Network Engineer Expert Level

Name : Nikshay Reddy

Phone : +1-704-***-****

EMail: ****************@*****.***

Linkedin :http://linkedin.com/in/nikshay-reddy-a3b318272 Professional Summary:

A Network Engineering Graduate with about 2 years’ experience in the areas of routing and switching, bearing a comprehensive knowledge about networking devices, Firewalls, WAN, and LAN seeks to work as a network engineer for a reputed organization.

Expert level knowledge in planning, implementing, optimizing, testing, and troubleshooting of static and dynamic routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, BGP on Cisco high end routers 7200, 3900, 3800, 2900, 2900, 2800 series. Familiar with Cisco IOS - XE and XR & NX-OS.

Experienced in implementing and troubleshooting complex layer 2 technologies like VLAN Trunks, VTP Ether channel, STP, RSTP and MST on 6500, 5500, 4500, 3800, 3600, 3500, 2900 series switches.

Strong hands on experience on PIX Firewalls, ASA Firewalls. Implemented Security Policies using ACL traffic filters, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS).

Extensive knowledge and experience in administration of Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, FTP servers.

In depth knowledg and hands on experience on IP Addressing. Subnetting, VISM, ARP, reverse & proxy ARP, and PingConcepts.

Extensive Knowledge of deploying & troubleshooting Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet.

Implementation of IPv6, Transitions from IPv4 to IPv6, Multilayer switching.

Experience with Virtualizing Technologies like VMWare, VIRTUALBOX.

Expert Level Knowledge about TCP/IP, UDP and OSI models.

Adept in configuring and troubleshooting HSRP, VRRP and GLBP for Default Gateway Redundancy and redistribution between routing protocols.

Used Network monitoring tools to ensure network connectivity and Protocol analysis tools to assess and pinpoint networking issues causing service disruption.

Profound knowledge on various WAN technologies like E1/T1/E/T3, HDLC, Frame-Relay and PPP. Working experience in Cisco ACE andF5 BIG-IP load Balancer. Network Certifications:

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA).

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).

Technical Skills:

Routers: Cisco 2600, 2800, 2900, 3900, 7200, ASR 1000, ASR 9000 series Switches: Cisco 2900, 3500, 3600, 3700, 3800, 4500,5000, 5500, 6500 series. Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k series. Routing: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, RIP: 2, PBR, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Sumenarization, Static Routing.

Switching: VLAN, VTP, STP, PVST+, RVST+, Inter VLAN routing & Mult-Layer Switching, Multicast

Operations : Layer 3 Switches, Ether channels, Transparent Bridging. LAN: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI, CDDI, Token Ring, ATM LAN Emulation. WAN: Leased lines 64k: 155Mb (PPP / HDLC), Channelized links (E1/11-E3/13), Frame Relay, ISDN, Load Balancing, MPLS.

Firewalls: Cisco PIX 515, ASA 5505, 5510, 5515 X, 5500 X. Load Balancer: Cisco ACE, FS BIG: IP

Network Diagnostic Tools: Putty, Wire shark, Windows Remote Desktop. EDUCATION:

• Master of Science in computer science

• Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Client: JPMC, NY Feb 2025 to Present

Jr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Extensive experience on deploying and configuring Cisco high end routers such as 7200, 3900, 3800, 2900, 2900, 2800 senes and switches 6500, 5500, 4500, 3800, 3600, 3500, 2900 series.

O Configured Cisco 2600, 2800 and 3600 series routers with routingprotocols like OSPF, EIGRP and RIP V2.

Built a network using CoreswitchesCisco 6500 seriesswitches, distribution layer switches Cisco 3850 seriesswitches, Access layerswitches Cisco 3750 seriesswitches and border routers.

Configured HSRP between VLANs, Configuring Ether-Channels, and Port Channel on 6500 catalyst switches as well as working knowledge with 10 gigabit Supervisor Engine 720 on 6500 catalyst switches.

Configured Cisco Catalyst 3500, 3800 series for implementing VLANs segmentation improve security, port-security, VTP.

Rapid PVST+, Vlantrunking as dot1q in inter-Vlan routing.

Configured HSRP on Cisco 2800, 2900 routers to obtain default gateway redundancy and high availability.

Worked on Cisco ASR 1000 for protocol and session monitoring, auditing and network troubleshooting.

Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500, PIX security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs, routing protocols, NAT with the firewalls as per the design. Configured remote access IPSEC VPN on Cisco ASA 5500 series

Worked on F5LoadBalancers, Configured Irules, Profiles, NAT/SNAT,and multiple components for efficient performance and to increase reliability through redundancy.

Configured AAA Security (RADIUS/ TACACS+)for network access servers and routers.

Good experience in IPv6, L2/L3 VPN, and GRE over IPsec to client locations on Cisco 7200 routers also connected to Cisco PIX

535 security appliances providing perimeter based firewall security.

Configured and troubleshoot VLAN, trunking, ether-channel, port-channel, inter-vlan routing, HSRP, LACP, PAGP on various distribution layer 3 switches like NEXUS 5010, 5020 Switches.

Intermediate knowledge of upgrade the networking devices of Cisco, epld version on Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000, Catalyst 6500, 4900, 4500 and Load balancers like BIG-IP F5 LTM's. Familiarity of configuring Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) that acts as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 5000.

Worked with Cisco Nexus 2148 Fabric Extender and Nexus 5000 series to provide a flexible Access Solution for datacenter access architecture.

Administered the Network traffic using Wireshark and maintained the efficiency of the network by applying different switching and routing techniques. Implemented and verified WAN links.

Installed a Virtualbox, Cisco ACS in VMWare software including active directory. Client: Team Geek Solutions, India Jan 2022- April 2023 Role: Network Engineer

Project: Junos Pulse secure Access service & SRX

Responsibilities:

The project is to provide support to the customer for the SSL VPN devices, Unified Access Controller (UAC) and Junos Pulse. These SSL VPN devices are called Secure Access.

Handling maintenance releases and release build for the external publication.

Reproduce and verify the customer reported problems for the other maintenance releases.

Work on setting up the testbed for reproducing the customer reported issue for the developer to look into it and get the logs and all other required details for troubleshooting the problem.

Functional design of pulse features like Pulse SAM, SAML SSO support for pulse, GC support for Pulse.

Worked on FTP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP servers in windows server-client environment with resource allocation to desired Virtual LANs of network.

Configured Juniper SRX firewalls with different security policies routers (240, 650, 1400, 5800, 3600, 220, 210)

Run automated scripts to cover automation and debug them on failure.

Worked on security features on Juniper SRX products.

Worked on Security features like IPSec VPN, NAT.

Design, and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls

Bug filing, Bug tracking and coordinating with developers to ensure a successful release.

Root cause corrective action on issues raised by customers.

Customer focused testing on the service releases for SRX devices.

Deploy JunOS release for SRX series platforms to the customers.

Build the network topology from scratch, setting up lab environment, configuring the devices, ensure basic connectivity from remote shells.

Giving technical guidance/details to assigned components bugs.

Preparing the weekly reports, test status and reporting to the leads.

Monitoring the test bed health status.

Schedule, track and report the daily status of regression activities to the management.

Attending weekly team meetings for status tracking. Environment: JuniperSRX1400, 4800, 3600, 210, 110, 240,650 routers, Junos Pulse, Juniper2500, 4500, 6500 series, Junos, Host checker, Pulse SAM, IDS/IDP, IPSEC, NAT.

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