TAC cases for device issue and coordinate with major internet service providers for link issues.
• To answer calls for support related to Network Operation Center issues. To ensure resolutions and documentation requirements are followed in resolving issues and assigning the NOC incident to the proper area for Root Cause Analysis.
• To provide support, coordination and proper documentation for High Priority Incidents on network.
• Monitored firewalls using HP Tipping point SMS Client.
• Extensively worked on Cisco Catalyst 2900, 3500, 3700,6500, 4500, 3850,3560, 3750, 2960, Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K & 2K Switches, Juniper and Quanta LB4M devices.
• Configured virtual servers, pool, pool members and load balancing method on the F5 LTM.
• Configured SSL termination and persistence profiles on the BIG IP F5 LTM.
• Configured and monitored different monitor modules on F5 BIG-IP LTM.
• Respond to trouble tickets and perform troubleshooting on load balancing devices.
• Maintain and administrated load balancing standards, documentation, processes and procedures.
• Supported migration projects from old Brocade Foundry to F5 load balancers V10.x and 11.x.
• Extensively worked on F5 load balancers troubleshooting on LTMs and GTMs. Good knowledge on bash and tmsh commands for troubleshooting environment, health and failover related issues on devices.
• Extensively worked with ISP s, carriers, fiber providers on physical link related issues.
• Worked on environment related issues on netscalers and faulty device replacements.

Confidential 

Junior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support 24x7 operations and answer calls from the customers on network emergencies and resolve issues.
• Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting Cisco switches & Routers.
• Broad Hands on Experience in Inter-vlan routing, redistribution, access-lists and dynamic NAT.
• Experience with convert Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution. Migration with both Checkpoint and Cisco ASA VPN experience.
• Worked on Extensively on Cisco Firewalls, Cisco PIX (506E/515E/525/) & ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series.
• Installation & configuration of Cisco VPN concentrator 3060 for VPN tunnel with Cisco VPN hardware & software client and PIX firewall.
• Configured Firewall logging, DMZs& related security policies& monitoring.
• Experience with CSM, F5 (LTM) Load balancers to provide efficient switching and routing for local and global traffic.
• Configured RIP, OSPF and Static routing on Juniper M and MX series Routers.
• Configured VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on Juniper EX series switches.
• Install and manage Cisco Catalyst 3500XL, & 2960 series Switches and Cisco 1800, 3900 series routers.
• Responsible for Checkpoint firewall management and operations across our global networks.
• Working with Checkpoint Support for resolving escalated issues and Involved in configuring Juniper SSG-140.
• Configured VLANs, Private VLANs, VTP and Trunking on switches.
• Hands on Experience in Inter-vlan routing, redistribution, access-lists.
• Involved in all technical aspects of LAN and WAN projects including, short and longterm planning, implementation, project management and operations support as required.
• Conduct through analysis, problem solving, and infrastructure planning.
• Provide assistance to Network Manager and serve as Secondary Network support.
• Troubleshoot and fix any backup and monitoring systems related issues in conjunction with Systems team and external vendors.
• Upgrade Cisco 7200, 3600 Router IOS Software, backup Routers and Catalyst 2950, 2960, and 3560 switch configurations.