Ishan P

Sr Network Engineer

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Summary:

Total 8 years of experience in Networking, including hands-on experience in IP network design providing network support, installation and analysis.

Acquitted with Cisco Meraki for Cisco Wireless Devices Monitoring, managing and troubleshooting Cisco Wireless devices using Cisco Meraki.

Expert level knowledge of troubleshooting, implementing, optimizing and testing of static and dynamic routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, BGP ability to interpret and resolve complex route table problems.

Experience working with Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K devices also configuring Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX), which acts as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 5000.

Well experienced in configuring protocols HSRP, GLBP, VRRP, ICMP, IGMP, PPP, HDLC, PAP, CHAP, and SNMP.

Worked extensively on firewalls and VPN gateways Checkpoint, CISCO, Juniper, FortiGate GUI and Arista equipment’s..

Advanced knowledge in installation and configuration of Juniper Netscreen Firewall.

Migration from Cisco firewalls to Palo Alto firewalls platforms PA 4000 and PA 500 and PA- 200 firewalls.

Design, Build, and Implement various solutions on Check Point Firewalls, Blue Coat Proxies, F5 Load balancers and F5 Global Traffic Managers.

Managed and maintained Fortinet Firewalls through IPv4 policies, traffic shaping, IPS, web filtering, interfaces, and routing.

Experience in working with Nokia 7750, 7250 and Ericsson 6673 configuration.

Experience in working with Cisco Nexus 9k, 7k, 5k, 2k Switches and Virtual Port Channel configuration.

Strong hands-on experience on Checkpoint Firewalls, ASA (5550) Firewalls. Implemented Security Policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS).

Strong hands on experience in layer-3 Routing and layer-2 Switching. Dealt with Nexus models like 7K, 5K, 2K series.

Manage administration of Juniper Firewall, connecting offices worldwide through VPN tunnels to two HA Juniper SSG520's. The VPN provides 24/7/365 connectivity for corporate needs of all remote offices.

Sound knowledge of virtual firewalls like checkpoint VSX, IDS, IPS as well as encryption techniques.

Configured policies on F5 ASM Created rules and scripts for the automation of the environment. Reengineered Firewall policies on Juniper SSG320 and SSG140 Firewalls

Checkpoint level 3 operations support with hardware operation and fixed all problems.

Excellent communication skills with ability to interact effectively with employees at all level of the organization.

Firewall technologies including general configuration, risk analysis, security policy, rules creation and modification of Check Point R65, R70, R75, R77 and Cisco ASA.

Supporting and troubleshooting Checkpoint/Cisco site-to-site VPN/IP Sec functionality.

Experience on working, implementing, configuration and managing Juniper SA 2500/4500/6500 SA devices with secure access services 7.1/8.0.

Security Policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS)

Strong hand experience with Spirent test center configuration.

CERTIFICATIONS:

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Under Process

Education:

M.S. In Project Management Harrisburg University, PA, USA - 2019

M.S. In Computer Science American College of Commerce & Technology, Virginia, USA -2017

Bachelor of Engineering In Electronics & Communication North Maharashtra University, Shirpur, India - 2012

Diploma in Industrial Electronics. GMC polytechnic, Shahada, India. - 2009

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cisco Platforms

Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K, 1K

Cisco Routers

1700,1800,2500,2600,2800,3600,3800,3900,7200,7600

Cisco L2 & L3 Switches

2900,3500,3560,3750,4500,4900,6500

Juniper Platforms

SRX, MX, EX Series Router and Switches

Nokia Platform

IXR 7250, 7700

Ericsson Platform

6673

Networking Concepts

Access-lists, Routing, Switching, Sub netting, Designing, CSU/DSU, IPsec, VLAN, VPN, WEP, WAP, MPLS, VoIP, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, azure, terraform, agile

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, DS3,0C3, 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:

AT&T, Middletown, NJ July. 2021 – Till Date

Designation: Sr Network Engineer.

Responsibilities:

Identifying and supporting to create documentation for the data center knowledge base.

Assist the senior team members with the full cycle implementation, perform functional and system

Analysis and evaluate and recommend new/improved processes and technological innovations on

Network Infrastructure as per clients’ specifications

Using Power BI dashboards, developed an analysis of the working structure which would help to mitigate the issues in an efficient manner.

Troubleshooting Cisco APs and meraki appliances.

Deployed the initial Azure components like Azure Virtual Networks, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Storage and Affinity groups.

Installed and configured cisco meraki (MR66, MR18) wireless Access points in the warehouses

Interface and align with the client’s network and partner engineering teams such as Compute, Storage,

Experience in Cisco infrastructure technologies like SDDC/ SDN, DNAC for security and networking operations.

Operations Center (NOC) using Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Aruba Switches, HP Switches, and Dell Switches.

Experience in working with Nokia 7750, 7250 and Ericsson 6673 configuration.

With Cisco Nexus 9000, 7000, 5000, 2000, 6800, 4500, 6500, 3700, 2900 Series Switches, HP, Brocade,

Manage FHG/CAS mobility transport testing and validation program.

Experienced in WiFi-6 points across the Catalyst and Meraki devices.

Participate in test plan & TOL preparation.

Conduct the release/ validation and testing program update review calls (Transport & Mobility, ATS, Design and Engineering teams).

Routing Protocols like Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol

(EIGRP), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) to troubleshoot complex routing issues.

Work on to implementing and troubleshooting LAN & WAN networks, VLANs, Etherchannel, STP, QoS protocols.

Expertise on the routing L2 & L3 protocols like OSPF, BGP, VRF, MPLS, IGMP, PIM, IPv6, NAT. Tunnel provisioning between routers (GRE/MPLS based SDP, EPIPE, VPLS)

Working on service provider network, access, frontend and backend service architecture.

Experience in setup of Access-Lists, IP-filters and application of QoS/SLA and accounting profiles.

Experience in IP network multicast protocols, such as IGMP and PIM Experience in Lab environments such as setup for test beds, QA testing and troubleshoot network issues.

expertise in Automation, Build/Release Engineering and Software development involving cloud computing platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure and Google Cloud (GCP).

Worked on e2e convergent time testing for Nokia and Ericsson Fronthaul Gateway.

Spirent Test Center (“SPT-N12U”): Strong experience for end-to-end stream-blocks configuration by using different protocols like QoS, MLD, PIM, IPV6/IPV4 header, eCPRI, CPRI etc.

ABM System, NY Sept. 2017 – June.2021

Designation: Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Currently working on future CRAN architecture and design and small cell migration to NFV.

Provide Tier II Load Balancer expertise on F5 BigIP Local Traffic Managers (LTM). Designing F5 solutions/support for migration work of applications and websites from Cisco CSS Load Balancers to the F5 BigIP Load Balancers.

Firewall Policy Provisioning and troubleshooting firewall connectivity related issues using Fortinet Manager

Configurations of load balancing in F5, SSL/VPN connections, azure, terraform, ansible,agile,Troubleshooting CISCO ASA firewalls, and related network security measures.

Configured Cisco routers for MPLS VPN connectivity and VRF tables on edge routers for customer usage of the MPLS network.

Juniper Contrail SDN Cloud Computing Open Networking Openflow/ODL

Worked on Arista 71505, 7160.

Configured Cisco ASA 5510 for VPN Network Access Control integration with Cisco ISE (Inline PEPs).

Designing MPLS VPN and QoS for architecture using Cisco multi-layer switches.

Create and test Cisco router and switching operations using OSPF routing protocol, azure, terraform, ansible, agile, ASA Firewalls, and MPLS switching for stable VPNs.

Creating process documents for various security tools like Source Fire, Fortinet Firewall, Pulse VPN appliance, Blue Coat proxy etc

Knowledge in new technologies like SDN, Openflow protocol and NOX controller Python based.

Training sessions for OpenStack, Open Contrail, SDN and NFV at domestic and international level.

OpenStack Mitaka with integration of Open Contrail 3.1.0.

Juniper Contrail SDN deployment assistance to the senior engineering team.

Worked extensively on lab build for POC comprising of Cisco Catalyst Switch 6500s, 4500s, 3750, Nexus 7000s, and Cisco ISE 3300 Appliances and 1.0.4 Cisco ISE software on VMware's.

Juniper Contrail SDN solution provisioning in test labs.

Deploying BIG-IP F5LTM Load Balancers for load balancing and traffic management of business application.

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.

Configuring VPN, clustering and ISP redundancy in Check Point Firewall.

Asset management, keeping inventory of every device in the data center.

Migrated Firewall infrastructure from Checkpoint R65 to Netscreen ISG2000.

Hands on experience with new next generation Palo Alto appliances serving as firewalls and URL and application inspection.

NX-OS upgrade in Nexus 7010 through ISSU (In service software upgrade)

Configured and performed software upgrades on Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers 5508 for Wireless Network Access Control integration with Cisco ISE

Experience working with azure, Cisco Nexus 2148 Fabric Extender and Nexus 5000 series to provide a Flexible Access Solution for a datacenter access architecture

Implementing security Solutions using azure, Palo alto PA 5000, Check Point Firewalls R75, R77.20 Gaia and Provider-1/MDM.

Migrating Cisco ASA firewalls policy to new Checkpoint appliance with support of vendor specific tool.

Experience with Network Redesign of branch and Campus Networks. This includes changes to both the voice and data environment.

Maintained, upgraded, configured, and installed Cisco ASA 5510, 5520, & 5505 Firewalls from the CLI and ASDM.

Good knowledge of CISCO firewalls, CISCO PIX and ASA 5500 series, Palo Alto Firewalls.

Configuring virtual chassis for Juniper switches EX- 4200 and firewalls NS 5200.

Configuration of VLAN, BFD, LAG Port Channel, HSRP, VRRP on Cisco/Juniper devices.

Handled load balancing using F5 Network Load Balancers.

Hitachi Hi-Rel, Gujarat, INDIA Aug. 2014 – June. 2015

Role: Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Work on different networking concepts and routing protocols like BGP, EIGRP, OSPF and other LAN/WAN technologies.

Configured Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3850, 3750, 2960 switches and Cisco 3600, 7200 & ASR 1K & 9k Routers for an enterprise network.

Upgrading and managing Linux Kernel on Red Hat Linux 5 &6 & ESX Reboots.

Configured routers and modems, troubleshot issues related to broadband technologies for Residential and Business Customers.

Efficient in cabling as per co-location contracts with loop-back testing, including all DS1, DS3, T1, T3, CAT 6 and CAT 5 connections as per defined cabling procedures.

Configured and managed networks using L3 protocols like RIPv2.

Configured VLANs, Private VLANs, VTP and Trunking on switches.

Rewrite HPNA perl module Create HPNA command scripts.

Support remote office WAN, PFR & DMVPN technologies.

Configured L2 and L3 security features on devices.

Configured and troubleshooting BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS WAN, QoS and Route Maps.

Maintained copper and fiber optic network infrastructure performing maintenance and installations where necessary.

Specializing in voice and data network administration and troubleshooting. Experienced problem solver competent in customer service and team management.

Involved in a project for a re-design of the LAN network (Cisco Catalyst 2960 and Nexus 5000 switches) and the virtualization of some systems.

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