Anil Kumar Grandhi

Responsible for monitoring networking devices, links and traffic for abnormalities, anomalies as method for proactive network management to mitigate site impacting incidents before they happen.

Act as the first response engineer to handle and mitigate network related issues using TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6 to help improve eBay's customer experience.

Administer eBay's datacenter through BGP, OSPF, ARP, DHCP, DNS, TFTP to maintain Internet connectivity, security controls, traffic management and application stacks behaviors in order to cross-correlate and troubleshoot issues quickly and effectively.

Troubleshooting and configuring issues related to OSPF and BGP

Responsible to work with customers (load balancer’s, GTM, Netsec) for port allocations and subnet add’s.

Extensively worked with Tess and Cloud team for IP allocation’s and to anchor cloud aggregates in all AZ’s.

Responsible to reserve all Site Network Public and Private space in IPAM

Perform changes to Routers, Switches, VLAN, WAN and the network infrastructure to instrument organic growth and capacity restore.

Responsible for replacing the faulty switches/routers with new devices by initiating an RMA from vendor’s.

Work with the existing mechanism and continuously upgrade through appropriate automation and tools.

Utilize experience with networking fundamentals, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF), network protocols (ARP, DHCP, DNS, TFTP)

Responsible for managing the site network as well as the backbone network that supports ebay.com.

Experience in configuring and deploying MPLS backbones with RSVP

Performed code upgrades and firmware upgrades on Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Sonic Edgecore routers and switches.

Performed code upgrades on top of the rack(tor) switches by scheduling on Maintenance Automation Framework(MAF)

Responsible for performing ACL changes on Site border and backbone pop border devices with prior approvals from management.

Troubleshooting incidents caused by link failures, port failures and node failures such that the impact to the site is minimal.

Working in the incidence response team as first responders to mitigate network problems and provide 24/7 on-call support.

Responsible for network node maintenance such as regular health checks, code upgrades, tech refreshes, traffic monitoring and overall functionality.

Responsible for creating change requests as per standard operating procedures for incident and problem management.

Collaborated extensively working with third-party vendors, including Juniper, Arista, Cisco, Dell, Broadcom, and Wistron, to identify and resolve network-impacting bugs on OEM and Sonic-powered devices.