Varun reddy Solipuram
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Professional Summary:
* ***** ** ************ ********** in Network Designing, Deployment, Configuring, troubleshooting and testing of networking system.
Used various network monitoring tools analyze to traffic to help document application traffic flow and improve application responses.
Experience in layer-3 Routing and layer-2 Switching. Dealt with Nexus models like 7K, 5K, 2K series, Cisco router models like 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series and Cisco catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 3500, 2900 series switches.
Well experienced in configuring gateway redundancy protocols like HSRP, GLBP, and VRRP.
Switching tasks include VTP, ISL/ 802.1q, IPsec and GRE Tunneling, VLANs, Ether Channel, Trucking, Port Security, STP and RSTP.
Configuring and installing client and server network software for upgrading and maintaining.
Supervising the administration of systems and servers related network to ensure availability of services to authorized users.
Experienced in troubleshooting various network related problems by using sniffing tools.
Installation, advanced configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco and F5's load balancing devices.
Strong hands on experience in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting of Cisco 7600, 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500 and 1800 series Routers, Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 2950 and 3500XL series switches.
Experience in physical cabling, IP addressing and Subnetting with VLSM, configuring and supporting TCP/IP, DNS, installing and configuring proxies.
Maintain a thorough understanding of Local Area Networking
Good knowledge and experience in Installation, Configuration and Administration of Windows Servers […] Active Directory, FTP, DNS, DHCP, TFTP, Linux OS under various LAN and WAN environments
Enterprise Routing experience using protocols RIP v1 & 2, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP.
Enterprise Switching with VLANs, Trunks, Spanning Tree, Port Spanning etc.
Experience on PIX Firewalls, ASA [ ] Firewalls. Implemented Security Policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA(TACACS+ & RADIUS)
Experience with designing, deploying and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, Frame-Relay, Ether-channel, IP Routing Protocols - (RIPV2, OSPF, EIGRP & BGP), ACL's, NAT, LAN, STP, VTP Implemented redundancy with HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, Ether channel technology (LACP, PAgP) etc.
Experience working with Cisco IOS-XR on the ASR9000 devices for MPLS deployments
Knowledge in implementing and configuring F5 Big-IP LTM-6400 load balancers.
Experience on WAF (Web Application Firewall) to filter on coming security issues.
Worked in web hosting environment to publish and maintain various websites on internet.
Extensive experience using Microsoft suite like Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint.
Excellent technical and project management skills combined with strong communication skills.
Certification:
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Education: Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering
Network Equipment
Cisco routers: 1700, 1800, 2500, 2600, 3200, 3600, 3700, 3800, 4000, 7200, 7600
Cisco UC Product Suite
Versions 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, 10.x (CUCM, IM&P, CUPC, CUC, UCCX, CME versions 7.x, 8.x, 9.x, 10 and CUE)
Cisco switches
2900 series, 3560, 3750, 4500, 6500, Nexus 2K, 5K, 7K switches
Cisco Routers
Cisco 7609, 2600, 2800,2900, 3800, 3640,810 Cisco 3745, 7200 Series
Network Management
Network Troubleshooting, Hardware Troubleshooting, Network planning and Design, Network Administration of SSH, Telnet, SNMP, SDM, ICMP, Cisco Works
Networking Protocols
RIPv1 & RIPv2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, TCP/IP, IP Sec, UDP, VRRP, HSRP, ATM,MPLS, HTTP, FTP, STP, RSTP and PIM
Virtualization
Packet tracer 5.0, OPNET, Boson Netsim, GNS3
LAN Technologies
VLAN, Private VLAN, Spanning Tree, VTP, 802.1Q Trunkin, Fast Ethernet,
Gigabyte Ethernet, IGMP & IGMP Snooping
WAN Technologies
PPP, Frame relay, ISDN, ATM, MPLS, T1/T3 & E1/E3
Network Technologies
MANET, SONET, TDMA, FDMA, CDMA. DSL, POP3
Network Security
Cisco ASA5550/ 5540,NetScreen, Sonic Wall, Juniper SRX, Palo Alto, Checkpoints, AAA, Firemon, Filesystems, Cloud computing, Red Hat Storage, FREE RADIUS, CADA, LDAP, IPsec VPN, SSL SAN,VPN, IDS, IPS, Source Fire, Fire Eye, Cisco NAC (4.9.3), Cisco ISE, Aruba, RSA, RSA 2 Factor, SIEM, Qradar, Tripwire ACL, IPsec, VPN, Port-security, AAA, Zone-Based Firewalls, IOS based Build a Lab for the team using various Aruba controllers, Switches, Microsoft, Python, Airwave, CPPM Router security DFA, firewalls, IDS/IPS
Operating Systems
Windows NT, XP, 2000, 2003, Vista and Windows 7, CISCO IOS (11.X, 12. X)
Technical Skills:
WorkExperience:
BNSF Railway Fort Worth, TX Mar 2016 to Present
Sr. Network Engineer
Responsibilities:
Configured Routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, static routing and policy based routing.
Team member of Configuration of Cisco 7206 router with VPN and Configuration of Catalyst switches.
Configuration 7500, 7200 with OSPF and catalyst 6505, 4500, 3550 switches with various VLAN.
Create and test Cisco router and switching operations using OSPF routing protocol, ASA 5500 Firewalls, and MPLS switching for stable VPNs.
Troubleshooting the Network Routing protocols (BGP, EIGRP and RIP) during the Migrations and new client connections.
Configuration and troubleshooting link state protocols like OSPF in single area and multiple areas.
Redesign of Internet connectivity infrastructure for meeting bandwidth requirements.
Configured and managed VLANs, 802.1Q Trunk, RPVST+, Inter-VLAN routing, HSRP and LAN security for Layer-2 and Layer-3 switching domains as per the organization's requirement plan.
Optimized performance of the WAN network consisting of Cisco 3550/4500/6500 switches by configuring VLANs.
Setup NFS and Samba File sharing on Linux and Windows servers.
Configured VLANs with 802.1q tagging, Configured Trunk groups, ether channels, and Spanning tree for creating Access/distribution and core layer switching architecture.
Configured BPDU Guard, port-fast, uplink fast and other spanning tree features.
Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco 2500, 2600, 3000, 6500, 7500, 7200 Series routers.
Strong working knowledge of Nexus 5K/7K /2K.
Experience working with Nexus 7010, 5020, 2148, 2248 switches.
Implementation and configuration of F5 Big-IP LTM-6400 load balancers
Installation and administration of Checkpoint R 75.40 Firewall.
Implemented firewall policy change on the Checkpoint clusters
Verified and Validated the Firewall policy on Checkpoint R75 clusters for
unused rule and helped consolidating rule.
Deploying Layer 2 security in Server Farms by configuring switch for 802.1x port based authentication.
Technical assistance for LAN/WAN management and complex customer issues.
Configuration of Bluecoat SG9000 WAN acceleration appliances including WCCP, CIFS and creating/updating overlays.
Worked with Network Engineer's in the installation and configuration of firewalls.
Involved setting up the TFTP server for backing up the IOS images and configuration files of Cisco Routers and Switches and troubleshooting the file
servers.
Upgrades, installs, configuration and administration security and monitoring tools on Linux.
Excellent in patches and packages installation on Linux/Unix Environment.
Responsible for network evaluations, troubleshooting a variety of network problems, and implementing various software and hardware upgrades efficient performance.
Designed and implemented DMZ for Web servers, Mail servers & FTP Servers using Cisco ASA5500 Firewalls.
Generating RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for critical issues of layer1/layer2/layer3 problems.
Provided redundancy to the network, implemented hot standby routing protocol (HSRP) and Load sharing for effective utilization of routers.
Configuring, implementing and troubleshooting VLAN's, VTP, STP, Trunking, Ether channels.
Involved in monitoring network traffic and its diagnosis using performance tools like Snort.
Expertise in maintenance of layer2 switching tasks which advocate VLAN, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVST, RPVST, configuring of ether channel with LACP and PAGP along with troubleshooting of inter-VLAN routing.
Packet capturing, troubleshooting on network problems with Wireshark, identifying and fixing problems
Implementing, configuring, and troubleshooting various routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP etc.
Performing network monitoring, providing analysis using various tools like Wireshark, Solarwinds etc.
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.
Responsible for Cisco ASA 5500 firewall administration, Rule Analysis, Rule Modification.
Environment: Nexus 2K/5K/7K, F5 Big-IP LTM-6400 load balancer, Checkpoint R75, Bluecoat Proxy, Cisco ASA 5500 LAN, WAN, HSRP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, VLAN, MPLS, STP, RSTP.
PSEG - Newark, NJ
Network Engineer Mar 2015 to Feb 2016
Responsibilities:
Configuration and Administration of Cisco and Juniper Routers and Switches.
Administration and diagnostics of LAN and WAN with in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, NAT, PPP, ISDN and associates network protocols and services.
Involved in design and implementation of Data Center Migration, worked on implementation strategies for the expansion of the MPLS VPN networks
Router/ Microsoft VPN Server to access certain limited network resources from customer locations.
Installed and configured four PIX 525 and two ASA 5505 in customer locations.
In addition to that, configured two PIX firewall for the Guest access
Experience in migration of Frame-relay based branches to MPLS based technology using multilayer stackable switch like 6500 series and 2800 series router Configuring VLANs and implementing inter VLAN routing.
Testing E911, voicemail, Media gateways.
Upgrading and troubleshooting Cisco IOS to the Cisco Switches and routers.
Configuring Site to Site to VPN connectivity.
Implementation of HSRP, IPsec, Static Route, IPSEC over GRE, Dynamic routing, DHCP, DNS, FTP, TFTP, RAS Worked with convert Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution.
Migration with both Checkpoint and Cisco ASA VPN experience. Involved in configuring Cisco Net flow for network performance and monitoring.
Involved in designing and implementation of wireless IPT devices.
Involved in Disaster recovery, like diverting the from one data center to different data center when disaster occurs.
Involved in configuration of Cisco 6500 ACE switches
Configuring IPSLA monitor to track the different IP route when disaster occurs.
Involved in Implementing, planning and preparing disaster recovery.
Having meetings with the application group and gathering requirements for disaster recovery.
Involved in smart view tracker to check the firewall traffic.
Troubleshooting hardware and network related problems.
Atos, Orange county, CA Jun 2014 to Feb 2015
Network Engineer
Responsibilities:
Fixed and Diagnostics and issue resolution experience on Palo Alto Layer 7 network firewalls in enterprise level production networks.
Installed TCP/IP networking skills to execute remediation, and troubleshooting any unforeseen issues of switch migration.
Troubleshoot network devices and prefer server interactions with network layer 1, 2, 3, and 7 routing, and interaction with checkpoint, juniper firewalls, and F5 load balances.
Participate in worldwide architecture design, growth discussions and initiatives.
Installed new Cisco routers/switches/ Juniper and check point, F5 firewall Extensive handed-on knowledge of Juniper SRX210, 240/Netscreen Firewalls, as well as PaloAlto
Designed and supported Data Center Architecture - Network, Server, Storage, switch and router.
Performed design reviews and recommend technical solutions and convey specialized MOPs to the migration team based on new, as well as existing deployment strategies.
Provided technical training to less Sr Router Engineers, other Samsung teams, and partners, as needed.
Configured new Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switching lines, Cisco ASR and ISR routers
Support global network and voice environments (including firewalls, VPN devices, switches, routers) from layer 1 through 7, using ticketing systems to track progress
Worked in data center such as racking, stacking, cabling, patching and
coordination between administrators, suppliers for implementation.
Responsible for new configuration of Nexus 7k, Nexus 5k switches, and Cisco switches.
Designed and implementation of migrating production data from VNX 5700 to VBlock 700
Responsible with change management processes and tools. Knowledge of service management processes in complex environments.
Network Engineer
American Airlines, TX Dec 2013 to May 2014
Responsibilities:
Designed Internet connectivity infrastructure for meeting bandwidth requirements.
Experience working in datacenter environment, configuration changes as per the needs of company.
Implementing and troubleshooting VLAN's, VTP, STP, Trunking, Ether channels.
Implementation of Access Lists for allowing/blocking desired traffic.
Configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the network design.
Involved in the troubleshooting aspects of complex network infrastructure using the routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF & BGP.
Responsible for Cisco ASA firewall administration, Rule Analysis, Rule Modification.
Good knowledge in systems integration, software hardware emulation experience.
Configured and deploying Cisco catalyst 6506, 4948E, 4510 switches and Cisco 3660, 3845, and 7609 series Routers.
Perform setup of test scenarios, both hardware and software components, and perform troubleshooting.
Performed troubleshooting on link state protocols like OSPF in single area and multiple areas.
Implementing LAN/WAN configurations on Cisco 5000, catalyst 6500 switches.
Experience in Virtual Device Context in Nexus 7000 series switch.
Implemented site-site VPN on cisco ASA 5500 firewall.
Resolving various OSPF issues in an OSPF multi area environment, Implemented BGP WAN routing, converting OSPF routes to BGP (OSPF in local routing).
Experience in maintenance of layer2 switching tasks which advocate VLAN, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVST, RPVST, configuring of ether channel with LACP and PAGP along with troubleshooting of inter-VLAN routing.
Packet capturing, troubleshooting on network problems with Wireshark, identifying and fixing problems
Environment: Cisco 6506/4948/4510 Switches, Cisco 3660/3845/7609 Routers
VLAN, Checkpoint, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, ASA5500
Network Engineer
Net india Pvt Ltd-Hyderabad, India Sep 2010 to Oct 2013
Responsibilities:
Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco 2500, 2600, 3000, 6500, 7500, 7200 Series routers.
Team member of Configuration of Cisco 7206 router with VPN and Configuration of Catalyst switches.
Configuration 7609, 7606 with OSPF and catalyst 6505, 4500, 3550 switches with various VLAN.
Configured Routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, static routing and
policy based routing.
Create and test Cisco router and switching operations using OSPF routing protocol, ASA Firewalls, and MPLS switching for stable VPNs.
Configuration and troubleshooting link state protocols like OSPF in single area and multiple areas.
Redesign of Internet connectivity infrastructure for meeting bandwidth requirements.
Performed packet tracing using OPNET.
Optimized performanc e of the WAN network consisting of Cisco 3550/4500/6500 switches by configuring VLANs.
Configured VLANs with 802.1q tagging.
Configured Trunk groups, ether channels, and Spanning tree for creating Access/distribution and core layer switching architecture.
Providing Technical Support and solutions for Network Problems.
Upgrading IOS, troubleshooting network outages.
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
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
Environment: BMC Remedy, Cisco ASA 5540, BIG-IP LTM 8900, QOS, Policy-maps, Class-maps, Nexus, VLAN's, STP, RSTP, PVSTP, VTP, HSRP, Ether Channel, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, ATM, PPP, HDLC. SNMP, TACACS+, DNS, DHCP, Checkpoint, F5 Load balancer, Nexus 7K,5K,2K,
Network Engineer
Conrep Solutions Pvt Ltd Hyderabad, India Jun 2009 to Aug 2010
Responsibilities:
Created network diagram for employees using the Microsoft Visio.
Preparing Client Machines for users with Operating Systems, Software, antivirus and required utilities and mailing clients etc.
Primarily responsible in designing and maintaining the budget for the whole network.
Perform daily maintenance, troubleshooting, configuration, and installation of all network components.
Configuration of CISCO Routers (3600, 4000 Series) and 3550, 4500 series
switches.
TCP/IP network planning, Implementation and Management with subnets.
Enabled SNMP traps for our Cacti Monitoring tool to monitor traffic and check the regular health of Servers and Network Devices
Implementation of Virtual LANs across Routers and Switches.
Implemented and Configured IP Routing Protocols: OSPF, EIGRP, and RIPv2
Implemented and configured LAN Protocols: Ethernet, VLANs, VTP and STP.
Worked with Remedy Ticketing tool in maintaining and keep a track of logs/monitor
Designed and implemented IP Addressing, Subnetting, Route Summarization and Route Distributions
Environment: LAN, WAN, Subnetting, VLAN, VTP, VPN, NAT, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP.