Akankshu Sharma, Network Specialist

Akankshu Sharma

Network Specialist

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Higher diploma, Business Administration
Experience
12 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 3 Months

Network Specialist
  • My current job since July 2017

All form of NAT and PAT translations, access rules, and modular policy frame work
•Services- Have in-depth knowledge of services like DHCP, ARP, NAT, Netflow, failover, multiple contexts, transparent firewalls, WCCP, Dual ISP, Threat-detection/Prevention
•IPS module and appliances for deep packet inspection of packets
•All Internet related issue with access policy, NAT and DNS related issues
•Troubleshoot network down situations with High severity cases
•Network Management using Event Manager, Syslog servers, SNMP/Netflow collectors, IME (IPS Manager Express)
•Quality of service (QoS) on Cisco ASA and VPN
•Botnet Filtering and application inspection on Firewall
•Port channeling, Load balancing on ASA. Gateway Routing
•Troubleshoot ASA/PIX/IPS crashes, recovery
•Troubleshoot IPS signature updates, false positive, false negative situation
•IPS modules upgrade, troubleshooting, recovery
•IPS module and standalone device configuration, Sensor management and policy creation
•Configure IPS module in inline and promiscuous mode and configure policies as desired by customer
•Working with CBAC and Zone-Based-Firewall
•Configuration of DHCP, DHCP relay, DNS, TCP state bypass, SNMP, Syslog server
•Mitigating network Attacks
•Working with Multiple context and transparent mode
•Configure and troubleshoot AAA authentication issues on ASA
•Configure and maintain Dual ISP and Policy based routing on Cisco ASA
•Configuring and maintaining IPSec Site to Site VPN on Cisco
•Cisco ASA and IPS system software and GUI update
•Upgrade ASA / IPS in High availability environment
•Configure and troubleshoot dynamic routing protocols on ASA, for instance, EIGRP and OSPF
•Basic configuration and troubleshooting on layer 2 and 3 Cisco switches
•Basic configuration and troubleshooting of Identity Firewall
•Impart training to the new and existing team members
•Handle escalated cases / calls and resolve the issue keeping in mind the customer satisfaction
•Configure IPv6 and troubleshoot the connectivity issues
•Configure NAT46 and NAT64 for supporting IPv6 traffic over IPv4, vice versa.
•Configure and troubleshoot Site-to-Site VPN (Dynamic and Static)
•Configure and troubleshoot EZVPN
•Configure and troubleshoot SSL VPN (Anyconnect)
•Configure and troubleshoot GRE over IPSec and DMVPN

Network Engineer at Aricent Technologies
  • India
  • March 2015 to June 2017
Network Engineer
  • December 2013 to February 2015

•Work on various projects of the company to setup devices in the network
•Configure and monitor ACLs, IP addressing issues and taking back up of the configuration
•Configure and troubleshoot the NAT and PAT issues on Cisco devices
•Configuring and maintaining Access rules on the Checkpoint
•Configure static NAT and Hide NAT on the Checkpoint
•Configure and maintain the policies for firewall. Monitor the flow of traffic
•Configuring and troubleshooting DNS issues (DNS doctrine, Server and client relationship)
•Help client in configuring the basic Site-to-Site VPN over Cisco ASA
•Configure SSH, Telnet and provide AAA authentication for the same
•Configure and install ASDM for the client
•Giving training to the new team members and assigning the task for every team member
•Handling escalated cases and calls and resolving the issues to get client satisfactions
•Configuring and troubleshooting WCCP, Threat-detection
•Configuring and troubleshooting IP SLA monitoring with multiple ISPs on Cisco ASA
•Troubleshooting all internet access related issues
•Configure and troubleshoot Active/Passive Failover
•IOS upgradation as per the client requirement

Associate Network Engineer at Kbits Pvt. Ltd
  • July 2012 to November 2013
Network Trainee at Kbits Pvt. Ltd
  • April 2012 to June 2012

Maintain and monitor the Lab devices
•Configure IPs and ACLs on the lab devices as per requirements
•Provide access to new users

Education

Higher diploma, Business Administration
  • at IMT
  • December 2015
Master's degree, MSc. IT
  • at Sikkim Manipal University
  • July 2014
Diploma, Computer Application
  • at Punjab Technical University
  • May 2013
Bachelor's degree, Computer Application
  • at Jamia Hamdard University
  • May 2012
High school or equivalent,
  • at C.B.S.E Board
  • January 2007

from

High school or equivalent,
  • at C.B.S.E Board
  • January 2005

from

Specialties & Skills

CUSTOMER RELATIONS
FIREWALLS
INTERNET SOFTWARE
NETWORKING
POLICY ANALYSIS

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

CCIE Security (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2015
Valid Until:
October 2019

Hobbies

  • Studying new technologies