Fresher network engineer resume example
Vignesh Selvaraj · Network Support Engineer · Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. A sample person — replace every detail with your own.
Professional summary
CCNA-certified engineering graduate with eight months in a network operations centre for a managed services provider. Monitors WAN links and branch routers, troubleshoots VLAN and DHCP issues and raises tickets with internet service providers. Comfortable with Linux basics, Wireshark and rotational shifts. Seeking an L1 or L2 network engineer role.
Skills
- Routing and switching basics
- VLANs, STP and DHCP
- OSPF and static routing
- Network monitoring tools
- Wireshark
- ISP ticket follow-up
- Structured cabling
- Linux command line
- ITIL incident process
Experience
- Monitor around 400 branch routers and switches for retail and banking clients, acknowledging alerts within the agreed SLA.
- Troubleshoot link down, VLAN and DHCP issues remotely, escalating hardware faults to field engineers with clear diagnostics.
- Log ISP complaints and follow up until links are restored, updating the client with time-stamped notes.
- Helped re-cable and label the mill’s server rack and access switches across two buildings.
- Documented IP address allocations in a shared sheet, removing duplicate addresses that caused printer outages.
Education
Certifications and registrations
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
- Fortinet NSE 1 and 2 network security associate
Projects
- Home lab — built a multi-router lab in a network simulator to practise OSPF, NAT and ACLs, with notes on GitHub
Languages
Tamil · English
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Experienced network engineer resume example
Harish Chandran · Senior Network Engineer · Kochi, Kerala. A sample person — replace every detail with your own.
Professional summary
Network engineer with ten years of experience designing and running enterprise networks for hospitals, banks and manufacturing clients. Handles routing, switching, firewalls, SD-WAN and wireless across more than 150 sites, and leads L2 and L3 escalations. Holds CCNP Enterprise and a firewall vendor certification, and mentors a team of four engineers.
Skills
- Enterprise routing (BGP, OSPF)
- Campus switching
- Next-generation firewalls
- SD-WAN
- Enterprise wireless
- VPN and remote access
- Network design and documentation
- Change management
- Python scripting for network tasks
- L3 troubleshooting
Experience
- Lead network operations for a hospital chain with 40 sites, keeping core and Wi-Fi networks available for clinical systems.
- Migrated 120 branch sites of a cooperative bank from MPLS to SD-WAN in planned weekend windows without customer impact.
- Designed firewall policy clean-ups that removed hundreds of unused rules and passed the client’s security audit.
- Wrote Python scripts to back up device configurations nightly and flag unauthorised changes.
- Built plant networks with segmented production and office VLANs for three new factories.
- Installed and tuned wireless for warehouses with handheld scanners, fixing roaming dropouts.
- Prepared low-level designs, rack diagrams and handover documents for each project.
- Configured customer premises routers for leased line and broadband customers.
- Resolved link and routing complaints for business customers within the escalation SLA.
Education
Certifications and registrations
- CCNP Enterprise
- Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer
- ITIL 4 Foundation
Projects
- SD-WAN migration playbook — step-by-step cut-over plan reused for later branch migrations
- Network documentation drive — updated diagrams and IP plans for 40 hospital sites
Languages
Malayalam · English · Hindi · Tamil
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Why these resumes work
- Vignesh states the number of devices he monitors and the issues he resolves himself, which tells a NOC manager he is ready for L1 or L2 work.
- Harish quantifies sites, migrations and firewall clean-ups, giving a clear picture of the scale and type of enterprise network he can handle.
- The configuration backup script shows automation, an increasingly common expectation even in traditional network engineering roles.
- Certifications are placed after experience, but both resumes mention them in the summary too, because recruiters often search for CCNA and CCNP directly.
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