SUMMARY

• IT Professional with 15 year’s experience in Information Technology, including Enterprise Architecture and Server Virtualization. I am self - motivated with excellent communication skills and collaborative abilities. I am always ready to learn new technologies and make process improvements.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Server Operating System: Windows 2012/2016, Red Hat ES 7.0, Ubuntu, SUSE 9.0

Mail servers: Exchange 2010, MDaemon 9.0, Office365

Backups: NetBackup, PureDisk, Vranger and Brightstore ARC serv

Monitoring Tools: Nagios XI, IBM Systems Director

Antivirus servers: McAfee EPO 5.3, Symantec Endpoint Protection, Sophos

Virtualization: VMware ESXi 6.7, Microsoft Hypervisor 2008

Ticketing tool: - HP Openview, Maximo, Clarify and Service now

Configuration Management tools: - Chef, SCCM

Scripting: - VB script and PowerShell

SIEM: - Alert logic, Securevue, Rapid 7

Cloud: - AWS (VPC, IAM, ELB, EC2, S3, EBS, CloudWatch, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, SES, Glacier, Route 53, Inspector, Guard duty), Azure (Virtual Machine, Active Directory, Blob, Virtual Network, Load Balancer, DNS, Expressroute, Content Delivery Network, Security Center, Security and compliance)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Provided recommendations with respect to cloud migrations and prepared technical implementation roadmaps for Azure adoption.
• Designed technical solutions on Azure that address customer's requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance and leverage existing investments in Azure/MS platforms.
• Collaborated with other project teams on technical solutions and helped improving the architecture
• Participated in internal and customer meetings assisting with the ongoing evolution of technology offerings.
• Provided thought leadership in cloud infrastructure services architecture to meet operational objectives for cloud solutions.
• Troubleshooted and identified performance, connectivity and other issues for the applications hosted in Azure platform.
• Created VM’s and supported them. Migrated file server to Cloud. Implemented Backup through Cloud.

Confidential

Infrastructure Consultant (Senior Consultant)

Technologies/Application Supported: - Azure, VMware, O365, SCCM, UCS, Nagios, Citrix, Sophos, AD, Securevue, Rapid 7, RSA, Okta

Responsibilities:

• Lead and managed IT projects with 5 offshore team members. Subject Matter Expert for VMware, Active Directory, SCCM, Cisco UCS and Office365.
• Defined cloud network architecture using Azure virtual networks, VPN and express route to establish connectivity between on premise and cloud. Designed technical solutions on Azure that address customer's requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance and leverage existing investments in Azure/MS platforms. Configured Azure AD. Created Site to Site VPN between on premises infrastructure. Created VM’s and supported them. Resolved issues related to connectivity.
• Designed, implemented and supported Hyper converged Infrastructure through Cisco UCS. Supported Cisco servers (Service Profiles, HBA/NIC templates, MAC/UUID/WWNN/WWPN Pools).
• Designed, implemented and supported Virtualization/Hypervisor Infrastructure through VMware (Vcenter, Cluster, HA/DRS, Templates, VMotion/Svmotion, P2V/V2V, Standalone convertor). Monitored Environment through VROPS (Capacity Management) and Nagios.
• Designed, implemented and supported Monitoring solutions through Nagios. Defined the thresholds for CPU, HDD and RAM. Monitored the critical services on the servers. Configured Nagios plugins as per the need. Triggered emails whenever the threshold had breached on the servers. Generated reports for the management through web-based portal.
• Supported Email Architecture through Office 365 on Cloud. Created Users, Groups in AD and synchronized them with Office 365. Assigned/Revoked licenses to Users in Office 365. Created Antispam policies on Cloud and applied them on Mailboxes. Created Archive setting of emails for the users. Applied Retention policies on all the Mailboxes.
• Implemented Data loss prevention (DLP) through Office365 and Mobile Device Management (MDM) through Azure Intune. Worked with data owners of different business functions to ensure solutions implemented for data loss prevention does not negatively impact the business. Defined rule and policies as per the PCI compliance and enforce IT Policies, protect their Infrastructure, and effectively managed the Systems.
• Designed, implemented and supported Application Virtualization through Citrix XenApp 7.15 LTSR environment in the organization. Administered Citrix XenApap. Assigned, modified application access to the users as per delivery groups.
• Designed, implemented and supported Client Management solution through SCCM 2012. Performed software distribution and ensured successful deployment to end users. Prioritized and coordinated patch management on servers and desktops. Created one Windows 7/10 image for all the desktops, laptops. Implemented Windows 10 Servicing Rings and Office 365 ADR in the Environment.
• Implemented and supported Endpoint Security through an antivirus solution Sophos. Defined Policies as per organization security policies. Ensured systems were up-to-date with Antivirus updates. Performed weekly virus scan on desktops and server. supported HIPS through Sophos.
• Implemented and supported Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool like SecureVue, Alertlogic, Rapid 7. Performed Log harvesting, monitoring, extraction, real time and forensic analysis using SIEM tools as per the request. Implemented File Integrity Monitoring solution through OSSEC.
• Supported Threat and Vulnerability management solutions like Nessus and Tenable I/O. Performed a scan every quarter and remediated vulnerability by applying solutions.
• Participated in PCI and IT audit every year and provided evidences for the policies implemented. Worked with other teams like End user computing, Network operations, Retail operations to fix priority issues. Presented reports related to Risk and Governance to management every quarter.
• Managed AD, DNS, DFS, DHCP, IIS, and GPO for client Infrastructure. Implemented Data Protection through Bit locker on Windows Laptop through GPO.
• Recently worked on Datacenter Migration (Performed assessment of old datacenter and audited Applications, Servers and Operating systems. Documented existing equipment, power specifications, cooling requirements, connectivity diagrams, rack layout, disaster recovery and business continuity support. Designed new data center architecture, power, cooling and IT infrastructure to support datacenter. Build and validated functionality with new datacenter. Coordinated with Vendors at both ends to ensure a smooth relocation. Migrated Infrastructure and launched operations).
• Worked with Team and implemented Okta in the environment as a single sign on solution.

Senior System Engineer

Confidential

Technologies/Application Supported: - VMware, Nagios, SCCM 2007 R2, AD, Symantec Antivirus, NetBackup 7.0.1, PureDisk

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for 24/7 support on client’s Windows servers.
• Managed VMware ESX servers through VCenter 4.1 and configured Virtual Servers for Windows and Linux on VMware.
• Installed VMware ESX/ESXI Server, VMotion, Svmotion, involved in upgrades related to VMware tools, built data stores, and configured alarms, High Availability and DRS, VSphere Hot plug, VMware Data recovery with Vranger.
• Scheduled Patching of Windows servers on monthly basis through SCCM 2007 R2.
• Executed Backup/Restore for Windows and Linux through Symantec NetBackup 7.0.1.
• Monitored the Windows/Unix/Linux Servers using Nagios and IBM Systems Director 6.2.
• Followed up with Vendors on issues related to NetBackup, Microsoft, IBM, HP, and VMware.

Confidential

Senior Process Associate

Technologies/Application Supported: - Active Directory, Exchange 2007

Responsibilities:

• Provide Priority 1 telephone support for warm transfer calls from the Global Service.
• Configuring group policies on windows 2003 server.
• Convert Security Admin requests into Clarify and Maximo cases
• Account management for Active Directory, Dow Application Servers, Windows, NT
• Provide second level telephone/problem support for Security on Active Directory, Dow Application Servers, Windows, NT on requests from the GSD.

Confidential

Executive IT and Telecommunications

Technologies/Application Supported: - Active Directory, Lotus Notes

Responsibilities:

• Installed Windows Server 2003 on HP ProLiant ML 350.
• Configured Group Policies, Active Directory User and computers.
• Created Organization unit inside child domain.
• Deployed all Active Directory related policies.
• Deployed scheduled backup for servers. System state .
• Configured DHCP, DNS, FTP.
• Regularly updated Microsoft patches on servers, desktops and laptops.
• Configured Dot Matrix, LaserJet, and DeskJet Printers on machines.