Sammed Shedbale
Pune,MH
Summary
A network engineer with almost 5 years of experience with Cisco CCNA Certified , proficiency in Fortinet and Cisco firewall Environment. Adept in popular protocol principles like BGP, OSPF and EIGRP. Developed disaster recovery plans and managed daily backup and recovery along creation and maintenance of network topology documentation as new sites were integrated..
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Network & Security Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions Private Limited.
03.2023 - Current
- Firewall security policy implementation and monitoring Fortinet policy and network
- Day to day troubleshooting of various firewall related issues by monitoring and capturing the real-time logs on firewalls.
- Managed Fortigate firewalls utilizing FortiManager and constantly ensured software upgrades
- Maintained Meraki Wireless dashboard: adding and claiming AP, monitoring, troubleshooting the user connectivity to Internet
- Configured DHCP pool, worked on DNS services outage issues
- Migrated network device administration from Cisco to FortiGate & Upgraded and Maintained Fortigate 60E, 100E, 200F, 500E, 1101E based on vulnerability scans.
- Triage tickets related to data centers, Internet applications, and worldwide office connectivity across switches, routers, firewalls, and VPN
- Manage and support all network related services and systems including: L2/L3 switches, DNS, DHCP, IPSEC tunnels, VPN user remote access, network switches, load balancers and a variety of monitoring, management and notification systems
- Certificate generation through Linux server and Mark-monitor and installation in different application.
- Azure VM creation as per the request and configuring the subnet.
Data & Security Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions Private Limited Com
01.2022 - 03.2023
- Day to day operations and project support of security (i.e. Firewalls and Loadbalencer)
- Hands on experience on Cisco Switches (5k(5596/56128,7k(7710) and 9k(93180) and Cisco ASA firewall (5585/5525/4140)
- Hands on experience on Netscalar Loadbalencer (Citrix ADC-MPX,VPX,SDX)
- Actively monitored the Citrix infrastructure to ensure performance and reliability.
- Upgrading Netscalar,ASA Firewall and Cisco Switches.
- Provided network support services for devices such as hubs, bridges, routers, and other hardware.
- Escalated emergency technical issues beyond knowledge to maintain optimum up-time.
Network Analyst
Vodafone Global Services Pvt Ltd Pune.
06.2021 - 01.2022
- Testing the different kind of circuits like SD WAN,GVPN,DIA in case customer facing link down, packet drops, Latency, Low throughput, Link flapping and video freezing
- Responsible for montoring & maintaining uptime of Network Elements, Network performance Based On customer’s requirement, provisioning services in NMS.
- Documented support procedures, processes and solutions in centralized systems, enabling user self-service.
- Designed and evaluated WAN and LAN connectivity technologies.
- Managed, tracked, and coordinated problem resolution and escalation processes.
- Assisted with implementation and support of network monitoring tools.
Network Engineer
TATA Communications Limited
09.2019 - 06.2021
- Handling 350 client outstations network services (GVPN- MPLS, ILL) all over the world through network monitoring tools and troubleshooting of the networks at L1 Level. Co- ordinate with ISP for MPLS/ILL link related issues
- Interacting with the Customers on Network Related Issues and resolve the hardware related issues.
- Troubleshot complex multi-vendor network service provider issues.
- Coordinated with technical support, service provisioning and sales teams to deliver network services at or above SLA requirements.
- Collaborated with other network Vendor to configure and maintain network.
- Cordinatation and escalation with third party vendor for maximum uptime/
- Updated internal customers regarding open tickets and status of resolutions.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering Technology
Shivaji University
05.2019
Skills
- Network configuration
- Technical infrastructure migration
- Network operations
- Firewalls and endpoint security
- Cisco wireless routers and switches
- Ticket Management
- Wireless Networking
- Firewall Management
- Hardware Installation
Certification
- CCNA Routing and Switching License - Cisco
Accomplishments
- Routers : Cisco 2600, 2900.
- Switch : Cisco(5k(5596/56128,7k(7710) and 9k(93180) and fortinet 124E,248E and POE.
- Firewall : ASA 5520, 5555-X, Fortinet 60E, 100E,200E,80F
- Routing Protocols : Inter-VLAN, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP
- Switching Protocols : VLAN, ARP, VTP, STP, MSTP, HSRP,Port-Channels, Port Security
- Security : NAT/PAT, Ingress & Egress Firewall Design, VPN (IPsec, GRE), ACL’s
- Infrastructure services : DNS, DHCP, ICMP, SYSLOG, SNMP, RADIUS, SSH
- Networking Tools : Putty, GNS3, IPAM, Service -Now,
- Monitoring Tools : Zabbix, PRTG, SolarWinds
Timeline
Network & Security Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions Private Limited.
03.2023 - Current
Data & Security Engineer
Cognizant Technology Solutions Private Limited Com
01.2022 - 03.2023
Network Analyst
Vodafone Global Services Pvt Ltd Pune.
06.2021 - 01.2022
Network Engineer
TATA Communications Limited
09.2019 - 06.2021
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Engineering Technology
Shivaji University
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