Sai Teja

About Sai Teja

I am a Network Engineer with 8 years of experience in implementing, testing, optimizing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Enterprise Network & Security infrastructures. I have worked with a wide range of networking technologies, including switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, and wireless technologies.My experience includes working on Cisco Catalyst, Nexus, and Router series, as well as Palo Alto Networks Firewalls and FortiGate Firewalls. I have expertise in network operations, IT stabilization projects, and large-scale environment implementations.

Experience

1. Senior Network Engineer

   Cisco

   Apr 2022 — Present · Research Triangle Park, NC, US

   Working knowledge of installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco Switches (2900, 3500,3700 series, 6500series)• Expertise in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting of Cisco Routers (3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 1800, 1700,800)• Hands on experience of implementing and troubleshooting complex layer 2 technologies such as VLAN Trunks, VTP Ether channel, STP, RSTP and MST.• Worked with network services like DNS, DHCP, DDNS, IP4, IP6, IPSec, VPN etc• Protocols working experience/Awareness: OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, BGP, HSRP, ACL, IDS, VTP, NAT/PAT, CDP, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, NTP, SNMP, ARP, STP (802.1D), SNMP, DNS & DHCP.• Work experience on Cisco catalyst 6509 and implemented VSS along with VDC and VPC on Nexus 5505, 7009• Manage or participate in cross-functional teams to promote technology strategies, analyze and test products.• Configured site-to- site VPN and client-to- site VPN on Palo Alto firewall and Cisco ASA.• Working experience with Arista 7150 S series, 7160, 7260QX and 7300,7500 series routers • Apply access lists and NAT configurations based on implementation guidelines.• Create VLAN and Inter-Vlan routing with Multilayer Switching.• Design and implement F5 LTM & GTM load balancers hardware platform in the data center.• Deep knowledge of application requirements (such as persistence), understand SSL offload.• Implement SSL certificate and Key, and web acceleration and TCP optimization to LTM VIP as per customer’s request.• Responsible for complete datacenter layout and migration, configured ACI after migration of datacenter using nexus 9k, 7k• Replaced faulty Enterprise Manager and scheduled it to take auto backups of all F5 LTM/GTM which are in existing environment.• Installing and configuring new cisco equipment including Cisco 1900, 2900, 3900 series routers, Cisco catalyst switches 6807, Nexus 9300, 7010, 5500 and Nexus 2k

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  Mechanical Engineering

• Sacred Heart University

  Master's degree, Computer Science