Senior Network & Security Engineer, Cloud SME
Resume:
Name
Ayobami (Joseph) Odetola
Proposed GSA
LCAT
Functional/SME
Category
SME (Senior Engineer)
Education
Master of Business Administration, Lagos Business School (Pan African University), 2008
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Lagos 1997
B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, 1990
Professional Certifications
Certification Date Received Current/Active
CCNP EI (Cisco) (2017) Active
CCNA Security (Cisco) (2018) Active
PMP (Project Management Int) (2016) Active
CISSP (2021)
Azure Administrator (AZ-104) (2023)
AWS Advanced Network Specialty (2024)
Technical Skills
Network: Cisco routers ISR Routers- 1002/4000 Series; Cisco Catalyst Switches (Catalyst 3750 and 2960/), Cisco Catalyst Unified Communications Switches (3560G/3650/3850/4500/6500/9300 Series), Nexus 5k/7k,9k, HP 5940 Series, Juniper switch 3300/4200/4500; Meraki MX, MS-120/210; Wireless LAN: Cisco 4402/5508, Aerohive
Cloud : Infrastructure as a Service. Supporting MS Azure – IAAS, AWSN, Networking, Supporting hybrid connectivity with AWS Direct Connect, MS Expressroute
Voice: Cisco Unified Communication Manager, Cisco Unified Communications Switches
Firewalls &Security Appliances: ASA 5500 series, ASA 4100 FTD Check Point, Palo Alto FW, Cisco WSAs and ESAs
Protocols: EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, HSRP, VRRP, NPS, MPLS, SD-WAN, STP, NetFlow
Management: Cisco Prime, Nagios, SolarWinds, Meraki cloud
Virtualization: VMware
Professional Profile
Sr. Network and Security Engineer with 12+ years of extensive experience in network deployment, operation, upgrades, architecture, design, security and firewall expertise
Architecture, engineering and supervisory services to support emerging technology integration into network backbone systems in enterprise campus – edge and branch designs.
Cloud Networking experience across AWS and Microsoft Azure
Manage and coordinate complex projects between customers and vendors from the milestone updates and schedule up to final performance checks involving multiple utilities, datacenters and across geographical sites
IT Infrastructure Monitoring
Evaluate and Design Infrastructure requirement for Unified Communications (Voice, Data, Security and NAC) and migration assistance for customers.
Work Experience
IRS (CedgeIT Contractor) June 2025 – Date
Senior Network Engineer, Performance Engineering Management
Key Support for the IRS Network Modernization and Cloud Adoption program. In this role, I have supported the Network Modernization project by assessing the demand of 652 IRS locations, culminating in a circuit modernization and capacity doubling across the enterprise. I have also supported the migration of 35 applications to the cloud by ensuring an accurate assessment and provision of sufficient Network capacity to support the migration and operational usage.
Just finished the Palo Alto Prisma Cloud Security training for IRS NMCC personnel
Onboarding New and Existing Cloud Applications by supporting the Cloud Network architecture and ensuring they meet IRS Standards
Work with and ensure the Cloud Applications meet the traffic.
Bandwidth Assessment – Monitors data traffic across the enterprise by collecting critical Network performance data and forwarding it to several different tools for analysis. Tools include Jira, Confluence, Riverbed, Aternity EUEM, Statseeker, and Broadcom DX
Monitor TNET WAN circuits for network and application performance
Monitor the WAN Circuits infrastructure to ensure availability and sufficiency for IRS use
Monitor Cloud Circuits; ATT Netbonds to Treasury, AWS, MS Azure, and ISP connectivity to various Cloud Services to ensure cloud application quality of service
Monitor WAN Routers and BGP routing for optimal traffic flow
US Department of Labor, DC, Peraton Inc Feb 2024 – May 2025
Team Lead – Network Operations
Managed a team of 9 Engineers supporting the LAN, Zscaler WAN and Network Security to ensure availability of US Department of Labor’s IT Network across the United States using state of the art monitoring and management tools for monitoring Network Infrastructure, Application visibility and performance, Security baseline use and intrusion detection. These include SolarWinds Monitoring Software, LiveNX, Cisco DNA Center, Firepower Management Center, Cisco ISE and Splunk
Working with 18,000 Employees, 400 + Locations, and 35,000 + devices
Supervising a team of 9 Engineers, manages all day-to-day operations of Configuration Change Control, Switches Upgrade, Network Devices Software vulnerabilities management and Projects Management in LAN, Firewall Operations
Manage L3 Network Operations Support using Service Now ticketing systems
Manages and Supervises Proof of concepts, patches and updates in the Lab before rollout to production equipment
CedgeIT supporting US Department of Homeland Security Mar 2019 – Jan 2024
Subject Matter Expert – Enterprise Architecture
SME in Enterprise Network Modernization Program
Technical Lead and managing 5 Senior Engineers to support the development of Network Architecture
Provides SME level insight into developing a migrating plan from ‘as is’ to a desirable IT Network that supports the Organization in achieving its mission.
Development of a Network Monitoring Plan to support Network Infrastructure and assess Application Performance monitoring using several tools including Dynatrace, Solarwinds, Riverbed Netprofiler, Statseeker and Aternity EUEM
Supported AWS Cloud Infrastructure: Setting up and maintaining VPC and various Gateway (Transit, Internet) and VPC Peering. Managed security with Route tables and Palo Alto VM appliances. Migrated some networks to AWS during the period.
Provides Program Management support to the ENMP
US Department of Labor, DC, Maximus Inc Sep 2018 – Feb 2019
Team Lead – Network Operations
Managed a team of 35 Engineers across LAN, WAN, Security, VOIP and Facilities Domain to Ensure availability of US Department of Labor’s IT Network across the United States using state of the art monitoring and management tools for monitoring Network Infrastructure, Application visibility and performance, Security baseline use and intrusion detection. These include SolarWinds Monitoring Software, Firepower Management Center, Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Cisco ISE and Splunk
Working with 18,000 Employees, 400 + Locations, and 35,000 + devices
Supervising a team of 35 Engineers, manages all day-to-day operations of Change Control, Command Center Operations, Disaster Recovery, Release Management and Projects Management in LAN, Circuits (WAN and AWS Direct Connect), VoIP, Firewall and Facilities units
Implemented new datacenter technologies including Vxlan and Cisco ACI
Manage L3 Network Operations Support using Service Now ticketing systems
Manages and Supervises Proof of concepts, patches and updates in the Lab before rollout to production equipment
Successfully delivered several projects including ISE migration to Ops, Data Center Move, Installing Environmental Monitoring Systems for closets among others
Manage connectivity from LAN to AWS Cloud (VPN and Direct connect)
Manage connectivity to MS Azure Cloud (Expressroute). Worked with creating VNETs, Spinning VMs, backups and recovery services. Also familiar with Azure AD and storage infrastructure.
TekSystems Supporting Exelon Corporation, Baltimore, MD Apr 2018 – Sep 2018
Senior Network Engineer
Engineering Design and Implementation of IT Networks across both LANs and WAN to meet strict NERC CIP security standards
Implementing a Management Network rollout covering 6 utilities, 4 Major Datacenters and 12 subsidiary datacenters across the US East Coast and involving more than 400 Network devices mainly Nexus 9000 series, Checkpoints 28000 and 15000 series and OpenGear Console Switches
Lifecycle and Network Refresh projects
L3 resolution of issues beyond the capacity of Ops team to resolve
Graffiti Consulting, Hyattsville, MD Sep 2017 – Mar 2018
Senior Network Engineer
Network design and Architecture for multiple clients using Cisco Validated Designs and templates. Very proficient in applying Core-Distribution-Access Layer and Core-Distribution/Access layer models.
Network Infrastructure Audit and Upgrade. Worked with clients in upgrading brownfield Network Systems to support modern Voice, Security and Network Access Controls
Implementing Infrastructural Services as Project Manager for Delivery Projects.
IP Data Systems, Ellicott City, MD May 2017 – Sep 2017
Senior Network Engineer
Project Management – Part of team that carried out a data center move for one of the top law firms in the country. My role was in Network design and architecture including the latest iWAN2 from Cisco
Jointly with Supervisor, managed a colocation data center from which backbone services and network hosting was done for several large enterprise clients including one of the biggest Satellite companies and a large medical facility in the South East
Experiences in setting up and managing L2 and L3 connectivity to key clients using various VPN technologies
Experienced in configuration and troubleshooting various Network equipment including especially Cisco ASR routers (2800, 1200 ISR, 3800 ISR etc), Catalyst switches (3750, 2960 and 6500), Cisco Nexus series, ASA Firewalls, Palo Alto, Load balancers (Cisco ACE, F5), redundancy technologies (HSRP, VRRP, GLBP)
Analyzed and defined network requirements: and maintain network architecture and infrastructure
Network monitoring and troubleshooting with Network Management System (PRTG), Wireshark, SolarWinds etc.
Managing Clients with ticketing system (Auto –task)
Analyzed system logs, identified network performance issues, and server related issues while resolving operational issues
Extensive Virtualization experience comanaging a VCenter with over 600 VMs
Graffiti Consulting, Hyattsville, MD Feb 2015 – Feb 2017
Senior Network Engineer
SME, Enterprise Architecture for an Enterprise Network Modernization Program for a major US Department
Handled Network Architecture Projects
Led team that handled Local Area Network (LAN) troubleshooting and support. The team also handled design, installation, testing, and documentation on several network upgrades
Experience with several Cisco Routers and Switches including Cisco 4510, 6500s ISRs etc.
Experience with ASA 2500 and 5500 series
Some working experience with Nexus 5000, 6000 and 7000 series switches
Coordinate development and maintenance of network benchmark standards and trained Site Coordinators with simple network troubleshooting techniques
Also configured Port provisioning and Activations, IOS software upgrades and troubleshooting and errors
Managed network security and standards implementations. Blocked malicious attempts based on recommendations from SOC
Installed and configured VLANS and VPN Networks
Configured routing protocols – RIP, EIGRP OSPF and BGP
Configuration and Management of Wireless Systems (Cisco WLC, Mitel etc.)
Management of VoIP (Cisco etc.)
Support end users covering any IT related issues including: application, Operating Systems, Network Connectivity, and Remote Access to published Applications
Managed several IT projects and Project Segments and meeting the Projects constraints of scope, time, and cost.
Had overall responsibility for day-to-day contract operations including daily direct customer interaction, ensuring deliverable product, budget, staffing, vendor, and partner management
Previous Employment:
Sep 2010 to 2015 Amber Global Space Limited Lagos Networking Engineer
1991 to 2010 Chevron Oil Nigeria Plc Lagos Operations Manager (IT)
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