Python
Django
Ansible
Linux
Shell Scripting
Bash Scripting
MySQL
HTML
SD-WAN
AWS
LTM
GTM
ASM
Switching
Routing
Security
Network Security Engineer with 7 years of experience working in global environments with a diverse background in various areas of Automation, Security, Routing, Switching and Load balancing.
Designed test scripts to test features such as Quality-Of-Service, Policies, VPN and NAT on multiple vendor devices for recommended code.
Designed scripts to identified the configuration differences on checkpoint and Juniper SRX devices for schedule configuration, NAT, VPN and Service objects.
Assisted application developers in understanding end-to-end traffic flows by creating and implementing test scripts.
Designed network and security infrastructure using various firewall products such as Palo Alto Networks and BIG-IP F5 LTM, GTM and ASM devices.
Worked on F5 Local Traffic Managers (LTM), Global Traffic Manager (GTM) series 8900, 6400, 6800, 3400, 5100, 3600.
Performed carrier-grade network engineering, including designing, building, and supporting the firewall infrastructure across data centers and monitored firewall capacities.
Ensured high network availability for customers by deploying global and site load balancing.
Assessed and patched security vulnerabilities by implementing perimeter defense and UTM (Unified Traffic Management) measure.
Built IP-Mapper tool to identify where the host IP is connected to a switch port using Python Script, Django Framework, MySQl database & HTML on Unix server.
Developed scripts to audit over 65,000 interfaces that include loopbacks, P2Ps to check if the IP addresses have DNS records.
Configured network using routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF and manipulated routing updates using route- map, distribute list and administrative distance for on-demand Infrastructure.
Troubleshoot problems related to routing protocols involving OSPF, BGP, MPLS, IP Multicasting, IS-IS and layer 2 technologies involving Spanning Tree and VPC.
Analyzed services like Net flow, NTP, DHCP and NAT enabled in the network and provide a suitable change during network impact.
Worked with ISP's during network outages and did necessary troubleshooting to fix major WAN network outages.
Analyzed network traffic and troubleshoot asymmetric routing issues, performance issues such as slow network and internet for customers that are not able to implement their application.
Work on network tickets to resolve network connectivity as part of break-fix and thus contribute to overall network health in a stipulated amount of time as per SLA.
Built Video Network Multicast Diagnosis tool to provides real time hardware, software, multicast, pim information that can be pulled directly from the Network devices into an excel spreadsheet for immediate distribution to support teams.
Built SMOP generator tool to auto generate SMOP's for Cisco, Arista, Juniper, F5 and A10 devices using Jinja2 configuration templates.
Converted and optimized IPv4/IPv6 ACLs from Juniper to Cisco devices using Python script.
Deployed new Data Center switches such as Arista 7280,7010 using ZTP and Python script without manual intervention.
Designed Data Center network for cable network domain at Comcast and worked with technical lead on implementing changes during maintenance window.
Worked on designing VRF BGP policies for VRF Routing from the core Routers to the Firewalls.
Deployed network gear in various labs in AWS domain for new assets and responsible for migrating, scaling and implementing network design for various labs in the network.
Deploy Cisco ASR 9010 routers in Datacenters and configure OSPF/IS-IS for the internal routing of IPv4/IPv6 traffic for establishing iBGP between the Cisco ASR 9010 and Juniper MX 2020.
Migrated Nexus 6004's to Arista 7280 and 7010 as part of decommissioning Nexus devices in National Data Centers.
Deployed new Data Center switches such as Arista 7280,7010 using ZTP provisioning, script and without manual intervention.
Provide Support to Enterprise networks as well as Production Data Centers and provide immediate assistance in case of network outages and resolve major incidents for customers daily.
Work on network tickets to resolve network connectivity as part of break-fix and thus contribute to overall network health in a stipulated amount of time as per SLA.
Analyze network traffic and troubleshoot asymmetric routing issues, performance issues such as slow network and internet for customers that are not able to implement their application.
Act as an escalation point for line 2 engineers and resolve most of the major outages and incidents that are highly impacting production environment.
Interact with various vendors like Cisco, FortiGate, F5, Level 3 to look into physical circuit and hardware related problems in Microsoft's network infrastructure.
Experience in working with ISP's during network outages and do necessary troubleshooting to fix major WAN, MAN network outages.
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