SUMMARY

• 8+years of experience in networking, including hands - on experience in routing, switching, security and firewall technologies.
• Experience with Cisco IOS, Cat OS, Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco NXOS.
• Experience with Cisco ASR 9K/1K, Cisco GSR, Cisco CSR, Cisco 7200vxr, and Cisco 7600, 7200, 6500,4000,3800,3600 and 3200 routers.
• Expertise in configuring Datacenter switches Cisco Nexus 7k, 6k, 5k, 3k series as well as Catalyst switches3k, 4k, 6k series.
• Have knowledge on various advanced technologies like VOIP, H.323, SIP, QOS, IPv6, and Multicasting.
• Worked extensively on Cisco Firewalls, Cisco PIX (506E/515E/525) & ASA 10/5540/5585 ) Series.
• Enhanced level of experience in configuration &troubleshooting of routing protocols: RIPv1, RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF, MP-BGP, IS-IS BGPv4, LDP and MPLS.
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in Tier II ISP Routing Policies, Network Architecture, VLSM, TCP/IP, NAT, DHCP, DNS, FT1/T1/FT3/T3 Sonet POS OCX/GigE circuits, ACL’s, Firewalls.
• Configuration and troubleshooting complex layer 2 technologies such as VLAN Trunks, VTP, Ether-Channel, STP, RSTP and MST.
• Design and Build SDN Data Center environment, including VMware Center, NSX and Cisco ACI.
• Experienced in handling and installing Palo Alto Firewalls, Checkpoint firewalls.
• Experience on Check Point Firewalls NG, NGX, NG R55, NGX 60, NGX R65, R70, R75, UTM, In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on IP Addressing, Sub netting, VLSM, Summarization and ARP, reverse & proxy ARP and Ping Concepts.
• Profound experience deploying BIG-IP F5 LTM-6400, 8900(11.x, 10.x), A10, Citrix Load balancers for load balancing and traffic management of business application.
• Worked on many types of operating systems from Windows XP, Windows 7, Microsoft server 2003 to server 2008r2, Unix and Linux servers and an onslaught of Virtual Machines.
• Proficient in SD-WAN technologies - Viptela, Citrix Netscaler, Velocloud.
• Designing and deploying hybrid applications using AWS services (VPC, EC2, IA&M, RDS, S3, and ELB).
• Expertise on Juniper T-Series, J-series, M-Series, MX-Series routers and Juniper: M320, MX80, MX480, MX960 and EX4200, EX8200 switches.
• Excellent expertise in network management tools and sniffers like TANIUM, SPLUNK, Arc sight SIEM, Fore scout, HPCA, Net witness SNMP, HP-Open view, Wireshark and Cisco works to network Operation Center.
• Migrated all Cisco, Juniper, Foundry,A10, Avocent, and Nortel devices to centralized TACACS authentication solution (ACS).
• Support third party technologies within theCisco ACIecosystem such as VMware ESX, OpenStack.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Networking Protocols: RIPv1, RIPv2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGPv4, MP-BGP, TCP-IP, UDP, HTTP

Cisco Routers: 2500,2600,3200,3600,3800,4000,7200,7600, ASR9000, ASR 1000 Series

Cisco Switches: Catalyst 6500, MSFC, MSFC2,7600,3700,3500

WAN Technologies: Frame Relay, HDLC, PPP, MLPPP, ISDN, ATM, Bluecoat.

LAN Technologies: VLAN, Spanning-tree, VTP, VMPS, ISL, Dot1q, DTP,PVST

Circuit Switched WAN: T1/E1-T3/E3/OCX

Load Balancer: F5 BIG IP LTM, A10, RADWARE, Citrix

Firewalls: VSX, IDS, IPS, Palo Alto PA-500, PA-2k, PA-3k, PA-5k & PA-7050Checkpoint R65/R70/R75/R76/R77.

Redundancy Protocols: HSRP, VRRP, RPR, NSF/NSR

Physical Interface: Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Serial, HSSI, Sonet(POS), SDM, DWDM, MEF

Network Management Tools: SNMP, HP-Open view, Wireshark, Solar Winds, Splunk.

Security Technologies: Cisco PIX/ASDM/ASA, Juniper SRX.

Infrastructure Services: DHCP, DNS, SMTP, POP3, FTP, TFTP, NAT/PAT, PIM, IDS, SPAN Ports.

Routed Protocols: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX

Languages/Tools: C, C++, VB script, Python, Perl, Shell.

Juniper Routers: Juniper T-Series, M-Series, MX-Series, J-Series Routers

Operating System: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, Unix, Linux, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Ridgeland, MS

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planning, installing, configuring and troubleshooting of networking infrastructure including Cisco Routers, Switches, load balancers - ASR9K/1K, ISR3925e, 2951, 6880 Series, Nexus9k/7k/5k/2k, VPC/VDC, Cisco 7600 Series, Cisco 6500 Series, cisco 4500 series, 3650, 3750 series, 2960 series and F5, Juniper Routers (MX960, MX480) and SRX Firewalls (SRX240, SRX550).
• Experience working with JUNOS OS on Juniper EX-Series, M-Series, MX-Series routers and Juniper: M320, MX80, MX480, MX960 and EX4200, EX8200 switches
• Experience working with BGP, OSPF protocols in MPLS Cloud, VPLS, VPRN, MPLS QoS, MPLS TE.
• Experience in designing, configuring, implementing and testing of LAN, WAN, Ethernet and IP routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, VLAN, HSRP, STP, VTP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP.
• Configured various BGP attributes such as Local Preference, MED, Extended Communities, Route-Reflector clusters, Route-maps and route policy implementation.
• Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 10/5540/5585 ), Juniper’s SRX Firewalls (SRX240, SRX550) securityappliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the design.
• Deployment, configuration, and management of 802.1x solutions to include Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), ACS (Radius and TACACS+), and Cisco Prime Infrastructure.
• Worked with Palo Alto firewalls PA250, PA4050, PA3020 using Panorama servers, performing changes to monitor/block/allow the traffic on the firewall. Technical assistance for LAN/WAN management and complex customer issues.
• Worked on different series ofAPM, LTM, GTM of F5 models like 2400,4200,5200,3400,8900,1600, 6400, 6800, 8800 and Versions like 11.5.x(11.5.1,11.5.3,11.5.4),10.1.0,10.2. x.
• Deployed, managed the F5 Big IP GTM/LTM appliances to include configuring custom monitors, virtual servers, pool members writing iRules, SSL offloading, everyday task of creating WIP, VIPs. and load balancing algorithms on F5 Load balancers.
• Hands on experience working on A10 Thunder series and AX-3030, 3400 series, ADC-3430, 4430, 4440, 5330.
• Installing, configuring, administering, implementation, troubleshooting ofVMwareESX i5.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI, vMotion and configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Experience in VMware, Ubuntu Linux and application-specific monitoring in Python/SSH with associatedshellscript.
• Designed & configuredCitrixNetScalerMPX5550 Primary and secondary node, upgraded v9.3 to v10.0, Configured MIP/VIP/SNIP/NSIP configurations on the NetScaler, Certificates deployment of NetScaler, Licensing for NetScaler, Logo editing for External CAG site through NetScaler.
• Implementation of Xen App 6.5 withMPXNetScaler 5500 for 500 Users.
• Managing and troubleshooting on Citrix SD-WAN products which supports traffic resiliency, load-balancing, IPsec, QoS, dynamic routing.
• Integrate Data Center technologies such as ASR, Catalyst, Nexus, UCS and Storage as well as Layer 4-7 devices including but not limited to Firewalls and Load balancers withCisco ACI, Network Automation using Python & Ansible.
• Implemented the functionality of choosing an availability zone in a cloud environment and deploy a VM directly into that zone inOpenStack.
• Expertise in operating and administeringLinux/Unix operating systems.
• Performing network monitoring, providing analysis using various tools like Riverbed, Cisco WAAS, WireShark, Solarwinds etc.

ENVIRONMENT: Cisco ASR 9K/ 1K/7200/3640 routers, Cisco ASA5585, Juniper Router like EX-2200, EX-4200, EX-4500, Firewall SRX210, SRX240, Palo Alto, F5, Citrix, A10, VMware, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, MPBGP, LDP and BGPV4, with Nexus 7702,7010, 5548 switches.

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Sr. Cisco Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring Datacenter switches- Cisco Nexus 7k, 6k, 5k, 3k series.
• Deployed ASR 9K, Cisco GSR, Cisco CSR, Cisco 7200vxr, Cisco 7600, 7200, 6500,4000,3800,3600 and 3200 Routers with Cisco IOS-XR as the Campus Edge Routers in the network.
• Configured OSPF, BGP on ASR 9010 Routers Worked extensively on Cisco Firewalls, Cisco PIX (506E/515E/525/) & ASA 10/5540/5585 ).
• Tested various networks which works on the protocols like TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, DNS, DHCP, HTTP, HTTPS, ICMP, SMTP, FTP, 802.1q, ARP, NAT, and IPSEC.
• Experience working with Juniper devices like EX-2200, EX-4200, EX-4500, MX-480, M Series, SRX650, SRX240.
• Had been responsible for Firewall Administration, Rule Analysis, Rule Modification on Cisco ASA 5585 Firewalls, Juniper SRX550 devices, Palo Alto Firewalls. Implemented Security Policies using ACL, IPSEC, SSL VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS).
• Configuring routing protocols RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, MP-BGP, MPLS, IS-IS, LDP and BGPV4.
• Worked on Configuration, implementation and maintenance of Palo Alto firewalls like PA-200, PA-500, PA-3000, PA-5000 and PA-7000 series.
• Worked on Cisco ISE with Access control and AAA protocols.
• Configuring complex customer use cases involving cloud deployments with AWS, Routing domains(VRF), OSPF, iBGP, eBGP protocols.
• Experience on Firewall rule set migration from Cisco firewalls to newly implemented Palo Alto firewalls using PAN migration tool V3.3.
• Experience in working with checkpoint security gateways which are running R76, R77 and Fortinet firewalls running Forti OS 5.2.
• Experienced in ADC load-balancers - configuration & troubleshooting of Citrix Netscaler
• Improvednetworkperimeter security by implementing IDS/IPS on in-house managedFortinet.
• Migrating to R70 in Checkpoint IP series appliances from R65, R62 series and building smart center server for resolving issues.
• Experience with A10 EFL (SLB and GSLB), F5 load balancers - LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, and 8800 for corporate applications.
• Configuring various advanced features, 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 experience with F5 BIGIP LTMs/EM.
• Configured Cisco ACI integration with VMware.
• Experience on integrating existing L2-L3 networks and L4-L7 services (ASA) with ACI.
• Hands-On experience in installing and troubleshooting VMware ESX/ESXi, vCenter Server, vSphere Client and building the VMs and performing the management operations like configuring the vSwitch, vMotion, Compute and Storage DRS, Virtual Machine File System-VMFS.
• Experience in upgrading existing hosts from ESX 4.0 toESX i5.5.
• Developing Python libraries and tools to automate hybrid physical and virtual machines andnetwork infrastructure.
• Performing network monitoring, providing analysis using various tools like Riverbed, Cisco WAAS, Wireshark, SolarWinds etc.

ENVIRONMENT: Cisco 3750/3550/3500/2960 switches and Cisco ASR 9K/ 7200/3640//3845/3600/2800 routers, Cisco ASA5510, Juniper, Firewall SRX210, SRX240, Checkpoint, F5, Citrix, VMware, A10, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, MPBGP, LDP and BGPV4.

Confidential, Alpharetta, Georgia

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring new cisco equipment including Cisco catalyst switches 6500, Nexus 7010, Nexus 5548 and Nexus 2k as per the requirement of the company.
• Managed fast Layer 3 switched/routed LAN/WAN infrastructure as a part of Network team. The LAN consisted of Cisco campus model of Cisco 3550 switch at access layer, Cisco 6513/6509E switches at distribution/core.
• Involved in the configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4.
• Experience in troubleshooting complex networks onNX-OSand IOS platforms with problems relating to layer 3 issues of the control plane.
• Configured HSRP and VLAN trucking 802.1Q, VLAN Routing on Catalyst 6500 switches.
• Experience in configuration of AAA with ACS protocols TACACS+, RADIUS and LDAP.
• Configured Security policies including NAT, PAT, VPN, Route-maps and Access Control Lists.
• Experience inCheckpointIP Appliances R65, R70, R75, R77 & Cisco ASAFirewalls.
• Configured and maintained IPSEC and SSL VPN's on Palo Alto Firewalls.
• Experience with Juniper SRX 240, SRX 220, SRX 300 Firewalls.
• Proficient in load balancers like A10, Cisco ACE, F5 BIG IP, CITRIX systems.
• Implemented ADCF5LTM and GTM hardware platforms design and deployment implementation guidelines, DMZ Network infrastructure policies, LTM Inbound SNAT configurations and outbound NAT server to IP mapping processes.
• Experience in creating Nodes, Virtual servers and applying iRules for servers like cookies and URL redirection on F5.
• Installing, Configuring and administeringVMwareESX/ESXiand created and managed VMs (virtual server) and involved in the maintenance of the virtual server.
• Successfully installed Palo Alto PA-3060 firewalls to protect Data Center and provided L3 support for routers/switches/firewalls.
• Configuring DNS and DHCP configuration inINFLOBOX.
• Experience in writing PowerShell scripts to automate the administrative tasks, configuration backups, management, file compression and reporting.
• Monitorednetworkssuch as Routers, switches, wireless usingSolarWinds.

ENVIRONMENT: Cisco 6509/ 3750/3550/3500/2950 switches, Cisco 7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, Juniper EX-Series, EIGRP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, VPN, MPLS, Wireshark, VMware, F5 load balancers, A10.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Cisco/Juniper Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Configuring and implementing of Composite Network models consists of Cisco7600, 7200, 3800 series routers and Cisco 2950, 3500, 5000, 6500 Series switches.
• Implementing Routing using the following protocols; IS-IS, OSPF, BGP on Juniper M series routers.
• Design, installation and troubleshooting networks with hand-on experience with OSPF, ISIS, BGP, VPLS, Multicast, VPN, MPLS, & Traffic engineering
• Configured OSPF redistribution and authentication with type 3 LSA filtering and to prevent LSA flooding.
• Involved in design, implementation and configuration of HSRP for load balancing on L3 switches on different location of office on the switched network.
• Experience working with JUNOS OS on Juniper Routers and Switches.
• Implemented Site-to-Site VPNs over the Internet utilizing 3DES, AES/AES-256 with ASA Firewall 5505.
• Deployed Data Center Multi-Vendor Network Systems and Transport Platforms Alcatel Lucent: TSS 320/100/5 DWDM & ALU 7750SR/6850/6400 for L2/L3/L4 data networks.
• Hands on Experience working with security issue like applying ACL's, configuring NAT and VPN.
• Worked and configured on the security levels of Cisco IOS AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS and Local privilege authorization fallback.
• Installation and configuration of DNS, DHCP and FTP servers.
• Experience through Hand-on Experience with configuring T1.5, Gigabit Ethernet, Channelized T3 and full T3, ATM, Frame-Relay.

ENVIRONMENT: Cisco Firewalls, Cisco PIX (506E/515E/525/) & ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series, Cisco (3500, 3750, 4500, 6500) routers, F5 BIGIP LTMs/EM, Cisco Nexus 7K/5K, 2248/3560/5020/6509.

Confidential

Cisco Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring/Troubleshooting issues with the following types of routers Cisco (6500, 4500, 1700, 2600 and 3500 series), to include: bridging, switching, routing, Ethernet, NAT, and DHCP, as well as assisting with customer LAN /WAN, router/firewalls.
• Hands-on experience with WAN (ATM/Frame Relay), Routers, Switches, TCP/IP, Routing Protocols (BGP/OSPF), and IP addressing.
• Designing, configuring, implementing and troubleshooting VLAN’s, VTP, Spanning Tree (STP), Trunking (dot1q and ISL), HSRP and Ether channel.
• Installed and configured PIX 520, 525, 535 series firewalls, configured standard and extended access-lists and policy-based filters.
• Configured networks using routing protocols such as OSPF, BGP and manipulated routing updates using route-map, distribute list and administrative distance for on-demand Infrastructure.
• Configuring and implementing F5 BIG-IP load balancers to maintain global and local traffic.
• Managing Cisco Secure ACS for TACACS+, RADIUS authentications.
• Implemented SNMP on Cisco routes to allow for network management. Completed the installation and configuration of T1, T3 & OC3 circuits.

ENVIRONMENT: Cisco (7200, 6500, 4500, 1700, 2600 and 3500 series) routers, EIGRP, RIP, BGP and OSPF protocols, DHCP, DNS, ATM, TACACS+, Cisco ( 5500 ) series Layer 3 switches, Cisco Pix firewall 500 series, Access points Cisco 1230.