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Siva Reddy - Network Engineer
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Location: Claremont, North Carolina, USA
Relocation: yes
Visa: H1B
Shivareddy Parupati
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+1 (248) 686-4135

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Career Objective

Over 9 years of solid experienced in networking industry for handling various switching and routing data networks, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP and SD WAN, ACI) and a broad range of related technologies Sound experience in designing, implementing, and supporting medium - to-large scale LAN/WAN infrastructures in enterprise environment Excellent understanding of Datacenter components, TCP/IP protocol and end-to-end IT processes.

Summary of Strength
SDWAN
Expert level in designing & implementing Cisco s SD-WAN solution Viptela
Experience in deploying migration strategies from Legacy Wan to SD-WAN
Experience in creating high level and low-level design documents
Experience in creating cut templates as well as Implementation plan
Experience with building On-Prem Controllers as well as Cloud based vManage/vSmart/vBond
Active Member of the Global SD-WAN deployment team Delivery
Data Center /R&S
Design & implementation of DC network with hands on experience on Cisco ACI / Nexus 9K,7K 5K
Experience with devices running IOS, IOS-XE, NX-OS, IOS-XR. Experience with Catalyst 3750, 2900, 2811, 3960 and Juniper SRX210, SRX240 Ex4200 EX4300, QFX5100
Deployed L3 MPLS VPN configuration in a massive multi-tenancy environment
Configured MP-BGP routing in an MPLS environment / Support for route leaking
Deployed Service provider P and PE routers, configured LDP/Traffic Engineering and underlay routing
Well versed with the following routing protocols: OSPF / ISIS / BGP / LISP
TECHNICAL SKILLS
LAN/WAN: Ethernet, STP, RSTP, VLAN, HSRP, VLAN, VTP, PPP, MPLS
Routing: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP
Firewalls: Cisco ASA s, Fortinet, Check Point, Palo Alto Networks, Panorama Palo Alto Networks firewall management.
Network Security: ACLs, NAT/PAT, VPN, IPsec VPN, site-to-site VPN,
Infrastructure Services: DNS, DHCP, SSH, TELNET, SNMP, HTTP, FTP
Routers: Cisco routers (7600, 7200, 4500, 3900, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series), Nexus 9K, 7K, 5K, 2K & 1K, Juniper routers (M7i, M10i, M320).
Juniper: EX-2200, EX-4200, EX-4500, MX-480, M Series, SRX210, SRX240



Tools: Wireshark, Cacti, ns-3, SolarWinds, QIP, Jira, ITSM, Service-now, Net brain,QIP.
Infrastructure planning and design
Meraki MX gateway s, Access points, switches
Platforms: Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco Cat OS, Cisco IOS (11.x, 12.x). Junos OS.
SD WAN: SD-WAN Viptela (V100, V1000, V2000)
Security & VPN: PIX 500 Firewall, ASA 5505 Firewall, Check Point, AIP SSM, CSC, SSM, FWSM, FortiGate, Cisco CSM, ACL-Access Control List, IPS/IDS, NAT, PAT, Cisco ACS, and Juniper
Arista: 7050s, 7150s
ACI : Spine-Leaf, APIC and VXLAN, VPC, IPG and EPGs


Education

Completed Bachelors in Electronics and Communications Engineering from JNTU 2012

Experience

Sr Network Engineer,
Comerica Bank, Auburn Hills, MI December 2020-Present
Involving in Planning, Designing, Implementation of small, medium organizations including LAN, VLAN, WLAN and WAN on wired and wireless networks
Deploying and Configuration of core ASR 1K, Nexus 7K, 5K and its downstream devices. Experience
with converting Cisco 6500 IOS to Cisco Nexus NX-OS in the data center environment
Hands on experience in Cisco IOS (7600/GSR/ASR1K) series routers, Cisco IOS - XR (CRS-1, ASR9000,12k XR) and Catalyst 3750/6500 / Nexus 7K series switches including setup, configuration, troubleshooting
Involving in Troubleshooting routing issue, like BGP, OSPF and EIGRP and multicast on complex Wireless networks.
Rolled out Viptela s SD-WAN to edge sites over multiple transports: MPLS / Private / LTE / Business internet
Designed and deployed Cisco s SD-WAN Viptela for various clients: smallest deployment consisted of 20 sites while the largest was 400+ sites
Involving in SD-WAN initiative project to replace WAN edge routers with Viptela (V2000, V1000 and V100)
Deployed SD-WAN Controller s for Air gapped networks consisting of vManage Cluster/ vSmart/vBond
Hands on experience with all Viptela products: vedge-1000/2000/100 beginning version 16 all the way to 20
Hands on experience with Velocloud SDWAN, Activation of new Edge through zero touch provisioning
Deployment and support SD WAN LAN migration in Banking centers
Adding new Spine and Leaf devices in APIC.
Provide second/third level technical support for ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure), APIC technologies.
Deploying Application Centric Infrastructure, Spine-Leaf, APIC and VXLAN.
Create new VPC, IPG and EPGs in APIC.
ACI Fabric nodes imaging, firmware upgrade and Cluster configuration of APIC controllers,
ACI Policy configuration, Tenant (end user), profiles, VMM Domain creation and association policies & interfaces
Design and implement Cisco ACI in datacenters, create a strategy that allows use of containers, cloud orchestration tools for end users and developer
Collaborate with application owners to define dependencies, map dependencies for better application workflow within ACI or public cloud use.
Worked on Cisco Nexus 9000 family of switches whose hardware is based on Cisco ACI.
Configured IPsec VPN access for client to site remote access.
Established IPSEC-VPN tunnels wifi ASA 5500 series Firewall between some branch offices & headquarters.
Hands on experience of SDWAN technology (VMware Velocloud, ATT Flex ware)
Extensive knowledge in configuring and deploying Next Generation Firewalls including Palo Alto, Cisco ASA and Checkpoint Firewalls.
Worked on decommission of servers and switches and migration of switches from one spine to another.
Worked on Industry Standard Design like 3 layered Architecture Model, and Border Leaf, Spine & Leaf model.
Profound working knowledge of administration and management of Palo Alto firewalls using centralized Panorama M-100 and M-500 devices.
Responsible for implementing QoS technologies Cisco Call Manager, Unity, and IPCC, Cisco ASA's, IPsec, SSL, VPN, and PKI technologies.
Proficiency in configuration of VLAN setup on various CISCO Routers and Switches.
Extensive hand on experience with complex routed LAN networks, CISCO Routers and Switches.
Experience in configuring the PFRv3 routing protocol for the application optimization
Successfully migrated enterprise lab environment used by five different technical teams from one location to another, including network connectivity, remote services and server services.
Managed, designed and supported the enterprise LAN/WAN and 3rd party connectivity
Configuration OSPF on ASR 1002/9001 Cisco routers at various back offices across US
In the MPLS connectivity ASR 1k and 9K devices are used as Customer Edge (CE) routers and deployed VRF
Troubleshooting hardware issue for platform CRS1, CRS3, ASR9K, 12K XR, ASR1k and Nexus7K, 6500
Experience in configuring and troubleshooting of routing protocols RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, IS - IS BGP and MPLS
Troubleshooting Multicast issue and MPLS/VPN L3vpn configure legacy route map configurations using the new Cisco IOS XR Routing Protocol Language (RPL)
Expertise in implementing Layer 2 technologies including VLAN s, VTP, STP, RSTP, Trunking and Port-security, expertise on working with Ether-channel technology (LACP)
Hands on experience in Infrastructure Engineering and secured services to various B2B customers across various DMZ Zones.
Extensive knowledge with DMZ, B2B, VPN, IPsec VPN
Deployment of Nexus 7700s at spine with 5000s and FEX at leaf.
Dealt with updating IOS of Cisco Routers & Switches. Redesigned network to leaf-spine topology
Designing, Configuration, Monitoring and Troubleshooting for Network Security Devices, which includes for Data center Cisco NGFW 5585X, IPS and FortiGate 2000E NGFW for DMZ, IP-VPN & Internet zone.
Designing/Deploying/Maintaining Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) features such as SSL inspection, user identity.
Work with B2B partners for building new connections VPN tunnels, or dedicated MPLS circuits.
Configured HSRP and VLAN trunking 802.1Q, VLAN routing on catalyst 6500 switches.
Involved in circuits migrations of sites from one legacy Dark fiber to MPLS new circuits
Good knowledge on DMZ, IPsec, Intrusion detection, proxy, tunnels, Site to Site VPN, Multicasting, MPLS, SSL PAP/CHAP, AAA (TACACS+ and Radius).
Hands on experience in routing and Switching protocols OSPF, BGP, VLAN, IPSEC, ISAKMP, trucking/port-channeling, enterprise level MPLS, VDC and HSRP, VRRP STP
Good working experience in Deployment and configuration of ISR, ASR, Catalyst and Nexus platforms such as 2k,5k, 7k and 9k
Working with Juno OS and Juniper M&T series switches and expertise in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Juniper Routers (M and T-series).
Strong hands-on experience in layer-3 Routing and layer-2 Switching. Dealt with Nexus models like 9k,7K, 5K, 2K series, Cisco router models like ASR 9K, ASR 1K, 7200, 3900, 2900, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series and Cisco catalyst 6500, 4500, 3850, 3750, 3500, 2900 series switches
Experience working with data center deployment where we converted from Cisco 6500 to Nexus.
Experience working with Juniper Switches like EX-2200, EX-4200, EX-4500, M Series Routers MX5, MX10, MX40 and MX80, Juniper Firewalls SRX100, SRX110, SRX220, SRX320, SRX650
Advanced knowledge, design, installation, configuration, maintenance and administration of Check Point Firewall R55 up to R77, Secure Platform Installation, and VPN
Designing and Implementation of (LAN) VLAN's, VTP, Spanning Tree (STP), Trunking (802.1Q and ISL) and Ether-channel.
Configuring Site to Site IPSec, VPN tunnels to peer with different clients and each of the client having different specifications of Phase 1 and Phase 2 policies using Check Point firewalls.
Configuration of ACLs in Check Point 77.30 firewall for Internet Access requests for servers in LAN and DMZ and for special user requests as authorized by management
Configuring the F5 Load Balancer as per the Client requirement. Creating the LTM & GTM modules configuration to meet the client Standards.
Migrated from traditional catalyst 6500 to ACI Data Center consisting of Nexus 9508 as Spine and N9396 as Leaf switches.
Configured ACLs in Juniper SRX 3400 and Palo Alto PA-5050 firewalls for Internet Access requests for servers, Protocol Handling, Object Grouping and NAT.
Working on Load Balancer to build connectivity to production and disaster recovery servers through F5 Big IP LTM load balancer. VIP Pool/Profile/SSL/iRule/ASM Configurations in BIG IP
Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on Juniper EX series switches.
Configuring Virtual Chassis for Juniper switches EX-4200, Firewalls SRX-210.
Experience with setting up IPSEC VPN on Juniper SRX 3600 Firewalls towards the multiple Customer sites as backup path to the datacenter.
Support 24x7 data network center, monitor network performance, manage, and maintain Cisco IOS, IOS-XR hardware
Hands-on experience with WAN (ATM/Frame Relay), Routers, Switches, TCP/IP, Routing Protocols (BGP/OSPF), and IP addressing
Performs bandwidth and device upgrades on IOS-XR, IOS-XE, NX-OS, and IOS
Worked on NXOS, IOS and IOS-XR BXB to N7K-NXOS (MPLS) system test
Provided network support during new installation and provisioning of Equipment and Infrastructure
Documented customer connections through SharePoint, Excel patch panel tracker and uploaded to iServer
Knowledge on QOS and defined class of service (COS) WRED and WFQ for bandwidth management.
Preparing network diagrams, floor plans & schematic using VISIO
Environment: Cisco 2948/3560/4500/3560/3750/3550/3500/2960 6500 switches and Cisco 3640 /12000 /7200/3845/3600/2800/4500x routers, Cisco Nexus 9K, 7K/5K/2K, Cisco ACI, SDWAN, ACI, FTP, F5 Load Balancer, Wireshark, Solar Winds, Service now, ACL, LAN, WAN, RIP, OSPF, BGP, IPV4, IPV6, TCP, UDP, NAT, DHCP, SNMP, HTTP, SSH, Enterprise security. .

Network Engineer
Deutsche Bank, Parsippany, New Jersey November 2018-November 2020
Designed, Implemented, and troubleshot Cisco 3750, 3550, 3560, 4500,2924, 6513,6504,6506,6509,6500 series switches, GSR, ASR routers with Cisco IOS and IOS-XR and NX
Design expertise for the SD-WAN (Versa & Viptela), SD-LAN and WAN optimization technologies for efficient delivery of the application data across LAN and WAN.
Design and migration of legacy Cisco ISR WAN routers to Viptela SD-Wan routers (vManage, vSmart, vBond, vEdges, cEdges) for multiple Cisco customers. Role included multitenant segmentation, security and configuration automation, POC lab testing for large Cisco customers for pre deployment over an SDWAN network of more than 2000 sites (simulated using Spirent).
Migration of the company s 200 sites from legacy hub and spoke legacy WAN network to SD-WAN in order to support a star topology with virtual firewalls at the remote sites.
Experience with Cisco SD-WAN Components & Technologies: vEdge, vSmart, vManage and vBond, Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP), Overlay Management Protocol (OMP), SD-WAN fabric, VPNs,(VRFs),Templates
Configured IPsec site-to-site VPN connection between Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator and Cisco 3800
Working knowledge of frame relay, MPLS services, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP routing protocols, sub-netting, also including DNS, WINS, LDAP, DHCP, http, HTML, HTTPS, TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, IPSEC, PPTP, VLAN, STP (Spanning tree Protocol), RTSP & Multicasting protocols
Extensively worked with configuration of Network and Security devices such as Cisco routers and switches (Cisco 7K/3K/Nexus 9K/7K/5K), Firewall (Checkpoint 3K, 5K and Cisco FWSM), Load Balancers, DNS and IP Manager (Infoblox)
Helped team to deploy 100 APs with 15 Switches, Cisco Nexus, Cisco Meraki and 2 Wireless controllers.
Configuring, upgrading and deployment of Nexus 7010, 5596 and 2248.
Involved in troubleshot IP addressing issues and Updating IOS images using TFTP
Maintained traffic engineering on top of an existing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network using Frame Relay and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Used different Technologies and Routing Protocols for different customers which included RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS VPN, VRF, QOS, IPSLA, IPSEC, GRE, DMVPN, GET VPN, VDC, FCOE, VPC, NPV, Cisco ACS installation and configuration for TACACS and Radius, Wireless Authentication, Multicast, VLANs, Private VLANs, 802.1Q tunnel Trunk, layer 2 and layer 3 ether channel configuration.
Expert Level Knowledge about TCP/IP and OSI models. Hands on Knowledge/experience on F5 load balancers, its methods, implementation and troubleshooting on LTMs and GTMs
Deployment, configuration, and management of 802.1x solutions to include Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), ACS, and Cisco Prime. Performed Migration from Cisco ACE Load Balancers to F5 LTM.
Extensive knowledge of deploying and troubleshooting L2/L3, TCP/IP and Multilayer Switches
Configured and Maintained Cisco 7200, 4400, 4500,5000 and 6500 platforms
Implement IPsec Site-to-Site VPN & SSL VPN using CISCO ASA 5500 Series
Configured BPDU Guard, port-fast, uplink fast and other spanning tree features
Extensive implementation of firewall rules on Juniper SRX 3400 and NetScreen 5500 on a daily basis, using CLI
Configuring, upgrading and managing Juniper devices like M&T series routers, EX, MX and SRX
Configurations of SSL/VPN connections, troubleshooting CISCO ASA firewalls, and related network security measures
Worked on migration from traditional MPLS platform to SD- WAN technologies (Fat Pipe, Silver Peak, Cisco Meraki).
configured Meraki and Velo Devices- SDWAN. Creating routes, Business Policy ISP change and doing 1:1 NAT
Installed, configured, and set security policies on cisco and checkpoint firewalls, VPN
Installed and configured of Cisco Routers (1700, 1800, 2500, 2600, 3200, 3600, 3700, 3800 and 7200, 7609) & Cisco L2 & L3 Switches (2900, 3560, 4500 & 6500)
Deployed BIG IP Enterprise manager to cluster all the F5 LTM, GTM, ASA, Netscreen devices for easier management and common configurations.
Installed and Managed F5 Big-IP LTM/GTM for providing high availability and configured virtual IP(VIP), Pools, nodes, rules for load balancing and Packet filters for security
Responsible for checkpoint and Cisco ASA firewall administration across global networks.
Troubleshooting of complex LAN/WAN infrastructure, including routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF & Vl.
Configured STP for loop prevention and VTP for Inter-VLAN Routing.
Configured HSRP and VLAN trucking 802.1Q, VLAN Routing on Catalyst 6500 switches.
Create and test Cisco router and switching operations using OSPF routing protocol, ASA Firewalls, and MPLS switching for stable VPNs.
Basic and advance F5 load balancer configurations, including migrating configurations from Cisco ACE to F5 and general troubleshooting of the F5 load balancers.
Experience with configuring Virtual Server and Configuring Load balancing methods in F5 12.0 LTM.
Experience in F5, Cisco ACE 4710 Load balancers, Aruba wireless access points and controllers
In corporate Cisco Nexus 9000 NXOS to ACI fabric to work in concert with existing Nexus 7000s and ASRs for MPLS
Environment: Cisco 2948/3560/4500/3560/3750/3550/3500/2960 6500 switches and Cisco 3640 /12000 /7200/ 3845/3600/2800/4500x routers, Cisco Nexus 9K, 7K/5K/2K, SDWAN, Extranet Silos, SSF, RDH, DOD, FTP, Wireshark, Solar Winds, Service now, ACL, LAN, WAN, RIP, OSPF, BGP, IPV4, IPV6, TCP, UDP, NAT, DHCP, SNMP, HTTP, SSH

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Network Engineer
Office Depot, Boca Raton, FL December 2016 - October 2018
Designed, Implemented and troubleshot Cisco 3750, 3550, 3560, 4500,2924, 6513,6504,6506,6509,6500 series switches, GSR, ASR routers with Cisco IOS and IOS-XR and NX
Strong hands-on experience on Palo Alto (5060, 3060), Checkpoint Firewall R77, juniper and Cisco ASA 5585 firewall.
Cisco ACI implementation on Spine Leave topology with Nexus 9336PQ spine / 9372PX ACI switch & APIC controller C220 M4 for Management.
Installed, Configured and Maintained Cisco Switches (2900, 3500, 3700 series, 6500 series)
Installed, Configured, and troubleshot of Cisco Routers (3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 1800, 1700, 800)
Developed the passive cabling design and installation for the passive storage area network infrastructure
Deployment, Implementation, Rollout and Turn-Up of new and existing client Network systems, Turn-up and cutover of servers and devices including encryption, capacity planning and expansion
Experience working with Nexus 9k,7k,5k,2k devices.
Regular upgrade and maintenance of Infrastructure including Cisco Router and Switches, Juniper Routers and Firewalls, Nexus 7k,5k & 2k, F5 BIG IP and Palo Alto Firewalls.
Worked in for the NextGen Datacenter Cloud Architecture, using Cisco ACI and Nexus 9K
Configured and Maintained of Cisco ASR1000 series and 7200VXR routers at data center and deployment of and 3900, 3800, 2951 2821 for branch connectivity
Configuring IPSEC VPN (Site-Site to Remote Access) on SRX series firewalls.
Designing/Deploying/Maintaining, Configuration, Monitoring and Troubleshooting for FortiGate/Juniper SRX firewall/Cisco ASA 55XX ZBF (NGFW): URL filtering, Content Filtering, SSL inspection, User identity.
Configuring, Maintaining the Routers and Switches and Implementation of RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP routing protocols and troubleshooting Remote infrastructure management of offices in different locations nationwide
Experience in Ethernet Layer 2 devices (switches) and Layer 3 devices (routers). With full Command on Cisco IOS and Administration of Cisco IOS 11.x and 12.1 versions.
Conversions to BGP WAN routing. Which will be to convert WAN routing from OSPF to BGP (OSPF is used for local routing only) which involves new wan links.
Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) on Juniper and Palo Alto firewall for the proper network routing for the B2Bnetwork connectivity.
QOS design and configuration for Layer 2 and Layer 3 in Nexus OS and Cisco OS, Juniper EX, Juniper SRX.
Advanced configuration knowledge within the Cisco IOS, Arista EOS, and Juniper JUNOS
Hands-on experience working with different models of Cisco/Juniper/Arista switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, VPNs and wireless systems
Performing backups and upgrades from time to time on different type of firewalls mostly on Palo Alto, Checkpoint and Cisco ASA firewalls
Performed firewall migration from Cisco ASA platforms to Paloalto firewalls using Paloalto conversion tool
Configured and maintained IPSEC and SSL VPNs on Meraki Security appliance
Configured Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) on Cisco IOS XR Software
Establishing VPN Tunnels using IPSec encryption standards and configuring and implementing site-to-site VPN, Remote VPN.
Configured VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on EX series switches
Supported Data center Migration Project involving re-locations
Advanced Knowledge in IPSEC VPN design connection and protocols, IPSEC tunnel configuration, encryption and integrity protocol
Configured IP, EIGRP and OSPF in routers
Configured and troubleshot access-lists, service policies, and NAT rules, network object groups, service object Groups on ASA 5585 and 5505 Firewalls.
Working with business units to define feature need/wants within ACI and Open stack. Document procedures to implement new feature sets within classic and Clos fabrics.
Define the migration from network centric model to an application policy model infrastructure, create plans in include ACI, Hybrid Cloud and use of containers and orchestration tools
Manage multiple Palo Alto firewalls centrally through the Palo Alto Panorama M-500 centralized Management appliance.
Implement the Global Protect VPN, IPSec VPNs and SSL VPNs through IKE and PKI on Palo Alto firewalls for site-to-site VPN Connectivity.
Deploying, configuring, and administering Checkpoint EndPoint firewalls and hands on Experienced firewall engineer with advanced knowledge of Checkpoint, Fortinet, Cisco ASA 5500 series, JUNOS and Palo Alto PA-200.
Configured and installed multi-protocol (IP, IPX) multi-interface Cisco routers
Expertise in Configuration of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANS) using Cisco routers and multi-layer Switches and supporting STP, RSTP, PVST, RPVST along with trouble shooting of inter-VLAN routing and VLAN Trunking using 802.1Q.
Organized and remotely supported all hardware installation, repair, and maintenance activity performed at the various domestic and international office locations and Data center
Responsible for day-to-day management of Cisco Devices, Traffic management and monitoring
Configured backup and recovery of Cisco IOS Images
Performed firewall migration from Cisco ASA platforms to Paloalto firewalls using Paloalto conversion too
Performed password recovery on Cisco IOS routers/switches
Implemented with Cisco Layer 3 switches 3750, 4500, 6500 in multi VLAN environment with the use of inter-VLAN routing, HSRP, ISL trunk, ether channel
Configured and troubleshot access-lists, service policies, and NAT rules, network object groups, service object Groups on ASA 5585 and 5505 Firewalls.
Deployment of Cisco Unified Presence for the enterprise network
Negotiate VPN tunnels using IPsec encryption standards and configured and implemented site-to-site VPN, Remote VPN
Configuring Checkpoint and ASA for NAT (Static PAT/Manual NAT) to enable remote.
Provided technical and vendor support services, designing and planning Network Planning, Implementing, Configuring, SRX210, SRX240 Ex4200 EX4300, QFX5100
Worked on Cisco ASA IPsec VPN tunnel and building security policies and packet analysis
Worked on JUNOS platform and worked with IOS upgrade of Juniper devices
Experience with VPC Domain Configuration, VPC Peer Keep alive, VPC Peer Link, QOS and NetFlow in NXOS. Catalyst 6500, Catalyst 4500, UCS 6120, 6140, Cisco WLC and Cisco MDS Switches Designing, Configuration and Troubleshooting. Experienced VCE VBLOCK engineer.
Performed upgrading of load balancers from Citrix to F5 Big IP load balancer to improved functionality, reliability and scalability in the system.
Experience in working with checkpoint, Palo Alto Next-generation firewall, Cisco ASA and Panorama M-100.
Worked with Aruba Access point as a Public Wi-Fi and successfully implemented Wireless Access Point (WAP).
Experience deploying BIG-IP F5LTM Load Balancers for load balancing and traffic management of business application and provided uninterrupted service to customers.
Cisco Meraki Appliance MX (400, 80, 60) and Meraki wireless Access points (MR66, MR18), Installed and configured Meraki (MX80, MX60) Appliance via Meraki MX400 Cloud.
Worked on ASA 5500-x platform configuring the web, SSL, any connect VPN s.
Configuring RIP, OSPF and Static routing on Juniper M 120 series router and MX 10, MX 40 series Routers
Working experience on Check Point Firewalls, ASA Firewalls. Implemented Security Policies using ACL traffic filters, IPSec, SSL, VPN, DMVPN, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS).
Managed the F5 Big IP GTM/LTM appliances which include writing iRules, SSL offload and everyday task of creating WIP and VIPs
Deployed and decommission of VLANs on core ASR 9K, Nexus 7K, 5K and its downstream devices
Performed bandwidth and device upgrades on IOS-XR, IOS-XE, NX-OS, and IOS
QOS configuration for network for different application, Layer 2 COS and Layer 3 DSCP configuration in different switches and different hardware
Provided network support during new installation and provisioning of Equipment and Infrastructure
Involved in Supported technical assistance center responding to customer network outages and provided technical support to approximately 200 users both remotely and onsite.

Environment: Cisco Switches 2948/3560/4500/3560/3750/3550/3500/2960/6500, Cisco routers 3640/1200/7200/3845/3600/2800, Access Points, Solar Winds, MS Visio, Cisco Nexus 7K/5K/2K, , SD-WAN, windows server 2003/2008,2010, RIP, OSPF, BGP, LAN, WAN, VPN, HSRP, Infoblox


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Network Engineer
TCS, Canton, MI April 2015-November 2016
Involved in configuring and implementing of composite Network models consists of Cisco 7600, 7200, 3800 series routers and Cisco 2950, 3500, 5000, 6500 Series switches
Configured redundant interfaces, DHCP server, DHCP relay, NTP settings, and sub interfaces on firewalls
Performed switching technology administration including VLANs, inter-VLAN routing, Trunking, STP, RSTP, port aggregation & link negotiation
Planning and configuring the routing protocols such as OSPF, RIP, and Static Routing on the routers
Configured OSPF on ASR 1002/9001 Cisco routers at various back offices across US
Implemented redundancy with HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, Ether channel technology (LACP, PAgP) etc
Implemented redundancy for Routers, Switches and Firewalls, Maintenance of ITIL standard practices, maintained the agreed SLA/KPI
Conversant in LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Fiber, Firewalls/IPS/IDS, IPAM, OpenStack, and virtualization
Performed advanced troubleshooting using Packet tracer and tcpdump on firewalls
Working experience on, ASA Firewalls
Implemented Security Policies using ACL traffic filters, IPSec, SSL, VPN, DMVPN, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS)
Implemented GRE tunneling, Site-to Site VPN& multipoint DMVPN using IPSEC
Conversant in LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi, DNS, WINS, DHCP, TCP/IP, ISCSI, Fiber, Firewalls/IPS/IDS, IPAM, OpenStack, virtualization, NFV Hardware.

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Network Engineer
Wissen Infotech, Waukesha, Wisconsin. January 2013-March 2015
Designed, implemented, and operational supported of routing/switching protocols in complex environments including, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, Spanning Tree, 802.1q, Ethernet, VLANs, VTP, STP etc
Troubleshooting complex networks layer 1, 2(frame relay, ATM, Point to Point, ISDN) to layer 3 (routing with BGP, EIGRP, OSPF and RIP protocols) technical issues
Experienced VLAN Trunking 802.1Q, STP, Port security on Catalyst 6500 switches
Configured and resolved various OSPF issues in an OSPF multi area environment
Experienced with installing and configuring Spanning Tree Protocol, Trunking (dot1q and ISL) and Ether channel on Campus Network Design Architecture
Configured and troubleshot port-channels (LACP, PAgP), HSRP, SVI inter-vlan routing and DHCP relay on distribution switches
Maintenance and troubleshooting of connectivity problems using Ping, Trace route
Hands on Experience working with security issue like applying ACL's, configuring NAT and VPN
Worked in setting up Inter-VLAN routing, redistribution, access-lists, and dynamic routing
Involved in the removal of EIGRP from all devices and making OSPF the primary routing protocol
Configured and resolved various OSPF issues in multi area environment
Solved web related problem including HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, SMTP
Assisted in racking and stacking, other responsibilities also included documentation and reporting
Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco catalyst 6509, 7613 with supervisor cards
Experience with implementing and maintaining network monitoring systems (Cisco works and HP Open view) and experience with developing complex network design documentation and presentations using VISIO

Environment: LAN, WAN, Cisco routers and switches, Subnetting, VLAN, VTP, VPN, NAT, PAT, RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, TCP/IP, VISIO Cisco 6509/ 3750/3550/3500/2950 switches, Cisco 7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, Net Flow, TACACS, MPLS, Ether Channels.
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