Network Engineer Senior System

Professional Summary:

Network Engineer with ** experience years in Network Design, escalation support, network administration and system administration.

Skilled in WAN, LAN, VLAN, VPN communication design, delivering technical support, managing network operations, and maintaining enterprise-wide area networks across multi-platform and high uptime Data Center environments.

Technical Skills:

Experience in configure, maintenance and upgrade the following communication equipment:

Firewall Cisco Pix 515, Cisco ASA 5500, Firewall Checkpoint 13000, 5000, 4000, VSX Smart Console R80.30, Firewalls Palo Alto 5220, and Palo Alto Panorama console.

Palo Alto (PA-3000, PA-4000, PA-5050, PA-5260, PA7050,), Cisco NGFW FMC and FTD (4100), FortiGate 1500D, Checkpoint 4200, Juniper (SRX 240,220), Cisco ASA (5520/5550/5580), Cisco Viptela, Meraki

Switches Level 2 and 3: HP Procurve 4300, 5605, 5612, Brocade VDX 6740, 6940, ICX7750-48F, ICX6610-48, ICX6450-48,

Cisco Catalyst 2900, 3500 and Cisco Nexus 9300.

Netinsight Nimbra 680,688 and 320, Nimbra Visio management console.

Experience in design WAN, LAN, VLAN segments, and VPN Tunnels site-to-site in Cisco PIX, Cisco ASA, Checkpoint and Palo Alto.

VPN Pulse Secure appliances and VPN Palo Alto Global Protect

Experience working with Wireless Meraki Cloud.

PaloAlto Next Generation Firewall,

Build, and manage the configuration of production systems. Manage a continuous integration and deployment methodology for server-based technologies

Managing, using and operating systems on the AWS platform. Maintaining and managing the AWS infrastructure. Work alongside architecture and engineering teams to design and implement scalable software and application services

Perform analysis of connectivity requests and services architecture for the monitoring platforms. Design and provision network solutions for further deployment of the monitoring systems.

Support existing environments, organize, and plan network maintenance.

Configure network and other related services for deployments on public clouds such as AWS, VeloCloud etc.

Configure and Perform analysis of network security needs, configure firewall settings, IPSEC VPNs, GRE tunnels, firewall policies, Address/security groups, ACLs etc. Design, configure troubleshoot IP routing and switching including BGP, MPLS, OSPF etc.

Experience working with AWS Cloud: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), Direct connect configuration, create Subnet, Create EC2, transit gateway, Network ACLs, router tables, VPC peer connection, Internet Gateways and Security Groups.

Monitoring tool system: SolarWinds Orion, Wireshark, Retina, MRTG, and Nimbra Vision.

Design Tools: Visio 2013, and AutoCAD.

Lead Network Engineer

HBO Latin America/Warner Media Corp

Miami, FL Aug 2010 – Dec 2022

Responsibilities:

Monitor and test network performance and provide network performance statistics and reports, mainly using SolarWinds, Wireshark, Checkpoint Smart Console, Palo Alto Panorama and MRTG graphics.

Analyzes data, voice or video network documentation and assists in communicating to management the current operational status of networks.

Works with protocols spanning-tree, SNMP, IGMP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, RIP, PIM and VRRP

Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2016, 2019 administration, Active Directory, trust domain, create users and add computer to the domain, DHCP server, DNS server, Radius Servers, Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft Exchange Server and ArcServer Backup.

Installed and configured PA-5000, PA300, PA2000 in HA environment and deployed PA800 & VM series in AWS.

Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, ELB, VPC, Route 53, RDS, S3, IAM, and Cloud Watch, Auto scaling groups.

Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the networking industry. For example, during this period, we recommend improving the transmission of data to partners or other remote offices using the application Aspera. We also research, recommend, and install the video/data network with Nimbras 680.

isco SASE, Palo Alto SASE, FortiSASE and ZScaler Secure access service edge, Zscaler proxy/cloud cloud firewall.

Work with SIEM/SIM reporting tools such as Splunk Enterprise security solution and FortiSIEM solution from Fortinet.

Management of Palo Alto and Forigaste Firewalls via Panorama and Fortimanager respectively. Template/scripts creation and Pushing device settings, Security Policies, Routing policies onto managed Palo Alto and Fortigate Firewalls.

Ensure that all servers, SANs, workstations, IP telephony equipment, business partner VPN connectivity, and other network appliances, such as VPN Pulse Secure, are network connected.

Network asset management, including maintenance of network component inventory and related documentation and technical specifications information, we use Microsoft SharePoint to share the information.

Create and maintain documentation as it relates to network configuration, network mapping, processes, and service records.

HBO Latin America

Miami, FL Aug 1999 – 2010

Position: Senior System Support

Responsibilities:

Maintains network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, performance tuning, troubleshooting network problems, and escalating problems to vendors.

Local Area Network in Sunrise Building and Coral Gables

2 Units of Check Point 13500 Firewalls

2 Units Palo Alto 5220

2 Cisco PIX 515 and 6 Cisco ASA 5505

28 units of HP Procurve Switch Models: 4208, 5406, 5412

52 Brocade Switches, models: VDX 6740, 6940, ICX7750-48F, ICX6610-48, ICX6450-48,

2 servers Microsoft ForeFront 2010 (TMG) Firewall

3 Units of Cisco Routers 3845

8 units of Nimbra 680

2 Units Nimbra 320

We are using the applications Nimbra Vision, SolarWings Orion, Whatsup, MRTG Graphics, and HP Procure Manager to monitor the network performance, perform analysis, and perform troubleshooting.

Administration, maintains and monitors connections with remote offices, partners, or suppliers.

We have HBO offices in Mexico, Caracas, Argentina, Brazil, Sunrise, and Coral Gables, all connected through MPLS lines.

We have connections with partners such as Sony, Disney, Warner Media, Encompass, and Comcast.

Administration of HBO Latin America WAN Network, which includes offices in Coral Gables, Nap of Americas, Sunrise, and Uplink Locations:

Netinsight Nimbra 680 equipment connected with redundant OC-192 lines was installed for communication between each location. This equipment has the ability to transmit video and data with redundant paths to optimize uptime.

We have 19 VPN sites-to-site for the VOD systems with cable communication companies in Latin America. We use Cisco ASA5505 in each of the foreign offices and Checkpoint Cluster 13500 in the main office in Sunrise, Florida to create VPN tunnels.

Administer servers, desktop computers, printers, software deployment, security updates, and patches.

Administer the domain controllers for the HBO-LA.net domain, file servers, Microsoft Exchange Server, backup server, ftp servers, discrepancy report server, antivirus server, subtitles server, and DNS servers.

Install desktop computers and assign them to the domain, configure printers, install Microsoft Office 2010, configure Outlook 2010, map directories required, and execute Microsoft updates.

Education:

1981 – 1986 - University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, PR

Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering - Cum Laude (GPA 3.25)

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