SUMMARY:

• Has 17 + years of professional experience in Data Center Migration, Solution Design, Cloud Computing with UNIX System Administration in domestic and international in IT and Telecom industry with extensive knowledge of Planning, Designing, Automate, Transition and Deliver Managed Services for existing Data Centers across global.
• More than 9 + years of experience Manage cross - functional internal infrastructure projects like new datacenter builds and decommissions in a matrix organization. Work with cross-organizational and functional stakeholders to develop and evolve long-term strategies while driving tactical activities.
• Develop and manage end-to-end project lifecycle and ensure on-time delivery of projects.
• Partner with functional teams during initiation, plan, design, procurement, deployment, and post deployment phases. Ensure risks are accounted for and provide risk mitigation strategies.
• Drive Architecture and design discussions where required.
• Proven ability to be a strong professional with the sound knowledge of the new technologies and advance applications

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud: AWS, S3 (Cloud Storage), EC2, Load Balancer, Docker, Ansible, GitLab

Virtualization: VMware, vSphere, Vagrant

Security Tools: DLP, NessusOperating Systems AIX 5.1 - 5.10, SUN-Solaris 8/9/10, Linux (RHEL 4/5/6), Ubuntu 14.04

HW / Platforms: IBM e-series, IBM P Series, Compaq Prosigma, Net infinity Servers 5100 & 5500

Server Applications: Citrix, BMC Remedy, Lotus Domino, VERITAS Backup Software, IISMS Proxy, MS ISA, Terminal Services, Terminal Server, Oracle, Exchange 2000, HP OVO, TeMIP

Cluster Solution: VERITAS Cluster Server 5.0 for High availability.

Network: NFS, DNS, NIS, ARP, TCP/ IP, FTP, SSL, SMTP, SNMP, LDAP, NTP.

Application & Tools: VERITAS volume manager, Solstice Disk suite/SVM/LVM, BladeLogic

Storage: EMC Clariion, EMC VMAX, Powerpath and SRDF.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

AWS Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Participate or lead discussion on how to increase the reliability of IT systems and improve process
• Working with all areas of IT and interfaces with the corporate business groups
• Participating in strategy and planning discussions to drive alignment with the missions and values for IT Infrastructure
• Managing projects intake demand from business for IT services and support
• Project planning including engagement with business stakeholders, requirements gathering, scoping and high-level infrastructure design, setting and managing customer expectations on cost and delivery timelines.
• Handle the current On-Prem environment
• Include installation of ESX Servers, vSphere Client and Vcenter Server
• Monitor Events and Tasks and take appropriate actions
• Monitor storage latency to ensure that there isn’t too much delay for your ESXi hosts to access their storage where virtual machines and virtual machine swap files are located.
• Deploy Virtual Machines and use Clones, Snapshots, templates
• Build system on AWS and ESX environments with Linux Operation System
• Handling couple of applications migration using Docker, Nexcus and Jenkins using EC2 Container Service
• Primarily building Linux based systems in the AWS (Amazon Web Services) and on Premise EXS systems
• Staying familiar with new technologies and products and looking for way to leverage these for improving efficiency, reducing IT spending and increasing productivity
• Evaluating new technologies and provide recommendations to management including planning and executions of POC activities
• Architected and implemented the automation and cloud management tools for Juniper
• The solution built using AWS, github, SoftNAS, EC2, S3, Load Balancer, Docker on EC2 container Service.
• 100’s Applications successfully migrated in first 7 months resulting in significant monthly cost savings.
• Self Service cloud catalog made available to Application development owners
• Currently have a catalog of 70+ additional apps to be migrated to the cloud.
• Implementation of AWS within in large regulated enterprise environment
• Evaluation of Data Center strategy
• Assist in developing & maintaining technical training content, lab exercises, presentations, and accompanying materials

Confidential

Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Strategy, Architecture, Operations and Transformation experience around building a scaled products, including the issue of elastic scaling and automated application deployment, as well as architectural design and implementation experience with BMC CLM
• Acted as consultative lead in process and requirements analysis and application configuration
• Tracked progress of deliverables and interface with customer towards implementing services on schedule and on budget
• Recognize issues and risks and proactively document and manage/resolve those with the customer and VVL Systems project managers and sponsors
• Maintain effective working relationships with assigned customers and VVL Systems Project Management team.
• Incorporate and drive best practices into the product and methodology.
• Contributed in developing the knowledge and familiarity of server virtualization, network architecture, and cloud technologies.

Confidential

Cloud Architect

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize, Planning, Designing, Automate, Transition for existing Data Centers across global.
• Builds high quality solutions that meet client requirements and can be delivered profitably. Plan and gather information in order to define system objectives.
• Coordinating/Collaborating/discussing with customer and other teams for requirement gathering.
• Infrastructure provisioning and automation through scripts.
• Designing and architecting solution that includes backup/DR strategies, security, monitoring and patching solutions as well.
• Delivering the service as per the agreed contract deliverables with a higher degree of customer satisfaction.
• Ensure best practices and continuous service improvements are driven.