PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• IT Professional with around 8 years of experience in Systems and Network administration with a primary focus on installation and administration of Windows Servers, Active Directory, VMware, NetBackup, SCCM, SCOM, SQL Cluster, Citrix and HP, UCS blades
• Good knowledge in managing VMware vSphere 5.5/6.0 in Dev and Prod environments
• Good in cloud computing technologies like HPSA, vRA, vRO
• Expert in managing IIS 7.5/8.5 Web servers and installing SSL s, creating websites and virtual directories
• Expertise in Symantec NetBackup 7.7 configuration, migration, Installation and creating File and VM level Backup policies.
• Good Knowledge on EMC Avamar and OpenStack Backup solutions
• Excellent experience in configuration of DataDomain Storage units in Symantec Netbackup.
• Experience in HP Blades, configuring the server profiles
• Expertise in building Microsoft Clusters and installing SQL 2008/2012/2014 on a Clustered environment.
• Expert in system builds, upgrades, migrations, code deployments and patch management.
• Expertise in administration of Windows 2003/2003 R2, 2008 and 2012 R2 Servers
• Having good knowledge on CITRIX 4.5 and 6.5
• Expertise in installation, configuration and Managing Windows 2008/2012 Active directory infrastructure in a large scale environment
• Expertise in System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) and SCOM
• Knowledge experience in iSCSI, SAN, NAS, NFS storage and RAID concepts.
• Good experience in installation and configuration of DNS DHCP Servers
• Design and implementation of global monitoring solution using SCOM, BMC, Tivoli
• Experience in installing, maintaining and managing various rack mounted and Blade servers from Confidential UCS, Dell, HP, and IBM
• Extensive experience with Active Directory, GPO’s, DHCP, DNS, IP, Sub Nets, VPNs, vLAN, Network routing, firewalls, LAN/WAN switching and Backup & Recovery, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server
• Documentation of all problem tickets and updating knowledge base
• Expertise in ITIL concepts and following Change management process using service now and BMC Remedy tools.
• Strong experience in building LAB environments for testing various applications and Operating systems.
• Good experience in deploying Windows 7 OS in desktop machines and have working experience in McAfee and Symantec Antivirus solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Virtualization: VSphere 4.1, ESX/ESXi server 5.0,5.1,5.5/6.0 VSphere Client, vCenter, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Update Manager, VMware Tools, VMware Converter, vCOPS, dvswitch, OpenStack, vRA, vRO

Server Operating Systems: MS Windows 2003/2008/2012 Red Hat Linux (Enterprise Linux 5/6).

Desktop Operating Systems: Windows 7

Programming skills: VB Script, PowerShell

Monitoring Tools: Puppet, BMC, Tivoli, SCOM

Storage: VMAX, VNX, NAS (NFS), SAN and ISCSI.

Database: MS - SQL Server 2005/2008 R2 / 2012 and Oracle.

Backups: EMC Networker, VERITAS Netbackup, EMC Avamar, Brightstor Arcserv, OpenStack

Antivirus: Symantec Endpoint 11.0, Norton Antivirus 6.0 and McAfee 7.0.

Terminal Services: Remote Desktop Services, VNC, Putty and Terminal Services.

Remote Management Tools: DRAC, ILO, KVM, RDP, Damware, TeamViewer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Boston, MA

Sr. Windows/VMware/Backup Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring, Troubleshooting and management of VMware vSphere 5.5/6 in all dev, QA and Prod environments.
• Attending NetBackup Daily reviews & reporting of all issues, failures & the action taken on these failures.
• Installation and configuration of Netbackup Master, Media and OpsCenter servers.
• Configuration of File and VM level backups
• Configured and troubleshooting of Data Domain OST in use with NetBackup.
• Created Netbackup Architecture Visios and documents.
• Troubleshooting day-to-day backup issues and updating knowledge base
• Tested and documented Disaster Recovery for NetBackup on windows platforms
• Installation of Tomcat web servers in Windows servers
• Deployed and involved in monthly Microsoft security patches using WSUS
• Managing the vSphere environment by performing operation like configuring resource pools, permissions, snapshots, tools upgrade, disk expansions, templates, etc..
• Responsible for supporting system design and implementations as well as provide first level of support for any issues.
• Participated in building vRealize Automation suite cloud management platform.
• Writing vRO workflows for automating the Application installations
• Responsible for setting up ofVMwareFeatures like V-Motion, HA, DRS.
• Administration and managing Windows 2008 R2/ Windows 2012 R2 in both Physical and VM environment.
• Created a LAB environment with Windows and Linux Operating systems and testing applications
• Responsible for managing IIS Web servers
• Creating and configuring vSwitch, dvSwitch and port groups
• Responsible for Managing Symantec NetBackup infrastructure and creating backup policies
• Migrated Data from Tape Drives to DataDomain.
• Administration of SQL servers in Clustered environment and in the process of installing SQL 2014 cluster environment.
• Administration of Windows Terminal Servers, Group Policy management and Active Directory environment.
• Administration of Windows 2008/2012 Active Directory infrastructure and installed DNS and DNS servers.
• Installation of Linux 5.9 and 6 versions through PXE.
• Administration of HP and Confidential UCS Blades.

Environment: ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0, Windows 2012/2008/2003 Server, HP Blade C7000, SQL, Citrix, Symantec Netbackup, EMC Avamar, OpenStack, Nexus 5k, Confidential Switches, Confidential Blades, vRA, vRO, Tomcat, Active Directory

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr. Windows/VMware/Backup Admin

Responsibilities:

• Administration of server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware vCenter.
• Installation and configuration of Windows 2008 Servers.
• Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies.
• Updated ESX host’s using VMware Update manager
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities
• Responsible for Managing and configuring IIS Web servers, generating requests and Installing s.
• Responsible for managing Active Directory infrastructure servers, DNS, DHCP servers, creating users and groups.
• Deploying for Virtual Machine from templates and creating templates, cloning virtual machines of Windows 2012/2008/2003 servers.
• Ensuring that the physical ESX servers are not overloaded. Configuring VMware HA, DRS, Resource Pools, Alarms and updating VMware tools in all VMs.
• Provisioning Windows Operating systems and Applications on physical servers HP BL 460C G7, G8 and ensuring all Physical servers are updated with latest drivers and Firmware.
• Manage VMs using VMware vCenter, web access and remote console.
• Setting up priorities on CPU memory and other resources.
• Monitor capacity, performance and utilization across all Windows Server and its Hardware.
• Managing the incidents using the trouble ticket system and updating the knowledge base for resolving known errors.
• Building Microsoft Windows clusters and installing SQL 2008/2012 on a Clustered environment, configuring maintenance plans
• Installing Windows Operating systems on both Virtual and Physical servers.
• Migrating Virtual Machines from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008/2012 Operating Systems.
• Involved in Active Directory Domain and user migrations and worked Replication issues.
• Migration of backup data from Tape to DataDomain.
• Installation and Configuration of Netbackup Master and Media servers
• Attending Backup Daily Service reviews & reporting all issues, failures & the action taken on these failures.
• Ensuring all servers are updated with latest Antivirus and Microsoft windows security patches.

Environment: ESXI 5.0, Windows 2008/2003 Server, HP Blade C7000 and C3000, putty, Power shell and SQL, Symantec Netbackup

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Windows/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Designing and Documentation for Racks move from one cage to other big cage in datacenter.
• Worked on large datacenter consolidations and completed them successfully using multiple P2V conversion using vCenter Converter.
• Job includes installation and configuration ofVMwareESXi 4.x, installation and configuration ofVMwareVirtual Center Server and creating Virtual Machines.
• Assist in P2V conversion of Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and Linux based server editions using enterpriseVMwareconverter and also installed theVMwaretools on that machines.
• Provided disaster recovery and backup services using theVMwareconsolidated Backup (VCB).
• Job also includes creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines and managing Virtual Center permissions.
• Creating and ManagingVMwarecluster with HA and DRS.Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines. Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Using Virtual center server for HA, DRS and vMotion.Working on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network.Troubleshooting ESX & Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and VMs.
• Installation, configuration and management of Veeam Backup and Replication for virtual machine backup.Management of HP SIM for hardware monitoring.
• Installation, configuration and management of Windows Server 2003.
• Management for Active Directory and patch management.
• Managing the Day to Day Backup operations, creating Policies and restoring Data when needed.
• Responsible building HPSA environment for automating Server build and application installations using PowerShell and VBScript.

Environment: Virtual Infrastructure 3, vSphere 4.0, Windows 2008/2003 Server, HP EVA 8400, HP Blade C7000, HP Blade C3000, HP VC Flex 10, EMC Avamar, Netbackup, PowerShell, HPSA

Confidential

VMware/ windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Main role is to provision virtual machines and physical as per client requirements.
• Extensively managed Active Directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Installing and updating the Windows patches.
• Creating NTFSshares on Windows Servers and provide permissions to users.
• Built and manage Virtual servers on VMwareESXServer3.0/3.5.
• Experience in creating Clusters in Virtual Center and adding ESX Hosts to Virtual Center Cluster.
• Experience in setting up VMKernel Network and Enable VMotion.
• Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines with VMotion.
• Experience in configuring VMware DRS Rules and VMware HA on Clusters in Virtual Center.
• Experience in creating and monitoring Resource Pool for Virtual Machines Resource Reservation and Limits.
• Troubleshoot computer/network, Internet and email problems for users.
• Creating and managing user accounts and the groups in Active Directory users and computers.
• Involved in daily Performance monitoring and Active Directory troubleshooting with the ability to analyze server performance and make recommendations for improvement.
• Helped in auditing Datacenter Inventory in the process of Data center migration.

Environment: HP Proliant BL C 7000, VMware VSphere 4.0, ESX 3.5, VM Converter, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure Client, VMotion, VReplicator, clustering, SAN/NAS, VCB, Vcenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery & Backup, VMware HA & DRS, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, Veritas Netbackup

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Providing 24/7 global IT Infrastructure Support and Data Centre Maintenance and Management.
• Administration of Windows 2008 Active Director Infrastructure.
• Administration of Proxy, Print and File Servers.
• Managing Google Postini for protecting the mail server from incoming and outgoing Internet borne malware and spam.
• Installation and Maintaining imaging servers Symantec ghost and windows imaging server 2008.
• Installation and maintain Trend micro antivirus clients and administration of client updates.
• Installation and Maintenance of Confidential VoIP phones and User Administration on Confidential Call Manager.
• Administration of Webwasher Proxy Appliance.
• Managing IT Inventory and IT Asset of the organization.
• New user, Departed user access management and attendance management through IGUARD.
• Installation and configuration of Software Applications - Visual Studio .NET 2005/2008/2010, MS 2005/2008, MSTFS Server 2005/2008, Oracle 10g, Citrix XenApp clients, MS Office 2007/2010,MS CRM.
• Installation and Configuration of various In-house and Third-party Applications.
• Installation, maintain and troubleshooting of all Windows based desktops.
• Installation, maintain and troubleshooting of LAN, WAN and Wireless networks.
• Providing induction program to the new joiners in the team.
• Help the new joiners in terms of technical issues. Also auditing their work and sending the reports to Technical Lead.
• Built LAB environment for testing Active directory recovery solution and testing Windows and Linux applications.

Environment: Windows 2003/2008 Server, Symantec Antivirus, Active Directory, Backups, CA Arcserve