SUMMARY:

• Strong experience on VMware Virtualization and Windows Servers engineering and administration.
• Very strong experience on setting up of all the three major public clouds AWS, GCP, Azure as well as VMware and Open stack private cloud and administration of the same.
• Strong experience on engineering and managing large enterprise Active directory and Azure AD.
• Strong on Data center build, consolidation and administration.
• Expert level expertise on merger project as a part of company mergers and acquisitions.
• Extensive experience on Change, incident and problem management.
• Experience in working on regulated environment in medical (GXP), Finance and government.
• Ability to learn quickly the new technologies and environment.
• Good communication and presentation skill.
• Good leadership skill and experience of managing team. And a good team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud Services: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure Cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), OpenStack, Office 365.

VMware : VMware vSphere 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.0/4.1 , ESXi Server 4.1/5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5 , vCloud Director, VMware SRM, VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), vRealize Operations Manager (vROps), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), VMware Horizon, VMware vCenter Converter, vshield, VMware Update Manager, VMware NSX, NSXT, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI, VMware Workstation, VMware VCB, VMware View, Pivotal Spring, Spring Enterprise and Spring Server

Windows Servers : Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Active Directory, ADFS, LDAP, ADRMS, DNS, DHCP, Microsoft Hyper - V, Microsoft Exchange server 2010, Exchange server 2016, Windows 10,8,7, Share point.

Open Source: Linux, Unix, CentOS, Ubuntu, KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine)

Configuration Management: SCCM, Ansible, Terraform, Cloud Foundry, Chef, Puppet, AWS Cloud Foundation.

Storage: NetApp, EMC, Nimble, Hitachi, HP, Confidential

Patch Management Tools: SCCM, Bigfix/Tivoli Endpoint Manager (TEM), Shavlik, Batchpatch, WSUS.

Backup Solutions : Veeam, Symantec, Commvalut, Veritas NetBackup, HP Data protector, vRanger.

Networking Equipment : Cisco Nexus series, Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Cisco Firewalls, Juniper Routers, Juniper Switches, Palo Alto firewall.

Server Hardware : Cisco UCS, HP, Dell, Confidential Enclosure Chassis, Blades, Rack mount serves, Tower servers, Layer 3 switches, Routers ect.

Ticketing Tools: Service now, Maximo, Jira, CA, HP Service Manager, Remedy.

Scripting: PowerShell, VB, SQL Scripting, Bash, Python.

Others : SCOM, Jenkins, SPLUNK, Perfecto Mobile, Microsoft NLB and Fail over Cluster, Veritas Cluster, SQL servers, F5 Load balancer, Solar Wind Monitoring, Nagios Monitoring, Site scope, Site Maestro, Dell OME, HP SIM, NAS, NFS, iSCSI, Infoblox IPAM.

Compliance: GxP, SOC 2

PROFFSSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Thousand Oaks, California

Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designing and deploying multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including VPC, EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Migrated large number of Windows and Linux on premise VMs to AWS using Server Migration Service (SMS) and Partner service product Cloud Endure.
• Migrated the database of business-critical application to AWS database service.
• Software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment using Ansible.
• Set up and managing azure cloud and azure dev ops cloud.
• Assist in deploying Kubernetes into air-gapped enterprise environments with kops self-hosted assets.
• Implemented capability to re-use security groups, iam profiles, inorder to pass security review and PEM testing.
• Utilized helm charts to deploy Cassandra and Datastax enterprise. Designed and implemented Cassandra containers and stateful sets based on contributed Kubernetes Cassandra.
• Set up Okta Single Sing-On dual factor authentication for securely accessing Amazon Web Services.
• Responsible for Project execution and Administration of VMware virtual infrastructure, Windows servers, Active directory and AWS.
• Migrated VMware virtual infrastructure environments to 6.7.
• Installed and configured new vCenter server as a part of datacenter consolidation.
• Set up new chassis and build ESXi clusters on the same as a part of capacity expansion.
• Set up new chassis, Dell blade servers, Cisco UCS for virtual environment.
• Upgraded the Active Directory schema to 2012R2 from 2008R2.
• Upgraded Confidential ’s Active Directory environment from existing 2008R2 to 2012R2.
• Migrated Users, Computers, OUs, Groups from Europe and Asia Pacific domains to Americas domain as a part of domain consolidation project.
• Built Windows server 2016 and migrated server application to Windows server 2016.
• Have set up QMM for migrating users, computers, OUs and groups as a part of domain consolidation.
• Migrated large number Microsoft exchange email users to Office 365 and maintain the same.
• Patching of ESXi host using update manager and the windows guest servers using SCCM.
• Perform disaster recovery test periodically, record the finding and fine tune it.
• Configuring and maintain VDI 6.2 and 7.6 environment.
• Managing VMware NSX and NSX-T.
• Preparing Architectural diagrams, Project Scope, Project plan, Decommission plan ect.
• Implemented the active directory group policies.
• Installing and configuring Active directory certificate service (ADCS).
• Make sure all the system set up and procedure to change are as per the SOC 2 guidelines.
• Decommissioning of the 2008R2 domain controller in a regulated environment.
• Set up Jenkins master and slaves on Centos, Ubuntu servers.
• Managing System Center Configuration Manager.
• Managing large groups of computers running Windows servers, MacOS, Linux and Android mobiles using SCCM.

Confidential, San Jose, California / Branchburg NJ

Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Built vCenter server, ESXi servers, ESXi cluster for the next generation datacenter.
• Research and develop technical solutions through virtualization in support of the SaaS Platform.
• Set up and manage Microsoft Azure Cloud for Confidential right from the Subcription.
• Set up Azure VNet, resource group, Blob storage, redone the tagging ect
• Configure and manage Azur Active Directory (AAD), IAM, PIM.
• Configure single sign on using Azure Federation Service.
• Migrated large number of on perm VM servers to Azure cloud.
• Set up and manage azure devops, build pipeline, release pipeline.
• Managing, securing Azure cloud infrastructure and working with the application team for full filling their requirement in cloud.
• Building Virtual Machines, Storage, creating Resource group, High availability and configuring auto scaling in Azure cloud.
• Off loaded application and application databased work load to Azure PaaS.
• Configure and manage the automated backup solution using Data Protector.
• Assesses the current capacity, projected and planned further capacity requirements.
• Migrated Active directory servers, users, groups, OUs to the new domain.
• Migration of DNS, DHCP, file and print servers.
• Built, install configure and Manage Windows 2008R2 servers, Windows 20012R2 Servers, VMware Virtual environment.
• Install, configured and maintain the VMware site recovery manager for disaster recovery.
• Certify the auditable system as per the GxP, SOC 2 guidance.
• Migration of application from self-hosted environment (local server) to the Hosted (managed datacenter)
• Automation of some of the tasks using Power shell and VB scripts.
• Set up two lab environments consist of Jenkins, Exchange server 2016, Exchange server 2010, Perfecto mobile.
• Set up HP load generators, load controllers, Unified functional testing (UFT) servers for testing purpose.
• Manages mobile testing lab including perfecto mobile private cloud.
• Set up and manage the lab environment consist of ESXi host, VMware Virtual machines, Windows 2008R2, 2012R2 servers, Cisco Switches, F5 Firewalls ect.
• Responsible for further design of process improvement for ongoing support, operationalization of implemented solutions, and transition of ongoing tasks to support staff.
• Sound knowledge of working in FDA GxP regulatory environment requirements

Confidential, Palo Alto, California

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Build new 2 VMware 5.5 clusters having 12 nodes for next two quarter expansion.
• Build 3 new ESXi 5.5 Cisco UCS cluster.
• Set up the new datacenter environment as a part of the datacenter consolidation.
• Setting up cloud environments OPCx, VPCx and Hybrid Cloud Computing and their supporting infrastructures.
• Managing vCloud director and Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Upgraded all the vCenter and existing ESXi hosts to 5.5.
• Updated the entire ESXi host with latest security patches using update manager.
• Writing scripts using PowerShell and Python.
• Configure and manage the automated backup solution using HP Data Protector.
• Built Windows, Linux servers and MS SQL Clusters.
• Upgraded the fiber NIC drives of all the Cisco UCS servers.
• Figured out and tagged the missing Vlans to the ESXi hosts to ensure that all the Vlans are existing in all the nodes of the cluster in order to avoid the vMotion isssues.
• Made sure that all the datastores are presented to all the nodes in the cluster in order to avoid the storage vMotion issues.
• Upgraded the RAM and firmware of few of the Dell servers. And replaced the faculty mother board of few ESXi hosts and added back to the cluster.
• Prepared new ESXi server, Windows server, Linux server building run book.
• Prepared the run book for decommissioning of servers.
• System patching, software distribution and inventory management using SCCM.

Confidential, Reston, Virginia

Active Directory Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Trust relationship between two forests.
• Migration of Active directory users, groups, OUs using Quest Migration Manager (QMM).
• Migration of applications, data, database using EMcopy and beyond compare.
• Setting up of vConveter for the migration of servers.
• Migration of large number of servers from the acquired company datacenter to the parent company environment.
• Migration of Windows 2008R2, 2012R2 servers.
• Built PowerShell scripts for the migration tasks.

Confidential, Dover, New Hampshire

Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Managing large globalized virtual environment of VMware vSphere 5.5, 5.1
• Providing L3 operation support Windows Server 2008R2, Windows server 2012R2, Linux, Unix.
• Managing and supporting of AD, DNS, DHCP, MS clusters.
• Creating, modifying, apply Group Policy and checking the effectiveness of the same.
• Implementing low level delegation of access control within Active Directory.
• Creating scripts using PowerShell and Python.
• Troubleshooting Active Directory performance, authentication, and replication issues.
• Security hardening of the systems as per SOC 2 runbook.
• Physical and Virtual server builds.
• Monthly Patching of the Windows Servers using WSUS.
• Quarterly patching of VMware ESXi hosts.
• OS / Patch Release management and maintain configuration of Central Windows / ESXi OS image.
• Resolving the server hardware issues by working with vendors.
• Change, incident and problem management.

Confidential, Frederick, Maryland

Infrastructure Transition Lead

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed and documented the existing VMware vCenter servers, ESXi Servers, Windows Servers, Linux Serves, Storage, Backup, Networking infrastructure.
• Gather information from the client regarding the existing infrastructure and documented the same and transitioned it to the offshore team.
• Implemented some of the industry best practices and fine tuning of the infrastructure.
• Configure and manage the automated backup solution using Data Protector.
• Educating the offshore team about the infrastructure and the support requirements.
• Knowledge transfer (KT) and managing the offshore team and brining the offshore support to steady state.
• Scripting using Powershell and VBscripts to automate the tasks.
• Fine tuning of incident and change management processes and ensuring that the team is following the same.
• Responsible for further design of process improvement for ongoing support, operationalization of implemented solutions, and transition of ongoing tasks.

Confidential, Moline, Illinois

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing and Implementation of large and complex VMware virtual infrastructure.
• Installing configuring and maintaining vCenter server, ESXi server, Designing network configuration, Managing Virtual Machines, Configuring vMotion network, Fault Tolerance, Data Protection, Access control, Resource pools, Monitoring virtual machine performance, alarms.
• Configuring and managing High Availability, vSphere distributed resource scheduler (DRS), Configure and manage virtual storage, VSA Cluster configuration, Load-Balancing, Back up, Access and authentication control, Integrating ESXi with Active Directory (AD), vShield to secure the virtual data center, Resource management and monitoring, Scheduling changes to resource settings, Cluster resource allocation, Configuring vCenter update Manager.
• Up gradation of the existing infrastructure.
• Installing, Configuring and maintaining of ADDS (Active Directory Domain Service), DNS, DHCP, IIS, Terminal Service, Print and file servers.
• Migration of 2003 AD, DNS, DHC servers to 2008R2 and 2012.
• Build servers for production and test environments following strict build procedures.
• Data center management and Server consolidation.
• Deployed Unified Computing System (UCS) Blade chassis with 8 blades each to support the Network Tools Infrastructure and VMware Infrastructure.
• Configuring and maintaining UCS-B, UCS-C, and Nexus 1000.
• End to End patching of hundreds of servers spread across different time zone using Bigfix.
• Inventory management, software distribution, OS deployment using SCCM.
• Securing the distributed environments and helps to comply with regulatory standards on security.
• Setting up and troubleshooting Microsoft failover cluster and NLB cluster for the mission critical application servers. And configuring RAID 5 and Mirrored volume for DCs and other critical servers.
• Decommissioning of Physical and Virtual servers as per the norms.
• Raising the change and implementing the same within the change window.
• Resolving the Incident raised by the operation team with in the SLA time.
• Migration of user profile from thin client to Vista.
• Migration of large numbers of Active directory accounts and data.
• Pre migration validation and audit fixation in SQL DB.
• Post migration issue fixations in Active directory.
• Automation of routine System Administration tasks using VB Script and Microsoft Windows power shell script.
• Installing of various utilities Firmware up-gradation, printer packing and monitoring of servers.
• Providing on call support for the critical issues on rotation basis.

Confidential

System Engineer Windows & VMware

Responsibilities:

• Planning, designing and implementing Windows and VMware infrastructure.
• Effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of Windows Serves, VMware servers, systems hardware and software and related infrastructure.
• Manages AD, DNS, DHCP, IIS and file servers.
• Implementation and up gradation of VMware infrastructure.
• Providing level 3 support for entire Windows and VMware infrastructure.
• Utilized VMware to build networking & server lab environment that streamlined server OS / application deployments, increased system uptime, and improved reliability.
• Making sure storage and networking infrastructure met virtual infrastructure specifications.
• Responsible for support for all server related issues.
• System builds, upgrades, migrations, code deployments and patch management.
• Data Center Management, Capacity planning and management.
• Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
• Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.
• End to End patching of MS servers.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Windows 2000 Servers, 2K3 Servers.
• Installing and configuring ESX, ESXi hosts.
• Building and maintaining VMware Virtual Machines.
• L3 support of production issues and resolving the same with in the SLA time frame.
• Raising and implementing changes as per the change management process.
• Creation and maintenance of Active directory users, groups, OU and delegating assess to concern department administrator.
• Configuring and troubleshooting issues related to network printers
• Remote server/system administration.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting web servers.
• Monitoring server health and resolving issues related to hardware of HP, Confidential, Dell server by working with vendors.
• Patch management of servers.
• Generating various reports from AD and sending it to various management teams for auditing purpose.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Windows NT, Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers.
• Responsible for deploying, managing, and maintaining HP ProLiant BL-series C-class blade servers and DL-series servers.
• Configuring HP Blade and track mount servers.
• Configuring and maintaining of Cisco Routers, Switches, Firewall, storage mediums, PCs and other components.
• Installing various software utilities on servers and workstations.
• Database administration of SQL servers.
• First level trouble shooting of the IT infrastructure Hardware devices.