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Sharath Chandra Balle

UN
Sharath Chandra Balle
3
years of professional experience

To seek and maintain a full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management, and problem-solving skills. Ready to help the team achieve company goals. Detail-oriented, organized, and meticulous employee. Works at a fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player prepared to contribute to company success. Versatile Technical Support Representative skilled at offering clients easy-to-understand guidance and actionable advice. Positively impacts all customer interactions and engineering efforts for supported products.

Work History

Network Control Center Engineer

5 Years 1 Month
UN | 10.2021 - Current
  • Network Support role to manage and support Cisco, switches and routers
  • Established strong working relationships with clients,vendors through exceptional communication skills, fostering trust and collaboration.
  • Support in Configuring VLANs, VTP, HSRP, STP, DHCP and static IP addressing.
  • Configuration & troubleshooting of routing and switching issues using network monitoring tool (Network Node Manager by MICRO FOCUS)
  • Monitoring and troubleshooting satellite communications incidents using KRATOS COMPASS Newpoint)
  • Security and Compliance: Monitor network security alerts and vulnerabilities.
  • Implement security measures to protect network infrastructure.
  • Work closely with network architects, engineers, and other IT staff to design and implement network solutions.
    Communicate network status, issues, and changes to relevant stakeholders.
    Provide technical support and guidance to support staff.
  • Ticket Management and Field Support
  • Responding to technology incidents, request (MAC) following ITIL, performing troubleshooting, managing escalations
  • Maintain accurate records of network configurations, incidents, and changes.
  • Proactive communication to clients and other stakeholders
  • Providing technical support for end users including IP phone, desktop, connectivity and desktop applications-related issues
  • Data center infrastructure and Facilities maintenance (monitoring and management of air-conditioning, UPS, generators, power usage, running health and safety

Education

University of Bologna | Bologna | 07.2025
  • Thesis Statement: Simulation of Bounded Delay Traffic in 5G Optical Transport Networks

Bachelor's Degree - Electronics and Communication Engineering

Jawahar Lal Nehru Technological University | Hyderabad | 01.2013

Skills

Excellent knowledge of OSI model 7 layers and flow of communication.
IP protocols and Routing protocols
Configuring & Troubleshooting
Good knowledge and understanding of Cloud concepts for ex: IaaS
PaaS
SaaS
Good Experience with Virtualization technology software like CITRIX
and application delivery controllers (Netscaler ADC/ADM)
Experience in data center monitoring to ensure all IT infrastructures are operating at optimal capacity
Excellent knowledge of Firewalls and network security.
Switching (STP
VLANs and Trunking
Redundant Switch links)
CISCO 841M
1921
7206
Switches 3550
3750
4506
Routing Protocols: RIP
EIGRP
OSPF
BGP
good understanding of CITRIX
NETSCALER
Knowledge related to VOIP Service
Technical reporting
Configuring & Troubleshooting VTP
dot1q
dot1x
spanningtree
Virtualization (VMware 6.0
6.5)
Active Directory
Windows Server 2012
2016
Computer Applications.MS Office (Excel/Powerpoint
Word)
Trouble ticketing tools: Oracle SIEBEL
customer-oriented trouble ticketing systems
Monitoring Tools: NNM
vCenter VMware
DELL data domain management center
Microsoft SCOM 2019
Newtec data miner for monitoring Satellite connections (Kratos Compass)
ELK
HPsim. etc..
Excellent communication skills developed through my experiences.
Ability to learn new systems
analyze problems
and evaluate solutions under pressure.
System Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis
Ability to work in shifts as an individual or as a team under conditions of stress.
Logical thinking and Problem-solving skills.
Process Improvement.
Basic knowledge and understanding of programming Languages (for Ex. C
C++
C#
.NET framework)

Job Title

Network control centre engineer at United nations

As part of the UN's global network operations team, I ensure the availability, security, and performance of the systems and services that support the organization's mission and operations. I have been working in this role for over two years, providing Tier 1 and Tier 2 support, troubleshooting, and maintenance for the network infrastructure, using VMware vSphere, NetScaler, and data center technologies.

Certifications Trainings

  • 200-301: CCNA (R & S), CISCO, 2021
  • ITIL Foundation, 2021

Personal Information

Gender: Male

Languages

English
C1
Advanced
Italian
B1
Intermediate

Additional Information

Apart from my institutional interest, my personal interest is that i am very much enthusiastic in knowing and understanding how universe works like interstellar space, black holes, general & special relativity theory, string theory. i follow Dr. MIchio Kaku (theoretical physicist) who is well known ''popularizer of science' .i follow regularly about new space discoveries by NASA and ESA. These are my some aspirations and extra-work activities.

Timeline

Network Control Center Engineer

UN
10.2021 - CurrentRead More

University of Bologna

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Jawahar Lal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor's Degree from Electronics and Communication Engineering
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Sharath Chandra Balle