SUMMARY

• Confidential certified Network Engineer around 7 Years’ experience in design, implementation, configuration of Confidential Routers, Switches and Firewalls, troubleshooting & fine - tuning of Firewalls, VPN configuration, troubleshooting network related problems in Enterprise& Data Center Networks.
• Experience in implementing and configuring protocols such as HSRP, GLBP, VRRP, ICMP, IGMP, PPP, HDLC, PAP, CHAP, and SNMP.
• Experience in the Network Designing, Security and Implementation of Routing, Switching, Firewall technologies and troubleshooting of Complex Network systems.
• Hands On experience Confidential IOS/IOS-XR/NX-OS, Juniper JUNOS for configuration troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4, MPLS.
• Responsible for creating Monitors and Rules in SCOM based on the monitoring requirements
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting of various arista switches in my network environment.
• Build and Design of Citrix NetScaler, F5, VMWare NSX, and AVI SDN load balancing platforms
• Adept understanding of the JUNOS platform and worked with IOS upgrade of Juniper devices.
• Troubleshoot and engage with NSX Engineering on customer reported issues, including identifying viable workarounds.
• Experience with Container Management like OpenShift, Kubernetes, and/or Docker.
• Troubleshooting for Layer 2 LAN technologies but not limited to Ethernet (Switched, FastE, GigE), STP, RSTP, VLANs, Cables, Bridges, VTP, and Trunking (802.1q), port security, routing protocols and Aruba Wireless platform.
• Initiated VPC Peering Connections for those VPCs authorized to talk amongst each other.
• Troubleshooting and resolving problems associated with VMware ESX server hardware, OS Implement controls and security to comply with security standards.
• Authoring Cyber Threat Reports based on intelligence feeds and performing Targeting Profile collection, data processing and analyses
• Firewall Troubleshooting and Support of multiple firewall and security vendor’s solutions, including Palo Alto and Confidential ASA Firewalls
• Datacenter Networking, Network Virtualization, NFV and SDN solutions and defend the benefits in front of customers and partners
• Collaborating with Application owners, Network Team, DNS Team, and Firewall Team, to migrate applications from Legacy NetScaler Load Balancer to New F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager
• Support customer with the configuration and maintenance of ASA 5585-X firewall systems and Checkpoint firewalls.
• Prior enterprise experience with IT security devices F5 SSL VPN, Palo Alto, ASA, Next gen firewalls
• In-depth knowledge on Routing Policies, Network Architecture, IP Subnetting, VLSM, TCP/IP, NAT, DHCP, DNS.
• Developed a tool for migrating sites from traditional network to software-defined network using python programming. Coordinated and Migrated SDN Dogfood network from one site to another
• Good knowledge and experience in installation, configuration, and Administration of Windows 2000/2003, HTTP, FTP, DNS, NTP, DHCP servers under various LAN and WAN environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routers: Routers (1700, 1800, 2500, 2600, 3200, 3600, 3700, 3800, and 7200)

Switches: Confidential L2 & L3 Switches (2900, 3560, 4500, 5000 & 6500), ASA, PIX, FWSM, Juniper, Netscreen

LAN Technologies: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet, VLAN, Inter-VLAN Routing, VTP, STP, RSTP

Firewalls: Firewalls/VPNs ASA, PIX, Confidential VPN, IPsec, Intrusion Detection

OS products/Services: DNS, DHCP, Windows (2000/2003, XP), UNIX, LINUX, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and 2005, VMware.

Protocols/Services: Routing Protocols (RIP v1 & v2, IGRP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP), QoS, HSRPVRRP, TCP/IP, load balancer, Proxy servers, IPSec, MPLS.

Network Management Tools: Wireshark, Netflow Analyzer, HP OpenView, Confidential Works, Ethereal, OPNET, Solarwinds

Security Server Protocols: TACACS+, RADIUS, VRF

Languages: C++, Perl, Python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

NOC Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working on Confidential routing protocols including Ethernet, IP Communications, BGP, OSPF, MSDP, and PIM Knowledge of VPN configuration and troubleshooting.
• Provide remote technical assistance to field teams and ensure that field works are implemented without impacting the network health.
• Responsible for testing and evaluating network hardware and software, developing new network monitoring, analysis tools and writing network documentation.
• Work with problem management to identify reoccurring incidents and support service improvement plans to negate reoccurrence of incidents.
• Participate in on call rotation and resolves complex help desk tickets and network problems. Tracks and trends issue and drive resolution.
• Design and troubleshooting of complex network systems including routing (BGP, OSPF), switching (VLAN, WLAN), internet security (SSL, IPsec, firewall) & cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Experienced in firewall configurations and troubleshooting - Confidential ASA, Palo Alto Networks
• Serve as technical support interface between customer NOC and 2LS/3LS support teams and other internal deployment and customer engineering teams.
• Security experience in deploying VPN Solutions like IPsec site-site and client-site SSL VPN implemented across multiple vendors.
• Hands on experience on Firewalls. Implemented security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA ( TACACS+ & RADIUS )
• Prior experience implementing an enterprise class-monitoring platform (SolarWinds, ScienceLogic).

Confidential

Network Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As part of the Capacity engineering team - (public /private peering), responsibilities would include coordinating with global resources, scheduling changes including gaining MCM approvals, and applying change templates to devices in each datacenter globally (with associated pre & post checks).
• Managing the provision of circuit interconnections (layers 1 to 3) including ordering, physical provisioning, troubleshooting connectivity, BGP configuration and activation for traffic delivery, ensuring circuits are designed and built to a standard (resiliency/redundancy, latency, etc.)
• Solid experience working with various data centers, ISPs, vendors, and partners to troubleshoot connectivity (deep knowledge of data-centre infrastructures including cages, patch panels and to provide clean and scalable deployments.
• Developed programs in UNIX shell scripts, MySQL scripts for various functions;
• Deploying, Scaling and troubleshooting transit center across all Networks Fabrics in many regions.
• Migrating console network across the globe.
• Troubleshoot backend and frontend network issues.
• Work with juniper MX240/MX480/PTX devices to configure and troubleshoot.
• Configured BGP / LACP on Edge devices to establish connections with PNI/TRANSIT/IX Customers.
• Cloud computing based storage services, application, Security filtering and Mission critical needs, LAN/WAN design using SDN/NFV, OPENSTACK/VNF and Confidential Tail-F controllers.
• Implementation of DHCP, DNS, FTP, Confidential catalyst switches, VLANs, STP, Ipv4, Subnetting, IPv6, Network
• Creating and developing the existing deployment processes that increase both velocity and quality.
• Creating minor scripts using Python and basic understanding of Python and JINJA.
• Create and update our network standards and ensure that the network is deployed to these standards.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting of network faults while making network changes.
• Network automation tools using Python: Alfred, Blade Runner.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Datacenter Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working with ACI (Spine and leaf), ACI Policies, Tenants, Bridge Domain, Private Networks, Contracts and Filters.
• Installing and Manage daily NetScaler checks to ensure proper configurations, running system, configuration, and management for NetScaler.
• Hands on experience with issues related to security like NAT, IP sec, ACLs.
• Managed and troubleshoot NET Cloud, Cradle Point and Aruba access point’s wireless devices on Citrix and Airwave. Aruba VPN, customer public and private wireless networks.
• Engineering and configuring Virtual Server, Pools, iRules, Profiles, Persistence, and monitor on F5 LTM to match the configuration the Application had on NetScaler
• Network Virtualization, Datacenter Networking (Overlay/Underlay), NFV, SDN, SD-WAN and Whitebox solutions
• Recommend, schedule, and perform hardware and peripheral equipment improvements, upgrades, and repairs
• Performed IOS upgrades on Catalyst 2900, 3500, 4500 and 6500 series switch and Maintained redundancy on Confidential 2600, 2800 and 3600 routers with HSRP.
• Actively involved in Optimization of WiFi, LTE, VoLTE, VoIP & CDMA Networks
• Confidential router 800 Series ISR, NCS 5000, ASR 9000 Series, Series, 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series.
• Integrated Palo Alto next-gen firewalls with overlay VMware NSX SDN network
• Configured and troubleshooting the F5 LTM and APM and providing level 2 support for the customers.
• Built a VPC, established the site-to- site VPN connection between Data Center and AWS.
• Manage and lead VMware ESXi hardware and software migration and upgrade efforts of varying size and complexity.
• Experience in Resolving and handling network related incidents within defined SLA’s.
• Deep understanding of cloud technologies, such as IaaS, PaaS, Software-defined networks (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Open stack, and other emerging technologies
• Experience working on monitoring tools Nagios, Net brain, Solar Winds Orion NCM and NPM, Aruba, Stat seeker.

Confidential

Network Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a Network Development Engineer working within AWS Infrastructure will deploy network infrastructure across all of network fabrics that supports the Confidential Retail Service and multiple AWS services.
• Deploy, scale and automate network across multiple global datacenters in both existing and new locations.
• Configured BGP / LACP on Edge devices to establish connections with PNI/TRANSIT/IX Customers.
• Drive scaling of current network designs to meet the increasing demand of customers.
• Create simple, repetitive deployment processes that increase both velocity and quality.
• Create and implement changes on the network. Automate workflow and execution of deployments on a global scale.
• Working knowledge in BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, IS-IS, HSRP, L2/3 VPNs in IOS, IOSXE, and IOS XR platforms.
• Created multiple Virtual Private Clouds (VPC) within the domain.
• Hands-on Experience in configuration of Network architecture on AWS with VPC, Subnets, Internet gateway, NAT, Route table.
• Worked on NXOS, IOS and IOS-XR BXB to N7K-NXOS (MPLS) system test
• Provided on-call support for installation and troubleshooting of the configuration issues.
• Provided estimated bandwidth requirements for data replication, to best determine adequate timing for Migration service levels.
• E xperience with major router platforms specifically, with Juniper MX, EX platforms including all compatible processors and line cards for these platforms.
• G lobal responsibility for the Network Reliability software used across all of Confidential ’s businesses.