Rodrigo Conde De Sousa

RODRIGO CONDE DE SOUSA #701 – 1461 Harwood Street Vancouver, BC – V6G 1X7 Cell Phone: - E-mail:- PROFILE: Committed and dedicated professional with 15 years of experience in Datacenter Network environments. Cisco CCNA and CCNP (R&S) knowledge and specialized in Juniper devices as well. Strong skills in network troubleshooting. Possesses excellent leadership, communication, interpersonal skills and the ability to develop and maintain mutually beneficial relationships. Looking for being part of a challenging working environment and a successful and productive team. QUALIFICATIONS:  10 years experience in one of the largest Data Centers in Brazil, part of the largest data center group in the world, Equinix  5 years experience at DOSarrest Internet Security as a network specialist and team lead  Cisco CCNA and CCNP knowledge  Advanced knowledge in Layer 3 protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP/RIPv2, MPLS)  Advanced knowledge in switching (CST, PVST, RSTP, LACP, PAGP, 802.1q, VTP)  Advanced knowledge in Redundancy and Load Balancing FHRP Protocols (HSRP, VRRP, GLBP)  Strong knowledge of Cisco (Catalyst Series) and Juniper devices (MX and EX series) – Hardware and software  Network Monitoring and Analysis (SolarWinds, MRTG, Peakflow, Wanguard, SNMP, Netflow, and Packet Capture)  Strong knowledge in linux shell script to automate tasks from day by day  Strong knowledge in Force10 and Extreme switches (MPLS Layer 2) – Hardware and Software  Advanced knowledge in network implementation, designing, planning and site assessment  Advanced skill in datacenter environments  Strong experience in linux devices acting as routers (BGP and OSPF) and firewall (IPtables)  Leadership of high-skilled technical staff EXPERIENCE: DOSarrest Internet Security, Vancouver – Canada Director of Networking  Lead a team that is responsible for the architect, operate, monitor and maintain the DOSarrest Network. Scope of responsibility includes the international backbone, down to the data center networks including PCI firewalls and load balancers. DOSarrest Internet Security, Vancouver – Canada Network Specialist      Dec/2017 – Present May/2016 – Nov/2017 Architected and executed the Edge routers migration at DOSarrest from Brocade CERs to Juniper MX Series. Including working with vendors, DataCenter providers and upstreams throughout the process Provisioned from scratch the Hong Kong node Upgraded the network upstreams from 12 upstreams to 20+ upstreams and Internet Exchanges around the globe Designed the IGP and EGP architecture to allow fast and dynamic convergency inside the network Upgraded with zero downtime the Singapore node, responsible for some of the Singapore Government Agencies Equinix, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil Network Engineering Specialist Apr/2012 – Mar/2016  Most qualified engineer in company acting as Solution Specialist of technical issues  Led and mentored a team of 8 Network Engineers  Planned and designed the network growth from 2100 routers/switches to 3000 routers/switches  Provided technical guidance and assistance to the Network resource(s) who implemented the new network, including the network switching and routing  Promoted 8 times from network support analyst to this role, the highest in the company  Key Projects:  Geoffrey – Web Tool to onboard new customers with the objective of automatically activation/deactivation/upgrade/downgrade errors on customers ■ Developed the tool to automate client’s environment (background based in shell script) – 2 months  RJ2 – Built a new Data Center to onboard new customers as the old Data Center was full. ■ Designed and implemented a high speed network, providing a highly reliable network transport service for a large set of clients requirements – selection of vendor based on RFP and exhaustive tests in lab and implemented the network environment for the new Datacenter in Rio de Janeiro (Using Juniper MX 960 Routers, EX9200, EX4550, EX4200, EX3300 switches and Extreme x670v and X460 switches) – 1 year  DR Equinix Cloud (Objective: Keep the customer’s Cloud environment up and running in case of an outage in one Datacenter) ■ Designed and Implemented the solution for DR (disaster and recovery) for the Equinix Cloud (using a mix of BGP and OSPF solution) – 3 months  Interconnection Upgrade: Create more flexibility in the infrastructure and add 10 Gb/s ports ■ Migrated the entire Interconnection network between the 4 Equinix Data Centers from Force10 switches (using Q-in-Q) to Extreme switches (using MPLS L2 VPN) – 2 years Equinix, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil Senior Network Engineering Analyst Nov/2008 – Mar/2012  Responsible for supporting team of 6 network technicians and troubleshoot all issues  Worked with OSPF, BGP, HSRP and Spanning Tree protocols (PVST, CST, RSTP) and FHRP (VRRP and HSRP)  Conducted site assessments and audits of fibre and copper cabling, switching, racking, powering and other supporting infrastructure, as required preparation of documentation during the design, assessment, preparation and implementation phases  Monitored network traffic utilization (MRTG) to redirect inbound and outbound traffic to different upstreams using BGP techniques (localpref, prepend and communities)  Monitored the network attack system (Wanguard) to mitigate or block attacks, using RTBH – blackhole – RFC 5635, ACL or firewall filters  Key Projects:  Equinix Cloud: Create the network environment to support the Cloud Computing Products ■ Designed and implemented the network infrastructure (using Juniper 4500 and 4200 series switches) for Equinix Cloud product – 1 year  Network Core Upgrade: Replacement of the 1 Gb/s ports to 10 Gb/s and give more scalability to the fast network grow ■ Replaced the EDGE and CORE network infrastructure of all 4 Datacenters from Cisco devices (Catalyst 6500 and Routers 7600) to Juniper devices (MX 960 and 480)  Upgrade Services Network: Replace from 100 Mb/s ports to 1 Gb/s ports and replace the switches to more reliable devices ■ Replaced the service network (responsible for all “non-internet traffic”, like backup, monitoring and management) devices from Accton/Edge-core switches to Cisco Switches (catalyst 2960S)  Edge Network Replacement: Update the edge network infrastructure to keep growing the network utilization ■ Replaced the EDGE infrastructure network from Linux Server Routers to Cisco devices (Catalyst 6500) Equinix, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil Network Support Technician Jul/2008 – Nov/2008  Worked closely with the Network Engineering Team, receiving training and support for complex network issues  Head of support team in customers network issues  Troubleshot opened tickets (Tier II Support) from customers regarding to network problems (HSRP, VRRP, OSPF, PSVT, CST, VLAN and Linux – networking)  Key Projects:  MRTG Replacement: Replace the overloaded MRTG server to a new group of servers capable of support the new demand ■ Replaced the traffic monitoring server (MRTG) to a new pool of servers and updated the technology (Linux version and MRTG version) Equinix, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil Monitoring Analyst May/2006 – Jul/2008  Operated master consoles to monitor the performance of computer systems and networks using Nagios and MRTG  Monitored and troubleshot Lan-2-Lan customers links with carriers  Operated IDS based tool (in-house developed + trafshow) to detect network DDOS attacks and block them using RTBH – Blackhole  Analyzed web access statistics server (Webalizer and Urchin) to ensure the customer's environment health Equinix, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil Network Support Analyst Mar/2006 – May/2006  Performed initial (Tier I) support troubleshooting on customers incident’s tickets  Performed network routines (check switches logs) EDUCATION, TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS: Network Computer Technology – Graduation Estácio de Sá – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil 2003 - 2005 Cisco Certified Network Professional Training – Brazil Tracenet – Rio de Janeiro 2010 Cisco CCNA Certified 2011 (valid through 2018) Cisco CCNP Certified 2011 (valid through 2018)