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Rethindhar Thota - Network Engineer

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Location: Austin, Texas, USA

Relocation: Yes

Visa: OPT-EAD

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Expertized in Network Engineer specializing in enterprise and data center networking, with skilled in routing, switching, firewalls, SD-WAN, Cisco DNA Center and ACI including the Design, Deployment, and providing network support, installation, and analysis. Led successful deployments and optimizations of Viptela and Versa SD-WAN solutions across global branches, integrating intelligent traffic steering, dynamic path selection, and application-aware routing for enhanced performance and reliability. Deployed Palo Alto NGFWs for migration and configuration, along with setting up advanced security policies, NAT, VPN, and threat prevention; enforcing NAC policies through Cisco ISE (802.1X, dynamic VLANs, device profiling) and implementing Cisco DNAC for centralized policy management, SD-Access, and Trust Sec. Managed Cisco ACI Multi-Site and Multi-Pod architectures enabling disaster recovery, stretched fabrics, and policy consistency across geographically distributed data centers. Cloud networking is configured smoothly across various platforms such as AWS (Transit Gateway, Direct Connect), Microsoft Azure (Traffic Manager, Load Balancer), VMware (vSphere, NSX), and Zscaler (ZIA, ZPA) for secure and efficient connectivity to the cloud and hybrid environments. Managed load balancers in the enterprise space with F5 LTM/GTM, Citrix NetScaler, and A10 Networks, implementing global traffic distribution, SSL termination, and advanced health monitoring, to ensure availability. Deployed Cisco Meraki, Aruba, and Juniper MIST wireless solutions in high-density environments, ensuring RF optimization, VLAN segmentation, and 802.1X authentication. Keywords: ffive South Dakota