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Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

India

Gurgaon, Haryana, India

• Directed the acquisition, installation and testing of network hardware.• Technically supported the project planning team for the development and implementation of proposals and solutions to address hardware and software problems and network emergencies.• Provided complete front end-to-end engineering and installation of Juniper/Cisco route-based IP network solutions.• Prepared operational reports, including trouble resolution and analysis, project status, equipment and network requirements.• Documented changes that were made to the network and all systems, providing evidence of audit trails.• Drafted and maintained process and procedure documentation.• Configured and performed troubleshooting with routing and switching protocols, including BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, and VRRP.• Implemented WAN and LAN designs in multi-data centre configurations.• Led team development and assisted in all project management coordination.• Provided configuration recommendations and assistance in customer deployment.• Handling BAU changes related to firewall policy, F5-VIP setup, Firmware upgrade on Cisco & Juniper Configuration preparations for network devices based on approved LLD.Handling hardware refresh project from Cisco to Juniper for multiple DCs location, involve in planning, Customer Co-ordination, Change build, Implementations and testing

Bengaluru Area, India

Responsibilities:• Reviewing HLD and LLD documents of Data center proactively check the configuration of installed HP switches and make the changes if available configuration is not as per the SOP.• Performing F5 load balancer changes e.g. URL configuration, SSL certificate update, URL redirect.• Create, modify and delete virtual servers, pools, pool members, nodes, custom profiles, custom monitors and iRules.• Ensure that each network change or release is executed according to approved change plan.

Pune Area, India

Responsibilities: Management & configuration support of a global 4000+ node Cisco WAN infrastructure with focus on routers, WAN links, switches, Bluecoat ProxySG, F5 Load balancer. Participation in projects to configure, installs, upgrade and manage all network devices.• Recommend and implement F5 LTM/GTM changes based on the business team’s requirements & attending general troubleshooting calls.• Working on F5 load balancer for URLs configuration, URL redirect, URL Alias creation, SSL upgrade and GSLB configuration request.• Understanding of the different load balancing options & features to include One Connect, Persistence, HTTP profiles, SNAT etc.• Schedule proposed network changes and worked with major business units to identify their impact.• Configurations of high order Cisco routers and switches including 7200, 3750, and 3560, 6509, 4500, 4900.• Fex , Portprofile & vPC configuratin in nx-os side on 2k and 5K nexus appliances.• Perform Disaster Recovery testing.• Design and implement Core Network solutions, including Multihomed BGP and OSPF, for WAN/Internet Service Provider.• Handling Site redundancy projects to ensure the failover. Review the configurations of WAN, Core and Distribution layer devices and make recommendations if needed to ensure the failover.• Firmware upgrade in Cisco IOS platform• Ensure that each network change or release is executed according to approved change plan.• Content filtering with Bluecoat ProxySG.• Documentation of various Technical activities, which involves procedure while installing a new software, changes made to an existing configuration, raising change requests as & when required.

Pune Area, India

Worked for cable & wireless worldwide on the payroll of Choice solutions Limited.Responsibilities: 24 x 7 monitoring and Troubleshooting (at Level 1) LAN/WAN related issues in a large deployment of Cisco devices comprising of routers & switches. Hands on experience on various technologies such as BGP, OSPF, MPLS, HSRP, and Ether channel, VLAN.

Pune Area, India

Worked with GTL on the payroll of Global Innovsource solutions Pvt. LtdResponsibilities:• Restoring normal service operation as quickly as possible and to minimize the impact on business operations, thus ensuring that the best possible levels of service quality and availability are maintained.• Provide dedicated support on Wimax and GSM Projects with focus on Cisco 3550 series, 3560 series L3 switches and transmission equipments like Tejas Mux, ECI Mux. • E1 Testing and Fault rectification.• E1 Routing & Site integration.• Generating and verification of reports for Network uptime, Health check, repeated alarm and performance.• To provide better coverage, & directivity to the sectors & minimize frequency interference between base stations.