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New York City, Ny, Us

Responsibilities:● Implemented zone based firewalling and security rules on Palo Alto Firewalls.● Worked with Palo Alto firewalls PA250, PA4050, PA3020 using Panorama servers, performing changes to monitor/block/allow the traffic on the firewall. Technical assistance for LAN/WAN management and complex customer issues.● Routing protocol configuration such as OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP and BGP, Router redundancy configuration (HSRP, VRRP and GLBP) and Wireless LAN (Access point, LWAPP).● Resolved Customers request to create firewall policies for Cisco ASA, juniper SRX, Fortinet and NX-OS.● Infrastructure configuration and troubleshooting for Windows Azure environments.● Responsible for turning up new BGP peering and customer sessions, as well as debugging BGP routing.● Actively involved in design & deployment of a new datacenter using Cisco Nexus 9000 platform in spine & leaf architecture utilizing VXLAN fabric & BGP-EVPN overlay technologies● Configured and managed Cisco access layer routers and switches.● Designing and implementing services using Cisco, Arista, Dell and Fortigate equipment (HA, VPN, firewalls, EVPN etc.)● Expert knowledge of Cisco ACI, NxOS and IOS, other SDN products Tiered Domains, QoS, data center network design, cloud infrastructure design and management, OSPF, BGP, VLAN Trunking.● Provided technical support, integration, and configuration Cisco Meraki switching, Cisco ISE, Aerohive Wireless LAN, network monitoring software, and User based authentication such as 802.1x● Ensured that data center stayed as immaculate as possible to prevent unnecessary damage to computer.● Designed WAN structure to prevent single point of failure in case of link failure.● Day to day operations and management of network devices such as Cisco ISE, Infoblox, Palo Alto firewalls, Panorama, Alta Vista, Check Point, Cisco firewalls and IDS, Cisco ACI and F5 Load Balancers.● Maintenance and Troubleshooting of connectivity problems using Ping, Trace route.

Geneva, Switzerland, Ch

Responsibilities:● Migration and implementation of Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewall series PA-500, PA-3060, PA-5060, PA-7050, PA-7080.● Establishing VPN Tunnels using IPSec encryption standards and also configuring and implementing site-to-site VPN, Remote VPN.● Performed ACS to ISE migration for device administration● Implemented Contracts, Multi-tenants between Endpoint groups using SDWAN in ACI.● Installed and configured Meraki (MX80, MX60) Appliance via Meraki MX400 Cloud.● Configuration of overlay VXLAN VTEPs with EVPN control-plane on Nexus switches.● Improve scalability and ease of deployments of the OpenStack underlay network by migrating from Standalone Nexus to Cisco ACI platform.● Created dynamic routing/load balancing capability enabling large application scaling, used ingress rules and Ingress Controllers- Traffic and Nginx.● Worked on Cisco ISE v2.1, ACS for providing secure network access.● 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.● Managed and troubleshoot Aruba access point’s wireless devices on Aruba VPN, customer public and private wireless networks.● Architected and designed Netbrain solution to include 6000+ nodes● Worked on Design implementation of new data center with products ranging from cisco, ASA with Firepower, Dell Switches, Cisco Meraki and VMware NSX.● Established BGP peering between onsite datacenter in San Antonio and AWS cloud.● Worked in firewall deployment and management in Azure such as Palo Alto Firewall.● Awareness on Cloud Computing, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Cisco ACI and Illumio.

Madison, Wi, Us

Responsibilities● Improve scalability and ease of deployments of the Open stack underlay network by migrating from Standalone Nexus to Cisco ACI platform.● Focused on working with Cisco Channel partners to build practices around Cisco ACI.● Implemented Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI) as a solution for data centers using a Spine and Leaf architecture.● Integrating ISE with external identity stores such as Windows AD, Cisco ACS LDAP.● Configured Easy VPN server and SSL VPN to facilitate various employees’ access internal servers and resources with access restrictions.● Coordinating with Vendors for creating and modifying firewall and NAT rules and Maintaining Site to Site and SSL VPN.● Worked on Layer 3 routing and EVPN/VXLAN versus Layer 2 VLAN spanning to enhance productivity● Configured Cisco ACS server for User authentication using Cisco Radius and TACAS+ protocols.● Implementation, management, upgrade and working knowledge of Check Point Firewall as well as the Site-to-Site VPNs, IPS/IDS, etc. in the Checkpoint consoles● Adding security rules and pushing the security policy on Checkpoint Using Smart Update, User Management and Authentication in Checkpoint Firewall● Regular upgrade and maintenance of Infrastructure, Installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco Switches (2900, 3500 ,7600, 3700 series, 6500 series) Cisco Routers (4800, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2900, 1800, 1700, 800) Cisco Router and Switches, Juniper Routers and Firewalls, Nexus 7k,5k & 2k, f5 BIG IP, Palo Alto Firewalls, Bluecoat Proxy and Riverbed Steelhead appliances● Experience in designing cloud based networks on top of AZURE, AWS, and Alibaba frameworks● Configured rules and maintained Palo Alto Firewalls & analysis of firewall logs using various tools● Extensively worked with configuration of Network and Security devices such as Cisco routers and switches (Cisco 7K/3K/Nexus 9K/7K/5K), , Load Balancers, DNS and IP Manager (Infoblox)

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Us

Responsibilities● Experience working with Nexus 7010, 5548, 5596, 2148, 2248 devices.● Implemented Site-to-Site VPNs over the internet utilizing 3DES, AES/AES-256 with ASA and JUNIPER SRX Firewalls.● Install, Configure and Upgrade Checkpoint, Cisco, Palo Alto appliances in the network and build high availability using ClusterXL on checkpoint, Active/Standby on Cisco● Designed and implemented a new AAA Identity Management system using Cisco ACS for more granular authorization and integration across multiple global Data centers.● Configure and troubleshoot Juniper EX series switches and routers at branches/back offices.● Experience with working on Palo Alto Next-Generation firewalls security profiles.● Integrating Panorama with Palo Alto Firewalls, managing multiple Palo Alto Firewall using Panorama.● Experience on Panorama firewall management tool which provides centralized monitoring and management of multiple Palo Alto devices from single window.● Experience with configuring Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) which acts as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 5000.

New York, New York, Us

Responsibilities● Experience with configuring Cisco 6500 VSS in Distribution layer of the Data center network● Configuration and Administration of Cisco and Juniper Routers and Switches● Experience working with Nexus 7010, 5548, 5596, 2148, 2248 devices.● Experience in Adding Rules and Monitoring Checkpoint Firewall traffic through smart dashboard and smart view Tracker applications.● Experienced on working with Checkpoint firewalls R75/R77 such as installing/deleting and troubleshooting the networks.● Involved in deployment of Meraki SDWAN solution across the corporate offices.● Experience configuring VPC(Virtual Port Channel), VDC(Virtual Device Context) in Nexus 7010/7018● Experience with configuring FCOE using Cisco nexus 5548.● Configured Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) which acts as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 5000 to connect servers and storage devices.● Responsible for developing traffic engineering in Meraki SDWAN to support intelligent traffic flow across the network.