Jason Benn
Data Center Network Engineer
- Role
- Data Center Network Engineer at BNY
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jason Benn
Cisco Enterprise Engineer with strong understanding of structured network design with strong healthcare, outsourcing, Industrial Control Systems (ICS/OT) and retail background. I have twenty years of Engineering and Architecture experience in the networking industry focusing on enterprise level routing and switching. Knowledge of configuring VxLAN on NX-OS and NDFC. Advanced knowledge of configuring and troubleshooting a diverse array of Routing and Switching technologies. Expert in OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS, MPLS. Well experienced in upgrading NX-OS (kickstart and system images); as well as Cisco IOS-XE and IOS-XR.
Experience
Data Center Network Engineer
Feb 2025 — Present · New York, NY, US
Performing Branch and DC implementation utilizing 8500 routers. Decomming legacy devices from Brownfield/installing new devices in Greenfield. Orchestrating site surveys and Layer1/2 cabling and device staging. Connecting to all routers and switches via Avocent GUI. Orchestrating device shipping and creating incidents (INC) via ServiceNow. Building Nexus pods using spine (Nexus 9336/9508) & leaf (Nexus layout for VXLAN. Isolating and decomming leaf switches from spine layer via NDFC. Finding switches, switchports and links via NDFC. Creating SNOW RFCs via ServiceNow and assigning CTasks to relevant teams. Correcting Netflow stealthflow destination IPs on over 30 Nexus switches in fabric. Updating JIRA intake, Branch and DC boards on my day to day activities. Upgrading IOS and NX-OS via SCP server. Shutting down 67 VLANs to reclaim subnet space then updating InfoBlox. Assigning management IPs to new routers at Branch sites then advertising them out via OSPF & BGP. Decomming WAN routers then replacing them with new 8300s. Performing WAN router refresh at 3 branch sites (hot cuts). Performing DNS requests for IP reservations. Getting routers/switches in pending billable in IDIP – then creating RFCs. Finding host information using Forward Networks.
Education
Hillview College
Full CXC Certificate, British CXC Exam
1989 — 1994
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