Network Engineer Control Traffic
Resume:
APUROOP MADHAVARAM
Network Engineer
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Summary:
• 5+ years of experience in testing, troubleshooting, implementing, optimizing, and maintaining enterprise data network and service provider systems.
• Experience in areas system administration and networking for infrastructure management.
• Proficient in F5 LTM and GTM planning, designing and implementation.
• Experience in handling Profiles, Monitors, VIP’s, Pool Members, iRules in F5 Network load balancers.
• Proficient in upgrading the BIG-IP software code. Completed more than 150 F5's from code version 11.4.1 to 14.1.4.6. (12.1.5.2 as an intermediary code).
• Experienced in configuring and troubleshooting BIG-IP F5 LTM, ASM, APM, and GTM.
• Implemented ASM security policies for external-facing applications and added DDos profiles.
• Proficient in installing and configuring Cisco switches (2900, 3500, 3700, 6500 series).
• Proficient in installing and configuring Cisco routers (800, 1800, 2800 and 3800 series).
• Configure, Manage and Monitor Palo Alto firewall models.
• Outstanding experience in designing and configuring of Layer 2 / 3 networking features such as VLAN, STP, VTP, 802.1X, Port Security, L2PT and SPAN.
• Proficient on deployment services like DDI (BlueCat proxy servers), VOIP, NAT and QoS.
• Experience in working with Microsoft Azure (Azure DNS, Application Gateway, Traffic Manager and Load Balancer).
• Experience in documentation network diagram and Technical Specifications using Microsoft VISIO and Office.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
F5 Viprion B2250, BIGIP i5600/5800 and BIGIP 5250/2000 F5 Modules LTM, ASM, APM, GTM, AVR and vCMP
Routers Cisco 800,1800, 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3750, 3800,4300,7200. Cisco Switches Cisco 2900, 3500, 4000, 4500, 5000, 5800, 6500, 9300. Other Vendors Nexus 2k, 3k, 5k and 7k.
Routing Protocol RIP, EIGRP, BGP, IGRP, OSPF and HSRP. Network Management Wireshark, SNMP, Nmap and Solar winds. Application Protocol DNS, DHCP, FTP, TFTP and SMTP LAN technologies Ethernet, VLAN, Port Channel, STP, RSTP and Port Security. WAN technologies Frame Relay, ATM, HDLC, VPN, IP-Sec and PPP. Network Security TACACS+, RADIUS, NAT/PAT and VPN configuration. Cloud Operations Azure, AWS
Languages Python, Perl.
Operating System Windows XP, 7, 10, Windows server 2003, 2008 and Linux. Documentation Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Office. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Verizon, Irvin, TX Oct 2018 – Till date
Network Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Responsible for design planning and implementation of BIG-IP on both Data center and cloud.
• Deploy the BIG-IP Virtual Edition system on vSphere
• Primarily responsible for managing the F5 Load balancers infrastructure of the client environment with F5 LTM and GTM.
• Licensed the BIG-IP appliance and managed VE license from BIG-IQ.
• Depending on the application requirements, different types of VIPs were configured and associated with iRules, custom TCP and HTTP profiles, SSL profiles, one connect profiles, persistence, health monitors, and Pool.
• Extensively working knowledge of TCP, HTTP, and SSL profiles.
• Configured and Managing F5 GTM, Wide IP, DNS records (A, AAAA, CNAME, SVR, NS, MX), DNS zones.
• F5 migration of applications to new BIG-IP vCMP infrastructure.
• Updated the vCMP guest and exporting the vCMP.
• Configured and troubleshooting the F5 LTM and APM and providing SME support for the customers.
• Extensive hands-on experience with BIG-IP 5000 and 2000 series.
• Licensing and provisioning of F5 modules such as LTM, GTM, VCMP (Virtual Cluster Multiprocessing).
• Extensively worked on code upgrades from v11.5.3 to v14.1.4 and downgrades from 12.0.0 to 11.5.4.
• Created a high availability feature between the VCMP guests for different VCMP hosts.
• Automating Certificate Management using Venafi.
• Extensive knowledge in configuration via CLI (TMSH and advance shell).
• Good knowledge on basic iRules scripting and debugging.
• Creating custom profiles, health monitors, and configuring SNAT pools, syslog and SNMP
• Implementation of major application services with the iApps templates.
• Extensive knowledge and experience regarding F5 BIG-IP LTM VIP configuration with health check.
• Possess a good experience working with troubleshooting tickets on F5 Load balancers.
• Extensive knowledge and experience with hosting SSL certificates on F5 platforms.
• Deployed Active/Standby modes of High Availabilty (HA) with Session and Configuration synchronization on multiple Palo Alto firewall pairs.
• Experience in managing the load balancers in a high-availability infrastructure.
• Monitoring Network performance to improve the backup strategy using Solar-Winds and Net Scout and made changes if necessary.
• Updating network documentation and Documenting Technical Specification using MS Office Suite.
• Monitoring complete network & providing network statistics.
• Good Understanding on scripting languages like JavaScript, Python and PowerShell
• Adding, removing, or updating user account information, resetting passwords in AD
• Responsible for the installation of Windows, Linux based operating system Environment: LTM, ASM, APM, GSLB, LAN/WAN, VPN, VLAN, PUTTY, SECURE-CRT, MS OFFICE. Bed Bath & Beyond, Union, NJ Aug 2016 – Sep 2018
Network Engineer
Responsibilities:
• Deployed BIG-IP VE on ESxi and provisioned LTM, ASM, APM and GTM modules.
• Configured different load balancing methods on F5 LTM & GTM and worked on one- connect profiles and HTTP compression and several persistence profiles.
• Successfully migrated from BIG-IP 3600 to vCMP 5200v.
• Configured VIPIRION chassis on v11.x on Active/Standby mode with 4 vCMp guests.
• Successfully deployed VIPRION 2400 with 2 blades and licensed the chassis with vCMP.
• Licensing the VIPRION 2400 vCMP guest and mirroring the vCMP guests
• Configuration of vCMP in HA architecture and sync-failover group between two vCMP guests.
• Separation of partitions and interfaces on vCMP guests.
• Successfully migrated from BIG-IP 4200 LTM to 5250 vCMP guest.
• Configured and installed Cisco routers of 2600,2800,3200 and 4000 series.
• Configured and installed Cisco switches of 2900,3500 and 3700 series.
• Implemented privileged access on new user over the network environment.
• Configured DNS (Domain Name Serves), Active Directory Services and Internet Information Service for IP Management.
• Involved in fixing DNS, DHCP and any other IP conflict problem.
• Configured access list for filtering and control traffic over the security for client access.
• Tested routers and Line Cards using Smart Bits and done Performance Analysis of both LAN/WAN infrastructure.
• Interacted with business users from a service delivery and service support perspective.
• Hands-on experience with Routers, Switches, TCP/IP, Routing Protocols (EIGRP/OSPF), and IP addressing.
• Planned, tested and evaluated various equipment, systems, IOS's and procedures for use within the network / security infrastructure.
• Monitoring network performance and bandwidth utilization with Wireshark and Nmap.
• Ensure network performance and data availability through prevention of network upgrade and maintenance.
• Create and maintained documentation over network diagram using Microsoft VISIO.
• Configured L2 and L3 security features on devices
• Worked on various Sniffing tools like Ethereal and Packet Sniffer
• Responsible for the installation of software like antivirus, MS-office, adobe & acrobat reader etc.
• Responsible for maintaining the network & troubleshooting the network related issues.
• Computer components assembling and configuring.
• Server installation and maintenance.
Environment: CISCO ROUTERS (2600,2800,3200 & 4000), CISCO SWITCHES (2900, 3500 & 3700), OSPF, EIGRP, DNS, DHCP, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, WIRESHARK, NMAP, MICROSOFT VISIO.
Education: Bachelor’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from KL University, India. Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Gannon University, USA.
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