SUMMARY

• Network Engineer/Architect with over 15+ years’ experience in design, implementation, troubleshooting, development and maintaining enterprise data network systems and implementation of enterprise networks by dealing with routers, switches, Firewalls, Load balancers.
• Worked on Palo Alto Firewalls deployment and Cloud AWS Migration.
• Configuration and deployment of F5 LTM and GTM Load balancers.
• Wireless installation and configuration ofCisco Wireless LAN controller 5508, Cisco Prime and access points, Aruba Wireless and Cisco Meraki.
• Hands on experience of Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco ASA and Checkpoint firewalls.
• Experience in migration of the network infrastructure to AWS and creating VPC, EC2 instances, S3 buckets, IAM, RDS, Auto scaling, Load - balancing.
• Experience with the backup systems like Druva and Cloudberry.
• Experience in troubleshooting issues on NAT configurations, access lists and DNS/DHCP issues within the LAN network.
• Worked on SDWAN Viptela solution for the network deployment.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in routing protocols as RIP, OSPF, EIGRPandBGP.
• Experience in configuration of cisco ISE and Cisco ACS .
• Extensive knowledge and experience on MPLS, L3 VPN, L2 VPN and VRF.
• Worked on Network sniffing tools likeWire shark, TCP dump and monitoring tools like Solarwinds, Nagios, Net Brain and New Relic.
• Experience in configuration of Juniper Switches and Firewalls.
• Experience in preparing technical documentation using Confidential VISIO/Office.
• Experience in configuring Life-size, Blue Jeans video conferencing units.
• Experience upgrading the Cisco IOS, NXOS using Ansible.
• Configure and maintain Site-to-site VPN, SSL and Remote VPN's
• Planned and managed Disaster Recovery and Backups.
• Hands-on experience in implementation, administration and support of LAN, and WAN.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Seattle

Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Confidential Satellite Network, AVPN and Cisco ASA firewalls
• Upgraded PAN 5060 and PAN 5050 firewalls from 8. .0.4 version.
• Configured and Installed Palo Alto User-ID Agent on the server and firewall for AD integration.
• Worked on AWS, Azure and GCP Cloud Migrations.
• Worked on F5 5250v, i4600 load balancer virtual servers, profiles, monitors and configured iRules.
• Worked on AWS Transit Gateway, Direct Connect and Gateway Load balancer setup.
• Installation and Deployment of Ansible Tower and configuration of the scripts for automation.
• Configuration of Palo Alto firewalls security policies, NAT rules, Wild Fire, URL filtering and Global protect.
• Configured and Deployed Cisco Meraki Wireless in multiple locations.
• Deployed Cisco Wireless Meraki solution and configured SSID’s for the wireless network
• Experience with configuration of Cisco ISE and upgraded from 2.6 to 2.7 version.
• Review network design for network security and other risks during course of projects.
• Assess vulnerabilities from the Nessus scanner and remediate them for all network devices.
• Configure, Install, Deploy and Manage F5 Big IP 5250 LTM and GTM devices.
• Maximizes network performance by monitoring performance; troubleshooting network problems and outages; scheduling upgrades; collaborating with other team on network optimization.
• Thorough understanding of networking technologies, including administration of enterprise routers, switches, firewalls and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
• Expertise with Palo Alto Network Firewall, Cisco ASA and Checkpoint Firewall.
• Expertise with Cisco ACE, F5 Load Balancers.
• Experience with configuration of JunOS Pulse VPN.
• Expertise with various routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP).
• Understanding of network security methodologies as a whole, including but not limited to: ACLs, Stateful firewalls, VPNs (tunneling, IPsec, PPTP, etc.)
• Fluency with common network admin and monitoring tools such asNagios, Ethereal/Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus, Netflow, etc.
• Worked on Cisco IOS, NX-OS, both Cisco Nexus 5K, 9K and non-Nexus series switches, Cisco routers and other Cisco networking gear.

Confidential, California

Cloud Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuring, and Troubleshooting of Cisco ISR, ASR series routers.
• Deployed, Configured checkpoint vsec virtual firewall in AWS and built VPN tunnels to on premise network.
• Configuration, Upgrading and Installation of Checkpoint Firewalls 4400 series.
• Upgraded the checkpoint firewalls from R75.40VS to R77.30 and R80 versions.
• Worked on setting up IPSEC site to site VPN tunnels between checkpoint and Fortinet firewalls.
• Worked on Tufin for security policy management of the firewalls and to audit the network security configuration.
• Configured SSL client VPN for the remote users
• Configured VPC in AWS and created multiple subnets for development and production environment.
• Created ACL, Security groups and deployed multiple EC2 instances in AWS.
• Deployed checkpoint vsec firewall in AWS and established Site to Site VPN between AWS and onsite locations.
• Upgrading of Cisco IOS to 15.4 version using TFTP server.
• Designed the network architecture for the two branch office locations and configured the routers and switches.
• Experience with FortiGate 90D firewall, creating the security policies and installing them.
• Worked on Network Performance Monitor and Netflow traffic analyzer for Solarwinds
• Troubleshooting multiple audio and video issues between Life-size video conferencing unit and the phones.
• Implementing traffic filters such as access-lists, distribute-lists, and route maps.
• Configured and Upgraded Cisco Wireless LAN controller 5508 series and access points.
• Configured Cloud Failover Extension F5 module and deployed F5’s in different zones in AWS.
• Deployed Nagios and monitored the Bandwidth utilization of the routers and firewalls.
• Experience with application level monitoring using New-Relic.
• Installation, upgrading and troubleshooting of office computer equipment, software, and peripherals.
• Worked on Cisco UCS configuration and had data center experience.
• Monitored the bandwidth utilization on Masergy, Confidential &T and Verizon service provider portals and on the firewalls.
• Created detailed documentation of all nodes and equipment on the network using Visio plus daily report of tasks performed throughout the day.
• Configured the Aruba access points and virtual controller for the remote branch office.

Confidential, California

Network Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuring, and Troubleshooting of Cisco routers & switches.
• Worked on Confidential Azure cloud solution for migrating the on-premise network to cloud.
• Worked on Virtual Network, Load Balancer and Virtual Network Gateway services in Azure.
• Configuration and Management of Palo Alto Firewalls 5060 series with PAN-OS 8.0.10.
• Worked in data center on routing, switching, troubleshooting, managing and monitoring network devices.
• Worked on Panorama template stacks for grouping the firewalls into logical sets and migrating firewalls to Panorama.
• Upgrading of Cisco IOS to the latest version on routers and switches.
• Experience with IP & IPv6 Addressing & subnetting concepts, OSPF, BGP, HSRP, VLANs, STP, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, IPv6
• Network migration from RIPv2 to OSPF and redistribution between OSPF and EIGRP
• Worked on setting up Blue Jeans video conference units in all locations.
• Experience with BIG-IP LTM F5 loadbalancer, creating iRules.
• Created detailed documentation of all nodes and equipment on the network using Visio plus daily report of tasks performed throughout the day
• Imaged the dell systems with windows 7/10 using scripted installation.
• Repairing, Replacing & Troubleshooting various Cisco hardware and software.
• Worked on Solarwinds Monitoring tool to monitor the traffic.
• Experience with Inflobox for Ip address Management.

Confidential, Redmond

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for LAN/WAN network support for all network infrastructure
• Configuration and setup of SONIC testbeds in Confidential for Cisco, Arista ad Nokia switches.
• Experience in working with data center, design and configuration of cisco devices.
• Created multiple VLANs for data, voice and video networks.
• Worked on the Linux Server setup for the testbeds and automatically generated the configuration on to the network devices.
• Designed and Configured LAN and WAN using EIGRP, and BGP
• Implemented and configured F5 load balancers as part of the project.
• Dealt with vendors for the quotes and had experience in designing of all network projects
• Provided, supported, maintained and made sure every project made their deadlin