PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Experience as a Network and Security Engineer with expertise in design, development, implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of Network security environments with mixed vendors Routers, Switches Firewalls, Proxy, VPN, IPsec and Switches.

Good knowledge in implementing DCS grooming and provisioning for circuits ranging from E1/T1 to OC192 level.

Good understanding of wireless technology of LTE/VoLTE/WCDMA, small cell Networks of all major and regional Mobile carriers including their limitation and Carrier specific requirements.

Performing testing on Nokia/Ericsson equipment. Good understanding of LTE/VoLTE technology.

Proficient using NetAct (BTS Site Manager), SAM5620 (Network service provider), SAM-CLI, URSA, RAMSES Portal.

Strong Understanding of transmission concepts such as SONET/SDH/PDH/OTN/DWDM.

Experience in installing and configuring DNS, DHCP server.

Hands on experience on SMM (Site monitoring module) commissioning, Provisioning and Testing external alarms.

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

Experience in 5G deployment, LTE, Fiber Optics, IP MPLS, Mobile Networks, IP Microwave, Fixed Networks and Nokia Software, RF measurements, Antenna Designing, and Network Optimization.

Hands on experience on monitoring and troubleshooting on netting procedure for digital cross connecting systems, router and switches.

Worked on T1/E1/T3 technologies and different LAN WAN/WLAN technologies

Expertise in configuring and troubleshooting complex layer 2 technologies such as VLANs, VTP, Ether Channels, Spanning Tree Protocol STP, RSTP and MST and redundancy protocols.

Hands on experience testing on Network performance & Device performance with respect to KPI parameters and data Throughput.

Hands on experience in testing T1 circuits and troubleshooting associated alarms.

Excellent communication skills, enthusiastic, motivated and a team player and experience with Change management process and Project documentation tools like Excel and VISIO.

EDUCATION

Master’s in Computer & Information science from Southern Arkansas University 2017

Bachelor’s in Information technology from Osmania University, India 2015

TECHNICAL CERTIFICATIONS

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) – Routing & Switching (Cisco ID: CSCO13112755)

WORK EXPERIENCE

CENTURY LINK February 2019 – Present

Network Engineer

Raleigh, NC

Responsibilities:

Responsible for planning, designing, analyzing, implementing and troubleshooting customer side network architecture.

Facilitate the resolution of networking functions involving digital signaling (DS1/DS3) and switching circuits for planning the network infrastructure designing by implementing network layer protocols using Transport Element Management Systems (TEMS).

Recognize and prioritize the work orders from the group repository reflecting in order scheduling system (CORE) to identify the scope of executing logical changes for a scheduled grooming process.

Retrieve and verify the network layout record using Logical Inventory Management Systems (LIMS) from the central database and validate the circuit parameters to identify the scope of Narrow Band grooming.

Enabled routing on routers, OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, apply ACL, PPP, wireless VPN

Identification of design constraints for existing network and perform digital access cross connectivity pertaining to network optimization ensuring maximum equipment efficiency.

Analyze network transmission concepts such as SONET, OTN and DWDM to fulfill successful signal flow continuity during local exchange carrier (LEC) migration.

Perform non-intrusive monitoring of framing and line coding methods ensuring compliance with switching circuit design derived from TIRKS database.

Perform Bit Error Rate Testing using INTAS to diagnose signal alterations in network cables ensuring data transmission/reception quality between local and remote ports.

Monitor the status and Key performance Indices (KPIs) of the network nodes in PUTTY to identify possible alarm outcomes from disruption to signal reception and perform troubleshooting to ensure successful grooming in the Digital Access Cross connect systems.

Enabled routing on routers, OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, apply ACL, PPP, wireless VPN

Installed, relocated, and upgraded the onsite Cisco switches, and routers

Engage and contribute in triage calls with field technicians to handle triage, escalations and error tickets ensuring service problem resolution and technical troubleshooting.

GLOW NETWORKS (NOKIA) June 2018 – January 2019

Integration & Test Engineer

Dallas, Tx

Responsibilities:

Responsible for monitoring, correlating, troubleshooting and resolving network alarms and performance deviations for Verizon wireless network.

Review and approve the RAN features and parameter trials to be presented and discussed with the Customer s technical team for approval (Nokia RL70/FL16/FL16A)

Project coordinator for the Verizon & Sprint FSM4 Air Scale migrations.

Responsible for ticket completion after issue has been escalated from a Tier 1 technician.

Proficient using the SAM5620 and BTS-SM used for Air Scale migrations and troubleshooting.

Experience working with Nokia Air Scale, and Alcatel ALU equipment.

Check sites for each Tier-1 to verify they were completed as per Verizon’s and Sprint’s Standards.

Respond directly to calls and requests from integration engineers, troubleshoot problems as well as support internal teams with maintenance activities.

Interface directly with deployment and development teams which include installation, RITC Teams, PM’s, to resolve site or network problems.

Ensure base stations are operational (links are up, alarms clear, sites ready for Field engineering teams and live traffic).

Develop written technical documentation such as Method or Procedure (MOP) for RITC Technicians to use.

Perform pre-commission, commissioning, integration, maintenance and upgrades to LTE cell site equipment and auxiliary equipment.

Creation of SCF for integration of LTE EnodeB to Air Scale migration, carrier add, bandwidth expansion, radio add/delete, TMA/RET scripting and alarms troubleshooting on Nokia products.

Responsible for equipment powered up and testing in a standalone environment including cable connections.

Worked with Wireless/RF/RAN 2G/3G/4G Voice and Data Network Design, Modeling and Engineering.

Ensure the latest software and the correct configurations are loaded into the equipment and load the current version of software.

Ensure the cell site is connected to the network and integrated to become a functional part of Verizon networks.

MOBOLUTIONS Jul 2017 - Jan 2018

NETWORK ENGINEER

Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

Configured Cisco ASA Firewall to use multiple security levels and interfaces

Implementation and configuration of Cisco ASA 5520 in failover along with the CSC module as per the customer requirement.

Experience in migration of Frame-relay based branches to MPLS based technology using multi-layer stackable switch like 6500 series and 2800 series router.

Configured IPsec tunnels with Palo Alto to enable secure transport and cloud based/site-site VPN. Configuration and troubleshooting link state protocols like OSPF in single area and multiple areas.

Documenting and Log analyzing the Cisco ASA 5500 series firewall and working on Palo Alto firewalls.

Responsible for maintaining multi-vendor network environment including Cisco ASA, Juniper JUNOS, Fortinet firewalls, Palo Alto PA-200 and configuring different policies to provide connectivity

Palo Alto design and installation (Application and URL filtering, Threat Prevention, Data Filtering)

Fetched twitter feeds for certain important keyword using python-twitter library.

Performed troubleshooting, fixed and deployed many Python bug fixes of the two main applications that were a main source of data for both customers and internal customer service team.

Implementation, Configuration and Support of Checkpoint (NGX R65, R70 and R71), Juniper Firewalls (SRX5400, SRX5600, and SRX5800), Cisco Firewalls (ASA 5505, 5506-X, 5585), Palo Alto Networks Firewall models (PA-2k, PA-3k, and PA-5 k)

Palo Alto Firewall 7k, 5k series.

Experience in cloud security, cloud network configuration (NACL, security groups, NAT gateway, route table), hybrid-design.

Port configuration and Swap Support on ALU 7210 and ALU 7705 Routers.

Configuring, implementing and troubleshooting VLAN's, VTP, STP, Trunking, Ether channels

Scheduled maintenance of Nexus 2248, 5548 and 7010 switches so that there are no Orphan ports in the network.

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

Signature Updates Deployment on the Management Components and all the Individual IPS/IDS devices.

Scheduled maintenance of Nexus 2248, Nexus 5548, and Nexus 7010 switches so that there are no Orphan ports in the network. • Deployment of Palo Alto firewall into the network. Configured and wrote Access-list policies on protocol based services

Troubleshooting of protocol based policies on Palo Alto firewalls and changing the policies as per the requirement and as per traffic flow

Configured and maintained IPSEC and SSL VPN's on Palo Alto firewalls (5050).

GRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANT (INTERN) Jan 2016 - May 2017

NETWORK ASSOCIATE

SOUTHER ARKANSAS UNIVERSITY

MAGNOLIA, AR

Responsibilities:

Configure IPv6 access lists and assign IPv6 addresses to dual stacked devices as part of an agency-wide migration from IPv4 to IPv6.

Installation and administration of VMware ESX, ESXi Servers using vCenter Server.

Experience in 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 Server building both physical & virtual, troubleshooting, capacity planning, application.

Implemented network solutions for EDS customers. Deliverables include a formal written proposal, detailed price quote, and network diagrams of the proposed solutions. Design and coordinate implementation for customer access to a large-scale predominately Cisco-based router network.

Supported and provided troubleshooting and redistributed for EIGRP and OSPF routing on Cisco 7500, 7200, and 3600 equipment.

Configuring objects such as Load Balancer pools for local traffic management on F5 Load Balancers.

Build the Silent Circle Management System (SCMC) in Django, Python, and Node.JS while integrating with infrastructure services.

Created a Python/Django based web application using Python scripting for data processing, MySQL for the database, and HTML/CSS/jQuery and High Charts for data visualization of the served pages.

Worked on updating the SSL certificates to the application URL using the F5 LTM and F5 GTM.

Support senior wireless network engineer in researching, planning and implementing wireless network security protocols and technologies.

Managing health check of Network devices this is involves upgrading IOS on every quarter after checking the vulnerability of IOS and reviewing the configuration.

Configured Easy VPN server and SSL VPN to facilitate various employees' access internal servers and resources with access restrictions. Designed AWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, Subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates and expertise in architecting secure VPC Solutions in AWS with the help of Network ACLs, Security groups, public and private network configurations.

Created stub areas and configured summarization for effective routing. Manipulated route updates using distribute lists, route maps & administrative distance, offset lists.

Hands on experience in Configuring VPN, routing, NAT, access-list, security contexts, and failover in ASA firewalls.

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