Strong technical skills: Expertise in Cisco routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, etc.), switching, and F5 Big-IP across deployment, support, integration, monitoring, and analysis.
Experience with diverse network environments: Integration and monitoring, installation, and analysis for a broad range of solutions, currently managing a network equipment in any environment. Have quality experience working in a world class, mission-critical environment where uptime is important and security compromise cannot be afforded.
Client communication: Have been working closely with clients to provide project updates, discuss changes, and propose solutions, indicating strong communication skills.
Project experience: have successfully migrated from Cisco 3K to 9K series routers, ability to handle major network upgrades and end of life device cleanup in the environment.
Problem-solving: am the Point of Contact for preparing Root Cause Analyses (RCA) for critical issues and handling/analyzing problem tickets. Expert in disaster recovery and business continuity planning. IT professional bringing 9 years of industry experience, including 9 years as Network Administrator. In-depth understanding of business logic and flow.
• Strong hands-on experience on Cisco Catalyst,Cisco Nexus (series 2K, 5K, 7K), Cisco Routers,Cisco ACE, F5 BIG-IP LTM/GTM .
• Thorough understanding and Experience in F5 concepts which include Virtual servers, Pools, Health monitors, SSL Profiles, Persistence profiles, Load balancing methods, HA pair, irules.
• Experience with F5 load balancers to provide Land Balancing towards Access layer from core layer and configuring F5 LTM both by GUI and TMSH/CLI and traffic management in GTM during Data center work.
• Worked in Google Cloud Platform for application load balancing,Cloud armour policy implementation,SSL certificate renewal,Backend creation.
• Strong hands on experience in Meraki products like MS225,MS210.Have upgraded the firmware versions,port configurations & breakfix work.
• Configuring and troubleshooting Exterior Gateway protocols such as BGPv4 including internal BGP (iBGP) and external BGP (eBGP).
• Experience in working with Cisco Nexus Switches like 5000 and 7000 series and Virtual Port-Channel configuration. Implemented VDC, VPC, ISSU upgrade on the Nexus 5505 and 7010 switches.
• Experience in securing and monitoring across the network with DMVPN over IPSEC, IPSEC Site-to-Site VPN, IPSEC Remote Access VPN using proper ACL and NAT
Network Infrastructure Monitoring & Reporting, Incident-Change-Problem Management, Escalation & Technical Support for Clients over 200 Countries.
Coordinating with services providers and vendors to resolve network related issues, Configuring, Maintaining and troubleshooting Cisco Routers, Firewalls and switches.
Worked on implementation, design & installation of Wi-Fi Networks, Cisco Controllers & Access Points.
Troubleshooting Wi-Fi issues, Access point disassociated from Controller, configuration mismatch with different Controller, Lost Virtual Local Area Network Mapping.
Handle core lo alerts generates from Router, switches, Palo alto and Riverbed.
Worked on Splunk & WAN Optimization (Riverbed) for daily troubleshooting and data analysis.
Review WAN utilization reports
VPN, 802.1x, Access List, Palo Alto Firewall & troubleshooting related issues.
Work with vendor to open TAC case to fix network device alert.
Initiating and following up on RMA.
Handle NCM High medium and Trunk down reports.
Monitoring and troubleshooting the Wireless, VSAT, Ethernet, fiber and Leased line links provided to the
customers.
Troubleshooting the WAN&LAN technologies issues in L2/L3 Circuits and configuring L2 path for bridge mode
customers.
Performing the basic configurations &installations of routers and switches
Monitoring and reporting the CPU utilization, traffic and bandwidth usages of provider edge and customer end
routers
Ensuring the network connectivity from PE to CE and verifying the complete path in-between PE to CE.
Initiate and plan emergency circuit migrations (change of the path) for sensitive customers outage call.
Identifying the BSO issues in infra and coordinating with back-end ISP’s (BSNL,Airtel, TATA,Reliance)
Coordinating with internal teams for customer link restoration on outages, provide remote assistance to
engineers in installations, troubleshooting and resolving various network issues.
Responsible for taking regular system backups and raising internal request to team for network hygiene check
process in repeated customer links outage.
Providing reason for outage report to customers on daily basis and perform root cause analysis to identify the
cause of the incident/service interruption and suggest corrective actions to potentially prevent recurrence of
a similar problem or preventive action to ensure that service discrepancies do not occur
Aruba
Cisco catalyst (3560, 9300 & 4500)
Meraki switches (225)
Cisco 2911
ISR 4331 & ASR 1000
Infoblox
Cisco WLC (8500 & 7500) & Access points (2700 UX & 3800)
Cisco ISE, 8021x
Splunk
Cisco Prime
Cisco DNAC
OSPF, BGP
ACI
Service now
IP Addressing and Subnetting
Layer-2/3 protocols