Amit Kumar Lohia

About Amit Kumar Lohia

Results-driven professional offering a progressive 16+ years of experience in Network Administration, Solution Designing, Network Engineering & Operations. A Senior Network Architect with expertise in routing, switching and security and planner with the training and experience needed to develop and defend specific network architecture that can effectively support a given set of realistic business requirements. • Rich hands-on experience in Data Center Migration, Transformation projects.• Participate in Project kickoff meetings to gather technical requirements from stake holders• Prepare network design (HLD, LLD) and implementation plan documents• Act as subject matter expert with regards to Network elements and their roles in the enterprise • Gather and validate information about an existing network before a solution can be proposed• Load Balancing Appliances: ACE, F5-BIG-IP (LTM and GTM)• SD-WAN technologies: Cisco Viptela, Silver peak,VeloCloud • Cisco Routers and Switches: Nexus 9K, 7K, 5K, ASR,6500,38XX etc.• Protocols: BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, OMP• Network Security design and firewall configuration and management: Palo Alto • Software Defined Data Center and Network Virtualization: Cisco ACI, VMWARE NSX• Network Automation: Ansible • Dev Ops: Git, Jenkin, CI-CD pipeline • Cloud platform: AWS (Amazon Web Service) and Azure

Experience

1. Associate General Manager Network and Security Architect

   HCLTech

   Jun 2007 — Present

Education

• University of Rajasthan

  B.E.

  2001 — 2005