Network Consultant
CGI
Total years of experience :14 years, 4 months
• Member of Networking & security Engineering team for CGI Data Centre Services in Australia
• Hands-on Experience on Network & security Devices:
Firewalls - Cisco ASA, Checkpoint and Palo Alto
Routers - Cisco (3800, 2900, 2800, 1900 and 1841)
Switches - Cisco (2960, 3560, 3750, 4500, 6500, Nexus Switches)
Load Balancer - Netscaler
• Providing support for Customer DC hosted on our Data Center & Customer Locations
• Works on Change requests and incidents raised by customer
• Need to maintain the Datacentre Network Devices for all hosted Customers inside our Datacenter
• Working on Firewall & Networking devices Migration activities
• Need to maintain SLA according to ticket urgency.
• Handling multiple customers and giving solution to improve the performance, stability and high availability of the network infra
• Managing and Troubleshooting security issues such as VPN related issues, through Firewall (Fortigate)
• Managing security levels and controlling traffic using Fortigate.
• Datacenter Management with support to Infosys internal services
• Configuring, hardening & troubleshooting various Cisco switches like 2960, 3560, 3750, 4500, 6500, 6513-E and 6905-E in order to provide LAN connectivity to the users
• RFC Analysis and Validation of the change requests according to user requirements and organization’s security policy
• Verifying & implementing the security policies based on Source IP Address, Destination IP Address and the TCP/UDP ports on firewalls as per the user request
• Troubleshooting LAN/WAN & firewall related issues to restore the connectivity for projects and there by closing the tickets after the user confirmation
• Wan Link Maintenance by coordinating with service providers and conducting regular meeting with ISP.
• Providing network & security solutions for the project connectivity infrastructure by attending the bridge calls with the client team and by consulting the COE teams
• Worked as a NOC Engineer (L3 Support) for Federal Bank Datacenter
• Configure and maintaining the CORE Routers, CORE Switches, and CORE VPN Routers.
• Configuring and troubleshooting BGP routing Protocol with service providers like BSNL, TATA, Tulip and Reliance.
• Maintain and configure GRE/IPSec Tunnels for Branch Routers and VPN Router at DC and DR.
• Maintain the ISP (BSNL, TATA, Reliance, and Tulip) links for the DC and DR
• To implement the Secondary router on the Federal bank Branches.
• Computerization of Regional Transport (RTO) offices located in different destination in Kerala and establish the connectivity to datacenter
• Establishing structured cabling with communication rack at various offices
• Installation and configuration of routers, switches and establish connectivity to data center
• Configuration of layer 2 managed switches with VLAN for segregation of traffic between data, voice and video at all remote offices
• Coordinating with service providers like BSNL, KSWAN, for providing connectivity between KWA offices using Wireless/MLL/LL/ISDN/PSTN.
Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication
Plus Two from Memunda Higher Secondary School Vatakara in Computer Science
From Technical High School Vatakara