SUMMARY

• Over 9 years’ experience in the field of information technology industry wif great experience in Software integration, Linux Administration (RHEL (6,7), CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu), Configuration Management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet), Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, Build and Release Management, Cloud Implementations (AWS, Azure) on agile principals and building Cloud Native APPS.
• Experience on AWS Cloud using services such as EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB, Route53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation Templates, Security Groups, Cloud Trail, IAM, Cloud Front, Snowball, Lambda, Code commit, Code deploy, EMR, RDS and Glacier.
• Designed, configured and deployed Microsoft Azure for a multitude of application s utilizing the Azurestack (Including Compute, Web&Mobile, Blobs, ADF, Resource Groups, AzureSQL DW, Cloud Services, and ARM, focusing on high - availability, Disaster Recovery, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling.
• Experience in Datacenter Consolidation, Migration, Business Continuity, Backup, Storage and VMware administration. VMware administration, Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016 versions.
• Designed and Implemented virtualization solutions based on VMware vSphere ESXi 7.0/6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1, ESX 4.1/4.0/3.5/3.0 platform, vCenter 7.0/6.5/6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.0/2.5 and Vblock 100/200/300/700 series.
• Excellent experience in managing all aspects of VMware vSphere environments including vSwitches, Distributed Virtual Switches, High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler, vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Fault Tolerance, ESXi advanced configurations, Horizon View, Network/Storage IO Control, VMFS Datastore, Host profiles, Storage profiles, Resource Management and Performance Monitoring.
• Experience in deploying Azure website using PowerShell scripts.
• Knowledge of maintaining Business Continuity and performing Disaster Recovery (DR) using VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• Strong understanding of VMwareNetworking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management on VMwareESXi4X, 5X and Virtual Center and vMotion.
• Experience in deploying, troubleshooting, and testing Site Recovery Manager (SRM) versions 5.5, 5.1 and 5.0 using array replication on VNX5300 and VMAX.
• SME wif large scale virtualization experience including SAN, NAS and iSCSI.
• Served as Managing ofWindowsServer Update Service (WSUS), Secunia, MalwareBytes, Enterprise, and McAfee
• Worked wifRESfor profiles throughRESWorkspaceManager.
• Provided Tier 1 support for Veeam virtual environment backup technology VMware/ Hyper-v
• Design and implemented software-defined data center (VVD 5.0).
• Created new Service Profile templates, SAN&LANpools on Cisco UCS using Cisco UCSM.
• Deployed new service profiles from the template and independently on Cisco UCS using UCSM.
• Installed and configured instances of VMware'svRealizeConfiguration Manager (VCM) for evaluation and initial implementation.
• Hands on experience in provisioning, orchestration, installing packages, services, configuration and deployment using Ansible.
• Engineered methods and authored documentation for end-to-end quality and validation testing of Windows Server2016 and 2019Datacenter. Rebuilt entireSoftware-Defined Datacenter(SDS) environment wif new OS builds on a weekly basis for the purpose of identifyingsoftwarebugs.
• Managed servers on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform instances using Ansible configuration management.
• Extensive experience wif Windows clustering on VMware. Excellent experience wif VMware update manager to install patches and perform upgrades on ESXihosts.
• Provisioning and maintainingVMwareVDIthe entireVDIenvironment inVMwareHorizon View 5.2 wif 2,300+ Windows 7 virtual desktops.
• Configured Cisco Unified Computing Systems implementation and configuration specific to vSphere, for compute platform high availability, redundancy,and elasticity.
• Created PowerShell scripts for managing objects in Active Directory Environment.
• Server equipment installation and management (Dell EMC VXrail clusters, Dell EMC VXRack FLEX, PowerEdge series).
• Configuring RAID and RAID groups, Storage Pools, Storage virtualization platforms of HC 250 and thick and thin LUNs.
• Worked on various POC's to identify issues wif Service Bus,AppFabriccache, Ninject, Entity Framework implementations.
• Hands on experience wif MicrosoftAzureCloud services, Storage Accounts and Virtual Networks. Experienced in Reconfiguring, Recreating, and troubleshooting issues for the VMs inAzure.
• Experience in the Server and Desktop Management (Windows Administration), Support, Analysis and Maintenance.
• Experience in installing, upgrading, and configuringRedHatLinux5.x, 6.x using Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Automate daily task in managingSCCMservers including generating reports and monitoring ofSCCMinfrastructure health.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware: VMware VSphere 4.x, 5.0, 5.1&5.5, 6, 6.5 Workstation 6 and 7, ESX Server 3.x and 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x VMware Virtual Center Server (vCenter) 2.x and 3.x, 4.x, 5.x VMware DRS, HA and FT, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager, VMware vShield manager, vROPS (Vrealize operational Manager) 6.4, 6.5, 6.6.1, VMWare vSphere Web client.

Server Hardware: HP Rack servers & HP Blades, Cisco UCS Blades, Dell Power Edge server.

Cloud: AWS, Azure, vCloud.

Monitoring and Patching Tools: Vrealize operational manager (vROPS), SCCM, Altiris, SCOM, Solar winds, VRNI, Pandora, Nagios, Alt

Databases: Microsoft SQL servers, ODBC(SQL/Oracle).

Backup tools: Veritas NetBackup, Symantec

Web Services: Microsoft IIS.

Configuration Management: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Jenkins

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows Server 2008R2, 2012, 2016, 2019, Windows XP/Vista/Win7, and VMware ESX/ESXi server.

Scripting: PowerShell, PowerCLI and Bash scripting.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Creating fully automated CI build and deployment infrastructure and processes for multiple projects and Developing scripts for build, deployment, maintenance and related tasks using Jenkins, Docker, Maven, Python and Bash.
• Experience of writing & managing Ansible Scripts& using Linux automated deployments using Ansible.
• Built and managed a large deployment of Ubuntu Linux instances systems wif Chef Automation. Wrote recipes, tools, shell scripts and monitoring checks.
• Used Chef to manage Web Applications, Config Files, Database, Commands, Users, Mount Points, and Packages and Implemented a Continuous Delivery pipeline wif Docker, Jenkins and GitHub and AWS AMI’s.
• Have experience of working wif Docker- docker hub, pulling images from docker hub, running containers based on an image, creating Dockerfile to manage customized containers, exposing a container wif port redirect, container volume management, docker inspect, docker commit to capture the file changes/settings into a new image and pushing the image to docker hub.
• UsedKubernetesto deploy scale, load balance, scale and manage docker containers wif multiple name spaced versions.
• Automated AWS components like EC2 instances, Security groups, ELB, RDS, IAM through AWS Cloud information templates and terraform.
• Experience in Administration/Maintenance of Source control management systems such as Subversion, Git / GitHub / Gerrit,ClearCase.
• Experience in designing and deploying AWS Solutions using EC2, S3, and EBS, Elastic Load balancer (ELB), auto-scaling groups and OpsWorks.
• ImplementedVPCpeering connection to access the entire CIDR block of the peerVPCwifout any restriction and ImplementedAWSclient API to interact wif different services as Console configuration forAWS EC2.
• UsedAWSLambda to manage the servers and run the code in theAWS.
• Enabled multiple services including AWS Shield for DDoS mitigation, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing or Amazon EC2 as origins for the applications, and Lambda by using the CloudFront.
• Used a global network of edge locations to cache and route requests to the best possible location based on known latency, available capacity and many other factors for the CloudFront.
• Integrated CloudFront wif AWS for both physical locations that are directly connected to the global infrastructure.
• Created and published the Interactive BI dashboards that includes Machine Learning-powered insights wif the halp of Amazon QuickSight.
• Integrated QuickSight wif AWS data sources, allowing companies to deploy secure and scalable BI wif their data on AWS.
• Providing secure, durable and scalable data storage at ultra-low cost wif the halp of AWS S3 Glacier.
• Written the code that deploy, operate, and maintain S3 Glacier worldwide.
• Designed and implemented configuration management (SCM) and change management (CM) solution using Subversion (SVN), TFS and GIT.
• Hands-on experience Designing, planning and implementation for existing on premise applications to AZURE Cloud (ARM), Configured and deployed Azure Automation Scripts utilizing Azure stack Services and Utilities focusing on Automation.
• Configured and implemented storage blobs and Azure files - Created Storage accounts, Configured the Content Delivery Network (CDN), custom domain, Managing access and storage access key.
• Experience in Windows Azure Services like PaaS, IaaS and worked on storages like Blob (Page and Block), Sql Azure. Well experienced in deployment & configuration management and Virtualization.
• Developed and supported the Software Release Management and procedures. Also experienced wif working on Subversion, Proposed and implemented branching strategy .
• Used Docker for setting Azure Container Registry wif Docker and Docker-compose and actively involved in deployments on Docker using Kubernetes.
• Created CI/CD Pipelines in Azure DevOps environments by providing their dependencies and tasks. Also have experience on implementing and managing continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS and created END-END Automation wif CI Procedures using Jenkins & automated Maven builds by integrating them wif Continuous Integration tools Jenkins.
• Used Azure Kubernetes service to deploy a managed Kubernetes cluster in Azure and created an AKS cluster in the Azure portal, wif the Azure CLI, also used template driven deployment options such as Resource Manager templates and Terraform.
• Implemented Infrastructure automation through ansible, for auto provisioning, code gerrit deployments, software installation and configuration update.
• Configured and mentored version control client like TORTOISE SVN, GIT, GERRIT for development team.
• Used tracking tool JIRA and triaged the issues and maintained bugs using JIRA tool and Used ANT and Python scripts to automate the Build and deployment process. Used maven for few modules.
• Automation of PEGA deployments using Ansible and Coordinate wif PEGA support team to troubleshoot and fix technical issues and Support PEGA team maintenance activities and implementation of system updates.

Confidential, Roseville, CA

Sr.System admin

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Administering the various virtualization components like vCenter, vSphere etc.
• Performed ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machine migrations between Development, Integration, and Production environments and across Datacenters.
• Experience on installing and configuring HPE Hyper V C250 Converged Platform.
• Supported VMware, specifically ESXi 6.0 to monitor cluster performance, optimize the server environment, diagnose, and resolve production issues amongst Data Centers and over servers Configuration of vMotion, vSwitch, and vLAN in VMware vCenter.
• Migrated P2V and V2V Servers using VMwareStandalone Converter.
• Design, Implementation and Troubleshooting VMwareESXi 6.0 Hosts, VMwarevSphere virtual center.
• Upgrading of ESXi from version 5.5 to version 6.0 while keeping the VM’s in maintenance mode.
• Installed/updated patches on VMwareESXi hosts using VMware Update Manager tool.
• DeployedVcenterOperations Manager (VROPS), leveraging its capability for proactive monitoring of health of the entire virtual environment.
• Integrated Bluecat wif vRA for IP management.
• Created software components in vRA to install the CHEF cookbooks on the servers (windows/Linux).
• Integrated ServiceNow wif vRA through mulesoft.
• Integrated Bluecat wif vRA for IP management.
• Develop script and integrated to build workflows in using vRO.
• Experience wif NetApp storage.
• Performing initial Cisco UCS cluster setup and provide management IP addresses for blade servers and on managing Cisco UCS environments.
• Deployed and Integrated NSXwif vCenter Server.
• Designing of vSphere for implementation of vCloud infrastructure.
• Administered Daily tasks both for the On-premises and cloud environment Using PowerShell.
• Connecting and configuring SAN and NAS storage into the ESXiand Hyper-V servers.
• Managed vCenter Management Toolset, Horizon View Connection Servers, VxRail Manager, and Horizon View Security Servers
• Integration of vCloudDirector wif vShield and vCenter.
• Worked on Active Directory Environment for Windows 2012 R2.
• Application Deployments & Environment configuration using Chef, Ansible.
• Managed and configured Microsoft office 365 Azure active directory so that it was properly synchronized wif the on-premisesactive directory environment.
• Worked on VMware Validated Design Upgradedocument for upgrading VMware software in a Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) that are deployed according to the VMware Validated Design for Software-Defined Data Center.
• Experience in handling more than 3000+ mix of Windows servers, 200+ ESXI servers, Remote data center, multiple vCenter.
• Created VM’s on ESX servers and deployed VMs through OVF Templates, Created & Troubleshot VirtualNetworks.
• Worked on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration and Remediate.
• Configured Netbackup Client thorough planning was done for downtime, knowing each server usage &, their placement in Datacenter.
• Performs daily operations in a NetBackup, Backup Exec and Data Domain environment to backup, recover and archive company information.
• Creating Data centers in the vSphere Web client and adding the Hosts to the Data center
• Hands on experience wif vCOPS&vROPS configuring dashboards for clients.
• Installing and configuring Windows 2003 servers of DHCP, FTP, Web Server, and SQL Database Server.
• Creating and managing user accounts and the groups in Active Directory users and computers.
• Managed Active Directory and gave support to problems related to user accounts, domain accounts and managing permissions.
• Experience in Managing File Servers, Print Servers.
• Hands on experience physically and logically on Cisco and DELL switches and routers.
• Managed Users and Roles by using vCloud Director
• Server environments consist of physical servers, HP and IBM Blade centers, and VMware.
• Daily support of windows server infrastructure DNS and DHCP.
• Managing Print servers, Users, Groups, Roles and Access Permissions.
• Created and installed Infrastructure requirement application, E.g.,SCCM, SCOM, SEP etc.
• Configured VMNICs, vNIC, VLAN, vSAN and service profile templates.
• Support System OS patching on client-side file servers using SCCM software utilities to push and implement updates as required.
• Testing of different recovery plans in SRM to ensure recovery of failover VMs and Expertise in providing support for windows2008/2012 servers and Active Directory.
• Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the VMware from vNetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.
• Handling Escalations for Hyper-V, MicrosoftAzureIAAS and Windows OSissues, Connected wif Senior Management, Client Managers through Direct sessions for Data Center Management & Consolidation, Virtualization, and MicrosoftAzurePractices
• By Using VMwareCloud Director Integrated VMwareStorage platform which halp in deploying and managing storage pools which are compatible wif cloud storage in virtual data centers
• Create Virtual switches and port groups, configure virtual networking settings for redundancy by teaming up VNICs, and configure network traffic, security, and load balancing policies.
• Provisioning resource pools for servers, UUIDs, MAC addresses, WWNNs, WWPNs.
• Performed Zoning on Cisco MDS switches as required.
• Security: Operating System/Network Hardening, Access controls, AAA, Firewall deployment, RADIUS, TACACS.
• Administration of security for users, groups, and NTFS permissions.
• Daily Working on user related issues like security group permissions on Windows Servers and maintaining DRA Application for Active Directory related work and working on SCOM alerts triggered for DC’s, DRA servers and User Autantication issues (Account lockout and LDAP Autantication)
• Windows systems administration including installing system Security Patches, Hot Fixes. Reviewed tasks, issues and recommend changes to reduce problem reoccurrences.
• Maintained Web Servers by installing IIS 6 and 7, FTP Sites and creating Virtual Directories in IIS6 and IIS7.
• VNX Block Storage Provisioning and Management including Raid Groups and Traditional LUNs, Pools and Thin LUNs, LUN Migration, FAST VP, FAST Cache, Storage groups, Host Initiator registration
• Performed daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

System admin

Responsibilities:

• Rack, cable, label and power on the storage array and Dell FX2 chassis and associated blade servers
• Cable servers as per requirements established by client.
• Perform a one-time move of the equipment from the initial setup location to the final install location.
• Configure a VMware environment on the blade servers and connect the environment to the Shared Storage Array.
• Deployed windows, Linux virtual machines and an unlimited number of storage volumes.
• Management tools configuration. dis includes the following:
• VMware vCenter systems management tools
• Storage management tools.
• Configure the VMware Log Insight Application as one of the configured VM’s according to client’s standards.
• Configure VMware Log Insight to communicate wif defined hosts wifin the environment for log capture.
• Deployed log insight appliance on a 3-Node Cluster by using v-Center server by giving all the credentials and pulled Hardware logs events,error, warning logs from login sight and created dashboards by using Interactive analysis.
• Worked Based Priority Issues based on ticketing tool ServiceNow.
• Configured windows, Linux agents in log insight agent to pull internal logs.
• Integrated plant network diode wif Log insight Agent to collect the TCP, UDP logs.
• Create and update needed PowerShellscripts.
• Manage implementation and training around O365 tools and enhancements.
• Experience wif PowerShell Scripting.
• Forwarded collected logs to vROPS(vRealize Operations Management Appliance), SNMP Mail server for desired users in CSV, JSON formats.
• AD Deployment Management and Security automation scripting using VB and PowerShell.
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of server hardware wif proper RAID and wif various server OS, patching, security updates.
• Configure Tenants, blueprints, Security groups, endpoint, and resource pools invRA suite 7.2.
• Experience on monitoring, configuring, and managing SCCM environment.
• Experience wif Cisco Routers, Cisco Firewalls, Cisco UCS and Cisco Switches.
• Coordination wif vendor / Service provider for problem resolution.
• Provide project support by configuring DNS, DHCP, GPOs and Active Directory changes and implementations as needed.

Confidential, St. Luois, MO

VMware/Windows admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation of ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS.
• Installation of VC server and Installing Virtual center components.
• Updating ESX host’s using VMware Update manager.
• Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Working on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Working on Migration concepts like vMotion and cold migration, Storage vMotion
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Managing an ESX server host from Virtual center.
• Working on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Managing an ESX server host from Virtual center.
• Creating Virtual switch.
• Connecting to ESX server by using VIC, putty, and Web access.
• Working on networking concepts like creation vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming.

Confidential

L2 Windows admin

Responsibilities:

• Worked as systems engineer for support and maintenance ofserver hardware and applications.
• Helped in preparing documentation forserver deploymentsand configurations for application installations.
• Virtual Environment consisted of 30 Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 servers that were built from the ground up. Including Networking and configuring vLANS.
• Migrate data from old machines to new machines.
• PerformedWindows server installationsfor expansion of existing servers to handleserver CPUandMemory load.
• Performed few infrastructure application installations in clustered environment as part of load balancing to handle application load and to reduce downtime.
• Worked as ahardware technicianfor hardware maintenance and replacement.
• Used monitoring tools forserver monitoringand maintenance.
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts wifin the team.
• Performed troubleshooting onwindows event logsand errors for system and application eventlogs.
• Took active part in administrative tasks and maintenance of servers.
• Administered Windows Server 2008 Active Directory infrastructure including Group Policy, creation, and deletion of user accounts, managing access controls, and domain structure configuration.
• Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP.
• Efficiently created and managed various Groups (Domain Local and Global Security)
• Configure wide area network (WAN) or local area network (LAN) routers or related equipment.
• Experienced in Plan, Build, and Deliver of core infrastructure solutions LAN/WAN/WLAN
• Provided user-troubleshooting services for LAN connections to the network and SSL troubleshooting via smart cards and alternate tokens.
• Creating and updated network shares, adding permissions software and groups for users through Active Directory.