SUMMARY:

• Full Stack Certified Senior Infrastructure Security Specialist with over Eight years of experience in administration, implementation, and support of Windows, Active Directory, VMware technology, client/server hardware, software, peripherals, and networked systems, End User Computing and proven success in delivery on time.
• Active Directory Infrastructure 2003/2008 design, plan, implementation, configuration and in depth administration knowledge including Group Policy Management.
• Managed Windows 2003 / 2008 Active directory Multi Domain Network, Define users, groups, Policies, Trusts, user access and permissions
• Installed , configured and administered DNS servers, DHCP server
• Installed, configured and administered WSUS server for enterprise patch management.
• Proficient with software packaging and distribution using SCCM server.
• Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates.
• Strong foundation and experience in VMWare ESX 5.0 and Virtualization Technology, Vmotion, ESX Cluster etc
• Managed system/support teams, made of 15 members in supporting a total of 5000 users
• Analysis of project/business requirements and designing IT infrastructure for optimal performance
• Extensive experience of monitoring and support tools
• An effective communicator with demonstrated organizational abilities in diagnosing resolving complex issues
• Adept in installation / configuration, troubleshooting of networking components
• Experience in management of LAN, integrating a range of hardware and software platforms
• Deployment, maintenance and support of production environment.
• Strong understanding of ITIL v3 / V11 for entire infrastructure process.
• Evaluated and configured company's vCloud Director 5.5 for VMware, including creation of templates for server and clients for easy deployments.
• Designed, implemented and configured Citrix Infrastructure which includes Citrix XenApp 6.5 and Web Interface 5.4.
• Proposed and successfully implemented new backup solution for all mission critical servers.
• Designed and implemented systems policies.
• Designed and Implemented servers Infrastructure for new clients
• Upgraded TFS Infrastructure from Team Foundation Server 2010 to 2012.
• Upgraded Tivoli Server Management from 5.6 to 6.4
• Installed and configured VMWare ESXi on multiple physical servers and performed P2V conversions on over 40 servers for hardware consolidation and cost savings for the organization.
• Designed and built over 50 servers with Windows 2008, RedHat Enterprise, and Ubuntu Server.
• Experience in Performance Monitoring of CPU, Memory, Disks, and Network using various monitoring tools like glance, SAR and top.
• Configuration of Citrix server policies, Load Management and Printers in the Farm.
• Responsible for analyzing, planning, installing configuring, testing, maintaining, documenting, and providing technical support for Microsoft Active Directory and Citrix Metaframe Environment.
• Expertise in Microsoft SQL Server 2003, 2007 2012, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MOSS2007 .
• Expertise in User Group Security administration, backup recovery.
• Expertise in IBM Tivoli Storage Administration. Managed backup and restore for around 1000 production servers.
• Experience handling Disaster Recovery exercise using various tools like VMware SRM, Recovery Point SAN tools used for data store replication
• Root cause analysis, Troubleshooting, 24/7 support and handling of severity tickets.
• Performed system software/hardware upgrades, updates, and patches.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Operating Systems: Windows 2003/2008/ESX 5.0, Windows 7 / XP, Linux.
• Messaging Platform: Exchange 2003/2007/2010
• Patch Management: WSUS 3.1, IBM TIVOLI
• Methodology / Framework: Active Directory 2003/2008
• Remote Management: Cisco KVM Console Switch, DELL ILO /DRAC , VNC / RDP /
• Virtual Tools: VMware, Virtual Centre, VMware ESX server, MS Virtual server, MS Virtual PC, VMware vSphere 4.x/5.x
• Monitoring Tools: Microsoft Tools, Host monitor 9.90
• Design/CASE Tools: MS Project, Excel
• Miscellaneous: IIS 6, Print Server, File Server, , Citrix, SharePoint, SQL Server
• Network Services: WINS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, SMTP, POP3, IIS, Terminal service

EXPERIENCE

Senior Infrastructure Security Specialist

Confidential

Roles and responsibilities:

VMware Administration

• Manage VMware Infrastructure includes configure and maintain UCS and ESX 4.1,5.0 and 5.1 Servers.
• Troubleshoot network storage Server related issues.
• Provide new Virtualized environment as per the requirement.

Backup Restore Administration

• Configure and manage Backup restore of Production Servers.
• Troubleshoot backup related issues with IBM TSM 5.6 and 6.4

Windows Server Administration

• Configure and manage Windows Servers 2003, 2003 R2, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012.
• Troubleshoot Performance related issues with the servers.
• Create and configure new Servers Physical and Virtual as per requirement.

Active Directory Administration

• Active Directory Replication.
• File Replication.
• Active Directory Restore.
• Group Policies.
• Account Lockouts.
• Authentication Security issues.
• FSMO Role Maintenance, GC DCPROMO.
• Local Security Authority Subsystem Service Net logon issues.
• Schema Upgrades.
• Active Directory Trust.
• Time Synchronization / Skew maintenance.
• Terminal Services Licensing.
• User profile Corruption creation of terminal services roaming profile issues.
• Metadata cleanup

Citrix Administration

• Create, Configure and manage Citrix XenApp 6.5 Servers.
• Publish and manage Application on Citrix servers.

TFS Administration

• Create, Configure and manage Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 and 2012.
• Troubleshoot any issues related to TFS Server.
• IIS Administration
• Sharepoint Administration Manage Sharepoint sites, user access control.
• Application Deployment Production deployment with In-house .net based application.
• WSUS management Manage patches on around 2000 Development, Testing and Production Windows Servers.
• Storage Administration Work on failed drives with IBM DS4500, DS4800 and DS8300
• Monitored Production servers 24/7 using monitoring tool Host monitor 9.90.
• Microsoft SQL Administration Configure backup jobs perform regular restoring of Databases from Production to Dev or QA environments.

Environment: Windows Linux

Software Tools: VSphere, AD, IBM TSM

Total servers: 1000

Microsoft Server Security Support Consultant

Confidential

Roles and responsibilities:

Troubleshooting Active Directory related Issues namely:

• Manage Active Directory Replication across sites.
• Manage File Replication.
• Work on Active Directory Restore.
• Managing of Group policy objects GPO , Create or remove Trust relationships
• Troubleshoot issues related to Account Lockouts.
• Troubleshoot Authentication Security issues.
• FSMO Role Maintenance, GC DCPROMO.
• Local Security Authority Subsystem Service Net logon issues.
• Manage Schema Upgrades across multiple domains.
• Active Directory Trust.
• Work on issues related to Time Synchronization / Skew maintenance.
• Manage and maintain Terminal Services Licensing.
• User profile Corruption creation of terminal services roaming profile issues.
• Perform Metadata cleanup for failed Domain Controllers.
• Manage and maintain DNS/DHCP.
• VMware Administration Includes installation configuration and monitoring
• Exchange Administration Includes installation configuration and monitoring

Environment: Windows

Software Tools: Active Directory

Team Size: 100

Total servers: 5000

Confidential:

• Create, delete, and modify users in Active Directory.
• Worked on exchange, file print servers.
• Managing access control with several applications.
• Troubleshooting network related issues.
• OS and Hardware Troubleshooting
• Managing and maintaining VPN infrastructure.
• Worked on Incident and request management.
• Monitoring Production servers using various Microsoft Monitoring tools.
• Maintained and supported 1500 Windows servers with about 35000 users.
• Support and maintain multiple domain Microsoft Active Directory 2003 environment
• Patching the Production Servers during the green zone window with security patches. Security and Compliance Guidelines.
• Migrated Windows 2000 servers to 2003 and 2003 servers to 2008 servers.

Environment: Windows

Software Tools: AD

Team Size: 100

Total servers: 1000