Amar R

Senior Network Engineer

Email: aczpr6@r.postjobfree.com

Phone No: 732-***-****

SUMMARY:

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

includes expertise in the areas of Routing, Switching and Firewall.

Strong hands on experience on Cisco Catalyst (1900, 2900, 3550, 3750, 6500) series switches,

VSS technology, Cisco (2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200) series Routers, PIX Firewall (506, 515,

525, 535)/ ASA (5505/5510), Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco ISE (Identity Service Engine), Load

Balancers using Cisco ACE, F5, Security Device Manager (SDM), Cisco Works, HP Open View,

Solar Winds, Sniffer.

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

Experience on Wide area application services

Experience in QoS on multicast VPN

Experience in Cisco: Physical cabling, IP addressing, 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 Cisco routers 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 and Wireshark.

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.

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.

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.

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

Site VPN, and firewalls

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.

Monitoring and troubleshooting Kemp Load Balancer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Routers : Cisco 7600, 7200, 3800, 3600, 2900, 2800, 2600, 1800, 1700.

Routing Protocols : OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, RIP v1/v2, MPLS, Static Routing Redistribution,

And Summarization.

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

4500, 3850, 3560, 3750, 2960.

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

Switch, Ether channels, Transparent Bridging.

Firewalls : Cisco ASA 5540, ACL, IPSEC, Checkpoint, Juniper

SSG Series, Net screen Series ISG 1000, SRX Series, Cisco ISE,

Palo Alto.

Load Balancer : Kemp, F5 Load Balancer, 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.

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

Cisco Prime Infrastructure, SNMP, HRPing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

DTE Energy, Detroit, MI Mar 2015 Till

Date

Sr. 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 Data Centre environment, configuration changes as per the needs of company.

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

Provided redundancy to the network, implemented hot standby routing protocol (HSRP) and Load

sharing for effective utilization of routers.

Implementation and configuration of F5 Big-IP LTM-6400 load balancers.

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

areas.

Redesigned Internet connectivity infrastructure for meeting bandwidth requirements.

Configuring, implementing, and troubleshooting VLANs, VTP, STP, Trunking, Ether channels.

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

Installing, configuring Cisco Catalyst switches 6500, 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.

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).

Expertise in maintenance of layer2 switching tasks which advocate VLAN, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVST,

RPVST, configuring of ether channel with LACP and PAGP along with troubleshooting of inter-VLAN

routing.

Packet capturing, troubleshooting on network problems with Wireshark, identifying and fixing problems.

Implementing, configuring, and troubleshooting various routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF and BGP.

Performing network monitoring, providing analysis using various tools like WireShark, Solarwinds etc.

POC, tested, and implemented worlds first Next-Gen SPC architecture for Juniper SRX in Service

Provider architecture.

Chassis based Juniper SRX, EX, M, and MX series products.

Played a pivotal role in Juniper M120i Installation and configuration Idea backbone MPLS network.

Environment: Cisco 6506/4948/4510 switches, Cisco 3660/3845/7609 Routers, VLAN, Checkpoint, F5

Load Balancers, OSPF, RIP, RIRP, BGP, MPLS, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, ASA 5500, Juniper SRX 5800.

Key Bank, Cleveland, OH Aug 2014 Mar 2015

Network Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

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).

Configured and deployed BIG-IP LTM 6900 for providing application redundancy and load

balancing.

Worked on F5 load balancers deploying many load balancing techniques with multiple components

for efficient performance.

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.

Dover Corp, Chicago, IL Nov 2012 July 2014

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Responsible for network design, bandwidth allocation, IP address allocation, supervising

installation, configuration, and maintenance on major network technologies.

Installed and configured Cisco 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800 routers and 2950, 3700, 6500 switches.

Worked with various internal organizations during pre/post deployment phase of different

type of circuits.

Documented the companys design, implementation and troubleshooting procedures.

Monitored the Network performance based on companys Service Level Agreement (SLA).

Configured VLANs with 802.1Q tagging according to the Server teams requirements.

Providing Tier II support in the provisioning, end-to-end test and turn-ups and maintenance

of the major accounts. Optimizing Network by continuously and extensively working with customer to

upgrade and optimize network and Circuit Move Add Changes including detailed design

documentation.

Performed Layer I, II and III troubleshooting, while maintaining trouble ticket tracking,

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

for BGP, OSPF, RIP, RIPv2, EIGRP, Static and default route in a VPN environment using MPLS.

Implemented and troubleshooted the MPLS network.

Operations involving duties on HP Open view, Cisco Works, Cisco Routers, and Cisco

switches such as change in configurations, move, add change of software and hardware system.

Implemented changes and upgrades to network equipment and perform quality assurance

reviews of those upgrades. Reviewed all changes to network configuration for technical accuracy and

impact.

Provided Network Support in the designing and implementation of Point to Point over T1s

Frame Relay, DSL over ATM and IP over Frame Relay and Gigabit Ethernet.

Schedule conference bridges for escalated issues, used troubleshoot ticketing system such as

BMC remedy and on - call support for severity one network outages.

Documentation of network resources, systems, peripherals, procedures, and policies for

optimization of IT resources and security.

Implementation and configuration of F5 Big-IP LTM-6400 load balancers.

Managed the F5 BigIP GTM/LTM appliances to include writing iRules, SSL offload and

everyday task of creating WIP and VIPs.

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.

Environment: Cisco 2600/2800/3600/3800 Routers, Cisco 2950/3700/6500/7613 switches, ASA

Firewall, RIPv2, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, LAN, WAN, MPLS, F5 Load Balancers, VLAN, Trunking, PPP.

Nihar Solutions, Hyderabad, India Oct 2010 Nov 2012

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

Supported core network consisting of Cisco routers running multi area OSPF. Implemented

stub/Totally stub areas as per requirements.

Deployed Cisco ACS using TACACS+ for Authentication, Authorization and Accounting of

access to network devices.

Installation, configuration, and testing cisco equipments, IOS updates, and configuration

changing, troubleshooting various LAN/WAN technologies issues for internal and external clients,

monitoring network performance, defining network policies and procedures.

Resolve customer WAN/LAN/wireless/load balancing networking issues.

Installed and configured Solarwinds server.

Configuring IPsec VPN Site-site, GRE Tunneling and SDM along with troubleshooting.

Firewall and router configuration changes as per the business requirement.

Provide technical assistance and support for incoming queries and issues related to Networks,

computers systems, softwares, and equipments hardware.

Evaluating network performance, including availability, utilization, throughput, and latency

Optimized OSPF and EIGRP network reducing network multicast traffic.

Greatly enhanced network manageability using SNMP, NTP, SSH and Solar Winds.

Performed configuration and management of network and circuits. Documented and updated

network physical and logical layout.

Extensive day to day work with Spanning Tree Protocol and multiple VLANs.

ST Solutions, Hyderabad, India Sep 2008 Nov

2010

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Provided support for global network including T1/T3, ATM connections using HDLC and

Frame Relay on 2600, 4000 series Routers. Cisco CLI, Cisco works, Network Security, Network

Analysis Tools.

Responsible for SNMP Monitoring and Performance Tuning software.

Designed WAN structure to prevent single point of failure in case of link failure.

Experience in Maintenance and Troubleshooting of connectivity problems using PING,

Traceroute.

Planning and Implementation of Subnetting, VLSM to conserve IP addresses.

Experience in configuring STP for loop prevention and VTP for Inter-VLAN Routing.

Performing the Configuration and troubleshooting of EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP.

Dealt with the configuration of Standard and Extended ACLs for Security.

Been involved in providing technical assistance for LAN/WAN management and complex

customer issues.

Provided support for troubleshooting and resolving Customer reported issues.

Performed IOS upgrades on Catalyst 3550, 2950, 1900 switches, and 3600, 2600 and 2500

routers.

Implemented and configured routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF, BGP.

Experience in Troubleshooting the issues related to routing protocols.

Managing, troubleshooting and monitoring the network using Network Monitoring tool.

Implementing Network Security with Cisco IOS Feature Set, NAT, and Simple Network

Management Protocol.

Involved in installing and configuring PIX 515E firewall.

Dealt with DNS, DHCP trouble shooting and other IP conflict problems.

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

CERTIFICATIONS:

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

EDUCATION:

Bachelors of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering.

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