SUMMARY:

• Around 6 years of experience in Network Engineering.
• Cisco catalyst 6500, 3850, 3950
• Router: Cisco 2500, 2600, 1800, ASR1006
• Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k, 9k Switches
• Cisco ACI with 9k spine and leaf
• Data center storage - FCOE/Fiber Channel
• Arista 7250, 7050, 7010 and 7280
• Riverbed Steelhead and Interceptors
• Experience with IXIA xm2 to generate traffic for testing
• Completed Python online training for network Engineer
• Good understanding of OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol. Efficient use of Microsoft VISIO/Office for technical documentation and presentation tools.
• Knowledge of IPV4/IPV6, implementation of Sub-netting, VLSM and ARP, reverse & proxy ARP, Ping Concepts.
• RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP routing protocols
• Basic understanding of data center network technologies such as VXLAN, MP-BGP, EVPN
• Basic knowledge of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), Voice over IP (VoIP), Firewall, Cisco Call Manager and routing protocol BGP
• Experience with hardware replacement such as Dimm Memory, Daughter Card, Line Cards (M108, M132, M148, WS-X6716-10T-3CXL) on Cisco Catalyst and Nexus platform
• Administration of LAN and WAN with in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, NAT, PPP, ISDN and associates network protocols and services.
• VLAN: configuration, switching isl, dotlq
• Experience in configuring Routers, Switches & Firewalls.
• Experience with L2 and L3 troubleshooting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technologies: Cisco ACI, Arista, Riverbed, F5, Juniper, IXIA Anue

Routing: MPLS, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, RIP-2, PBR, IS-IS, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization, Static Routing

Switching: LAN, VTP, STP, PVST+, RPVST+, Inter VLAN routing & Multi-Layer Switch, Multicast operations, Layer 3 Switches, Ether channels, Transparent Bridging, VPC, MLAG.

Operating Systems: Windows (Server 2003/2008, Vista, Windows 7), Linux OS

Programming Language: basic C, C++, Verilog, MATLAB

Scripting Language: Python, TCL, PERL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Data Center Network Engineer II

Responsibilities:

• Involve in Design and Implementation of ACI Spine and leaf infrastructure with Cisco 9k.
• Involved in design and implementation of Data Center Migration, m igrated Servers from 6500 Platform to Nexus 7k, 5k and 2k
• Involved in design and implementation of Nexus 9k Spine/Leaf standalone fabric with VXLAN, MP-BGP, EVPN technologies.
• Configuring, upgrading and deployment of Nexus 7010, 5596 and 2248.
• Migrated Network core switches to Arista Switches 7250, 7050,7010 and 7280 in the network.
• Image upgrade, Design and implementation of Arista Switches.
• Setup and configured Riverbed Steelhead and Interceptor for WAN acceleration principles and design criteria.
• Image Upgrade, Creating rules, Design and implementation of Riverbed Steelhead and Interceptors
• Building a new row in datacenter (Basic config.), adding required configuration to bring up the row in Production. iOS image Upgrade of Cisco Nexus and Catalyst switches on Confidential standard code. iOS upgrade on device such as NX-7k, 5k, Catalyst 6500, 3850, 3950, ASR 1006.
• Experience with configuration of Cisco APPNAV and WAAS optimization technology
• Hardware replacement such as Dimm Memory, Daughter Card, Line Cards (M108, M132, M148, WS-X6716-10T-3CXL) on Cisco Catalyst and Nexus platform.
• Responsible for service request and task assigned in Service Now generated by the customer such as adding a SVI for specific application, troubleshooting task.
• Implementation and Configuration (Profiles, I Rules) of F5 Big-IP load balancers. Comfortable with both GUI and CLI of F5. Creating VCMP guest on F5
• Deploying, configuring & maintaining F5 BigIP LTM (local traffic manager) for wide area load balancing and global redirection using various load balancing techniques.
• Responsible for creating Vlan, self-ip, VIPs, pool and pool members in f5.
• Experience with creating i-rule to capture traffic in F5 and uses Wireshark to see the traffic.
• Experience with IXIA xm2 to generate traffic for testing
• Managed QIP for DNS/DHCP management.

Confidential, Providence, RI

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design and implementation of site to site DMVPN -mGRE tunnel with OSPF routing protocol.
• Design and implementation of IPSEC tunnel with static routing protocol for eight remote VPN site.
• Installing, Configuring and troubleshooting Cisco Routers (ISR4331, 4431)
• Highly Experienced in Cisco Catalyst 6500 Platform and its Service Modules.
• Working experience with Cisco Catalyst 3850, 3750 and 2960.
• Responsible for service request tickets in Remedy generated by the helpdesk in all phases such as troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, patches and fixes with all around technical support.
• Experience with Aruba wireless AP's and troubleshoot AP's with Aruba GUI.
• Infoblox DNS IPAM for Microsoft DNS/DHCP setup and management.
• Management of Infoblox Grid Manager to manage DNS Forward and Reverse Lookup Zones.
• Managed Cisco firewalls policies from the ASDM.
• Drafted and installed Firewall rules and policies.

Confidential

Trainee engineer in Telecommunication Networking

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Design and implementation of remote dial up solution for clients
• Hands on Experience on Installation and configuration of workstations for IP based LAN’s.
• Experience in Installation and configuration of DHCP Client/Server.
• Involved in Configuration of networks using L3 protocols like RIPv2, OSPF and EIGRP.
• Broad Hands on Experience in Inter-VLAN routing, redistribution, access-lists and dynamic NAT
• Mobile communication: CDMA and GSM architecture, Call processing, RF interface
• 3G services, Wi-Fi and Wi-Max networks
• Broadband and DSL networks