Sheshank Reddy

About Sheshank Reddy

CCNA and CCNP certified professional with 9 years of extensive design, implementation and operations experience in diverse environments.• Proficient with Cisco, F5 (GTM, LTM, APM & ASM), Checkpoint, Palo-Alto and Juniper data center infrastructure.• Designed and implemented data center solutions for different domains (Banking, Airlines, Service provider etc)• Implemented and Managed Cisco Nexus series switches, Routers, Firewalls and F5’s.• Resolved critical network issues to restore services without business impact.• Performed Network Assessments and provided solutions (Tech Refresh projects). • Implemented Control plane, Data plane, Management plane virtualization techniques in a datacenter with Nexus switches, F5 LTM’s and Firewalls.• Administered F5’s in single and multi-tenant designs. • Engineered F5 LTM and GTM solutions in accordance to the client’s specifications, meeting project goals and deadlines.• Designed and implemented local load-balancing, content-based routing, content-switching using the irules.• Managed F5 configurations to support the consistent improvements in the MOBILE and other application load balancing in both Desktop and Mobile platforms.• Managed SSL certificates through the Venafi tool for all the environments (Production and Non-Production).• Served as load balancing engineer for advanced projects, examples include:a. Migrated over VIP’s and 100 WIP’s from the legacy LTM’s to the Next generation hardware.b. Designed and implemented SAML, Two-Factor authentication on the LTM with the APM policies.c. Designed and implemented cyber security solution by integrating the LTM with the Radware Appwall (Web Application Firewall).d. Designed and migrated VPN, SSO, Application tunnels from the legacy F5 Firepass to an F5 APM (Access Policy Manager) based solution in enterprise size data center.• Excellent knowledge on routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP).

Experience

1. Lead F5 Engineer

   PJM Interconnection

   Sep 2017 — Present · Audubon, PA, US

Education

• Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

  B.Tech, E.C.E

  2004 — 2008

• JNTU (College V

  B.Tech; B.I.T, Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE); Hyderabad

  2008

Skills

• F5 Bigip
• Ccna
• Juniper
• Cisco Technologies
• Firewalls
• Solarwinds
• Switches
• Routers
• Ccnp
• Data Center
• Servers
• Red Hat Linux
• Load Balancing
• Security
• Operating Systems
• Technical Support
• Networking
• Wan
• Virtualization
• Juniper Technologies