SUMMARY

• CCNA CCNP and JUNIPER CERTIFIED professional with over 8 years of experience in network design, implementation, and support. Routing, switching, firewall technologies, system design, implementation and troubleshooting of complex network systems.
• Design and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls
• Worked extensively in Designing, Implementing & Managing LAN, WLAN & WAN solutions for different client setups. In - depth knowledge and experience in WAN technologies including T1, T3, ISDN, HDLC, Point to Point, ATM & Frame Relay.
• Expertise in configuring and troubleshooting of Palo Alto, Juniper Net Screen& SRX Firewalls and their implementation Experience in site-to-site and remote access VPN solutions.
• Experience in Cisco Routing, Switching and Security with strong Cisco hardware/software experiences with Cisco Routers such as 1900, 2900, 3900, Cisco ASR-1k/9k, Cisco Multilayer Switches 4500, 6500, Cisco Nexus 2k/5k/7k/9k and Juniper: M320, MX80, MX480, MX960 and EX4200, EX8200 switches.
• Responsible for Check Point and Cisco ASA firewall administration across global networks.
• Experience in Physical cabling, IP addressing & subnetting with VLSM, configuring and supporting TCP/IP, DNS, installing and configuring proxies.
• 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.
• 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.
• Extensive experience in configuring and troubleshooting of protocols RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and MPLS.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• 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 R75
• Cisco 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 Wireless LAN 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, DE

Senior Network Consultant

Responsibilities

• Configuring various advanced features (Profiles, monitors, iRules, Redundancy, SSL Termination, Persistence, SNATs, HA on F5 BIGIP appliances SSL termination and initiation, Persistence, Digital Certificates, Executed various migration/upgrade projects across F5 and hands on with F5 BIGIP LTMs/EM.
• 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.
• 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.
• Responsible for 6500, 3500, Nexus 5500-7009 switching, ASA, FWSM Firewalls, CSS and F5 load balancers, Riverbed WAN accelerators, IronPort Proxy, and Linux/Bind DNS servers.
• 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.

Confidential, PA

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.
• Experienced in Integration, configuration and maintenance of Cisco Router, Catalyst Switches and Firewalls.
• Configuring RIP, OSPF and Static routing on Juniper M and MX series Routers.
• Responsible for all routing, switching, VPN, network security, and server load balancing.
• Using PBR with Route Maps for route manipulation/filtering. Troubleshooting routing issues like suboptimal routing and asymmetric routing
• Implemented various EX, SRX & J series Juniper devices
• Configured PPP, HDLC, BGPv4, EIGRP, MPLS and OSPF routing.
• Configured CIDR, IP, RIP, PPP, BGP and OSPF routing
• ConfiguredJuniperMX480s, EX8200s, EX4500s, EX4200s, from scratch to match design.
• Has a good experience working with the Trouble Tickets on F5 Load balancers on LTM module
• Switch experience includes Cisco Catalyst switches: CISCO 3750, 4500, 6500 series switches.
• Configuration and maintenance of OSPF protocol which was the enterprise IGP. Configuration included deploying of new branch locations or new network devices in the existing infrastructure. Creating Stub Areas & configuring Summarization for effective Routing.
• Provided technical support for full setup, debugged the problems of OSPF, switching and HSRP.
• Implemented and used SDM to configure Cisco IOS security features and network connection.
• Network Segmentation-application migrations for enterprise Private Data Firewall and data behind ASA 5585-Xs
• Create and testCisco router and switching operations using OSPF routing protocol, ASA Firewalls for stable VPNs.
• Configured Object Grouping, Protocol Handling and Code up gradation on ASA Firewalls.
• Implementation and maintained intrusion detection/ prevention (IDS/IPS) system to protect enterprise network and sensitive corporate data. For Fine-tuning of TCP and UDP enabled IDS/IPS signatures in Firewall.
• Design, implement and provide second level support for hostload-balancingsolutions at SWA.
• Configuration the access-list rules, network object-service group based on well-known port the port i.e. FTP/SFTP, SSH, HTTPS/HTTPS (SSL) and etc
• Switching related tasks included implementing VLANs, VTP and configuring and maintaining multi VLAN environment and inter-VLAN routing on Fast-Ethernet channel.
• Worked with different vendors and implement Site-to-Site VPNs over the Internet.
• Negotiate VPN tunnels using IPSec encryption standards and also configured and implemented site-to-site VPN, Remote VPN.
• Security policy review and configuration in Palo Alto and JuniperSRX Firewall in US offices and Datacenter.
• Experience working Juniper T-Series, M-Series, MX-Series, J-Series Routers.
• Working knowledge of the UNIX and CLI based command to implement the networking tools.
• Configured and monitored Firewall logging, DMZ’s and related security policies.
• Responsible for service request tickets generated by the helpdesk in all phases such as troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, patches, fixes, and all around technical support.
• Configuration of ACLs in Cisco 5540 series ASA firewall for Internet Access requests for servers in LAN and DMZ and also for special user requests as authorized by management.
• Involved in L2/L3 Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLANs, Port security, Trunking, STP, Inter-Vlan routing, LAN security.
• Implementing, configuring and troubleshooting routing protocols such as OSPF (v3, v2), RIPv2, BGPv4, EIGRP, HSRP, GLBP and MPLSResponsible for logging/Resolving the severity calls logged in by Incident management

Confidential, TX

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.

Confidential

Network 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.