SUMMARY:

• CCNP Certified Professional with 7 years of experience in routing, switching, firewall technologies, system design, implementation and troubleshooting of complex network systems.
• Experience in site-to-site and remote access VPN solutions.
• Experience working with Nexus 7010, 5020, 2148, 2248 devices.
• Experience with F5 load balancers LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, 8800 for the corporate applications and their availability.
• Worked extensively on Cisco Firewalls, Cisco PIX 506E/515E/525 and ASA 5500 5510/5540 series.
• Understanding of JUNOS platform and worked with IOS upgrade of Juniper devices.
• Good knowledge in configuration of Voice VLAN's VOIP , prioritizing the voice traffic over the data traffic.
• In depth understanding of IPV4 and IPV6 and implementation of Subnetting.
• Configured security policies including NAT, PAT, and VPN, Route-maps, Prefix lists and Access Control Lists.
• Extensive experience in WAN Technologies, Switching Technologies along with Failover Mechanisms and Inter Vlan Routing types.
• Switching tasks include VTP, ISL/802.1q, IPSec and GRE Tunneling, VLANs, Ether Channel, Trunking, Port Security, STP and RSTP.
• Good knowledge with the technologies VPN, WLAN and Multicast.
• Involved in designing and deploying various network security and High availability products like Cisco ASA and other security products.
• Strong hands on experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting of Cisco 7600, 7200, 3900, 3600, 2900, 2600, 2500 and 1800 series routers, Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 2950 and 3500XL series switches.
• Extensive experience in configuring and troubleshooting of protocols RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and MPLS.
• Worked on network topologies and configurations, TCP/IP, UDP, Frame Relay, Token Ring, ATM, bridges, routers, hubs and switches.
• Well experienced in configuring HSRP, GLBP, ICMP, PPP, PAP, CHAP and SNMP.
• Experience in installing and configuring DNS, DHCP server.
• Excellent communication skills, enthusiastic, motivated and a team player.
• A highly organized individual who adopts a systematic approach to problem solving, effectively analyzes results and implements solutions.
• Highly motivated with the ability to work independently or as an integral part of a team and committed to highest levels of professional.
• Experience with Change management process and Project documentation tools like Excel and VISIO.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Security/Firewalls: Cisco ASA Firewalls 5580-20, IPSEC and SSL VPNs, IPS/IDS, DMZ Setup, CBAC, Cisco NAC, ACL, IOS Firewall features, IOS Setup and Security features.
• Various Services: IOS and Features, NAT, SNMP, NTP, DHCP, CDP, DNS, TFTP and FTP Management.
• Routing: OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, RIP-2, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization, Static Routing
• Switching: VLANs, VTP, STP, RSTP Inter VLAN routing and Multi-Layer Switching, Layer3 Switches, Ether channels, Dot1Q, HSRP, GLBP, CEF, DCEF and Port Security.
• LAN: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Ten Gigabit Ethernet, LAN emulation.
• WAN: Leased lines PPP/HDLC , channelized links E1/T1/E3/T3/DS1/DS3 , Fiber Optic circuits OS3 , Frame relay, ISDN.
• AAA Architecture: TACACS , RADIUS, Cisco ACS.
• Monitoring: Wireshark, Solar Winds, TCP Dump.

PROFFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working in high availability Nexus Environment and provide Level 3 Network Support.
• Configuring, upgrading and verifying the NX-OS operation system.
• Converting PIX rules over to the Cisco ASA solution.
• Providing Level 3 support to customers, resolving issues by attending to conference calls.
• Providing Level 3 Engineering and Support to other internal network engineers and contractors.
• Designing and installing new branch network systems. Resolving network issues, running test scripts and preparing network documentation.
• Translating Cisco IOS Route maps to Cisco IOS XR Routing policies.
• Working with Cisco Nexus 2148 Fabric Extender and Nexus 5500 series to provide a Flexible Access Solution for datacenter access architecture.
• Ensuring problems are satisfactorily resolved in a timely manner with focus in providing high level of support for all customers.
• Working with BGP, OSPF protocols in MPLS Cloud.
• Establishing VPN Tunnels using IPSec encryption standards and also configuring and implementing site-to-site VPN, Remote VPN.
• Working with Juniper JUNOS operating system and working on M and MX series routers.
• Providing daily network support for national wide area network consisting of MPLS, VPN and point-to-point site.
• Configuring HSRP between the 3845 router pairs of Gateway redundancy for the client desktops.
• Configuring GLBP, VLAN Trunking 802.1Q, STP, Port security on Catalyst 6500 switches.
• Responsible for service request tickets generated by the helpdesk in all phases such as troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, patches and fixes with all around technical support.
• Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500/PIX security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning and configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the design.
• Converting Cisco IOS to Cisco IOS XR configurations.
• Configuring BGP, MPLS in Cisco IOS XR.
• Configuring Virtual Device Context in Nexus 7010.
• Configuring multiple route reflectors within a cluster.
• Working on HP open view map for Network Management System and Ticketing.
• Working on a broad range of topics such as routing and switching, dedicated voice access, planning and implementation, large-scale high-visibility outages, change management coordination, proactive monitoring and maintenance, disaster recovery exercise and core network repairs.
• Involved in L2/L3 Switching technology administration including creating and maintaining VLANs, Port security, Trunking, STP, Inter Vlan Routing, LAN security.
• Working on security levels with RADIUS, TACACS .

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Strong Knowledge in working with F5 Load Balancers and their Implementation in various Networks.
• 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.
• Configuring various BGP attributes such as Local Preference, MED, Extended Communities, Route-Reflector clusters, Route-maps and route policy implementation.
• 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.
• Converting CatOS to Cisco IOS Config Conversion on distribution layer switches
• Worked on Extensively on Cisco Firewalls, Cisco PIX 506E/515E/525/ ASA 5500 5510/5540 Series.
• Worked On Unix, linux, Windows Platforms and also involved in capacity planning of Network Maintenance.
• Convert Branch WAN links from TDM circuits to MPLS and to convert encryption from IPSec/GRE to GetVPN.
• Configuring routing protocols OSPF, EIGRP,RIP,MPBGP, LDP and BGPV4.
• Configuring Vlan's, VTP's, enabling trunks between switches.
• Configuring VLANs with 802.1q tagging. Configuring Trunk groups, ether channels, and Spanning tree for creating Access/distribution and core layer switching architecture.
• Configuring various Router interfaces like ATM interface, T3 Channelized T1 interfaces
• Configuring and troubleshooting CISCO catalyst 6509, 7609, 7613 with Supervisor cards, Cisco 3640, Cisco GSR 12416,21418 with PRP and RPR processors .
• 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.
• Actively participated in upgrading fast Ethernet, Layer 3 switched/routed LAN infrastructure from Cisco 3640 to Cisco 2811 ISR routers and switches at access level to 2950, 3550.
• Excellent Troubleshooting Skills and Customer Centric approach.
• Experience with design and implementation of Data center migration.
• Data center migration was involved in Access, Distribution and Core layers.

Environment: Cisco 3750/3550/3500/2960 switches and Cisco 3640/12000/7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, Cisco Nexus 7K/5K, 2248/3560/5020/6509, Cisco ASA5510, Checkpoint, Aruba Controllers 6000, 3600, 3400,650.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting customers with the configuration and maintenance of PIX and ASA firewall systems.
• Assisting with various duties that all will arise including implementation, configuration, management, rules definition, problem solving, design advice, troubleshooting, updating, maintenance etc.
• Maintaining redundancy on Cisco 2600, 2800 and 3600 router with HSRP.
• Assisting in troubleshooting LAN and WAN connectivity and hardware issues in the network of 10000 hosts.
• Studying and analyzing client requirements to provide solutions for network design, configuration, administration and security.
• Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on EX series switches.
• Interacting with support services to reduce the downtime on leased lines.
• Dealt with creating VIP virtual servers , pools, nodes and applying rules for virtual servers like cookie persistency, redirection of the URL.
• Troubleshooting problems on a day to day basis and providing solutions that would fix the problems within their network.
• Monitoring the operability and reliability of the network.
• Maintenance and Troubleshooting of LAN connectivity problems using Ping, Trace route.
• Performed RIP and OSPF routing protocol administration.
• Supporting EIGRP and BGP based company network by resolving level 2 3 problems of internal teams and external customers of all locations.
• Configuring RIP, OSPF and Static routing on Juniper M and MX series routers.
• Provided Tier2 LAN and WAN operational support to network call center, supporting the remote, domestic and international offices.
• Experience with configuring BGP, OSPF on 7609 router.
• Managed the IP address space using subnets and variable length subnet masks VLSM .
• Worked on project and coordinated with cabling vendors.
• Involved in troubleshooting IP addressing issues and updating IOS images using TFTP.
• Worked along with the team in ticketing issues.
• Daily responsibilities included monitoring remote site using network management tools, assisted in design guidance for infrastructure upgrade and help LAN administrator with backbone connection and connectivity issues.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with client teams to find out requirements for their Network requirements.
• Designing solutions for frozen requirements using Cisco Routers and Switches.
• Deploying the network infrastructure to meet the requirements.
• Created VLAN and Inter-Vlan routing with Multilayer Switching.
• Configuring Cisco 6500 SUP 720 , 4500 SUP 6 , and 3750 catalyst switches at the core and Distribution/Access Layer respectively with Port-Securities, VLAN, VTP, RSTP, connecting switches with 802.1Q Trunking Protocol and provided gateway redundancy with HSRP.
• Maintaining redundancy on Cisco 2600, 2800 and 3600 router with HSRP.
• Providing technical support on hardware and software related issues to remote production sites.
• Migration of RIP V2 to OSPF, BGP routing protocols.
• Configuring EIGRP for lab environment.
• Implementing ISL and 802.1Q for communicating through VTP.
• Used Cisco ASA 5540 series for enterprise security, configured ACL's for Internet Access requests to SERVER FARM in LAN and DMZ.
• Completing service requests i.e.- IP addressing, bandwidth upgrades, IOS/platform upgrades etc.
• Providing technical consultancy for better application response using QoS.
• Monitoring performance of network and servers to identify potential problems.
• Performing RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP routing protocol administration.
• Other responsibilities included documentation and support other teams.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring and troubleshooting multi-customer ISP network environment.
• Involved in network monitoring, alarm notification and acknowledgement.
• Implementing new/changing existing data networks for various projects as per the requirement.
• Troubleshooting complex networks layer 1, 2 frame relay, ATM, Point to Point, ISDN to layer 3 routing with MPLS, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF and RIP protocols technical issues.
• Providing support to networks containing more than 2000 Cisco devices.
• Performing troubleshooting for IOS related bugs by analyzing past history and related notes.
• Carrying out documentation for tracking network issue symptoms and large scale technical escalations.
• Managing the service request tickets within the phases of troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, fixes, patches and providing all-round technical support.
• Commissioning and Decommissioning of the MPLS circuits for various field offices.
• Preparing feasibility report for various upgrades and installations.

Confidential

Network Technician

Responsibilities:

• 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, 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.