Aaron Charles
Senior Principal Infrastructure Architect @Anaplan
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Principal Infrastructure Architect @Anaplan
London, GB
EDUCATION
University of Southern Queensland
Bachelor of Information Technology, Applied Computer Science, Networks & Security
ABOUT AARON CHARLES
An experienced Senior Network Design Specialist with over thirteen years in the IT industry. Significant experience with design, implementation and integration of networks within enterprise and hybrid cloud environments. Providing a combination of network solutions, application and content delivery network designs, network architecture, and technology roadmap development. Passionate about automating technology and making it work securely and seamlessly in the background.SKILLS AND EXPERTISE IP Network design: Mapping customer business and technical requirements to design deliverables Configuration, integration and support of firewalls, routers, proxies, switches, and load balancers Networking vendor technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Palo Alto, Pulse Secure, Akamai, Cloudflare, HP, BlueCoat, Riverbed, Fortinet, Cumulus Networks Communication: Documenting high-level and low-level designs, author and deliver customer presentations and workshops Leadership: Project planning, services scoping and costing, time plans, solution analysis, pre-sales, vendor & partner engagement, defining solution acceptance criteria with customers, mentoring peers Cloud & virtualisation: AWS, Azure, VMware, Hyper-V Network Virtualisation: EVPN-VXLAN, VLAN, VRF, Q-in-Q Layer 3 technologies: IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, unicast routing protocols: OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS, BGP, F5 load balancing & application delivery Layer 2 technologies: Switching, VLANs, VXLAN, spanning tree, VPC/MC-LAG, LAG, VPLS Security: NextGen Firewalls, F5, PKI, WAF, web security, MPLS/IPSEC/SSL VPNs, IDS/IPS, RSA SecurID, Cisco ISE, GlobalProtect, Cloudflare ZTNA Network monitoring & performance: QoS, SNMP, IGMP, Cacti, RANCID, OpenNMS, Splunk, Elastiflow, Netflow, Logstash, Nagios, Oxidized; Computing & Automation: Ansible, Python, PHP, PowerShell, BASH, TCL, PHP, Linux, Windows Server
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