Engineer Network

Professional Summary:

*+ years of experience in design, capacity planning, upgrade/implement & troubleshoot inter networks using Cisco Products with deep understanding of application level security

Conversant with network protocols RIP, EIGRP, IGRP, OSPF, BGP, DHCP, TCP/IP and Switching concepts STP, VLAN, and VTP

Implemented WAN/Core based on ATM & Frame Relay technologies. Worked on VoIP on point-to-point &FR PVC’s with Traffic Shaping. Good experience in implementing MPLS-VPNs

In-depth expertise with analysis, implementation, troubleshooting & documentation of LAN/WAN architecture

Hands on experience configuring datacenter products Nexus 7K/5K/6K/2K

Hands on experience with HPNA and Perl scripts to push network changes/policies/audits

Worked on configuring IP Multicast, STP, VTP,HSRP, GLBP and redistribution between routing protocols and the troubleshooting involved

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and capable of playing a Lead role as well as contribute being a Good team player with commendable leadership qualities

Education:

Masters of Science in Computer Networks and Telecom with a GPA of 3.7/4.0

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA

Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with a GPA of 3.6/4.0

RVR & JC COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, INDIA

Certifications:

CCNA (CSCO12207526)

Technical Skills:

Hardware:

Cisco 2800/7200/7600 series routers, Cisco 6500/4500/3750/2900 series switches, ASR 1K/6K/9K series, Cisco ASA 5505/5520 (Adaptive security appliance), Checkpoint, PIX, ISE, NEXUS 7K/6K/5K/2K, Cisco ACS (Access control servers) for TACACS & Radius authentication, Cisco UCS, Cisco WLCs, Extreme switches

Network/Routing Protocols:

TCP/IP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, HSRP, DHCP, SNMP,FTP, Telnet, SSH, SMTP, VoIP, SIP, RTP, X-LITE, 802.11 a/b/g/n, MESH

LAN/WAN Technologies:

Ethernet, VLAN, Inter-VLAN Routing, VTP, STP, RSTP

Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN, PPP, HDLC, VPC, SD-WAN

OS/Products/Services:

CAT OS, Cisco IOS, IOS-XR/XE, NX-OS, Windows Server 2003/2008, UNIX (Solaris),

LINUX(Redhat, Debian), Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010,

VMware, DNS

Software/Tools:

Microsoft Visio, MS Project, Active Directory

Remedy, ITSM, ITIL

Network Management/Monitoring Tools:

Solarwinds, HP Network Automation, ACI, NetBrain, Infoblox, Tufin, Cisco Prime,

Ethereal Sniffer, Wire shark, TCP Dump, Netflow, Splunk, VM Virtual Box

Languages:

Perl

Professional Experience:

Anthem Inc., St. Louis, MO Nov ‘2017 - Current

Infrastructure Services Analyst Advisor

Roles & Responsibilities:

Perform Analysis, Research various systems and tools, and Review detailed business and technical requirements and Recommend optimum technical solutions.

Provide Data center Network support to the internal/external teams, vendors.

Assist/Perform Cisco refreshes activities/Code upgrades as part of the Network Life Cycle Management program.

Help with Build requirements of customized Infoblox NetMRI FrontEnd application to automate Network configurations/procedures and optimize the work flow eliminating any human errors.

Provide second level Engineering designs and implement optimum solutions from business requirements and Architectural specifications.

Participate in ACI training/meetings to help transition traditional Data center network to ACI fabric mode.

Provide detailed technical specifics/documentation and seek Change control/Management’s approval for significant replacements or reconfigurations of Major business systems.

Consult with application leaders to verify, they conform to the architectural standards.

Kaiser Permanente, Walnut Creek, CA July ’2016 – Oct ‘2017

Data Center Network Engineer - Remote

Roles & Responsibilities:

•Build and Develop configurations for Data Center Network devices in compliance with the standard templates.

•Employ Network Automation tools specifically HPNA and writes Perl scripts to streamline network procedures and policies.

•Develop/Test/Deploy complex Perl scripts to push device configurations with multiple pre-checks and post validation steps to use with HPNA and Automate standard network changes to reduce Engineer’s work load and cut down on time spent after hours.

•Audit Network devices/changes for Organizational and PCI standards/regulations using HPNA.

•Provide Tier II/III support automating standard network solutions, optimizing Engineering resources and ensuring higher success rate with every deployment, eliminating the risk of manual errors.

•Work with multiple teams internal to Kaiser and develop network configuration scripts to meet individual project requirements.

•Familiar with ACI configurations for multi-Tenant/End profiles for network deployments.

Charter Communications, St. Louis, MO April ’2015 – May ‘2016

Network Engineer, Enterprise Network Services

Roles & Responsibilities:

•Provide Tier II/III support building network solutions, optimizing existing services and ensuring customer needs are met.

•Work on MPLS/OC3 circuits and validate them if they need re-engineering, checking on the multipath routes and VRF specifics along with analyzing traffic utilization from various tools including Solarwinds.

•Develop MoPs and implement BGP changes related to new prefix-lists/route-maps/local preference for the advertised routes and the new routes, as part of an effort to deploy new redundant/parallel Network for the current Enterprise WAN.

•Deploy VRF specific configurations as required with the projects going on within the team.

•Build site-to-site VPNs to connect to the VPC for accessing managed services including AWS.

•Work with different teams to help configure various monitoring tools appropriately, to make sure they track down the required metrics and report none to minimum false positives.

•Work on 7200 series routers, Nexus 5K/6K/7Ks, ASR 1002/1004, Catalyst 6513 switches employing the tools including HPNA, NetBrain, Granite, Solarwinds, ITSM for Change Management and several other internally developed tracking databases.

Tennessee Valley Authority, Chattanooga, TN Oct '2012 – Feb ‘2015

Network Analyst/Engineer, Enterprise Network Operations

Roles & Responsibilities:

•Provide Engineering/Operational support for Cisco switches/routers and Firewalls, with the required configurations as per the design guide lines and routing principles implemented by the organization.

•Help design, implement and supportlarge-scale LAN/WAN in a Cisco dominated environment: Routers ASR 1002/1004, switches- Cat 6500 series, ASA firewalls, VPN concentrators 3030, Big IP F5 load balancers, Cisco ACS servers, Tufin, HPNA, NetBrain, Solar winds.

•Produce detailed Network Documentation for LAN/WAN.

•Responsible for Datacenter Maintenance and implementing new deployments/server additions on Nexus switches 7K/5K/2K, in a fast pace growing organization.

•Work on F5 LTM and GTM adding new members to the Pools, create Virtual IPs and related CNAME records in Infoblox.

•Configure and deploy MPLS backbone/Infrastructure, VOIP, QOS and defined class of service (COS) WRED and WFQ for bandwidth management.

•Plan, Engineer and support bandwidth upgrades for multiple WAN circuits deploying MPLS technology.

•Configure CE routers, to make compatible with the PE routers as per the vendor documentation.

•Implement BGP routing across the data center links and EIGRP across the WAN links.

•Participate in planning meetings for the upcoming transition to implement IPv6 Addressing.

•Provide technical support for intra-domain and inter-domain multicast and other routing issues, IOS bugs, and fault tolerance issues.

Time Warner Cable, Reston, VA Jul ‘2011 – May ‘2012

Network Engineer, Network Services

Roles & Responsibilities:

•Configure Core/WAN routers with BGP and OSPF processes.

•Test BGP features such as AS-override, Local preference, EBGP load balancing.

•General routing table and per VRF routing table segregation, verify Route Distinguishers, Route Targets, Max routes per VRF.

•Interacting with the client and assist the customer in CE configuration.

•Troubleshoot internet connectivity issues related to misconfigurations on the Internet Firewall/Routers.

•Build client specific IPsec/GRE tunnels to share the wireless testing environment and track activities.

•Create TCP/ IP flows for performance measurements and troubleshoot OSPF, BGP.

•Analyze current Traffic flows, calculate Network capacity and identify bottle necks to find out the scope for upcoming projects and propose optimum solutions before network congestion occurs.

Center for Secure Information Systems, GMU, Fairfax VA Jan '2010 – May '2011

Graduate Research Assistant/Jr. Network Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Project-1

•Develop and deploy an e-commerce application onto various versions of UNIX operating systems for the project ‘Virtualization of Security’, which demonstrates the recovery of a database when any secure files have been targeted by a malicious hacker, resulting in the loss of data. The cyberattack was launched using multiple virtual machines.

Project-2

•Manage IP re-addressing project and contribute as a key member for upgrading branch and regional office network infrastructures for voice and data.

•Work on configuring and troubleshooting CISCO 2811 series routers and 3950 Catalyst Switches using CISCO IOS CLI building additional configurations for the network devices.

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