Prabakaran V has over 10 years of experience as a network engineer. He received a Bachelor of Technology degree in Information Technology with a 61% percentage. His work experience includes roles as a Network Engineer at DSM InfoCom Pvt Ltd and Infonet Asia pvt ltd, and currently works as a GNOC Engineer at Sify Technology ltd. In this role, he is responsible for configuring firewalls, routers, switches and other network devices as well as providing network security, monitoring and troubleshooting. He has expertise in routing protocols, VPNs, firewalls, load balancers and other networking technologies.

1. PRABAKARAN V
E-Mail ID : karanpraba1990@hotmail.com
Mobile No : +91-8124 90 3372
OBJECTIVE
To work in a creative and challenging environment rendering my potentials and skills for
the growth of the company and growing along with it.
ACADEMIC CHRONICLE
Bachelor of Technology
College : DMI College of Engineering (Affiliated to Anna University)
Domain : Btech-Information Technology
Percentage : 61%
Batch : 2007-2011
HSC
School : St.Josephs Boys Higher Sec School, Susainager
Percentage : 78%
Year of Passing : 2006-2007
SSLC
School : St.Josephs Boys Higher Sec School, Susainager
Percentage : 73%
Year of Passing : 2004-2005
WORKING EXPERIENCE

2. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY(3 YEARS 4 MONTHS)
 Worked as a Network Engineer in DSM InfoCom Pvt Ltd. From jan’12 to AUG’13
 Worked as a Network Engineer in Infonet Asia pvt ltd from nov’13 to May'14
 Working as a GNOC Engineer in Sify Technology ltd from May'14 to till date
Responsibilities:
SIFY TECHNOLOGY LIMITED( GLOBAL NETWORK OPERATIONS AND SECURITY EINGINEER )
IDC,VDC and OALAN(NETWORK SECURITY)
• Configuring IDC and VDC customers L3 Management on Fortigate and Extending L2 path on
Core, Aggregation and Access Layer switches.
• Configuring MSTP & VTP between Access & Distribution Layer in Data Center Environment.
• Configuring Inbound and outbound policies in Firewall based on STF approvals
• Extending IP reachability from Firewall to PE through ospf (Nssa Area)
• Qos for Customer traffic Management
• Advertising Ospf routes on Sify Infra and Internet through Ibgp and Ebgp
• Troubleshooting latency issues to Customers and providing best path.
• Providing UTM (Unified Threat Management Service to Customers)
• Configuring and Maintaining Remote VPN (IPSEC) for Sify employee and SRC customer
• To provide better Secure Service for Customers by satisfying their needs and to attain aximum
Security I have upgraded Firmware (IOS) for more than 30 Fortigate devices in SIFY IDC.
• To ensure good Failover for Customer services on any device Failure, BCP Testing had been
done on Router and Firewalls of SIFY Datacenter across India with 3 months duration.
• Have configured QOS Configuration on Router (Cisco 7604) for all Sify IDC customers across
all locations in India (Chennai, Bangalore, Airoli, Vashi, Delhi)
1.Project Name: Core Banking Solutions
Client ALLAHABAD BANK
Role Customer Support Engineer
Duration JAN’12 to AUG’13
Location Chennai.
Resident Engineer for TCS
2.Project Name: Data Center Implementation
Client AVIT Colleg, EIL, vishak steel plant
Role Network Engineer
Duration Nov’13 to till date
Location Chennai,vishakapatnam
3.Project Name: GLOBAL NETWORK OPERTION CENTER
Client IDC,VDC,INTERNET,MPLS
Role GNOC-ENGINEER(2A)
Duration May'14 to till date
Location Tidel Park,Chennai

3. • To ensure Proper policies exist on Firewall based upon Customer requirement. If any policies
found vulnerable- immediate action taken on this with Customer Coordination on periodic
Audit.
• Managing AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting) for Sify Employees.
• Providing Tacacs access to Sify EMP based on designation and Approval.
• Maintaining Infra devices under ACS to ensure secure operations on devices with AAA.
• Configured Sify internal servers behind Cisco Pix and managing.
• All Sify OAlan Traffic should get filtered by Clean Connect firewall Service.Through L3-Mpls Vrf
all Sify OAlan traffic is routed to Clean Connect Firewall By using UTM service all traffic will get
filtered on both Inbound and Outbound traffic.
• Configured and Implemented Sify Portal Setup on Mailing service with combining Cisco and
Dell Switches behind Firewall by providing SLB service to servers on Vashi IDC.
• Managing URL Fortigate for filtering entire SIFY Traffic which is restricted based on
Government approval from Dot.
• Configured and managing VDC customer servers under CSS, ACE load balancers based on
Customer requirement
• Implemented and troubleshooting IPv6 Routing for Sify users and Customer
NETWORK OPERATIONS DOMAIN
• Design Implementation and Managing all the infrastructure devices (Routers, Switches)
• Deploying a new Routers and Switches as per requirement on the basis on Change management.
• Troubleshooting, rectifying L2 & L3 related issue and providing permanent solutions.
• Configuration and Upgrading software images through all the ways like ROMMON, FTP, TFTP & IP.
 Cisco Routers (800,1700,1800,1900,2600,7200)
 Cisco switches (2960,3500,4500,4900 series)
 Juniper MX series and 2825, 2811, 2911 Routers, Huawei Switches.
• Configuring and Trouble shooting of Routing protocols (RIP, IGRP, OSPF, BGP )
• Configuring Traffic Filters using Standard and Extended Access- Lists.
• Maintaining Network Security with AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting )
• Configuring OSPF sessions on the SIFY infrastructure and BGP session with other peering’s, Transit’s.
• Traffic manipulation on the failure of IPLC links.
• Working as part of a team and operating in a fast paced, changing and challenging 24x7 environment.
• Trouble shooting on STP, VTP, RSTP, PVST, and MSTP related problems and providing permanent
solutions.
• Troubleshooting the customer services (Internet, L2 &L3 VPN and L2tpv3) related problem and
providing permanent solutions.
• To ensure Device level and Link level redundant service for customer and infra services.
• NMS TOOL :- Beacon ware, Beamon, Solar winds, Whatsup Gold, cacti,CA Spectrum

4. • Troubleshoot the latency issues faced by the customers and providing best path in reaching their
destinations across the world.
• Responsible for creating RCA for major network outages and to work on corrective and Preventive
actions along with relevant stake holders
(DSM and INFONET ASIA):
 Configure, Maintain and Troubles Shoot for Nap router and branch router(1700 and 3600
router)
 Configure, Maintain and Troubles Shoot for switching network(2950 and 2960)
 Configure, Maintain AND Troubleshoot Cisco ASA FIREWALL and Checkpoint
 Configure, Maintain L3 switch and L2 switch(extreme switches)
 Edit the Policy in firewall according to customer requirements
 Planning and implement the wireless network and lan network
 Edit access-list and mac-list for Virus affected pc in firewall and switch
 Coordination with Internet Service Providers (BSNL, AIRTEL) for leased lines and ISDN
BRI/PRI Commissioning & Trouble shooting
 Configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of modems (LL/E1/PRI/NT1) for NAP location
and its Branch locations. (V.35&G.703 modems for 64 Kbps & 2 Mbps)
 Commissioning & maintenance of MPLS,LL's, ISDN-PRI/BRI & E1 Circuits.
 Configuration of Leased Lines, (CSU-DSU) CH-E1 and ISDN PRI links on NAP routers and ISDN
BRI links on Branch locations
 Monitoring all primary links (LL) and backup links (ISDN) for branches and aggregate link for
data-center using network monitoring tool. Like WHATSUP GOLD,MANAGE ENGINE ,
 Coordination with Data Center-DC and Disaster Recovery Center-DRC to resolve all connectivity
and routing issues.
 Handled site & feasibility survey & co-ordination with customer for inventory of Devices,
preparation of HEALTH CHECKUP REPORT reports for branches and NAP
 Troubleshooting the connectivity problem in LL & ISDN link through getting different loop backs
at different network nodes from service providers.
 Handling the CISCO IP Phones and its configuration (cisco-7906, 7910).and change firmware
using TFTP
 Monitoring and troubleshooting Zonal office Switching network
CERTIFICATION
 Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Cisco id- CSCO12233100
 Microsoft Active Directory 2008 R2 Server 8835324

5. TECHNICAL SKILLS
Routing Protocols STATIC RIP, OSPF, BGP
IP , IPv6 IP Routing, IP Routed Protocols, Dual Stack
WAN Technologies HDLC, PPP, Frame Relay
LAN Switching Ethernet STP/RSTP/MSTP, VTP, LAN Security, Q-in-Q
MPLS L3Mpls –VRF ,L2Mpls,LDP
Network Tools Beaconware, Beamon
Network Management SNMP , Syslog ,Cacti
VPN IPSEC , SSL-VPN ,
PERSONAL DETAILS
Father’s Name : Prabakaran.V
Date of Birth : 25TH
Apr 1990
Sex : Male
Nationality : Indian
Language known : English and Tamil.
Permanent Address : M.Varathan, Konaiyur , Vinnamangalam (P.O)
Vandavasi (T.K), Thiruvannamalai (D.T) -632 316
DECLARATION
HARDWARE
FIREWALL CISCO PIX 535,520,525,Fortigate-100A, 310B, 1000A, 3600A, 300B
Juniper SRX 5600, Checkpoint R75 ,
ROUTER Cisco 1800, 3600, 3700, 3800, 7200, 7600, 12000, CRS, Juniper J2320,ASR
Switches Cisco Catalyst 2900, 3500, 3650, 3750, 4500,Nexus, Extreme Network
Summit, Huawei
Load-Balancers CISCO CSS11501, CSS11503,ACE

6. I here by declare that all the statements made in the above application are correct to the best
of my knowledge.
Place: Chennai
Date :
(PRABAKARAN V)

7. I here by declare that all the statements made in the above application are correct to the best
of my knowledge.
Place: Chennai
Date :
(PRABAKARAN V)