NOORIROUF S

SR. NETWORK ENGINEER

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SUMMARY:

* ***** ** ************ ********** in Network Planning, Implementing, Configuring, Troubleshooting and Testing of networking system on both Cisco and Juniper Networks

Experience with the escalation problems for Routing, Switching and WAN connectivity issues using ticketing system remedy

Experience of routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, and BGP

Worked on Cisco 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 1800 series Routers and Cisco 2900, 3500, 4500, 5500, series switches

Hands-on configuration and experience in setting up Cisco routers to perform functions at the Access, Distribution, and Core layers

Experience with BIG-IP F5 load balancers, version 9.x, 10.x, 11.x, CitixNetscalers and Web Accelerators.

Configure 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.

Experienced in trouble-shooting both connectivity issues and hardware problems on Cisco-based networks

Wrote server scripts using Perl to work with IPv6 instead of IPv4.

Experienced with VSS, VPC, Nexus7000

Good understanding of NAT & Firewall on Aruba Controllers.

Very good experience in Installation, configuration and maintenance of SQL Server.

Experience with 802.11x wireless technology and design for over a total of 100 million square feet.

Along with other Network Engineers participated in the management and configuration of Cisco ASA, Juniper and Palo Alto Firewalls, ACL’s, and Packet Shaping devices and rules.

Worked on various network projects involving Cisco Routers- ASR 1000/9000, Switches-Nexus 7K/5K/2K.

Hands-on experience in using network monitoring tool Solarwinds Orion.

Strong knowledge on cisco ISE and Cisco RSA.

Excellent leadership and great team player with good written and oral communication.

Build UCS manager policy-based provisioning, automation and management to high-density, high-performance computing.

Worked extensively on Juniper MX Series Routers and EX series Switches

Strong knowledge in HSRP, VRRP redundancy Protocols.

Strong experience on Juniper SSG series Firewalls and Checkpoint R75, 76 Firewalls

Experience in Network Management Tools and sniffers like SNMP, HP-Open view, Wireshark, SevOneNetscout, and Cisco works to support 24 x 7 Network Operation Center.

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

Access control server configuration for RADIUS & TACAS+.

Good knowledge on Bluecoat proxy server SG• Knowledge of advanced technologies like VOIP, H.323, SIP, QOS, Multicasting, MPLS and MPLS-VPN

Experience with Juniper SRX 240 Firewalls

Ability to Install, Manage & Troubleshoot Large Networks & Systems Administration on Windows & Linux platforms in Development, Lab & Production Environments.

Hands-on Experience with CISCO Nexus 9000, Nexus 7000, Nexus 5000, and Nexus 2000 platforms.

Adept in requirements analysis, network design, installation, configuration, maintenance and administration.

Tested and worked with software designers to establish a user-friendly environment.

Review all changes to network configuration for technical accuracy and impact and provide Multi- Protocol Network problem resolutions.

CERTIFICATIONS

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).

Technical 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, 6807 series),

Juniper Platforms

SRX, MX, EX Series Routers and Switches

Networking Concepts

Access-lists, Routing, Switching, Subnetting, Designing, CSU/DSU, IPSec, VLAN, VPN, WEP, WAP, MPLS, VoIP, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi

Firewall

ASA Firewall (5505/5510), Checkpoint, Cisco ASA

Network Tools

Solar Winds, SNMP, Cisco Works, Wireshark

Load Balancers

Cisco CSM, 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, IPv4 and IPv6

Operating System

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

Professional Experience:

US Foods, Rosemont, IL Aug 2015 – Present

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Configuring Static, IGRP, EIGRP, and OSPF Routing Protocols on Cisco 1600, 2600, 2800, 3600, 7300 series Routers and different Firewall Vendors

Configured Site to Site IPsec VPN tunnels to peer with different clients and each of client having different specifications of Phase 1 and Phase 2 policies using Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls.

Configured Easy VPN server and SSL VPN to facilitate various employees’ access internal servers and resources with access restrictions

Responsible for entire company network infrastructure that includes Cisco Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Access Points, Servers and PBX.

Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco 2500, 2600, 3000, 6500, 7500, 7200 Series routers and Cisco ASR 9K routers

Hands on experience in implementation and deploying BIG-IP F5 LTM load balancers for load balancing and network traffic management for business applications.

Configured VLAN’s, Private VLAN’s.

Subject Matter Expert for juniper Routing, Switching, Security, and VPN Systems

Configuring and troubleshooting on Bluecoat Proxy, Pulse VPN Devices, Firewalls, Mcafee Email Email Gateways, Bluecoat Reporter and Director.

Configure various LAN switches such as CISCO CAT 2900, 3550, 4500, 6509 switches and Access layer switches such as Cisco 4510, 4948, 4507 switches for VLAN, Fast Ether Channel configuration.

Designed and Implemented Firewalls, F5Viprion deployments to Front end and DMZ customers

Measure the application performances across the MPLS cloud through various routing and switching methods.

Hand on experience the configuration and implementation of various Cisco Routers and L2 Switches.

Configured and deployed VDC and VPC between Nexus 7018 and Nexus 5548 switches along with FEX 2248. Deployed Horizontal connectivity using OTV. Have a good understanding of Fabric Path.

Deploying and decommissioning the VLANs on core ASR 9K, Nexus 7K, 5K and its downstream devices.

Experience in migration of VLANS & Configured VLANs with 802.1q tagging, Ether channels, and Spanning tree for creating Access/distribution and core layer switching.

Installed and configured DNS, DHCP. Responsible for creating and configuring FORWARD LOOKUP ZONE AND REVERSE LOOKUP ZONE.

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

Redistributed required routes from OSPF into BGP. OSPF cloud is present in the US and is connected to all our customers over Sprint’s Frame Relay backbone

Managed Plan of Record with PLMs/SE/Sales/Marketing and followed up and monitor product lines of Juniper routing/switching/security portfolio (MX, PTX, EX, SRX)

Proficient with F5 LTM and Cisco CSM load balancer in-between the servers inside the server farm and DMZ.

Configured EBGP load balancing and ensured stability of BGP peering interfaces

Implemented site to site VPN in Juniper SRX as per customer Worked on Route-Reflectors to troubleshoot BGP issues related to customer route prefixes also route filtering using Route-maps.

Designed and implemented DMZ for Web servers, Mail servers & FTP Servers using Cisco ASA5500 Firewalls through CSM.

Managing and configuring 4 juniper & Pulse SSL VPN appliances (SA-4500 & 4000) for TSNA and ATS customers

Deployed BIG-IP Enterprise manager to cluster all the F5 LTM, GTM, ASA, Netscreen devices for easier management and common configurations.

Involved in migration of F5 Local traffic managers of LTM 5100 series to LTM 6800 series for higher.

Extensive use of NSM (Network and Security Manager) and CSM (Cisco Security Manager) for adding or modifying firewall policies for the firewalls in use.

Worked on migration of existing PIX firewall to ASA firewall, PIX OS upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0.

Implemented F5 hardware refresh of older 3600 hardware to Viprion.

Design and Implement DMZ for FTP, Web and Mail Servers with CISCO PIX 506, PIX515

Worked extensively on Cisco ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series, experience with convert PIX rules over to the Cisco ASA solution.

Mapped, Network Diagrams and physical identification in MS Visio.

Preformed IOS upgrades on cisco routers and switches

Worked with engineering team to resolve tickets and troubleshoot L3/L2 problems efficiently.

Configured Cisco 2800, 3800 routers and 3750, 4500, 6500 switches as part of the implementation plan.

Environment: Cisco 2348/3560/4500/3750/3550/2960/6500 switches and Cisco 3640/1200/7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, Cisco ASA 500, Checkpoint, windows server 2003/2008: F5 BIGIP LTM, RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, LAN, WAN, VPN, HSRP.

Avaya, Denver, CO Oct 2013 – Jul 2015

Sr Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Experience with configuring Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) which acts as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 5000

Involved in upgrading switches from 6500 E to 4500-X

Implementation of BGP to optimize WAN routing on the core and edge routers.

Involved in upgrades to the WAN network from existing 7200vxr with ASR1004 and 3845/3945 routers.

Networking Experience- Cisco IOS, racking and cabling of servers, experienced with TCP/IP, Ethernet (802.3), Wireless […] networking motoring, firewall implementation

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

Recommend and design equipment configurations for LAN/WAN/VOIP deployment on Cisco, Adtran, Fortinet, F5, Radware and Bluecoat.

Tools which we use in the project are DC, IDS, IPS, ASDM, CSM and traffic generator tools like BPS, IXIA, pagent.

Provides direct support for all hardware moves, add and changes for the VoIP devices and troubleshot with customers on site and remote.

Experience in Layer 3 routing - Cisco Routers: 2500, 2600, 3600, 3800, 3900, 7200 series, ASR 9000, 9001, 9006 series

In-depth knowledge of Cisco ASA and Juniper Netscreen Firewall security, spanning-tree, VLANs, TCP/IP, RIP, OSPF, QOS, VRRP and VPN technologies.

Worked on F5 BIG-IP LTM 8900, configured profiles, provided and ensured high availability.

Configuration and maintenance of routers, firewalls, and load-balancers. Included configuration of Juniper ISG 2000, Juniper EX4200, F5 BIG-IP 3600, and Cisco 6500. Includes protocols such as MPLS, BGP, OSPF, and VRRP.

Developed and implemented core network consolidation plan. Included redundant configuration of Juniper EX8200.

Racking, Stacking, configuring, Nexus 5K, 7K and 9K, Static pinning fabric interface connection, Port Channel fabric interface connection, configuring a Fabric Port Channel Created Build-Outs of New Safe Zone in Palo Alto Panorama VLANS, VIP, IP, VRF, BGP.

Created labs for F5 APM, ASM, and LTM implementations of Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL, Microsoft IIS services, LAMP servers,

Created VSYS Builds from Checkpoint to Palo Alto Panorama Database Zone, Access Zone.

Migrated over 50+ 3845 infrastructure to a 3945-series router. The new platform positioned corporate- wide move to IPv6 to support depletion of IPv4.

Configuration and troubleshooting on HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, RSTP, MST-related issues coming in network environment

Put together Cisco BoM in preparation for IP Telephony migrations.

Involved in the redesign of the routing architecture while replacing the 6500’s edge routers with ASR 9K routers in the data centers.

Aruba Clear Pass Policy Manager configuration and installation for VMWare appliance and hardware appliance

Handling Checkpoint and Checkpoint firewalls appliances, Checkpoint Provider-1/Multi-Domain-Mgmt. platform, Check point Smart Console R70.20 & R75.40, R77.10, R77.20.

Designs and implement the security appliance ASA and Sonicwall for the Site to Site; anyconnect, SSL and Remote access VPN of many clients.

Upgraded Roger Management Network security appliances with Cisco Firewall ASA 5580, IDS, network management tools Cisco works (VMS, LMS, CSM), IDS/IPS.

Implemented best practices in structuring SQL queries, Debugging Unexpected SQL Results etc.

Design, and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls

Configuration and extension of VLAN from one network segment to their segment between Different vendor switches (Cisco, Juniper)

Implement and Troubleshooting issues including but not limited to 2600-7600 Series Routers, ISR and ASR routers (1Ks, 9Ks), & 2900-6500 Series Switches, Cisco Nexus 5000&7000 Series Switches and Nexus fabric extenders FEX2000s, Cisco UCS technologies, Cisco VSS/VPC, fabric path, OTV, VPLS technologies, WLAN controllers

WAN optimization viaOpnet and Riverbed Technologies.

Worked on CSR in answering phones, scheduling, and working with estimators in the office.

Substantial lab testing & validation prior to implementation of Nexus 9K, 7K, 5K & 2K connecting to blade servers.

Tested & evaluated various wireless products and software in a lab environment to comply with company and/or customer requirements.

Convert Campus WAN links from point to point to MPLS and to convert encryption from IPSec/GRE to get VPN.

Environment: Juniper routers and switches, Cisco routers 7200; Cisco Catalyst switches 6500, 4500, 2950; Big-IP F5 Load Balancer, Cisco Works; MS Visio, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA and Palo Alto firewalls, Blue Coat Proxy, Cisco PIX Firewalls 535, 525 Routing Protocols OSPF, BGP, STP, VTP, VLAN, VPN, MPLS, HSRP, GLBP.

Fannie Mae, Washington, DC Mar 2012 – Sep 2013

Sr Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Coordinating with JTAC for faulty part replacement and configuring standby device to support customer with minimal downtime.

Installation & Maintenance of Juniper switches routers & firewalls.

Implementing and maintaining WAN/LAN and WLAN networks in different diagrams

Implemented various EX, SRX & J series Juniper devices.

Involved in troubleshooting L3VPN issues and updating Junos images, UTM Anti-virus and IDP.

Monitor performance of network appliances and WAN utilizing using network analyzer like Wireshark.

Study of migration of the old WAF infrastructure from DenyAll to F5 BIG-IP ASM technologies.

Responsible for providing support for IT infrastructure in the laboratory. Surveillance activities for physical and virtual switches. OpenFlow, 802.1x and MAC authentication test.

Deployed BIG-IP Enterprise manager to cluster all the F5 LTM, GTM, ASA, Netscreen devices for easier management and common configurations.

Involved in migration of F5 Local traffic managers of LTM 5100 series to LTM 6800 series for higher.

BigIP ASM Positive and Negative Policy Reinforcement, iRule, Full proxy for HTTP, Server Performance Anomaly Detection.

Help in building Cisco UCS servers to simplify data center architecture; reduce the number of devices to purchase, deploy, and maintain; and improve speed and agility.

Security systems and appliances Cisco ASA 5520, Fortinet, Bluecoat, Packet Shaper 7500).

Configuring and managing FC zones on Cisco 9K/7K/5K.

Created and resolved Palo Alto and Checkpoint Firewalls Rules, Routing, Pushed Policy.

Configuration of Fabric path and connectivity between Nexus 7K and Nexus 5K.

And compared the results of parameters like delay load of both TCP and UDP on OPNET IT GURU Technologies: C++, GNS3, OPNET IT GURU and Photoshop.

Researches software and hardware issues related to the company's IP Telephony infrastructure

Designed, installed, configured and deployed enterprise-wide Cisco IP Telephony platform.

Migration of corporate networks from IPv4 to IPv6.

Experience in CSM& Waterfall Methodologies

Expert in designing reports using SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and Excel Power Pivot table based on OLAP cubes

Drove development of new API's related to F5 product trials that focused on verifying and capturing.

Performed interconnection of customer sites using IPSec VPN.

Perform Packet shaper Bluecoat 75000 OS upgrade, maintenance and configurations

Shipping Aruba bundle to work at home users

Cisco ASA and PIX: NAT, Failover, Remote VPN, ACLs.

VSS, VPC, VRF, VDC, SNMP, Netflow, NAT, ACL.

RTMT experience with VoIP and VoSIP (monitoring clusters).

Implemented site to site VPN in Juniper SRX as per customer.

Provides direct support for all hardware moves, adds, and changes for the VoIP devices.

Configure Aruba routers for work at home Humana employees.

Responsible for providing Certification and Accreditation support for Cisco VoIP systems and helping with Voice Engineering efforts.

Supporting core layer, distribution layer and access layer issues.

Installed high availability Big IP F5 LTM and GTM load balancers to provide uninterrupted service to customers.

Coordinate with Project Managers, sales and call center (customer service) to deliver best quality of service to the customer.

Configuring RIP, OSPF and Static routing on Juniper M and MX series Routers

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

Maintain connectivity for approximately 300 switches and routers in a 500+ node network.

Troubleshooting any and all network problems involving LAN, WAN, BGP, EIGRP, MPLS/VPN, VRF – VPN Routing and Forwarding Instance, SIP Trunking, Internet ISP, Multi-homed - BGP with Level-3 Datacenters.

WLAN integration of all hotspot access points with wired central LAN infrastructure by using bridged backhaul point to point, point to multi-point and mesh type wireless network topology

Implemented cluster and configuration of SRX-100 & SRX-110 Juniper firewall.

Installed Trapeze-MX 2800 wireless controller and light weight access points.

Working with MPLS Designs from the PE to CE.

Involved in design and implementation of Data Center Migration, worked on implementation strategies for the expansion of the MPLS VPN networks.

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

Implemented Virtual chassis of EXseries Juniper switches as per client requirement.

Environment: Juniper SRX5400, SRX5600, and SRX5800 and Palo Alto PA-3060 & 5050 Firewalls, Bluecoat Proxies, Juniper IPD, Juniper NSM, Panorama, F5 LTM, GTM 6600, 6800, Nexus (2K, 5K, 7K and 9K), Splunk, Cisco ISE, Websense, Solar Winds NPM

HCL Technologies, India Dec 2010 – Feb 2012

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Actively participated and completed many projects based on MPLS VPN, Internet Solutions for corporate customers Backbone.

Actively participated Implementation and customization of customer network.

Hands on experience working on Cisco 7600, 12K, ASR routers & Juniper MX series and Juniper BRAS.

Currently working on a wireless upgrade project for Allegheny Health network and their EPIC roll out.

Designing, Provisioning and Installation of the Customer Sites in Oracle IPSA for MPLS Backbone.

Verifying IPv4/IPv6 Addressing Architecture.

Verifying Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for IPv6 (DHCPv6) and DNSv6 options.

Performed wireless network design, site surveys, as well as Troubleshooting and repairing any issues that occurred on site.

Managing proxy server for branches and head office for internet access through Bluecoat Proxy SG600 for URL Filtering, traffic acceleration and visibility reporting with Bluecoat reporter.

Configuration and troubleshooting of many link types i.e. SONET Controllers for sub E1/T1, E3/T3 and POS controllers for STM1 links.

Provided tier 3 support for Checkpoint Firewall-1 software to support customers.

Work on Checkpoint Platform including Provider Smart Domain Manager. Worked on configuring, managing and supporting Checkpoint Gateways.

DNS Zone administration for 13 countries across EU for COLT customers.

Implementation and testing of ISDN BRI/PRI circuits.

Migrated VLANs from ASA (perimeter firewalls) to FWSM’s for better security management

Responsible for troubleshooting the connectivity between CPE router and the COLT's edge router (SAR).

Worked closely with RIR (Regional Internet Registry) to procure PI (Provider Independent) and PA

Responsible for troubleshooting complex networking issues in service provider MPLS & the internet

Aggregately) IP addresses and AS numbers for COLT and customers.

Set up DNS Reverse Delegation according to RIPE rules in RIPE Database.

Environment: Cisco Catalyst 2960/3750/4500/6500 Series Switches, Linux, Cisco 2800/2900/3000 Series ISR's and Cisco 3640/12000 /7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, SQL, Cisco ASA 5500, Juniper Ex switches, Active Directory, Juniper ACX series routers, Windows Server 2003/2008, ACL, SIP, RIP, OSPF, MPLS, BGP, EIGRP, Wi-Fi, LAN, MacAfee, WAN, WAP, IDS, IPS, Aruba WLAN, VPN, HSRP.

Mindtree, Bangalore, India Apr 2009 – Nov 2010

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

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

Performed troubleshooting, while maintaining trouble ticket tracking, following internal/external escalation procedures and customer notifications.

Supporting Development team for the access to corporate network and outside world. Providing access to specific IP, Port filter and port access.

Configured the Cisco router as IP Firewall and for NATing.Switching (Ethernet) related tasks included implementing VLANS and configuring ISL trunk on Fast-Ethernet channel between switches.

Installing new equipment to RADIUS and worked with MPLS-VPN and TACACS configurations.

Installing and maintaining local as well as network printers.

Validating existing infrastructure and suggesting new network designs.

Working on creating new load balancing policies by employing BGP attributes including Local Preference, AS-Path, and Community, MED.

Providing technical support to LAN & WAN systems.

Configuring all the required devices and equipment for remote vendors at various sites and plants.

Installation and maintenance of new network connections for the customers.

Installing and maintaining Windows NT Workstations and Windows NT Server.

Monitor performance of network and servers to identify potential problems and bottleneck.

Real-time monitoring and network management using Cisco Works LMS.

Monitoring Memory/CPU on various low-end routers in a network.

Configuring routers and send it to Technical Consultants for new site activations and gives online support at the time of activation.

Provided technical support on hardware and software related issues to remote production sites.

Performed administrative support for RIP, OSPF routing protocol.

Maintained redundancy on Cisco 2600, 2800 and 3600 router with HSRP.

Environment: Cisco Catalyst 2960/3750/4500/6500 Series Switches, Linux, Cisco 2800/2900/3000 Series ISR's and Cisco 3640/12000 /7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, SQL, Cisco ASA 5500, Active Directory, Juniper ACX series routers, Windows Server 2003/2008, ACL, SIP, RIP, OSPF, MPLS, BGP, EIGRP, Wi-Fi, LAN, MacAfee, WAN, WAP, IDS, IPS, Aruba WLAN, VPN, HSRP.

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