SUMMARY

• Systems Administrator offering 7+ years of experience in AWS, Windows, Linux and VMware environment, expertise in several OS versions like 2003, 2008, 2012 and 2016.
• Certified AWS SysOps Associate.
• Certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate.
• Certified Microsoft Technology Associate in Windows server Administration.
• Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Puppet and PowerShell
• Experience in using Git repositories and managing branches and configuring the Git servers.
• Knowledge in setting up build and deployments automation for Terraform scripts using Jenkins
• Experience on CI (continues Integration) and CD (continuous Deployments) using Jenkins.
• Built and deployed Docker containers to break up monolithic app into microservices, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed
• Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling
• Experience in working on AWS modules like EC2, Cloud Watch, RDS VPC, ELB, S3 etc.
• Worked with Security groups and creating VPC’s and load Balancers in AWS.
• Experience in managing and securing the Custom AMI's,AWS account access using IAM.
• Creating Instances in EC2 and creating custom AMI images from that.
• Successfully hosted a website in EC2 instance using web deploy and IIS and configured the bindings in it.
• Experiencing in administering Windows Terminal Server, Group Policy management, Active Directory environment, DNS and DHCP.
• Installing and configuring SCOM and SCCM and using it for monitoring the servers.
• Administered, Maintained and supported SCOM platform.
• Deploying security updates using SCCM and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
• Packaged applications using Admin Studio. Created, tested, documented, and installed applications in Windows environment using Application Compatibility Toolkit on multiple test workstations.
• Installing and configuring Microsoft SQL server 2012 and 2016.
• Creating maintenance plans for SQL server, backup and Restore the Databases.
• Strong grasp of computer security assorted operating systems, numerous applications and mixed platforms.
• Automation of server builds and administration through BMC server automation tool.
• Experience in patching the servers using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
• Experience in creation of LAN shares in Distributed File System and replicate the data between two LAN shares using Distributed File System Replication.
• Experience in Installing and configuring Citrix farm 7.6.
• Administering the Citrix farm, Publishing and launching the applications in XenApp 6.5 and 7.6.
• Installation and configuration of VMware ESX 6.0, vSphere 5.5/6.0.
• Migrating the virtual machines between the ESX (i) Hosts using cold migration and VMotion.
• Cloning VMs and deploy new virtual machines from clones.
• Expertise in creating jobs in BladeLogic and installing software’s in servers using those jobs.
• Knowledge on creating High availability and monitoring the VM’s in a host.
• Knowledge on monitoring the entire infrastructure using Nagios.
• Knowledge on creating and configuring alerts on VM’s in a host.
• Experience in using Service now and Jira ticketing system.
• Ability to write PowerShell and Python scripting

TECHNICAL SKILLS

VMware Tools: VCenter Update manager, HA, DRS, Storage VMotion, VApp, VMware vSphere Client.

Operating Systems: Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016 , Windows XP/7 /8, Linux

DevOpsTools: Puppet and Ansible

Applications: IIS, MS Office 2010/2013/2016 , Citrix XenApp 6.5 & 7.6.

Scripting Languages: PowerShell and Python

Cloud technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Herndon VA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure Windows OS 2003/2008/2012/2016 Servers for the organization with over many clients.
• Install, Monitor, upgrade and maintain VMware hosts ESXi 5.0, 5.5 and 6.0. VM tools version and hardware version of servers.
• Execute and install applications using PowerShell scripts.
• Used PowerShell for DevOps in Windows - based systems.
• Create User Accounts, Profiles and assign permissions in Active Directory.
• Administering the Group Policy to automatically upgrade and repair software installations.
• Installation and support for servers with Windows 2003/2008/2012 and 2016 Operating systems.
• Provide Remote Support and administration on network for internal and external clients using tools like Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection (RDP).
• Configuring the RDP licensing for simultaneous logins for multiple users more than two at a time.
• Installation of Microsoft SQL server, configuring Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) and assigning permissions for AD groups.
• Involved in installing and maintaining the servers through McAfee total protection console. Migration of McAfee to Symantec endpoint protection.
• Installing/configuring IIS on Windows servers.
• Created Virtual Machines for member servers which host services like IIS, DNS, and DHCP.
• Provide day to day support (troubleshooting and installing) for more than 1000 users for hardware, network and software including Microsoft Office applications, mail clients and other network related issues.
• Installation and configuration of network Printers.
• Provided the backup and recovery of the files and data using IBM Tivoli.
• Worked on Windows Firewall, Terminal Server, and Troubleshooting computer related problems. Attending client calls related to servers and network problems.
• Performing Cloning, Snapshots, cold and hot Migrations using VMotion and storage VMotion.
• Performing Patching on monthly basis on both production and non-production using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).
• Creating templates from VM’s. Deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources.
• Administration/break fixes on daily basis on existing servers.
• Handles the resolution of OS issues, virus updates, hardware refresh and end-to end troubleshooting.
• Building servers using Build Automation Portal (BAP), a web interface which automate the process of server build and automate the server administration using Blade logic.
• Handling, creating and maintaining the DFS shares. Migrating DFS shares over the network from servers using DFS replication.
• Publishing applications using Citrix 6.5 and 7.6 and providing access to specific users and groups as requested.
• Worked with Microsoft for troubleshooting the day to day issues and resolving ServiceNow Tickets.

Confidential, Herndon VA

AWS Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and configuring the AWS account.
• Managing and securing the Custom AMI's,AWSaccount access using IAM.
• Setup and managing EBS Volumes and EIP to EC2 Instances.
• Created AMI images of EC2 Instances by employing AWS CLI and GUI.
• ConfiguringAWSS3 and their lifecycle policies and to backup files and archive files in Amazon Glacier.
• Involved in Configuring and Networking of Virtual Private Cloud(VPC)
• Deployed applications as SaaS on to their respective environments using Elastic Beanstalk.
• Created and configured a Microsoft AD using AWS Directory service.
• Setup, configured, and debugged network configurations for RedHat servers and workstations
• Managed Red Hat Linux and Unix servers.
• Scheduled cron jobs, installed and configured AutoSys for job scheduling.
• Managed users, groups and permissions on Linux servers.
• Patched the Linux servers using red hat package manager RPM and YUM utility.
• Installation and configuring the SQL server on windows EC2 instance and creating, backup and restoring the databases on the SQL server.
• Configuring the Security groups to secure and control the access to the RDS and EC2 instances.
• Modifying the EC2 instances based on the growth of the applications and data on the instances.
• Automating the Database backup files on EC2 instances to the S3 bucket using AWS CLI and AWS sync commands.
• Wrote Puppet manifests and modules to deploy, configure, and manage servers
• Automated build and deployment using Jenkins to reduce human error and speed up production processes
• Installed and configured Nagios to constantly monitor network bandwidth, memory usage, and hard drive status
• Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging
• ScheduledAWSLambda functions to trigger variousAWS resources.
• Automating the process of taking a snapshot of EC2 instance and deleting the old restored instances using lambda.
• Configuring the Database mirroring for the always on and fault tolerant Databases.
• Installation of TrendMicro using the PowerShell scripts and managing the servers through TrendMicro console.
• Configuring the CloudWatch alarms for continuous monitoring of the AWS environment.
• Creation on SNS topics for email subscription and configuring it to send notifications to the users about their AWS accounts.
• Managing the EC2 instances using AWS systems manager and patching the instances using it.
• Creating a Lambda functions to automate the process of taking AMI of the existing instances and deleting the AMI’s of instances older than 7 days.
• Creating application and classic load balancers to balance the load on the servers in different availability zones and configuring health checks.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Creating and configuring a VPC in an AWS environment.
• Created EC2 instances of with Windows and Linux OS’s based on the application requirements and configured them as per AWS best practices.
• Created and configured domain controllers to manage all servers from domain level.
• Configured Group policies to automate the administration of the server and software install.
• Administration of the EC2 instances and applying the patches to them on monthly basis using AWS systems Manager
• Installed Microsoft SQL server 2014 and 2016 on EC2 instances and configured them as per the application requirements.
• Installed and configured Sitecore CD, CM and Processing servers.
• Hardening the CD, CM and processing servers as per the guidelines mentioned in the Sitecore documentation.
• Restricting the access to the EC2 instances using the security groups.
• Configured the EC2 instances in different availability zones for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Configured the Application and classic load balancers to route the traffic between the EC2 instances in various availability zones.
• Automating the Database backup files on EC2 instances to the S3 bucket using AWS CLI and AWS sync commands.
• Created SNS topics for email subscription and configuring it to send notifications to the users about their AWS accounts.
• Configuring the cloud watch alarms which sends a notification in case of an event.
• Created Similar environments for Test, Dev and production which gives us a chance to do more testing of any application change before moving it to the production.
• Monitoring the Aspen application 24x7 using various AWS services.
• Modifying the EC2 instances based on the growth of the applications and data on the instances.

Confidential, PAWTUCKET RI

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured over 100+ VMware VSphere 4.0/5.0 ESXi nodes, vCenter and vSphere Client.
• Configured Management and Resource Cluster, Add Host to a Cluster, Configure its licenses, Network Configuration, DNS and NTP.
• Administration of environment running ESXi Hosts and Virtual Machines.
• Manage Virtual Machines, Installing VMware Tools, Creating Templates, Cloning, Deploy Virtual Machines using Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual Machines (P2V).
• Manage user permissions in vCenter Server.
• Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to manage the allocated SAN, Fiber and Networking Infrastructure.
• Update the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.
• Monitor capacity, performance and utilization across all Windows Server and its Hardware.
• Installed SQL 2008/2012 clustered and non-clustered servers and Creating SQL Database.
• Day to day support and maintenance of Operating Systems.
• Coordinate/Facilitate all planned and unplanned power outages for all environments.
• Worked on Symantec Antivirus and Symantec Endpoint protection for administering updates and cleanup of a community of workstations.
• Managing Incident tickets and Change tickets.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured VMware VSphere 4.0 ESXi nodes.
• Configuring, monitoring, upgrading and maintaining systems hardware, software and related infrastructure.
• Provide system and network administration support for Windows servers.
• Manage Virtual Machines, Installing VMware Tools, Creating Templates, Cloning, Deploy Virtual Machines using Templates, Converting Physical to Virtual Machines (P2V).
• Troubleshot network, printer, hardware, and software issues
• Supported laptops, desktops, and handheld devices
• Created documentation and run-book
• Monitor capacity, performance and utilization across all Windows Server and its Hardware.
• Installed and configured SQL server 2008 and configuring Failover clustering.
• Monitored network performance to determine whether adjustments needed to be made and determined where changes will need to be made in the future.
• Provided phone and remote desktop support to end-users.