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Maheswara Reddy - Network Engineer

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Location: Austin, Texas, USA

Relocation: yes

Visa: OPT EAD

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Experience as a Network Engineer working across enterprise and service provider environments. Skilled in routing, switching, SD-WAN, firewalls, load balancers, cloud networking, wireless, automation, and monitoring. Managed WAN technologies such as MPLS Layer 3 VPNs, DMVPN, and SD-WAN solutions (Cisco Viptela, Versa, Silver Peak). Implemented VRFs, IPsec encryption, and application-aware routing to provide scalable and resilient connectivity between branches and data centres. Administered firewalls across Palo Alto (PA-220, PA-3000, PA-5000, PA-7000), FortiGate 6000 series, and Check Point R80.40. Configured IPS, NAT, VPNs, SSL decryption, and integrated LDAP/AD policies to protect business-critical traffic. Configured and optimized routing protocols including BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP with redistribution, prefix lists, route maps, and communities. These changes improved traffic engineering, ensured stable convergence, and maintained inter-domain connectivity. Configured VLANs, inter-VLAN routing, trunking, and spanning tree protocols (STP, RSTP, MSTP). This ensured proper segmentation, redundancy, and a stable loop-free switching environment. Worked with Cisco ACI fabrics, APIC controllers, and Cisco SD-Access on Catalyst 9000 switches. Implemented application-centric policies, multi-site connectivity, and segmentation to support secure and scalable data centre operations. Configured security solutions including Cisco ISE with 802.1X, Zscaler Internet Access (ZIA) with SSL inspection, and Zscaler Private Access (ZPA) integrated with Okta SSO/MFA. These measures applied Zero Trust access, enforced identity-based policies, and improved compliance. Managed load balancing platforms such as F5 BIG-IP GTM for DNS/GSLB, BIG-IP APM for secure remote access with MFA, and Citrix NetScaler ADC for SSL offloading, app firewalling, and application delivery optimization. Implemented cloud networking and security solutions including AWS Direct Connect, Azure DDoS Protection, Google Cloud Load Balancing, and Google Cloud Firewall rules. These configurations improved application performance, resilience, and traffic control across multi-cloud environments. Automated network provisioning and patch management using Ansible, Python scripts, Meraki APIs, and Ansible Tower. Built Terraform modules integrated with CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent deployments, reduce drift, and minimize manual errors. Keywords: continuous integration continuous deployment active directory ffive Pennsylvania South Dakota