Manoj

acy15d@r.postjobfree.com

732-***-****

SUMMARY:

Cisco Certified Network Engineer with 8 years of experience in the industry, which includes

Network Engineer, NOC Engineer, Network Administrator, Network Security Engineer.

Strong hands on experience on Cisco switches (2900, 3550, 3750, 6500, MDS 9000, 5000 NX-

OS) series, juniper (EX, QFX, QFabric) series switches, Brocade (ICX, SLX CES), juniper

(T4000, LN, CTP) series routers, Cisco (2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200) series Routers.

Experience in Configuring and implementing Palo Alto Firewalls, checkpoint firewalls, PIX

Firewall (506, 515, 525, 535), cisco ASA (5505,5510,5520) Firewall, Cisco ISE (Identity

Service Engine).

Hands on experience on cisco wireless LAN CONTROLERS and ACCESSES POINTS

Load Balancing using Cisco ACE, Kemp, ADC, F5, Security Device Manager (SDM).

Knowledge on SDN (software defined network).

Deployed Enterprise manager to monitor and manage BigIP F5 devices.

Engineered traffic management solutions, including designing, low level engineering for

F5 LTM, GTM, ASM, APM environment

Performed F5 appliance (LTM, GTM, APM, and ASM) maintenance and system upgrades

including hot fixes and security configurations.

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

to Point, MPLS and Frame Relay

Experience in Configuring and implementing VLAN, VTP domains, LAN switching and

STP/RSTP.

Enterprise Exchange 2007 SP3, Run & Maintain/Configure Exchange environment, 16K+ users, 5

Cluster (10 node CCR ESX VMWare Mail store) 25+ node messaging system, Exchange

PowerShell, Mailbox restoration, User support Outlook 2007/2010 clients, EMC Email Source

One Archiving, ActiveSync, RSA Security, Symantec Email Security, Room Wizard

Administrator. CRM Application integration.

Data Security - Provisioning/De-Provisioning Systems Automation, Access Termination

Processes development. Access Control for Main Frame, Email, Microsoft network,

Banking/Financial Applications.

Perform 24x7 log monitoring - review and analyze system security logs.

Monitored system security to maintain protection and align processes with corporate objectives,

including review of security certification, configuration plans, and risk compliance.

Serve as the primary data point for internal and external auditing processes, including third-

party data for quarterly and annual reports.

Experience in using net scout sniffer analysis for testing the performance of the network.

Configured and maintained net scout ngenius 4200 series packet flow switch as load balancer.

Expertise in the area of Virtualization with vSphere, VMware ESXi 5/4.1/4 and 3.x hosts and

Virtual Center server

Implemented vSphere 5.0 for Proof of Concept & Supporting vCenter environment in large-scale

production environment.

Expertise in implementation and supporting VMware vSphere ESXi environment.

Experience on Wide area application services

Experience in QoS on multicast VPN

Experience in Physical cabling, IP addressing (ipv4 & ipv6), Wide Area Network configurations

(Frame-relay & MPLS), Routing protocol configurations (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP)

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

Extensive hand on experience with complex routed LAN networks, CISCO Routers and

Switches.

Working configuration of new VLANs and extension of existing VLANs on/to the necessary

equipment to have connectivity between two different data centers.

Hands-on configuration and experience in setting up routers and switches to perform functions

at the Access, Distribution, and Core layers.

In-depth expertise in the analysis, implementation, troubleshooting & documentation of

LAN/WAN architecture and good experience on IP services.

Knowledge of implementing and troubleshooting complex layer 2 technologies such as VLAN

Trunks, VTP Ether channel, STP, RSTP and MST.

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).

Configured and managed Nexus 2k fabric extender, 5K and 7K switch network at the clients

location.

Aggregating switch links using LACP and PAGP protocols.

Implementation and Troubleshooting of WAN authentication protocols- PPP, CHAP and PAP.

IP addressing and IP address scalability by configuring NAT/PAT.

Experienced working on network monitoring and analysis tools like, Solar Winds, Cisco Works,

River Bed, Cisco Prime.

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

security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NAT with the firewalls

as per the design.

Design and build Windows 2000, 2003, 2010 2012, Servers.

Active Directory installation, maintenance and upgrades, Responsible for all software

installations on both the servers and workstations. This includes Antivirus software and any

custom applications.

Analyze, monitor, troubleshoot, and investigate security-related anomalies with various tools such

as AlienVault SIEM, Imperva Securesphere Web Application Firewall, Barracuda WAF,

SCCM, etc.

Maintain and upgrade Imperva WAF from version 8.x to 10.x. Maintain and review the events

and make necessary changes including setting up new applications.

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

both Checkpoint and Cisco ASA VPN experience.

Experience with Blue Coat URL filtering with whitelisting and blacklisting URL, creating rules

for content filtering.

Hans on experience with Spirent Test tool .

Experience in Network Intrusion detection/Intrusion Prevention System.

Troubleshooting the Juniper SRX100 and 110 series, Juniper NetScreen with Site-Site VPN.

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

200.

Experience on workig with Netcracker, Cramer

Worked with ticketing tools like ServiceNow, Remedy.

Hands on experiences on McAfee EPO with deploying and removing agent on clients machine,

removing virus and manually updating DAT files.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Routers : Cisco (2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200) series routers

series, juniper (T4000, LN, CTP) series

Routing Protocols : OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, EGP, RIP v1/v2, IS-IS, MPLS, Static Routing,

Redistribution, Summarization.

Switches : Nexus 2K/5K/7K, Cisco Catalyst 2900, 3500, 3700, 6500, 4500,

3850, 3560, 3750, 2960. juniper (EX, QFX, QFabric) series

Brocade(ICX,SLX CES), TP-Link, D-link, HP

Switching Protocols : LAN, VTP, STP, PVST+, RPVST+, Inter VLAN routing & Multi-Layer

Switch, Ether channels, Transparent Bridging.

Firewall : Cisco ASA series, Checkpoint, Juniper (SRX, Csrx, Vsrx) Series,

Fortinet( next generation fire walls), SonicWALL (Nsa Series,

Supermassive 9000 Series), Palo Alto Networks.

Load Balancer : Kemp, ADC, F5 Networks (Big-IP) LTM 8900 and 6400.

LAN : Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet

WAN : PPP, HDLC, Channelized links (T1/T3), Fiber Optic Circuits, Frame

Relay, VOIP

Gateway Redundancy : HSRP, VRRP and GLBP WAN Optimizer, Riverbed Steelhead

Appliance, WAE DHCP and DNS Infoblox

Various Features

& Services : IOS and Features, IRDP, NAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP,

CDP,

TFTP, FTP.

AAA Architecture : TACACS+, RADIUS, Cisco ACS.

Tools : Zenoss, QRADAR, Algosec, RIVERBED(OPNET)Modeler, PUTTY,

Secure crt.

Network Monitoring : Logic Monitoring (LM), LMS, Cisco Secure ACS, Wireshark,

Cisco Prime Infrastructure, SNMP, HRping, solar winds, citrix

Programing Languages : C, C++, Embedded-C.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Holland America Group, Seattle, WA Jun 2015 to Present

Sr. Network Engineer/Admin

Responsibilities:

Designed and support the consolidation of data centers utilizing Cisco 6500, Nexus 2K,

5K, 7K and juniper (EX, QFX) switch infrastructure.

Configure and maintain all Palo Alto Networks Firewall models (PA-2k, PA-3k, PA-5k etc.) as

well as a centralized management system (Panorama) to manage large

scale Firewall deployments.

Hands on experience on all software blades of Check Point Firewall. 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 of assorted network instrumentation.

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

term memory.

Configuring ADC (Application Delivery Controller).

Performed Imperva SecureSphere DAM an WAF Health Checks.

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 Existing Multiprotocol Label shift (MPLS) network

mistreatment Frame Relay and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF).

Provided redundancy in a very multi homed Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network by tunings

AS-path.

Migrate Multi-site backups from Netbackup & Commvault to Networker 8.2 and/or Avamar

7.2 & Data Domain. As a result; faster, source based de-duplicated backups,

Virtual Backup Appliance integrated to Vcenter, while using existing backup hardware

and network.

Backup all applications (Oracle, Sharepoint, SQL, Exchange, Active Directory), Operating

Systems (UNIX, Linux, HPUX, Solaris, Windows), VMware and NAS devices (Isilon, VNX,

NetApp, PureStorage) via Networker module, agent & plugins, to simplify backup, recovery

process and administration

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 best route map configurations in 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, Trucking, 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.

Monitor the network using cisco prime, HRping.

Analyzed and tested network protocols (Ethernet, TCP/IP) mistreatment Wireshark 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, juniper EX, QFX Cisco 6500/7500/7200 Routers, Cisco

3550/4500/6500 switches, Juniper SRX100, Palo Alto Fire Walls, LAN, WAN, OSPF, RIP, BGP,

EIGRP, HSRP, PPP, VPN, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA.

Wayfair, Boston, MA Jan 2014 to May 2015

NOC Engineer

Responsibilities:

Responsible for fitting the infrastructure surroundings with majority of Cisco ISE & Palo

Alto appliances except for varied different instrumentality.

Efficiently exploitation ServiceNow 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.

Analyzed and monitored incident management and incident

resolution issues exploitation Splunk.

Backed up Electronic health record systems via File system backup (EPIC). As a result,

faster backup and restore times.

Used Test Tool Spirent for testing a switch to Verify ONF Open Flow Specification.

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 cisco 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.

Serve as the primary data point for internal and external auditing processes, including third-

party data for quarterly and annual reports.

Experience in using netscout sniffer analysis for testing the performance of the network.

Configured and maintained netscout ngenius 4200 series packet flow switch as load balancer.

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 using cisco prime and solar winds

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 sectionalization & configuring

VLANs/routing/NAT with the firewalls as per the planning

Environment: Nexus 2k/5k/7k, Cisco 6500/7500/7200 Routers, Cisco 3550/4500/6500 switches,

Brocade VPX, ICX series switches, Palo Alto Firewalls, LAN, WAN, OSPF, RIP, BGP, EIGRP,

HSRP, PPP, VPN, Checkpoint, Cisco ISE.

EMC, Santa Ana, CA Nov 2012 to Dec 2013

Network Engineer/Admin

Responsibilities:

Configuration 7609, 7606 with OSPF and juniper (EX, QFX, QFabric) switches with

various VLAN.

Firewall technologies including general configuration, risk analysis, security policy, rules

creation and modification of Check Point R65, R70 & R77, frotinet NGFW series firewalls

and Cisco ASA.

Hands on experience on all software blades of Check Point Firewall.

Design and Build Windows 2000, 2003, 2010 2012, Servers.

Active Directory Installation, Maintenance and Upgrades.

Modernized old backup and recovery technologies using select solutions (Networker,

Avamar, Quantum VTL and Brocade). Backup all operating systems and applications (Linux,

Unix, Windows, exchange)

Responsible for All Software Installations On Both the Servers and Workstations.

This Includes Antivirus Software and Any Custom Applications.

Responsible For Configuring, Maintaining, And Repairing All Servers, Workstations,

Laptops, And Peripherals.

Create and test Cisco router and switching operations using OSPF routing protocol.

Configuration and troubleshooting link state protocols like OSPF in multiple areas.

Configured HSRP and VLAN trucking 802.1Q, VLAN Routing on Catalyst 6500

switches.

Optimized performance of the WAN network consisting of Cisco 3550/4500/6500

switches by configuring VLANs.

Implemented MPLS VPN networks to test various problem reproductions in lab

Configured VLANs with 802.1q tagging. Configured Trunk groups, ether channels, and

Spanning tree for creating Access/distribution and core layer switching architecture.

Configured BPDU Guard, port-fast, uplink fast and other spanning tree features.

Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco 6500, 7500, 7200 Series routers.

Extensively worked on Nexus 5k and 7k configured and troubleshoot.

Managing and supporting large scale MPLS & Frame relay on Cisco environment for

more than 5000 Retail sites, 100 Distribution centers, 100 offices and 3 datacenters.

Troubleshooting issues related to Layer 1/2/3 skills like switching / routing, WAN

/Hardware and critical network links by coordinating with the vendor.

business lines in a data center environment

Design and Implement DMZ for FTP, Web and Mail Servers with CISCO PIX 506,

PIX515

Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) on ASA firewall for the proper network

routing for the B2B network connectivity.

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

the network.

Designed and implemented DMZ for Web servers, Mail servers & FTP Servers using

Cisco ASA5500 Firewalls.

Performed troubleshooting, while maintaining trouble ticket tracking, following

internal/external escalation procedures and customer notifications. Configured Cisco Routers for

OSPF, RIP, IGRP RIPv2, EIGRP, Static and default route.

Configured the Cisco router as IP Firewall and for NATting.

Having Data Center Design Experience, installing and Configuring Network Devices in a

Data Center including patching the cables in the Patch Panel. Design and implemented network

Implement changes on switches, routers, load balancers (F5 and CSS), wireless devices

per engineers instructions and troubleshooting any related issues.

Involved in Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing

VLANSs, Port security, Trunking, STP, Inter-VLAN routing, LAN security etc.

Deploying Layer 2 security in Server Farms by configuring switch for 802.1x port based

authentication.

Involved in the configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF,

LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4. Configured IP access filter policies.

Environment: juniper (EX, QFX, QFabric)Switches, Fortinet, CheckPoint, PaloAlto Firewalls

Cisco 6500/7500/7200 Routers, Nexus, 5K,7K, LTM, GTM, F5 Load Balancer, ASA, OSPF,

BGP, EIGRP, RIP, LAN, WAN, SSL/VPN.

AXIS BANK, Hyderabad Feb 2010 Oct 2012

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.

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

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.

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 VLANs, VTP, STP, Trucking, Ether channels.

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

Installing, configuring Cisco 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600 series routers 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.

Environment:, CheckPoint, CISCO ASA,Cisco 6500/7500/7200 Routers, Nexus, 5K,7K, LTM,

GTM, CISCO ASA, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, RIP, LAN, WAN, SSL/VPN.

Shell Networks & Solutions Ltd., India Jul 2008 to Jan 2010

Network L1 Engineer

Responsibilities:

Worked in Network building and Network infrastructure management team.

Worked with upgradation, replacement of NICs, display cards, RAM, peripheral devices.

Handled installation, configuration and troubleshooting of operating systems NT/2000,

XP, and Solaris.

Experience with Remedy ticketing system in resolving tickets related to routing and

Switching

Configured and installed Cisco routers 2500, 2600, 3601 and 4000 series.

Remotely testing links up to 1.5 Mbps using tools like REACTS.

Recovered lost passwords and created standard access-lists and extended access list for

new users.

Monitoring network performance to improve the backup strategy using Netrep, Solar

winds.

Environment: Cisco 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600 series routers, Solar Winds, Netrep.

Education: Holds Bachelors degree from INDIA

Certifications:

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

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