Senior Network Engineer
Meeza QSTP LLC
Total years of experience :7 years, 1 Months
o Configurations & Administrations of Palo Alto Firewall, FortiGate Firewalls.
o Configurations of Cisco L2 stacked and L3 switches and ASR Router routers.
o Managed F5 and Forti ADC Load Balancers, Nexus 7k, 5k, 3k switches.
o Cisco ISE for Wireless User and network devices administrations.
o Monitor & Diagnosed network devices with Cisco Prime, Firewall traffic logs.
o Update network devices with latest patches IOS & backup.
o Monitor network performance and troubleshoot problem areas as needed.
o Oversee installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of end user workstation hardware, software, and peripheral devices.
o Provided remote support to on-site engineers, Senior Engineers and end users/customers during installation, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
o Troubleshooting different L2 and L3 issues by remote or site visit.
o Ensure network connectivity of all servers, workstations, telephony equipment, fax machines, and other network appliances.
Practice network asset management, including maintenance of network component inventory and related documentation and technical specifications information.
o Design, Implementation, Troubleshooting and Maintenance of Fortigate Firewall as a Perimeter and WAN Firewall in the network.
o Install, configure, integrate, upgrade, and troubleshoot global network routers, local switches, and general network infrastructure.
o Proactively monitor network infrastructure to enhance performance and report any issues to Group Head of IT Infrastructure.
o Managed Symantec server client EDR integration to provide security.
o Coordination with Vendors & partners for implementation of new Security projects
o Configuration and troubleshooting Routing Protocols, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP
o Configuration and troubleshooting of IPsec Site-to-Site, SSL & Remote VPN’s
o Configurations and troubleshooting L2 Switching, VLAN, Trunking, Port Security
o Raising a Support Case with vendors like Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Microsoft and F5
o Network devices administration with Cisco ISE network access control (NAC)
o Experience in working with the SOC team and collaborate with different levels of incidents meeting the SLAs and KPIs
o Optimization & fine tuning of security solutions based on industry best practices.
o Coordination with Vendors & partners for implementation of new Security projects.
o Preparing & implementation of base-line documents for infrastructure for hardening.
o Responsible for daily operations on Palo Alto cluster firewalls External and Data center.
o Fine-tuning & optimization of security rules to remove risky, unused & shadowed rules.
o Implementation and configuration of Fortigate firewalls as external and DC firewalls.
o Configured IPsec Tunnel over WAN L2 Link between HQ and new DC PA & Fortigate.
o Configure, Verifying and troubleshooting different security infrastructure devices.
o Configure and troubleshoot Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches and different Firewalls.
o Troubleshooting network issues, routing and switching issues at different sites.
o Administration and configuration of Routing protocols EIGRP, BGP, OSPF etc.
o Responsible for Implementing and troubleshooting of IPSec Site-to-Site VPN.
o Responsible for Implementing SSL Any connect and clientless technologies on ASA.
o Support site & remote users in issues related to network connectivity and security.
Responsible for network and IT support, a network comprising of 800 users using Cisco and Microsoft technologies. Extensive troubleshooting of network, hardware and software environments. Infrastructure support on Microsoft Windows and Cisco technologies.
Routing/Switching Administration and configuration of routing protocols EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, RIPv2 and IP Routing. Configuration of VLANs, VTP, STP, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, DHCP, Inter-VLAN and port security. VPN Connectivity between campuses and remote access VPN.