Saiteja

Senior Network Engineer

732-***-****

acv20g@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY:

* ***** ** ********** ** routing, switching, firewall technologies, systems design, and administration and troubleshooting

Experience in designing, architecting, deploying and troubleshooting Network & Security infrastructure on routers, switches (L2/L3) & firewalls of various vendor equipment.

Experience in handling tickets opened for network related issues and resolving as per SLA.

Experience in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting of Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k, Cisco 7600, 7200, 3800, 3900, 2800, 2900 series Routers, Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 2960 and 3750 Stack Switches.

Expertise in configuring, troubleshooting network topologies which includes OSPF, BGP, HSRP, VRRP & STP

Expertise in L3 Protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP, CEF, MPLS, MPLS Layer 3 VPN's, VRF-Lite, PFR

Configuring and troubleshooting IPv6 protocols: OSPFv3, EIGRPv3, Tunneling techniques (GRE, v4tov6 and v6tov4)

Multicast: PIM, MSDP, Auto-RP, BSR, IGMP, IGMP-Snooping

Network Services: NTP, GLBP, WCCP, NAT, DNS, DHCP, DHP snooping and subnetting.

Redundancy Technologies: Virtual Scale (CISCO VSS),VCP, Virtual Link Trunking (VLT), VRRP, HSRP

Extensively worked on Cisco catalyst 6509 and implemented VSS along with VDC and VPC on Nexus 5505, 7009 switches.

Experience through Hand-on Experience with configuring T1.5, Gigabit Ethernet, Channelized T3 and full T3, OCX, ATM, Frame-Relay and VOIP (Voice-Over Internet Protocol).

Aggregating switch links using LACP and PAGP protocols.

Proficient in Cisco IOS for configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4.

Background in network design, including Wide Area Networking (WAN), Local Area Networking (LAN), Multiple Protocol Labeling Switching (MPLS), DS3 with Physical Labeling and IP Addressing.

Proficiently implemented traffic filters using Standard and Extended access-lists, Distribute- Lists, Route Maps and route manipulation using Offset-list.

Managed inventory of all network hardware, Management and Monitoring by use of SSH, Syslog, SNMP, NTP.

Experience with F5 load balancers and Cisco load balancers (CSM, ACE and GSS).

Basic and advance F5 load balancer configurations, including migrating configurations from Cisco ACE to F5 and general troubleshooting of the F5 load balancers.

Experience on load balancing strategies/techniques, expertise in application switching/traffic management, knowledge of persistence and SSL certificates.

Basic and advance F5 load balancer configurations, including migrating configurations from Cisco ACE to F5 and general troubleshooting of the F5 load balancers

Experience with Blue Coat URL filtering with white listing and blacklisting URL, creating rules for content filtering.

Efficient at use of Microsoft VISIO/Office as technical documentation and presentation tools.

Implementation of Juniper Firewall, SSG Series, NetScreen Series ISG 1000, SRX Series.

Worked on Juniper NetScreen Firewalls like, NS50, SSG 550M, SSG520M, ISG 1000, and ISG 200.

Hands on experiences on McAfee EPO with deploying and removing agent on client’s machine, removing virus and manually updating DAT files.

In-depth knowledge and experience in WAN technologies including OC3, E3/T3, E1/T1, Point to Point, MPLS and Frame Relay

Experience securing and managing remote access using various VPN technologies like IPSec, SSL, and GRE.

Experience in configuring and supporting VPN on Cisco VPN concentrators and 2811 routers

Reviewing all changes to network configuration for technical accuracy and provide solutions to Multi-Protocol Network problems.

Strong problem-analysis talent, driven by a global view/attention-to-detail approach. “Hands on” technical knowledge Experience with different Network Management Tools and Cisco works support 24 x 7 Network Operations Center

Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

Education

Bachelor of Technology, JNTU, India.

Skills:

Cisco Platforms

Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K & 1K, Cisco routers (7600,7200, 3900, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series) & Cisco Catalyst switches (6500,4900, 3750, 3500, 4500, 2900 series)

Networking Concepts

Access-lists, Routing, Switching, Sub netting, Designing, CSU/DSU, IPSec, VLAN, VPN, MPLS, VoIP, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi

Firewall

Check Point Firewall ( r77)

Network Tools

Solar Winds, SNMP, Cisco Works, Wireshark, Blue Coat proxy

Load Balancers

F5 Networks (Big-IP)

WAN technologies

Frame Relay, ISDN, ATM, MPLS, leased lines & exposure to PPP, DS1,DS3,OC3, T1 /T3 & SONET

LAN technologies

Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, & 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Port- channel, VLANS, VTP, STP, RSTP, 802.1Q

Security Protocols

IKE, IPSEC, SSL-VPN

Networking Protocols

RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, STP, RSTP, VLANs, VTP, PAGP, LACP, MPLS, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, TACACS+, Radius, AAA

Operating System

Windows 7/10, MAC OS X, Windows Server 2008/2003, Linux, Unix

VISA, Foster City, CA Nov 2014-till date

Network Security Engineer

Responsible for fitting the infrastructure surroundings with majority of Cisco & Palo Alto appliances .

Efficiently exploitation Service Now tool for generation of tickets, distribution severity to incidents, following up with incident standing and troubleshooting incidents.

Excellently used Splunk to research and monitor incident management and incident resolution issues.

Researched, designed, and replaced aging stop firewall design with new next generation Palo Alto appliances serving as firewalls and URL and application review.

Upgraded and updated Cisco IOS from twelve.3T to 12.4. accustomed DHCP to mechanically assign reusable information science addresses to DHCP shoppers.

Configuring and troubleshooting perimeter security devices like stop NGX R77 Gaea, Provider-1/MDM, Secure Platform, Palo Alto and ASA Firewalls.

Palo Alto style and installation (Application and URL filtering, Threat bar, information Filtering)

Configuring rules and Maintaining Palo Alto Firewalls & Analysis of firewall logs exploitation varied tools.

Successfully put in Palo Alto PA 3060 firewalls to protects information Center and provided L3 support for routers/switches/firewalls

Implemented Zone primarily based Firewalling and Security Rules on the Palo Alto Firewall

Exposure to wild hearth feature of Palo Alto.

Maintained and managed networks running EIGRP and BGP routing protocols.

Regularly performed firewall audits around stop Firewall-1 solutions for purchasers.

Provided tier three support for stop Firewall-1 software system to support customers.

Work on stop Platform together with supplier sensible Domain Manager. Worked on configuring, managing and supporting stop Gateways.

Configuration of routing protocols EIGRP and BGP for little to medium sized branches supported company branch standards, together with distribution and route maps.

Access purpose refresh and implementation at varied sized branches and locations.

Used network observation tools like Spectrum to confirm network property and protocol analysis tools to assess and pinpoint networking problems inflicting service disruption.

Worked with management and varied departments to develop procedures and troubleshoot issues as they arose.

Build IT security infrastructure together with stop, Juniper and Palo Alto firewalls

Configuring F5 Load Balancers: Adding virtual IPs, nodes, pools and health observation.

Configuring Juniper Netscreen Firewall Policies between secure zones exploitation NSM (Network Security Manager)

Backup and restore of stop and Cisco ASA Firewall policies

Handling Break/Fix things, monitor, configure, policy creation on Checkpoint's sensible Center Server running on Secure Platform

Monitoring Traffic and Connections in stop and ASA Firewall

• Manage project task to migrate from Cisco ASA firewalls to examine purpose firewalls

Worked extensively in Configuring, observation and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500/PIX security appliance, Failover demilitarized zone sectionalisation & configuring VLANs/routing/NAT with the firewalls as per the planning

Environment: Cisco 2948/3560/4500/3560/3750/3550/3500/2960/6500 switches and Cisco 3640/12000/7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, Cisco Nexus 7K/5K, Cisco ASA five hundred, F5 BIGIP remembering, RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, LAN, WAN, VPN, HSRP

Century Link, Chicago, IL Sep 2013- Nov 2014

Network Engineer

Troubleshooting problems associated with Layer 1/2/3 skills like shift / routing, WAN Hardware and important network links by coordinative with the ISP.

Troubleshooting the Juniper SRX100 and a hundred and ten series, Juniper NetScreen routers with Site-Site VPN, and firewalls for Supervalu Retail sites.

Installing and configuring new Cisco instrumentation as well as Cisco catalyst switches 6500, Nexus 7010, Nexus 5548 and Nexus 2k as per the need of the corporate.

24x7 on-call step-up support as a part of the safety operations team.

Working closely with knowledge center management to investigate the information center sites for cabling necessities ofassorted network instrumentation.

Provided application level redundancy and accessibility by deploying F5 load balancers long-term memory.

Having knowledge Center style expertise, putting in and Configuring Network Devices in a very knowledge Center as well as mend the cables within the Patch Panel. style and enforced network

Hands-on expertise within the network management of circuits mistreatment TDM and Frame Relay Managing and providing support to numerous project groups with regards to the addition of recent instrumentation like routers,switches and firewalls to the DMZs.

Implementing traffic engineering on high of Associate in Nursing existing Multiprotocol Label shift (MPLS) network mistreatment Frame Relay and Open Shortest Path initial (OSPF).

Provided redundancy in a very multi homed Border entree Protocol (BGP) network by tunings AS-path

Handling enterprise outages effectively and driving towards the resolution. Coordination of fault escalations in conjunction with the first high-level technical management of high priority or technically complicated calls.

Knowledge and skill of 802.11 a/b/g/n LAN normal for wireless Technology.

Working with capability management on network information measure utilization coverage of the websites WAN link and merchant co-ordination for brand spanking new site turnovers / WAN links.

Preparing Metrics report description on SLA performance of tickets and method quality report back to analyze team performance & discussion on the advance areas (By monthly).

Providing coaching to new comers and effectively operating towards a method quality improvement within the Team.

Configure bequest route map configurations mistreatment the new Cisco IOS XR Routing Protocol Language (RPL).

Supporting EIGRP and BGP supported the network by partitioning level two & three issues of internal groups & external customers of all locations

Performing troubleshooting on slow network property problems, routing problems that involves OSPF, BGP and distinctive the foundation reason for the problems.

Extensive active expertise with complicated routed local area network and WAN networks, routers and switches.

Hands-on expertise with Ether Channel, Spanning Tree, Trunking, ACLs, Syslog. Expertise within the setup of HSRP, Access-Lists, and RIP, EIGRP, and tunnel installations.

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

Work allotted tickets to see the purpose of failure and resolve issues remotely utilizing obtainable tools and different Operation Center resources.

Analyzed and tested network protocols (Ethernet, TCP/IP) mistreatment Wire shark tool.

Provide step-up support to L1 members of network team.

Worked with completely different ISP globally for any WAN circuit and BGP routing problems. gap up cases for cerium routers, river bottom optimizer problems.

Work & intensify issues effectively so as to satisfy client SLA's (service level agreements).

Perform downside management and root cause analysis for purchasers pro re nata.

Efficient at use of Microsoft VISIO/Office as technical documentation and presentation tools..

Environment: Nexus 2k/5k/7k, Cisco 6500/7500/7200 Routers, Cisco 3550/4500/6500 switches, Juniper SRX100, LAN, WAN, OSPF, RIP, BGP, EIGRP, HSRP, PPP, VPN, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA.

Pfizer, Chicago, IL

Sr. Network Engineer Dec 12- Aug 2013

Responsibilities:

Implementation of analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN networking systems.

Configured and troubleshoot OSPF and EIGRP.

Planning and configuring the routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, and Static Routing on the routers.

Tested authentication in OSPF and BGP.

Troubleshoot traffic passing managed firewalls via logs and packet captures

Configured and resolved various OSPF issues in an OSPF multi area environment.

Managed fast Layer 3 switched/routed LAN/WAN infrastructure as a part of Network team. The LAN consisted of Cisco campus model of Cisco 3550 at access layer, Cisco 6513 at distribution/core layer.

Worked with telecom vendors in regards to network fault isolation.

Hands-on experience with WAN (ATM/Frame Relay), Routers, Switches, TCP/IP, Routing Protocols (BGP/OSPF), and IP addressing.

Configured CIDR IP RIP, PPP, BGP and OSPF routing.

Involved in the configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4. Configured IP access filter policies.

Experience with Firewall Administration, Rule Analysis, Rule Modification

Modified internal infrastructure by adding switches to support server farms and added servers to existing DMZ environments to support new and existing application platforms.

Deployed 7613 as PE and CE router and Configured and troubleshoot the Edge Routers.

Excellent troubleshooting knowledge on T1, T3, OC-3 and OC-12.

Generated RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for critical issues of layer1/layer2/layer3 problems.

Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco catalyst 6509, 7613 with supervisor cards.

Worked with Juniper Firewalls.

Experience with implementing and maintaining network monitoring systems (Cisco works and HP Open view) and experience with developing complex network design documentation and presentations using VISIO.

Estimated Project costs and created documentation for project funding approvals.

Configured ASA 5540 to ensure high-end security on the network with ACLs and Firewall.

Used IPSec VPN tunneling to provide access to user machines and partners in other network. Provided application level redundancy and availability by deploying F5 load balancers LTM.

Experience with convert Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution. Migration with Cisco ASA VPN experience.

ICICI BANK Jun 10- Oct 12

INDIA

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Configured RIP, PPP, BGP and OSPF routing, and involving in the configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4. Configured IP access filters policies.

Identify, design and implement flexible, responsive, and secure technology services

Experience with Firewall Administration, Rule Analysis, Rule Modification

Documented new VPN enrolments in a database and create standard procedures for further improvement.

Troubleshoot traffic passing managed firewalls via logs and packet captures

Managed fast Layer 3 switched/routed LAN/WAN infrastructure as a part of Network team. The LAN consisted of Cisco campus model of Cisco 3550 at access layer, Cisco 6513 at distribution/core layer.

Innovated with support of Palo Alto for remote and mobile users and for analyzing files for malware in a separate (cloud-based) process that does not impact stream processing.

Created standard access lists to allow SNMP, NTP and logging servers.

Racking, Stacking, configuring, Nexus 5K and 2K and 7K.

Experience with moving data center from one location to another location, from 6500 based data center to Nexus based data center

Troubleshooting and verification of Fabric Path

Deployment and support of Nexus Switches, UCS, Fabric Path (Trill) to forward Layer 2 and Layer 3 Packet from Classical Ethernet to Fabric Path mode

Configure VRRP & GLBP and VLAN Trunking 802.1Q & ISL, STP, Port Security on Catalyst 6500 switches.

Negotiate VPN tunnels using IPSec encryption standards and also configured and implemented site-to-site VPN, Remote VPN.

Provide Tier 3 technical support for Riverbed Pilot, Shark, Profiler and ARX.

Modified internal infrastructure by adding switches to support server farms and added servers to existing DMZ environments to support new and existing application platforms.

Responsible for Checkpoint and Cisco ASA firewall administration across global networks.

Generating RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for critical issues of layer1/layer2/layer3 problems.

Co-ordinated with the Data Network and Security team and came up with possible solutions.

Work on Physical site Inventory verification, gather information of various Cisco Network devices and Security Devices to develop Run book and Spec Book.

Provided proactive threat defense with ASA that stops attacks before they spread through the network.

Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco catalyst 6509, 7613 with supervisor cards.

Experience working with Cisco IOS-XR on the on the ASR9000 devices for MPLS deployments

Created Monitoring requirements around security (SNMP, syslog) for ASR1k, WLC, AP and NCS Etc.

Experience with implementing and maintaining network monitoring systems (Cisco works and HP Open view) and experience with developing complex network design documentation and presentations using VISIO

Installed and Trouble shoot Cisco call Manager 7.0 and 8.2.

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

Phonologies, INDIA Sep 08 – May 10

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Configured and deploying Cisco catalyst 6506, 4948E, 4510 switches and Cisco 3660, 3845, and

7609 series Routers.

Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500.

Experience in migration of VLANS.

Involved in the troubleshooting aspects of complex network infrastructure using the routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF & BGP.

Implementation of Access Lists for allowing/blocking desired traffic.

Configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the network design.

Responsible for Cisco ASA firewall administration, Rule Analysis, Rule Modification.

Configuration and maintenance of PIX and ASA firewall systems.

Good knowledge in systems integration, software hardware emulation experience.

Worked on change management documentation of Network infrastructure design using Microsoft Visio.

Perform setup of test scenarios, both hardware and software components, and perform troubleshooting.

Experience working in Datacenter environment, configuration changes as per the needs of company.

Manage project task to migrate from Cisco ASA firewalls to Check Point firewalls

Configured and performed troubleshooting on link state protocols like OSPF in single area and multiple areas.

Configure and support Private BGP Peering with transit providers.

Configure iBGP and eBGP peering between L3 routers and core routers

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

Designing, implementing LAN/WAN configurations on Cisco 5K, catalyst 6500 switches.

Installing, configuring Cisco Catalyst switches 6500, 4948, 3750 & 3550 series and configured routing protocol OSPF, EIGRP, BGP with Access Control lists implemented as per Network Design.

Experience in configuring, upgrading and verifying the NX-OS operation system.

Troubleshoot issues with network connectivity and issues related to neighbor relationship and peers

Experience working with Nexus 7010, 5020, 2148, 2248 switches.

Experience configuring Virtual Device Context in Nexus 7k series switch.

Strong knowledge on networking concepts like TCP/IP, Routing and Switching.

Designed, configured, implemented site-site VPN on cisco ASA 5500 firewall.

Implemented, configured redundancy protocols HSRP, VRRP, GLBP for Default Gateway Redundancy.

Worked in projects converting P2P circuits into MPLS circuits, commissioning and decommissioning of the MPLS circuits for branch offices.

Configuring and resolving various OSPF issues in an OSPF multi area environment,

Implemented, configured BGP WAN routing, converting OSPF routes to BGP (OSPF in local 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.

Performing network monitoring, providing analysis using various tools like Wire Shark, Solar winds etc.

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