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 Ability to communicate clearly and concisely on network build/reliability issues that require escalation to peer directors and senior leadership. Proven ability to work in a demanding work environment managing multiple deadlines and addressing issues flexibly and creatively. Actively played leadership role for many data center migration, mergers, DR activities and PCI audit trails.  Presenting ideas in business in a user-friendly language to all levels of the organization and all levels of technical abilities. Mentor to technical team to provide solution or an alternate solution in a difficult path. Peer review for technical team before it goes in CAB approval. Actively taking part in CAB meeting to justify changes, any changes conflicting with other team then making priority or rescheduling change based on requirements. Network design, support and troubleshooting. Cisco FTD/FMC firewall.  Firepower security modules on cisco 9300.  F5 load balancer viprion. Cisco router, switches.  Worked on Palo alto firewall model 7k,5k and 3k with 9.x OS. Panorama M-200 and M-600 devices.  Designed AVI load balancer and NSX-T solution from the scratch. Migrated applications from brocade to AVI ( NSX advanced load balancer ). Application debug, based on logs or application behavior providing solutions. Expert understanding about various application protocols and mechanism, http debug methods, packet capture, understanding load balancer logs. Successfully upgraded software for panorama and PAN firewalls.  Configured L2L tunnels on palo alto firewall, troubleshoot using CLI.  Migrated 100+ cisco ASA contexts to palo alto firewall using palo alto expedition migration tool.  Advanced knowledge on PAN cli/GUI troubleshooting.  Configured routing protocols OSPF / BGP on PAN firewall. Well understanding about routing protocol redistribution on PAN firewall.

▪ Routing, switching and Cisco ASA firewalls.▪ Network design, implementation and support.▪ Nexus 9k,7K, 5K and 2K configuration. Exposure on VPC, VDC, port-channel configurations and troubleshooting.▪ Worked on UCS platform fabric interconnect, fabric extender.▪ Routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF and BGP.▪ Experience on filter-list, distribution-list, route redistribution, route-map, prefix-list etc.▪ Configured and understanding on switching technology like, STP , RSTP,MST, Flex-link, FHRP, VTP, port-channel protocols Pagp, LACP etc.▪ F5 BIG-IP load balancer configuration through CLI and GUI. Worked on latest version 13.x.▪ Configured F5 module ASM,APM.▪ Worked on sourcefire IDS, IPS, Arbor security appliances.▪ Cisco ACS 5.x with RADIUS and TACACS+ protocols.▪ Worked on Cisco ISE for profiling, TACACS+ , RADIUS.▪ Worked on Google, AWS and azure cloud.▪ Cloud – worked on VPC/VPN , direct connect, express route, route56, DNS services. ▪ Built cloud virtual appliances F5, ASR and ASAv using marketplace. ▪ Created splunk queries for proactive event notifications and quick look up on logs.▪ Basic knowledge on TCL and python scripting.▪ Visio network documentation, configuration standardization, configuration template and update policies time to time.▪ Experience on release management, effective coordination with internal project management teams, input on execution steps, testing and roll-back plans. Team configuration peer review and SLA responsibility.▪ Attend CAB meeting, partner issues meetings and incident management meeting for root cause. Based on root cause if required remediation, open ticket and be ticket owner or assigned to team members.▪ Support and mentor to team. NOC training to offload first level customer support, proactive monitoring and escalate issues on needed basis.▪ Effective workload balancing within team.▪ Team player, developing relation within team and peer teams or vendors.

▪ Worked on large scale network.▪ Added experience on Juniper MX and J series routers.▪ Juniper ISG and SRX firewalls, firewall migration and support.▪ Junos space and NSM configuration and management.▪ Exposure on BGP and OSPF protocols with redistributions.▪ Ironport proxy, Nexus 5K and 7K installation with VPC protocol.▪ Citrix netscaler load balancer, vip, gslb, responder, url redirect, web application firewall configuration troubleshooting and implementation.▪ Basic knowledge of Python scripting.

▪ Installed CISCO Routers 3800, 2800, 7200 Switches 6500, 3500, 2900, Nexus 5020,2248,2148.▪ Worked on Cisco PIX 515,525,535. Cisco ASA 5510,5520,5540,5550 firewall. Juniper SA6500.▪ Implemented DMVPN with single hub as well as multi HUB with Verizon TLS link.▪ Migrated Cisco VPN concentrator 3030 to Cisco ASA 5540.▪ Hands-on experience on latest ASA/PIX IOS 7.0, 8.0 and ASDM 5.0, 6.0.▪ Configured client Cisco 3002, VPN client, Anyconnect client and SSL client.▪ Configured SSL VPN, L2L VPN, GRE tunnel and IPSec Tunnel. Very good troubleshooting knowledge on IPSec and Webvpn.▪ Configured webvpn on Juniper SA6500 with VMware view.▪ Configure Cisco VPN client as a Software client and Cisco Concentrator as a Hardware client.▪ Implemented HSRP, VRRP, STP, PVST, PVST+, GLBP etc.▪ Interacting with Customers for the business aspect and designing their requirement▪ Involved in major project design and implementation and administration.▪ Configured EIGRP routing protocol on ASA firewall. Worked on Cisco ASA 5505 to 5550 – and IOS version up to 8.3.▪ Migrated Cisco ACS server from 3.3 to 4.0. Configured dynamic synchronization with another ACS server. Configured Cisco ACS 4.0 backup server on VPN Concentrator 3030 and ASA 5540, 5520.▪ Worked on F5 BigIP version 10.0, Coyote point, Netscaler version MPX7500 – 9.2 and Cisco IOS load balancer with latest firmware/IOS.▪ Advanced skill on load balancer different algorithms, content filtering, GSLB with authoritative DNS server, URL forwarding, web firewall module, tune up appliance based on PCI compliance standard and web security tools.▪ Traffic optimization by using Riverbed steelhead appliance.▪ Cipher optics for advanced high volume traffic encryption.▪ Currently involved in major project to provide connectivity from handheld device to corporate network. Handheld device is running on operating system Windows CE.