Venkata Gopalam

Network Engineer with 12+ years of experience on devices like Cisco, Routers Switches & Firewalls, cisco Wireless & Load balancer (F5, Citrix), Palo Alto firewalls. Nexus devices Working As Team lead with the team size of 15 Members either offshore and onsite. Participating with Presentations weekly and monthly reports along with Client managers. Having knowledge on Cisco ACI infrastructures and SDN & AWS for the datacenter environments. IP and URL blocking in firewalls review the policy as per user requirements and packet capture over CLI & GUI. Working on Service now ticketing tool for incident and change management with service now tool and worked on Infoblox for IP Management. Working on web proxy’s for url filtering and to provide the web access for users Using Algosec for verification of firewall rules Having experience on network devices like Cisco Router’s & Switches, Citrix, Load balancers. Was involved in Network Security and Firewall Configuration Working as a network security lead and involves in escalation calls to address the client reequipments and preparing documentation and Architecture diagram Managing team form different locations out of globe either offshore /onshore Was involved in coordination with application team and clients while deploying any load balancer changes. Involved in Configuring, troubleshooting CISCO Routers and Switches. Good Experience in installation, configuration and maintenance of Routers and Switches. Hands on Experience in configuring and troubleshooting L3 protocols like RIP (V1 & V2), EIGRP, OSPF, BGP. Knowledge on Redundancy Protocols like VRRP & HSRP. Good Experience in troubleshooting L2 Protocols like TCP, UDP SNMP SMTP, FTP, TFTP, STP, VTP, RSTP, MSTP. Experience on troubleshooting on VPN connectivity MPLS, LAN@WAN (SDWAN)telecom as well. Have Experience on DNS and DHCP tool IPCONTROL. Involved in technical support with Cisco and AT&T, Verizon, Level3, Above net, TWT. Worked on RSA tool for authentication. Was involved in troubleshooting users connected on soft tokens and hard tokens. Worked on Cisco Prime tool for enabling Guest Access to users in different seminar hall. Done IOS upgrades on WLC controllers. Used NetScout devices for volume of data analysis and Wireshark for packet analysis. Worked on Splunk tool for logs on user access details. Worked on HP NAS tool for pushing the IOS image and getting backup of the configuration details. Configuring & Trouble shooting routers & switches Cisco Nexus 7K,6K,9K & Juniper product Troubleshooting Configuring VPC, VDC on nexus Devices Handling the customer issues from various sites Relevant experience on implementing / involving new projects and existing datacenter Migrations with proper planning. Handling the configuration as well as troubleshooting of Cisco high end core routers, core switches, different provider switches, Documentation, administration, and management of LANs/WANs in a variety of media and protocols relevant to the task or requirement. Maintenance duties include uptime monitoring, emergency troubleshooting, regular patches and upgrades, capacity and software planning, proactive security measures, backup, etc. Develops and enforces security policy and standards that safeguard data accessible through LANs or WANs

• Passport Number: MO312782
• Father's Name: Kotinagaiah
• Date of Birth: 07/01/81
• Marital Status: Married

CCNA,CCNP & PCNSA