Sivaji

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acvrsp@r.postjobfree.com

Certifications:

CCIE Data Center written

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) - Route

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Red hat Open stack system administrator

Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

ITIL Foundation

ITIL Intermediate Service Operations

ITIL Intermediate Service Strategy

ITIL Intermediate Continuous Service improvement

Proxim Wireless Broadband Associate

Summary:

Senior Networking Engineer professional with 12+ years of IT experience including Big 4 consulting background plus a strong expertise in Finance Banking, Telecom etc..,

Strong hands-on team leadership style that fosters commitment and Extensive hands on experience in Information Technology Infrastructure deployment, implementation and Operational support systems and Network Management.

Extensive hands on experience on Cisco ASR,3945 Routers, Cisco 6509,6504,4506 series,3750/3560, Nexus 7k, 5k and 2k switches, PIX, ASA 5500, Juniper Net screen and SRX Firewalls.

Good knowledge in ITIL frame work like release management, change management, configuration management, problem management and availability management

Good in production of Network Visio drawings and documentation skills

Extensive hands on experience in responding to RFP’s, Effort estimation and Strong Pre Sales experience in Cisco.

In-depth Cisco technology experience/knowledge in design, implementation, administration and support

Experience in implementing Open stack components (Nova, swift, cinder, Horizon, Neutron)

Skilled in designing enterprise class LAN (Campus LAN, Data Center LAN), WAN (VPN, MPLS etc), IP telephony deployment and network security (IPS, IDS, Firewalls, DMZ) and awareness of information security.

Technical Skills:

OS/ IOS:

Linux, Unix, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, Cisco IOS 12.X

Management:

Cisco works LMS, Solar Winds, Cranog, Nagios, MRTG Traffic Analyzer, Net-flow Analyzer, Sniffer tools.

Networking:

RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, STP, HSRP,VRRP,FHRP, IP Sec, RTP, SIP, H.323, MGCP, SS7, TCP/IP, UDP, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, FTP, DNS, LDAP, VPN, VOIP,QOS,Multicast, NAT, ISDN BRI/PRI, T1/E1

Hardware:

Routers Cisco 3800, 3500, 2800, 2900 Cisco Switches (65xx, 45xx, 37xx, 35xx, 29xx, 19xx), Nexus 7k,5k,2k, Cisco VPN concentrators, Net screen firewalls, F5 Load Balancers(LTM, GTM) TANDBERG Video Conferencing Products, Linksys DSL Routers.

Education:

Master of Computer Applications.

Bachelor of Computer Applications

Professional Experience:

Worked as Associate manger with Accenture from June 2010 till June 2016

Client -Telstra – Australia, USA Nov 2012 to June 2016

As network transformation lead successfully offshore the network design work.

Build the off-shore network design team and shared the KT to the team members to handle the network design tasks.

Responsibilities:

Preparing Change implementation plan.

Build designs for Cloud Gateway projects.

Preparing firewall configurations on Cisco ASA, Juniper net-screen and SRX.

Design, and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls

Configuring IPSEC VPN on SRX series firewalls

Configuring Cisco Nexus7k, 5k and 2k ( VPC, Fabric path and OTV)

Experience configuring Virtual Device Context in Nexus 7010.

Configuring Cisco MDS switches

Configuring UCS.

Build the design for Avamar Grid requirements.

Build the design for UCS POD requirements.

Preparing CIPs ( Change Implementation Plan)

Preparing Test case documents and configurations for new Telstra sites.

Working on Firewall requests.

Working on Cisco ASR routers, Nexus7k, 5k and 2k switches.

Working on F5 Load balancers.(LTM, GTM)

Configured and implemented Nexus 5K and 2K in lab environment

Experience with configuring Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) which acts as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 7000.

Client - Royal Bank of Scotland - UK June2010 to Oct 2012

Network Designer

As part of the India NTP team, my core responsibilities comprise of ensuring successful End-to-End delivery of Cisco Data Network Design & Deployment across different client locations in India. Other KRAs are Project Implementation planning, Resource Planning and Mobilization, Managing deliveries and resolving dependencies, Change management and internal interfacing for project requirements, Deliver the project within estimated timescales. Major project of Implementation of End-to end Cisco Network Infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

Site Surveys of client sites.

Recommended Hardware and preparing BOM

Site Remediation requirements.

Site designing HLD, LLDS.

Preparing Network Drawings.

Site deployment of Network Data Infrastructure includes (Cisco ASR and 3945 routers, Cisco 6509, 6504, 4506 and 3750 Switches.)

Key contributions include troubleshooting of complex LAN/WAN infrastructure that include

Routing protocols OSPF& BGP

Configured BGP for CE to PE route advertisement and Spearheaded meetings & discussions with team members regarding network optimization and regarding BGP issues.

Implemented the concept of Route Redistribution between different routing protocols

Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS, VTP, STP and configuring on Fast

Ethernet.

Mach India PVT Ltd, Denmark Jan 2007 – May 2010 Network Specialist.

Responsibilities:

As part of Global Network team, handling network connectivity for 600 mobile operators throughout the world. Maintaining Mach Network Infrastructure in Luxemburg, Denmark and India datacenters.

Handle and Implement multiple technologies based on project requirements as part of the architecture design

Detailed development of solutions documentation specifically client proposals & Designs.

Costing including hardware and software costs, estimating implementation cost and support costs

Work with internal and external clients located in different time zones namely in Europe, North America and Asia

Engage with on-site / local vendors on a need basis and Preparation of bill of materials for solutions developed

Current Infrastructure analysis

Understanding the current IT infrastructure and Operations Teams concerns & expectations.

Testing of applications in Network environment and going forward

Meeting with the Service providers and metrics on application testing.

DR plan design and implementation

DAS Networks Limited - Dubai April 2006 – Dec 2006

(Subsidiary of EMIRCOM - Dubai –CISCO GOLD PARTNER)

Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

Worked in company’s operations in UAE and managed networking and systems integration projects for customers.

Daily monitoring firewall and Network logs for any security related issues

Documentation, Database of Inventory.

Configuration and Maintenance of Cisco routers and switches

Responsible to understand network requirements of the customers and design network solutions

Skilled in preparing RFP response, SOW, Network design documents for networks.

Providing technical support to customers, field engineers and project managers.

Successfully implemented network projects by managing installations, configuration of network devices at site.

Configure Cisco routers from 2600 to 7500 series, vpn, frame-relay, eigrp, rip v2, static route and configure new firewalls.

Troubleshoot firewall connectivity problems, external, and internal (DMZ) users, VPN, and multi-Tier network.

Analysis of MRTG and generation of monthly bandwidth utilization report

Astro Network India PVT Ltd (ISP) - Malaysia June 2004 – Mar 2006

Network Engineer

Astro Network offers Internet services, Managed Network/ Security on WAN/LAN to Government Organizations and private sectors. Astro is one of the leading Satellite Gateway Operator in Malaysia.

Responsibilities:

Maintaining leased lines

Maintaining Wireless Links.

Configured OSPF routing protocol on the distribution routers (Cisco 3662, 4500, 2600) which will be used to provide internet connectivity to customers.

Maintaining DNS and Mail servers On Linux.

Configuring Band width Management tools in Linux

Remote Management of Devices from the Network Operations Center.

Technical Support for escalated customer problems.

IP address planning and distribution among the customers using VLSM

Configuring and administering Cisco routers ranging from 1600 to 7500 series.

Debugging and troubleshooting routing problems

Responsible for the web servers owned by company and maintaining all the web servers, proxy server.

Configuration of VLANs, Access-lists depending upon the requirement.

Online Media Solutions Ltd (ISP) – Hyderabad, India Feb 2001 to May 2004

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Setting up Linux firewall using Ipchains and Iptables.

Setting up mail server using Qmail, on Linux

Setting up Apache web server, creating Virtual Domains

Setting up PDNS & SDNS servers

Installing and configuring Squid Caching Server

Installing and configuring Radius Authentication & Accounting server

Implementing Raid5 on Linux

Automating backup process using shell scripts

Installing and configuring MRTG.

Installing & configuring Cisco 2500, Intel 1900 Routers

Implementing access control lists on Cisco Routers

Awards

Better Together Award - Telstra

Accenture celebrity Excellence award - Accenture

Best Employee Award - MACH

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