Sameer Deshmukh Email & Phone Number

Westlake, Texas, Us

Worcester, Ma, Us

• Provided technical as well as implementation support in the assigned projects.• Experience working on F5 LTM platforms 2000, 4200, i5800, 6800,6900, 10200, 11800; Viprion C2400, B2100 and GTM 3600.• Experience working on CLI and GUI for F5 OS Versions 10.x, 11.x and 12.x including initial setup and software upgrades.• Imparted options to application teams as per their requirements and delivered solutions by configuring F5 objects (VIPs, Pools, Profiles, iRules, Data Groups, Monitors, etc.) with suitable attributes such as load balancing methods, time outs, persistence, priority groups, etc. and advised changes on existing configurations as a part of troubleshooting.• Supported SSL offloading by configuring and maintaining SSL profiles and ciphers as per latest PCI requirements.• Experience in setting up new F5 LTMs (initial setting on out of the box hardware)and successfully putting then in production.• Experience replacing out of support live production LTM platforms with latest and merging multiple in-production LTM platforms into single new hardware.• Provided GTM solutions by establishing connectivity between LTMs and GTMs.• Worked on TACACS to Infrasec migration project on F5 LTMs and GTMs to provide access to personal and functional accounts.• Worked on SNMP upgrade from V2 to V3 on F5 LTMs and GTMs.• Initial point of contact for all GTM related CLI queries and provided scripting guidelines to the team after software upgrade.• Assisted NOC in Internetwork Operating System (IOS) upgrade on switches and routers by writing network scripts.• Successfully handled change management process to improve operations and documentation.• Experience using Service Now (SNOW) and Service Request Tool (SRT) ticketing tools for change and incident documentation.• Developed and executed plans to monitor standard process adherence.• Provided on-call support for network outages and escalated issues, coordinated troubleshooting with NOC and Firewall teams.