Lakshmana Kadagala

Innovative Network Engineer committed to designing and building robust data communication networks. Excels in LAN, WLAN and WAN/SDWAN. Researches and understands company's business plan and supports goal attainment.

• Understand client requirements and design a network for carveouts, new projects
• Firewall administration (creating and removing firewall rules as needed) Network security administration and network engineering duties within an OSPF/BGP environment
• Implementation and troubleshooting of IPSEC and GRE tunnels
• Performed firewall migration from Cisco ASA platforms to Paloalto firewalls using Paloalto conversion tool
• Performing backups and upgrades from time to time on different type of firewalls mostly on Palo Alto and checkpoint firewalls
• Works on incident, change and problem management
• Works with hardware & software vendors whenever required & resolve issues by minimizing downtimes
• Timely update/Quality update of tickets in the ticketing tool
• Management of network devices like Cisco routers, access switches, access points
• Troubleshoot network connectivity failures across Data centres, High availability sites, standard sites, and partner sites of client
• Providing break fix support for issues on network devices and network connectivity failures
• Works with Cisco, Juniper for the hardware and software related issues with respective devices
• Replacement of Faulty modules and devices with help of site services or hands and feet support at Data centres and high availability sites
• Installing and configuring Cisco, Juniper Routers, Switches and cisco wireless controllers, cisco access-points