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Pranith Kondapalli

Raleigh,NC

Summary

Senior network engineer with 10 years of experience prepared for advanced roles in network design, implementation, and troubleshooting. Skilled in routing, switching, firewall configuration, and network security protocols. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, adaptable to changing needs. Known for reliability, analytical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.

Professional network engineer prepared for advanced roles in network design, implementation, and troubleshooting. Skilled in routing, switching, firewall configuration, and network security protocols. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, adaptable to changing needs. Known for reliability, analytical thinking, and problem-solving abilities.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Network Engineer

FedEx Corporation
03.2021 - Current
  • Handling over 80,000 network devices across USA includes cisco Nexus 9000, Catalyst 9300,9500, Arista 7280 switches, ASR1K, ISR 4400, 8300 Routers, Check point & palo alto firewalls, F5 LTM and GTM Load Balancers.
  • Working with ACI networks, configure network ports and allow EPG’s for specific users requests. Replace the switches with in ACI and commission/decommission them to/from APIC controllers.
  • Configuring and Installing Arista 7000 switches, Cloud Vison Appliances and in-depth testing to validate Design Scenario.
  • Designed and Implemented plan for migration from existing Nexus 7k switches to Arista 7500 and 7160 series leaf and spine switches.
  • Perform Firmware upgrades on Cisco Nexus 9K’s, Arista 7000, check points and Palo Alto firewalls as part of firmware standardization.
  • Hands on experience with routing protocols like BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VxLAN-EVPN, IS-IS etc.
  • Experience with F5BIG-IP LTM and GTM Load balancers which include configuring VIP’s/WIP’s, Pools, iRules, Topology records, Probers, health monitors etc and traffic failovers and device failovers in case of Major issues.
  • Improved Bandwidth utilization by implementing intelligent path control features of Cisco Viptela SD-WAN for various remote sites, enabled dynamic routing of traffic based on real-time network conditions, enhancing application performance and user experience.
  • Working with ISP’s like ATT, Lumen, Switch, BT, Verizon to upgrade the circuits from T1’s to 1 Gig’s and prepare the configuration templates to implement the same across 450 FedEx Ground Opco’s.
  • Deploy, maintain and troubleshoot issues with AWS and Azure Cloud Networks which include virtual networks, VPC’s, Subnets, Virtual WAN, Transit Gateways, NSG rules for traffic management from several AWS and Azure resources.
  • Assist with configuration buildouts including creating network provisioning automation using Python and Ansible.
  • Configured security policies, access control rules and NAT policies to manage traffic flow and implemented IDS/IPS on checkpoint and Palo Alto Firewalls.
  • Managed site-to-site and remote access VPNs using IPsec and SSL technologies to ensure communication between remote sites and users on Cisco ASA 5500 firewalls.
  • Join P1 bridges as part of on-call rotation and assist NOC until resolution, participate in on-call rotations as scheduled.
  • PSIRT remediation efforts on cisco routers and switches as part of the quarterly efforts and security recommendations.
  • Hands on experience working with Wireless Network which include Cisco 9800 Wireless LAN Controllers, Access points C9130, C9124.
  • Manage and update Infoblox DDI which include creating A/C records, managing and assigning IP addresses based on the user requests.
  • Implemented redundancy with HSRP, VRRP, Ether channel technology (LACP, PAgP) etc.
  • Extensive usage of Network Tools like Live Action, SolarWinds, Cisco DNA Center, ISE, Quantea etc.

Senior Network Engineer

DXC Technology
06.2019 - 02.2021
  • Prepare configuration templates based on the HLD Visio’s provided by Network architects and implement the changes on network routers and firewalls as part of establishing new Data Centers.
  • Handled project related to N/N-1 IOS upgrades on all the cisco routers, switches and palo alto/ ASA firewalls.
  • Create maintain and update Infoblox DDI which include creating A/C records, managing IP addresses for users and creating and updating DNS records and expanding DHCP scopes based on the Utilization marks.
  • Configure and maintain VPN’s, Direct Connect Gateways (aws), ExpressRoute (azure) for secure on-prem to cloud connectivity, manage security groups, NSG’s, and Cloud Native Firewalls to enforce access control for cloud resources.
  • Leveraged Python for Network automation tasks which include utilizing scripts with SNMP (via PySNMP) to fetch device health alerts, used Netmiko, Paramiko to automate device configurations across cisco routers switches, scheduled automatic backups of network configurations and store them in Git.
  • Traffic manipulation using BGP routing techniques like AS Path Prepending, BGP communities MED on Egress and Ingress routes for Dual ISP’s.
  • Utilized FortiManager for centralized management and orchestration of FortiGate devices.
  • Developed and managed security policies using FortiManager and Fortigate GUI/CLI to enforce organizational security requirements.
  • Developed and managed security policies using Cisco FMC, including access control, intrusion policies, file policies and malware protection.
  • Create Firewall rules, Objects, NAT’s for users based on SNOW tickets.
  • Setup and managed site-to-site IPsec VPNs and remote access VPNs for remote sites and end users using cisco FMC NGF.
  • Performed OSPF, BGP, DHCP Profile, HSRP, IPV6, Bundle Ethernet implementation on ASR 9K redundant pair.
  • Mange and upgrade cisco devices using Cisco DNA Center, which include provisioning new devices, upgrading IOS and configuration backup.

Network Engineer Deployment and Support

ABN AMRO Clearing
04.2017 - 05.2019
  • Designed and Deployment of green-field next generation Data Centers based on EVPN, VxLAN and leaf-spine Architecture.
  • Migrate or provide interconnectivity from Cisco, Checkpoint and other vendors to Arista infrastructure and troubleshoot any issues.
  • Provided support for configuration templates to build the code needed on different devices to deploy fabrics and test the configuration and using a test framework.
  • Assist with configuration buildouts including creating network provisioning automation using Python and tools such as Ansible.
  • Proficiency with Config builder using python on CVP, Jinja Templates, Ansible Playbooks to automate configuration and testing of Arista devices.
  • Knowledge and hands on experience on troubleshooting issues with Arista 7280 SR3M, 7804, 722XP devices in different environments
  • Configured Arista switches using Arista EOS and also automated daily data center operations.
  • Collaborate with multiple teams to deploy and install devices and troubleshoot layer 1 and layer 2 issues.
  • Implemented Infrastructure automation through Ansible for auto provisioning, code deployments , software installation and configuration updates.

Network Engineer

T-Mobile
01.2016 - 03.2017
  • Configured and managed Juniper MX960 and MX480 routers in the Data Center network ensuring efficient and reliable IP routing for Core and edge networks.
  • Deployed and optimized MPLS traffic engineering on Juniper MX series routers such as MX960 and MX240 to enhance data flow and ensure high availability.
  • Implemented and maintained BGP peering on Juniper MX480 routers providing stable and optimized external routing with multiple ISPs and transit providers.
  • Configured Juniper EX 4600, EX9200 switches in Data Centers ensuring seamless interconnectivity between network segments.
  • Analyzed and tested network protocols (Ethernet, TCP/IP) using WireShark tool.
  • Actively participated in upgrading fast Ethernet, Layer 3 switched/routed LAN infrastructure from Cisco 3640 to Cisco 2811 ISR routers and switches at access level to 2950, 3550. This project also involved in configuring and testing EIGRP and BGP protocols.
  • Configured HSRP and VLAN trucking 802.1Q, VLAN Routing on Nexus 9k, 7k, 6k, 5k switches and Catalyst 4500 switches.
  • Configured Nexus 7010 including NX-OS Virtual Port Channels, Nexus port profiles, Nexus Version 4.2 and 5.0, Nexus VPC peer links.
  • LAN/WAN level 3 support (diagnose and troubleshoot layer 1, 2, 3 problems).
  • VLAN's design and implementation, Spanning Tree Implementation and support using PVST, R-PVST and MSTP to avoid loops in the network.
  • Trunking and port channels creation.
  • To support 64-bit machines Cisco SSL VPN ASA5500 is migrated to Juniper SSL VPN 6500.

Education

Bachelor’s - Information Technology

Osmania University
01.2011

Master’s - Information Technology Management

Campbellsville University
Louisville, KY
01.2019

Master’s - Computer Science

Silicon Valley University
San Jose, CA
01.2015

Skills

  • Routing protocols expertise
  • Wireless network design
  • Intrusion mitigation
  • Firewall management
  • Data center networking
  • IP address management
  • Network architecture design
  • Vendor relationship management
  • Software-defined networking
  • Cloud networking solutions
  • Traffic engineering techniques
  • Data center architecture
  • Network automation tools
  • Network troubleshooting expertise
  • Performance monitoring and analysis
  • Internet protocol suite (TPC/IP)
  • Routing protocol expertise
  • Packet trace analysis
  • Hardware installation
  • VLAN aggregation
  • MPLS routers
  • SNMP monitoring
  • 8021x experience
  • Arista
  • LINUX
  • Cisco 9500
  • ISR4400
  • ASR 1K
  • Juniper EX Series Routers
  • Juniper EX Series Switches
  • OSPF
  • EIGRP
  • BGP
  • EBGP
  • PBR
  • IPV4
  • IPV6
  • VLAN
  • STP
  • Ether channels
  • Checkpoint
  • Juniper Netscreen Firewall
  • Palo Alto
  • F5 LTM, GTM
  • HSRP, VRRP
  • DDI
  • MPLS
  • NAT
  • SNMP
  • SYSLOG
  • TFTP
  • IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR, EOS, PANOS
  • Python
  • Puppet
  • Ansible

Certification

  • Alison certified LAN/WAN Engineer
  • Alison Certified Network Specialist

Timeline

Senior Network Engineer

FedEx Corporation
03.2021 - Current

Senior Network Engineer

DXC Technology
06.2019 - 02.2021

Network Engineer Deployment and Support

ABN AMRO Clearing
04.2017 - 05.2019

Network Engineer

T-Mobile
01.2016 - 03.2017

Master’s - Information Technology Management

Campbellsville University

Master’s - Computer Science

Silicon Valley University

Bachelor’s - Information Technology

Osmania University

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