Summary:

• 8 plus years of extensive hands-on experience in Cisco network design, deployment and troubleshooting.
• Experience of routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, and BGP, MPLS/VPN
• Worked on Cisco 6500, 7200VXR, 12000 series Router and Cisco 4500, 6509, 7613 series switch.
• Proficiency in configuration of VLAN setup on various Cisco Routers and Switches.
• Experienced in trouble-shooting both connectivity issues and hardware problems on Cisco based networks.
• Enhanced level of experience with QoS, OSPF, BGP, ATM, T1-T3 Frame-Relay
• Network analysis and capacity planning experience using tools like Sniffer, Ethereal, and Tcp dump.
• Experience configuring Virtual Device Context in Nexus 7k,5k and 2k
• Experience with Checkpoint Firewall policy provisioning
• Extensive hands-on experience with complex routed LAN and WAN networks
• Hands-on configuration and experience in setting up Cisco routers to perform functions at the Access, Distribution, and Core layers.
• Experience with convert Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution.
• Experience on Cisco 7600, Cisco 6500, Cisco 4503, Cisco 3750, Cisco ASA, Juniper NSM, Juniper ISG1000, Juniper IDP and Bluecoat SG cashing and web filtering
• Experience in the setup of HSRP, Access-Lists, and RIP, EIGRP, and tunnel installations.
• Experience with Quality of Service: Congestion Management and Avoidance, Policing, Shaping, and Link Efficiency.
• Worked on Palo Alto Firewall.
• Sound knowledge of virtual firewalls like checkpoint VSX, IDS, IPS as well as encryption techniques.
• Strong hands on experience on PIX 506, 515, 525, 535 , ASA 5505/5510 Firewalls. Implemented security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA TACACS RADIUS .
• Worked on F5 Load Balancers Configuring Irules, Profiles, Nats/Snats, And Load Balancing.
• Excellent Verbal, written communication skills and Interpersonal skills with ability to work with large teams as well as independently with minimum supervision Team Player
• Experience with Project documentation tools implementing and maintaining network monitoring systems and experience with developing network design documentation and presentations using VISIO

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Confidential

Network Engineer

Duties:

• Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting LTE SAE Gateways, Juniper Firewalls and Cisco Routers
• Troubleshooting of hardware/software platforms/applications and EPC Network core, distribution and access layers.
• Testing Layer2 and Layer3 protocols like BGP, OSPF, MPLS using commercially available Test tools.
• Testing for all phases like Unit, Integration, IOT, Feature, Performance and Services
• Configuration, Implementation and troubleshooting with multi-vendor Service Provider Environment.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols like OSPF, BGP, MPLS, VRRP and VPLS.
• Migration of existing IPSEC VPN tunnels from Pre-Shared key to Certificate Authority for purpose of scaling.
• Maintenance and analysis of the F5 network for any possible up-gradation.
• Configuring and Monitoring of Cisco ASA 5500 for their use in Large service provider network.
• Experience with Juniper NetScreen 520M Firewall and Palo Alto network firewall.
• Involving in Integration and configuration of Cisco and Openet LTE nodes.
• Troubleshooting the wireless data core networks, architecture, protocols, interfaces and wireless operator's end-end network.
• Working on deployment/configuration of LWAPs, WLC, WDS and 802.11 wireless devices.
• Involved in Design and troubleshooting of LTE, UMTS and GPRS.
• Working on Aruba Wireless LAN Implementation for 11n Infrastructure across the Corporate Network.
• Involved in the configuration troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4.
• Configured network access servers for AAA Security Using Juniper IC Infranet Controllers MAG-SM360, MAG-4610.
• Involved in design of New Nexus POD Environment.
• Designing advanced networking solutions including Quality of Service QoS , Virtual Routing and Forwarding VRF and route redistribution.
• Implemented Site-to-Site VPNs over the internet utilizing 3DES, AES/AES-256 with PIX Firewalls.
• Configuring the vips, pools, irules and profiles on F5 LTM 10.x and 11.x version.
• Experience with LTE call flows, core system interfaces and protocols such as S1-MME, S1-U, S6a, S11, S5/S8, GTPv2 and CCR/CCI.
• Substantial lab testing validation prior to implementation of Nexus 7K, 5K 2K connecting to blade servers.
• Experience working on IXIA and Landslide and troubleshooting using IRIS, Netscout, nGenius and Wireshark.

Confidential

• Cisco Core Routers and Gateways , Cisco L2 L3 Firewalls
• Juniper Routers and Service Delivery Gateways
• Switches 2950,2960,3550, 3750, 4500, 6500
• Load balancers CSS,CSM, F5-LTM
• Firewalls/Security IPS, IDS, ASA
• Network Simulators and Monitoring Tools IXIA, Spirent, Wireshark, Netscout etc.
• Routing EIGRP,OSPF,RIPv1/RIPv2,BGP
• LANs, Dot1Q, VTP, STP, RSTP, VLAN Maps, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, CEF, DCEF, Port Security, Private-VLANS, Ether-Channels, LACP, PAGP.
• IP, IPv6, TCP, UDP, ICMP, NAT, CDP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, SYSLOG.
• Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Frame Relay, Leased Lines PPP, HDLC .

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities

• Experience with design and implementation of Virtual Switching System VSS for both User segment and server segment using 6509-V-E catalyst switches.
• Configuration, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's PIX firewall, ASA 5500.
• VPN IPSEC and GRE migrations and new designs for the clients.
• Configuration and Troubleshooting of the Network Routing protocols BGP and EIGRP during the Migrations and new client connections.
• Involved in the configuration troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, BGP v4.
• Supported on Cisco Nexus 5000 and Nexus 7000 Series Switch fabric links.
• Experience with Checkpoint Firewall policy provisioning.
• Check Point and Cisco ASA firewall administration.
• Maintained high availability of resources with F5 BIG-IP load balancer based on different load balancing.
• Physically assembled Firewalls, IDS/IPS, and Nexus 7ks and assisted in Rack -n-stack within the Data Center.
• Configured network access servers for AAA Security Using Juniper IC Infranet Controllers MAG-SM360, MAG-4610.
• Data Center Design Experience, installation and Configuration Network Devices in a Data Center Environment including patching the cables in the Patch Panel.
• Experience with devices Palo Alto Network firewalls such as security NAT, Threat prevention URL filtering.
• Experience in routers and switches in various network configurations supported VLANs, Qos, VoIP, and advanced access-lists.
• Configured Cisco iOS ACL and Firewall rules to restrict and allow access to data resources.
• Configured VLANs with 802.1q tagging. Configured Trunk groups, ether channels, and Spanning tree for creating Access/distribution and core layer switching architecture.
• Involved in configuring VDC, VPC and FCOE, upgrading NX-OS for Nexus Family Switches.
• Worked on Port Groups on M series Module and F Series Module for Nexus 7000.
• Configuration and troubleshooting various OSPF issues in an OSPF multi area environment.
• Configuration various BGP attributes such as Local Preference, MED, Extended Communities, Route-Reflector clusters, Route-maps and route policy implementation.
• Configuration of Bluecoat SG9000 WAN acceleration appliances including WCCP, CIFS and creating/updating overlays.
• Implemented IDS/IPS on dedicated IDS/IPS 4260, software based IOS based IPS on Cisco 1921.
• Experience with converting Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution. Migration with both Checkpoint and Cisco ASA VPN experience.
• Experience working on Juniper T-Series, M-Series, MX-Series, J-Series and SRX-Series Routers.
• Experience working with JUNOS OS on Juniper Routers and Switches.
• Configuration of firewall filters, routing instances, policy options, on Juniper m320 and T640.
• Worked on ASR routers like 1k, 9K series as a core and configured HSRP for active-active redundancy.
• Involved in Configuration of Access lists ACL on checkpoint firewall for the proper network routing for the B2B network connectivity.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of OSPF, BGP, and EIGRP.
• Worked on BGP Route Reflectors deployment and Removal of BGP from the core.
• Testing various BGP features such as as-override, Local preference, MED, AS-PATH and EBGP load balancing.
• Experience working on ACE and F5 load balancers.
• Troubleshooting IOS related bugs based on past history and appropriate release notes.

Environment:

Cisco 6509/ 3750/3550/3500/2950 switches, Cisco 7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, TACACS, EIGRP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, VPN, MPLS, Ether Channels and Sniffer.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementation and maintenance of network architecture for LAN/WAN.
• Installation of new software releases and system upgrades. Evaluated and installed patches, resolved software related problems. Performed system backups and recovery.
• Configuration and installation of Cisco router.
• Implement and configured HSRP on core switching and also for VPN redundancy , HSRP on different location of office on the switched network and managing the entire multilayer switched network
• Maintenance of DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, Replication other services on the Windows Server 2000 2003 network.
• Configuration and testing of Multicast routing in Data Center Environment.
• Troubleshoot and Worked with Security issues related to Cisco ASA/PIX , Checkpoint, IDS/IPS and Juniper Netscreen firewalls.
• Troubleshooting Security issues on Cisco ASA, Checkpoint, ID/IPS and Juniper Netscreen firewalls.
• Performed new additions VIPs, Pools, Virtual Servers, and Monitors to the F5 BigIP LTM load balancer.
• Performed basic security audit of perimeter routers, identifying missing ACL's, writing and applying ACL's.
• Configured EBGP/IBGP/VRFS policies also tested BGP attributes such as Local preference, MED, AS-PATH, Community and Weight.
• Troubleshooting in inter-vendor Palo Alto environments.
• Bluecoat WAN acceleration appliance hardware/software troubleshooting and configuration.
• Installed and maintained routers and switches in various network configurations supported VLANs, Qos, VoIP, and advanced access-lists.
• Replacement of old 6500 and WAN routers from DR testing site and Installed Nexus 7K and ASR 1006 routers.
• Implemented new POPs using Juniper MX240 PE MX480 aggregation supporting MPLS VRF with iBGP, ISIS iBGP route reflectors.
• Checkpoint and Cisco ASA firewall administration across global networks.
• Maintenance of all servers network equipment with current stable firmware, IOS images access control lists.
• Supported the team for migration work of applications and websites from Cisco CSS Load Balancers to the F5 BigIP Load Balancers.
• Maintenance of Cisco ASA 5500 firewall for DCA site, adding new rules or changing existing access lists if necessary.
• Configuration and management of different Layer 2 switching tasks which includes address learning and efficient switching.
• Worked on Cisco Layer 2 switches spanning tree, VLAN, QoS .
• Configuration and testing of Multicast for both IPv4 and IPv6 routing in Data Center Environment.
• Implementation of switching protocols like Spanning Tree Protocol STP in the network, VTP, VLANs, and configured Fast-Ethernet channel between switches.
• Implementation of security improvements such as network filtering, SSH, AAA, TACACS, SNMP access lists, VTY access lists, EIGRP MD5 authentication, HSRP authentication and security enhancements.

Environment: Cisco 3750/3550/3500/2960 switches and Cisco 3640/12000/7200/3845/3600/2800 routers.