About
Around 12 years of experience, the network engineer specializes in data network and security and has designed, developed, implemented, troubleshooter, and maintained network and security environments using a variety ofvendors routers, switches, firewalls, proxyservers, VPNs, IPsec, network address translation (NAT), loadbalancers, and Nexus switches. Ø Expertise on Cisco 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 1800, ASR 1002, 1004 and 1006 series Routers, Cisco 6500,5500,4500, 3500,2900 series switches and Nexus 7706, 7009, 5000 and 2K Fabric Extenders (FEX) Layer 2 switches and Meraki products. Ø Gained experience to Implement and configurePalo Alto NetworksFirewall models, ASAFirewall (5505/5510), Juniper SSG series Firewalls, Checkpoint R75, 76 Firewalls, Security Device. Ø Excellent Experience in managing and monitoring Cisco (IOS, IOS-XE, and IOS-XR) routers and switches, Juniper MX Series routers, and Nokia (Alcatel 7450, 7750, and 7950) switches and routers. Ø Extensive hands-on experience with complex routed LAN and WAN networks, routers, switches, Firewalls, VOIP, servers and load balancers. Ø Extensive knowledge and experience in configuring protocols like TCP/IP, Routing Protocols (RIP v1/v2, OSPF, BGP, IGRP and EIGRP). Ø Experience of Infoblox, Windows DNS and DHCP, and BlueCat DNS as well as other DNS and DHCP servers. Ø Expertise in Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Cisco ISE, Cisco SD-WAN, Routing, Switching, Wireless, DC Technologies, F5, fort Net Scaler, Zscaler, network performance assessment and network performance tools. Ø Experience in Cisco ISE’s, Cisco Prime, SNMP tools (HP –Intelligent management center, SolarWinds, Wireshark), Infoblox. Ø Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Infoblox DDI with Active Directory or LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) for seamless user authentication and access control. Ø Gained experience to design and provide support of Routers, Switches, Security Solutions, VPNs, L4-7 LoadBalancers, Versa SD WAN/SDI and Network Management Solutions across LAN/WAN. Ø Experienced to Implement redundancy with HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, Ether channel technology (LACP, PAgP) etc. Ø Experience to design& implementFortinet network & third-party equipment as per ISP SR (service request) theincluded Juniper, F5, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Nexus 7K and higher end FortiGate. Ø Experienced in Fortinet Firewalls FortiGate 3000D, 4000E, and 5000E, conducted security audits and ensuringcompliance. Ø Proficient in Configuring Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANS) using Cisco routers and multi-layer Switchesand supporting STP, RSTP, PVST, RPVST along with trouble shooting of inter-VLAN routing and VLAN Trunking using 802.1Q. Ø Developed custom scripts and automation workflows using ACI APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to automate network provisioning, configuration, and management tasks. Ø Experience with Cisco ASA/Checkpoint/Palo Alto Firewall troubleshooting and policy change requests for newIP segments that either come on line or that may have been altered during various planned network changes on thenetwork. Ø Designed and implemented Citrix Application Delivery Controller, Citrix load balancing solutions based on business requirements. Ø Provided technical support for a Versa SDWAN networking, troubleshooting issues and optimizing the network. Ø Experience of LAN/WAN analysis, implementation, troubleshooting, and documentation shown in enterprisewide and large ISP networks, including design, implementation, administrative support, and network integration. Ø Experience using SD-WAN in MPLS WAN to connect remote sites to data centers. spent time on Versa SDWAN options from Meraki and Viptella. Experience of the SD-WAN components vSmart, vBond, vEdge, and vManage. Ø Configured security features within Infoblox DDI to safeguard DNS and DHCP services. Ø Monitored the health and performance of applications and servers through Citrix ADC. Ø Connected the Versa devices to the existing WAN links, including MPLS, broadband, and LTE connections. Ø Develop Python scripts to automate network configuration, monitoring, and management tasks. Ø Designed, deployed, and configured Cisco's Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric to automate and simplify network provisioning and management. Ø Automated configuration management and deployments using Ansible playbooks for resource declaration. And creating roles and updating Playbooks to provision servers by using Ansible. Ø Skilled in Network Administration, Routers, Radware, Juniper JNCIA, and Check point and ASA and Paloaltofirewalls, well versed with IPS/IDC. Ø Experience on Juniper SRXfirewall/MX routers and switches, develop and implement network configurations. Ø In-depth knowledge and experience in WAN technologies including OC3, E3/T3, E1/T1, PPP, HDLC, MPLS and Frame Relay. Ø Intensive application of Network Automation tools and testing for Configuration and monitoring ofAutomation scripting language using Ansible and Python Scripting. Ø Gained Knowledge of managing and automating networks in Windows environments using PowerShell scripts. Ø Strong experience of the file systems, permissions, and security features of the Linux operating system