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VairavaRaja RP

VairavaRaja RP

Chennai

Summary

Having 15 + years of experience in systems, network and security field. Handling a team of 7 members in LAN/WAN implementation & Infrastructure operations , datacenter , network operations and management leadership roles. Experience in People Management, including goal setting, skill development and career development planning and effective resource utilization

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Assistant Manager - (Cloud Engineer / Engineering Team)

SIfy Technologies
07.2017 - 01.2019
  • Designing LLD Network and security solutions based on client requirements
  • Provide technical pre-sales support to various entities for the purpose of promoting and selling products/services
  • Entities include potential customers, existing customers, partners, and resellers
  • Pre-sales activities will also include close interaction with internal groups such as product management, marketing, R&D and post-sales support
  • Research of market trend, competitors product and provide feedback to engineering team ensuring product meets the market and customer demand
  • Understand the customer requirement and propose architecture with the help of engineering team
  • Own the POC including troubleshooting, stakeholder management, documentation etc
  • Provide technical expertise on network security, cloud security, zero trust, and managed SOC services
  • Ensure proposed solutions align with industry standards and best practices
  • Conduct security reviews and risk assessments of technology projects and systems, providing recommendations for improvements
  • Develop and oversee cybersecurity policies, procedures, and guidelines, ensuring alignment with industry standards and best practices
  • Provide technical expertise and guidance to development teams, assisting in the implementation of security controls.

SME (Subject Matter Expert)

Network Solutions (IBM)
01.2017 - 07.2017
  • Handling a team to 15 members including L2 and L3 teams
  • Assisting them in the day to day activities and complex configurations
  • Approving the configurations for before deploying in the respective devices
  • Handled complex network and security outages and help engineers to go through the process and complete it on the required time line
  • Identifying the technological gaps and helping them to provide the necessary trainings
  • Assisting them in Cisco Routers, switches, Firewalls, PaloAlto firewalls, Fortinet Firewalls, IOS upgradations, F5 configurations, Hardening of the networking devices
  • Assisting them in auditing the network devices according to ISO 27001 and PCI DSS standards
  • Assisting them in applying Device patches and vulnerability updates on the timely manner.

Sr.Network Security Engineer

Wipro Technologies
11.2014 - 01.2017
  • Design and implement Cisco DC technologies, develop, document and review of DC solutions, such as network architecture diagrams, network solution diagrams, high level, and low-level engineering design documents
  • Implement or migrate the existing infrastructure to DC solutions and coordinate required tasks
  • Good exposure of LAN technologies (LAN design standards), enterprise networking technologies like MPLS, IPsec, VPN, DMVPN, VPLS etc
  • Strong knowledge in IPV6, multicast, QoS, IP fast routing, network security and enterprise security such as DDOS, Firewall, IPS, Malware detection etc
  • Good exposure in routing and switching protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS)
  • Experience in architecture assessment of large scale data center networks and campus networks
  • Have extensive knowledge in Data center networking, BGP, IS-IS, VRFs and QoS and MPLS
  • Software-defined networking (design and traffic engineering).

Sr.Network Engineer

Appnomic systems
07.2011 - 03.2013
  • Taking Care of internal as well as customer networks including Data centers
  • Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco routers in various protocols like RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS-VPNs
  • Configuring VTP, VLAN, LACP, PAGP, STP, PortFast, RootGuard, LoopGuard, SPAN etc in Cisco switches
  • Installation and Troubleshooting of Cisco ASA Firewall, Fortigate Firewall, Cyberoam firewall
  • Configuring ACL’s like standard ACL, Extended ACL, creating IPSEC VPN tunnels, GRE tunnel etc
  • Static NAT, Dynamic Nat etc with port based access
  • Installing MRTG, Ops Manage Engine, PRTG, Syslog servers for monitoring Routers and switches
  • Using NMAP for port vulnerabilities
  • Configuring IPSEC VPN for different 3rd Parties
  • Configuring BGP, Route maps, BGP confederation, BGP path selection, MPLS, BGP communities, IPv6, multicasting, DHCP, DNS, Netflow, SNMP
  • Zone based firewall policy, BGP path selection, Route reflectors
  • Configuration of Rate-Limiting for Various Customers depending on Traffic Flows
  • Configuration of QOS like LLQ, RED, WRED etc
  • Configuration and troubleshooting of Multicasting.

Data Center Implementation

CMC Limited (BANGALORE)
12.2009 - 10.2010
  • Implementation of data center including routers, switches, firewalls and windows servers
  • Implementation of Switches in a large scale up to 200 L2 and L3 switches
  • Creation of VLAN, Ether channel, HSRP to provide the entire infrastructure communication and segregation
  • Creation of Access lists, Extended Access lists, Named Access List, SNMP, NTP etc
  • Implementation of ASA Firewall and configured policies
  • Configured DNS, DHCP, FTP, Exchange server 2003, ISA server 2004.

L2 Engineer Server and Network Engineer (NNS) Network and Network Security

Emergency Management Research Institute (EMRI) 108 operations
07.2008 - 10.2009
  • Worked as a SPOC for Tamil Nadu EMRI
  • Have designed, planned, implemented and configured the 4 data center for EMRI in India
  • Installation and configuration of Cisco ASA 5510, 5520 and Pix 515, 525, NAT, Access Lists, Extended Access Lists, SNMP, Site to Site IPSEC VPNs
  • Installed Websense for filtering web content and configured it in ASA
  • Installation of McAfee EPO orchestration and installing client machines using McAfee
  • Configuration, troubleshooting and monitoring Checkpoint Devices in smart console
  • Installation and configuration of Cisco Catalyst 4500 switches, 2950 switch, 3560 switch
  • Configured Etherchannel, VLAN, STP, HSRP etc
  • Configured and Installation of routers like 1841, 2611 and configured EIGRP, OSPF etc
  • Configuring QOS, access lists.

Lead Consultant Security & Network(Lifecycle)

Verizon Data Services
03.2019 - Current
  • Implementing and managing security controls including Firewall and WAF, SASE , PaloAlto Prisma Access to bolster cybersecurity defenses
  • Formulating and implementing cloud security policies and procedures in alignment with industry standards and organizational requirements
  • Collaborating with architects and engineers to design secure cloud architectures, considering factors like data encryption, access controls, identity management, and network security
  • Organizing and conducting security awareness training programs for employees to educate them about cloud security best practices and potential threats
  • Ensuring prompt resolution of audit and risk assessment findings to maintain operational integrity
  • Engineered fault-tolerant infrastructure solutions for global clients and ensuring uninterrupted operations
  • Tailored network solutions to meet client specifications, specializing in LAN and WAN designs
  • Collaborated closely with Sales Teams to deliver exemplary enterprise customer support
  • Knowledge of SDN, NFV, SD-WAN, cloud infrastructure technologies such as virtualization, virtual switches, virtual routers.

Level 2 Network and Security Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services in SIPCOT (Siruseri)
  • Providing L2 support to Cisco Routers, Switches and firewalls (ASA, PIX, Checkpoint) for client Nielsen having 900 branches around the world
  • Implementation and Troubleshooting of Routers, Switches and ASA firewalls
  • Providing support for our client in a centralized management
  • Configuration of VLAN, Private Vlans, VTP, HSRP, Ether channel in switches
  • Configuration and troubleshooting of RIP, offset list, distribution lists, OSPF, OSPF in frame relay, EIGRP, Leak maps, VIEWS, BGP, IPSEC VPN, SNMP, NAT, Frame Relay, Multicasting, MPLS, GRE Tunnel etc
  • Configuration of AAA, access lists in routers
  • Need to login to bridge calls for high severity calls to analyze the problem
  • Have consolidated the routers and switches of different branches in APAC region into one data center
  • Worked on switches like 2950, 3650, 4500 and 6500 and routers 1800, 2500, 7200
  • Configuration of Cisco 5000 and 7000 Nexus series switches
  • Implementation of ASA 5510 and 5520 devices in single-context and Multiple-context modes.

Education

10th -

Railway Colony Matriculation HSS, Chennai
01.1999

B.E (computer Science) -

St. Peter’s Engineering College

Diploma -

Thai Moogambigai Polytechnic, Chennai

Skills

  • Microsoft Windows
  • DNS,DHCP,Group Policy
  • Active Directory
  • Routing,Switching
  • File Server,DFS,WDS
  • Failover Clustering
  • Cisco Nexus,STP,PVST,MST
  • Windows Server,DTP,VPC
  • Service Provider,VLAN
  • Security,VDC,RSVP
  • AD-DS,MPLS TE,Paloalto
  • Checkpoint
  • HSRP,VRRP,PaGP,LACP
  • 2k,5k,7k and 9k Switches
  • Advanced OSPF,Fortinet
  • Cisco ASA,EIGRPOSPFRIP
  • OTV,Advanced MPLS
  • ITIL,BGP
  • MPLS VPN / TE,MPLS-VPN
  • Advanced Multicast
  • OWASP,WAF
  • Multicasting,PIM,IGMP
  • Segment Routing
  • ISO 27001
  • IPSEC,DMVPN,GRE,SSL VPN
  • VxLan,Layer 2 VPN
  • GDPR,SOC2
  • Well versed in implementing security and privacy frameworks like SOC2, GDPR, and ISO 27001

Certification

  • CCIE (Security, R&S, DataCenter and Service provider course completed.)
  • CCIE R&S Theory certified but Expired
  • MCSA and ITIL Foundation v3 Certified
  • Cisco Viptela SD-WAN
  • Fortinet SD-WAN
  • Cloud technologies AWS and Basic knowledge in Azure.
  • PaloAlto Firewall certification (PCNSE Certified)

Timeline

Lead Consultant Security & Network(Lifecycle)

Verizon Data Services
03.2019 - Current

Assistant Manager - (Cloud Engineer / Engineering Team)

SIfy Technologies
07.2017 - 01.2019

SME (Subject Matter Expert)

Network Solutions (IBM)
01.2017 - 07.2017

Sr.Network Security Engineer

Wipro Technologies
11.2014 - 01.2017

Sr.Network Engineer

Appnomic systems
07.2011 - 03.2013

Data Center Implementation

CMC Limited (BANGALORE)
12.2009 - 10.2010

L2 Engineer Server and Network Engineer (NNS) Network and Network Security

Emergency Management Research Institute (EMRI) 108 operations
07.2008 - 10.2009

10th -

Railway Colony Matriculation HSS, Chennai

B.E (computer Science) -

St. Peter’s Engineering College

Diploma -

Thai Moogambigai Polytechnic, Chennai

Level 2 Network and Security Engineer

Tata Consultancy Services in SIPCOT (Siruseri)

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