Mohammed Farooq Khan

About Mohammed Farooq Khan

Network Engineer with 3 years of experience in deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting enterprise networks. Hands-on experience with Cisco, Aruba, and Juniper routers, switches, and wireless solutions. Strong knowledge of routing, switching, LAN, and WAN technologies. Experienced in network monitoring and analysis using SolarWinds, Wireshark, SNMP, NetFlow, and Syslog, with incident handling through ServiceNow. Completed CCNA and CCNP training and currently undergoing Palo Alto firewall training.

Experience

1. Network Engineer L2

   IBM

   Mar 2026 — Present

   Worked in a 24/7 enterprise Network Operations environment for Pfizer, supporting international clients across multi-vendor network infrastructure. Monitored enterprise networks using SolarWinds NPM/NCM, SNMP, NetFlow, Syslog, Nagios, and PRTG for proactive fault detection and SLA compliance Performed real time monitoring of routers, switches, firewalls, wireless controllers, WAN and MPLS links Provided L2 support for Routing & Switching, LAN, WAN, VPN, DNS, DHCP, and IP addressing issues Troubleshot packet drops, latency, congestion, interface errors, and link flapping Installed and deployed routers, switches, and wireless APs for new site rollouts and LAN setups Configured and supported VLANs, 802.1Q trunking, inter VLAN routing, Static Routing, OSPF, and basic BGP Implemented security policies: ACLs, NAT, Port Security, DHCP relay, VPN troubleshooting SD-WAN & WAN Orchestration: L2 support for Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela); monitored vManage dashboards for tunnel health, circuit performance, and application aware routing across MPLS & broadband Cisco Meraki Cloud: Managed MS switches, MX firewalls And MR Wireless AP\'s via dashboard; handled remote configs, firmware scheduling, and troubleshooting Wireless Deployment: Installed/troubleshot Cisco 9115 APs (9800 WLC) & Aruba AP 515; optimized SSIDs, RF profiles, and client authentication Performed configuration/verification via CLI using PuTTY Conducted packet analysis using Wireshark for RCA Managed config backups and change tracking via SolarWinds NCM Handled incidents in ServiceNow following ITIL processes Coordinated with ISPs/telecom vendors for MPLS and leased line issues Performed basic Linux/Windows server monitoring and log analysis Escalated complex issues to L3/NetOps with detailed diagnosticsDevices:Cisco Catalyst 8200, 9300, 9200, CBS 350 | Aruba 9004 Gateway, CX 6100, CX 6300 | Juniper SRX 300, EX 2300/3400/4300 | Cisco 9115 AP (9800 WLC)| Aruba AP 515 WLC)

Education

• National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)

  Secondary

• National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)

  12th, HSC

• Sabarmati University

  (BCA) Bachelor's of Computer Applications