SUMMARY:

• 12+ years of IT experience on VMware, AWS & Azure Administration. Managing and configuring of VMware and Cloud technologies in IT Infrastructure functions and Managed Services domain. Experienced in the design, planning, implementation, optimization and troubleshooting of Physical and Virtual datacenter environments.Highly skilled in developing solutions, procedures & service standards for project transformation and business excellence. Possesses in depth experience of designing effective solutions for cloud deployment, transitioning multiple projects and ensuring seamless end to end delivery of services. Highly robust individual adapt at learning and implementing new technologies swiftly. Drives excellence in every project to deliver outstanding results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud: Amazon AWS & Microsoft Azure

Server Virtualization: VMware ESX & ESXi (4.x, 5.x, 6.x), VMware vCloud Automation Center 6.0, VMware Update Manager, DRS, HA, vMotion, Storage DRS, Storage vMotion, VMware SRM, Citrix Xenserver, Hyper - V

Desktop Virtualization: VMware Horizon View (VDI)

Network Virtualization: VMware NSX

Monitoring Tools: Nagios

Database: MySQLScripting Languages: Windows Power shell, VMware Power CLI

Hardware: HP Proliant Servers, Dell Poweredge Servers, Cisco UCS

Operating System: Windows 2008, 2012, 2016 & 2019, Windows 7 & 10, Linux

Backup Tool: Comm Vault

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas

Lead Engineer

• Working in an environment where 12000+ windows servers (spread across globe) are managed, maintained and configured as per the standard baseline policy. Working as an L3 and SME for run maintain team.
• Maintaining and Monitoring Data Center in Amazon Web Services (AWS Cloud).
• Managing the cloud objects such as EC2 instances, EBS, S3, IAM and VPC.
• Creating Instances in AWS Console, Attaching and Detaching snapshots for the Recovery Instances.
• Build and manage AWS EC2 instances and modify EC2 instances.
• Key responsibility of managing and maintaining VMware environment.
• Key responsibility of deploying & maintaining the security compliance, security patches to mission Critical environments supporting manufacturing areas (FAB s) & Hyper - V environment.
• Upgradation of ESXI from 5.0 and 5.5 to 6.x
• Associate with Architect teams in implementing new technologies and documentation.
• Engaging with multiple IT vertical teams in driving the projects.
• Handling technical escalations forwarded by L1 & L2 team.
• Identify the tasks which can be automated to reduce the man hours.
• Automate the administration jobs using scripts.
• Capacity planning (Analyze the utilization of resources (Server, CPU, Memory, Storage, I/O) in Windows, Hyper-V and VMware environments, work with domain expertise in fulfil the gaps followed standard process
• Capacity planning (Analyze the utilization of resources (Server, CPU, Memory, Storage, I/O) in VROPS (VMware vRealize Operations).
• Identifying repeated issues, providing permanent fix and documentation.
• Working on security, security patch compliance and remediation s.
• Identify the L3 tasks which can be performed by L2 team, create documents and provide technical sessions.
• Identify the technical gaps in support teams and provide/arrange trainings for specific domains verticals.
• Providing On-Call Support on rotation for high priority incidents/issues.
• Technical documentation.
• Evaluating new IT administration products/Server Hardware.
• Working on Splunk for capacity plan, Alerts and Monitoring and fixing the gaps.
• Provided On-Call Support on rotation for high priority incidents/issues.
• Performed Patch Management for Windows R2 and 2012 R2 servers coordinating patch teams using SCCM.
• Analyzing the Memory Dumps and provide the recommendation to L2 teams.
• Successfully ported a legacy, on-premises application to AWS and achieved significant increase in availability.
• Responsible for selecting the appropriate AWS service based on data, compute, database, or security requirements.
• Estimating AWS costs and identifying cost control mechanisms.
• Analysed client requirements to define business strategy & determined system architecture requirements to achieve business goals.
• Organised end-user training & problem analysis for server, desktop, and IT infrastructure.
• Proactively monitored servers, devices, and applications to identify & rectify potential issues on time.
• Experience on Storage Components like Internal storage, Attached storages, SAN Switches, HBA, LUN & Mapping, RAID groups, Volume Groups.
• Create RAID Groups, Bind LUNs, Create Storage Groups, and Register Hosts in EMC Storage for assigning Host to Storage Group and Add LUNs.

Confidential, Canonsburg

VMware & Cloud Administrator

• Managed VMware infrastructure environment with 4 vCenters, 2500 plus VMs across the globe & Azure Cloud
• VM Servers build & rebuild (Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an Existing VM) as per the client request through change management process.
• Maintaining and Monitoring Citrix Xenserver infrastructure.
• Installing and configuring ESXi servers.
• Installing, configuring and managing virtual infrastructure and virtual center.
• Comm Vault Backup / EMC Storage/OS system administration.
• Creating and managing resource pools and adding the VM s into resource pools.
• Creating and managing virtual machines and installing VM Tools into VM s.
• Manage VM s using VMware virtual center.
• Involved in Designing EMC storage (SAN) architecture and deployment.
• Installation and configuration of virtual machines in an Enterprise SAN and NAS environment.
• Security hardening and Monitoring of VM s & ESXi servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.
• Creating and managing VM Ware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster.
• Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations.
• Creating templates from VM s and deploy VM s from templates and allocate resources.
• Creating duplicate VM s using cloning technology.
• Moving VM s from one data store to another data store.
• Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between virtual machines.
• Moving physical machine to virtual machine using p2v converter.
• Configuring alarms and Manage task, events and alarms.
• Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting.
• Troubleshooting problems with the help of Event Logs.
• Troubleshooting virtual machine issues.
• Manage users, groups, permissions and roles.
• Regular System Administration tasks like User Accounts, access, Permissions, Security, Planning.
• Migration of the physical /VMware environments to Azure using ASR
• Experience in migration using Azure Site Recovery Services from VMware, physical and Azure environments.
• Worked as Cloud Administrator on Microsoft Azure, involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups.
• Remote login to Virtual Machines to troubleshoot, monitor and deploy applications.
• Managing Windows 2012 servers, troubleshooting IP issues and working with different support teams.
• Using Power shell to write, debug scripts to automate the processes and do migration of VM, involving copying and creating of VHDS.
• Configuration of Microsoft DevTest Labs to migrate the virtual machines from one subscription to another subscription.
• Managed day to day activity of the cloud environment, supporting development teams with their requirements.
• Creating Labs, Virtual Machines along with setting up policies and using Formulas and Custom Images to deploy the network. Managed the ticketing system of Rackspace to resolve issues on the cloud environment with the cloud management third party team.
• Worked on Visual Studio Team Confidential to manage a backlog for the daily activities.
• Experience on Storage Components like Internal storage, Attached storages, SAN Switches, HBA, LUN & Mapping, RAID groups, Volume Groups.
• Remote administration of servers for any problem across offices related to Microsoft Windows operating system and Applications (SQL, IIS, Websphere etc).
• Create RAID Groups, Bind LUNs, Create Storage Groups, and Register Hosts in EMC Storage for assigning Host to Storage Group and Add LUNs.

Confidential

Software Engineer

• Managed and administered VMware Infrastructure
• Virtual Center Server & License Server Installation and Configuration.
• Installation of ESX server version 4.0 &vSphere. Virtual center for ESXi server hosts.
• Installation and configuration of virtual machines in physical ESXi server.
• Setting up VMware Virtual Center.
• Configured dedicated vmkernel & multiple service Console for better performance.
• Setting up Permissions and giving VMware Access on VMware Boxes.
• Migration of existing physical server to VMware ESXi server using VMware converter tool.
• Migrate and manage virtual machines and ensure high availability of applications.
• Configuring Alarms & Traps for the Host and clones.
• Adding Additional Disk Space for Running VM s hosted on server.
• Deploy virtual machines from templates and allocate resources.
• Performance Monitoring and Service console monitoring.
• Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections.
• Manage VM s using VM ware virtual center and web access.
• Setting up priorities on CPU, Memory (RAM) and other resources.
• Controlling ESXi Servers in Virtual Center Configuring HA & DRS for ESXi Server.
• Adding additional hardware resources and expanding the OS partition of VM s.
• Implementation and after configuration maintenance of HA, DRS and vMotion and Rresource pool.
• Creating and configuring port groups
• Configured HA, DRS & Resource Pool and Manage the Cluster Level.
• Configured iSCSI and connected to ESXi Server manage the VM s.
• Network Teaming & Bridge mode configured in ESXi Servers and Virtual Servers. Patch Management in ESXi Server and Windows Servers through update Manager Good Knowledge in Windows Servers.
• Installation and Configuration ADS (Active Directory Service).
• Securing Users & Systems Environment though Security Policies.
• Managing Group Policy by creating Organizational Units.
• Installing and Configuring DNS & DHCP.