Network Engineer

SUMMARY

CCNA & CCNP certified *+ years of professional experience in Brocade Network Manager, Network Designing, Deployment, Configuring, Troubleshooting and Testing of networking system.

Extensive experience of working on network equipment such as Cisco routers, Cisco switches, Cisco firewalls and F5 Load balancers

Experience in Layer 3 Routing Protocol configurations: RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP and MPLS and design engineering capacity management and configuration manager.

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.

Proficient in troubleshooting VoIP networks and other operational controllers.

Switching tasks include VTP, ISL/ 802.1q, IPSec, VLANs, Ether Channel, Port Security, STP and RSTP.

Network security including NAT/PAT, ACL, VPN Concentrator.

Proficiency in configuration of VLAN setup on various Cisco Routers and Switches.

Experience in physical cabling, IP addressing and sub netting with VLSM, configuring and supporting TCP/IP, DNS, installing and configuring proxies.

Analyzing network traffic using VoIP carriers.

A highly organized individual who adopts a systematic approach to problem solving, effectively analyzes results and implements solutions.

Hands on experience with Cisco IOS upgrades on different Cisco devices and modules.

Provided 24x7x365 availability and on-call support as required by the projects

Excellent working knowledge of Cisco Routers and OSI layers

Experience in working on advanced features like VPC, VDC in Nexus and VSS in Catalyst6500

Good knowledge and experience in Installation, Configuration and Administration of FTP, DNS, DHCP, TFTP under various LAN and WAN environments

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

EDUCATION

B.E (Electronic and Communication Engineering) from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University.

SKILLS

Hardware:

Cisco Switches (2900, 2924, 2950, 3550, 5500, 6500, 6509, 6513), Cisco routers (2600, 2800, 3640, 3700), Nexus 5k, 7k, 2k.

Protocols

RIP, RIP2, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, SNMP, HTTP, FTP, TFTP, HTTP, DHCP, SMTP, ICMP

WAN Protocols and Technologies

HDLC, ATM, FRAME RELAY, IDSN, Metro Ethernet

LAN Technologies

Ethernet, TCP/IP,STP, RSTP, VTP, VLAN, Trunks, Ethernet channel, MPLS.

Redundancy Protocols

HSRP, VRRP, GLBP.

Servers

DHCP, DNS, VPN, Print Servers, Application servers, FTP Servers

Operating Systems

Windows 2000/2003/2008, windows XP/7, LINUX

Anti-Virus & Internet Security:

MacAfee, Symantec

PRPFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: Bright house Networks, Riverview, FL

Position: Contractor- Network Operations Engineer

Jan 2015 – Present

Responsibilities:

Migration of equipment from one vendor to another (Salira to Sumitomo).

Monitored Network Operations.

Design and configuring of OSPF on the Cisco Routers.

Configured, installed, &managed DHCP, DNS servers

Provide front end on-call network support 24x7x365 for all network infrastructures in the co-operation

Worked on complex routing changes on BGP, OSPF & EIGRP where P2P circuits are implemented and preferred.

Assisted Network Engineer in the installation and configuration of firewalls

Create MCDB records and update spreadsheets based on the template from the Remedy team.

Monitored and analyzed system performance by tuning, troubleshooting system hardware, software, networks and operating systems

Maintained system documents and disaster recovery plan

Worked on Nexus platform7018, 5K series (5548, 5020 and 5010) and FEX (2248, and 2232) and deployed VPC, VDC and OTV and successfully implemented VSS on the Ciscoswitches.

Experience with LAN protocols like STP, RSTP, MST, VTP, VLAN and Port Channel Protocols like LACP, PAGP

Environment: Cisco routers (7200, 3800, 2800) and Cisco switches (6500, 3700, 4900, 2900), Routing Protocols (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP), Switching protocols (VTP, STP, GLBP, HSRP), Cisco PIX (525, 535), ASA (5505, 5510) firewall.

Client: Broadview Networks, New York.

Position: Network Administrator

Jan 2014 – Dec 2014

Responsibilities

Enterprise routing experience using protocols such as Static, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP and good at Brocade network advisor.

Experience in VMware vSphere-global virtualization and storage networking infrastructure.

Providing technical assistance and support to CISCO customers on 3750, 4500, 6500, 7600, 7200, ASR 1K, ASR 9K routers.

Configured security policies including NAT, PAT, Route-maps and Access Control Lists.

Well experienced in configuring gateway redundancy protocols like HSRP, GLBP and VRRP.

Strong working experience on Firewalls, ACS, Cisco ASA 5540 Series.

Converting the WAN protocol from OSPF to BGP, using OSPF as internal protocol.

Working on Cisco 6500 and 4500 switches for LAN requirements that include managing VLAN’s, port security and troubleshooting LAN issues.

Worked on Nexus platform7018, 5K series (5548,5020 and 5010) and FEX (2248, and 2232) and deployed VPC, VDC and OTV and successfully implemented VSS on the Ciscoswitches.

Performed switching technology administration including VLANs, inter-VLANs routing, trunking, STP, RSTP, Port aggregation and link negotiation.

In-depth knowledge on Nexus architecture, ISSU & EPLD nexus upgrades over Nexus 7k, 5k.

Hands on experiences with SRX100, SRX210, SRX1400 and SRX3400 Juniper Firewalls.

Worked on Fabric extenders Nexus 2248, 2232 series to Nexus 5k and 7k to extend data plane.

Client: IBM

Position: Network Engineer

Nov 2011 – Dec 2013

Responsibilities

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

Configuring RIP, OSPF and Static routing.

Cisco IOS experience on 3600/7200 class hardware in complex WAN environment and experience on Cisco OS and IOS on CAT6500 in a complex data centre environment

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

Configuring IP, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP in routers.

Troubleshooting and installing of CRS, ISR, GSR, ASR9000 devices.

Installation, Configuration and Administration of ADS,DNS,DHCP and Web proxy(ISA)server

Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS, VTP, STP and configuring on Fast Ethernet

Taking Regular backups & testing the backups by restoring in test lab frequently

Experience in deploying EIGRP/BGP redistribution and the changing the metrics for the primary and backup paths for the packet prioritization and EIGRP tuning.

Environment: Cisco 7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, EIGRP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, VPN, MPLS, Ether Channels.

Client: Sify Technologies, Hyderabad

Position: Network Engineer

Dec 2009 – Oct 2011

Responsibilities

Responsible for the configuration, implementation and operation of Cisco 3745 routers Cisco 6509 and 3560 L2/L3 switches

Removed Cisco 3600 and 2600 series routers and Cisco 2900 series switches from the current infrastructure and replaced them with the Cisco 6509 or 3560 L2/L3 switches.

Configured RSTP, MST and used VTP with 802.1q trunk encapsulation.

Designed ACLs, VLANs, troubleshooting IP addressing issues and taking back up of the configurations on switches and routers.

Provided testing for network connectivity before and after install/upgrade

Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS and configuring ISL trunk on Fast-Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet channel between switches.

Experience in Cisco switches and routers: Physical cabling, IP addressing, Wide Area Network configurations (Frame-relay and ATM).

Performed troubleshooting, while maintaining trouble ticket tracking, following internal/external.

Escalation procedures and customer notifications.

Configured Cisco Routers for OSPF, IGRP, RIPv2, EIGRP, Static and default route

Configured VMware ESX and good at using VMware site recovery Manager.

Client: 3Edge Solutions, Chennai, India

Position: Network Engineer

Aug 2007 – Oct 2009

Responsibilities:

Configured Cisco Routers for OSPF, IGRP, RIPv2, EIGRP, Static and default route.

Worked on HSRP for hop redundancy and load balancing.

Configured the Cisco router as IP Firewall and for NATing Configured RSTP, MST and used VTP with 802.1q trunk encapsulation.

Provided port binding, port security and router redundancy through HSRP.

Designed ACLs, VLANs, troubleshooting IP addressing issues and taking back up of the configurations on switches and routers.

Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS and configuring ISL trunk on Fast-Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet channel between switches.

Experience in Cisco switches and routers: Physical cabling, IP addressing, Wide Area Network configurations.

Responsible for Internal and external accounts and, managing LAN/WAN and checking for Security

Assisted in backing up, restoring and upgrading the Router and Switch IOS

Assisted university campus for VOIP network management and troubleshoot

Settings of the networking devices (Cisco Router, switches) co-coordinating with the system/Network administrator during any major changes and implementation

Routing protocols OSPF, RIP & BGP

Implementation of name resolution using WINS & DNS in TCP/IP environment

Configured FTP server for inside/outside users & vendors

Environment: Cisco 7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, TACACS, EIGRP, RIP.

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