Network Engineer Computer Engineering

HARSHPAL SINGH SAHOTA

Suite Number ****,

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Ottawa, Ontario K1V8Y5

Ph. +1-613-***-****

E-mail: ***********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

To work in a challenging environment as an active member of team towards the accomplishment of organizational goals and to achieve success in my career and prove to be an asset to the company.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Senior Network Engineer

Aricent Technologies (CISCO TAC), Gurugram, Haryana, India 2013-2015

Network Engineer

Structures Online, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India 2012

EDUCATION HISTORY

M.Eng Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2017

University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

B.Tech Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering 2011

Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana, India

(Equivalent to B.Eng.)

CERTIFICATIONS & PROGRAMS

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) in May 2017

Certified Program on Managing Interconnected Network Devices From NIIT

ACCOUNTABILITIES

Working as a Senior Security-VPN Engineer, handling products like, ASA (5500x Series), Routers (800, 1800, 2800 etc.), Switches, CISCO ACS

Handling escalations of L1 center, and working directly with Tier 2 escalation team/Developers in case complex troubleshooting is required

Delivering training on new keywords and mentoring the set of skills to bring the team to the same learning curve

Have resolved 1800+ TAC service requests

Have worked on U.S Department of defense (DOD), NASA, IBM, Microsoft, Shell, CITI and other organization’s huge & complex setup and have successfully implemented/resolved their networking issues

Recreate issues faced by customers in my testing LAB whenever required on cases and filed bugs/caveats if found

Suggest clients in designing and improving their network’s security

Coordinate with other technology vendors like Microsoft, Checkpoint, Sonicwall, Juniper, Watchgaurd, Amazon, etc to resolve client’s issue(s) and design their networks properly

Gained fair knowledge of other vendor’s security products like Checkpoint, Juniper and Sonicwall while troubleshooting issues. i.e VPN (scenario where a Site to Site VPN tunnel is established between Cisco and other devices)

Troubleshooting customer issues related to Firewalls, VPN (IPSec & SSL), AAA & PKI

VPN

IPSec

Site-to-Site (IKEv1 & IKEv2)

Remote Access (IKEv1 & IKEv2)

EZVPN

GRE/IPsec

DMVPN

Other Tunneling protocols such as PPTP, L2TP, L2TP over IPsec

SSL VPN (Client & Clientless), Anyconnect and Webvpn

Also have strong working knowledge of concepts like Dynamic Access Policy (DAP) and Cisco Secure Desktop (CSD)

Have great knowledge of fragmentation issues with various VPN implementations

ASA/FIREWALL/AAA

NAT/PAT & ACL’s.

Failover, Multiple context

ZBF, CBAC

MPF (Modular Policy framework)

CISCO ASA 5500 and 5500-X series basic Configuration in Routed mode, Multiple Context and Transparent

Mitigating and Preventing Network Attacks (Providing best possible solution for DOS, DDOS for the server hosting Customers.)

FAILOVER Configuration and Troubleshooting

AAA (authentication, authorization, accounting)

Troubleshooting RADIUS and TACACS+ scenarios

Strong knowledge of HTTP, DNS, DHCP, etc

ROUTING AND SWITCHING

Basic Working knowledge of Routing protocols such as OSPF, BGP etc.

Configured and troubleshot solutions such as NAT, PAT, Policy Routing, access lists, NTP etc.

Basic understanding of Switching technologies like VLANS, Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches, spanning tree, VTP, etc.

SKILLS

Good learner and good performer both in team & independent environment.

Punctual, dedicated & consistent towards my work.

Positive attitude and result oriented.

Good co-ordination and co-operation with the team.

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