A Networking Professional, with 11 years of experience in designing, deployment and troubleshooting large scaled datacenter networks with hybrid, multi-tier and multi-site architecture.
CERTIFICATIONS:
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Cisco Certified Network Associate Exam
Implementing Cisco IP Routing
Implementing and Operating Cisco Data Center Core Technologies
Implementing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
Implementing Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies
SKILLS:
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Competency in Designing, Integration, and Implementation of networking solutions throughout the project lifecycle (Requirement gathering, Scoping, Scheduling, Design & Ongoing operations).
Excellent knowledge of Cisco ACI L3out, Tenants, Contracts, Access Policy, PBR, Service graph, shared services, VMM integration, fabric discovery, multipod and multisite brownfield and green field deployments.
Deploy and troubleshoot VxLAN EVPN, vPC, BGP, OSPF, IP Multicast, Cisco ACI Contracts, L3out, PBR and Service graph, VRF leaking, multipod and multisite, Fabric discovery etc.
Integrating Cisco ACI with virtualization platforms (Vmware, Kubernates, openstack) through VMM integration.
Provide best practices consulting to the customers for ensuring well designed networks.
Data center solutions based on VXLAN EVPN based fabrics or ACI Single-SiteFabrics, MultiPod & Multisite Fabric architectures.
Data center solutions involving network services appliances (Firewalls, IPS load balancers) from network integration perspective.
Delivered trainings on Cisco ACI multipod, multisite, L3out, PBR, VMM, VXLAN EVPN and IP Multicast, in various forums i.e. internal Cisco teams, Cisco partners and end clients.
Competency in datacenter networking: Vxlan EVPN, vPC, VDC, VSS, Stacking, VTP, STP, DHCP.
Competency in Routing Protocols & Technologies: EIGRP/OSPF/BGP, Route redistribution, IP Multicast, IPSEC, VRF, VPN, NAT, IP SLA, Net-flow, Access-list, GRE Tunnels, and PBR.
Hands on experience in managing security products like Cisco ISE, ASA, Firepower and Checkpoint Firewall.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) - knowledge of VPC Architecture, Security Groups, Subnets, Route Tables, Elastic IP, Internet & NAT gateways , VPC Peering, Load balancers, VPN etc)
Devices Worked on:
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Cisco ACI: APIC, MSO, Cloud APIC, Remote Leaf and N9K (ACI Mode)
SDWAN: vBond, vManage, vSmart, and vEdge, Cisco ISR/ASR
Data Center Switches: Nexus 9K (Standalone mode), Nexus 7K, 5K, 3K and 2K.
Routers: ISR 1000 and 4000 series, ASR 1000 and 9000 series
Switches: Catalyst 3700, 4500,6500,6800,9000 (9200,9300,9400,9500,9600)
Security Devices: ASA 5500, Firepower 1K, 2K, 4K and Cisco ISE
Tools: SolarWinds, DCNM, Nexus Dashboard, IXIA, Niksun, IPAM, packet shaper.
