• Network engineer over 7 years of experience in Routing, Switching and including network planning, implementing, configuring and troubleshooting network devices.
• Exceptional hands-on experience in implementation, administration and support of LAN, and WAN.
• Exceptional ability in implementing routing and redundancy protocols like RIP, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, HSRP, MPLS, GLBP, PPP and SNMP.
• Experience in upgrading IOS for Cisco Routers, and Switches via TFTP/FTP.
• Solid understanding in Frame Relay, Point to Point WAN technology, and LAN/WAN topologies.
• Experience with load balance applications and appliances.
• Strong Knowledge in WAN technologies including T1, T3, ISDN, HDLC, Point to Point, ATM and Frame Relay.
• Experience in adding Rules and Monitoring Checkpoint Firewall traffic through Smart Dashboard and Smart View Tracker applications.
• Worked with F5Load balancing, IDS/IPS, Bluecoat proxy servers and Administrating, authentication controls (Radius, TACACS+)
• Experience in working with Juniper routers such as MX-480, MX-960 and switches EX-4200, EX-4300, EX-8200 and Juniper firewalls such as Juniper SRX-610, SRX-3600
• Experience in Implementing Check Point Firewalls NG, NGX, NG R55, NGX 60, NGX R65, R70, R75, R77.
• Extensive knowledge in implementing and configuring F5 Big-IPLTM-3900, and 6900 Load balancers
• Experience with Load Balancers for administrating and monitoring global &local traffic using F5 BIG IPLTM & GTM
• Configured Client-to-Site and site to site VPN using SSL Client on Cisco ASA 5520 ver8.2.
• Strong hands on experience in layer-3 Routing and layer-2 Switching. Dealt with Cisco router models like 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, and 2500, 1800 series and Cisco catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 3500, and 2900 series switches.
• In-depth knowledge of deploying and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, Frame-Relay, Ether-channel.
• Expertise in configuring switching protocols such as ARP, RARP, VTP, PPP, VLAN, STP, RSTP, PVST+, HSRP, GLBP, VRRP and Routing Protocols such as RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS, and MPLS.
• Troubleshooting DNS/DHCP issues within the LAN network.
• Planning, Designing and implementing Network and security solutions like Firewalls (Palo Alto, Check Point, and ASA), Data Center Switching, Bluecoat Proxy and F5 Load Balancers. Troubleshooting issues post migration of Internet traffic via Bluecoat Proxy by tracing traffic on Bluecoat or by capturing traffic.
• Experience with F5 load balancers for load balancing and network traffic management for business applications.
• Adept understanding of the JUNOS platform and worked with IOS upgrade of Juniper devices.
• Worked with Red Hat Enterprise Linux with virtual servers using VMware.
• Firmware upgrade for Meraki MS, Meraki MR, Meraki MV, Meraki MX for the better performance
• Provided troubleshooting and diagnostic support at layer2/layer3 level using different technologies and tools such as Splunk (Log tool), server monitoring and Service Now and CA ticketing tool.
• Experienced working on network monitoring and analysis tools like SOLAR WINDS, CISCO works, RIVERBED and Wireshark.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills, able to resolve technical challenges and provide creative solutions in high pressure production environments.
• Independent problem solving and a good team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Education:

• Master’s in Computer Science at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, USA
• Bachelor’s in Information Technology at Charotar University of Science and Technology, INDIA

Certifications:

• CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate
• CCNP – Cisco Certified Network Professional

Technical Skills:

• Cisco Routers Cisco 2600, 2800, 3600, 3750, 3800, 7200, ASR 1K and 9K.
• Cisco Switches 6500, 7600, 5800, 2900, 4000, 3500, 4500, 5000,
• LAN Technologies Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet, SMTP, VLAN, Inter-VLAN Routing, VTP, STP, RSTP
• WAN Technologies Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, (E1/T1/E3T3), DS3, OC192, ISDN, PPP, MPLS, SD WAN
• Network Security Cisco ASA, ACL, IPSEC.
• Nexus 3K, 5K,7K and 9K, NX OS
• Routing Protocols OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, ISIS, GRE, VRF, PBR, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization, and Static Routing.
• Various Features / Services IOS and Features, IRDP, NAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP, CDP, TFTP and FTP.
• Network Management Tools Wireshark, Netflow Analyzer, Cisco Works, Ethereal, SNMP, HP open view, Solar winds.
• Load Balancers Cisco CSM, F5 Networks (BIG-IP) LTM 8900, BIG-IP GTM 6800, Cisco ACE 4710.
• Operating Systems Windows (98, ME, 2000, XP, Server 2003/2008, Vista, Windows 7/8), Linux, UNIX,
• Firewall& Security Checkpoint (R62, R65, R70, NGX), Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, Juniper SRX.