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Old Bridge Township, Nj, Us

Purchase, Ny, Us

Purchase, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

As a principal Network Engineer in Architecture team, responsible for the following:• Serve as technical expert in the research, design, development, and enterprise-wide integration and implementation of new and emerging technologies.• Responsible for designs and supports inter-network solutions including the physical and logical configuration documentation and has an advanced understanding of the entire network topology and architecture. • Responsible to work with other Storage, Compute and Security team to define and support Architectural standards and documentations.• Responsible to lead relationships with other IT staff and vendor representatives on strategic projects, installations, moves, changes, troubleshooting, documentation and servicing for intricate network issues• Worked closely with network engineering team to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products. • Responsible to automate select network automation tasks through creation and maintenance of the tools and also was part of the team that shapes automation future of network engineering and operation teams using python and ansible. • Delivered design based on technologies like: VXLAN EVPN with DCNM, Application Centric Infrastructure (Cisco ACI), VMware NSX, UCS Director, Avi loadbalancer, FWaaS using Palo Alto and terraform templates

New York, Ny, Us

As a member of data design engineering team, responsible for the following:• Lead the data center redesign project to enable the software defined capabilities of the data center infrastructure using Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure.• Responsible for up to 700 branch refreshes to enable Software defined WAN capabilities using Cisco’s SD-WAN solution.• Responsible for designing defense in depth architecture to provide layered security architecture to secure Bank’s assets based on their criticality matrix.• Assisted MPLS/Segment routing teams in data center migration from old core to new core and also branch migrations from 3rd party MPLS to bank owned colocations wherever available. • Worked in multivendor environment where data center is consisted of Cisco as well as Arista data center grade switches.• Responsible for delivering network design presentations and high-level design documents.

San Jose, Ca, Us

As a member of Cloud and Network Services team focused on the following:• Lead the design and implementation of end to end data center network architectures for large scale enterprise and service provider accounts.• Well versed in the design and deployment of Cisco ACI solution.• Evaluated customer data center network requirements. • Assisted customers in planning, designing and migrating from legacy technologies to Cisco Software Defined Networks (SDN) Data Centers utilizing ACI technology.• Executed Proof-of-Concept (POC) labs for customers.• Prepared customer deliverable documents such as HLD (High level Design Documents) and LLD (Low Level Design Documents), Implementation Plans, As-Build Documents, Network Readiness Testing etc.• Worked with datacenter switches Nexus series (9000, 7000, 5000 etc.), APIC controllers, Cisco DCNM, UCS and VMware.• Responsible for planning and execution of complex data center migrations.• Conducted customer briefings and design workshops on latest data center related technologies and products.• Mentored junior network engineers in the team.• Upgraded Datacenter design and products with new technologies as it emerges

Responsibilities:• Designed and Configured Nexus 7000/6000/2000 in Top of Rack & End of Row Architecture for a Scalable Production Network that supports Rack & Blade server architecture in a Multi-Tenancy environment using vPC, VDC & VRF.• Designed and Implemented Cisco UCS pods in Nexus 7000 Platform • Configured UCS Fabric Interconnects 6296UP• Extensive knowledge and experience in vPC, ether channel and HSRP also VRRP protocols. • Configure UCS Manager by defining Service Profile Template ,Policies & Pools for Production Servers and DR Servers• Designed and Installed enterprise WAN network, which is Redundant with automatic fail over capabilities to support growing data network and future voice network• Involved in various POC to test drive new Products/Technologies that would Value add to our Data Center Operations• Hand on experience in Juniper secure gateway SA-4500 7 SA-2500• Hand on experience in Meru Wireless Controllers MC-1500 & MC3200 access points AP-302, AP320 & AP320i• Extensive knowledge in working and deployment of Network Management systems including Riverbed Whats Up Gold, Kiwi Sys Logs, Cisco LMS, Mazu and MRTG using SNMP trap and SNMP Polling also.• Deployment and configuration of Sourcefire 3D Sensor 8250 and Defence Center 3500 with Port SPAN also creating IPS/IDS policies and intrusion report generation and monitoring.• Configured and Maintained BGP features such as load balancing, Route Reflectors, BGP metrics such as maintaining the Enterprise IP Addressing scheme with allocation of new IP Pools for user subnets, and updating the port on the switches MED, AS Path, Local Preference, Communities.• Create and test Cisco router and switching operations using OSPF routing protocol, and MPLS switching for stable VPNs• Redesign of Internet connectivity infrastructure for meeting bandwidth requirements. • Configured HSRP and VLAN trucking 802.1Q, VLAN Routing on Catalyst 6500 switches.

Responsibilities: • Design and Implementation of Disaster Recovery Co-location consisting of Nexus 7K switches, ASR 1002, Cisco ASA Firewalls, Cisco 3925 routers etc. Successfully implemented OTV for VLAN Extension.• Design and implementation of Main Data Center Move project from one location to another location with minimal down time using traditional DCI with vPC and In-box configurations with same HSRP group for redundancy on four Nexus 7k switches, two on each side. • Experienced in installation, configuration and maintenance of Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000 switches in standalone as well as in V-BLOCK infrastructure• Extensive knowledge and experience in vPC, ether channel and HSRP also VRRP protocols. • Experienced in Cisco ASR 1000, 7200, 2700, 2900, 3900, 1800 Routers, , Cisco Catalyst 4500, 2900, 3700 Switches. • Hands on Experience Checkpoint UTM-1, Checkpoint Smart Center R.75, Nokia Voyager IPSO-390• Deployment and Management of Bluecoat proxies in forward proxy scenario as well as for security in reverse proxy scenario. • Hand on experience in Juniper secure gateway SA-4500 7 SA-2500• Hand on experience in Meru Wireless Controllers MC-1500 & MC3200 access points AP-302, AP320 & AP320i• Extensive knowledge in working and deployment of Network Management systems including Riverbed Whats Up Gold, Kiwi Sys Logs, Cisco LMS, Mazu and MRTG using SNMP trap and SNMP Polling also.• Deployment and configuration of Sourcefire 3D Sensor 8250 and Defence Center 3500 with Port SPAN also creating IPS/IDS policies and intrusion report generation and monitoring.• Configured and Maintained BGP features such as load balancing, Route Reflectors, BGP metrics such as maintaining the Enterprise IP Addressing scheme with allocation of new IP Pools for user subnets, and updating the port on the switches MED, AS Path, Local Preference, Communities.

Maadi, Cairo, Eg

• Assisted in troubleshooting LAN connectivity and hardware issues in the network.• Studied and analyzed client requirements to provide solutions for network design, configuration, administration, and security.• Involved in the troubleshooting of call center functions MACD, UCCX.• Implementation of MP-BGP on various Cisco routing platforms• Design and Implementation of L2 domain on cisco catalyst series switching platforms• Configuration of L2 VPN for site using vpi, vci• IPSEC configurations for various client locations geographically scattered• VSS implementation on Cisco 6500 series switches • Involved in troubleshooting IP addressing issues and Updating IOS images using TFTP.• Monitor performance of network and servers to identify potential problems and bottleneck. • Performed RIP & OSPF routing protocol administration.• Implementation of DSL Access Multiplexer• Interacted with support services to reduce the downtime on leased lines.• Troubleshoot problems on a day to day basis; provide solutions to fix the problems.• Monitor the operability and reliability of the network.• Maintenance and Troubleshooting of connectivity problems using Ping, Trace route.• Managed the IP address space using subnets and variable length subnet masks (VLSM).• Worked along with the team in ticketing issues; responsibilities included documentation and support other teams.

• Configured Cisco Routers for OSPF, IGRP, RIPv2, EIGRP, Static and default route.• Worked on HSRP for hop redundancy and load balancing. • Configured the Cisco router as IP Firewall and for NATing Configured RSTP, MST and used VTP with 802.1q trunk encapsulation. • Provided port binding, port security and router redundancy through HSRP.• Designed ACLs, VLANs, troubleshooting IP addressing issues and taking back up of the configurations on switches and routers. • Provided testing for network connectivity before and after install/upgrade• Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS and configuring ISL trunk on Fast-Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet channel between switches.• Experience in Cisco switches and routers, Cisco Wireless Control Systems, Physical cabling, IP addressing, Wide Area Network configurations.• Performed troubleshooting, while maintaining trouble ticket tracking, following internal/external.