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• Proactively monitoring WAN utilization using MRTG & various network applications thereby implementing security through firewalls (Palo Alto, SonicWALL, Cyber Roam, Sophos, Checkpoint and Cisco ASA\FTD).• Working as a Network and security Administrator wherein we have to check the request type and have to prepare the implementation plan for the same.• Carried out the setup of WAN & LAN connectivity with Cisco Router & Switches.• Responsible for the troubleshooting/tracking the problem in the form of requests, if required ask for the change request to apply changes.• Installation and Configuration of Palo Alto Firewalls.• Deploy and manage Palo Alto Networks Firewalls and ensuring optimization and full adoption of advanced features sets, including device group, templates, security profiles, App-ID, SSL decrypt and User-ID• Proficiencies include creating and installing security policies, using logging and reporting features, and managing anti-spoofing, Network Address Translation (NAT) on firewall.• Configuration and monitoring of site-to-site VPN.• Implemented clustering of firewalls in High Availability (HA) mode.• Basic knowledge of Cisco Nexus 2k, 5k, 7k & 9k switches &Juniper.• Adept in configuring, installation of LAN cabling systems and equipment’s such as NICs, Switches and Routers• Experience with packet tracing/Wireshark on 802.3 network.• Configuration of static and default routes, Configuration, implementation & trouble shooting of routing protocols like EIGRP, RIP V1/V2 & OSPF.• Configuring DNS entries for all the managed network devices.• Password recovery and performing IOS up-gradation on switches, Routers, Firewalls and other network devices.• Link state, Configuration and support knowledge of virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) VTP advertisements.• Prepare and analyze on Network utilization and availability.• Configured HSRP between routers for redundancy.• Analyzing the network performance and presenting the new change requests to user for efficient network performance.• Implementing Installation of Windows environments, and application software under multi-platform environments, deployment of server, disk quota management and distributed file system etc.• Vendor Management

Listed skills include Mcsa, Ccna, Linux, Dhcp, and 7 others.