SUMMARY

• Around 8 years of experience in Cisco Routing, Switching, Security, Network Engineering, Systems Analysis, Deployment and Maintenance.
• Monitor, identify, report, and mitigate security weaknesses.
• Perform risk assessments for clients and provide the findings and recommendations.
• Communicate and manage client needs and expectations in all phases of their information security solutions.
• Work with internal resources to ensure proper security controls are identified, implemented and tested.
• Knowledge in Monitoring tools like Solarwinds.
• Develop detailed technical recommendations to solve network issues.
• Troubleshoots network access problems and implements network security policies and procedures.
• Manage, Maintain Data center, assist in Migration of Data center.
• Ensures network (LAN/WAN) security access and protects against unauthorized access, modification, or destruction).
• Experience in Identifying and evaluating implementations of specific and general security tools (Secure Works, IDS, ASA, etc.)
• Experience on Working in handling and installing Palo Alto.
• Experience in managing and Maintaining Nexus 5000 and 7000 series.
• Experience with configuring and maintaining VSX devices.
• Maintenance of network servers such as file servers, VPN gateways, intrusion detection systems, etc.
• Experience in delivery of our proposed Wireless and Route Switch solutions centered on Cisco products
• Accountable for the performance of direct reports on a daily basis.
• Assist in testing, troubleshooting and resolution efforts when systems failures occur and interface with network operation teams.
• Assisted in the management and enforcement of company's network security policies.
• Proactively monitor network utilization and gather trend data for reporting as well as capacity planning purposes.
• Research and evaluate new networking technologies to improve existing infrastructure.
• Cross - train and provide backup to other Network Engineers.
• Experienced with Enterprise class data center and network implementation.
• Experience in Configure Vlans, VTP, STP, RSTP
• Experience on Upgrade on 5k, 7K Nexus device.
• Experienced in Routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP and BGP) and IPSEC VPN in a multi-site environment
• Experienced in Various WAN technologies such as DSL, cable, T1, and MPLS.
• Very good experience with network routing and switching.
• Adept in Modeling Business Process using MS Visio and generating Workflows, Process Flows and other UML diagrams to refine and automate business process.
• Goal-oriented individual with strong management skills and capabilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

HARDWARE: Cisco 800, 1700, 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 7200, series routers, Cisco 500, 1900, 2960, 3560, 3750, 6500 series switches, Cisco PIX 500, VPN 3000, ASA 5500 series security appliances

PROTOCOLS: RIP, OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP, ISIS, HSRP, VRRP, RSVP, MPLS, DHCP, DNS, TCP/IP, SNMP, Frame Relay, and ISDN.

FIREWALLS: Checkpoint and Cisco ASA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Nashville TN

Sr Network Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Implemented, managed LAN and WAN development to a scalable and flexible infrastructure that minimizes the reliance on consultants.
• Source, recommend vendors and negotiate terms for all infrastructure needs including data and internet telecommunications, networking hardware and service agreements.
• Standardize network and server hardware configurations resulting in significant savings in support expenses.
• Regular upgrade and maintenance of Infrastructure, Installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco Switches (2900, 3500, 7600, 3700 series, 6500 series) Cisco Routers (4800, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2900, 1800, 1700, 800) Cisco Router and Switches, Juniper Routers and Nexus 7k,5k & 2k.
• Configuring & managing around 500+ Network Devices that includes Cisco Routers & Switches, Nexus Switches, Juniper and Riverbed WAN Optimizers.
• Implementation of ISDN & FRAME-RELAY in Cisco router.
• Configure and troubleshoot Remote access and site to site-in Checkpoint & Cisco ASA.
• Excellent knowledge in Routing, Switching, Firewall and Gateway technologies, data networks, capacity management and network growth. Co-ordinate with the Data Network and Security team and come up with possible solutions. Owned and managed internal IT relationships, vendor management, IT strategic development, day-to-day Service Desk/Customer Service operations, application portfolio and the IT/High Speed Data network infrastructure along with all Managed Services.
• Responsible for configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco 4331, 4431, 3945, 1941 and similar routers, Cisco 3650, 3560, 2960 and other switches. Configurations involved routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, and EIGRP, DMVPN, IWAN, MPLS, Static routes, Vlans, VRFs etc.
• Worked on turning a site into IWAN involving provision of two circuits, one for MPLS, other for Internet, activating these circuits, forming DMVPN over MPLS and DMVPN over Internet with our IWAN-MPLS and IWAN- INET head end routers at Datacenters.
• Designed sites to have just MPLS or just Internet where DMVPN is established. Cradlepoints are designed to work alongside MPLS or Internet connections to provide offload.
• Designed & Deployed Cisco ISE 1.2/1.3 for Enterprise RADIUS Authentication with Active Directory, RSA Secured, and Proxy Radius Services to Cisco ACS.
• Extensive experience in Cisco Routing, Switching, Firewalls, Systems Analysis and Implementation, Deployment and Maintenance.
• Experienced in pertaining to security software (IOS-s) and hardware in Juniper and Cisco Routers and Switches
• Act as primary technical contact for all client, vendor and exchange connectivity.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Network Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Perform upgrades on existing network equipment to resolve various network problems.
• Configured over 150+ Site-to-Site & Remote Access VPNs on PIXs, VPN Concentrators, IOS routers, Cisco ASA.
• Performance monitoring devices using Solarwinds.
• Provide Support to Nexus 2000/5000 switches and operating system.
• Configuring & managing Network & Security Devices that includes Cisco Routers & Switches, Nexus Switches, Juniper and F5 Load balancers.
• Experience in the PCI remediation project, which include Switches, Routers, and Firewalls.
• Experienced in Web gateways, IPS/IDS, VPN, DMZ and proxies
• Created support procedures, written documentation and Visio network diagrams.
• Performed network, LAN, server and desktop support at all levels.
• Maintained and supported daily, weekly and monthly backups for servers & network configurations.
• Assisted with establishing Network Operations Center (NOC) to proactively monitor the network resulted in better SLA and network performance.
• Created business cases for supporting network infrastructure upgrades and changes.
• Coordinated with change management team for all changes that would likely interface with the Network.
• Designed and configured HSRP for redundancy.
• IOS upgrade and router hardening for 2600, 3600, 7200 routers and 6500, 2900, and 3500 series of switches.
• Created Visio diagrams and other documentation. Updated existing documentation.
• Investigated & resolved network issues using troubleshooting skills & network sniffers.
• Configured Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator to allow VPN clients.

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Network Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Configuring and install hardware and software required to conduct network penetration testing.
• Experience in infrastructure strategies, hardware/software, security and networking products
• Experienced in Advising management of options, risk vs. cost, benefits and other impacts of infrastructure solutions
• Experience in setting technical standards for network infrastructure, policies and procedures.
• Strong TCP/IP understanding. Knowledge of debugging Checkpoint Firewall.
• Defined policies, NAT and anti-spoofing for internal, external networks as well as Internet gateways.
• Extensive experience with CISCO Security Firewall Configurations and network configurations.
• Ability to access Information Security Risks, understand business needs, and apply defined information security policies and architectures in order to develop effective solutions
• Troubleshooting packet flow through firewall using command line utilities such as TCP DUMP.
• In-depth knowledge of IP routing, virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) and routing protocols
• Well versed in different vendors L2/3 switch hardware architectures
• Detailed knowledge and hands-on experience of Layer 2 protocols includes Spanning Tree Protocols, VLAN Tagging (802.1Q), Link aggregation (IEEE 802.1AX)
• Hands-on experience with design and implementation of large IP networks
• Hands-on experience in datacenter environment (LAN/WAN/security/application).
• Hands-on experience with Cisco equipment, CDN platforms; test platforms: Spirent

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Network Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Hands-on experience in datacenter environment (LAN/WAN/security/application)
• Experience with security as a discipline, with focus on IPSec, Access Control, Firewalling, IDS/IDP
• Hands-on experience with Cisco equipment, Juniper equipment, CDN platforms; test platforms: Spirent
• Experienced in pertaining to security software (IOS-s) and hardware in Juniper and Cisco Routers and Switches.
• Experienced with Firewall administration such as Juniper, Check Point or Cisco
• Optimized performance of the WAN network consisting of Cisco 4500/5500 switches by configuring VLANs.
• Experienced with Cisco catalyst switches 5xxx,4xxx, 29xx,19xx and RSM and Cisco Routers 7500,7200,4000,3600,2600,2500
• Experience with CheckPoint Smart Center management station Tipping Point
• Experience with common network management protocols/tools (TACACS, NTP, SNMP, SYSLOG, etc)
• Designed highly redundant and fault tolerant networks for the financial industry clients.
• Provide 24/7 on call support and Document the environment
• Implementation & network Management.
• Implementation and maintenance of Backup Exec 8.0 on departmental server.
• Diagnose and solve Frame relay / T1 lines, CSU/DSU and routers connectivity problems.
• Configuring and managing network traffic using SNMP and access list.
• Manage Cisco Router, 2900xl switches and 3Com hubs configuration for WAN and LAN interfaces.

Confidential, South Portland, ME

Network Associate

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Involved in configuring Cisco routers and switch administration, familiar with enterprise level Cisco Routers such as 7200 series, 3800 series, 3700 series, 2800series, and Cisco catalyst series switches like 6500, 3750, and 4500.
• Configuring and troubleshooting of routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP for effective communication.
• Installing & configuring firewalls like Checkpoint NG & NGX.
• Implement VLAN’s and access lists (ACL) and troubleshoot IP addressing issues and Update IOS images and other hardware installations.
• Experience in troubleshooting VLAN, STP (Spanning tree protocol), & Switch Trunk and IP subnet issues.
• Dealt with F5’s load balancing products in managing the key role issues.
• Dealt with NAT configuration and troubleshooting issues related access lists and DNS/DHCP issues within the LAN network.
• Managing and configuring Cisco Switches and Firewalls independently.
• Responsible for setting up the infrastructure environment with majority of Cisco & Palo Alto appliances apart from various other equipment.
• Coordinated with senior engineers with BGP/OSPF routing policies and designs, worked on implementation strategies for the expansion of the MPLS VPN networks.
• Provisioning and troubleshooting Ethernet services, Gigabit networks and Connectivity issues with WAN types (Frame relay).
• Installing and configuring the VPN’s for the clients (site to site) using IPSec and GRE.
• Monitoring Network infrastructure using SNMP tools like HP Open view.
• Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) for the proper network routing for the B2B network connectivity.
• Worked with customers in troubleshooting issues related to connectivity, STP, VLANs, Inter-VLAN routing, VTP, Ether channels, Layer 2/3 switching, log messages.
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills and experience developing and maintaining technical procedure and documentation.