Preet Patel

About Preet Patel

Well, I have been working for past 7 years in Cisco Networking Environment (Switches, Routers and firewalls) from designing to configuration and security to troubleshooting.• Having Experience with data center environment and Cisco Nexus and series switches. • I was majorly involved in Installation and Configuration of Cisco Switches (2950, 2960, 3550, 3750, 3850,4500 and 6500 series switch’s) and Cisco Routers (1800,2500, 2600, 3800, 6500, 7200, 7500 and 7600) as well as juniper EX 4300 switch.• Also have hands on experience in adding new switches & routers to the existing network.• Able to design, configure and program customized network application using network management tool and applications.

Experience

1. Cloud Engineer

   Kobie

   Jan 2020 — Present · St. Petersburg, FL, US

   At Kobie marketing I am responsible for managing the on-premises as well as oracle cloud network infrastructure which includes Cisco switches, routers, Checkpoint Firewalls, wireless network, OCI network security list/NSGs and route tables.• Owned and supported network infrastructure with firewall access request, IPSEC VPN build, routing, subnetting, natting and troubleshooting of any networking issue.• Worked on the cloud migration project to migrate production and non-production data center to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) from scratch.• Worked on setting up disaster recovery site in different region of OCI cloud and deployed cluster if checkpoint firewalls and backup management server.• Build public and private OCI load balancer with backend set, listeners, SSL certificate and DNS.• Leveraged terraform to build oracle cloud infrastructure’s compartment, subnets, route rules, security list, IAM policies, User groups etc.• Migrated all the clients behind checkpoint firewall with routing updates to become PCI complainant and leverage IPS/IDS features of checkpoint firewall.• Worked on Linux and windows server environment with building, managing, and troubleshooting. Leverage ansible playbooks to automate build and standardize software installation and configuration.• Worked on a firewall object standardized project to standardize the naming, description, and tags by checkpoint’s mgmt cli tool and document it to make it easier to understand and train other team members.• Used Ansible build OKE(Oracle Kubernetes Engine) clusters and nginx ingress controller.• Used to ansible AWX platform to run playbooks and roles and its schedule feature to schedule patching of non-production as well as production environment servers.• Worked on deploying backup remote access VPN solution in case of primary become unavailable and azure MFA solution with radius authentication to add extra layer of security.