SUMMARY:

• Cisco Certified Network Engineer with almost 8 years of professional experience in Network security engineering, performing Network analysis, design, Implementing, capacity planning with focus on performance tuning and support of large Networks.
• Experience in Cisco Routing, Switching and Security with strong Cisco hardware/software experiences with Cisco Routers such as 1900, 2900, 3900, Cisco ASR - 1k/9k, Cisco Multilayer Switches 4500, 6500, Cisco Nexus 2k/5k/7k/9k and Juniper: M320, MX80, MX480, MX960 and EX4200, EX8200 switches.
• Experience deploying BIG-IP F5LTM, Cisco ACE and A10 Load Balancers for load balancing and Implementation traffic filters on Cisco routers using Standard, extended Access lists.
• Juniper EX8200/EX2500/EX2200 switches and Juniper T4000/T1600/T640/T320 routers.
• Build and maintain strong professional relationships with IT decision makers within assigned accounts Juniper / Cisco / Brocade / Arista products and network protocols training delivery.
• Proficient in configuration of routing protocols like RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF multiple areas and BGP.
• Implementation of HSRP, VRRP and GLBP for Default Gateway Redundancy.
• Involved in designing L2VPN services and encryption system and other VPN with IPSEC based services.
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on IPv4 and IPv6 IP Addressing, Sub netting, VLSM and ARP, reverse & proxy ARP, Ping Concepts.
• Experience with server hardware like Cisco: UCS B-series, C-series, M-series, UCS Mini, and Fiber interconnects.
• Good knowledge and experience in Installation, Configuration and Administration of Windows, HTTP, FTP, DNS, NTP, DHCP servers under various LAN and WAN environments
• Access Control Server configuration for RADIUS & TACACS+.
• Knowledge with campus, datacenter and SMB switching infrastructures utilizing Force10, Dell Networking, Cisco, Brocade and VMware NSX technologies
• Have experience on different network tools like Tufin, Firemon, Algosec, Splunk, IBK Qradara SIEM, ASDM, CSM, Panorama, Juniper NSM, Service Now, Remedy ticketing Systems.
• Worked on Industry Standard Design like 3 layered Architecture Model, and Border Leaf, Spine & Leaf model.
• Ability to Install, Manage & Troubleshoot Large Networks & Systems Administration on Windows & Linux platforms in Development, Staging, Lab & Production Environments.
• Strong Experience in using various tools for management, analyzing, and troubleshooting, monitoring & process automation in Lab & Production environment.
• Highly valuable Project Management and Operations Planning skills.
• Excellent customer management/resolution, problem solving, debugging skills and capable of quickly learning, effectively analyzes results and implement and delivering solutions as an individual and as part of a team.
• Highly enthusiastic, creative team player, project implementation, analytical, interpersonal and communication skills

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Data Center Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Customers focusing on A10 Load Balancer AX series and current and future products. Duties include first line troubleshooting, acting as an escalation for customer 1st level engineers, and full engagement with A10 Load Balancer TAC for situation control and resolution.
• Provide onsite and/or remote technical support to A10 Load Balancer Premier
• Mature network management and troubleshooting skills; understand, troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve customer issues on A10 Load Balancer equipment.
• Creating custom profiles, health monitors, and configuring SNAT pools, syslog and SNMP
• Maintained tools and processes to support development, QA, and operations provisioning.
• Define consistent test plan for application delivery load balancer hardware platform and software versions
• Perform hardware regression testing on both existing and new application delivery load balancing platforms.
• Knowledge with work flow processes and diagrams using Microsoft Visio and other Microsoft Suite Applications
• Used several network tools such as WireShark, SPLUNK and Netscout to troubleshoot and assist the customer.
• Datacenter Solutions Cisco UCS B-Series Blades & Cisco UCS C-Series Servers.
• Experience with Cisco UCS, Virtual Infra on VMware, Installation, Upgrades and Patching.
• Experience with Cisco UCS Director and dealt with Cloupia scripting to automate deployment and patch management process.
• Understand the JunOS& Cisco IOS platform and worked with IOS upgrade of both Juniper & Cisco devices.
• Administered firewalls including Juniper Secure Access, Cisco ASA, Citrix NetScaler and Palo Alto.
• Deployment of Nexus 7700s at spine with 5000s and FEX at leaf.
• Designed and implemented the following features on the Cisco Nexus 9000, 7000 and 5500 switches: vPC, HSRP, FabricPath, OTV, EIGRP, BGP, VRF, FCoE, FC, PIM, GLBP and TrustSec.
• Work with business to find out what devices needs to be migrated and create new set of rules in appropriate environments.
• Experience with Data Center using Cisco UCS hardware.
• Configured Juniper MX480s, EX8200s, EX4500s, EX4200s, and SRX5800s from scratch to match design.
• Extensive working knowledge in BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, IS-IS, HSRP, L2/3 VPNs in IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR platforms.
• Configuration of OSPFv3, BGPv6 7 MPLS L2 VPN on Juniper, Cisco &Arista Routers.
• Knowledge with Infoblox DNS IPAM for Microsoft DNS/DHCP setup and management.
• Installed, configured and performed troubleshooting of NSX SDN.
• Knowledge in various VMware Suites of products involving Cloud (vCD, vCAC, vROPS, vCOPs), Datacenter (vSphere, vConverter) and End User Computing.
• Managing enterprise BGP setup by configuring and troubleshooting BGP related issues. Responsible for adding new BGP peers for remote branch offices and business partners.
• Involved in Configuring and implementing of Composite Network models consists of Cisco7600, 7200, 3800 series and ASR 9k, GSR 12K routers and Cisco 2950, 3500, 5000, 6500 Series switches.
• Working on the firewall rule optimization tool called Tufin to generate reports for usage reports along with Splunk for traffic analysis.
• Experience with LINUX operating systems in a virtualized environment

Confidential, NYC, NY

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, Configuring and troubleshooting Cisco Routers and Switches to perform functions at the Access, Distribution, and Core layers.
• Responsible for service request tickets generated by the helpdesk such as troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, patches and fixes with all around technical support.
• Interface daily with T2, T3, T4, WAN, and MAN's to prevent packet loss by re-routing traffic via shutting tunnels or passiving out protocols to prevent further packet loss and decrease further down time.
• Leveraged firewalls, route maps, access list, SSH, port security and TACACS (terminal access controller access control system) to achieve excellent network security.
• Configuring, upgrading and deployment of Nexus 7010, 5596 and 2248.
• Dealt with updating IOS of Cisco Routers & Switches.Redesigned network to leaf-spine topology.
• Built the Cisco UCS hardware with 8 Blades on each Chassis with 5 different environments in 2 Data Centers with Active & Active configurations.
• Troubleshoot and fix the network connectivity issue for UCS environment.
• Designed and configured the UCS profiles and templates for multiple environments.
• Firmware upgrade preformed for UCS infrastructure and systems version- 2.x & 3.x.
• Experience with EMC Storage allocations
• Designing and installing new branch network systems. Resolving network issues, running test scripts and preparing network documentation.
• Ensuring problems are satisfactorily resolved in a timely manner with focus in providing high level of support for all customers.
• Introduced F5 High Availability LTM, APM and ASM to Confidential and Confidential .
• Implemented F5 ASM for Internet Facing LTM virtualservers providing applications layer 7 firewall protection.
• Management of Infoblox Grid Manager to manage DNS Forward and Revers Lookup Zones
• Migrated from traditional catalyst 6500 to ACI Data Center consisting of Nexus 9508 as Spine and N9396 as Leaf switches.
• Experience with IP addressing and subnetting, Routing concepts
• Set up session tracking for a security policy using APM to check user credentials.
• Working with wireless technologies troubleshooting and configuration.
• Working with BGP, OSPF protocols in MPLS Cloud.
• Administration and troubleshooting VMware ESX &ESXi servers.
• Supporting Cisco UCS partners, Nexus data center cloud computing platforms and virtualized environments.
• Configure BGP features such as as-override, Local pre, EBGP load sharing on client connections
• Helped team members in configuration of Juniper 4350, 6350, and 2320 routers as well as EX 2200, 4200, 6200 and 8200 switches.
• Providing daily network support for national wide area network consisting of MPLS, VPN and point-to-point site.
• Configured and installed NSX Managers, NSX controllers, host preparations and configuring distributed firewall rules and implementing load balancing techniques.

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured Routing protocols EIGRP OSPF, BGP, static routing and policy based routing
• Team member of Configuration of Cisco router with VPN and Configuration of Catalyst switches
• Create and test Cisco router and switching operations using OSPF routing protocol, ASA Firewalls for stable VPNs
• Dealt with the escalation problems from Leve1 & Level 2 for routing, switching and WAN connectivity issues using ticketing system Remedy.
• Rack/stack/patch network cables, Blade Servers, Cisco Routers, Switches, in large Data Center environment.
• Leveraging analytical skills and technical knowledge to solve product and network problems.
• Experience in design, configuration and deployment of F5 Solutions with extensive experience working with APM and ASM technologies.
• Experience working with F5 APM sessions and manipulating session using iRule and configuring Access Policy Actions and branch rules.
• Experience with F5 GTM solutions, which includes WideIP, Pool Load Balancing Methods, probers and monitors.
• Performed health checks of the VMware vcenter servers and NSX Managers.
• Installation and configuration of VMware Virtual Center servers and VMware vCenter Appliance.
• Knowledge with network layout and documented network system design with detail information using Visio software
• Configuring and troubleshooting Vlan, Spanning Tree, VTP, HSRP, and Trunking.
• Configuration and troubleshooting link state protocols like OSPF in single area and multiple areas
• Redesign of Internet connectivity infrastructure for meeting bandwidth requirements
• Configured HSRP and VLAN trucking 802.1Q, VLAN Routing on Catalyst 6500 switches
• Optimized performance of the WAN network consisting of Cisco 3550/4500/6500/ Nexus 7k,5k, switches by configuring VLANs
• Configured VLANs with 802.1q tagging. Configured Trunk groups, ether channels, and Spanning tree for creating Access/distribution and core layer switching architecture
• Providing Technical Support and solutions for Network Problems
• Planned, tested and evaluated various equipments, systems, IOSs and procedures for use within the Network / security infrastructure
• Hand-on experience in developing scripts using Perl scripting language

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Handling overseas project of Time Warner Cable.
• Manage installations, configuration and administration of TWC equipment in IT architecture of organization.
• Assisted in troubleshooting LAN connectivity and hardware issues in the network
• Studied and analyzed client requirements to provide solutions for network design, configuration, administration, and security
• Involved in troubleshooting IP addressing issues and Updating IOS images using TFTP
• Monitor performance of network and servers to identify potential problems and bottleneck.
• Performed RIP & OSPF routing protocol administration
• Interacted with support services to reduce the downtime on leased lines
• Troubleshoot problems on a day to day basis; provide solutions to fix the problems
• Monitor the operability and reliability of the network
• Maintenance and Troubleshooting of connectivity problems using Ping, Trace route
• Managed the IP address space using subnets and variable length subnet masks (VLSM)
• Worked along with the team in ticketing issues; responsibilities included documentation and support other teams
• Experience in routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, and standby protocols like HSRP and VRRP application in the routers
• Designed VLAN’s, access lists (ACL), troubleshooting IP addressing issues and Updating IOS images and other hardware installations.
• Experience in troubleshooting VLAN, STP (Spanning tree protocol), & Switch Trunk and IP subnet issues.
• Dealt with NAT configuration and its troubleshooting issues related access lists and DNS/DHCP issues within the LAN network.
• Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) on checkpoint firewall for the proper network routing for the B2B network connectivity.
• Provisioning and troubleshooting Ethernet services, Gigabit networks and Connectivity issues with WAN types (T1, E1, DS3, and Frame relay) data circuit debugging
• Experience in Cisco switches and routers: Physical cabling, IP addressing, Wide Area Network configurations
• Performed troubleshooting, while maintaining trouble ticket tracking, following internal/external