Ben Bowling

About Ben Bowling

I’m passionate about both technology and personal wellness—physical and mental. I believe…

Experience

1. Sr Infrastructure Design Engineer

   Blue Cross NC

   May 2022 — Present · US

   Sr. Infrastructure Design Engineer• Lead design, optimization, and documentation of network infrastructure across two hosted data centers.• Manage an advanced Arista EVPN-VXLAN leaf/spine architecture supporting multiple VRFs.• Administer Arista routing and switching across leaf, spine, services, and external layers.• Leverage NetBox as the single source of truth for topology, inventory, and change documentation.• Automate configurations with Ansible, Jinja2, and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.• Review and approve all automation scripts prior to production deployment.• Utilize Arista CloudVision Portal (CVP) for monitoring, alerting, and dashboard creation.• Configure and maintain extensive iBGP and eBGP routing environments.• Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to translate requirements into technical solutions.• Serve as technical lead for complex or escalated projects outside standard operations scope.• Oversee operations team activities, ensuring accurate implementation and issue resolution.• Develop and maintain detailed network diagrams, SOPs, and standards documentation.• Manage all WAN and broadband circuits, including vendor relationships, performance reviews, and renewals.• Configure Palo Alto Firewalls for inter-VRF and public-facing traffic policy management.• Use ExtraHop for deep packet inspection and traffic analysis.• Administer Cisco ThousandEyes for end-to-end network visibility and monitoring.• Support administration of F5 BIG-IP (LTM, GTM, ASM, APM) and BIG-IQ for application delivery.• Assist with Infoblox administration (IPAM, DNS, DHCP).• Manage load-balanced Microchip NTP appliances integrated with Equinix Precision Time (EPT).

Education

• Auburn University

  Bachelor of Science, Communication and Media Studies

  1995 — 1998

• University of North Alabama

  Bachelor of Science , Communication and Media Studies

  1998

Skills

• Tcp/Ip
• Troubleshooting
• Web Applications
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Ftp
• F5 Bigip
• Windows Server 2008
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Windows Server 2003
• Technical Support
• Windows Xp
• System Administration
• Gtm
• Iis
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Cisco Technologies
• Operating Systems
• Networking
• Sharepoint
• Testing
• Software Installation
• Vpn
• Windows
• Load Balancing
• Group Policy
• Windows Xp Professional
• Bigip
• Data Center
• Cloud
• Dns
• Disaster Recovery
• Windows 7
• Powershell
• Kofax
• Security
• Enterprise Software
• Docker
• Help Desk Support