Madhu Vantari

ac33dr@r.postjobfree.com

732-***-****

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Cisco Certified Network Engineer with 9+ years of Experience in Network engineering, designing, architecting, deploying and troubleshooting Network & Security infrastructure on routers, switches (L2/L3) and firewalls.

Expert level knowledge of troubleshooting, implementing, optimizing and testing of static and dynamic layer 3 routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, BGP IS-IS ability to interpret and resolve complex route table problems.

Configured Cisco Routers for BGP, OSPF, RIP, RIPv2, EIGRP, Static and default route in a VPN environment using MPLS.

Design and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers (MX960, MX480) and SRX Firewalls (SRX240, SRX550), Bluecoat Proxy SG300/600.

Good Experience in Configuration and Troubleshooting of VLAN, Trunking, STP, VTP, Ether channel MSTP, RSTP, PVST, 802.1Q, DTP, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, LACP, PAGP, AAA, TACACS, RADIUS, MD5.

In depth engineering experience on F5 load balancers, including a general understanding of routing protocols BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, TCP, SSL, and TLS.

Configured network access servers and routers for AAA Security (RADIUS/ TACACS+).

Experience with convert Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution. Migration with both Checkpoint and Cisco ASA VPN experience.

Working knowledge of network monitoring/management tools like Wireshark, TCP dump, Cisco Prime, Net Flow, PRGT, Solar Winds.

Extensive experience in Designing, Implementing and Troubleshooting Service Provider Networks and Enterprise Networks.

Performed all maintenance tasks on the Nexus Switches, ASR Routers, Checkpoint Firewalls, F5 Load balancers InfoBlox DNS etc.

Experience with different Network Management Tools and Sniffers like SNMP, and Cisco works to support 24 x 7 Network Operation Center.

Worked extensively in Designing, Implementing & Managing LAN, WLAN & WAN solutions for different client setups. In-depth knowledge and experience in WAN technologies including T1, T3, ISDN, HDLC, Point to Point, ATM & Frame Relay.

Experience in Physical cabling, IP addressing and Sub netting with VLSM using QIP configuring and supporting TCP/IP, DNS, installing and configuring proxies.

Ability to Install, Manage & Troubleshoot Large Networks & Systems Administration on Windows & Linux platforms in Development, Staging, Lab & Production Environments.

Knowledgeable about IP Multicast, IGMP version 2 and 3, CGMP, IGMP Snooping, PIM-Sparse and Dense Mode.

Monitors Akamai WAF Security alerts on internet and determine whether reported threats could be impactful.

F5 BIG-IP application load balancing subject matter expert with concentration on layer 7 load balancing using I-Rule scripting in TCL.

Hands on experience in deployment of GRE tunneling, SSL, Site-Site IPSEC VPN and DMVPN.

Experience in configuring HSRP and redistribution between routing protocols troubleshooting them and Implementation of HSRP, VRRP and GLBP for Default Gateway Redundancy.

Involved in troubleshooting network traffic and its diagnosis using tools like ping, traceroute, Wireshark, TCP dump and Linux operating system servers.

Experience in Designing in application mapping and application delivery using F5 BIG IP LTM.

Experience on BIG-IP Application Security Manager(TM) ASM Firewall Web application.

Experience working with Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K devices.

Experience on working with different security types WPA/WPA2, 802.1x, Static WEP & use different RADIUS SERVERS (ISE, ACS, and FR) for testing.

Experience in Designing in application mapping and application delivery using F5 BIG IP LTM.

Firewall administration including Cisco ASA 55XX, Corero, Palo Alto, Fire eye and Incapsula WAF.

Managed Core network upgrades and unified communications and Identity Services Engine (ISE) deployment.

Monitoring and capturing the traffic with multiple network management tools like Sniffer Infinistream, Wire shark, Net flow Analyzer, Solar winds, source fire, HP Open View, Cisco Works, Cisco ISE.

Worked on NXOS, IOS, and IOS-XR BXB to N7K-NXOS (MPLS) system test.

Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500/PIX security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the design.

Troubleshooting DNS/DHCP issues within the LAN network.

Involved in design and implementation of Data Center Migration, worked on implementation strategies for the expansion of the MPLS VPN networks

Managed inventory of all network hardware, Management and Monitoring by use of SSH, Syslog, SNMP, NTP.

Advanced knowledge in Design, Installation & configuration of Palo Alto & Checkpoint Provider Environment.

Experienced in handling Panorama firewall management tool to administer Palo firewalls.

Excellent experience with Cisco Prime and ISE configuration and monitoring

Expertise in Cisco Equipment and tools like ACS, ISE, Free Radius, Prime, CMX and Wireless Web GUI for Next Gen Wireless Controllers.

Firewall AAA Threat protection DLP ADRMS Firewall Management Creation and modification of firewall based on infrastructure requirement.

Integration of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) within Greenfield environments, or with limited production and Powershell scripting (Automated tasks, Deployment, Active Directory, Office 365 Exchange).

Knowledge on VOIP protocols like H.323, RTP, SIP and good understanding about VOIP devices.

Hands on experience in Troubleshooting access /connectivity issues, software version upgrade. Changes in network security design.

Knowledge about Python Scripting Language and OS Hardening.

Other responsibilities included documentation and change control (ITIL standards)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Switching

Vlans, Trunking, Ether Channel, Port Fast, Up-link, STP, RSTP, PVST+, DTP, MLPPP, IEEE 802.1q, MPLS, ISL and dot1q, SMTP, Inter-VLAN

Routing, Light weight access point.

Switches

Cisco catalyst Switches (2960 series/3560/3750/4500/5500/6500/6513), Nexus Series(9k/7k/5k/2k/1k), Juniper EX series,

Routing

RIP (Versions 1 & 2), IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP v4, IS-IS Static Routing, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization.

Routers

Cisco1600,1900,2500,2600,2800,2900,2950,3000,3500,3600,3640,3845,5000,6500,7200,7300,7500,7600,7900,7940,1200

Network Security

VPN, NAT/ PAT, access-lists, IPSEC, Juniper SRX, TACACS+, RADIUS.

Load Balancer

Cisco CSM, F5 Networks (Big-IP) LTM 8950, GTM 6400, F5 ASM, Cisco ACE 4710

Gateway Redundancy

HSRP, VRRP, GLBP

LAN

Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, VLANS, VTP, STP, RSTP, 802.1W, Cisco Prime

WAN

Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, Channelized links (E1/T1/E3/T3), MPLS, GRE Tunneling, VOIP.

Firewalls

Cisco PIX, ASA, Checkpoint and Palo Alto.

Network Management

Wireshark, Net flow Analyzer, Cisco Works, solar winds, Ethereal, SNMP,

Networking Features and services

IOS and Features, IRDP, NAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP, CDP, TFTP, FTP,

OSI Model, TCP/IP, UDP, IPV4, IPv6, Subnetting, VLSM,

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

VISA, Inc. Denver Colorado. Feb 2017 to Till Date.

Sr. Network Engineer

Decommission of server’s due to network vulnerability and creating install, blackout plan for default configurations on Load Balancers and switches.

Documenting the CISCO ACE load balancer server, sticky, server-farm configurations for ACE to F5 migration.

Responsible for LAN/Wan administration and performance of hardware builds (upgrades and new machines), set up offsite backup systems, and contribute to system migrations.

Worked on F5 BigIP GTM/LTM appliances to include writing iRules, SSL offload and everyday task of creating WIP and VIPs.

Involved in F5 BIG IP LTM administration, familiar with enterprise level traffic managers like 6800, 3600, 1600, 3400 series.Planning, support, documentation for network design, and involvement into change management process.

Assisting in network modelling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software specifically use of firewalls and security devices.

Tracking and documenting the server information connected to Cisco Catalyst, Nexus Switches, Cisco ACE load-balancers and BIG IP F5LTM.

Maintaining documentation and scripts for install, back out plan.

Converting project specifications into detailed instructions and logical steps for coding into languages.

Work with IP reservation, sub-netting, nslookup, STP, RSTP, ARP, Ethernet, and MPLS, ping concept, traceroute, DNS and DHCP management.

Monitoring network to ensure high availability, security to all system users and perform necessary maintenance to support network availability.

Troubleshooting, implementing, optimizing and testing of static and dynamic routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP to interpret and resolve complex route table problems.

Responsible for complete datacenter layout and migration, configured ACI after migration of datacenter using nexus 9k, 7k.

Experience in Enterprise system monitoring and management tools such as Cisco Prime

Providing systems and server management and oversight of network/connectivity and software issues for local and remote users.

Supporting Data center consist of Nexus 7K, 55xx, 2k, Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, ASR, 45xx in spine and leaf architecture and associate installing new products and debug network issues.

Configuring Big-IP F5 LTMs (virtual servers, pools, SNATs, health monitors, irules) for managing the traffic and tuning the load on the network servers.

Experience with Data Center Design, installing and Configuring Network Devices in a Data Center including patching the cables in the Patch Panel. Configure and troubleshoot CTMS (E6000, 10k, CASA) as well as support for DOCSIS network.

Created the DOCSIS 3.0 CMTS configuration guidelines.

Specifically use of firewalls and security devices.

Administering network security measures and ensuring compliance with requirements.

Diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replacing defective components when necessary.

Performing data backups and data recovery operations. Work with vendors to resolve technical issues of programs i.e. Aruba Networks, Cisco.

Migration of core DNS, DHCP and NTP services from Microsoft to Infoblox.

Network Access Controls on L2 devices using Identity Service Engine (ISE).

Migration of ACS product line onto ISE.

Supported Infoblox appliances grid environment for DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management tools (IPv4)

Involved in migration from Frame-Relay/ATM network to MPLS-based VPN for customer’s WAN infrastructure.

Configuring and optimizing of client side Switches, WLC's, and ASA's for integration of ISE, 802.1X and Radius into the network.

Worked on Cisco ISE to support authentication for the Wi-Fi users

Experience with Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Mobility Services Engine

Administering network security measures and ensuring compliance with requirements.

Diagnosing, troubleshooting, and resolving hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replacing defective components when necessary.

Performing data backups and data recovery operations.

Performed load balancing and application level redundancy by deploying F5 BIG-IP LTM 3900.

Experience with Bluecoat Proxy servers, LAN & WAN management.

Designed and implemented VMware 5 infrastructure, including SAN, hosts, fiber, and networking.

Responsible for setting up VMware 4 and 5 infrastructures, including hosts, SAN, fiber, and networking

Barclays, Wilmington, DE. Nov 2014 to Jan 2017.

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Involved in the configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4.

Configured IP access policies by implementing traffic filters on Cisco routes using Standard, extended Access list.

Create and test Cisco router and switching operations using OSPF routing protocol, ASA Firewalls, and MPLS switching for stable VPNs.

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

Configured VLANs with 802.1q tagging. Configured Trunk groups, ether channels, and Spanning tree for creating Access/distribution and core layer switching architecture.

Performed LAN operations and troubleshooting which involves working on VLANs, inter-VLAN routing, Trunking, STP, RSTP, port aggregation & link negotiation.

Handling the Configuration and troubleshooting nexus different series switches.

Performing security troubleshooting in terms of checking ACLs and ACEs and traffic flow analysis using packet capture features.

Allocation and designing appropriate virtual IP for F5 ADC through IPAM InfoBlox.

Experience working with High performance data center switch like Nexus 7010,7018, 7009, 5020, 2148, 2248 device

Experience with configuring Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) which acts as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 5000

Deployment of datacenter LAN using Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k switches

Design and deploy the F5 LTM and GTM configurations to migrate thousands of Applications to lower cost Data Center locations.

Managing the F5 BigIP GTM/LTM appliances to include writing iRules, SSL offload and everyday task of creating WIP and VIPs.

Designed and Deployed F5 LTM configurations in the Site.

Designed and implemented Cisco ISE on wireless and wired infrastructure

Troubleshooting issues specific to DNS, DHCP, IPAM, TFTP, FTP, HTTP, Anycast DNS, VRRP, and maintenance of Infoblox Grid.

Troubleshooting of ISE, Switch, and WLC's when issues arise from new deployments or in support of existing clients

Adding and removing checkpoint firewall policies based on the requirements of various project requirements.

Installed and Configured Cisco 3800 series Routers and Catalyst 3500 Switches, UPS and POD (power distribution), Server, Cisco IP Phone (VoIP) 7960 with Workstations.

Supported for installation of Cisco Routers, Switches, ASA's, Wireless LAN controllers (Cisco 6880 core switches, 2951 Routers, 2960 switches, ASA5510 - 5515's 4404 and 5508 LAN controllers, Aruba 7210 Mobility Controllers).

Deployed Site to Site and Client to Site VPNs utilizing Checkpoint Firewall-1/VPN-1.

Migrated previous corporate Checkpoint 4.0 Firewall-1/VPN-1 on Windows NT.

Designed and implemented DMZ for Web servers, Mail servers & FTP Servers using Cisco ASA 5500 Firewalls.

Working with different Security Appliances including DDoS Attack Protection, Web sense URL Filtering Firewall. Palo Alto, Fire eye, Corriero, Alert Logic WAF.

Upgrading devices after end-of-life and managing Cisco wired and wireless Devices using Cisco Prime Infrastructure

Negotiate VPN tunnels using IPsec encryption standards and configured and implemented site-to-site VPN, Remote VPN.

Monitored and tested network performance and provided network performance statistics and reports.

Testing new design and new Firewall policies and working with Cisco ISE.

Monitoring and capturing the traffic using network management tools like solar winds and Wireshark.

Configuring secured connection between routers using GRE tunneling to achieve IPsec.

Experience in Implementation and configuration of Big-IP LTM-6400 load balancers.

Design and deploy the F5 LTM and GTM configurations to migrate thousands of Applications to lower cost Data Center locations

Redesign of Internet connectivity infrastructure for meeting bandwidth requirements.

Significantly improved the performance of the AAA module by reducing internal messaging overheads and identifying areas for memory optimization

Working in Design, Installation & configuration of Palo Alto & Checkpoint Provider Environment.

Performed on Palo Alto Firewall on network security software and hardware, security monitoring systems, encryption software, threat and vulnerability management services and software, identity management solutions and network objects on global group, clean up unused rules, decommission etc.

Providing Technical Support and solutions for Network Problems.

Planned, tested and evaluated various equipment’s, systems, IOSs and procedures for use within the Network / security infrastructure.

Upgrading IOS, troubleshooting network outages.

Implement Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS 3.0) for TACACS+/ RADIUS.

Participate in all technical aspects of LAN, WAN, VPN and security Internet Service projects including, short and long term planning, implementation, project management and operations support as required.

Configured and troubleshoot cisco WAP, and cisco prime.

Having Data Center Design Experience, installing and Configuring Network Devices in a Data Center including patching the cables in the Patch Panel. Design and implemented network infrastructure and configured the entire network Infrastructure devices including Network Printers and Register.

Hands-on experience in the network management of circuits using TDM and Frame Relay network, performing configuration and provisioning management, fault management and performance monitoring.

Worked on Cisco Firewall ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series. Performed Security operations in terms of pushing new policies and deploying new rules.

Experience in Handling F5 LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, 8800, 8950 for the corporate applications and their availability.

Maintenance of VLAN and VOIP.

Responsible for supporting older VMware infrastructure and systems, including ESXi 4 and Lab Manager.

Working knowledge in Defining the criteria for the migration DOCSIS upstream from QPSK to 16 QAM,

Team member of Configuration of Cisco 7206 router with VPN and Configuration of Catalyst switches.

Designing and implementing wireless architectures (Cisco Aironet APs and Cisco 5500 series controllers).

Deliver IT Services Management (ITSM) solutions based on ITIL best practices that focused on the people, process, and technology, and information perspectives of providing business solutions within the IT infrastructure.

Performed professional level documentation using Visio diagrams.

Other responsibilities include documentation and updating changes made in networking devices as per ITIL Specifications.

Environment:

Cisco3550/3560/4500/4510/6500/2950/2924/6509/6513/5500switches, Cisco1800/2800/2500/2600/2800/1600/3800/3900/7204/7500/7606/7609 routers, Palo Alto, BMC Remedy, Cisco ASA 5540, BIG-IP LTM 8900, QOS, AAA, Policy-maps, Class-maps, Vlans, STP, RSTP, PVSTP, VTP, HSRP, Ether Channel, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, ATM, PPP, HDLC. SNMP, TACACS+, DNS, DHCP, InfoBlox, Solar winds, Checkpoint, F5 Load balancer, Nexus 7K,5K,2K, Juniper 3600, 5600, Cisco AP’s

Western Union, Washington, DC. Feb 2013 to Oct 2014

Network Security Engineer.

Responsibilities:

Configured networks using routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, BGP and manipulated routing updates using route-map, distribute list and administrative distance for on-demand Infrastructure.

Configured OSPF redistribution and authentication with type 3 LSA filtering and to prevent LSA flooding.

Configured OSPF over frame relay networks for NBMA and point to multipoint strategies.

Implemented traffic engineering on top of an existing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network using Frame Relay and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF).

Involved in Configuring and implementing of Composite Network models consists of Cisco7600, 7200, 3800 series routers and Cisco 2950, 3500, 5000, 6500 Series switches.

Involved in migration from Frame-Relay/ATM network to MPLS-based VPN for customer’s WAN infrastructure.

Configured HSRP between VLANs, Configuring Ether-Channels, and Port Channel on 6500 catalyst.

Provided port binding, port security and router redundancy through HSRP. Worked on HSRP for hop redundancy and load balancing.

Configuring Virtual Chassis for Juniper switches EX-4200, Firewalls SRX-210 and configured cisco chassis 4k series switches.

Implemented Positive Enforcement Model with the help of Palo Alto Networks.

Innovated with support of Palo Alto for remote and mobile users and for analyzing files for malware in a separate (cloud-based) process that does not impact stream processing

Configured Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPN with Routing Information Protocol (RIP) on the customer’s Site.

Configuring various advanced features (Profiles, monitors, Redundancy, SSL Termination, Persistence, SNATs, HA on F5 BIGIP appliances SSL termination and initiation, Persistence, Digital Certificates, executed various migration/upgrade projects across F5 and hands on with F5 BIGIP LTMs/EM.

Configured Virtual IPs and servers on F5 and associated pool and pool members to it.

Analysis on WAF operations, Attacks / Vulnerabilities in Web Applications and present analysis to relevant teams

Experience in implementing and designing new solutions with Cisco ASA Firewall series 5505, 5510, 5512-X and Palo Alto Firewall series PA-500, PA-2050.

Developed and deployed self-service model using Splunk to allow application teams to review and request ASM policy modifications via ASM logs.

Worked on firewalls Cisco PIX/ASA Appliance and Palo alto NGFW.

Handling various trouble tickets, firewall rule changes, assisting other teams to bring the device to production, making DNS changes in InfoBlox and routing changes.

Experience in nexus9k/5k/2k/1k devices.

Continually monitor, assess and improve network security, test and implement new security technologies.

Worked on F5 LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, and 8800 for the corporate applications load Balancing and their availability.

Comprehensive elementary configurations on the F5 Big-IP LTMs load balancer on prevailing network to divide traffic on web-servers.

Configured Site to Site IPsec VPN tunnels to peer with different clients and each of client having different specifications of Phase 1 and Phase 2 policies using Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls.

Configured and implemented remote access solution for customers: IPSEC, Site2Site, GRE tunnel end-to-end.

Applied access lists and NAT configurations based on implementation guidelines.

Route configuration and point code checks for System Technician and Network Technician.

Participated in generating cases with the help of Python and Bash scripts.

Performing network monitoring, providing analysis using various tools like WireShark, Solarwinds etc.

Assisting the installation and configuration of Cisco Prime within our environment.

Configured Easy VPN server and SSL VPN to facilitate various employees’ access internal servers and resources with access restrictions.

Deployed Site to Site and Client to Site VPNs utilizing Checkpoint Firewall-1/VPN-1.

Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) for Windows to authenticate users that connects to a VPN 3000 Concentrator.

AAA issues from basic connectivity to authentication issues including A11 and A12.

Designed & Deployed Cisco ISE 1.2/1.3 for Enterprise RADIUS Authentication with Active Directory, RSA Secure ID, and Proxy Radius Services to Cisco ACS.

Configuring VLAN, STP VSTP, SNMP, Port Security on Juniper EX series switches.

Configured BPDU Guard, port-fast, uplink fast and other spanning tree features.

Worked on FTP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP servers in windows server client environment with resource allocation to desired Virtual LANs of network.

Implementing NAT/PAT solutions on WAN applications

Responsible for day to day management of Cisco Devices, Traffic management and monitoring.

Once trouble ticket has been created keep customer informed of status of ticket and estimated time to repair.

Environment: Cisco 3u750/3550/3500/2960 switches and Cisco 3640/12000 /7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, Cisco ASA5510, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Cisco Nexus9K/5K/2k/1k, 2248/3560/5020/6509, VPN, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, F5 Load Balancer,LTM,ASM, SSL, VPN, IPsec, InfoBlox, Solar winds.

Wysetek Systems Pvt. Ltd, Mumbai, India. April 2011 – Jan 2013

Networking Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

Performed network engineering, design, planning (WAN & LAN) & implementation. Studied single point failures & designed WAN structure in such a way that there are no failures in network in case of any device or link failure.

Configured and designed LAN networks with Access layer switches such as Cisco 4510, 4948, 4507 switches.

Setting up VLANS and configuring ISL trunk on Fast-Ethernet channel between Switches.

Deployed a large-scale HSRP solution to improve the uptime of collocation customers, in the event a core router became unreachable.

Configuring Virtual Chassis for Juniper switches EX-4200, Firewalls SRX-210.

Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on EX series switches

Designed and implemented security policies using ACL, PIX firewall.

Implementing security ACL, IP Sec, VPN, TACACS+ and RADIUS+.

Worked on Extensively on Cisco Firewalls, Cisco PIX (506E/515E/525/) & ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series.

Cisco ASA/Checkpoint Firewall troubleshooting and policy change requests for new IP segments that either come on line or that may have been altered during various planned network changes on the network.

Designed application mapping and application delivery using F5 BIG IP LTM. Configured Virtual IPs and servers on F5 and associated pool.

Provided Tier II support on Load Balancer F5 BigIP Local Traffic Managers (LTM).

Design and configuring of OSPF, BGP, EIGRP on Cisco/Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls.

Configured routing policy for BGP. Switching related tasks included implementing VLANs and configuring ISL trunk and 802.1Q on Fast-Ethernet channel between switches

Implemented Cisco IOS Firewall IDS using 2600 series router.

Configuring RIP, OSPF and Static routing on Juniper M and MX series Routers

Troubleshooting on network problems with Wire shark, identify problem and fix.

Experience with configuring Nexus devices.

Worked on automation of test environment using Shell, Python Scripting.

Understand the JUNOS platform and worked with IOS upgrade of Juniper devices

Redistribution of routing protocols and Frame-Relay configurations.

Configuring and troubleshooting type of routing to route traffic flow per customer requirement as primary, backup/load balanced and load splitting.

Performed the maintenance of Active Directory and replication scheme, DNS/DHCP services and time services; wrote step-by-step procedures for implementing upgrades.

Dealt with creating VIP (virtual servers), pools, nodes and applying iRules for the virtual servers like cookie persistency, redirection of the URL.

Configured VLANs on a switch for inter-VLAN communication. Configured VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) on Core Switches. Configured various LAN switches such as CISCO CAT 2900, 3550, 4500, 6509 switches for STP, VTP Domain, VLAN, Trunking, Fast Ether Channel configuration.

Environment: Cisco routers (1600, 3600, 7300) and Cisco switches (6509, 3550, 4500, 2900), Nexus (7K, 5K & 2K), Routing protocols (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP), Switching Protocols (VTP, STP, GLBP, HSRP), MPLS, Cisco PIX (525, 515E), ASA (5540, 5510) firewall, F5 LTM Python, DNS, DHCP, InfoBlox.

Z-tech Solutions, Hyderabad, India. Oct 2009 – March 2011

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Involved in L2/L3 Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLANs, inter-VLAN routing, Trunking, STP, RSTP, Port Security, LAN security, port aggregation & link negotiation.

Worked on Cisco 6509 and 4507 series switches for LAN requirements that include managing VLANs, Port Security and troubleshooting LAN issues.

Configured Access List ACLs to allow users all over the company to access different applications and blocking others.

Involved in the redistribution into OSPF on the core ASA firewall.

Installed and configured DNS and DHCP server.

Involved in troubleshooting of DHCP and other IP conflict problems.

Configured and installed Cisco 2500, 3640, 7200, and 7940 Routers.

Troubleshooting network bandwidth performance, mismatched framing and line coding.

Coordinated with LAN/WAN engineers to develop and implement various security policies.

Monitored usage of network resources with Cisco works, and using sidewinder in PIX Firewall.

Defined policies, NAT and anti-spoofing for internal, external networks as well as Internet gateways.

Responsible for Checkpoint and Cisco ASA firewall administration across global networks.

Configured remote users to access corporate LAN with VPN connectivity.

Configured and installed new IP addresses for new users by using IP Addressing and Subnetting Scheme.

Configured Frame-Relay, ISDN, ATM, Protocols, & load balancing switches.

Configured IPX/SPX, HDLC, PPP, TCP/IP, BGP, EIGRP, RIP, & HSRP.

Designed network architectures and implementation of network Switches.

Worked on a migration project which involved the removal of all static routes from core devices.

Working on Network design and support, implementation related internal projects for establishing connectivity between the various field offices and data centers.

Ensure Network, system and data availability and integrity through preventive maintenance and upgrade.

Supporting EIGRP and BGP based network by resolving level 2 &3 problems of internal teams & external customers of all locations.

Involved in the modification and removal (wherever necessary) of BGP from the MPLS routers.

Also, prepared documentation for various VLANS and Voice sub networks and worked on Visio for the same.

Environment: Cisco routers (7900, 3600, 2500), Cisco switches (4500, 6500), Cisco ASA Firewall (5510), Routing Protocols (EIGRP, RIP, BGP), Switching protocols (VTP, STP, VLAN, HSRP,). DNS, DHCP, HDLC, PPP, ISDN, ATM.

Idea Cellular Ltd, Hyderabad, India. April 2008 - Sept 2009

Jr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed the IP addressing scheme using VLSM and configured IP addressing Performed activities such as initial user account creation, established LAN connectivity, file and resource sharing

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