SUMMARY

• 8+ years of experienced Network Engineer.
• Proficient in delivering technical support, managing network operations, and maintaining enterprise - wide area networks across multi-platform and high uptime Data Center environments.
• Highly skilled in troubleshooting and monitoring complex network architecture.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Router and Switches Wi-Fi: 802.11a/b/g/n/ac wireless, WLC

Windows/MAC/Kali Linux Python: List, String, Dictionaries

Cloud: AWS-EC2 instance

Network Automation: Ansible, SDN-SBI(Netconf)

Routers(7+years): Cisco 7600, 7200, 3800, 3600, 2900, 2800, 2600, ASR 7K, ASR 12K, Juniper SRX.

Switches(7+years): Nexus 2K/5K/7K, Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3850,3560, 3750, 2960, Meraki MS .

Protocols(6+yesr): BGP, IGP, UDP, DHCP, DNS, ICMP, SNMP, ARP, RADIUS/TACACS+, IPv4/IPv6 dual stack.

Network Security(3+years): Palo Alto Networks NGFW, Cisco ASA 5540, F5 Load Balancer, Fortigate, SSL, IPsec VPN.

WLAN(5+years): Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC), LWAPP Access Points, Meraki (M52, M42 and MR53E).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot and deployed high availability network architecture.
• Designing IP network for dual stack enterprise environment i.e., IPv4 and IPv6.
• Troubleshooting issues related to network Layer2/Layer3 using Wireshark.
• Create, manage, and schedule hardware and software update to maintain redundant networking services.
• Monitoring enterprise network using monitoring tools SolarWinds and Netconf.
• Daily check up on Vulnerability assessment & Intrusion Detection scans.
• Diagnose and research possible patches and recommendation for system administration tasks.
• Configure and setup cloud-based switches and assign it to appropriate VLAN.
• Deploy enterprise Switches, Routers, Firewall, wireless WAN, Wi-Fi, and security cameras.
• Design, implement and deploy wireless network infrastructure.

Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured and applied routing changes including BGP, OSPF, RIP, and EIGRP, which improved network performance by 40%.
• Troubleshoot VPN (Palo Alto Networks) for 2000+ remote users at the airport.
• Configure, Manage and Monitor Palo Alto firewall using Panorama.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Palo Alto, Cisco ASA 5500, Juniper SRX Firewalls.
• Monitor and troubleshoots TCP/IP, VLANs, Spanning tree, PVST+,QoS, BGP, OSPF,EIGRP, BGP ISIS for entire Airport.
• Configured, managed and resolve issues using ticketing tool called Service Now.
• Configured and managed Cisco ACI spine/Leaf architecture with VXLAN L2 tunnel under an overlay fabric
• Troubleshoot and configure ISAKM, IPsec (Phase 1& Phase 2 Tunnel).
• Experience in Palo Alto Firewall features like URL filtering, User-ID, App-ID, Content-ID on both inbound and outbound traffic.
• Configured and setup Meraki switches assigned it to appropriate VLAN.

Network Analyst

Confidential, Dover Delaware

Responsibilities:

• Detected 150+ network vulnerabilities by testing infrastructure security and tracking potential threats to the network.
• Configure and Troubleshoot IP routing /Switching protocol including SDN, OSPF, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP
• Expertise in maintenance of layer2 switching tasks which advocate VLAN, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVST, RPVST, MSTP.
• Configured IPv6 address for several routers during our green field deployment project.
• Configured ACL for TCP/IP protocols and managed permit/deny statement for Meraki switches.
• Configured and managed Site to Site VPN setup using AES-256 encryption (Cisco).
• Prepared documentation for various VLANs and voice sub-networks and worked on MS Visio for the same.

Network Specialist

Confidential, Redwood City

Responsibilities:

• Configured, designed, and installed networks for 300+ clients with Cisco devices per job.
• Set up and assigned desired IP address using NVR to the IC real-time IP cameras (360 & 720 Degree, Bullet, Dome, Marine, PTZ, and Wi-Fi).
• Configured NAT strategies for global pool of address (Inside global/Outbound) and inbound static NAT for port 25(SMTP).
• Configured DHCP snooping, DAI to secure trusted switch port to maintain DHCP/Clients relations.
• Develop guidelines and procedures for LAN/WAN management including process and efficiency improvements.
• Configured theACLrequests change for various clients by collecting source and destination information from them.
• Repaired and isolate most IP services problems using Wireshark.
• Responsible for designing and deployment of PartnerIPSEC VPN tunnels using Citrix NetScaler.

Network Support Specialist

Confidential, Hayward

Responsibilities:

• Adding computer to active directory domain.
• Configured and troubleshoot with Security issues related toCisco ASA/PIX, Checkpoint, IDS/IPS and Palo Alto firewalls.
• Add, remove, or update user account information, reset passwords, etc.
• Configure and managed router via Telnett/SSH for three deferent sites.
• Monitor STP configurations and syslog message for entire network.
• Maintain an inventory of computers, servers, terminals, modems, and other access devices that are attached to the Network.
• Monitor multicast traffic for DCHP relay and QoS information for L2(CoS) and L3(ToS) traffic congestion.

Network Operations Support

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured static NAT on the router for outgoing interface and verified the NAT translation.
• Support and respond to computer system, software and hardware including issues related to VoIP devices.
• Install the necessary software for computer and perform regular update.
• Configure the install routers basic configuration before deployment onsite.
• Perform periodic virus scanning and resolved the virus-related issues.
• Personalize the OS setting and maximize the overall speed.
• Performed and managed IPv4/IPv6 dual stack configuration.