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SNEHA RAO

Bengaluru

Summary

Network and Infrastructure Engineering professional with 13+ years of experience across enterprise networking, service-provider networking, data center networking, SDDC/SDN environments, cloud networking, network security, automation, network qualification, and technical validation.

Strong hands-on expertise across data center and virtual networking, including VMware NSX, VXLAN, Multi-VRF, L2VPN, L3VPN, VPLS, BGP/MP-BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, NAT, CGNAT, IPv6, failover, clustering, and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.

Experienced in testing and validating SDDC networking features including uplink segmentation, Multi-VRF, VXLAN, L2VPN, NSX A/A, VCG redundancy, and Velo-cluster BGP, along with API testing and Python-based automation.

Strong background in network security, security policy validation, access-list hardening, cloud security, security monitoring, and network traffic controls. Experienced in working with Enterprise Architects, SRE teams, engineering stakeholders, and customer validation teams to translate deployment requirements into scalable network solutions and automated validation workflows.


Overview

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1
Certification
15
15
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Solution Engineer

Cisco Systems India
01.2025 - 01.2026
  • Worked for customer Validation team for Microsoft account for features like DDoS, PFC,ROCE,QOS. Work includes partnering directly with client Enterprise Architects and SRE teams to capture deployment requirements and automate it for datacenter and WAN setups containing Cisco IOX routers. Have used AI tools for development.

Cloud Security Engineer/Member of Technical Staff

VMware India
01.2021 - 01.2023
  • Lead testing of edge software datacenter (SDDC) networking features like uplink segmentation, multi-vrf, VXLAN, EVPN, NSX A/A, VCG redundancy, Velo-cluster BGP, also involving API testing and python automation.
  • Got "At your best" award for quick bringup of high scale multi-tier microsegmentation multi-vrf , NSX cluster setup using automation and manual config for Proof of concept and development testing.
  • Exposed to SaaS, orchestration, storage config, Vmware NSX deployment and config
  • Implemented and automated multi-cloud management and security features in IT environment (cloud onboarding, security config and key rotations – resulting in easier and uniform onboarding and quick deletion of errored accounts, saving money by detecting unwanted or unused expensive cloud accounts remaining idle
  • Configured alerts on various levels for multi-cloud log analysis using Wazuh using MITRE framework, resulting in 50% faster and more insights during breaches and also researched and integrated OpenSearch AI for potential breach predictions

Senior QA

Cisco India
01.2012 - 01.2020
  • Worked on testing, automation and interoperability testing of variety of networking and security features like NAT, MPLS, L3VPN, CGNAT, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, IPv6, failover, clustering etc on cisco ASA firewall.
  • Worked on access-list hardening features to reduce customer bug count resulting in customer-bug reduction -60%, performance improvement - 30% and usability improvement - 20%

Automation Engineer

HCL Technologies(Juniper On-site)
09.2010 - 09.2012

Product Delivery Testing and. regression on customer setups, entailing VPLS, MP-BGP, VRRP, Ospf and BGP protocols.
Fuzzy Security Testing for almost all layer 3 protocols using Codenomicon tool for Juniper-MX routers

Education

MBA - Product Management

Kellogg Executive Education
Evanston USA
01-2023

B.E. - Electronics & Communication

S.J.B. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, VTU
Bengaluru
01-2010

Skills

  • SDN & Data Center Networking
  • VMware NSX SDDC / SDN VXLAN Overlays Virtual Networking Multi-VRF Uplink Segmentation L2VPN / L3VPN Edge Networking Data Center Networking Hybrid Network Architectures
  • Multicloud (Private and public)
  • Multi-Cloud Public & Private Cloud Cloud Security Security Monitoring MITRE Wazuh OpenSearch
  • Routing & Network Infrastructure
  • BGP / MP-BGP OSPF IS-IS MPLS NAT / CGNAT IPv6 Failover & High Availability Clustering
  • Python Automation and CI/CD
  • Python Network Automation CI/CD AI-Assisted Development
  • Security

Certification

  • DeepLearning.AI Agentic AI certification
  • Certified course on Advanced AWS security
  • Certified Scrum Master from Scrum Alliance

Timeline

Senior Solution Engineer

Cisco Systems India
01.2025 - 01.2026

Cloud Security Engineer/Member of Technical Staff

VMware India
01.2021 - 01.2023

Senior QA

Cisco India
01.2012 - 01.2020

Automation Engineer

HCL Technologies(Juniper On-site)
09.2010 - 09.2012

MBA - Product Management

Kellogg Executive Education

B.E. - Electronics & Communication

S.J.B. Institute of Technology, Bangalore, VTU
SNEHA RAO