Infrastructure Engineer Resume
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SUMMARY
- Over 8 Years of Professional Experience on Windows administration, Windows 10, Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016 versions.
- Designed and Implemented virtualization solutions based on VMware vSphere ESXi 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1 , ESX 4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 platform, vCenter 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.0/2.5 and Vblock 100/200/300/700 series
- 4+ years of technical experience building and maintaining VMware, vSphere, Horizon View & vCenter environments working with VMware ESX/ESXi technologies using versions 4.5, 5.x, or 6.x
- Hands on experience in installation, configuring and troubleshooting DNS and DHCP servers.
- Troubleshot Azure services synchronization with on premise AD and resynchronized using the Azure tools. Windows 7, Office 365 and Windows 10 deployment, troubleshooting, installation, ghosting and back - ups.
- Setup and configured SCCM Operating System Deployment (OSD) for Windows XP, 7 and Windows 10.
- Windows 10 Deployment on user’s computer by using SCCM 2016.
- Experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View Composer and View Connection Manager to make Virtual Desktop Infrastructure efficient and to simplify desktop administrative management tasks.Responsible for successfully upgrading all hosts and vCenter servers to vSphere 4.1
- Expertise in Active Directory Setup and troubleshooting for any deleted objects, AD Recycle Bin, and Remote Desktop Services(RDS)
- Hands on experience in Data Center Migration
- Technical knowledge of current network hardware, protocols, and Internet standards, including TCP/IP, and DNS, WINS, DHCP, IIS, FTP, Terminal Services/Remote Desktop.
- Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
- Assisting in maintaining VDI master images and installing client applications
- Successfully launched VMware Horizon View Related Applications like RDSH, Desktop pool, Application Pool, ThinApp, AppVolume, Workspace etc.
- Install and configure SRM and Zerto Site replication.
- Installed and configured instances of VMware's vRealize Configuration Manager (VCM
- Created, managed, and maintained VMware ThinApp, vROps, vRA, vRO, Cisco UCS, vRealize, VMWare AppVolume, VMWare vRealize, RDSH repositories/farms.
- Experience achieving fault tolerance by creating different types of storage volumes like striped, spanned,mirrored, RAID-1, RAID-0, RAID 10, RAID 5.
- Enterprise datacenter security compliance, VMware virtual infrastructure security. AD Security.
- Experience in handling back up jobs and recovery in case of data loss and maintaining snapshots.
- Experience in handling P2V and V2V migrations using VMware convertor in a large environment.
- Created new Service Profile templates, Red Hat,SAN&LAN pools on Cisco UCS using Cisco UCSM
- Deployed new service profiles from the template and independently on Cisco UCS using UCSM
- Knowledgeable in Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager 2007 and 2012 (SCCM)
- Automate daily task in managing SCCM servers including generating reports and monitoring of SCCM infrastructure health.
- TroPerform daily VDI administration, maintenance and upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations. ubleshooting OS related issues on VMs using Hyper-V manager console on windows2008.
- Experience in managing and administering Linux servers in a large-scale IT infrastructure.
- Experience in PowerShell scripting for automation of repeatable work.
- Experience in building automation tools and internal inventory site using Python.
- Strong understanding and experience of storage systems (NetApp and EMC).
- Experience on automation tools (Ansible, Saltstack)
- Knowledge of storage concepts such as ISCSI SAN, NAS, NFS.
- Knowledge of Networking concepts i.e. TCP/IP, VPN, VLANs and routing.
- VMware’s vROPS administration/installation experience.
- Experience with system monitoring tools such as EPIC’s System Pulse, Splunk and Dynatrace.
- Knowledge on AWS Elasticsearch
- Administrating, creating and modifying DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation
- Installing different types of roles and services as required in the environment like SCCM, SCOM, VROpS, GPO etc.
- Installed and configured IIS including administering SSL certificates like renewing and deploying SSL Certificates.
- Experience administering users and groups and their access in Office 365.
- Collaborated with the application team, backup, storage and database teams for planning and implementing any change/activity as per the ITIL framework
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Virtualization Technologies: vRealize Operations Manager6.0/6.5, VMware vSphere 6.0/5.5/5.1, vCenter,6.0/5.5 ESX/ ESXi 5/5.1/5.5,6.0 vCenter Update Manager 6.0, vSphere Client, VMware VMotion and Storage VMotion, vROps, vRA, vRO, Citrix,VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler, VMware High Availability, Red Hat,VMware Fault Tolerance, VMware Consolidated Backup and Veeam Backup and Replication.
Operating Systems: Windows 10, Windows Server 2012/2012 R2/2008/2008 R2/2003, Windows 8/7/XP
Methodologies: ITIL v3 framework
Cloud Technologies: AWS, Office 365, Microsoft Azure
Applications/Middleware: SharePoint 2010, Tivoli (TSM), Microsoft Office, Plate Spin
Networking: Firewall, proxy servers, DMZ servers, DNS, and DVS switching, Dell DRAC, TCP/IP, UDP - Cisco WebEx, DNS, DHCP, NLB & Failover clusters
File Servers: DFS, FTP, Windows SharePoint Services
Web Servers: Internet Information Services 6.0/7.0/7.5/8.0
Mail Servers: Microsoft Exchange 2003/2007/2010/2013 & MS Outlook
Active Directory: Design, Installation, Configuration & Troubleshooting. DC Migrations, Deploying & Troubleshooting GPOs. AD Certificate Services, Active Directory Federation Services, Active Directory Rights Management Services
Server/Storage Hardware: HP blades C7000, HP Proliant G6/G7, Dell Power Edge Servers, Cisco UCS
Scripting: PowerShell, VB Scripting
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Florida
Infrastructure Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Build and troubleshoot customer and development environments that contained company software suite. Utilizing VM Ware infrastructure and primarily managing Microsoft Web Services and SQL environments
- Worked on vSphere (ESXi 6.0, VCSA 6.0). Installation,Citrix, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 6.5, 6.0, 5.5, ESXi upgrades 5.5 to 6.0, VCenter upgrades 5.1, 5.5 to 6.0. Optimization of vSphere, Storage environments.
- Configured and managed View 5 Desktop Virtualization (VDI).
- Created the Windows 10 Enterprise Master Task Sequence with all of the base applications, COACH applications, runtimes and customizations. management of complex, large-scale, heterogeneous, enterprise data centers
- Deploying Windows 7, Windows 10 on user computers.
- Used VxRail provides the fastest and simplest path to transform operations and modernize data center infrastructure. VxRail is the single HCI platform for every VMware workload and use case, including VDI, compute dense applications, and for hosting traditional and cloud native applications on a true hybrid cloud infrastructure.
- Experience VxRail HCI System Software, the first and only HCI operating system jointly engineered with VMware, drives operational efficiencies with full stack integrity and automated end-to-end lifecycle management and AI based predictive analytics.
- VxRail arrives on-site pre-configured and pre-tested by Dell EMC, in the deployment option of your choosing. Ranging from appliance to integrated rack offerings, with or without networking included, you are empowered to choose the VxRail solution that best fits your needs.
- Designed and implemented DFS-R for MDT 2012 U2 deployment shares across the US and other countries.
- Building packages for latest Microsoft OS like Windows 10 on different versions.
- Installed and configured MDT 2012 U2 with BUILD and DEPLOY deployment shares for Windows 10.
- Setup a local instance of Hyper-V to create the Windows 10 GOLD image.
- Created a task sequence in MDT 2013 U2 to capture the gold image within the Hyper-V VM.
- Created a task sequence to install the Windows 10 Enterprise OEM image (Install.WIM) which included steps to install all of the current updates with a pause to check that all updates were installed.
- Captured the Windows 10 Enterprise GOLD image from the VM inside the local Hyper-V instance using the MDT U2 capture task sequence.
- Planning for windows 10 migration by testing images for dell desktop workstation-laptops and thin clients for V
- Develop, document and implement Engineering and Operational strategy for the Storage infrastructure.
- Maintained security upgrades for installed software.
- Responsible for managing users Microsoft Outlook and Active Directory Accounts.
- Installed and configured networks, router, TCP/IP, and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN
- Providing Comprehensive documentation for system builds.
- Authored Phyton and PowerCLI scripts to automate the build of VxRack FLEX or VxRail virtual lab environments. Streamlined the process of installing and configuring VMware vSphere, NSX, vSAN, vRealize
- I worked as a SME (Subject Matter Expert) for Windows servers and good Knowledge and work experience with VMWare NSX and vRealize Operations Manager.
- Used VxBlock Systems provide a wide range of solutions to meet your requirements for size, performance, and scalability. VxBlock Systems are built with industry-leading compute and networking from Cisco, storage from Dell EMC, and virtualization technologies from VMware.
- Used VxBlock Systems are pre-integrated and pre-configured, then tested and validated before shipping. Seamless integration allows you to operate and manage your system as a single product, rather than as individual, siloed components. The end result is significant time and resource savings throughout the systems life cycle.
- Used VxBlock Systems are one of the fastest and easiest ways to modernize a data center with all-flash storage. All-flash VxBlock Systems are ideal for mixed-workload consolidation, applications that require extreme performance and scale, and mission-critical applications.
- Used VxBlock Systems are engineered to ensure the highest levels of security and are built to simplify complicated compliance requirements. All components and software are tested and validated to help eliminate security vulnerabilities and to enhance performance and integrity.
- Proficiency in managing vSphere environments including Installations and upgrades of ESXI, vSphere standard switch, distributed switch, Distributed resource scheduler (DRS) storage DRS, High availability and Fault tolerance, Update manager, patch management, virtual storage, Host profiles etc.
- Advanced troubleshooting and Performance analysis of all aspects of virtualized environments.
- Worked in closely with R&D team.
- Tested different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VMs.
- Working on vSAN and Supporting and Maintain vCenter Server Appliance, vRealize Operations Manager (vROps), vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), vRealize Business, ESXi and Update Manager.
- Create custom report to measure performance of VM's and ESX servers using Virtual Centre and vROps.
- Planning, designing and developing Infrastructure related Automation Solutions using vRealize Workflows.
- Provide configuration, implementation, and troubleshooting support for the Compute Infrastructure (Fabric Interconnect, UCS Blade Server Chassis, UCS I/O Module, and UCS Blade Server), Storage Infrastructure and VMware to ensure they perform as expected steady-state and correct any failure conditions.
- Power Shell scripting and automation of routine tasks
- Used VxRack FLEX that it is a rack-scale HCI system can scale compute and storage as almost completely independent variables.
- Used VxRack that the compute, storage, network resources can be applied and redirected without being bound by the natural “boundaries” of any given stack (cluster boundaries for example).
- FLEXIBILITY and SIMPLICITY are design centers that pull product teams and offers in opposite directions (and if you think otherwise, there’s a bridge in Brooklyn that someone wants to sell you)
- Hand on Experience in good design, and good software/automation can make any given offer simpler (or if you do it wrong, more complex) - but as a general principle, you gain simplicity as you start to “pin down” independent variables and assign fixed values - reducing optionality, but increasing system level integration and simplicity.
- We Used VxRack FLEX is always going to require more expertise than an HCI rack-scale system that “pins down” the core abstraction/virtualization layer to always being vSphere for example (like VxRail, VxRack SDDC).
- Deploy and manage VMware horizon view on CISCO UCS for deployment and failover clustered Hyper-V environments
- Experienced in vROps administration and performance monitoring analysis.
- Worked on compute blades HPGen9 DL360, Lenovo RD530 server, cisco blade servers.
- Experienced in vCenter backup and restore and switch backup and restore using Power CLI
- Worked on networking components such as VSP4K and VSP7K
- Installed and configured VMware VSphere Update manager and updated the patches for ESXi servers using VUM in vCenter.
Environment: Windows 10,VMware vSphere 4.1/5.1/5.5/6.1/6.5 Appliance, Red Hat,Citrix, ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.0/5.0/6.0 , VMware vCenter 5.5/6.0, Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2012, UCS, Active
Confidential - Cleveland, Ohio
Vmware Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Installation and configuration of VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5 on a Dell 2950 Power Edge M1000, VMware Infrastructure Client, VMware Virtual Center, License Server and VCB Setup.
- Responsible for monitoring and maintaining Windows and Citrix Servers which includes 10,000 user base and more than 100 plus applications.
- Responsible for LAN/WAN network communications, operations, hardware and application software for intensive segment of Rackspace's customers
- The configuration of Backup and Restore of NSX Manager and Data.
- Administer Microsoft Windows Servers (Active Directory), Microsoft Workstations, and network security devices for 350 users.
- Migrated to Windows 2003 Server/Exchange 2003 Server with Blackberry Integration Services, Windows Server Updates Services (WSUS), and Microsoft Operations Manager.
- Documenting Application Installation, known issues which occur regularly.
- Creation and management of Virtual Machines, Installing VMware tools, creating templates, cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates.
- Deploying View Connection server in Replica mode for High Availability and Load Balancing.
- Planning, implementing and managing Microsoft Exchange Server 2003.
- Involved with core Data Center technologies that revolve around the Cisco and NetApp converged reference architecture called FlexPod.
- Responsible to working in Puppet, Oracle,, Hyper-V, Apache, udev, MPIO,Chef,SAN Storage.
- Configured vShield & VMware NSX for network segmentation and host based Anti-Virus solutions.
- Assisted in planning and developing complex networks for telecommunications systems
- Was part of team responsible for developing clustering products
- Studied customer requirements and analyzed design solutions against the EMC guidelines
- Administration of Cisco FlexPod Solution, which includes a Cisco UCS and a NetApp Unified Storage Solution.
- Determined root cause and recommended appropriate counter measures for product improvement
- Performed EMC design, analysis, and testing support
- Provide configuration, implementation, and troubleshooting support for the Compute Infrastructure (Fabric Interconnect, UCS Blade Server Chassis, Red Hat,UCS I/O Module, and UCS Blade Server), Storage Infrastructure and VMware to ensure they perform as expected steady-state and correct any failure conditions.
- Worked on building, configuring and maintaining the solutions utilizing VMware, Automation and VMware NSX.
- Resource Management- Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for VMotion- migrations between ESX Servers.
- Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.
Environment: VMware vSphere 4.1/5.1, ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.0/5.0, Puppet, Oracle, Hyper-V, Apache, udev, MPIO, Citrix, Red Hat,VMware vCenter, VMware Standalone Convertor, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008 , ADFS, CISCO blade servers, Remote Desktop Services,, Microsoft Visual Studio TFS.
Confidential
Windows Administrator (VMware/ Linux)
Responsibilities:
- Installed of latest versions of Operating Systems on demand, per requirements of the clients.
- Sorted complex issues pertaining to hardware and network failure - Monitored both Hardware and Software systems for errors and updated them regularly to maintain proper functioning and flow of information.
- Responsible for Administration of Active Directory and delegating control / permissions.
- Extensively worked in Windows Active Directory to create users & groups.
- Documented step-by-step process used when profiling using Application Profiler.
- Installation of vCenter5.1 Single Sign on Server (sso), Inventory Services and vCenter5.1
- Installation and deployment of UCS Firmware upgrades which includes Fabric interconnects, I&O Modules and blade upgrades 2.1.x to 2.2.5b.
- Huge P2V Experience using VMware converter running different applications with Different Hardware.
- Installing, Configuring, Managing v Cloud director5 in the Internal Cloud Deployment Project.
- Migration and P2V conversion Experience on many applications like SQL Server, Exchange running on Windows and some applications running on Linux Red hat and SUSE and VM kernel Linux appliances.
- Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, SV-Motion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Templates, and many more…
- Building Windows 2008 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines.
- Installing and configuring the VMware VSphere and creating clusters for High Availability (HA) and Dynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS).
- Participate in root-cause analysis meetings, gathering lessons learned, analyzing data, and developing solutions to improve performance and quality.
Environment: Windows Server 2008/2008 R2/2012, UCS, Active directory, vMotion, SV-Motion, vCenter, vSphere