SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of experience in IT Industry as a Systems Engineer specialized in VMware Virtualization /Windows/Linux/Cloud Administration/Build/DevOps/Vulnerability remediation.
• Hands on experience in VMware vSphere Suite, vCloud Suite and vRealize Suite & physical to virtual machine (P2V) conversions and virtual to virtual machine (V2V) conversions as well as conversions between different virtual machine formats using VMware Converter.
• Experience in managing multiple Windows systems with Microsoft SCCM 2012/2016, Shavlik (Ivanti), Bigfix, Puppet providing patch management, Server hardening, remote control, software distribution and OS deployment.
• Experience with Managing Windows 10 Desktop, Windows 2008/2012R2/2016/2019 & RHEL Linux Servers.
• Administration experience in Git Hub and SVN configuration tools.
• Experience in AWS and AZURE Cloud Technologies.
• Experience using Rapid7, Nexpose, Rapid7 InsightDR, Nessus, Tenable Cloud for providing Cyber security Compliance Control from Outside Threats & Vulnerabilities affecting to Endpoints & assets.
• Demonstrate strong understanding of large - scale information technology systems, business processes, security regulatory risk management and security vulnerabilities following CVSS, PCI, CIS Security guidelines.
• Experience with PowerShell scripting, bash scripting.
• Experience in Bigfix, DevOps configuration tool (Puppet, Ansible, and Python) and VROPS.
• Well experienced in provisioning virtual machines in a fly from Templates, Clones, creating Snapshots and managing user Roles and Permissions.
• In-depth knowledge ofMDT\SCCM2012,Shavlik (Ivanti) client installation on Windows 10 devices, Windows 2012,2016 & 2019 Servers, PowerShell scripting, software distribution, remote control, and other MDT\SCCM2012 issues.
• Hands-On experience in Implement, Build and Deployment of CI/CD pipelines, managing projects often includes tracking multiple deployments across multiple pipeline stages (Dev, Test/QA staging and production).
• Strong experience in networking concepts such as vSwitches, VMkernel ports, VM ports and Service console, traffic shaping, NIC teaming, load balancing & failover detection.
• Good knowledge of storage concepts related to iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, 3PAR, Nimble NetApp, storages.
• Experience in patch management and upgrading ESX hosts using VMware vSphere Update Manager and VMware Host Update Utility.
• Good understanding of various methods to back-up virtual machines as well as DR strategies utilizing Site Recovery Manager 5.0 (SRM) & Data protection manager (DPM).
• Experience with managing AWS resources, and deploying resources using automation.
• Experience in On-Prem to Azure migration, Azure AD and IAM.
• Hands on experience in System administration and troubleshooting in Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2/2012R2/ 2016 servers, Active Directory services, LDAP services, IIS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, RDP, Windows failover clustering, Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Clustering Services.
• Architect VMware/ visualization of Active Directory in Windows 2003/2008/2012 R2 Enterprise 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.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Scripting Languages: C#, PowerShell, Python, Pearl

Virtual Environment: Vmware, AWS, AZURE

Technologies: Active Directory Design, Active Directory Replication, AD Maintenance and Troubleshooting, Azure AD, GPO, Group Policy Design and Structuring, Group Policy, Troubleshooting, DNS Server Management Zone, DNS Server Troubleshooting, DHCP Server Design and Maintenance, PKI and Certificate Server.

System Configuration Management: Ansible, Desired State Configuration

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019, RHEL 6/7, Centos 7

Other tools: Visual Studio 2012/2016, SSMS, IIS, Redhat Satellite 6.2/6.5, Cisco UCS, CWOM, Avamar backup tool, vSphere client,F5 BIG IP, UltraDNS, Shavlik, Ivanti Endpoint Manager, SCCM 2012

Applications: MS Exchange Server 2016,2013,2010, SharePoint 2016,2010, 2013, IIS, Lync, SQL, Tomcat Apache, IIS, Puppet, SCCM, Bigfix, SCOM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bowie, MD

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Supporting Windows & Linux Server Data center operations, On-Prem migration to AWS & Azure Cloud, Vulnerability remediation & DevOps operation using SVN, Jenkins, Ansible.
• Administering Active Directory, DNS, GPO, DHCP and deployed Windows 8 & Windows 10 machines, Windows 2008, 2008R2, 2012/2012R2, 2016 physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Migration of Windows 2003/2008/2012 and Linux servers to VMware from Hyper-V.
• Building and Working with Amazon EC2 instances, creating the security groups on the instance level and using Cloud Watch on EC2 instances.
• Experienced in Automating, Configuring and deploying instances onAWS, Azure environments and Data centers, also familiar withEC2,Cloud watch,Cloud Formationand managing security groups onAWS.
• WroteAnsibleplaybooks to launchAWSinstances and usedAnsibleto manage web applications, configuration files, used mount points and packages.
• In depth Knowledge ofAWScloud service likeCompute, Network, StorageandIdentity & access management.
• Migrated Data from physical data center to AWS. Participated in designing, build, and deployment of multiple applications using AWS stack (EC2, S3, EMR, IAM) focusing on high availability as a part of POC.
• Building and Working with Amazon EC2 instances using Ansible & Cloud Formation, creating the security groups on the instance level and using Cloud Watch on EC2 instances.
• Installed and configured Azure AD, AD Connect, ADFS and ADFS Proxy component, GPO implementation for app security compliance, setup ADFS for SSO to support various types of authentication protocols.
• Hands on Experience in deploying patches, agents through SCCM 2016.
• Experience using puppet for automation of Server baseline compliance for Server hardening following CIS guidelines.
• Experience with scheduling automated Security configurations, new deployments using Ansible, Puppet on Windows Servers.
• Migrated Data from physical data center to AWS. Participated in designing, build, and deployment of multiple applications using Ansible, Cloud formation, Terraform (EC2, S3, EMR, IAM) focusing on high availability as a part of POC.
• Used VB, Bash & PowerShell Script for creating Custom Actions and Implemented automated procedures for deployment of applications via SCCM.
• Managing packages, collections, and assignments in the SCCM console using PowerShell Scripts for Windows 10 & Windows Servers 2008/2012/2016.
• Experienced on creating Azure VM, Cloud Services and Storages by using Azure Power-Shell Script. Convert multiple onsite Data Centers to Virtual Infrastructure using Microsoft Hyper-V reducing physical server footprint, while improving management, efficiency and performance.
• Managing System Center Data Protection Manager for backups & Data Recovery.
• Configuring and supporting windows operating system roles Active directory domain services (ADDS), GPO, Active directory certification services (ADCS-PKI), DNS, Hyper-V IIS, Print and WSUS as needed besides monitoring, patching, backup, controlled access management and configuration management database.
• Exchange/Office 365 support, maintenance, and administration, account provisioning, migration from Exchange to office 365, distribution list group creation and checking security compliance.
• Configuring the Windows clustering and SQL clustering in the VMware environment.
• Managed Group Policy Objects (GPOs) throughout the Active Directory (AD) enterprise.
• Created and Managed Virtual Machines in Windows Azure and setting up communication with the help of endpoints.
• Experience in installing and configuring Windows Failover Clustering services.
• Knowledge in syncing On-premises Windows Server Active Directory to Azure AD (AAD) using Azure AD connect.
• Worked directly with Azure Product team in tracking and resolution defects in the Azure IAAS offering.
• Replicated VMware VMs or Physical Servers to Azure portal.
• Replicated machines to resource Manager Storage accounts using Azure portals.
• Analyzing the SCCM log files, provided patch management support and maintenance windows operations.
• Installing and Configuring VMware vSphere 6.0, ESXi 5.5/6.0/6.5 on HP ProLiant G7/G8/G9 Rack/Bladeservers, Cisco Rack/UCS chassis, DELL & Super micro hardware.
• Implemented Ivanti EPM on premises for monthly patching, software deployments to end point
• Using the SCCM and Shavlik (Ivanti) console to provide Endpoint protection support to the client machines.
• Creating SCCM & Shavlik (Ivanti) management reports as required to support daily operations and staff tasks on the state of the information technology enterprise
• Experience using Nessus, Tenable, Tenable Cloud for Vulnerability remediation to maintain CIS Compliance.
• Setting up and adding Servers in Solar winds & SCOM for monitor.
• Configured vMotion, Storage vMotion, vSwitch and vLANs in vCenter, allocating LUNs for ESXi hosts.
• Implementation of Server 2016 Hyper-V high-availability, shared-nothing live migrations and software defined networking.
• Helped in migrating of Files hare server from On-Prem to Cloud & also helped in setting DFS environment.
• Providing timely tier-III support and resolved tickets related to hardware, software, printer servers and Server builds.
• Identifying and solving various technical issues using variety of diagnostic and monitoring tools.
• Implemented OKTA SSO in the environment.
• Configured different applications and also provisioned clients into OKTA to use our in house applications.
• Installed and configured Avamar backup agents according to specific settings for security and streamlined data flow.
• Performing daily health checks, verifying the availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.
• Automating, Configuring and Deploying VM instances (using conventional storage account and manageddisks) through Azure portal, ARM templates and deploying on Premises VM’s using PowerCLI.
• Configuring VIPs in F5 BIG IP, SSL cert configuration and Managing DFS (Distributed Files system) Services.

Confidential, Westminster, CO

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administrating production server's/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, File and print Servers, ADS, DNS, DHCP, and other Application Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2012.
• Performed system monitoring with vSphere, Hyper-V(Windows), SCOM, Open view and App Dynamics.
• Migrated about 1800 servers from P2V, V2V in both VMware and Hyper-V environments using Plate Spin and VMware convertor.
• Migration of Windows 2003/2008/2012 and Linux servers to VMware from Hyper-V.
• Increased the efficiency in development and test activities with the help of the Hyper-V.
• Patched all the systems using SCCM 2012, Designed & implemented SCCM 2012, SQL queries and reports for SCCM, SCCM application packaging and testing.
• Experience in Implementing and managing Active Directory, Internet Information Server (IIS), System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM)
• Troubleshoot SCCM server issues and manage & maintain SCCM windows server infrastructure.
• Strong Experience on vMotion, Storage vMotion, SCCM (Systems Center Configuration Management), SCOM (Systems Center Operations Management) Infrastructure, Patch Management and Upgrades using VMware update manager.
• Played role as a VMware/Windows Admin to provide L3 support in a complex Environment.
• Configuring, implementing and managing Virtual environment using VMware ESX 3.5 and ESXi 4.0 infrastructures.
• Support activities surrounding the VMware Virtual Infrastructure, which includes 60+ VMware ESX, which are SAN/NAS connected, in Production and Non-Production environments that host over 120+ servers running Windows & Linux variations and over 1100+ workstations running Windows XP. Lead all development, engineering, and support for the Virtual Center software.
• Responsible in diagnosing & troubleshooting of Windows, Linux, VMware ESX and Virtual Center Environments.
• Installed and the managed the active directory, Created the GPO’s based on the requirements and placed them as an OU.
• Migration of the AD Services, File and Print Servers, clean-up of the OUs and policies. Assessment of the current Active Directory.
• Extensive knowledge and Hands on experience on Hyper-V 2012 and Windows 2012 Server.
• Plan and design a new Active Directory Infrastructure as well as File and Print Server on a Windows Server 2012 R2 platform.
• Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) and also Active Directory Federation services (AD FS).
• Designed and implemented the vCenter Configuration Manager for the Control and Compliance Management of Cloud, PCI Environments.
• Designed and Implemented the VMware Site recovery Manager (SRM) 5.1 in the Datacenter as a team.
• Generated the ROI/TCO reports using the VMware ROI/TCO Calculator.
• Intensive working with Windows WSUS, Patch Management, and Windows/Linux OS build outs.
• Extensive knowledge and work on Configuring the Vcenter Operations Operation Manager 5.0 which can manage the health of the Whole environment including Datacenters, ESX Hosts, Vm’s, data stores.
• Implementing and installing the Vmware View (VDI), creating a base image (replica) for desktops and spinning the number of required desktops for Users. Pushing the updates to the base image and rolling them to the existing desktops and also for the new desktops.
• Worked extensively on live migrations Using VMware Converter / Double Take by taking minimum downtime for P2V and V2V Migrations.
• Implemented Big Fix Patching tool from End to End.
• Experience writing codes on Ansible, Puppet to push deploy new builds & configurations to the servers.
• Able to writtenmanifestsand Ruby scripts to customize thePuppet as per requirement configuration.
• Experience in Active Directory design and support (Group Policy Object (GPO), (AD) (OU), LDAP, Sites, Replication.
• Extensive exposure to Configuration Management policies and practices with regards toSDLC;along with automation of scripting usingPowershell, BASH scripting.
• Experience in Vulnerability management using Nexpose rapid 7, Tenable tool for Vulnerability Scanning to maintain CIS Compliance.
• Restoring Full & partial data for SQL Databases using Data Protection Manager (DPM)
• Worked as a Team Player in Patch Management.
• Configured storage LUNs for VMFS and raw disk mappings (RDM's) on a PURE Storage.
• Rebuilt Hyper-V environment and transitioned into a cluster, providing High Availability and Failover.
• Hot and Cold cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter.
• Manage Windows Server functions, including: file and folder management and access, network printing services, server performance monitoring, user access and administration, application and services management.
• Experience in updating/upgrading ESX/ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using VMware Update manager and manual upgrades.
• Created and deployed of virtual machines from templates and creating snapshots, clones of virtual machines for future deployments.
• Configured vMotion, storage vMotion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP, and managed Datastores using iSCSI, FC based storage implementation for Virtual Environments.
• Upgraded ESXi hosts from 5.5 to 6.0 using VMware Update manager and vCenter.
• Applied patches using VMware vCenter Update Manager and host update utility.
• Build and deployed VM’s both Windows and Linux using Cloud Lifecycle Manager, Right scale.
• Performed end to end decommissioning of both physical and virtual servers, which includes CMDB records update, un-racking and getting them to e-waste process.
• Experience in Monitoring, performing Health Checks, installing patches using PowerShell and Bash scripting, and upgrading hardware on the production servers.
• Update and maintain CMDB records, cleanup of stale CMDB entries.
• Used Remedy Tool for ticketing process on fixing Incident Reports and Change Requests.
• Maintained an excellent rapport with fellow colleagues, vendors and trainees Involved in documentation regarding Windows server configuration, operating procedures, and service records relating to Windows hardware.

Confidential, St Cloud, MI

Graduate Assistant (Systems Administrator)

Responsibilities:

• Installation, customization, capacity management and maintaining vSphere ESXi and other components of Cloud Infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on experience in system administration, hardware configuration, software installation, and deployment activities.
• Build and configure new Windows Servers to include Clusters Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012 and 2012 R2 OS deployments, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 R2 and windows 2012 servers.
• Worked on troubleshooting of ESX, VM’s Involved in Active Directory DNSConfiguring, administering, maintaining & troubleshooting of Windows2000/ 2003 Servers such as DC, DNS, IIS, DHCP, Database, File and Printer servers.
• Installing and Configuring VMware vSphere 5.1 servers on Cisco UCS chassis and HP Proliant 250 blade servers.
• Designed and implemented Disaster Recovery (DR) solution using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and EMC Recovery Point, successfully recovering all client servers at backup site.
• Installed and configured the VMware view for VDI environment.
• Monitoring and maintaining the VDI environment.
• Configuring and maintaining active directory, WINS and DNS servers.
• Managing employees VPN remote access.
• Troubleshoot SCCM server issues and manage & maintain SCCM windows server infrastructure.
• Administration of HP C7000 chassis with Onboard Administrator and Virtual Connect using VCM.
• Hardware management and configuration of HP C7000 and Cisco UCS.
• Upgraded vSphere 5.1 to vSphere 5.5 using VMware’s Update Manager.
• Used Data Protection Manager during SharePoint Upgrade.
• Monitoring of virtual infrastructure using vCenter Operations Manager, and HP Server Manager.
• Used vCloud Director for provisioning the VM’s and vApps.
• Experience in Setting up DFS environment.
• Generate reports with health analyzer for continuous monitoring of Virtual environment availability through VROPS.
• Implement VMware SRM, configure protection groups and integrate it with recover Point in the environment.
• Patched the windows servers by validating the patches with the application vendor.
• Experience using Virtual Machine Movement and Hyper-V Replica
• Implementing Failover Clustering with Hyper-V.
• Installing and Configuring the Hyper-V Server Role
• Diagnose, solve and provide root cause analysis for application, hardware, network, and operating system issues.
• Validating the Hosts, Clusters and vCenter as per the company standards.
• Configuring virtual environments forVMwareHigh Availability (HA), vMotion, NIC Teaming, Host Profiles, VLAN tagging and Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS).
• Troubleshoot issues with VMware and document the VM mapping with the LUNs allocated from the array.
• Work with network team to get the VMware internal network configured properly.
• Develop and implement maintenance plans and activities for Cloud infrastructure: Applying fixes, security patches and upgrades, capacity increases and other Cloud related maintenance.
• Configuration & troubleshooting VMware Consolidated backups.
• Investigated slowness of NetBackup clients, and implemented multiplexing to speed up backup performance.
• Perform regular maintenance of Server 2008 and 2003, which consist of adding users, editing user login scripts, and granting permissions to directories and shared files.

Confidential 

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, and upgrade of Linux3/4/5, AIX 5.3 and Created migration plans and executed upgrade from VMware ESX 3.5 to vSphere (ESX 4.1).
• Upgraded Active Directoryfrom Windows 2008, 2008R2, across multiple operating systems with minimal downtime.
• Prepared the environment for deployment of Windows 2008, installed, configured, provide troubleshooting for Server 2008 and migration from test to production environment.
• Installed and configured 40 new servers at client location with Windows 2003 Operating System and their required Applications.
• Windows 2012 updates and migrated from Windows 2008R2 server.
• Coordinated with the team to set up and manage administration tasks, including running disk check commands, backup/restore of servers, and prepared accurate reports on systems.
• Installed and configured Linux/Unix Windows operating systems on VMware server.
• Experience in Troubleshooting DNS, DHCP, IIS and Active Directory.
• Extensive experience with the Active Directory tools and Wintel servers.
• Created and managed File systems, Mount points, and RAID volumes in UNIX / Linux.
• Setup, configure and troubleshoot TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NFS, on Solaris 10 & 11 Servers in a multiplatform LAN.
• Detected and resolved network connectivity issues on multiple Windows System, UNIX/ LINUX Servers.
• Troubleshooting Linux network, security related issues, capturing packets using tools such as Iptables, firewall, and TCP wrapper and NMAP.
• Configuring and hardening Linux servers evaluating needs and installing appropriated recommended patches as needed.
• Assist with the development of policies and standards related to the use of computing resources, overall strategy, design, implementation, and operational aspects of multiplesystems.
• Installed operating systems on multiple machines using Kickstart.
• Performed troubleshooting of DNS, DHCP and active directory.
• Responsibility forsecurity and documenting the configuration of the system.
• Troubleshooting any reported problems and Systemperformance tuning FTP, DHCP, DNS telnet.
• Able to handle most of basic to advanced calls in User, group management, system start-up, service modification, crontab entries, ACL modifications, file system management, root & OS backups.
• Responsible for the clients, define the resources, Alternate Updated documentation of all the Servers and the installed applications and patches, Installation and troubleshooting onVMwarerunningLinux(RHEL, SUSE).
• Deploying and managing updates using patch management tools likeWSUS, SCCM, & Shavlik Protect.
• Supply Active Directory administration, structure and permissions.
• Find, correlate, prevent, and own complex problems from incident to resolution.
• Troubleshooting Windows server/VDI issues in VSphere Client as per requirement.
• Worked on PowerShell Scripts to automate the processes in order to remediate the vulnerabilities.
• Worked on Trend Micro Deep Security deployments and monitoring for DMZ environment.
• Worked on adding the servers/ troubleshoot issues into the Solar Winds to make sure they are properly monitored.
• Building Windows 2008, 2010 Servers and upgrading Windows 2003 on both physical and virtual machines.
• Administering Windows 2003/2008 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP and building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Creating and managing the users, groups, GPO in the Active Directory.
• Troubleshoot and resolve various issues with Windows servers while migrations and documenting the troubleshoot process for future references.

Environment: Kickstart, DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, RIP, FTP, TFTP, Terminal Services, SMTP, NFS, Linux, VMware workstation, virtual box.