SUMMARY

• Overall 8 years of experience on IT Infrastructure and complex Technology Integration projects with prominence on cloud, Linux, Wintel and virtualization
• Experience in using Horizon and alsoOpenStackCLI to interact withOpenStackServices like Nova, Neutron and Keystone.
• Strong experience in virtualization technologies such as KVM, Open Stack & VMware and cisco ML2 and UCS plugin for neutron.
• Proficient in racking new servers / storage arrays, configuring RAC IP, setting up virtual disks in different RAID levels and getting them ready for OS install.
• Experience in designing, architecting, deploying OpenStack private cloud solutions with high availability, scalability and throughput.
• Building and deploying Docker images in Linux
• Experience in working on source control tools like SVN and GIT.
• Excellent understanding of data center organization, including hardware configurations and networking.
• Sound knowledge on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools
• VMware infrastructure installation, Configuration and managing (ESXi 4.x/ ESXi 5.x).
• Experience in using configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef and knowledge on Salt.
• Good knowledge in internals of OpenStack services, KVM and Linux operating system.
• Knowledge on protocols like HTTP, DNS, DHCP and SSL/TLS and firewalls like Iptables.
• Good knowledge on Containers and Clustering solution Kubernetes.
• Expertise in Linux/UNIX family OS installation, troubleshooting, services, security and maintenance.
• Excellent scripting skills in Ansible, python, Bash and shell.
• Experienced in supporting large - scale multi-tenant infrastructure level services.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Technologies: OpenStack and Amazon Web Services

Automation Tools: Ansible, Python, Shell, Puppet and Chef

Virtualisation: VMware VSphere and Red Hat KVM, ESXi

Virtualization Tools: VMware ESX4.0/3.x, vCenter 4.0/2.x, VMware Standalone Convertor, VMware View, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)

Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Red hat, CentOS and VMware, Windows 2000/2003/XP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Woonsocket, RI

OpenStack Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience deploying, maintaining and troubleshooting the Open Stack application in a Cloud environment.
• Created OpenStack and non-OpenStack components as per the design and architecture on the KVM’s.
• Developed python scripts to automate deployment of KVM’s with Ubuntu Operating system.
• Developed Orchestration tool for automating instance’s creation, configuring network and assigning IP’s.
• Experience OpenStack Databases like MySQL, Maria DB and NOSQL-DB for configuring the components.
• Created Host Aggregates and Availability Zones on OpenStack Environment
• Experience in deploying, maintaining and troubleshooting the Open Stack application in a Cloud environment.
• Created Heat templates based on the requirement from the end client.
• As per client request, integrated Open Contrail in testing environment for concept proof.
• Experience in writing Chef Recipes, worked on creation of customDockercontainer images, tagging and pushing the images.
• Knowledge in AWS CLI to automate backups of ephemeral data-stores to S3 buckets and EBS and create nightly AMIs for backups.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflects specifications laid out in the initial VMware farm design to ensure successful deployment
• Administrating DNS, DHCP, and Exchange & ISA servers. Created and managed user and group accounts in User Manager and in MS Exchange Administration.
• Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 5.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Creating and managing resource pools and adding the VM’s into resource pools.

Confidential, Richardson, TX

OpenStack/VMWare Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployed OpenStack on single node and multi-node environments.
• Worked on Open Daylight as SDN controller, creating theDockercontainers andDockerconsoles for managing the application life cycle
• Knowledge on Kubernetes. Deployed Services in docker with Kubernetes clustering software as POC.
• Sound knowledge on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• Provision, automate and configure on demand resources using Chef, Ansible and HEAT.
• Designed and implemented multi node ESX environment using multiple clusters.
• Update the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in Virtual Center.
• Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 500 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter.
• Creating and managing VM Ware cluster. Enabling HA and DRS features in a cluster.
• Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations.
• Manage snapshots, clones, templates during patch releases and new server deployments, Experience with installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware Lab Manager.
• Experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX/ESXi 4.0 hosts and virtual machines.

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and Maintaining Disaster and Recovery solutions for Solaris, AIX and Linux.
• To avoid any performance issues, monitored Resources usage (CPU, Memory, Disk and Swap space)
• Creating, cloning, add/Remove device in VMware Farm are handled.
• Resolved system errors, disk space problems, huge file sizes, file system full errors.
• Logical volume Management and File system management.
• Participating in Emergency Power Outages and Disaster recovery procedures.
• Handled Installation and configuration of Solaris and Linux on Sun Servers.
• Responsible for conducting post incident review (PIR) meetings and to make sure to have a permanent solution for incident.
• Resolved system errors, disk space problems, huge file sizes, file system full errors.
• Experience on YUM Configuration and management.

Confidential

System administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing the Red Hat /VCS cluster for critical application.
• Follow Change Management process prior to making any changes to production systems.
• Configuration andadministrationon standard UNIX services like SSH, FTP, NFS, DNS, LDAP, SSL and Sudo.
• Worked on creating, configuring andadministrationof the filesystems (ext3) using Logical Volume Management LVM.
• Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Development of about 250+LinuxServers (Mix of Ubuntu, CentOS and RedHat-RHEL).
• Wrote custom scripts using Perl and Shell scripts to automate jobs.
• Developing Shell Scripts for internal activities - such as configuration backup and data collection etc.
• Systems administration, maintenance and monitoring various day-to-day operations, mounting File Systems, Troubleshooting, providing sudo access for scripts via editing sudoers file.