Rakesh D
Network Engineer at Altria
- Role
- Sr Network Engineer at Altria
- Location
- Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Rakesh D
Over all 8+ years of experience in the industry, which includes expertise in the areas of Routing, Switching, Wireless and Firewall.• Expert level knowledge of troubleshooting, implementing, optimizing and testing of static and dynamic routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and ability to interpret and resolve complex route table problems.• Experience in TCP/IP protocol suite and OSI Model.• Hands on experience in Troubleshooting client connectivity issues.• Strong hands on experience in installing, troubleshooting, configuring of cisco WLAN controllers and Extreme WLAN controllers.
Experience
Sr Network Engineer
Aug 2023 — Present · Richmond, VA, US
Responsible for network infrastructure that includes Cisco Switches, Routers, Access Points and WLAN and F5’s.• Installing, configuring, troubleshooting and managing Cisco Switches, Routers, as a part of network engineering team.• Installed and Configured Nexus 2k\'s and Cisco Routers 3800 and Cisco 9300, 6800, 4500, 3700, 3600, 2900 series switches.• Experienced configuring and performing IOS upgrades for various Cisco IOS switches like 3650, 3750, 3850, 4506, 6509, 9300 & Nexus 5k,7k and various Routers like ASR 1001,1002 ISR 4331, ISR 4431 to fix the bug issues and maintain the stability of the network.• Involved in Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLANs, Port security, Trunking, STP, Intervlan routing and LAN security.• Experience with migrating catalyst 6500 to Cisco 9300 in the data center environment.• Upgrading Cisco wireless controllers 5500 and 8540 models to the latest version to fix the bug issues and provides latest features.• Responsible to do the configuration, Monitoring, administration of BIG-IP (F5) Load balancers.• Upgrading F5 LTM and GTM i5800 and i2600 models to the latest version to fix the bug issues and provides latest features.• Configured and managed F5 BIG-IP devices, including virtual servers, pools, profiles, and SSL offloading.• Designed and deployed highly available F5 BIG-IP load-balancing solutions to optimize traffic management for enterprise applications.• Developed and maintained custom iRules for advanced traffic steering, URL redirection, and traffic manipulation based on application requirements.• Configured intelligent DNS load balancing using F5 GTM to provide geo-redundancy and disaster recovery.• Monitoring the network alerts by using Solar winds tool.• Collecting information of Network infrastructure, packet capturing, network monitoring using SNMP tools Solar-winds.
Education
Bachelor's
Bachelor's degree
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