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Kranthi R

Network Engineer

Occupation:

Network Engineer

Education Level:

Bachelor

Will Relocate:

YES

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SUMMARY: * Over 7 Years of extensive hands on experience in Networking, which includes expertise in the areas of Routing, Switching, Wireless Access points, VOIP, Firewalls, BIG-IP F5 load Balancers and Datacenter Infrastructure Management. Experienced with an array of Cisco, juniper and Palo alto networking hardware and software. * Worked extensively in configuring and troubleshooting Cisco, Juniper Router and Switches. * Hands on experience in Installing and Configuring Cisco Catalyst Switches 2960, 3650, 3850, 4500, 4900, 6500, 6800, Nexus 3000, 5000, 7000 Series, Juniper EX 4300, 4200, 3300, 2300 Series, QFX 5100, 5200 Series. * Worked on configuring Aruba Controllers (3200, 3400, 3600, 6000 and 7000 series). * Hands on experience in Installing and Configuring Cisco Routers 2800, 2900, 3800, 3900, 4000 and ASR 1000, 9000 series and Juniper ACX 2100, 2200, 4000 and PTX 3000, 5000, 7000 and MX 240, 480, 960 series. * Knowledge in configuring and troubleshooting SRX 1400, 3400, 3600, 4000 firewalls. * Experienced in Configuring and troubleshooting Cisco ASA 5500 (5550, 5555) firewalls. * Installing and configuring Checkpoint NG R55 & NGX R60, Blue Coat Proxy Server Secure Platform Installation, VPN. * Knowledge of implementing and troubleshooting complex layer 2 technologies such as VLAN Trunks, VTP, Ether channel, STP, RSTP and MST. * Strong knowledge in IP addressing (IPv4, IPv6) and subnetting (FLSM, VLSM) concepts. Experienced with various Static and Dynamic network protocols OSPF, EIGRP, HSRP, VRRP, BGP, VLAN, Spanning Tree, Frame-relay, MPLS, and IPsec VPN. * Hands on Knowledge/experience on F5 load balancers, its methods, implementation and troubleshooting on LTMs and GTMs. * Worked extensively on firewalls and VPN gateways Checkpoint, Blue Coat Web Gateway, CISCO, Juniper, Fortigate GUI and Shell. * Designed and implemented Cisco VoIP infrastructure using CUCM for a large enterprise and multi-unit office environment. * Managing and configuring Aruba Wireless devices and Cisco Access Points. * Comprehensive knowledge of wireless networking systems and protocols. * Responsible for design, implementation, & configuration of several advanced networking solutions to include: IP management using VLSM, QOS, SIP, HSRP & VLAN management. * Managing data center and network by using solar winds NPM, NTA, NCM and F5 load balancer, citrix load balancer also working on troubleshooting, implementing and configuring new devices and helping them to build new data center and moving devices from one data center to another by moving all devices. * Hands on experience with F5 load balancers - LTM series like 3600, 4000, 7200v-f and GTM series 2200S, 4200V for the corporate applications and their availability. * Virtualization: Experience with VMware (Workstation, Vcenter server, Vmotion, ESXI hypervisor). * Experience with vBlock Cloud infra such as VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Director and Veeam Backup. * Experienced in configuring and troubleshooting NAT, PAT, VPN, Route Maps and Access control lists. * Planned and implemented network designs, including WAN, LAN, MPLS. * Responsible for service request tickets generated by the helpdesk in all phases such as troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, patches and fixes with all around technical support. * Good understanding of security infrastructure including Antivirus, Encryption, DLP, SIM, IDS and IPS. * Hands on experience with packet sniffer, TCP DUMP, Solar Winds and Wireshark for packet monitoring. * Configuring URL filtering, site-to-site VPN tunnels, Net flow, file blocking, Anti-virus blocking in Palo Alto firewalls. * Configuring, Administering and troubleshooting the Palo Alto firewall. * Experience with Palo Alto Networks Next Gen firewalls. * Configuring & Managing LAN, WAN, VPN and Firewall of Cisco Routers for End Users. * Configuration VPN, Firewall rules on SRX series firewalls. * Implemented Checkpoint FW Interface, NAT and VLAN using R77 GAIA Smart Dashboard. * Strong implementation and Administration experience in Service Now, HP Service Manager /Service Center, BMC Remedy, IBM Service Desk and IT Automation. * Developed a platform both to host all Spirent products which now facilitates unified hardware across product lines and common methods for software development, hosting, testing and release. * Communicating and managing relationship with external & internal customers and ensuring customer satisfaction of service delivery in accordance to their quality & consistency of State of Work & Service Level Agreements. * Ensuring network availability, vendor management, fault management. * Strong general management, negotiation, inter-personal, communication and team building skills.

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