Rizwan Siddiqi

I have 8+ years of experience in network, systems, security and IT managed services. I have hands on experience on NOC tools, Cisco ASA firewall, routers, catalyst and nexus switches, VMware, windows and Linux based servers.

Network Security
Cisco ASA 5515-X, 5510, 5505 and Fortigate firewalls, dynamic NAT, static NAT, Access-lists, object-groups, Port based access-lists and translations, Advance protocol handling, inspection, Layer-2 firewall, Firewall Failover and context
VPN: Cisco Anyconnect, IPSEC VPN, l2l tunnel VPN, PPTP, L2TP VPN

Routing
Cisco 2900, 2800, 2600, 1900, 1800 series router and Mikrotik routers
Routing protocols: BGP, OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, IS-IS, RIP, PBR, route-map, static routing, IP SLA

Switching
Cisco 3750G, 6500, 3560, 2960G switches
Switching Technologies: Ether channel, vLANS, Inter-vlan routing, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, PVST, MSTP, Layer-2 security, access-lists, SPAN, qos, dhcp snooping, storm-control, MPLS

Datacenter
Nexus 7000, 5000, 2K, 1000V series switches
Datacenter Technologies: vPC, OTV,VDCs, Fabric path, Fiber channel, Fabric extender, FCoE, vSAN, UCS, Port channel, FCIP, NPV, LACP

Network Monitoring: SNMP, Cacti, Zabbix, Solar wind, Wireshark, Nmap
Linux
Apache,MySQL, Bind, Squid, Samba, IP tables, Postfix, Virtual domain hosting
Virtulization
VMware ESXi server, vCenter, Microsoft VPC, vSwitch

I have following training and certifications;
CCNP R&S certified, CCNP Security, CCIE Data Center training, CCIE Service provider training.

Specialties: Cisco ASA Firewall, Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switches, Routing, Network security, Network design, Remote access VPN, L2L tunnel VPN, mpls VPN, Network monitoring (NOC), Network monitoring tools, Data center technologies, MPLS, SLA, High availability, Load balancing, Virtulization, Vmware ESX, Clustring,SAN, vSAN, vLANs, Cisco UCS server, HP proliant and IBM blade servers, Linux, Apache web server, Microsoft servers, Active directory, DNS, DHCP and ITIL.