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Nikhil G

Network Engineer - 6 Years of Experience

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Network Engineer

Education Level:

Bachelor

Will Relocate:

YES

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY: * * Cisco and Juniper Certified Network Professional with 8+ years of experience in network system design, Implementation, administration and troubleshooting. * Experienced Cisco/Juniper Firewall, Security and Network Administrator as well as a Certified Network Professional, routing and switching. * Worked on F5 LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, 8800, Viprion for the corporate applications and their availability. * Knowledge in planning, design, implementing and troubleshooting complex networks and advanced technologies. * Identify, design and implement flexible, responsive, and secure technology services. * Experience with Firewall Administration, Rule Analysis and Rule Modification, project implementations. * Modified internal infrastructure by adding switches to support server farms and added servers to existing DMZ environments to support new and existing application platforms. * Advanced knowledge in Cisco ASA 5000 series and Juniper SRX installation, configuration and maintenance. Experienced with Juniper: EX-2200, EX-4300, EX-4500, MX-480 and M Series, SRX210 and SRX240troubleshooting. * Configured VPN tunnels to multiple vendors with end devices terminating at vendor end being a Cisco/Juniper firewall. * Perform Configuration changes on BIG IP (F5) Load balancers and monitored the Packet Flow in the load balancers. * Involved in Configuring and implementing of Composite Network models consists of Cisco7600, 7200, 3800series and ASR 9k, GSR 12K routers and Cisco 2950, 3500, 5000, 6500 Series switches. * Configured networks using routing protocols such as OSPF, BGP and manipulated routing updates using route map, distribute list and administrative distance for on-demand Infrastructure. * Designing and Implementation of (LAN) VLANs, VTP, Spanning Tree (STP), Trunking (Dot1q and ISL) and Ether channel. * Administration of ASA and Juniper SRX firewalls in the DMZ and FWSM in the Server Farm to provide security and controlled/restricted access. * Responsible for monitoring alerts through tools like Solar winds Orion, xenoss, scrutinizer in the Production environment as a part of first response for the service desk. * Implemented changes in projects in accordance with the change management process and responsible for MOPS, Post-Implementation handoff documents and Visio drawings. Eagle Creek Software Services, Eden Prairie, MN Aug 2013 - Dec 2015 Network Engineer Responsibilities: * Played responsible role for implementing, engineering, and leveltwo support of existing network technologies/ services and integration of new network technologies/services. * Worked on 3560, 3750, 3850, 4510,4500-X, 6509 series Cisco Catalyst switches, and 2248, 5020, 5548 and 7010 Cisco Nexus switches in multi VLAN environment for the implementation of inter-VLAN routing, 802.1Qtrunking, andEther Channel. * Performed network administration tasks such as creation and management of VLANS, Port security, Trunking, RPVST+, Inter-VLAN routing, and LAN security. * Configuration of site-to-site VPN connections (IPsec/GREtunnels, DMVPN) to support diverse network connections to extranet clients. * Worked as a member of the NOC groups to troubleshoot issues related to IP phones, Connectivity and application slowness. * Troubleshoot issues with Wireless Access points (Cisco 3502) and configure SSID's on 4506 Wireless LAN Controllers. * Adept at configuring and troubleshooting of VPC on Nexus 7Ks, 5Ks and VSS on Cat 6509, 4500-X. * Expertise in Configuration of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANS) using Nexus 7Ks, Cisco routers and multi-layer Switches and supporting STP, RSTP, PVST, RPVST along with trouble- shooting of inter-VLAN routing and VLAN trunking using 802.1Q. * Expertise in configuration of routing protocols and deployment of OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and Policy routing over Cisco Routers, Switches (Nexus 7Ks, Catalyst 6500). * Performed ISSU on Nexus Switches and responsible for troubleshooting application latency. * Resolved various trouble tickets related to routing (BGP, EIGRP, Static Routes, prefix-list, route-map, distribute-list, route-redistribution), switching (VLAN, port security, trunking, STP, VPC, HSRP, FEX). * Designed, planned and performed failover testing with various extranet clients successfully. * Involved in design, implementation and configuration of HSRP for load balancing on L3 switches on different location of office on the switched network. * Managed inventory of all network hardware, Management and Monitoring by use of SSH, Syslog, SNMP, NTP. * Performed maintenance and troubleshooting of connectivity problems using PING, and Trace route. * Used DHCP for automatic assign reusable IP addresses to DHCP clients via Infoblox IPAM. * Configured and maintained OSPF protocol which include deployment of new locations in the existing infrastructure created Stub/areas and configured summarization for effective routing * Configured OSPF on ASR1002/9001 Cisco routers at various back offices across US. * Configured ACLs in Juniper SRX 3400firewall for Internet Access requests for servers, Protocol Handling, Object Grouping and NAT. * Experience setting up SRX 240 HA Pairs on the branch firewalls for redundancy. * Configured SPAN and RSPAN for network monitoring. * Worked on network-based IT systems such as racking, stacking, cabling and module replacement. * Gained experience in troubleshooting Cisco IP phone. * Configured and installed Wireless Access Points at different company's location and managed them through Wireless LAN Controller (Cisco).

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