SUMMARY:

• Over all 17+ years of IT experience and 3+ years of experience in planning, designing, implementing and maintaining system applications in AWS Cloud in VMware Windows and Linux environments. Consulting Experience.
• Experience working in Agile Scrum Software Development Life Cycle with respect to delivering operations, Functional and Technical Specifications, Resource Planning, Development, Testing and Maintenance.
• Experience in maintenance and configuration of user accounts for Dev, QA, Production servers.
• Experience in migrating and implementation of multiple applications from on premise to cloud using AWS services like SMS, DBMS, Cloud Formation, S3, Route53 Glacier, EC2, RDS, SQS, SNS, Lambda, and VPC. Experience in installation, configuration, and administration of VMware ESXi 3.5/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5 , vSphere 4.0/4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5 products.
• Extensive knowledge and experience on EMC products VPLEX, VNX/ VMAX related software like Recover Point SRM/VNX Replicator/Mirror View, VMware/Storage Infra Project Management.
• Build and configure a virtual data center in the Amazon Web Services cloud to support Enterprise Data Warehouse hosting including Virtual Private Cloud(VPC), Public and Private Subnets, Security Groups, Route Tables, Elastic Load Balancer. Build servers using AWS, importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto - scaling, load balancers(ELBs), in the defined virtual private connection.
• The configuration of Continuous Integration(CI) and CodePipeline and Code Deploy for automation.
• Good Experience in creating and editing Shell, Bash, Python Scripts for automation. Good Analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to work with in a team environment and independently.

SKILLS:

Automation, backup, Bash, C, CD, Good Communication, Client, Data Analysis, Data Validation, Data Warehouse, database, DBMS, Delivery Disaster Recovery, Documentation, eclipse, editing, Functional. Java, linux access, migration, monitors, MySQL, Enterprise, Oracle, PL/SQL, policies, problem solving skills, processes, Prototyping, Python, QA, RDBMS, reporting, requirement, scaling, servers, Shell, Scripts, Shell Scripts, SMS, Software development, MS SQL Server, MS SQL, SQL Strategy, Tables, Technical Support, T-SQL, type, upgrade, Validation, Vision, Web applications, Workflow, EC2, ECS Auto scaling, ELB, Route53, RDS, multi-AZ deployments, Docker

Release and deployment automation using CodePipeline, CodeBuild Log ingestion using Cloudwatch agents, logstash to cloudwatch and elastic search. Automating AWS deployment and configuration tasks using Lambda.

VPC, Subnets and associated assets Cloud Front for website distribution, Custom Postgres installation on EC2, making AMIs, managing snapshots of data IAM for instance roles as well as for team member access

CloudFormation for managing infrastructure changes

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

AWS Solution Architect

Confidential - Denver, Colorado

Responsibilities:

• Lead role in bringing in AWS specific expertise to a team of architects who are familiar with legacy infrastructure using VMWare.
• My role is to evaluate individual workloads to recommend the best migration path. Secondly, Mentoring the junior resources on AWS via presentations, POCs and documentation.
• Migrating the main corporate website with Sitecore CMS to AWS with autoscaling, active-active failover, remote DR, elastic search log ingestion, metrics monitoring and CDN. Design a security & access control structure for on IAM for on-premise and in-cloud use Promote Infrastructure as Code and automation of AWS infrastructure
• Participate in Application re-architecture to use cloud native features such as S3 based web content, autoscaling groups, re-sizing and scheduling of instances.
• Create POCs and reference architectures for developers to adopt. Evaluate ad hoc application architecture requests to use AWS tools and processes Automate operations processes using Lambda, Cloudwatch Events, Schedules

Environment: AWS, VMWare, Windows.

Confidential

Senior VMware& Wintel Engineer

Responsibilities:

• VMware and Windows Servers Support
• Providing L3 and L4 level support for around 2000 servers.
• Troubleshooting OS performance issues.
• Migration Experience.
• Experience in installing and configuring.
• Administration of Active Directory. Managing Active Directory issues.
• Designed Active Directory.

Confidential, TX

Technical Services Specialist Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Providing L3 and L4 level support for around 2000 servers running Windows Server 2003/2008 Operating systems. (IBM X series, Blade servers etc.)
• Troubleshooting OS performance issues, memory leaks, handle leaks, OS crashes, missing/corrupt file issues and boot failures. migration Windows servers 2000, 2003/2008
• Experience in installing and configuring the Windows server update services (WSUS).
• Administration of Active Directory in Windows 2000/2003/2008 environment. Managing Active Directory issues such as: Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Network Connectivity, DNS and WINS Name Resolution, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions etc.
• Migrated and thoroughly documented the procedures to migrate from various environments to the latest version of Active Directory, Exchange, and Windows.
• Designed Active Directory
• Provided guidance and impact analysis of design changes
• Implemented DHCP, DNS and WINS.
• Trouble shooting and coordinating Hardware issues and raising hardware calls with Vendors.
• Installing, Managing and Monitoring Active Directory and DNS Servers.
• Supporting on multi forest environment, Performing driver and firmware updates for all devices.
• Configuring RSA and other remote access devices.
• Install, configure, and upgrade Microsoft Windows server operating systems and applications
• Windows Server administration (NT, 2000, 2003, 2008) and Problem troubleshooting
• Trouble shooting on TSM backup issues and Tivoli Monitoring services.
• Good Knowledge on Scripting with Windows PowerShell, VB Scripting.
• Good Knowledge on shell scripting, VB Scripting (Remote data pulling, software tools install, etc.)
• Experience Microsoft SQL Server 2008 administration
• Installing and Managing VMware ESX Server 3.5/4.0/5.0 and V-Sphere 4.0/5.0
• Apply patches using VMware vCenter Update Manager and host update utility.
• Creating VM’s using templates, ISO images.
• Design, install, configure VMware ESX, ESXi, within vSphere 4 and 5 environments with VirtualCenter management, LabManager, Consolidated Backup, DRS, HA, DPM, vMotion and VMware Data Recovery, VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM). Experience with VMware View desktop virtualization (VDI).
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) and Virtual-to-Physical (V2P) migration VMware Platespin p2v migration of Windows 2003, & 2008, 2008R2 as well as Linux servers from VMware, Hyper-V and legacy hardware.
• Vcenter Upgrades Setting up VMware VMotion Migrations.
• Raising VMware support calls for critical errors (PSOD/unknown errors).
• Planning and Installing VMware ESX/ESXi Server installation.
• Installing ESX servers & virtual center. Adding the ESX to the VC/ Virtual machines to an ESX sever / P2V to an ESX server, Citrix Support projects
• Symantec end point protection upgrade from 10.x to 11.x for 800 servers.
• Tivoli Monitoring services tool upgraded from 5.x to 6.x on 800 servers.
• TSM upgraded from 5.x to 6.x on 1000 servers.
• Domain Controller up gradation from 2003 to 2008
• Active Directory transition (Remotely)

Confidential - Houston, TX

Senior VMware & Windows Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• VMware and windows servers and Linux servers support.