Very Passionate Sr Network Engineer having worked in projects that include Data Center refresh, Campus Redevelopment, Firewall and F5 Installations with 8 years of experience in Routing, Switching, Network Security-Next Gen Firewalls, Load Balancers and Wireless. Excellent communication skills with the ability to work with storage, vmware, server and application teams. A proactive team player who also can work independently. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

• Experience working in large-scale environments on Network Design, IDF/MDF architecture, Datacenter Architecture, Legacy and Spine Leaf Architecture and support roles, IOS upgrades, downtime procedures, Migration projects to different vendor equipment.
• Experience working in complex environments which includes Layer 2 Switching, L3 routing, Network security with perimeter and VPN firewalls, Load balancing and Access policies management in F5 and Wireless LAN Controllers.
• Experience in installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco Switches (2960, 3500, 3750, 3850, 4500, and 6500) in enterprise Environment and Nexus 2k, 3k, 5k, 7k and 9k in Data Center Environment.
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• Expertise in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Juniper EX Switches (EX2200, EX2500, EX3200, EX4200, EX4500, EX8200 series).
• Experience in VSS, VPC, and VDC technologies. Experience working on Gateway redundant protocols HSRP, VRRP, and GLBP. Experience with Access, Distribution and Core Layer Architecture and Spine Leaf Architecture in Datacenter.
• Expertise in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting of Cisco Routers (3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 1800, 1700, 800, ASR 9k) and Juniper Routers (E, J, M, and T-series) and Arista 7000 series routers.
• Experience and high-level technical knowledge in OSPF, EIGRP, RIP and BGP routing protocols. L1/L2 troubleshooting skills in Routing in complex environments. Worked with MPLS over BGP. Worked on upgrading Edge routers, failing over ISP circuits for maintenance. Knowledge in EVPN, VXLAN, VTEPS.
• Configured F5 LTM, series 5000 series for the corporate applications and high availability. Implemented LTM and GTM in DMZ and Internal network. Worked on software versions up to 12.1.2. Experience with upgrading software and hotfix. Experience with APM and ASM modules.
• Worked on APM module with integration with RADIUS server and RSA secure ID for applications that require 2-factor authentications.
• Expertise in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Juniper Switches (series EX3300, EX4200, EX4600), Juniper Routers (series J, M and T) and Juniper series SRX Firewalls, Deployed Site to Site and Client to Site VPNs utilizing Checkpoint Firewall-1/VPN-1. Experience deploying ACI in Network-Centric model.
• Proficient using the F5 based profiles, monitors, VIP's, pools, SNAT, SSL offload, iRules, virtual Servers, iAPPs. Migration experience from ACE to F5.
• Honored with multiple individual and team awards for successful managing several SDLC releases covering technology refreshes, new requirements and system maintenance.
• Experience with manipulating various BGP attributes such as Local Preference, MED, Extended Communities, Route-Reflector clusters, Route-maps and route policy implementation.
• Extensive Knowledge of the implementation of Cisco ASA 5500 series
• 5505, 5510, 5512-X with Firepower module. Palo Alto firewall policies, panorama and Checkpoint firewalls NG, NGX. Experience with convert Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution.
• Experience with Bluecoat and Zscaler cloud Proxies. For URL filtering and SSL Decryption, traffic flows from trust to untrust and vice versa.
• Experience with PA 200, 500, 3020 and VM series firewalls for both Internet and internal traffic filtering. Experience with Panorama M100 series and maintaining up to 23 firewalls in large networks.
• Experience working with Aruba and Cisco Wireless LAN controllers, Configuring and Provisioning AP's, Virtual AP's, RTLS, Wireless SSID's, remote and campus AP's, upgrading WLC, worked in Active/Active local Controllers and Master controller. (Aruba 6000, 7200 controller, Aruba AP65, 70, 124, 85, 125) system.
• Experience with Cisco IOS, Cisco ACI, F5. Strong understanding in cloud, managing systems and networks in an AWS and Azure environment. Primary support for all Blue Coat Proxy activities on the network security team.
• Worked on Solarwinds NPM, NCM, IPAM, Windows DHCP and DNS. Infoblox as DHCP and DNS server.
• Experience working with Avaya and Cisco VOIP environments with assigning VOICE Vlans, troubleshooting call quality and basic level proficiency in QoS. Worked on DSCP code markings for VOIP traffic.
• Involved in troubleshooting network traffic and its diagnosis using tools like ping, trace route, Gigaton, Wireshark, TCP dump and Linux operating system servers.
• Implementing, maintaining and Troubleshooting & implementation of Vlan, STP, MSTP, RSTP, PVST, 802.1Q, DTP, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, LACP, PAGP, AAA, TACACS, RADIUS, MD5, VTP & SVI.
• Experience with H.323 and SIP, Voice Vlans, DSCP marking for VOIP traffic.
• Hands on experience with Juniper SRX series firewalls 500 series.
• Experience with NAT/PAT, static and dynamic NAT, access lists, security zones, policies on SRX firewalls.
• Experience with next gen firewall technology like URL Filtering, SSL Forward Proxy, APP ID, ThreatID etc on Palo Alto and checkpoint firewalls.
• Experience with creating virtual servers and application load balancing, upgrading software versions, redirect rules on Netscalers and experience migrating from NetScaler to F5.
• Experience working in large-scale environments on Network Design, IDF/MDF architecture, Datacenter Architecture, Legacy and Spine Leaf Architecture and support roles, IOS upgrades, downtime procedures, Migration projects to different vendor equipment.
• Experience working in complex environments which includes Layer 2 Switching, L3 routing, Network security with perimeter and V