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Boston, Ma, Us

United States

Santa Clara, California, United States

Worked to upgrade and maintenance of Infrastructure, Installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco Switches (2960, 3500 ,7600, 3750, 3850 series, 6500 series) Cisco Routers (4800, ASR 9K, 800), Juniper Routers and Firewalls, Nexus 7k,5k & 2k, f5 BIG IP, Palo Alto Firewalls, Zscaler Proxy and Versa SD-WAN appliances. Installing and setting up new Cisco gear, such as the Nexus 2k, 3850, 3750, and 5548 catalyst switches, in accordance with the organization's needs. On Cisco Catalyst Switches 3500, 3650, 3850, 6500, and 7600, designing and implementing (LAN) VLANs, VTP, Spanning Tree (STP), Trunking (dot1q and ISL), and Ether channel. Configured, managed network switches, routers and Firewalls with hands on experience in 5500 ASA, FPR2100, Brocade BR-VDX6740, CISCO Meraki MX84, MX68W and Z3. Successfully designed and implemented Palo Alto PA-3060 firewalls to safeguard the data center and offered router, switch, and firewall L3 support. Experience working on Cisco ASR 9K, Nexus 7k and 9K. Configured and designed OSPF, EIGRP and BGP at Distribution and Core layers. Configured OTV layer 2 connection between Data centers on Nexus. Deployed and Manage SDWAN network (Cisco Viptela Solution) for WAN connectivity. Configure and maintain all Palo Alto Networks Firewall models (PA-2k, PA-3k, PA-5k etc.) as well as a centralized management system (Panorama) to manage large scale Firewall deployments. Worked on the setting up and debugging routing protocols like BGP and OSPF. Extensive experience with Ciena’s optical and packet networking products, such as the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, Waveserver, and Blue Planet software suite. Experience configuring OSPF in WANs and data centers. BGP properties on edge and Internet core routers from ISP perspective. Worked on setting up the internal, external, and cache grids for Infoblox DNS, DHCP, and IPAM. Worked on DNS forwarding and delegations.

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

Skilled in implementing rules to the Cisco ASA solution and have worked extensively with the Cisco ASA 5500 (5510/5540). Worked with configuration and installation of Juniper Routers MX2800/3600/7200/7500 and EX3750/4500/6500/7000 series switches. Updated software, activating licenses, configuring/installing new ASR routers 1002, 1006, Nexus switches 9000, 5000, 3000, 9504, 9300, 3200, 2308, F5-5050, and keeping up with network documentation are among the duties. Worked on Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX), which connects servers and storage devices to the Nexus 5000 by acting as a remote line card (module). Managed, configured, and supported complex and secured networks, encompassing Fortinet, Zscaler Web Proxy, Aruba Wireless, Cisco Routing and Switching, Aruba Silver Peak SDWAN, and more. Managed network monitoring for WAN, LAN, DATA, and voice, as well as configuring and maintaining network gear and software. Configured Static, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP, and OSPF Routing Protocols on Cisco 1600, 2600, 2800, 3600, 7300 series Routers. Worked on migrating from Cisco ASA 5500 to PA. Familiarity with Palo Alto's policy migration tool for ASA to Palo Alto. Familiarity with URL filtering and SSL forward proxies. Reconfigured Cisco ASA firewalls for VPN access and managed rules for Palo Alto firewalls. Developed with Cisco ACE 4710 load balancers and F5. Experience migrating from NetScaler to F5 and from ACE to F5. Stay updated with the latest developments in Ciena technologies and disseminate this knowledge within the organization.Migrated the conventional remote sites with ISR routers with Viptela SD WAN and achieved elastic network connection through MPLS and internet. Developed with Ether Channel, Spanning Tree, Trucking, ACLs, Syslog. Experience with the setup of HSRP, Access-Lists, and RIP, EIGRP, and tunnel installations. Installed, configured from scratch Zabbix monitoring tool to monitor desktop, server, network devices.

Brookfield, Wisconsin, United States

Experience with F5 load balancers and Cisco load balancers (CSM, ACE, and GSS). Gained hands-on experience with VLSM, STP, VTP, and VLAN Trucking. By implementing VLANs, the WAN network comprising Cisco 3550/4500/6500/Nexus 7000, 5000 switches performed at peak performance. Hands-on experience with WAN (ATM/Frame Relay), Routers, Switches, TCP/IP, Routing Protocols (BGP/OSPF), and IP addressing. Configuring and troubleshooting Juniper MX 5,10,40,80 series Routers. Knowledge of setting up the Nexus 5000 Fabric Extender (FEX), which functions as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 7000. Familiarities with the availability of F5 load balancers for business applications, including the LTM and GTM series, such as the 6400, 6800, and 8800. In charge of the new design and its execution utilizing Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). Worked with Host Master for shared web hosting and managed Web Application firewall (WAF), DNS and DHCP management using Infoblox and Analyzed networks using Wireshark. By using elastic (static) IP addresses for all important servers, the AWS Cloud environment has been improved and scheduled maintenance has not affected resource access. Utilized Python scripting to automate configuration file updates on network devices and to assess a list of IP addresses against NS lookups in order to boost efficiency. Troubleshooting of Linux and UNIX servers for application delivery servers. Install Dockers, Cisco and HP servers.

India

Provide technical experience on some of the areas including network security, security architecture, policy enforcement, and security frameworks as well as resolving day to day firewall implementation requests. Part of Network Operation Center NOC offshore support team from India supporting HP Data Center 24x7. L2 supports Cisco PIX and ASA Firewalls. Day to day responsibilities include installation, configuring, troubleshooting the Cisco switches, routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, EIGRP. Monitor and troubleshoot network systems including but not limited to routers, switches, firewalls, access points, ASA’s, VPN’S, load balancers. Perform troubleshooting tests on network equipment configured with network protocols like BGP, EIGRP, MPLS, and OSPF. Analyze and configure SNMP (simple network management protocol) configurations in network devices to integrate newly deployed equipment into production network for monitoring and support. Analyze and troubleshoot L3 private IP MPLS carrier network via BGP peering as well as sophisticated private BGP WAN topology including WAN CE routers, configurations, QoS policies and ensuring stability of the network 24/7. Designed and Implemented plan for migration from existing Catalyst switches to Nexus and configured NX-OS Virtual Port Channels, Nexus port profiles, Nexus VPC peer links on Nexus 5k and 7k. Involved in customer escalations and troubleshooting issues related to connectivity, STP, VLAN, Trunking, VTP, Layer 2/3 switching, Ether channels, Inter-VLAN routing, log messages, high CPU utilization and parameters that can degrade performance of network.

India

Involved in Configuring and implementing of Composite Network models which consists of Cisco7600, 7200, 3800 series routers and Cisco 2950, 3500, 5000, 6500 Series switches. Designed and implemented VLAN using Cisco switch catalyst 1900, 2900, 5000 and 6000 series. Troubleshooting the Network Routing protocols (BGP, EIGRP and RIP) during the Migrations and new client connections. Configured Cisco ISE for Wireless and Wired 802.1x Authentication on Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers, Catalyst Switches, and Cisco ASA Firewalls. Configuration and maintenance of the routers running on existing EIGRP and BGP protocol with 7200 router and 6500 cores. Also configured route filtering using distribute list with route maps and ACL’s. Configured BIG IP F5 load balancer for cluster / server farm load balancing to increase resource availability and provide redundancy. Designing, implementing and managing LAN/WAN switching environment and resolving the problems associated with it.