Babji Akkala — Software Engineer

• I have 5 years of experience in routing, switching, firewall technologies, systems design, and administration and troubleshooting. • Hands on experience in configuring Cisco Catalyst 2960, 3650,3750,3850 4500, 6500 and Nexus 3000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 9000 series switches and Cisco 1900,2900,3900,4300,4221,4400 series routers & Cisco Firewalls ASA 5506,5508,5512,5515,5516,5525,5545,5555,5585 and Firepower 2100 series and 4100 series and Checkpoint R77.10 R77.30, • In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in Tier II ISP Routing Policies, Network Architecture, IP Sub netting, VLSM, TCP/IP, NAT, DHCP, DNS, FT1 / T1 / FT3 / T3 SONET POS OCX / GigE circuits, Firewalls. • Responsible for paloalto and Cisco ASA and Firepower firewall administration across global networks. • Experience in Designing and assisting in deploying enterprise-wide Network Security and High Availability Solutions for ASA and Firepower • Hands-on Experience in configuring and troubleshooting firewalls like Cisco ASA, Firepower and Checkpoint. • Hands on experience on implementing User ID, custom App-ID, URL filtering, SSL decryption and optimized security rules as per requirements. • Implemented centralized Firepower management system, Panorama to manage large scale firewall deployments. • Configure Stateful Failover of ASA firewalls (Active/Active & Active/Standby) for high availability • Implemented IDS/IPS on tap/span port to mitigate in-line and out-of-band threats and vulnerabilities. • Hands on experience in configuring tunnels like GRE, VPN like IPsec and DMVPN on Cisco ASA and FTD Firewalls. • I have strong experience with SDWAN routing protocol OSPF and BGP • Document and building proposal for accelerating the TCP traffic utilising SDWAN. • Experience with SDWAN HA, Edge HA, WCCP and VRRP implementations • Create templates that can be used to push to all sites. • Troubleshooting IP link related issues like link failure, config mismatch, latency, packet drops. • Configuring failover or high availability in paloalto firewall • Deploying policies and troubleshooting issues in paloalto. • VPN-IPsec and Site-Site troubleshooting • Troubleshooting license issues • Upgraded catalyst and nexus Switches, Routers •. Hands on the experience on Cisco Mirake configuration

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Network Security Engineer with expertise in Infrastructure and Security solutions.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 6 yrs 6 mos