Esha
eshap118@gmail.com
201-429-5036
Chicago, IL 60290
Senior Network Engineer
12 years experience C2C
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Summary

  • CCNP and CCNA certified with over 6 years of professional experience in Network Planning, Implementing, Configuring, Troubleshooting and testing of networking system on both Cisco and Juniper Networks.
  • Experience with the escalation problems & point-of-contact for Routing, Switching and WAN connectivity issues using ticketing system Remedy.
  • Technical responsibilities included, but were not limited to system performance and troubleshooting virtual and physical environments of various LAN/WAN technologies, server and enterprise applications and desktop technologies.
  • Strong hands-on experience on Palo Alto (5060, 3060), Checkpoint Firewall R77, juniper and Cisco ASA 5585 firewall.
  • Working on Load balancer F5 LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, 8800 for the corporate applications and their availability.
  • Worked extensively on Service now. Created all the changes and incidents for the RBAC implementation.
  • Worked on Cisco 7200, 3800, 3600, 2900, 2800, 2600, 1800 series Router and Cisco 2900, 3500, 4500, 5500, 6500 series switch.
  • Proficient hands on experience in configuration Cisco Catalyst 2900, 2960, 3560, 3750, 4500, 4900, 6500 series switches, troubleshooting and monitoring Cisco PIX ASA Firewalls, Routers and Palo Alto Firewalls.
  • Designed and configured the commands for QoS and Access lists for Nexus 9K, 7K and 5K.
  • Experience of routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, and BGP and setup of Access-Lists, and RIP, EIGRP, and tunnel installations.
  • Extensively worked on different flow feeds like Cisco Netflow and Juniper Jflow.
  • Proficiency in configuration of VLAN setup on various Cisco Routers and Switches.
  • Installed and configured Meraki (MS250, MS210) and MR84, MR250.
  • Hands-on expertise with routers 2600, 2900, 3600, 3900, 7200, 7600, ASR-901, ASR-903, ASR 5500, ASR-9010 and Juniper ACX, E, M, MX960 series.
  • Migration of firewall rules from Cisco ASA, Checkpoint to Palo Alto firewalls using migration tool from PAN.
  • Experience in monitoring and analyzing the load balancing of network traffic using Wireshark and Solar Winds, NMAP, Ethereal, Turin Secure Track and Splunk.
  • Experience in physical infrastructure like structured cabling, IP address management, Racking, Stacking, UCS management Experience in F5, Cisco ACE 4710 Load balancers.
  • Experienced in trouble-shooting both connectivity issues and hardware problems on Cisco based networks.
  • Managed entire RBAC project as a project lead by conducting daily status meetings. Interviewing RTMs and assigning the application to the Business analysts. Ability to be flexible and adapt to any given situation.
  • Well experienced in configuring gateway redundancy protocols like HSRP, GLBP, and VRRP.
  • Sound knowledge in CISCO firewalls, CISCO PIX, ASA 5500 series and CISCO ASA as well as encryption techniques.
  • Working extensively on Data Center Palo Alto firewalls and F5 BIG-IP LTM.
  • Worked with Cisco Nexus, Catalyst and Aruba wireless devices
  • Worked with SCCM and MDT to create Packages, Advertisements, Collections, and deploy the application on Windows 7 Environment.
  • Designing and implementing F5 BIG-IP load balancer and MPLS/VPN service for various customers.
  • Experience with the implementation of multicast/MPLS/l2vpn.
  • Experience in Network Management Tools and sniffers like SNMP, HP-Open view, Wireshark and Cisco works to support 24 x 7 Network Operation Center.
  • Deployed applications using SCCM and MDT by creating the application profiles using both Task sequence and Microsoft Build Manager.
  • Ability to deliver Role Based Access Models (RBAC), entitlement review and certifications process.
  • Experience in physical cabling, IP addressing and Subnetting with VLSM, configuring and supporting TCP/IP, DNS, installing and configuring proxies.
  • Experience Palo Alto, Network Security, Juniper Firewalls, SSL VPN, Checkpoint, RSA, Cisco Nexus, Cisco ACE, Cisco Wireless.
  • Experience with firewall Administration, Rule Analysis and Rule Modification.
  • Strong knowledge on migration of DDoS attacks, IPsec & SSL implementation on Cisco and Palo Alto firewalls.
  • Experience Configuring Virtual Device Context in Nexus 7k, 5k and 2k.
  • Access control server configuration for RADIUS & TACAS+.
  • Expertise with 802.11x wireless technology.
  • Creating SCCM build document and SCCM Client migration document for DSM SCCM Environment.
  • Experience in configuring and Troubleshooting BIG-IP F-5 load balancer LTM.
  • Ability to Install, Manage & Troubleshoot Large Networks & Systems Administration on Windows & Linux platforms in Development, Lab & Production Environments.
  • Provided infrastructure and design guidance for setting up and maintaining SCCM 2012 environments.
  • Good knowledge of CISCO NEXUS data center infrastructure with 5000 and 7000 series switches includes (5548, 7010) including CISCO NEXUS Fabric Extender (2232, 2248)
  • Configured RIP, OSPF and Static routing on Juniper M and MX series Routers.
  • Sound knowledge of virtual firewalls like checkpoint VSX, IDS, IPS as well as encryption techniques.
  • Good Knowledge on Juniper SRX configurations on various platforms of Junos.
  • Installed and configured firewalls, IPS, IPSec, VPNs and various screens for intrusion prevention on Juniper SRX equipment.
  • Working with High performance data center switch like Nexus 7000 series.
  • Initialize familiarization with the management of Palo Alto Next Generation Firewalls as well as F5 load balancers.

Experience
Education
Master's in Electrical Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology 2019
Certifications
CCNP Routing and Switching
CCNA certified with over 6 years of professional experience in Network Planning
certifications process
Cisco Security Manager CSM
Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP
Cisco Certified Network Associate CCNA
Currently working on getting the network certified for PCI for data in motion
Skills
Cisco
2021
6
Network Engineer
2021
6
OSPF
2021
6
Routers
2021
6
Switches
2021
6
LAN
2021
5
BGP
2021
4
EIGRP
2021
4
Firewall
2021
4
IPsec
2021
4
VPN
2021
4
Citrix
2021
3
Ethernet
2016
3
Juniper
2021
3
Network Security
2018
3
VLAN
2018
3
Citrix MetaFrame
2018
2
CSS
2018
2
Disaster Recovery
2018
2
HSRP
2021
2
MPLS
2021
2
MS Active Directory
2018
2
NAS
2018
2
SolarWinds
2018
2
TCP/IP
2015
2
Technical Support
2015
2
Veritas
2018
2
Veritas Backup
2018
2
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
2018
2
WAN
2021
2
Wireless Networks
2015
2
WLAN
2015
2
AIX
2021
1
Blue Coat
2021
1
Cabling
2016
1
Data Center
2016
1
Fiber Optics
2016
1
Linux
2021
1
NAT
2021
1
Netscaler
2021
1
Network Infrastructure
2016
1
RedHat
2021
1
VMWare
2021
1
vSphere
2021
1
DNS
0
1
Network Planning
0
1
Splunk
0
1
System Administration
0
1