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Work History
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SYED ZAHOORUDDIN AHMED

Network Engineer
Hyderabad

Summary

Overall 4+ years of comprehensive experience in end-to-end IT infrastructure and Network administration (WAN, LAN, Meraki & Security). Responsible for Networking management /SLA Maintenance /LAN & WAN. Extensive experience in managing & delivering support. Cisco CCNA certified. Cisco id: CSCO13543299. Cisco CCNP Completed training. PCNSE (Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer) completed training.

Overview

2
2
years of professional experience

Work History

Network Engineer

TELEPERFORMANCE
11.2023

Network operation Engineer

TATA Communications Transformation service Limited
12.2020 - 7 2021

Senior Network Engineer

LTIMINDTREE Limited
08.2022 - 11.2023

Network Engineer

Mindtree Limited
09.2021 - 08.2022

Education

Skills

Experience in configuring & troubleshooting Palo Alto, ASA, Meraki Access Point, Cisco Routers & Switches Good knowledge on DNS, DHCP, SSL Tunneling, Site to Site VPN, IPsec mode, Switching protocols, VRF, NAT, EIGRP & BGP Deep knowledge on TCP/IP packet and packet level debugging and Inspection in Wireshark Patching and upgrade of Security devices and hands on Experience on Palo Alto Firewall & Panorama Cisco Routers and Switches Redundancy Protocols like HSRP, GLBP & VRRP Experience with monitoring tool like WhatsUp Gold and ticketing tool like Genie Service Management (Service now) Configuration on routing protocols: STATIC, ,OSPF,EIGRP and BGP Switching protocols: VLAN, STP, DTP, VTP, CDP, PORT SECURITY, PORTFAST,BPDU,ETHERCHANNEL,SPAN Hand on experience on Cisco Routers backup, Recovery and password Breaking Implementing LAN and WAN connections Using switches and routers Knowledge on layer 2 &layer 3 switching Knowledge on security: ACL,DEFAULT ROUTING,NAT,HSRP,IP SLA,EBGP Operating System: cisco IOS windows Other: DNS, DHCPTCP/IP,NAT,PAT,SYSLOG,NTP,SNMP,HSRP,IP SLA,AAA,SSH,VPN,GRE, PPP, PPPoE

Previous Experience

  • LTIMINDTREE LTD, Senior Network Engineer, 08/17/2022, Present, HYDERABAD, Creating and troubleshooting the Virtual Private Network, Web Protocol and Firewall, design and planning – both test networks and production networks, Maintenance, configuring security devices, troubleshooting critical issues and analysis of Production and Non-Production environment. Maintaining LAN, Meraki, WAN and architecture of the firewall devices as per the business policy, as a precautionary measure, analyze and implement new security protocols for greater efficiency against any threat or malfunctions. Network configuration and installation. Firewall, Router & Switch setups. Installation of LAN, WAN, Internet connections (TCP/IP, DNS). Knowledge of implementing routing protocols, Audit of IP addressing and hosted devices within data centers. Managing network asset inventory through the useful lifecycle of each asset. Speak to customers via email and phone for initial requirement capture and provide remote troubleshooting and fault finding. Responsible for the maintaining network devices, Data center and configuration of switches and Routers. Responsible for the dedicated network activities for ODC. Responsible for network support during outages and critical outages 24/7. Troubleshooting Network issues based on Ticketing tool. Experience on infra support on network production and implementation. Experience on Network activities ASDM, ISP, Customer projects.
  • MINDTREE LTD (RLABS ENTERPRISE SERVICE LTD), Network Engineer, 09/07/2021, 08/16/2022, HYDERABAD, Responsible for the maintaining network devices, Data center and configuration of switches and Routers. Responsible for the dedicated network activities for ODC. Responsible for network support during outages and critical outages 24/7. Troubleshooting Network issues based on Ticketing tool. Experience on infra support on network production and implementation. Experience on Network activities ASDM, ISP, Customer projects.
  • TATA COMMUNICATIONS TRANSFORMATION SERVICES LTD., Network operation centre engineer, 12/2020, 07/2021, IP PROVISIONING TEAM(L2 TROUBLESHOOT). Routing technologies including general configuration, Policy Based routing, Route Filtering, Routing Instancecreation and configuration of routing protocols like Static routing, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP. Configuring VLAN , port channel issues, customer browsing issues, web browsing ,Global DNS issues. Realted to Troubleshooting Level issues. Good Knowledge on IPV4, Sub netting and IPv6. Involving in New Project implementation activities and support during project migration related activities. Troubleshooting customer issues based on Tickecting tool. Configuring QoS Policies for ILL and Broadband customers. Technical support for Configuring parallel links for existing ILL customer links for testing. Skilled & technically proficient with multiple Vendor Routers and Switches. Worked on different Vendor appliance such as ECI-SR9705 routers, ECI-AS9215, AS9205 Switches, HUAWEI NE40-X8/X16 Routers, HUAWEI S5328, S5624 switches, CISCO 3850/3750-X/2960X/4500/6500 Switches, Cisco 3945/2951/2600 routers. Creating Method of Planning documentation (MOP) for configuration changes and new configurations in Core level and access level. Configuration of Ether-trunk/Ether channel Bundle links from Router to router, Router to Switches. Configuration and troubleshooting of FTTH, VPLS for Broadband Services. Configuration of QinQ (dot1q VLAN stacking) protocol in L2VC to pass VLANS in Routers, VLAN Mapping. Hands on experience on Configuration of Spanning Tree Protocol. Hands on experience on taking configuration backups and restoration.

Key Result Areas

Worked on Microsoft Project and internal Project like (Airtel, Catalina, SAP, Equifax, NXT, Marriott, P&G etc.) towards the achievement of the strategic and operational objectives for more than 1 lakh customers in a 24x7 environment. Perform BAU activities like troubleshooting P1, P2 incident with Wireshark capture, Firewall fine tuning, heath check and configuring tunnel, decommissioning. Accountable for the support and maintenance in current Project: Cisco ASA (5500), PALO ALTO Onprem (5220, 3220, 850, 820, 500) Cloud PA Firewall (VM 300) & Checkpoint Firewall (R80.X). Cisco Routers (2921, 4431, 8300). Cisco Switches (2960, 3850, 4500, 9200, 9300, 9410R, 9500). Meraki Access Points (MR 56)

Disclaimer

I hereby declare the above information mention is true to best of my knowledge.

Timeline

Network Engineer

TELEPERFORMANCE
11.2023

Senior Network Engineer

LTIMINDTREE Limited
08.2022 - 11.2023

Network Engineer

Mindtree Limited
09.2021 - 08.2022

Network operation Engineer

TATA Communications Transformation service Limited
12.2020 - 7 2021

SYED ZAHOORUDDIN AHMEDNetwork Engineer