V. R. VENKATESH
Summary
CISCO certified network professional with 12+ years of experience in enterprise network support. Extensive exposure in IT infrastructure with Banking service sector and Internet service provider.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work history
Senior Infrastructure specialist
Emirates NBD (Payroll company: IT People FZ LLC)
01.2022 - Current
- Managing a team of 6 engineers for bank network operations, Performance reviews and skill development.
- Managing vendor relationship and hardware lifecycle details of network devices.
- Serving as primary escalation point for complex network incidents.
- Creating network documentations and standard operating procedure .
- Configure and Troubleshoot cisco switches and routers, Cisco Nexus switches,, Cisco ACI devices, firewalls, NAC appliance, Wireless controllers
- To work with design level changes on Datacenter environment, WAN, Cloud environment. Working with Automation tool like Git Hub Jenkin CI-CD pipelines
- Working collaboratively with Virtualization, Server, storage Team for incident resolutions.
Service design engineer
ETISALAT Technologies (Payroll company : Inteltec Emirates LLC)
03.2020 - 12.2021
- Involved in service designing for enterprise & SMB segment managed service customers
- Second level technical point of contact for post design reviews, network audit & escalated Fault/problem tickets
- Evaluated and designed complex customer WAN designs for RFPs
- Provide process level and technical level guidance to the various engineering and business sections.
Datacenter Migration Engineer
SPIGOT private limited
02.2019 - 02.2020
- Function as Datacenter Migration Engineer Involved Implementation for new Datacenters as per the Application team requirement
- As part of the Fleet Migration Need to work for Dataflows, Application flows, VLAN Trunking and Tagging and Routing establishment in Datacenters
- Maintain Regular interaction with project management team to ensuring the compliance and project delivery schedules for other SLA parameters.
Network Lead
Plintron Global Technologies solutions
05.2016 - 02.2019
- Travelled to UK and Australia for Planning Datacenter migration
- Working on High priority service requests and change Requests
- Function as Network Lead for 10 Team members
- Performing L3 network activities which include routing, switching and troubleshooting, LAN implantation, Load balancer configuration.
Technical Lead
Cognizant Technologies solutions
03.2015 - 05.2016
- IOS Upgradation in Access and Core switches like 6500 series and Nexus Switches
- Working on VPN troubleshooting with different vendor devices
- Troubleshooting and manipulating LAN and WAN traffic in client environment.
Senior network engineer
SIFY TECHNOLOGIES
04.2013 - 03.2015
- Performing L2 and L3 network activities which include VPN configuration and troubleshooting, LAN implantation and Load balancer configuration
- Familiar in troubleshooting CISCO 3600, 2600, 2500 series routers & CISCO 2900,3500 Series switches, Fortigate Firewalls, Cisco ASA & PIX Firewalls and Cyberoam Firewall
- Analyzing and troubleshooting packet drop issue in cloud environment
- Configuring and Monitoring Qos bandwidth for several customers.
Junior network engineer
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
03.2011 - 10.2012
- Responsible for supporting 24
- 7 network environment across the US regions and implementing, maintaining network services
- Performing network refresh and upgrade activities which include LAN refresh and expansion, IOS upgrade in Router/Switches and Failover test
- Performing L1 support to firewall likes Juniper, Check point and basic commands.
Education
Skills
Datacenter: Expert in SDN (Cumulus and Enterprise SONIC OS), Cisco ACI , DC CORE technologies
Automation: Good in Ansible,Python,GitHUB,CICD Pipelines
CLOUD Technologies: Good in AWS and Microsoft Azure
Routing Protocols & Layer 3: Expert in EIGRP, OSPF, ISIS, BGPv4, MPLS, Route Filtering, Redistribution,
Summarization, Policy based routing, MPBGP
Switching & Layer 2: Expert in VLAN, VTP, STP, RSTP, Ether channel, SPAN, RSPAN , VPC,ACI ,VXLAN
Network security: Expert in implementing ACL, AAA, SSH, 8021X, NAT, Port security in cisco switches, Cisco NAC appliance, Aruba CPPM , Multivendor Firewall
Tunneling protocol: IPSec, GRE, SSL, DMVPN ,GETVPN,EVPN
Quality of Services – Modular QOS (CBWFQ, LLQ), Traffic Shaping and policing, WRED concepts
Network services: HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, NTP, DHCP, DNS
WAN Technologies: Wan optimizer (Silverpeak), SDWAN (Viptela and Versa)
Wireless: Aruba wireless
Others: Configuring IPSLA, NetFlow, NTP, WCCP, DHCP, SNMP, Syslog, FTP, TFTP, Telnet, and HTTP in cisco routers, Python Basics, Multicasting
Accomplishments
- Tanfeeth management given best performer award for troubleshooting and fixing slowness issue for Tanfeeth call center to Multiple applications
- Emirates NBD Operation management given the award for the extraordinary work on troubleshooting critical financial transaction loss
Certification
CCNP R&S (Cisco certified network professional)
CCNA R&S (Cisco Certified network associate)
CCIE DC Written completed and Pursuing CCIE DC Lab exam
CCNP Security (Cisco certified network professional security)
Microsoft Azure fundamentals AZ-900
MCITP (Windows server 2008)
Got 3 Days AWS Solution Architect training from Amazon
Completed Cumulus Linux course and certified by Udemy
Languages
English
Fluent
Tamil
Native
Timeline
Senior Infrastructure specialist
Emirates NBD (Payroll company: IT People FZ LLC)
01.2022 - Current
Service design engineer
ETISALAT Technologies (Payroll company : Inteltec Emirates LLC)
03.2020 - 12.2021
Datacenter Migration Engineer
SPIGOT private limited
02.2019 - 02.2020
Network Lead
Plintron Global Technologies solutions
05.2016 - 02.2019
Technical Lead
Cognizant Technologies solutions
03.2015 - 05.2016
Senior network engineer
SIFY TECHNOLOGIES
04.2013 - 03.2015
Junior network engineer
WIPRO TECHNOLOGIES
03.2011 - 10.2012
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