Network Engineer Escalation

Keval Bhangadiya

CCIE # *****

Contact: +91-972*******

E-Mail: adtfyg@r.postjobfree.com

Career Objective:

Seeking a challenging and rewarding opportunity with an organization of repute, which recognizes and utilizes my true potential while nurturing my analytical and technical skills.

Academic Details:

SSC from Board of Gujarat, Saint Francis school, Jetpur (2006)

Diploma Computer Engineering in Technical Examination Board (2010) from Atmiya institute of technology and science, Rajkot

Technical Skills:

ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure)

MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching)

Hands on experience in Cisco Nexus switches, Cisco ACI fabric

Understanding of VXLAN, VPC, VTEP, Underlay & Overlay technologies

Hands on experience in network support, administration, customer implementation and in planning disaster recovery activities.

In-depth knowledge of routing protocols, network concepts, network implementation, and configuration.

Sound knowledge of root cause analysis, risk analysis, troubleshooting, and solving network issues.

Possess exceptional planning, project management, communication, and problem solving skills.

Expert Knowledge of ACI fabric bring up.

Technical expertise with routing protocols (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP) and switching (VLAN, Trunking, Dot1x, various flavors of STP) protocols

Expert knowledge of network protocols and algorithms.

Strong knowledge of F5 loadbalancers – LTM.

Implementing security policies using F5 Loadbalancer – AFM.

F5: BIG-IP i2000, i4000, i10000

Can configure and troubleshoot.

Implemented F5 LTM, GTM, AFM.

Creating Virtual server, Pools, Nodes in different Route Domains.

Creating customized Profiles, health monitors.

SWITCHING: Cisco Catalyst 3550, 3560, 3750, 6500, 4500

Can configure and troubleshoot.

VLAN, VTP, Trunking.

Inter-VLAN routing.

STP, RSTP, PvSTP.

HSRP, VRRP, GLBP.

Layer 2 Security, Ether Channel.

ROUTING: Cisco 2800, 3800, 7200

Routing Protocols – RIP v1/2, EIGRP, OSPF

Access List- Standard, Extended, Named.

NAT - Dynamic, PAT, Static NAT.

Route redistribution

Professional Trainings/Certifications

CCIE (R&S)

Professional Experience:

Company Name: Vodafone shared services India

Job Profile: Manager

Duration: January 2022 till date

Duties and Responsibilities Handled: -

Day to day operation ticket handling also handling P2 & P1 calls

Executing & planning CRQ (activity) creating Implementation plan and taking aftercare comparing it with pre-checks.

Checking faults on ACI fabric for Leaf, Tenant & controller.

Company Name: Incedo Technology Solutions Ltd.

Job Profile: Senior Software Engineer (A10 TAC)

Duration: June 2021 to January 2022

Duties and Responsibilities Handled: -

Working as a TAC engineer and solving cases raised by the A10 customer.

Supporting on pro-active cases when upgrade or migration is planned.

Provide guidance for the step to migrate when device is in HA.

Raising Case to Escalation engineer when there is no substantial issue found.

Maintain the case on SFDC platform to provide proper update to Customer on their case.

Company Name: Reliance Jio

Job Profile: Deputy Manager Duration: July 2020 to June 2021

Duties and Responsibilities Handled: -

Responsible for design & services integration with Nexus switches:

Services: MGW, BGW, PCSCF, TAS, MGCF, DNS, DHCP, FTP, Speed test servers, load balancers etc.

Providing guidelines to field team for installation and connectivity of nodes as well as TORs.

Migration from L2 VPC to L3 design of Nexus/TOR

Moved to Automated & next Gen data center technology & designing & implementation of Cisco ACI services for LTE & IMS services (Telco LAN)

Understanding of VxLAN/COOP/VTEP/L3OUT/ACI terminology/Underlay technologies.

Finalizing network service design in co-ordination with different vendors (Cisco, Nokia, GENBAND, Mavenier).

Configuration & Troubleshooting of BGP, VPC & Switching.

Create MOP & Raised PE for New changes in Network.

Configure TOR for Google, Facebook, CGNAT, IMS project.

Coordinate with Service Owner and Circle Team for all activity.

Network fault investigation in WAN environment

Handling customer created service restoration tickets.

Provide the Remediation for Network Changes [For ex: VPC, BGP peering, BGP Route Mismatch & Link Upgradation].

Provide the MOP for Service Expansion & Migration MOPA and XML.

Planning for the upgrade of ACI fabric and Nexus and checking for any remediation require before upgrade.

Company Name: Dimension Data (Sequel Mynd Solutions Pvt Ltd) [ on client-side Reliance Jio] Job Profile: Network Engineer

Duration: March 2017 to July 2020

Duties and Responsibilities Handled: -

Working as a Team Leader of Team Empowerment.

Working on various Data Center Network Migration Projects. Like: Migration from Cisco Nexus to ACI.

Familiar with Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) of Implementing Spines, Leaf Switches.

Commissioning leaf for expansion of services

Preparing MOP’s for APIC/TOR configurations and installation process to avoid any misconfigurations.

Hands on experience with Cisco APIC SDN controller Architecture

Hands on experience on how to create different application policies in ACI including Tenants, Application Network Profile (ANP), End Point Group (EPG), Contracts, Subject and Filters.

Hands on experience on the fabric Access Policies includes Switch policies, Interface Policies, AEP, VLAN Pool, and Physical & External Domain.

Hands on experience on fabric Discovery Activity including Verifying the APIC and Leaf health

IOS upgrade of fabric includes APIC, SPINE & LEAF, Nexus 3K.

Hands on experience on creating L3 Out, L2 BD, L3 BD & EPG Static binding.

Providing support for planning, installing, configuring and maintaining routers, switches.

Providing Support for Cisco equipment and technologies, including Cisco Nexus to support Data and Storage infrastructures.

Understanding of VxLAN/COOP/VTEP/L3OUT/ACI terminology/Underlay technologies.

Having Hands-on experience with Cisco Nexus9K, Nexus7K, Nexus5K, Nexus3k, Nexus2K Switches.

Planning, Scheduling, and implementing network maintenances that include firmware upgrades and hardware replacement.

Configuring and troubleshooting of F5 Load Balancer LTM for different projects SMSC, CRBT, LIM, MNP, LCS.

Configuration of security features and policies on F5 Load Balancer AFM (Advance Firewall Manager)

Creating VIPs, Creating Pools, and Associating Pools with VIPs, Creating Persistence Profile, SSL Profile, SSL Offloading, creating iRules, designing with High Availability solution with Network Failover.

Good knowledge on basic iRules scripting and debugging.

Creating custom profiles, health monitors, and configuring SNAT pools, syslog and SNMP.

Experience in managing the load balancers in a high-availability infrastructure.

Working on HP DL-360 Gen10, configuring Raid, installing customized LINUX OS (CentOS).

Configured DNS resolver service on HP DL-360 Gen10, including creating Bond interface and configuring BGP between server and Nexus.

Configuring DNS stub file for different services in internal zone, also creating stub zone file.

Working on HP service manager creating Planned Event for various changes in network.

Preparation of Diagram and other documentation of network environments for internal and customer use.

Providing Technical leadership and guidance to junior personnel.

Company Name: STROMFUR Technologies LLP (RST FORUM) Job Profile: Network Engineer

Duration: March 2014 to June 2016

Duties and Responsibilities Handled: -

Configuring and troubleshooting of routers, switches, and firewall.

Implementation of LAN and WAN network infrastructure.

Visiting the client site, understanding the requirement, and providing solutions.

Basic static routes and using default routes, acl to filter traffic, checking interface status.

Configuration of access policies on ASA.

Configuring security features on Cisco routers and switches.

Basic configuration on ASA, ACL rules, NAT and configuring ASDM access.

Configured VTP, STP, and L3 interface.

Familiar with Cisco ASA, Routing protocol like OSPF, EIGRP, VRRP and HSRP and VSS technology etc.

Define and link sharing VLAN on HP blade enclosure.

Advertise routing protocol like OSPF, BGP and EIGRP.

Configuring and Troubleshooting Access Control Lists (ACL)

Managing change request and change control process.

Configuring VLAN, VTP and InterVLAN Routing

Configuring NAT, PAT, and ACLs on routers.

Managing CISCO ASA firewall for internet and responsible for configuring for access policies/NAT Rules.

Responsible for managing & troubleshooting of network ensuring maximum network uptime.

Troubleshooting & maintaining the network setup of the customer site and remotely coordinating with the engineers for field support.

Configuring static routes and L2 - L3 technologies such as MSTP.

Configuring IP Subnetting, VLSM and Route-Summarization.

Configuring and troubleshooting Inter-Vlan routing.

Policy configuration on the internal ASA for traffic flowing to the DMZ.

Personal Details:

Name: Keval Bhangadiya

Date Of Birth: 12/07/1991

Languages known: English, Hindi, Gujarati

Permanent Address: Block no.305, Laxmandhara Apt, New Desai Wadi, Behind Samnath Temple, Jetpur – 360370, District – Rajkot.

Nationality: Indian

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