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Raju Kavad
Technology Leader & Advisor, Network engineering

IT PROFESSIONAL
Innovation driving by Thought leadership to customer experience through enabling Operation excellence, Automation,
never down, zero touch mind set with clear and strategic partnership with business.
Overall, 10 years+ of Result-oriented Professional experience in Technology Leadership, Automation, design,
implementation, Managing and support activities of TCP/IP Campus and Data center networks & Infrastructure Platform
on-prem & Cloud.
Value driven leadership by collaborating with product owner to provide enhance cloud & On-prem network &
Infrastructure service.

Technical Skills
Network ADC: -
• F5 Network: - LTM, GTM, ASM(WAF), APM, BigIPNext, Big-IQ, Cloud deployment, Rest API
• F5 Distributed cloud: - multi-cloud design, Multi-cloud Network mesh, DNS, ADC, WAF, Distributed Apps
• VMware: - AVI, NSX-T, NSX-T Advanced, GSLB, WAF, multi tenancy, F5 & Citrix to AVI Migration
• Other: - Citrix NetScaler, Kemp, HAproxy, A10 Network, ELB, Azure load balancer.
DNS, DHCP, IPAM: -
• Infoblox: - Design, Build, RPZ, DFP, ACL, DDNS, DTC, Configure Zone (authoritative, delegation, forwarder),
Records (A, AAAA, CNAME, Alias, Host, etc.), Trend analysis, Filtering, DNSSEC, upgrade, Ciphers, Role.
• BloxOne: - Design, Deploy, Integration with on-prem host, Security policy, Reporting, Dossier, DNSSEC, DDI, SSO
• DHCP, Data Connector, Filtering, IPAM, Anycast
Automation: -
• Languages: - Linux, Python, Ansible
• Developer Tools: - Linux, Wireshark, Git, GitHub, VS Code, Vim, PostMan, Bitbucket
• Frameworks: - REST API, Python SDK, Ansible collections
• Utilize product API/RestAPI to automate Reporting, Day 1 & Day 2 Job using Python & Ansible.
Cloud: -
• AWS: - VPC, EC2, security group, S3, Route53, Elastic load balancer, direct connect, Network Firewall, IAM, etc.
• Azure: - Vnets, Virtual Machine, Azure load balancer, Azure DNS, Express route
Routing & Switching: -
• VLAN, VXLAN, Inter VLAN Routing, VTP configuration, Privet VLAN, STP, RSTP, PVSTP, ISL & 802.1q Trunking,
EtherChannel, SPAN, RSPAN, Root Guard, BPDU Guard, Loop Guard.
• Enabling Port security, Port fast, Uplink fast, Backbone fast, AAA 802.1x Authentication.
• HSRP, VRRP, DHCP Snooping, SNMP.
• Configuration & troubleshooting of Routing protocol like Static Routing, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, Redistribution of
Routing protocols, Route filtering.
• Cisco ACI, SDWAN, ISR, ASR, Nexus, Catalyst and more
Network Security (Firewall): -
• Configure and troubleshooting IPSec VPN, SSL VPN, ACL, Policy, NAT
• Panorama, Palo alto, Cisco ASA, FTD, FMC firewall and Tufin.
Others: -
• Network & SSL Tools: - NetMRI, Viavi, TrueSight, Spectrum, AWX, Venafi Encryption Director, AppviewX, PingID
• Traffic Analysis Tools: Wireshark, tcpdump, Win network trace
• Ticketing Tool: - Service Now, CA Service Desk manager, BMC Remedy
• Rally, NetOps, DevOps, Agile & Waterfall methodology and Lean Six Sigma
 Experience

TransUnion Advisor, Network engineering Oct’21 -till now

Lead (Product Owner), Network Engineering (ADC, DDI - On Prem & AWS cloud)
• Functional lead for member of the Global deployment & automation team that spearheaded the campus
network and datacenter
• Enabled multi-cloud app deployments & reduce cloud vendor dependency by F5 distributed cloud integration
(Network Mesh, WAF, ADC, DNS)
• AWS & Azur Cloud Design and Deployment for Infrastructure, Network & IAM Services
• Reduce 4000+ resource hours & improve security through automation as server decommission workflow,
which work across DNS, Load balancer & firewall
• Improve Product life by 3-4 years by memory & core relocation on F5 Viprion host & Guest, which result into
save Capex.
• Enhance product capacity & security by clean up 7000+ unused configuration object using automation (F5, DNS
& Firewall), which provide capacity to host new application and save 500+ resource hours – BigIP F5
• Automation on reporting, Day 1 & Day 2 Jobs using Python & Ansible API framework for F5 & DNS
• Deliver user experience using SSO integration with across Network platforms using PingID
• Reduce $60k OpEx by Re-architect DNS(Infoblox) traffic flow
• Enhance visibility and reduce $100k OpEx by Infoblox grid to BloxOne DDI migration, also reduce branch
dependency with data center and enable cloud native footprint along with Standardize DDI solution
• Save half of Million Dollar OpEx busing Infoblox grid appliance migration with BloxOne DDI
• Improve turnaround time by automating BAU work, Like F5 VIP work flow, DNS records creation.
• Automate Deployment using Python & Ansible API call toward reduce resource hours and error free deployment
• Documents, Design, Build, ADC (BIGIP F5, LTM, GTM, APM, ASM, BigIQ, SSLO) solution using Physical, VM &
cloud solutions.
• DDNS, DFP, RPZ, Security policy, DTC, build, records using Infoblox & BloxOne
• Provide secure, sustainable and cost-effective solution for varies services
• Improve compliance, change reporting & backup ability to apply custom script on NetMRI
• Contribute to organization culture – Leading corporate social responsibility & Peace of Mind network group
Bank of America Load balancer Engineering Mar’19 – Oct’21
Role for Organization
• SPOC for leading company initiatives like “Zero Touch”, “Never Down”, “Power of Minus One” etc. These all are
aimed at providing end to end automation business solutions without compromising on the bank’s standards
and guidelines
• Lead operations excellence, Risk for organization portfolio
• Lead automation team for network infrastructure
• Driving Zero touch provision and implementation for network infrastructure
• Leading Inter-Generational Employee Network (IGEN)
• Lead M&A for data center consolidation and standardize network
• Key contribution Network and Site reliability engineering
o Award: - Gold (April 2021), Silver (March 2020), Gold (November 2019), Bronze (Jun 2019)
Design, Release and deployment, LCM
• Design and implementation of load balancer infrastructure as per business requirement
• Provide secure, sustainable and cost-effective solution for varies services
• Perform LCM and sustain engineering work (Design, implement, upgrade and configure as per bank standard)
• Build F5 and AVI devices and configure base on business requirement and bank standard
• Migrate load balancer VIP from F5 to AVI network Load balancer
• SSL CERT & PKI management using Venafi and AppviewX
• Ensure technical implementation and business processes are aligned
Tech Mahindra Network Lead Aug’18 – Mar’19
Client: Credit Suisse
Role: Lead (Network Migration, ADC & Security infrastructure)
• Played a Project lead role in administering the infrastructure migration including ownership of critical
advancement, upgrades, service migration and IT Infra compliances of bank network across multiple locations
• Enable migration strategies by enabling client trust & business along with automation tools & custom scripts
• Provide support to create traffic flow design solution for load balancer & Firewall
• Ensure technical implementation and business processes are aligned
• Enable operation excellence by Participate in the creation, review and update of information security policies,
best practices, SOPs
• Reviewing current system security measures and recommending and implementing enhancements Ongoing
project management
Infosys Technology analyst April’17 – Aug’18
Client: UBS AG
Role: Lead Network Security (BigIP F5 L3 engineer)
Project Work: -
• Lead AT&T to UBS transition for network & security team
• Migrated tradition DNS(Bind) to Infoblox & BigIP F5 GTM
o Bind to Infoblox Migration
o GTM Integration with Infoblox
o Deployed GTMs on global infrastructure in 3 different sync group (internet, Intranet & UAT)
o Integrated GTM with Infoblox as delegate mode
o 3 GTMs deployed on active-active sync group in UK, US and APAC
o GTMs integrated with all global infra LTMs.
• NodeManager integration with F5 devices
o Provide self-service to application owner to manage their application hosted on Load balancer in order
to provide wide IP, VIP, pools and servers access to respective application owner.
Daily Activity: -
• Network designing and support for High-Availability with high volume of traffic using Load Balancer
• Traffic flow design for load balancer and provide configuration base on project requirement
• Implementing DNS level redundancy using F5 GTM base on Geo-location, CIDR and project requirements.
• Configure & troubleshooting WideIP, VIP, Pool, Member, Monitor, datacenter etc.
• bug and vulnerability fix
• Geo-location for public subnet and region and topology for internal newly assigns internal IP subnet for reduce
internal network path delay on F5 GTMs
• Configure & troubleshooting Palo alto and Cisco ASA firewall.
• Configure & troubleshooting IPSec VPN, ACL, policy.
• Managing Global client connectivity.
• Key participation in change management and business communication.
• Work on F5 GTM related escalated issue for Infosys network COE team (all Infosys project)
o Award: - Rising star (UBS), Best performer (UBS Q3), RnR winner (Infosys Q2)
Zack IT Solutions Network Engineer April’16 – April’17
Projects: TCL IS IT network (Managed by TCS)
Role: L2 Network & Security Engineer
• Deployed and Managing BIG IP F5 1800,3900, 4000 Load balancer.
• Provide Operation support on Palo alto and Cisco ASA firewall.
• Configuring & Managing of Cisco 6500, 4500, 3560, 3750x, 2960 series Switches and 2800, 2900, 7200 Routers.
• Fulfill IPAM, DNS and DHCP using INFOBLOX.
• Build and Managed LAN and WAN connectivity of the TCL enterprise GLOBAL network
 • Co-ordination with last mile and local vender for end user connectivity & Vendor
• Managing change queue and Take approval in Cab for new change request with proper plan
• Provide Key Role in technical support and Fault management in LAN & DATA Center connectivity.

Hitachi Systems micro clinic Sr. Customer Support Engineer Jul’15 – April’16
Projects: Reliance Industrial ltd, Dahej
Role: Sr. Network Engineer
Project Work: -
• DMD Network Migration project. Old Nortel Devices to Cisco switches at Core (4700), distribution(3750x) and
access level.
• Implement Reliance new coal power plant fiber network at distribution and access level switches
• Cisco IOS upgraded on Core, Distribution and access (more than 300) switches.
• Establish network connectivity at DHWS Hospital (Dahej health and welfare soc) using cisco 2900 router and
2960 switches.
Daily Activity: -
• Build LAN network connectivity as per requirement.
• Deployed & Managed of Cisco Catalyst Switch series 2960 ,2960S, IE 3000, 3560, 3750, 3750-X, 4500.
• Configuration and Installation & Managing of Cisco Router 2900 series router.
• Monitoring and maintaining of existing network & Reporting
Solid Tech India computer services Customer Support Engineer Dec’13 – Jun’15
Projects: Uninor & Telenor Data Centre Support
Role: Network Engineer
• Monitoring, Troubleshooting of complex LAN/WAN infrastructure.
• Support Team for Planning and Implementation the network activities.
• Co-ordination with service providers for Network connectivity issues
• Interacting with the client regarding technical Issues and understanding the Client Problem.

Certification
• CISCO CERTIFICATIONS: - CCNA (200-120)
• Certified on site reliability engineering (Foundation)
• ITIL ®4 foundation & Specialist Create, Deliver and Support (CDS)
• Attended week full day training –
• F5 Certified: - BIG-IP Administrator (F5-CA, 201) & Technical Specialist LTM & DNS (F5-CTS,301 & 302)
• AWS certified: - cloud practitioner (CLF-C01), Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C02),
Security – Specialty (SCS-C01), Solutions Architect - Professional (SAP-C02)
• Attended training -F5 Application Policy Manager (APM), Application Security Manager (ASM), AVI (VMware)

Educational Qualifications
• Completed B.E in Electronics and Communication with First Class(7.50CGPA) in 2013 from Gujarat Technological
University
• Completed H.S.C.E with 63.68% in 2009 from Nutan Fellowship high school, Ahmedabad, India
• Completed S.S.C with 77.38% in 2007 from Saraswati Vidyalaya, Mahuva, India

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