Networking Professional with 6+ years of Experience computer networking and Solid understanding of Design, Implementation, Administration, Operational and troubleshooting of enterprise data networks. * Proficient hands on experience in configuration Cisco Catalyst 2900, 2960, 3560, 3750, 4500, 4900, 6500 series switches, troubleshooting and monitoring Cisco PIX ASA Firewalls, Routers and Palo Alto Firewalls. * Strong hands-on experience on Palo Alto (5060, 3060), Checkpoint Firewall R77, juniper and Cisco ASA 5585 firewall. * Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco 2500, 2600, 3000, 6500, 7500, 7200, ASR 1002Series routers. * Configuring Multiprotocol Label Switch-Traffic Engineering (MPLS-TE) on a Cisco ASR 9K Series route. * Well versed with AAA configuration using TACACS+ & RADIUS server. * Implemented security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA (TACACS+& RADIUS) * Working on Load balancer F5 LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, 8800 for the corporate applications and their availability. * In-depth understanding of UDP and TCP protocols. * Strong understanding of current and future technologies including TCP/IP, IPv4/v6, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, Frame Relay, ACL, VPN, Wireless LAN and configuration of VLANs. * Extensively exposed to troubleshooting, maintaining devices and Migration technology. * Migration of firewall rules from Cisco ASA, Checkpoint to Palo Alto firewalls using migration tool from PAN. * Responsible for setting up the infrastructure environment with majority of Cisco & Palo Alto appliances apart from various other equipment. * Experience in building private cloud infrastructure of OpenStack, deploying through puppet and maintaining them in production. * Expertise in OSI layer model/TCP/IP. * Experience in using Horizon and OpenStack CLI to interact with OpenStack Services like Nova, Neutron and Keystone. * Working extensively on Data Center Palo Alto firewalls and F5 BIG-IP LTM. * Design and Implementation of LAN, WAN, VLANs, VTP, Spanning Tree (STP), Trunking and Ether channel. * Designed and configured the commands for QoS and Access lists for Nexus 9K, 7K and 5K. * Knowledge and Experience in Configuring, and troubleshooting, Cisco Meraki and Cisco ISE. * Proficiency in configuration of VLAN setup on various Cisco Routers and Switches. * Experience in monitoring and analyzing the load balancing of network traffic using Wireshark and Solar Winds, NMAP, Ethereal, Turin Secure Track and Splunk. * Experience in physical infrastructure like structured cabling, IP address management, Racking, Stacking, UCS management Experience in F5, Cisco ACE 4710 Load balancers. * Supporting LAN, WAN, MAN and WLAN Networks * Created POC's in deployment of OpenStack with Devstack and Packstack. * Extensive experience with HSRP, VPCs, VDCs, VSS, VLSM, NAT, VLANs, and Spanning-Tree Protocol. * Designing and implementing F5 BIG-IP load balancer and MPLS/VPN service for various customers.

Highlights:

• Infrastructure
• Cisco
• Configure
• Networking
• Open Shortest Path First IGP
• Routers
• Switches
• Troubleshooting
• Border Gateway Protocol
• Firewall