Akshay Sharma

I am seeking a position in an organization to apply my fundamentals of Wired and Wireless Networking concepts, enhance them, learn new things over the time and I desire to gain quality experience that will allow me to take full advantage of my knowledge and training in various other relevant technologies. In addition, I am eager to contribute my creativity and hard work towards the success and growth of the organization.

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS:

• Knowledge of Services like EC2, ECS, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk, S3, EFS, Glacier, Storage Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Redshift, VPC, CloudFront, Route53, API Gateway, Direct Connect, CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Trusted Advisor, Kinesis, IAM, Cognito, CloudHSM, WAF & Shield, SNS, SQS, SWF, Cost Explorer, Budgets, etc
• Designing, deploying, managing and operating scalable, highly available and fault tolerant system on AWS using EC2, ELB, Auto Scaling Groups, etc
• Creating AWS IAM Users, Policies, Groups, etc
• Hands-on experience on Architecting and securing the Infrastructure on AWS using IAM, KMS, Cognito, API Gateway, Cloud Trail, Cloud Watch, Trusted Advisor, Security Groups, NACL, etc
• Configured various performance metrics using AWS CloudWatch

Wireless Networking:

• Good Knowledge and understanding of wireless networking (802.11a/b/g/n/ac)
• Understanding of different wireless authentication methods (Static WEP, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK-AES/TKIP, WPA2-AES enterprise level)
• Splash Page authentication (Captive Portal), BYOD authentication method
• Understanding of OKC caching, PMKID caching
• Understanding of L2 and L3 roaming
• Internet Access Policies, Bandwidth Policies, Application filtering
• Configure, troubleshoot, and deploy network devices for clients, which included network and/or resource access, software, or hardware problems
• Providing timely escalation of high priority cases
• Troubleshoot all networking problems to ensure minimum downtime and maximum availability of network
• Supporting enterprise level customers across the globe

Wired Networking:

• Implementing network security features like Access List, SSH, Routing Protocol Authentication
• Implementing network services and optimizations like VRRP, NTP, DHCP, SPAN and RSPAN
• Good understanding of route filtering like standard ACL filtering, extended ACL filtering, Prefix-List filtering and Route Map
• Implementing Layer 2 technologies like inter-VLAN routing, STP, RSTP, PVST+, MSTP, VLAN, Ether-Channel, trunking (ISL and dot1q), Private VLAN
• Sound understanding of networking concepts related to LAN, WAN, addressing and subnetting, OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite, networking devices administration and maintenance
• Good understanding of port security features like BPDU Guard, BPDU Filter, Root Guard and Loop Guard