Naperville, Illinois, United States
| Cloud, DC, Enterprise Network & Security | 2x CCIE | PCNSE | AWS SA | F5 301 | Solution Architect with extensive experience in evaluating and securing enterprise data centers. Skilled in designing scalable cloud and hybrid infrastructures, VPN services, and LAN/WAN systems. Expertise in developing strategic plans for business continuity and network integration. Strong communicator, adept at collaborating or leading cross-functional teams and translating complex technical concepts.
Develop strategies for on-prem to cloud migration or hybrid DC solutions post-merger or split, leveraging in-house private cloud services (INETaas, IaaS, PaaS, DRaaS, BaaS) to reduce Day-1 skill required and infrastructure costs. Create roadmaps for DC optimization or migrations to private/public cloud, including server/storage virtualization, vFirewall, vLoadBalancers (w/ L4-L7 security), MS-AD to Azure-AD/EntraID integration, DB sync, and cloud backup (Zerto, Veeam), utilizing Cisco UCS-E, VMware, and MS Hyper-V. Cloud integration and security planning for selective workloads on CSPs like Azure, OCI, AWS, or Sentinel CloudSelectTM. Built dashboards for workload observability and UX analysis of business apps. Drove managed services initiatives (e.g., DRaaS, vWAN Aggregation, PaaS) for complex networks riding on traditional MPLS, SDWAN or Private WAN. Mentored junior engineers and coordinated multi-disciplinary teams for AI adoption in the workspace. Conduct quarterly BCDR - Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery reviews for Sentinel hosted Private Virtual DataCenter customers. Used IaC and automation (PowerCLI, Ansible) to streamline N/W provisioning and appliance patching. Improved resource utilization by 30% via performance and capacity analysis. Define and/or maintain SOPs and documentation for audit readiness and knowledge transfer by facilitating customer whiteboard sessions.
Customer engagement at technical level to create value through consultative, trustworthy advice, while developing strategic tech adoption plans for select accounts to align deployment roadmap with long-term business goals. Led and mentored the team-including new hires, consistently delivering quality results under pressure by applying strong analytical skills, resilience, and a positive work ethic. Provided technical expertise for ongoing design, implementation & maintenance of a top US educational network. Lead architecture for BigIP F5 LTM/ASM for 120+ web as well as non-web applications/services across 600+ sites (up to 400k users) for a major ARR customer. Analyze application security posture including ISE policies, FW policies, DNS security to avoid any external threats and provide recommendations of any CVEs affecting customers’ network & security systems. Spearheaded project to establish a Disaster Recovery (DR) environment, implementing mission-critical application services on Azure cloud integrating with on-premise datacenter via Microsoft ExpressRoute circuits. Successfully transitioned from a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Proof of Concept (POC) to production for education clients during the peak pandemic period. Engineered dynamic multicasting solution on a converged ethernet network to enable multi-channel/stream video service throughout the customer campus networks saving double-digit bandwidth value over their WAN links. Establishing a guideline for organizational application owners to perform periodic DR readiness tests to evaluate any gaps and define a baseline for RTO/RPO considering performance, cost, security, and future scalability. Created Statement of Work (SoW) and Bill of Materials/Quantity (BoM/BoQ) for solutions targeted towards small and medium enterprises. Developed procedures and documentation of RCA in case of incidents and roadmap requirements.
Maintenance of large-scale customer application farm providing High Availability with customized DRC. This includes an integrated multi-vendor solution designed using BGP-Anycast technology powered by Cisco/PaloAlto/F5 BigIP. Enhanced the project to avoid impact & secure the student record management system, critical deployment deadlines of network components such as DNS migration (ISC Linux/F5 iRule) & Application Security Profiling resulting upto 35% reduction in turnaround time. Designed an integrated strategic Test Plan to identify and resolve Single Point of Failure (SPoF). Thereby ensuring the full proof solution covering all aspects of Network design, Hardware/WAN Link redundancy & Software reliability within Core Datacenter. Before the vendor introduced the new feature in early days, Developed a dynamic template for dashboards for BigIP F5 load-balanced applications via SolarWinds for the CXO|executive team. Provide consultation for high-level escalation & high-visibility reactive issues.
Partnered with system and test engineers, operations support personnel, and capacity management organization to deploy CellSite BackHaul transport to support VoIP mobility equipment. Provisioned & developed mass-deployment and troubleshooting guidelines for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UTE) and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Mobile Networks. Providing Tier-4 advanced technical support for Cell Site Backhaul Transport segment on Cisco, Juniper & Alcatel equipment for UMTS/LTE support for an ISP.
Worked Level-2/3 support engineer at NOC.
Partnered with system and test engineers, operations support personnel, and capacity management organization to deploy CellSite BackHaul transport to support VoIP mobility equipment. Provisioned & developed mass-deployment and troubleshooting guidelines for Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UTE) and Long-Term Evolution (LTE) Mobile Networks. Providing Tier-4 advanced technical support for Cell Site Backhaul Transport segment on Cisco, Juniper & Alcatel equipment for UMTS/LTE support for an ISP.