Karun Chaubey

Network Engineer/DTAC
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/Karun-Chaubey/c07fb24924c5aee9
Acquired rich experience in the field of IP-Networking & Security for 6 years. Contributed as a Network
engineer in product implementation of various network security appliances/platforms. Involved in network
routing protocols, firewalls, nexus frame-work design.
Abilities:
Good understanding of large networks, network equipment, provisioning, trouble isolation, and equipment
configurations and good at routing protocols, routed protocols, security, and application services.
Manage troubleshooting on day-to-day issues with Connectivity and Network Security devices including
Routers, Firewalls, VPN, and L2 & L3 Switches etc.
Perform real-time Network devices troubleshooting via remote access to network components to isolate,
manage, and resolve network impacting issues.
Provide optimal networking solutions to customer as per the organizational necessity.
Manage user acceptance testing (UAT) on pre-production networks and support for production environment
after rollout.
Have experience in Implementing design change as per the design rollout document.
Ability to work within a closely coordinated team and independently.
Ability to work calmly and well under pressure.
Ability to communicate effectively under normal and stressful situations.
Ability to handle shifting priorities.
II. Offshore Professional Summary
Network Engineer (DTAC) Mahindra Satyam Computer services Ltd, in the Product engineering division of
Networks & Telecom business unit AT&T-IBM, USA (since 1.6+ years)
Responsible for the operations of the IT Network and devices ensuring 24/7 availability. Ensuring compliance
to Information Security Policy, and reporting of security incidents and also focus on the administration of the
library districts Network infrastructure and Network Services.
Also took an initiative for starting end-to-end IT data centre testing services and managin the IT infrastructure
environments
Achieved ~ 45% effort reduction during the change cycle by implementing network devices.
Rated STAR team member.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Network Engineer/DTAC
Satyam computer services Ltd - February 2012 to May 2013
Client AT&T-IBM, U.S.A, CANADA
Band-Sub band/ Designation Network Engineer/DTAC
Duration Feb 2012 - May 2013
b) Pre Mahindra Satyam experience
Industry IT

Sub Industry IT
Client UTC Overseas, New Jersey U.S.A

Network Engineer/DTAC
AT&T-IBM, U.S.A - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - February 2012 to May 2013
Organization Mahindra Satyam
Location Offshore: Info City BSZ - Hyderabad
Duration Offshore: Feb 2012 - May 2013
Team Size 30
Environment (with skill versions) Routers/switches Application: L3/L2 protocols Tools: Voyence, ENOS, GPS,
TSRM, FCM O/s: Windows-7/xp/ vmware
Functional Skills Telecom Data Centre/ Network implementation.
a) Project Description
AT&T-IBM Network: Mahindra Satyam's engagement with AT&T will be to deliver services to IBM as part
of Network implementation changes of the full suite from service layer and 99% quality delivery. AT&TIBM involves testing of network implement quality, Port Management, IP Management, IP pools, Service
assignment and management, ISP Mgmt, device swapping and replacement, Service Mgmt, Network Service
Provisioning, Access subscriber provisioning, IP routing optimizations.
b) Contribution
IOS upload on Router, Switches, Access point, VG devices with required boot sequence and verifying MD5.
Provide level 2/level 3 support.
Prepare Configuration file based on latest AT&T and IBM template for Switches and Routers.
EOL (end of life) for old devices and adding new devices based on latest IOS and templates.
Troubleshoot for EOL on every device and checking layer 2 and layer 3 protocols: BGP OSPF, MPLS, NAT,
ACL, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, AAA, SNMP, Ether-channel, Vlans, port status, SSH, Telnet, TACACS, Failsafe,
port security, routing table, checking port mapping, checking logs.
Comparing config. Files in comparison tool and matching old and new logs, port status, cdp neighbors, Arp
table, BGP/OSPF routing table, redundancy, load balancing, routing table etc.
Worked on NEXUS configuration and basic trouble shoot.
Swapping devices based on requirements and checking old and new performance.
Coordinate with technician on call and mail while doing EOL and device swapping.
Adding and removing devices from various IBM and AT&T tools: Voyence
Mounting the old devices.
Working tools: Voyence, ENOS, GPS, TSRM, FCM etc.
Creating tickets for scheduled task in TSRM tool.
Preparing and updating daily and weekly update in tool and sending mail to manager.
Document every change that happened to the system to keep a record of these actions for future reference
purposes.
Sharing skills in team.
Proactively keep customers in the loop with the progress of the reported issue and review/escalate issue
in a timely manner.
Report periodically to the manager on the performance of the network, including any incidents of failures,
their reason and the preventive action recommended.
Involved in team building activities.
Helping the team members in the functional and technical issues.
2) UTC_RIMS

Project Domain IT
Sub Domain IT- Network Maintenance
Project Name: UTC_RIMS
Client UTC Overseas, New Jersey U.S.A
Role Sr. Network Administrator
Organization Four-Soft India Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad
Location Offshore: Cyber Tower, Hi-Tech City.
Duration April 2011 - 31 OCT. 2011
Team Size 8
Environment with skill version
Router (1800, 3800), Switches (2900, 3560, 6500), Firewall (ASA 5505, 5510 and 5520, PIX), IRON port.
Application: L3/L2 protocols, security appliances.
Tools: Solar Winds. Zenoss, eam-track
O/S: Windows-7/XP/ VMware/citrix
Functional Skills Network maintenance/implementation
a) Project Description
The (Internal project) team here responds to UTC Overseas and reviews network device's. It helps the
working employee and management teams in the bid estimations and later in proposal defense and Executing
production. Proposals for using new site setup configuration, Methodologies / models.
b) Contribution
Implement and monitor Agility's global Network devices (routers, gateway, switches etc) and server
connection through solution tools to maintain 24/7 availability of the network.
Making documentation regarding technical issues problem and solution methods.
We are a break-fix team, involved in Incident Management where we are involved in replacing hardware's,
upgrade, troubleshooting, if required we engage various team like Problem Management, Tools/Core team.
ITIL procedural way of Change request management, documenting change.
Worked on team-track ticketing tool system.
Coordinate with New and Old support clients for establishing end-to-end connectivity based on site to site
VPN.
Preparing and updating weekly reports on various modules tested for tracking worked on monitoring tool
Solar Winds, Zenoss.
Proactively keep customers in the loop with the progress of the reported issue and review/escalate issue
in a timely manner.
Share knowledge and be capable of training the Tier 1 support engineer.
3) PROLINE SEEDS COMPANY (INDIA) PVT LTD.
Project Domain Technical -Field Support

Sr. Network Administrator

Four-Soft India Pvt. Ltd - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - April 2011 to October 2011
Industry IT
Sub Industry IT

Network Engineer
Innovative Software Technologies Ltd - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - February 2007 to February 2011

VII. Project Details

1) IGMS-AT&T
Project Domain IT/Telecom
Sub Domain Network Implementation and Optimization
Project Name: IGMS-AT&T

Network Administrator/Technician
Proline Seeds Company Pvt Ltd - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh - February 2007 to February 2011
Team Size 4
Environment (with skill versions) Languages: Nil
N/W devices Routers/Switches, ASA firewall, user pc, servers.
Tools: Reporting Database
O/s: Windows, Linux
Applications Static route, firewall monitoring, L1/L2 protocols, help-desk issues, server backup, policies, user
act.
Functional Skills Technical internal/external support work.
a) Project Description
Dealing field work where having basic issue like help desk, adding route with new ISP setup for small offices,
maintenance network devices like backup and traffic capturing, checking link status for ISP and ensure internet
access.
c) Contribution
"Service Level Agreement" (SLA) requirements and handling of Incident and Problem tickets and change
the tickets.
Manage and troubleshoot day-to-day issues with Connectivity and Network Security devices. Including
Routers, Switches, and Load balancing HSRP protocol.
Troubleshooting day-to-day operations relating to Networking, helping business by giving Tech support,
raising & implementing Change request's as per Business request.
Coordinate with several ISP (Internet Service Providers) for any link related issues.
Preparing and updating weekly reports on various modules tested for tracking performance with high-level
team at remote location.
Upgrade Cisco routers, switches and firewall (PIX) IOS.
Worked on monitoring & ticketing tools like Nnm, Hpsm, Wireshark and Ethereal.
Creating reports for downtime and sending it to customer and management.
Additionally we even work on Request/Investigation Ticket raised/created by Internal/External Customer
(Example, user on Internet are not able to access hotmail.com or any sites, then we need to troubleshoot and
if required, we need to engaged with the right team for resolving any requests)

EDUCATION

M.Tech in CSE
JNTU University - Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
2013

M.C.A in Computer Science

IGNOU - Delhi, Delhi
2008

BCA

IGNOU University - New Delhi, Delhi

2006

CERTIFICATIONS

Cisco CCNA, CCIE Lab appeared

April 2013 to April 2014

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
III. Technical skills
Hands-on experience on CISCO Routers (1700, 1841, 2500, 2811 and 3800), Switches (2900, 3550, 3560,
4500, 6500 and 7200), NEXUS (2K, 5K, 7K), Data Storage Switches and CISCO ASA Firewall (5500), Cisco
Wireless Access Points 1140.
Hands-on routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IGMP and PIM-SM/DM and GRE high availability
configurations (HSRP, VRRP, GLBP and load balancing modes) . Involved implementation of conducting
reviews for the above. Routing over VPN and GRE tunnels.
Knowledge of Transport networks: SDH/STM 16&64 and Optical fiber communication using DWDM. Packet
core technologies MPLS, MPLS-VPN.
Testing security policies/rules, NAT variations (many-to-one, one-to-one and Redirection NAT) ACL, VACL,
AAA, SSH, 802.1X, IP SOURCE GUARD.
Vulnerability testing using Nessus and Nmap, reproducing published vulnerabilities on CVE site, simulating
various DOS attacks using tools and Backtrack.
Worked with Traffic generators: Http-perf, Octopus, NetEm (traffic impairment tool) . Scanners: Nessus,
Nmap and Traffic analysers like Ethereal, Etherpeek, wireshark, Tcpdump, Solar Winds, and Zenoss.
Configuring Cisco Switches L2 technology: STP, VTP, RSTP, MSTP, VLAN, ETHER-CHANNEL, HDLC/
PPP, and FRAME-RELAY. PVLAN and Q-and-Q.
Knowledge of FEX, FABRIC-PATH, vPC, VDC, FHRPS, and OTV on NEXUS switches.