Engineer Network
Resume:
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SUMMARY:
Cisco certified Network Engineer around 4 Years’ experience in design, implementation, configuration of Cisco/Juniper/Arista Routers, Switches and Firewalls, troubleshooting & fine-tuning of Firewalls, VPN configuration, troubleshooting network related problems in Enterprise& Data Center Networks.
Experience in working with Cisco routers and switches implementing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS BGP and MPLS on edge routers.
Cisco network products such as Cisco Nexus 9K, 7k, 6K, 5k, 3K and 2k, Cisco ASR, Cisco 3500, Cisco 2800, Cisco 4500 and HP Pro-curve Switches and Aruba Controllers.
Solutions included a wide range of network topologies including Metro Ethernet, DWDM, CWDM, ROADM, WSS-DWR, VMux Storage Extension SAN, and Network Management.
Strong hands-on experience on PIX (506, 515, 525, 535), ASA (5505/5510) Firewalls. Implemented security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS)
Familiarity with Data Center power, cooling, cabling, as well as other Infrastructure issues
Involved in Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLANs, Port security, Trucking, STP, Inter Vlan routing and LAN security.
Experience deploying BIG-IP F5LTM, Cisco ACE and A10 Load Balancers for load balancing and Implementation traffic filters on Cisco routers using Standard extended Access lists.
Good understanding of one or more networking protocols/technologies - IPsec, IPv6, IPv4, Ethernet, VLAN, Routing, and Switching.
Used several network tools such as WireShark, SPLUNK and Netscout to troubleshoot and assist.
Develop automation for the management of a large-scale Linux environment, which spans deployment, administration and monitoring.
Experience deploying BIG-IP F5LTM Load Balancers for load balancing and traffic management of business application.
Support planning efforts and new initiatives pertaining to Juniper MX, T Series, Virtual Routers VMX and network routing / switching products
Configured trunk and access ports and implemented granular control of VLANs and VXLANs using NX-OS to ensure virtual and flexible subnets.
Design & implemented VPC service for extension of customer's on-premises datacenter with AWS Cloud using AWS VPC and VPN& Direct connect services.
Good knowledge and experience in installation, configuration, and Administration of Windows 2000/2003, HTTP, FTP, DNS, NTP, DHCP servers under various LAN and WAN environments.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Routers: Routers (1700, 1800, 2500, 2600, 3200, 3600, 3700, 3800, and 7200),
Switches: Cisco L2 & L3 Switches (2900, 3560, 4500, 5000 & 6500), ASA, PIX, FWSM, Juniper, Netscreen
LAN Technologies: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet, VLAN, Inter-VLAN Routing, VTP, STP, RSTP
Protocols/Services: Routing Protocols (RIP v1 & v2, IGRP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP), QoS, HSRP,
VRRP, TCP/IP, load balancer, Proxy servers, IPSec, MPLS.
Network Management Tools: SPLINK, SolarWinds, Oputils, Wires hark, Service-Now.
Languages: Python, C, C++
EDUCATION
Bachelors in Tech Electronic and Computers Science
Master’s in computer and Information Technology
PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
CISCO, Remote Sep 2020 – Till Now
NOC Network Engineer
Working on cisco routing protocols including Ethernet, IP Communications, BGP, OSPF, MSDP, and PIM Knowledge of VPN configuration and troubleshooting.
Provide remote technical assistance to field teams and ensure that field works are implemented without impacting the network health
Responsible for testing and evaluating network hardware and software, developing new network monitoring, analysis tools and writing network documentation
Work with problem management to identify reoccurring incidents and support service improvement plans to negate reoccurrence of incidents
Participate in on call rotation and resolves complex help desk tickets and network problems. Tracks and trends issue and drive resolution.
Design and troubleshooting of complex network systems including routing (BGP, OSPF), switching (VLAN, WLAN), internet security (SSL, IPSec, firewall) & cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
Experienced in firewall configurations and troubleshooting - Cisco ASA, Palo Alto Networks
Serve as technical support interface between customer NOC and 2LS/3LS support teams and other internal deployment and customer engineering teams
Security experience in deploying VPN Solutions like IPSec site-site and client-site SSL VPN implemented across multiple vendors.
Hands on experience on Firewalls. Implemented security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS)
Prior experience implementing an enterprise class-monitoring platform (SolarWinds, ScienceLogic).
Amazon (AWS), Seattle, WA Oct 2019 – Aug 2020
Network Development Engineer
Responsibilities:
As part of the Capacity engineering team - (public /private peering), responsibilities would include coordinating with global resources, scheduling changes including gaining MCM approvals, and applying change templates to devices in each datacenter globally (with associated pre & post checks).
Managing the provision of circuit interconnections (layers 1 to 3) including ordering, physical provisioning, troubleshooting connectivity, BGP configuration and activation for traffic delivery, ensuring circuits are designed and built to a standard (resiliency/redundancy, latency, etc.)
Solid experience working with various data centers, ISPs, vendors, and partners to troubleshoot connectivity (deep knowledge of data-centre infrastructures including cages, patch panels and to provide clean and scalable deployments.
Configuring TCP/IP IPv4 addresses and IPv6 addresses for Layer 3 testing.
Deploying, Scaling and troubleshooting transit center across all Networks Fabrics in many regions.
Work with juniper MX240/MX480/PTX devices to configure and troubleshoot.
Configured BGP / LACP on Edge devices to establish connections with PNI/TRANSIT/IX Customers.
Strong Python development skills - ability to develop solutions for network and system automation use cases
Creating and developing the existing deployment processes that increase both velocity and quality.
Creating minor scripts using Python and basic understanding of Python and JINJA.
Create and update our network standards and ensure that the network is deployed to these standards.
Monitoring and troubleshooting of network faults while making network changes.
Network automation tools using Python: Alfred, Blade Runner.
CISCO, Raleigh, NC Jun 2019 – Oct 2019
Datacenter Network Engineer
Responsibilities:
Experience in Cisco Routing, Switching and Security with strong Cisco hardware/software experiences with Cisco Routers such as 1900, 2900, 3900, Cisco ASR - 1k/9k, Cisco Multilayer Switches 4500, 6500, Cisco Nexus 2k/5k/7k/9k and Juniper: M320, MX80, MX480, MX960 and EX4200, EX8200 switches.
Working with ACI (Spine and leaf), ACI Policies, Tenants, Bridge Domain, Private Networks, Contracts and Filters.
Architectural design experience with major networking, storage, compute, and security vendors (Cisco, Arista, HP, Juniper, Dell, IBM, Dell, Brocade)
Demonstrated knowledge/experience in multi-tiered data center networking with expert knowledge and experience in technology integration and network design
Works effectively in a complex environment (e.g., environment spanning multiple functions, shifts, platforms, geographies)
Demonstrated experience with Enterprise Data Center Architectures (Zone head end/end of row, top of rack, cluster designs, etc.)
Experience in data center facilities design (cabling standards, cabinet designs, power distribution design etc.)
In-depth understanding of virtualized environments in several areas (compute, storage, and network) including automation
Have thorough understanding of Cisco's switching/routing family of products and their functionality including: Nexus (7K, 5K, 3K, 2K), and Catalyst platforms
and handling network related incidents within defined SLA’s.
Configured network security policies IPSEC, SSL, NAT, PAT, VPN, Route-maps, distribute lists, Prefix lists, Access Control Lists (ACL), filters in Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, Palo Alto environments.
Detailed knowledge of customer network, critical sites, operating procedures as agreed upon with customer.
Amazon (AWS), Seattle, WA July 2018 – Jun 2019
Network Development Engineer
Responsibilities:
As a Network Development Engineer working within AWS Infrastructure will deploy network infrastructure across all of network fabrics.
As part of the Capacity engineering team - (public /private peering), responsibilities would include coordinating with global resources, scheduling changes including gaining MCM approvals, and applying change templates to devices in each datacenter globally (with associated pre & post checks).
Configured Routing protocols EIGRP OSPF, BGP, static routing and policy-based routing
Troubleshoot networking, routing and inter-connectivity problems - including troubleshooting of network device hardware failures
Working on IP networking and extensive experience in the application of IP protocols.
Create and implement changes on the network and aautomate workflow and execution of deployments on a global scale.
Deploy, scale and automate our network across multiple global datacenters. This includes existing footprints and greenfield locations.
Creating MCM and getting approvals to push the config on the routers.
Experience with major router platforms specifically, with Juniper MX, EX, PTX platforms including all compatible processors and line cards for these platforms.
Network automation tools using Python- Alfred.
Working with team to automate the script and deploying the changes across the global.
AIG, Fort Worth, Texas July 2017 - May 2018
Network Admin/ Datacenter
Responsibilities:
Cisco Nexus 9k,7k,5k 3k and 2k configuration and troubleshooting and arista (7050/7060/7260) switches.
Installed and configured Cisco 7200 series router and Cisco 2950, 4500, 6500 Series switches.
Experience and knowledge of TCP/IP, Ethernet, LAN and WAN topologies, Wi-Fi, WAP's, WIP's, routers, switches, hubs, VPN's, IPsec, DHCP, DNS, WINS, and SNMP.
Layer 3 routing experience should include BGP, EIGRP, and OSPF routing protocols and configuration for deploying VLAN, VRRP and ether channel.
Working knowledge in BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, IS-IS, HSRP, L2/3 VPNs in IOS, IOSXE, and IOS XR platforms.
Worked on configuring objects such as F5 Load balancer pools, members, SSL profiles for LTM on
F5 load balancers.
Configured BGP, HSRP and VLAN trucking 802.1Q, VLAN Routing on Catalyst switches and nexus 7k and 5k switches.
Worked on correlation of network alarms to customer and network ticketing requirement for Ethernet over TDM (EoTDM), ROADM, DWDM system within AT&T Network, which result in quality improvements.
Configured Cisco devices with various protocols like VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding), OSPF and BGP as per design and the number of users in a site.
Participated in on call support in troubleshooting the configuration and installation issues.
Installation, maintenance, troubleshooting local and Wide Areas Network (ISDN, Frame relay, DDR, NAT, DHCP, TCP/IP).
Experience configuring, installing and supporting SDN technologies like Cisco ACI and understating of Cisco Nexus vPC technologies
Supporting EIGRP and BGP based PwC network by resolving level 2 &3 problems of internal teams & external customers of all locations.
Configured BGP, HSRP and VLAN trucking 802.1Q, VLAN Routing on Catalyst switches and nexus 7k and 5k switches.
Prior experience adapting existing system architectures to new data center environments.
Luensen Technologies Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad, India
Network Engineer.
Aug 2013– Feb 2015
Responsibilities:
Experience in Cisco 7200, 7600 routers, Cisco 2800 3700 series switches: Physical cabling, IP addressing, Wide Area network configurations (Frame-relay and ATM).
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.
Worked with the Help Desk for circuit troubleshooting to give Support to the Tech persons at the site.
Managed the F5 BigIP GTM/LTM appliances to include writing iRules, SSL offload and everyday task of creating WIP and VIPs.
Configuring routers and sending it to Technical Consultants for new site activations and giving online support at the time of activation.
Experience with Racking, Stacking, configuring, Nexus 5548,5020 and 2K and 7010.
Supporting Development team for the access to corporate network and outside world. Providing access to specific IP, Port filter and port access.
Switching (Ethernet) related tasks included implementing VLANS and configuring ISL trunk on Fast-Ethernet channel between switches.
Troubleshoot TCP/IP problems, troubleshoot connectivity issues.
Configuration and deploying VLAN, floating-point route on CISCO Catalyst 3950, implementing fiber cable uplinks to the layer 2 switches.
WAN / LAN troubleshooting.
Coordinated with service providers over client requirement changes or link issues.
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