Srothavya V

Email:adfk4p@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile:408-***-****

OBJECTIVE:

A challenging engineering position with emphasis on Communication Networks.

EDUCATION:

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering,

International Technological University, CA, Aug 2011 GPA: 4.0/4.0

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Communication Engineering,

TKR, JNTU, A.P., India, May 2009. GPA: 3.6/4.0

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

The Disney Marvel Studios, CA 10 September 2018- Present

Role: Staff Network Engineer.

Responsibilities

Worked in the projects of designing/implementation of the Marvel’s new datacenter build and Marvel’s Campus LAN/WAN network refresh as a part of network engineering team using Juniper/F5/Infoblox/Palo Alto/Cisco/Arista/Pulse Secure/Aruba’s network gear using the technologies EVPN-VXLAN Underlay-Overlay/BGP/L3-VPN/VPLS/Vtep/MLAG and Amazon/Azure’s cloud technologies and monitoring using Plixer, AKIPS, Infoblox, Extrahop tools.

Built a datacenter in AWS cloud using VPC Peering, Direct connect, Amazon route 53, EC2/RDS instances, auto scaling, cloud formation, VPC flow logs, NAT instances, IAM, ELB/ALB VPN tunnels.

Pursuing professional growth by attending trainings and training the network operations teams to perform their day-to-day tasks.

Working in the data center running fiber and copper cables.

Documenting the network standards and procedures using playbooks in Confluence.

Managing the implementation of technology or business process integration plans for integrating FOX’s network with Disney’s/Marvel’s network.

Worked on creating VLANS, provisioning ports using automation tools like CA Spectrun manager created via the Ansible, phython scripting. Automated networks using python libraries like Paramiko, Netmiko, Telnetlib, NAPALM, pyntc, easysnmp.

Managing/Leading the network operations team by allocating resources to various Marvel’s movies/episodic shows in building the network around the globe to achieve the organization's vision, goals and objectives using the project management tools like Google drive, google docs and sheets, Smartsheets, Solarwinds, Atlassian’s Confluence, JIRA Service now tools.

Prepared the network operational documents for network topology, disaster recovery, root cause analysis for outages, password repository with processes, tools, and best practices using the tools like Graffle, Visio.

Initiating the meetings with stakeholders from various Marvel’s movies/shows production teams via Gotomeetings/

Zoom/Webex/Bluejeans/Outlook/Gmail to understand the network business requirements and translate the expectations

to the rest of the team.

Negotiating the contracts/quotes with ISP vendors on the ISP installations and with network vendors on the network equipment procurements. Using Rancid package for network configuration backups.

Environment: Firewalls: PaloAlto-PA 7080,5250,3020, 4060; Cisco ASA-5555 Routers:Juniper MX 104,240, 480; Switches: Juniper EX2200,2300, 4300, 4200/QFX-5110, 5200,10002, 10008/SRX 345; Arista-7160,7050,7124,7280; Cisco-2960, 3850, 3560, 3750; Ixia- E10; Cloud:Amazon,AzureWireless Controllers: Cisco AIR-CT5520-K9, Aruba virtual controllers: Wireless access points: Cisco AIR-AP3802I-B-K9, AIR-CAP3702I-B-K9,AIR-AP3802E-A-K9, AIR-CAP3702-A-K9, AIR-CAP3702E-A-K9, AIR-CAP3802E-B-K9 and Aruba 315; MUX:Infenera CX-500: VPN:Pulse secure PSA-7000f.

The Rally Health, CA . 02 July 2018- 07Sep 2018

Role: Senior Network Engineer.

Responsibilities:

Owning multi-vendor wired and wireless LANs and WANs spanning multiple offices and virtual data centers in AWS, including VPNs between various data centers.

Maintain the Cisco’s Meraki switches and access points via Cisco Meraki cloud.

Maintain and optimize physical networking infrastructure using Cisco ASR 1000 routers, Cisco Meraki switches, Palo Alto

And SonicWall firewalls, Cisco Meraki wireless access points.

Design and implement the network using Amazon’sAWS cloud solution.

Work with the ISP providers to get a new ISP links installed.

Proficient in using the Hipchatmessenger and Lucidchatfor creating topology diagrams.

Working with JIRA ticketing tool and Crashplan to backup the data on the laptops/desktops.

Develop partnerships with IT, Security, Engineering, and Operations teams to implement new infrastructure technologies to support the ongoing growth of Rally geographical footprint.

Exchanging the passwords using LastPass, making DNS changes using dnsmadeeasy, monitoring the network using PagerDuty, Site24/7.

Conducting team meeting using Google hangouts,Blue jeans, Webex, Gotomeeting, Zoom with team members in various

geographical locations for team building.

Environment: Firewalls: Palo Alto-PA 3020,5050,850and SonicWall-NSA 3600;Routers:Cisco ASR 1000; Switches:Cisco MerakiMS350-48LP,MS220-48LP&24LP&24P,MS22P,MS320-24P&48FP, MS 120-24P, MS410-16; Cloud::Amazon, Cisco Meraki;

Wireless access points: Cisco Meraki :MR42,MR33, MR34, MR18, MR53.

The New York Times, New York, NY . 14 Nov 2016-17 Jan 2018

Role: Network Engineer.

Responsibilities:

Built the new office in NY using Juniper switches EX 4300,EX 4500 and Juniper routers MX240,Aruba wireless controllers,Fortinet firewalls,Citrix Netscaler loadbalancers.

Designed and implemented an IP addressing scheme with subnets for the new office in NY by implementing Subnetting/VLSM.

Built tunnels between various NYT sites using the Amazon,Google,Azure cloud technologies along with building various instances in the cloud inorder to migrate the network infrastructure to cloud technology.

Managed/lead the team and migrated/integrated the existing datacenter networks to cloud by building data centers and IPsec tunnels between them using the Amazon’s VPC, EC2, RDS AWS products, Google and Microsoft Azure cloud.

Added network ACL rules on Amazon VPC and configured VPC peering.

Configured/managed and added rules on Fortinet FG/FWF 60D,60C,90D,100D,500D ;FG 200D firewalls using CLI and via Fortimanager

VM64 and Juniper 650,3600 firewallsalong with upgrading the downgrading the code.

Built/managed Aruba 3200,7220wireless Controllers along with Aruba Airwave server.

Managed Citrix Netscaler load balancers MPX 8000,14000,17550.

Worked on an oncall 24/7 weekly rotation shift as a primary engineer for escalation for all network related issues, by acknowledging all the pages received on PagerDuty application.

Familiar with designing, configuration/installation/troubleshooting of Juniper MX240,QFX series routers and 4200,4300,4500,4550 switches.

Proficient in working with Juniper’s VGW and VMWare’s NSX firewalls.

Managed the network performance and traffic flow using Riverbed.

Configuration and troubleshooting of OSPF, BGP routing protocols.

Configured aggregated ether channels using LACP, trunks, VLans, VRRP in a LAN environment.

Proactively manage/upgrade/trouble shoot Juniperrouters,switches firewalls, Cisco,Fortinet Firewalls,Aruba wireless controllers via CLI,GUI and Citrix Netscaler load balancers .

Respond to inbound requests via phone, via JIRA ticketing tool for technical assistance with managed services in a timely manner within documented SLA.

Monitoring the firewalls/routers/switches by building the Solarwindstool and its Modules like Network Mapper/IPAM/NPM/NCM/Syslog

Managing ip address allocation via Infoblox and SolarWinds IPAM. Proficient in using Slack messenger.

Assist the internal IT group in maintaining, supporting, building and troubleshooting the managed services network and security environment.

Working with change management team on change controls for network maintenance/repair activities during network impacting events and keeping executive management team abreast of progress and customer impact.

Manage outage bridges and repair activities during service impacting events and network outages.

Participated in network team building process by interviewing network resources and selecting an ideal candidate for the team.

Environment: Firewalls: Juniper SSG,SRX 3600 series and Cisco ASA 5500 series Fortinet FG/FWF 60D,60C ;FG 200D firewalls Juniper 650,3600 firewalls Routers: Juniper MX 240,QFX series and Switches: Juniper 4200,4300,4500,4550Load Balancers :Citrix Netscaler MPX 8000,14000,17550Cloud:Amazon,Google,Azure.

Sterling5, Inc/NBC Universal, Englewood Cliff, NJ . 16Dec 2013 – 13 Nov 2016

Role: Network Engineer.

Responsibilities:

Worked as part of a team for Cisco Product Support. Troubleshooting by providing relevant knowledge base articles and other information. Installation and Configuration of LAN (Ethernet)/ WAN set up for Clients.

Designing, configuration/installation/troubleshooting of Cisco 3600,Nexus 7K,ASR 1K,9K routers and catalyst switches 6500, 3700.

Designed and implemented an IP addressing scheme with subnets for different departments.

Maintenance and Troubleshooting of connectivity problems using Ping, Trace route.

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

Configured STP for loop prevention and VTP for Inter-VLAN Routing.

Configuration and troubleshooting of EIGRP, OSPF, BGP routing protocols.

Configured static/dynamic NAT .

Supported various LAN environments consisting of Cisco 6500 series switches.

Configured ether channels, trunks, VLans, HSRP,VRRP/GLBP in a LAN environment.

Proactively manage/upgrade/trouble shoot customer’s Cisco routers,switches, Juniper, Palo Alto Firewalls via CLI,GUI .

Use strong TCP/IP networking skills to perform network troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common network problems.

Respond to inbound requests via phone, via HP’s PPMC & Service now ticketing tool for technical assistance with managed services in a timely manner (within documented SLA) to support, threat and other cases .

Respond to needs and questions of customers concerning their access to network resources through their managed device including the VPN issues.

Monitoring the firewalls/routers/switches usingOpen View, Net MRI, Network authority, Net QOS, Site scope, Concord health and HP’s Network Node manager.

Adhere to policies, procedures, and security practices.

Managing ip address allocation via infoblox.

Upgrading and downgrading various switches,routers,firewalls.

Interface with onsite clients to understand the quality aspects and expectations, as needed.

Collaborate effectively with local team members and offshore staff to create best practice processes.

Resolve problems independently and understand escalation procedure.

Oversee continuous process improvement: documenting that the processes are effective.

Take the lead on communicating process improvements to the management team.

Configuring site-to-site VPN tunnels using Cisco/Juniper firewalls.

Maintained the network using Net Brain tool.

Assist the internal IT group in maintaining, supporting, building and troubleshooting the managed services network and security environment.

Environment: Firewalls: Juniper SSG,SRX 3600 series and Cisco ASA 5500 series and PIX 515E,525 series and Palo Alto 7000,5000,3000 series Routers: 3600,Nexus 7K,ASR 1K,9K and Switches: 6500, and 3700.

Sterling5, Inc/Gemalto,ForthWorth, Tx 25 Feb 2013– 30 Nov 2013

Role: Network Security Engineer.

Responsibilities:

Proactively manage customer Firewall’s (FW), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) and other security threat data sources .

Configuring, managing, and upgrading FW, IDS, IVS, IPS, NAC, Encryption and a wide variety of other security products/appliances .

Using strong TCP/IP networking skills to perform network troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common network problems .

Responding to inbound requests via phone and other electronic means for technical assistance with managed services in a timely manner (within documented SLA) to support, threat and other cases Respond to needs and questions of customers concerning their access to network resources through their managed device.

Adhere to policies, procedures, and security practices.

Resolving problems independently and understand escalation procedure.

Collaborate effectively with local team members and offshore staff to create best practice processes .

Overseeing continuous process improvement: documenting that the processes are effective.

Taking the lead on communicating process improvements to the management team .

Assisting the internal IT group in maintaining, supporting, building and troubleshooting the managed services network and security environment.

Adding Policies to the SRX 3600, 240, ISG firewalls and monitoring the logs.

Implementation, configuration of Juniper VPN tunnel between the two locations.

Changing the Pre-shared key authentication to Digital Certificate authentication on the SRX 240 firewalls.

Configuring and troubleshooting Juniper Firewalls including UTM features like anti-virus, deep inspection (IDP), URL filtering and screening.

Aware of network analyzing tools like tcpdump, WireShark, Ethereal, 3CDaemon, SecureCRT, Nmap, for monitoring STRM( Security threat Response Manager), NSM (Network Security Manager) for Juniper firewalls

Implementation, administration: Designing / Configuration changes, Defining events/signatures policies and its actions, Logging and Log analysis.

Environment: Juniper firewallsSRX 240,3600 and high end firewalls like ISG 1000, NS 5200, UTM features, network analyzing tools liketcpdump, wireshark, Nmap, secureCRT, SSL.

Genesis Software Solutions Inc, Sunnyvale, California. 03 Dec 2012 – 31 Jan 2013

Role: Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Tested various EBGP attributes such as Local preference, AS-PATH and extended communities.

Product testing and support for Access layer switches such as Cisco 4510, 4948, 4507, distribution layer switches such as 6513, 6509, 6504 and a routed core.

Implemented L3 Switching: CEF, MLS, Ether channel in the network.

Configuring and troubleshooting BGP, EIGRP, OSPF and RIP routing protocols for enterprise network on Cisco 6513, 4507 routers.

Tested and upgraded various IOS releases for various Cisco routers.

Implementation of the LAN IP infrastructure using L2 / L3 switching, VLAN, VTP, Inter VLAN Routing, Spanning tree, Switch ports (access and trunks) Gigabit Ethernet and truncking .

Worked on issues related to customer access-lists.

Configured TACACS and AAA for various routers and switches.

Replicating customer specific scenarios in lab for troubleshooting purpose and reproducing the problems in the lab

Active monitoring and LAN/WAN support

Established interactive communication with the end users to understand their day-to-day problems and subsequently provide satisfactory solution in time.

Provide a daily / weekly / monthly quality score to each agent to improvise the performance.

Environment: Routers: Cisco 6513, 4507 and Switches: Cisco 4510, 4948, 4507, 6513 and 6509.

Sterling5, Inc/TransUnion,Chicago,IL. 07 May2012 – 30 Nov 2012

Role: Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Configuring and managing Cisco 7204, 3825, 3945 routers and 3750 data and power stack switches in a 10/100/1000 multi VLAN distributed network.

Configuring VLAN's, defining ACL’s and assuring WAN availability and optimal throughput via the use of BGP, OSPF, and HSRP on6500, 3750, Nexus 5000, Nexus 7000 switches.

Utilizing Network Instruments Observer, Observer Infrastructure Enterprise,tcpdump, WireShark network monitoring tools.

Network systems planning and diagramming Visio for documentation.

Using a protocol analyzer to identify and resolve network issues, communication port identification, and network usage trends.

Experience with LAN hardware including patch panels, Fiber Optic, Cat5e and Cat 6 wiring.

Supporting and maintaining SSL VPN, VPN tunnel, and Cisco client remote access.

Interacting with telecom provider to report, troubleshoot, and install service upgrades.

Administrating F5Load Balancers like creating new pools and VIPS,adding/deleting/modifying load balancing rules.

Administration of firewalls like creating/modifying object groups, adding/deleting/modifying appropriate rules and Access Lists.

IP/DNS administration like adding/modifying/deleting IP and DNS assignments using Infoblox tool.

Documenting environment/configuration of the environment (e.g. topology) and specific devices – ensure inventory systems.

Environment: Routers: 7204, 3825, 3945,7200Switches:6500, 3750, Nexus 5000, Nexus 7000,Firewall and VPN:(PIX/ASA) (firewall and VPN) Load Balancer:(F5) IP/DNS:Infoblox.

Covant Solutions, Newark,Delaware. 12 Oct2011–30 Apr 2012

Role: Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Configuration and Installation of Cisco routers 3600and catalyst switches 6500, 3700.

Designed and implemented an IP addressing scheme with subnets for different departments.

Maintaining and troubleshooting of connectivity problems using Ping, Trace route.

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

Configured STP for loop prevention and VTP for Inter-VLAN Routing.

Configuration and troubleshooting of EIGRP, OSPF, BGPon Cisco1700, 2600, 3600, 7200 routers.

Configuration of Standard and Extended ACLs for Security.

Implementation of NAT with a pool of 2 public IP addresses.

Troubleshooting issues and outages on Trunks and Router interfaces extensively.

Configured VPN for the remote and site-to-site access.

Configured Access control list and also configured Cisco ACS for AAA services using Tacacs and Tacacs+.

Experience in network monitoring tools like Netflow and Cisco IPS event viewer.

Defined and maintained security policies on all Internet-facing edge routers used for delivery of streaming media content.

Implemented TCP/IP and related services like DHCP/DNS/WINS.

Documentation of entire site layout, updating and managing the asset registers and network or server documentations.

Environment: Routers: 1700,2600,3600, 7200 and Switches: 2900,3550,6500, and 3700.

VOLUNTEERING EXPERIENCE:

Role:Accounts Assistant at CPA's office.

Responsibilities:

Checking all financial transactions for accuracy and create regular financial reports.

Reconciling and/or balancing financial transactions like credits and debits from bank statements.

Reconciling and/or balancing financial transactions like credits and debits from bank statements.

Maintaining and updating general ledger using accounting software, Quick Books 2015 Pro.

Writing "Checks" for debits, checks paid, service charges, withdrawals, electronic payments and entering "Deposits" for the credits and deposits in the accounting software, Quick Books 2015 Pro.

Retrieving accounting data from the Accounting software, Quick Books 2015 Pro.

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