SUMMARY

• CCNP and CCNA certified with 7+ years of professional experience in Network Planning, Implementing, Configuring, Troubleshooting and testing of networking system on both Cisco and Juniper Networks.
• Detailed understanding of different layer 2 protocols like VLANs, VTP, STP, RPVST, Port Security, and Ether Channels (LACP and PAGP).
• Experience in cloud networking (Azure Express Route and AWS connections)
• Experienced in Data - Center Nexus 7009, 7018, 5548P, 5596T, 2148T, 2224Tand 6000switches.
• Worked on configuring the Nexus 5K Aggregation Switch and Nexus 2K Fabric Extenders.
• Implemented VDC, VPC, VRF and OTV on the Nexus 5505 and 7009 switches and also implemented VSS on Cisco catalyst 6509 and 6513 switches.
• Experience with the escalation problems &point-of-contact for Routing, Switching and WAN connectivity issues using ticketing system Remedy.
• Technical responsibilities included but were not limited to system performance and troubleshooting virtual and physical environments of various LAN/WAN technologies, server and enterprise applications
• Worked on Cisco 1800, 2600, 3600, 7200 and 7600 routers.
• Experienced and skilled in configuring Routing Protocols RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGPV4 on Cisco routers like 2600, 2900, 3600, 3900, 7200 and 7600 series.
• Experience in Cisco Routing, Switching and Security with strong Cisco hardware/software experiences with Cisco Routers such as 800, 1800,1900, 2900, 3900, 7200 Cisco ASR-1k/9k, Cisco Multilayer Switches 4500, 6500, Cisco Nexus 2k/3k/5k/7k/9k and Juniper M320, MX80, MX480, MX960, PTX1000 Routers and EX4200, EX8200 switches
• Hands on experience on racking and cabling F5 hardware in data centers and initialize base configure using TMOS Shell.
• Work experience to setup virtual servers profile and attach pool and pool members, iRules, various profiles, SSL certificates etc.
• Experience of routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, and BGP and setup of Access-Lists, and RIP, EIGRP, and tunnel installations.
• Proficiency in configuration of VLAN setup on variousCiscoRouters and Switches.
• Have setup secure configurations of load balancing in F5, SSL/VPN connections, Troubleshooting CISCO ASA firewalls, and related network security measures.
• Monitor performance of network and servers to identify potential problems and bottleneck.
• Experienced in troubleshooting of connectivity issues and hardware problems on Cisco based networks.
• Designed and implemented Cisco 7500, 7200, 6500, 3600, 2600 Series routers in lab environment to reproduce various issues and test fixes for them.
• Supported various LAN environments consisting of Cisco 6500 switches with Sup-720.
• Experience in Network Management Tools and sniffers like SNMP, HP-Open view, Wireshark and Cisco works to support 24 x 7 Network Operation Center.
• Experience in physical cabling, IP addressing and Subnetting with VLSM, configuring and supporting TCP/IP, DNS, installing and configuring proxies.
• Configured and Troubleshoot on different protocols like Static, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, VLAN, DMZ, MPLS, HSRP, VRRP, NAT, VTP & IPSEC
• Managed all network and devices including Cisco routers, switches, VPNs, SSL, Check Point, Cisco PIX, Cisco ASA, Cisco FWSM as well as content delivery networks (F5 BigIP LTM and GTM 1600 and 3400 load balancers) enterprise environment.
• Handled of Dockets for Customer WAN Links Connected via MPLS.
• Worked in Routing Protocols like RIP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP etc.
• In Depth understanding of the JUNOS platform and worked with IOS upgrade of Juniper devices.
• Configured Change Request of MPLS for Enterprise Customers on Router.
• Hands on experience on Cisco 7206, ASR 9K, 2811, 2911, 3800, 3700, 3600, 2900 series routers, Juniper M & MX Series, Alcatel 7750, IOS, IOX XR.
• Designed the Solution for IP/MPLS and Core Networks.
• In-depth expertise in the implementation of analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN networking systems.
• Ability to Install, Manage & Troubleshoot Large Networks & Systems Administration on Windows & Linux platforms in Development, Lab & Production Environments.
• Good knowledge of CISCO NEXUS data center infrastructure with 5000 and 7000 series switches includes (5548, 7010) including CISCO NEXUS Fabric Extender (2232, 2248)
• Experience in Cisco: Physical cabling, IP addressing, wide area Network Configuration (Frame-relay &MPLS), routing protocol configuration (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP).
• Expertise in working with Cisco ASA and PIX firewalls with IP sec tunnels, zones, global protect mode, Zone based tunnels, IKE Crypto.
• Worked in vendor platforms such as Cisco, Juniper routers and Switches, F5 load balancer, Checkpoint firewalls and Cisco ASA and PIX firewalls.
• Sound knowledge of virtual firewalls like checkpoint VSX, IDS, IPS as well as encryption techniques.
• Good Knowledge on Juniper SRX configurations on various platforms of Junos.
• Installed and configured firewalls, IPS, IPSec VPNs and various screens for intrusion prevention on Juniper SRX equipment.
• Install, turn-up and configured Juniper hardware for Matrix test labs; routers, switches
• Wrote MoPs to configure Juniper and Tellabsinterfaces10Ge Trunks, OSPF, CoS, QoS, VPLS, EVPL, RSVP.
• Juniper hardware support of MX960e, MX480e, M10, M120, M320, T1600, T640, and Tellabs 8860.
• Managed Datacenter ofF5 load balancers, Cisco 4500, Juniper M120 and Extreme switches
• Devised and Implemented procedures for configuration and management of up to 400 Juniper Ex3300 access switches, including planning and development of a standard configuration template.
• Upgrade network equipment, software and hardware components and system configuration.
• Expertise on Cisco IOS, Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco CatOS, Cisco NX-OS, JUNOS.
• Expertise with monitoring tools like Solar Winds & network packet capture tools like Wire-shark
• Hands on experience with Linux and Unix OS Platforms
• Adept knowledge in preparing technical documentation and presentations using Microsoft Visio/ Office.
• Provided L3 support for checkpoint and Palo Alto firewalls.
• Deployment of the Cisco ISE 2.2 in the current multi-vendor enterprise network to improve the port-security, for centralized monitoring and to manage the whole enterprise network.
• Automated network implementations and tasks and designed monitoring tools using python scripting
• Has experience in Bash and Python scripting with focus on DevOps tools, CI/CD and AWS Cloud Architecture and hands-on Engineering
• Support for Juniper M120 & J series, Cisco 3745, 6500, Extreme Summit, GPRS CGSN, and Memotec switch.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routers: Cisco 7600, 7200, 3800, 3600, 2900, 2800, 2600

Routing Protocols: OSPF, Arista, EIGRP, BGP, RIP v1/v2, PBR, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization, and Static Routing, IS-IS, ICMP, FTP, SMTP, HTTP/HTTPS

Cloud Networking: AWS, Azure. Google Cloud

Application Protocol: LDAP

Switches: Nexus 2K/5K/7K/9K, Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3850,3560, 3750, 2960; UCS-C, UCS-D, UCS-M, CUCM

Switching: LAN, VTP, STP, PVST+, RPVST+, Inter VLAN routing & Multi-Layer Switch, Ether channels, Transparent Bridging.

Network Security: Cisco ASA 5540, ACL, IPSEC, F5 Load Balancer, Checkpoint, Blue Coat, Palo Alto, SCADA, Process Control Domain (PCD)

Juniper Platforms: SRX, MX, EX Series Routers and Switches

Load Balancer: F5 Networks (Big-IP) LTM 8900 and 6400, GTM, Cisco CSM, APM

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

WAN: PPP, HDLC, Channelized links (T1/T3), Fiber Optic Circuits, Frame Relay

WLAN: Autonomous AP’s, Lightweight AP’s, WLC, Channels- 802.11b/g; Air Magnet, Ekahau, Map Info, Aruba

Comm. Protocols: ARP, Wi-Fi, WiMax, CDMA, 3G

Gateway Redundancy: HSRP and GLBP

DHCP and DNS: Infoblox, QIP

Various Features & Services: IOS and Features, IRDP, NAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP, CDP, TFTP, FTP.

AAA Architecture: TACACS+, RADIUS, Cisco ACS.

Clouds: Azure, AWS, GCP

Network Management: Wireshark, SNMP, Solar winds, HP Open View, KTLO, Cisco Prime

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jersey City, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked extensively with Cisco 6500, 4500, Nexus 9K, 7K, 5K series switches, cisco 2960s series switches and cisco 3560/3750s switches. Juniper switches 2200/ EX3300/EX4200/EX4300/EX4500, QFX5100/5200.
• Responsible for Date Centre migration and its operation including the change from 6500 switches to nexus series switches, configured VPC/VDC on nexus 2k, 5k, 7k,9K.
• Integrated Datacenter with Azure and AWS cloud.
• Implemented & Managed Cisco Nexus 7018, 7700 & 5596UP Switches configured with FEX 2248 extenders.
• Involved in switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLAN’S, port security, Trucking, STP, Inter VLAN routing, LAN security etc.
• Designed and implemented an AWS solution to house SAP in AWS cloud insliding VPC, EC2, subnets, gateways and built a direct connect between on premise Datacenter and AWS VPC
• Installation and troubleshooting of firewalls Cisco ASA, and juniper firewalls.
• Experience with Cisco Firepower 9300 and 4120 Fire Sight.
• Supported the technologies like IWAN solutions, APIC-EM, prime Infrastructure and Cisco ASA.
• Deals with creating VIP pools, nodes and created custom iRules for the virtual server like cookies persistency and redirection of URL on F5ASM cookies issues and configures ASM polices.
• F5 VIRRION hardware products like LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, 8800.
• Complete implementation of Firepower Firewall protect threat from External attack. Unified Threat Management, Configuration of Remote VPN connectivity to remote location.
• Configuring, Administering and troubleshooting the Checkpoint and ASA firewall.
• Successfully Set up a Checkpoint firewall system in multiple locations, with IPS, Mobility and Web Content filtering blades
• Experience with convert Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution. Migration with Cisco ASA VPN
• Experience in Design, Implement, migration & troubleshooting of Juniper switches, routers and firewalls and with Juniper: EX-2200, EX-4200, EX-4500, MX-480, M Series, Junos and Screens, SRX210, SRX240.
• Implemented various routing protocols such as BGP, EIGRP and OSPF on Cisco Router & Juniper MX routers also taking care of issues such as discontinues networks.
• Successfully implemented iWAN technology more than 1200+ site.
• Leads the team to consistently accomplish organizational and corporate goals, as measured by consistent adherence Service Level Agreement.
• Work in the incident team to solve emergency and high priority Network issues.
• Responsible for managing the schedule for all shifts on the NOC (including weekends) as well as technician PTO requests, sick days, travel to facilities, and any other event that requires the schedule to be altered.
• Installation and management of overall administration of LAN, WAN system involving design of network layout, configuration and maintenance, commissioning Routers &Switches, firewalls, IPS and ensuring maximum uptime during side development to Data/VoIP & Wireless.
• Configured various BGP attributes such as Local Preference, MED, Extended communities, Route-Reflector clusters, Route-maps and route policy implementation.
• Configured Cisco ASA 5555-X in HP Pair, migrated all the sites to sites VPN’S from Cisco routers, Palo Alto firewalls and Net Screen firewalls to Cisco ASA. Responsible for configuring site to site VPN’s and Remote access ANYCONNECT services.
• Key responsibility of LAN and WAN maintenance and troubleshooting any network related problems.
• Tuned according to the requirement of the organization developing and maintaining routers and switching.
• Responsible for resolving service request tickets from the help desk.
• Provided high level of security to the network by installing ASA 5520 along with ACLs.

Confidential, Boston, MA

Sr.Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• This global role helped expand my expertise into other areas such as Cisco UCS, Checkpoint Firewalls, Cisco ASA, and VMware NSX
• VSS, VPC, VMware ESX, Riverbed steelhead, F5 Big IP, AWS, Juniper switches & routers.
• Managed and configures VPN’s, NATing and Object group-based ACL’s on Cisco ASA Firewalls.
• Migrated SAP based applications from old Cisco ACE load balancers to new VMware NSX edges.
• Experience in deployment of Nexus 7010, 5548, 2148T, 2248 devices
• Experience working with Cisco Nexus 2148 Fabric Extender and Nexus 5000 series to provide a Flexible Access Solution for datacenter access architecture.
• Deployed and decommission of VLANs on core ASR 9K, MIX routers, Nexus 9k, 7K, 5K, HP switches and its downstream devices.
• Worked on Aruba Controller, Wireless Access Point, and RAP. Extensively work with Aruba Controller (7210, 7240 Series) and Aruba Wireless Access Point (335,325,225) and RAP (303H and 203 H).
• Worked in Installation on AWS cloud engineering for AWS internal business units.
• Performed OSPF, BGP, DHCP Profile, HSRP, IPV6, Bundle Ethernet implementation on ASR 9K redundant pair.
• Experience configuring Virtual Device Context in Nexus 7010
• Worked on Aruba Controller, Wireless Access Point, and RAP. Extensively work with Aruba Controller (7210, 7240 Series) and Aruba Wireless Access Point (335,325,225) and RAP (303H and 203 H).
• Maintained and configured of Cisco ASR1000 series and 7200VXR routers at data center and deployment of 3900, 3800, 2951 and 2821 for branch connectivity.
• Deployed Site to Site VPN’s, Cisco Any Connect VPN Clients and SSL based Citrix Clients.
• Worked on Multisite distributed ISE 2.0 (10 VM nodes) Design, Implement, Configure, Planned and migrated ACS existing configured devices like WLC, Radius, Tacacs+, 802.1x, Guest portal, posture policies and VPN authentication.
• Involved in migration from Site-to-sire GRE tunnels network to MPLS-based VPN for customer’s WAN infrastructure.
• Worked on the Migration project for security levels with AAA, TACACS+.
• Solution as for SD-WAN we need to have Cisco AVC deployed first to know the apps and bandwidth utilized by apps in network.
• Experienced provisioning SD-WAN service as automated failover solution for MPLS VPN by Cisco Meraki MX 80 Firewall
• Planned, designed, scale, deployed, operate and maintained multi-vendor devices (Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, Arista etc) of the AWS core MPLS cloud engineering backbone.
• Implemented security Solutions using Palo Alto PA-5000/3000, Cisco 5580/5540/5520 , .
• Migrated from Cisco ASA 5500 to PA. Experience with migration tool in PA for Policies from ASA to PA. .
• Managed Datacenter of F5 load balancers, Cisco 4500, Juniper M120 and Extreme switches.
• Support for Juniper M120 & J series, Cisco 3745, 6500, Extreme Summit, GPRS CGSN, Memotec switch.
• Devised and Implemented procedures for configuration and management of up to 400 Juniper Ex3300 access switches, including planning and development of a standard configuration template.
• Maintain technical detailed documentation of LAN and WAN systems and applications.
• Configured and Managing LAN networks with Access layer switches such as Cisco 4510, 4948, 4507 switches. Juniper firewall rules deployments. Provide JUNOS administrator worldwide. Juniper firewalls 50.
• Configured and sponsored portal Cisco ISE for access to the wireless devices.
• Installed and configured two new Juniper switch environments. Juniper EX4200 & EX4550 switches. The EX4200s to become their new CORE switches and the EX4550 for customer's new Storage environment
• Configuration and administration of firewalls, which includes Checkpoint, Juniper, and Cisco ASA firewalls.
• Experience with RIVERBED Steelhead appliance for WAN optimization.
• Configuring High Availability using Cluster XL on Checkpoint as well as VRRP and monitor the Sync status for tasteful replication of traffic between active and standby member.
• Researched, designed, and replaced Checkpoint firewall architecture with new next generation Palo Alto PA3000 and PA5000 appliances serving as firewalls and URL and application inspection.
• Configuring rules and Maintaining Palo Alto Firewalls & Analysis of firewall logs using Panorama.
• Successfully installed Palo Alto PA-3000/PA-5000 firewalls to protect Data Center and provided L3 support for routers/switches/firewalls.
• Configured and maintained IPSEC and SSL VPN's on Palo Alto Firewalls and also implemented Zone Based Firewall and Security Rules on the Palo Alto Firewall. Exposure to Palo Alto Wildfire.
• Involved in Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLANS’s, Port security, Trunking, STP, Inter VLAN routing, LAN security etc.
• Configuring OSPF and Static routing on Juniper M and MX series Routers
• Provide Tier II Load Balancer expertise on F5 BigIP Local Traffic Managers (LTM). Designing F5 solutions/support for migration work of applications and websites from Cisco ACE Load Balancers to the F5 BigIP Load Balancers.
• Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on EX series switches
• Configured Cisco 7200 routers which were also connected to Cisco ASA 5508 security appliances providing perimeter-based firewall security.
• Optimized performance of WAN network consisting of Cisco 3550/4500/6500 switches by configuring VLANs.
• Configuring ASA 5510 Firewall and accept/reject rules for network traffic.
• Extensive knowledge and troubleshooting in data communication protocols and standards including TCP/IP, UDP, IEEE 802.3, Token Ring, Cable Modem, PPPOE, ADSL, Multilayer Switching, DoD standards.
• Managed the F5 BigIP GTM/LTM appliances to include writing iRules, SSL offload and everyday task of creating WIP and VIPs.
• Deployed Site to Site VPN’s, Cisco Any Connect VPN Clients and SSL based Citrix Clients
• Worked on Multisite distributed ISE 2.0 (10 VM nodes) Design, Implement, Configure, Planned and migrated ACS existing configured devices like WLC, Radius, Tacacs+, 802.1x, Guest portal, posture policies and VPN
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5580 security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the design.
• Extensively worked with different senior engineers in troubleshooting SAN/VMware related issues.
• Installed and configured firewalls, IPS, IPSec VPNs for intrusion prevention on Juniper SRX equipment.
• Installed and configured Juniper hardware for Matrix & CPA test labs; routers, switches and test equipment.
• Configured and providing management support for Palo Alto and Checkpoint Firewall (R75, R76, R77).
• Configured, Troubleshooting, and Marinating Palo Alto Firewalls (36+ firewalls) - PA200, PA2000 series, PA3000 series, PA4000 series and PA5000 series.
• Managed the Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) 2.2 in the distributed deployment to provide the authentication to the endpoint devices also monitor the networking devices in the network.
• Worked on the Cisco ISE 2.2 in enterprise network security infrastructure including profiling utilization, MAB, 802.1x for Wired/LAN connection etc.
• Solution as for SD-WAN we need to have Cisco AVC deployed first to know the apps and bandwidth utilized by apps in network.
• Experienced provisioning SD-WAN service as automated failover solution for MPLS VPN by Cisco Meraki MX 80 Firewall

Confidential, TX

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience with moving data center from one location to another location, from Cisco 6500 based data center to both Cisco 6500 & Nexus based data center
• Recommended Security considerations for the Intranet data center, integrating security, providing solution design details and configuration details Developed Automated reports from shell script
• Manage a very large DNS environment using Lucent QIP and manual management of DNS for DMZ/External servers broad Hands on Experience in Inter-VLAN routing, redistribution, access-lists and dynamic NAT
• Involved in Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLANs, Port security, Trunking, STP, InterVlan routing and LAN security.
• Use and maintain routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF and BGP on the ISR Router models like 2951, 3845, 3945, 7206 in the network & also worked on BGP Route Reflectors, Confederations
• Deployed a large-scale HSRP solution to improve the uptime of collocation customers, in the event a core router became unreachable.
• Configured and designed LAN networks with Access layer switches such as Cisco 4510, 4948, 4507 switches.
• Installed, configured and managed Cisco Meraki firewall MX250
• MX Security Appliance Setup, setting up Security Policies on MX, Auto VPN &Redundancy, Securing& Shaping Guest Wireless Access, configuring SD-WAN(Software-Defined WAN).
• Created AWS cloud Route53 to route traffic between different
• Worked on multiple projects related to Branch networks, Campus networks, extranet clients and Data Center Environments involving in data center migrations from one data center to another.
• 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.
• Designed and implemented DMZ for Web servers, Mail servers & FTP Servers using Cisco ASA5500 Firewalls, CISCO PIX 506, and PIX 515.
• Configuring Virtual Device Context in Nexus 7010 and Worked on Network support, implementation related internal projects for establishing connectivity between the various field offices and data centers.
• Defining the application security class in the associate that to the local traffic pool in ASM, APM.
• Experience deploying ACI in Network-Centric model, Data center Architecture; SDN/ACI.
• Scripting for automation of processes for Windows Servers. Familiarity with main script languages like Power Shell, PHP, Shell, Perl, Python.
• Developed a python script, which will parse all trace files and calculate throughput, latency and drop rate
• Experience with working on firewalls like CISCO ASA 5500 series (5510,5540), JUNIPER SRX series and also PALO ALTO (pa-3060, pa-5060), etc.,
• Design, and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls.
• Configured VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on Juniper EX series switches.
• Increased business speed, agility, and efficiency by taking charge of core network and security using Infoblox.
• Design and Architecture of F5 LTM, GTM, APM, ASM and application delivery network.
• Secured the applications from threats by offloading the SSL in ASM.
• Designed and implemented Aruba wireless infrastructure to ensure full connectivity and continuous service.
• Configured and managed with Aruba/cisco wireless access points 205 series supporting 802.11 ac.
• Set Aruba Access to link distribution switch system and then to WLAN controller. Configured AP groups, Authentication roles, SSID, 802.1X, RF parameters, 2.4 and 5 GHZ bands, provision Aps etc.
• Coordinated with a team to upgrade network by changing primary routing protocol to OSPF from EIGRP and Participated in the modification of BGP from multiple MPLS powered routers
• Experience with implementing Cisco 6500 VSS at the distribution/core switches.
• Designed and Deployed QOS on entire LAN and WAN edge devices (Cisco& Juniper) in place of existing non-consistent QOS policy
• Responsible for entire LAN and WAN maintenance and troubleshooting of the company network.
• Involved in the Team of Data Center Operations to perform duties like administration and deployment of Cisco Routers and Switches according to the organization requirements.
• Involved in the team for designing and Configured Nexus 7000/5000/2000 in Top of Rack & End of Row Architecture for a Scalable Production Network that supports Rack & Blade server architecture in a Multi-Tenancy environment using VPC, VDC & VRF
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500/PIX security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the design.
• Experience working with BGP attributes such as Weight, Local-Preference, MED and AS-PATH to influence inbound and out bound traffic

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience working with Cisco IOS-XR on the ASR9000 devices for MPLS deployments
• Experience with migrating from OSPF to BGP WAN Routing protocol
• Implemented Site-to-Site VPNs over the internet utilizing 3DES, AES/AES-256 with PIX Firewalls
• Configured, Installed, Maintained and involved in troubleshooting edge routers that has router models like 2951, 3845, 3925
• Installation and Configuration of Cisco Catalyst switches 6500, 3750 & 3550 series and configured routing protocol OSPF, EIGRP, BGP with Access Control lists implemented as per Network Design Document and followed the change process as per IT policy It also includes the configuration of port channel between core switches and server distribution switches
• Experienced with setting up MPLS Layer 3 VPN cloud in data center and worked on BGP WAN
• Experience with moving data center from one location to another location, from 6500 based data center to Nexus based data center
• Configured 7609, 7606 with OSPF and catalyst 6505, 4500, 3550 switches with various VLAN.
• Created and testedCisco router and switching operations using OSPF routing protocol, ASA Firewalls, and MPLS switching for stable VPNs
• Redesigned Internet connectivity infrastructure for meeting bandwidth requirements
• Configured HSRP and VLAN trucking 802.1Q, VLAN Routing on Catalyst 6500 switches
• Optimized performance of WANnetworkconsisting of Cisco 3550/4500/6500 switches by configuring VLANs
• Configured and troubleshooting of Cisco 2500, 2600, 3000, 6500, 7500, 7200 Series routers
• Experience in WAN technologies like T1/T3, DS3, STM1 and STM4 circuit types
• Configured Security policies including NAT, PAT, VPN, Route-maps and Access Control Lists
• Worked on F5 LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, 8800 for the corporate applications and their availability
• Worked on Cisco Routers, Active /Passive Hubs, Switches, Cisco PIX Firewall, Nortel VPN Concentrators TCP/IP, NAT and Checkpoint ESX/GSX firewall
• Data Center Design Experience, installed and Configured Network Devices in a Data Center including patching the cables in the Patch Panel. Design and implemented network infrastructure and configured the entire network Infrastructure devices including Network Printers and Register