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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

• Working in the professional services team leading end-to-end NSX-T design and deployment solution implementations for enterprise customers.• Design and implementation of virtual infrastructure using VMware-validated design tools NSX-T, Log Insight, and Network Insight• helping enterprise customers perform NSX-T health checks, design validation, and microsegmentation implementation using NSX-T DFW and Edge FW.• Upgrading customer infrastructures from an older version of NSX to a newer version.• Helping customers create runbooks to perform day-2 operations with all NSX-related tasks.• Established clear, accurate project timelines for the projects and managed the delivery against the schedule.• Led end-user training efforts, including the creation of documentation for the internal team.• Analyzing customer requirements and business cases to align solutions for specific requirements.• Performing validation for the NSX advance load balancer (AVI) and providing recommendations to customers based on their requirements.• Upgrading AVI load balancers from a lower version to the latest version

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Managing complex cloud-native platforms with NSX-T infrastructure• Managing CaaS (container as a service) infrastructure networks with NSX-T• Managing VMware SDDC with VMware-validated design architecture, including NSX-V• Performing an SDDC upgrade based on VVD recommendations.• Upgrading NSX-T to maintain compliance and vulnerabilities whenever needed.• Managing NSX advance load balancers (AVI) for complex PaaS (Platform as a Service) infrastructures• Upgrading AVI load balancer controllers and service engines as per recommendations from the audit team• Handling P1 incidents and providing a root cause analysis report to the customer.• Creating and managing runbooks and SOPs to handle operations and upgrades

Chennai Area, India

• Design and create an NSX topology diagram based on customer requirements.• Deploy NSX Manager, Controller, and Transport Zones• Preparing ESXi hosts• Deploying and managing EDGE service gateways• Configuring dynamic and static routing on DLR and UDLR• Deploying an NSX load balancer and configuring VIP, pool, pool members, and monitoring• Create and configure logical switches• Deployment and management of HCI infrastructure on VxRail• IP address management for both physical and virtual network infrastructure• Preparing SOP for the daily operations and ensuring the team follows the SOP document• Being part of the technical SME team and handling various escalations• responsible for troubleshooting all the SDDC appliances, coordinating with vendors for resolution, and creating root cause analysis.• Handling all kinds of design changes on NSX infra• Responsible for upgrading the SDDC stack as per VVD recommendation• Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Virtual Infrastructure, Single Site and Multisite, Using VMware SRM for Virtual Machines• Perform POC for systems and virtual infrastructure solutions like vSPhere, NSX,NSX vRA, vRo, and VVD.Integration into ECO systems such as password management, ITSM, and CMDB using API calls from vRealize Orchestrator-AWS Skills• Configuring and managing VPC• Direct Connect (DX)• Elastic load balancer (ELB)• Route 53• S3 buckets and restricting access for unwanted users (S3)• Configuring and troubleshooting VPN tunnels between AWS and on-premise data centres• Configuring Cloud Watch for AWS resources• Creating and managing EC2 instances and NAT gateways

Chennai

Chennai Area, India

Leading the offshore network support teamResponsible for creating site to site VPN for clientsResponsible for creating firewall rules and troubleshooting issues related VPNHandling switching change requests Creating remote VPN user accounts for clientsResponsible for SSL certificate renewal, New VIP creation, Pool member creation in F5 LBResponsible for grooming team members technically Strictly follow SLA and ensure timely escalation when required as per the internal escalation matrixCreating process Documents & maintain the DocumentsUpdate Network topology Diagram whenever it is necessary and sharing valuable data to Team MembersConducting team meetings to identify the technical difficulties and address them Arranging training sessions for team members to develop the quality of workInteracting with client on daily basis to get the clear requirements whenever necessary

Chennai Area, India

Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Cisco Routers, Switches Solving problems related to LAN & WAN infrastructureManaging the L2 & L3 Switched Network.Designing and configuring VLANs using VTP, ISL, 802.1Q, Private VLANs.Troubleshooting of Routing protocols namely RIP, EIGRP & OSPFHardening the LAN Switch using Port Security, VACL, DHCP Snooping, MAC address filtering. Configuring and Troubleshooting Ether channel using PAGP and LACPConfiguring load balance using HSRP, VRRP and GLBP Configuring STP parameters like Backbone fast, Uplink Fast, RSTP, MSTPTroubleshooting Switches & Routers using various debug commandsResponsibilities include handling incidents, change requests and work orders created by the users in Telefonica.Responsible for creating and implementing the change request from the client as per the requirement.(Switching, firewall rule requests)For switching: - switch ports configuring as access, trunk, Private VLAN modes, configuring L3 interface VLAN’s, For firewall requests: As per user request firewall check point rules configuredCreating process Documents & maintain the DocumentsUpdating Architecture Diagram & sharing valuable data to the team MembersFollow defined SLA’s Strictly and ensure timely escalation when required as per the internal escalation matrixTroubleshooting and finding the root cause for all Incidents created. Switching Skills LAN Technologies: -- VLANs, VTP, Inter VLAN routing, Ether channel, STP, RSTP etcSwitches worked on: -- Cisco 2950, 3550, 4900, Nexus 2K and 5KRouting SkillsRouting Protocols: -- RIP, EIGRP, OSPFRouters worked on: -- Cisco 2509, 7200 Redundancy protocols: -- HSRP, VRRP. Security Skills Product worked on – Checkpoint Firewall, F5 load balancer, DNS Infoblox

Chennai Area, India

• Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Cisco Routers, Switches • Solving problems related to LAN & WAN infrastructure• Managing the L2 & L3 Switched Network.• Designing and configuring VLANs using VTP, ISL, 802.1Q, Private VLANs.• Coordinating with various ISP's for link and bandwidth related requirements like new link commissioning, Bandwidth utilization issues, Errors in Link. • Coordinating with ISDN PRI link Vendors on ITFS, TF, LA related issues.• Designing & Planning IP addressing Schemas.• Troubleshooting of Routing protocols namely RIP, EIGRP & OSPF• Hardening the LAN Switch using Port Security, VACL, DHCP Snooping, MAC address filtering. Configuring and Troubleshooting Ether channel using PAGP and LACP• Configuring load balance using HSRP, VRRP and GLBP • Configuring STP parameters like Backbone fast, Uplink Fast, RSTP, PVST, MSTP• Managing Configuration backups using TFTP.• Password and Authentication Management • Troubleshooting Switches & Routers using various debug commands• Monitoring & analyzing the Bandwidth of ILL for capacity planning

Bachelor’S Degree, Electronics And Communication Engineering, First Class

Diploma Of Education, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, First Class With Honors

Activities and Societies: NCC and NSS