Network Engineer

RAKESH PATEL

I – ***, Shyam Hills

New Ranip

Ahmadabad – 382480, Gujarat

2.10 years of experience as a Network & Security Engineer

Email: ************@*****.***

Contact no: 917*********

Carrier Objective:

To work at a challenging and performance oriented position as a Network Engineer with a reputed organization where my knowledge, expertise and skills can positively impact the organizations productivity and growth, I aspire to prove my talent in fast moving techno world.

Professional Work Experience:

2.10 years of experience as a Network & Security Engineer

From March 2014 to June 2015

Company : Infosol Solutions, Mumbai - 400069

Designation : Network Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

PROJECT# : Worked as a Network Engineer for Welspun India Ltd

Duration : March 2014 to June 2015

Technology : Cisco ASA Firewalls 5510, 5520, Switches 2960x, 3600x, 2600x and 3560

Series, Cisco Routers 3745,7200 and Asr 920i, 920o, and 903

Role : Firewall, Vpn, Switch and Router troubleshooting and monitoring issues

Team size : 6

Monitoring, troubleshooting and maintaining the WAN & LAN related issues Enterprise Customers of Welspun India Ltd includes all routing, switching, firewall and Vpn connectivity and Internet related issues.

Configuration and troubleshooting ASA based NAT, policy NAT, access-lists, object, active-standby failover, high availability and modular policy framework using CLI and ASDM.

Integration of network devices like routers and switches with monitoring tools such as What's up Gold and MRTG for monitoring traffic and uplinks connectivity.

Configuration and troubleshooting switching concepts such as vlan, trunking, ether -channels, inter-Vlan routing, spanning tree, port security, redundancy protocols such as HSRP.

Configuration and Troubleshooting ISP side routing related protocol such as isis and bgp neighbour issue in ip/mpls network and Working on Routing technologies like Static, default route, EIGRP and OSPF.

Established any New VPNs (IPsec / SSL / Site to Site / RA VPN) and additional features like IPS Web filtering in the firewall and Troubleshoot connectivity related issues and resolving them in a timely manner with in SLA.

Upgradation of OS of Routers and switches based on the Security Alerts published by the OEM manufacturer for bug fixing or security vulnerability fixing.

Backup Configuration of Routers, Switches and Firewalls on a Weekly Basis, and whenever there is a configuration change.

Basic understanding of ITIL Processes like Service Desk, Incident management, Change management, Problem management, Configuration management and IT service management.

From July 2012 to March 2014

Company : Readinus Software Pvt Ltd, Bangalore - 560100

Designation : Network Security Engineer

Job Responsibilities:

Project# 1 : Worked as a Network Security Engineer for AT & T India Pvt Ltd

Duration : 8 months

Technology : Cisco ASA firewalls 5520, Switches 3560x and 3400E series, Cisco

Routers 3680, 3745 and Asr 901,903

Role : Firewalls, Switches and Routers troubleshooting and monitoring issues

Team size : 4

Worked as a network security engineer (L2) responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, configuration and maintenance of network devices like Cisco ASA 5510, 5520 firewalls, routers 3680, 3745 and asr 901,903, Aggregation switches 3560x and 3400e series.

Ticket Logging & Escalation of calls, Monitoring of Switches, using standard management tools, for Switches up/down and any critical alerts (Ex: Power Supply /Module Failure / Uplinks going down using KS HOST monitor.

Modification of VLANS (Creation / Deletion), Switch port configuration (Speed / Duplex / VLAN / Port Security), Troubleshooting and resolution for any LAN related issues and Configuration of Port Security as required.

Checking and analysis of the Syslog for the Switches. Look for any identical repeated issues like CRC, errors, STP such as ports configured in half-duplex, high error ports, high-collisions and rectification of the same.

Configuration and troubleshooting ASA based NAT, policy NAT, access-lists, object, active-stand by failover and modular policy framework using ASDM.

Up-gradation of OS of Routers and Switches based on the Security Alerts published by the OEM manufacturer for bug fixing or security vulnerability fixing.

Verification of ACS Log Passed/Failure login Attempts and report/escalate accordingly.

Weekly review of the device health status and capturing the checklists from remote location and Worked on Log management, periodically pulling logs from devices using KIWI syslog server.

Project# 2 : Worked as a Network Security Engineer for Bangkok Bank project

Duration : 7 months

Technology : Cisco ASA Firewalls 5520 and 5540, Routers 3700 and Asr 901 series

And Switches 2960x and 3650 series.

Role : Firewall, Vpn, Routing & Switching issue

Team size : 5

Troubleshooting, configuration and monitoring network devices like Cisco ASA firewalls, routers and catalyst switches and vpn related issues of enterprise customers.

Ticket Logging & Escalation of calls and Opening of new firewall ports opening for any specific applications / servers.

Established any New VPNs (SSL / Site to Site / RA VPN) and additional features like IPS Web filtering in the firewall.

Troubleshoot connectivity related issues for Site to Site IP Sec Tunnels, Client / Server VPN, SSL VPNS and resolving them in a timely manner with in SLA.

Coordination with Service Provides for any link related issues, Addition and removal of routes in routers such as OSPF, default route and static route.

Checking and analysis of the syslog for the firewalls. Look for any repeated trends of where a particular traffic is getting denied and escalate accordingly such as unauthorized SNMP queries from user’s system)

Troubleshooting and resolution of incidents / service calls related to communication issues across servers/subnets crossing firewalls.

Switching related tasks including implementing VLANs and configuring ISL/802.1Q trunk on Fast-Ethernet channel between switches.

Backup of Configuration of routers and firewalls on a Weekly Basis, and whenever there is a configuration change.

Rate Limit of bandwidth to Implementation of New links and Circuit.

Worked in SLA based, 24/7 and rotational shift environment.

Manage Proxy Appliances provide access to users, block/permit site as per customer and security team requirement, perform troubleshooting related to proxy services.

Resolving customer complaints and technical issues on time and providing value added customer services by attending customer queries.

Core Network Skills:

Good knowledge of OSI reference model and TCP/IP suite.

ASA FIREWALL

Configured and developed CISCO ASA 5510, 5520, and 5540 with different IOS such as 8.4, 8.2 with security functionality like access-list, object, object-groups, active-standby failover and active-active failover with ASDM.

Configure ASA with routed mode and transparent mode with high availability, redundancy, security contexts and modular policy frame work.

Good knowledge of ASA based NAT such as static NAT, static PAT, dynamic NAT, dynamic PAT, policy NAT and NAT exemption.

VPN TECHNOLOGIES

Knowledge of configuration and troubleshooting of different VPN technologies such as site to site VPN, remote access VPN, dynamic multipoint VPN (DMVPN), GETVPN, any connect VPN, dynamic virtual tunnel interface (DVTI VPN) and SSL VPN.

IPS SENSOR

Good Knowledge of configuration IPS sensor in promiscuous and inline pair mode. Knowledge of custom and tune signatures with IPS device manager version 7.

IDENTITY MANAGEMENT

Understanding knowledge of radius and tacacs+ protocol.

Able to install and configure Cisco identity service engine.

ROUTING

Good Knowledge of static and dynamic routing such as RIPV2, OSPF, EIGRP, redistribution, static and default route.

SWITCHING

Good Knowledge of Cisco Catalyst switches 2950/3550/3560/6500.

Good knowledge of VLAN, VLAN TRUNKING, VTP, STP, DTP, SWITCH PORT-SECURITY.

VARIOUS FEATURES & SERVICES

SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP, DNS, CDP, HTTP, FTP.

Identify and correct the common problems at L1, L2, and L3.

General Computer Skills:

HARDWARE

PC and Cisco devices such as ASA, ROUTER, SWITCHES, IPS

SOFTWARE

Ms Office packets (word, excel, PowerPoint, outlooks etc), adobe Photoshop, coral painter 12, Creately network diagram software

DESKTOP OPERATING SYSTEAM

MS-DOS, WINDOWS 95/98, WINDOWS XP/VISTA/7/8

PROTOCOLS/TECHNOLOGIES

OSI model, Ethernet, fast-Ethernet, gigabit-Ethernet, 802.1q, ISL, VLANs, VTP, IP Subnetting, TCP, UDP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, TFTP, TOKEN-RING

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES

C, C++, C#, core JAVA, SQL, HTML

Course & Certification: Cisco ID:- CSC012326576

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) training completed in ACIT (Bangalore).

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA-security) training completed in ACIT (Bangalore).

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP-security) training completed in ACIT (Bangalore).

Cisco (CCIE-Security) training completed in ACIT (Bangalore).

Cisco CCIE Security (V-4) written exam completed.

Attempted CCIE Security (V-4) lab exam.

Educational Background:

BIT (bachelor of information technology) from University of Ballarat in March 2011 (Adelaide, AUSTRALIA) registered with ACS (Australian computer society Inc) as software engineer.

Diploma in electrical engineer from Ganpat University in November 2006 (first class 65%) Mahesana, Gujarat (Shree B.S Patel polytechnic).

SSC – St Mary’s high school, Nadiad, Gujarat (Gujarat secondary education board) (distinction -78%).

Personal Details:

NAME : Patel Rakeshkumar Vishnubhai

BIRTHDAY : 21st February 1985

NATIONALITY : Indian

GENDER : Male

MARITAL STATUS : Married

LANGUAGE KNOWN : English, Hindi, Gujarati

PASSPORT NUMBER : G2664926

PERMANENT ADDRESS : 3/ Radha swami pujan, Anand-Vidyanagar

Road, Anand – 388001, Gujarat

Declaration:

I hereby declare that all the above mentioned statements and documents furnished above are true and best to my knowledge and know they can be duly submitted for verification as per employer will.

RAKESH PATEL

Contact this candidate