Sharon K S, Network Consultant

Sharon K S

Network Consultant

Alshaya Group

Location
India
Education
High school or equivalent, Electronics and communication Engineering
Experience
13 years, 8 Months

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Total years of experience :13 years, 8 Months

Network Consultant at Alshaya Group
  • India
  • My current job since April 2021

Juniper SRX 1400, 1500, 4100, 345 firewall.
• Cisco 3850, Cisco 2960, Cisco 9200, Cisco 9300, Cisco 9400 and 4500 Switch’s
• Juniper ex4300, ex2300, ex2200 Switch’s
• Cisco ASR & ISR Routers
• Symantec (Bluecoat) packet shapers S200, S400 & 7500.
• Aruba wireless controllers 7010, 7205, 7210 & 7030
• Pulse Secure SSL VPN box PSA5000
• Extreme WLC NX 9600 & VX 9000
• Forcepoint & Sonicwall Firewall
• Nexus 9K
Monitoring tools:
HPNA, HPNNM, SNOW, CyberArk Privileged Access Management (PAM)
Knowledge:
Palo alto & FortiGate Firewall, Microsoft Azure AZ 900 Fundamentals, AWS Certified Solution Architect
Associate
Key Activity Conducted
• Part of new Accenture facility network infra build up from scratch with firewall, routers,
switches, VPN and Wireless controllers in a multi-vendor environment.
• Have worked as a POC for migrating the entire facility from CISCO to Juniper and vice versa
under as part of tech refresh.
• Firewall replacement activity from net screen firewall to Juniper SRX

Senior Network & Security Engineer at Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd
  • India
  • August 2014 to April 2021

Member of Network team providing Accenture internal network infrastructure support.
• Roles & Responsibilities: - Roles & responsibility are to look after at Accenture India Office LAN Network
and Security Across Rest of India branches & Data centers which includes Juniper and cisco Switching, Cisco
Router, Juniper SRX firewall, Aruba Wireless, Pulse Secure VPN box, Symantec Packet Shaper at all locations
of Accenture network.
• Member of Network Services team providing network infrastructure support for 1000+ global
projectswith 100000+ users across India.
• Management of data centers in the facility and ensuring 100% uptime of services.
• Building new network infra by configuring of brand-new devices such as firewalls, routers,
switches, packet shapers, WLC’s and VPN in a multi-platform environment (Cisco, Juniper,
Bluecoat, Pulse Secure, Aruba, etc.) by following all the latest organization standard documents
and processes.
• Conduct network resiliency tests in quarterly, bi-annual and annually by following the resiliency
template process. Plan, initiate, conduct then document entire resiliency testing process of all
networkdevices helping network to become resilient in times of failure.
• Taking full responsibility and completing the service impacting activities such as OS upgrade and
techrefresh from initiating the downtime communication till the UAT closure.
• Understanding project requirements and implementing daily changes in Network Devices such as
Firewall, Switches, Routers by following the change process.
• Point of contact for external and internal audit conducted by the information security team and
respond to their query or doubt in a professional way and following up with closure if any
findings.
• Implementing NAT/PAT and changing the firewall policies as per the project requirement.
• Provisioning, Installing, configuring, Monitoring & Managing the Network Equipment used in the
operation of the supported Network
• Worked on Extensively on Juniper SRX Firewalls, SRX 1400, 1500, & 4100
• Experience working with Cisco IOS, IOS-XR, NX-OS.
• Knowledge of implementing and troubleshooting complex layer technologies such as VLAN Trunks,
VTP, Ether channel, STP, RSTP and MST
• Implementation of HSRP, VRRP for Default Gateway Redundancy
• Implemented WLAN Aruba Wireless Access Points and its Controllers at various Accenture Sites
• Experience in working with Cisco Nexus 9K series switches for data center
• Configuring routing protocols BGP and OSPF
• Configured dot1.x & Port Security on Cisco & Juniper Access Switches
• Upgrade Hardware/Software to the standard codes to avoids bugs Understanding project
requirements and implementing daily changes in Network Devices such as Firewall, Switches, Routers
by following the change process

Desktop Support Engineer at Accenture
  • United Arab Emirates
  • July 2012 to August 2014

Member of Accenture internal infrastructure desktop support team, responsible for solving all kindof
Desktop level issues and heading the team of 25 members who in turn take care of 10000 users.
• Roles & Responsibilities:
• Troubleshooting IBM Lotus Note & Microsoft Outlook.
• Supporting thin client (Citrix) computer issues.
• Application management-installation configuration and troubleshooting of Windows and web Based
applications
• Active Directory Users Administration.
• File sharing and Security management
• Updating servers and desktops with latest upgrades/patches
• Providing customer end connectivity with the installation, configuration and troubleshooting of
several network devices such as Network printers, Scanners, Xerox machines etc.
• Working with Service-desk management tool and providing resolution
• Managing Escalated tickets and Reporting incident tickets to the concerned team
• Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of Windows 2000, Windows XP, windows 2000, 2003
servers, win vista, win 7.
• Configuring and troubleshooting desktops and laptops.
• Configuring email IDs for newcomers in company.
• Resolving the connectivity issues related to VPN of end users.
• Handling VIP calls on priority without escalations and with full end user satisfaction

Transmission Engineer at Telone Infrastructure Pvt Ltd
  • India
  • July 2010 to May 2012

Roles & Responsibilities:
• My major responsibility during job is to handle project for Microwave Transmission, Drive test & BTS
commissioning
• Successfully accomplished projects for installation of TATA DOCOMO network in Kerala, IDEA 3G network
in Kerala, VIDEOCON network in Kerala, Uninor network in Kerala.
• Drive Test to Check Coverage & Quality by analyzing Rx level, Rx quality, BER, FER Handovers,
Interference, etc.
• Analyzing interference, Call Drops, Handover failures, Frequent Channel reselections, Rx Quality, Rx level
etc.

Education

High school or equivalent, Electronics and communication Engineering
  • at University of Calicu
  • June 2010

High school or equivalent, Electronics and communication Engineering
  • at Kerala education Board
  • June 2004

High school or equivalent, SSLC
  • at Kerala education Board
  • June 2002

Specialties & Skills

Wireless
Firewalls
Windows Azure
NETWORKING
BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE
CISCO IOS
CISCO ROUTERS
COMPUTER HARDWARE
FIREWALLS
GATEWAY
INFORMATION SECURITY

Languages

English
Expert

Hobbies

  • Reading