KIRAN A

· Project: Major - Procter & Gamble || Minor - Zurich Insurance Group.

· End to End Project life cycle maintenance.

· User requirement call, Commercial team call, Kick off call, Change approval call, Implementation, Project closure call.

· Responsible for SOW, HLD, BOM creation.

· Post SOW approval from customer, Start working on LLD/ optimized solution/ configuration.

· Before implementation do IT change risk assessment.

· Hand shake with Project Manager on change process to present change in Technical review board.

· Implementation of design, UAT, Hyper-Care, Project closure from customer.

· Assisting team in pre-sales /New Business Win.

· Devices: Cisco 4K routers, Cisco 38XX Switches, Cisco 9500 Switches, Cisco, 93XX Switches, WLC 3502, AP 3802, VEdge 1k ,VEdge 2k.

· Protocols: EIGRP BGP, STP, DMVPN, Multicast, VSS, stacking, VSS-stack, Zscaler Solution.

· SD WAN solution Implementation: Green field and Brown Field.

· Good Understanding of SDWAN Fabric Architecture.

· SDWAN: OMP, TLOC, Control Connection, Centralized and Localized Policy, AAR, Control Policy. IaaS on Ramp.

· Key member of Peer review team and provide valuable inputs to team members

· Part of Network Data & Security team. Primary role is to maintain 4 Datacenters across globe.

· Actively involved in Project Transition from Due diligence to stabilize the client Network environment.

· Implement network security for remote access. Tasks includes configuring site to site and clients to site VPN tunnels through Cisco routers ASA and maintaining access policies for remote users.

· Implementing security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA (TACACS+, RADIUS), and NAT & PAT.

· Handling Routing and Switching related issues and configurations.

· Troubleshooting of complex LAN/WAN infrastructure, including routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF & BGP.

· Involved in Network implementation, Planning, Migration and Redundancy activity.

· Communicating with various access providers, leading to the resolution of issues in the Network (Hard Fixes).

· Perform Troubleshooting in MPLS cloud from different locations.

· Documenting RCA and maintain the Error Database of various issues team faced.

· I was chosen to travel to Florida (United States) for Knowledge transfer from Catalina SME during initial transition also provided the Reverse Knowledge Transfer to customer.

· Implement network changes as per the Change Request (CR) process.

· Providing KT to new joiners about network infrastructure, process and Tool required for the day-to-day operations.

· Implementing Solar Winds and M-watch monitoring tool.

Implementing and maintaining Scheduled backup of Network Devices

· Configuring the New or refurbished CISCO routers and CISCO switches which arrives to the location and troubleshoot when needed.

· Testing Layer 1 and Layer3 Network related issues in Cisco and Juniper router.

· Validating the CISCO 1800, 2800, 1900, 3K Series Router’s via OOB# (Out of Band) and In-band for multilink interfaces.

· Trouble shooting on COS, SNMP, HSRP, DHCP, DNS.

· Performing the Automation and manual Tests such as soft loop Test & Hard Loop Test of the circuit and WIC and Controllers module of T1 and T3.

· Perform basic troubleshooting on basic routing issues (Add Static routes if required) and engaging the Tier 3 for route changes in the Backbone Network (Especially for Routing/BGP issues).

· Shipping out a new Routers and switches and via 3rd party vendors when CPE found faulty and follow up with them.

· OC-12, OC-3, DS3, T-1, and POE, Ethernet (Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet)

· Perform Through put Test for Bandwidth issue

· Enabling & Pulling the IP Accounting for High Utilization Issues creating a usage report as required by client.

· Interface with various Telco’s for circuit testing and turn up & HOIP – Hand off into Production (Support to service delivery).

· Perform Troubleshooting end-to-end between the two sites.

· Analyzing performance report of routers and troubleshoot accordingly.

· Perform Troubleshooting in MPLS cloud from different locations.

· Communicating with various access providers, leading to the resolution of issues in the

Network (Hard Fixes).

. Monitoring of LAN, WAN and all other Network Equipment’s.

. Configuring Routers, Switches, VLAN.

. Configuring and troubleshooting Leased line connectivity in Cisco routers.

. Configuring WAN Protocols like HDLC, PPP and Frame -relay.

. Configuration of Wi-Fi Routers for internal LAN.

. Commissioning iBSC (IP Based Server) -Which has a core Linux Server and database as Oracle.

. Commissioning iTC (IP Based Transcoder Server) - Which uses Windows 2003 Operating System and uses a data base of Oracle.

. Patch up gradation of Version 2 BSC, iBSC, iTC.

. Maintenance of Operation and Maintenance sever which is used by version 2 BSC's for reporting alarm to OMC-R.

. Maintaining all the data backup of server.