Yuga Dasari

Sr Network Security Engineer @Bank of America

Worked to upgrade and maintenance of Infrastructure, Installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco Switches (2960, 3500,7600, 3750, 3850 series, 6500 series) Cisco Routers (4800, ASR 9K, 800), Juniper Routers and Firewalls, Nexus 7k,5k & 2k, f5 BIG IP, Palo Alto Firewalls, Zscaler Proxy and Versa SD-WAN appliances. Installing and setting up new Cisco gear, such as the Nexus 2k, 3850, 3750, and 5548 catalyst switches, in accordance with the organization\'s needs. On Cisco Catalyst Switches 3500, 3650, 3850, 6500, and 7600, designing and implementing (LAN) VLANs, VTP, Spanning Tree (STP), Trunking (dot1q and ISL), and Ether channel. Configured, managed network switches, routers and Firewalls with hands on experience in 5500 ASA, FPR2100, Brocade BR-VDX6740, CISCO Meraki MX84, MX68W and Z3. Successfully designed and implemented Palo Alto PA-3060 firewalls to safeguard the data center and offered router, switch, and firewall L3 support. Experience working on Cisco ASR 9K, Nexus 7k and 9K. Configured and designed OSPF, EIGRP and BGP at Distribution and Core layers. Configured OTV layer 2 connection between Data centers on Nexus. Deployed and Manage SDWAN network (Cisco Viptela Solution) for WAN connectivity. Configure and maintain all Palo Alto Networks Firewall models (PA-2k, PA-3k, PA-5k etc.) as well as a centralized management system (Panorama) to manage large scale Firewall deployments. Worked on the setting up and debugging routing protocols like BGP and OSPF. Extensive experience with Ciena’s optical and packet networking products, such as the 6500 Packet-Optical Platform, Waveserver, and Blue Planet software suite. Experience configuring OSPF in WANs and data centers. BGP properties on edge and Internet core routers from ISP perspective. Worked on setting up the internal, external, and cache grids for Infoblox DNS, DHCP, and IPAM. Worked on DNS forwarding and delegations.