OBJECTIVE

An IT professional with extensive experience with ability to expertise in Microsoft Windows, VMware administration, Antivirus Administration, Cloud (Azure) and zeal to adhere new technologies. As well, would aspire to work as an Engineer for being a part of professional organization and to add value through continuous improvement by making myself an indispensable for the organization.

SUMMARY

• Design, Install, Configure and Administration of Horizon View Virtual Desktop aws Infrastructure environment.
• Creating desktop pools, recompose operations, troubleshooting and good experience in desktop administration.
• Installed, configured, and maintained Active Directory, Puppet, SSH, NIS, NFS, VPN, HTTP, Microsoft WSUS, DHCP, DNS, SMTP, FTP, Samba, Web, LDAP, and Database clusters servers.
• Experienced working with Persistent desktops, Non - persistent desktops like Linked and Instant clones.
• Azure Designed and Implemented the Horizon view migration project.
• Experienced working with App volumes - App stacks and Writable Volumes.
• Installed and Configured VM Ware User environment manager.
• Installation and implementations of Active directories, DNS and DHCP, file, Print services.
• Troubleshooting ESX & Virtual Machines.
• Experienced in installing and managing the endpoint security devices, antivirus on all the VDI desktops.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates, Snapshots etc.
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and VMs.
• Monitoring server CPU, Memory, Disk utilization, critical services of XenApp/XenDesktop servers configured from edge sight server.
• Hands on experience with Citrix XenApp 6.5 and 7.x servers on Windows Server 2008R2 environment.
• Hands on experience in publishing applications with Citrix XenDesktop 7.6
• Good experience in using automation tools like Turbonomics, VRealize operations etc.
• Experienced in monthly patch management of desktops on both Windows 7 and windows 10.
• Upgrading the operating systems of the existing VDI environment from Win 7 to win 10.
• Installation, configuration and management of Windows Server 2008 2012R,2012R2.
• Azure Basic knowledge on using the System Center configuration manager for deploying the applications and managing them.
• Experienced in creating and managing the Group policies, ADM templates in Horizon view etc.
• Batch Data sources are ingested by creating pipeline using Azure data factory via Integration Runtime
• Good understanding and knowledge on basic networking like TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP.
• Experienced in installing and troubleshooting issues with the latest versions of Microsoft office applications.emc
• Configured multiple static and dynamic IP addresses for forward and dynamic routing.
• Provided support in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Good experience in managing user profiles, mapping network drives to the users, adding and deleting users from AD, giving permissions to the users etc.
• Good communication skills, coordinating with the team and provides on-call support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: MS Windows Server (2003/2008/R2/2012), Red Hat Linux (Enterprise Linux 5/6/7).

Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift

Automation and Configuration Tools: Jenkins, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Docker, Maven, Bamboo, Terraform, Ant

Virtualization Technologies: VMware ESX/ESXi, Windows Hyper-V, Virtual Box, Citrix Xen, Power VM, KVM

Networking /Protocol: FTP/SFTP, SMTP, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, NDS, DHCP, NFS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Sr. VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, Install, Configure and Administration of VM Ware Horizon View 7.0/6.2/5.3 environment.
• Migrated existing environment from view 5.3 to 6.2 and worked on troubleshooting issues during migration.
• Experience in deploying and maintaining vCenter/ vRealize Operations Manager (vCOPS/vROPS) / vRealize automation/ vRealize Orchestrator (vRA/vRO).
• Implemented multiple software defined storage appliances like Unity VSA for NFS, Dell ECS object storage solutions in the cloud.
• Installed configured and maintained Veeam backup
• Use VMware User Environment Manager (UEM) to virtualize User Profiles
• Managed daily backup jobs using Veeam.
• Utilizing VEEAM backup as solution for Data Retention on Data Domains.
• Troubleshoot Dell EMC Enterprise servers through the phone, email and WebEx support.
• Deployed Dell-EMC Unity appliance on VMware cloud (VMC) on AWS/on-premises using VSAN storage.
• Designed, installed and configured the whole view 7.5 environment from scratch and created desktops.
• Installed and Configured VM ware UEM and migrated all the existing user profiles from Profile Unity to User environment manger.
• Re-zone and re-cable fibre channel infrastructure and install Brocade 6510 FC switch fabrics for 2 data centres across the US for EMC VNX and XIO SANs connected thru EMC VPlex to VMware environments
• Product specialization in HPE EVA's, Brocade and Cisco Fibre Channel Switches, 3Par StoreServ Arrays.
• Proficiency in using VSphere, vRealize suite - vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS), Log Insight, vRealize Orchestration(vRO), and vRealize Automation (vRA/ vCAC), VMware Virtual SAN (vSAN)
• Help maximize utilization, performance and capacity planning analytics using vRealize Optimization Assessment (VOA)
• Maintained, troubleshot and hardening of windows servers. Windows 2012R2 and 2016 versions creating disk spaces for windows servers according to ITIL standards.
• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2008 Wintel servers, Active Directory Services, DNS, DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server, System Management Servers (SMS) servers
• Migration from legacy firewalls to next-generation firewalls, Cisco to Palo Alto.
• End to end design, implementation and troubleshooting of VMware ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, Dell, HP, Cisco UCS, VxRail, VxRack servers
• Experience in configuring and Managing Hyper converged server's VxRail and Nutanix
• Perform VMware Horizon View upgrades for companies already using VMware Horizon View
• Supporting and Maintain vCenter Server Appliance, vRealize Operations Manager (vROps), vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), vRealize Business, ESXi, Update Manager and NSX.
• Design and implementation of datacentres and installing the Hardware of Dell PowerEdge, HP and Cisco UCS Blade servers.
• Integration with Active Directory authentication on Unix/Linux using LDAP/LDAPS
• Racked and stacked Dell, HP and Cisco UCS chassis and rackmount hardware
• Well experienced in UNIX and Linux Administration, Build and Release management involving extensive work towards packaging, building, debugging and UNIX and Linux Administration.
• Installation, configuration and management of RHEL 6, 7.
• Responsible for Unix/Linux system administration tasks of Red HAT 7.
• Published various applications through Horizon 6 & 7 and managed and troubleshooting their issues.
• Worked on ESXi Troubleshooting, virtual Center Administration HA, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, FT and enabled automation of HA and DRS on the clusters.
• Installing software’s, antivirus on the templates and troubleshooting them.
• Installed the static and non-persistent win 10 VDI pools to test as a part of the Windows 10 project.
• Created both static and instant clone win10 pools.
• Deploy and test VMware plug-ins used for configuration of network adapters.
• Installed, Configured and administered ESX 6.0/5.0/4.0 on DELL servers using DELL on-board administrator for the DELL chassis & enclosures, and with IBM Flex Systems and Cisco UCS Blades.
• Used the Azure Key Vault service to store secrets and keys used for encrypting the storage & Service.
• Installed and configured App volumes for faster application delivery to the VDI desktops.
• Responsible for monthly patch management for all the Non-persistent VDI desktops and recomposing to pools so that all the desktops will be patched with the latest MS updates.
• Patching all the ESX hosts using update manager.
• Tickets Experience in updating/upgrading ESX/ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using update manager and manual upgrades.
• Experienced in installing and troubleshooting issues with Microsoft office suite both 2007 and O365.
• Worked in creating and managing the Group policies, ADM templates in Horizon view etc. for changing the display settings for better user experience.
• Worked on moving machines to their respective OU’s in active directory, adding users to their respective groups and giving permissions to the users to get to their shared drives and all other access.
• Experienced in basic shell scripting, installing and troubleshooting windows servers 2008, 2012 R2 and importing right certificates to the browsers.
• Developed and wrote Windows Power shell script to automate process and package delivery.
• Migration Virtual machines one Region into another Region in the Azure.
• Created Run books & scheduled using Azure automation for automating tasks like Starting & stopping VM's, HDI Clusters & Pausing DWH.
• Good experience working with troubleshooting issues with user profiles as well as upgrading and managing profile unity for users logging into the Non-persistent VDI desktops.
• Worked on some automation tools like Turbonomics that can automate all the vMotion, decrease or increase memory and CPU automatically from the machines.
• Planned the new environments using Turbonomics and automating the resources by enabling Hot add for all the virtual machines and getting reports for cost and maintenance.
• Experienced in ticketing tools like service now.
• Worked in conjunction with the team in design, development and implementation of VDI-related operational procedures, standards and deploying software’s using SCCM, troubleshooting issues and maintaining the desktop environment across the organization.

Confidential, Houston, TX

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure, maintain, troubleshoot and Administration of vSphere 5.5, ESXi 6.0,6.5 Virtual Center 5.5, which includes clean and in-place upgrade methods involving in upgrading the ESXi, VCenter Servers.
• Design, Install, Configure and Administration of Horizon 7.0 and vCloud Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment.
• Excellent Administration and troubleshooting skills in issues related to View Connection servers, View Manager, View Security servers, View Composer, View Pools, View desktops, Snapshot, Win7 OS Templates creation.
• Deployed RDSH Desktop Hosts, RDS Hosted Apps and Horizon Linux Desktops using Horizon 7.0 & 6.2, using the Blast Protocol, new improved Blast Extreme protocol and PCoIP protocol to VDI users.
• Hands on Experience in deploying new Horizon7 features instant Clones, Blast Extreme, Identity Manager, Smart policies, Horizon Access Point.
• Protecting Azure Active Directory accounts against compromise.
• Implemented Trend Micro Deep Security AV using VShield network security Endpoint technology to better control the traffic flow monitoring in VDI Environment and provide agent less AV Scan.
• Plan and schedule OS upgrades & firmware upgrades.
• Used VMware vMotion to eliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running virtual machines between hosts.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network in ESXi &Virtual Machines.
• Management of virtual machines, their resource pools and capacity planning
• Created the different azure data factory pipelines to copy data daily, weekly and monthly.
• Work with VMware Infrastructure Client in supporting our Windows 2003 & 2008, Server environment.
• Responsible for installing software’s on the templates and other desktops and troubleshoot the issues.
• Experience on ESXi Troubleshooting, Virtual Center Administration and creating Host Profiles, Distributed Switch network, HA, DRS, VMotion, Storage VMotion, FT, Resource pools.
• Monitoring and reporting the health status of Horizon View VDI environments and vSphere environments using vRealize.
• Responsible for using some basic scripts for better management of vSphere and VDI environments.
• Created the different azure data factory pipelines to copy data daily, weekly and monthly.
• Developed and recommended solutions to support defined business processes and operational goals.
• Managed the active directory, created the GPO's based on the requirements and placed them as an OU.
• Responsible for setting up of HP G7 &G8 Blade servers and configuring them adding memory, storage, network cards and network cable setup.
• Provide 24*7 VDI production L3/L2 support.

Confidential, Stamford, CT

VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience installing, upgrading and configuring RedHat Linux 4.x, 5.x, 6.x using Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Installed and configured AnthillPro/Jenkins for Automating Deployments and providing a complete automation solution.
• Responsible for creating and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring in Solaris, CentOS and Redhat Linux.
• Configures DNS, NFS, FTP, remote access, and security management.
• Creates Linux Virtual Machines using VMware Virtual Center.
• Installs, upgrades and manages packages via RPM and YUM package management, Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning on Unix/Linux systems.
• Installs, configures and supports Apache on Unix/Linux production servers and manages Patches configuration, version control, service pack and reviews connectivity issues regarding security problem, manages systems routine backup, scheduling jobs and enabling cr on jobs.
• Used Bamboo to perform automated builds and Deployments JAVA applications to DEV, test pre-prod and prod environments.
• Involved in setting up JIRA as defect tracking system and configured various workflows, customizations and plugins for the JIRA bug/issue tracker.
• Designed and implemented multiple Virtualization Infrastructures on VMware Hypervisor.
• Built and configured Virtual Unix/Linux Machines using ESXi and VSphere Client.
• Experience supporting VMware infrastructure in a large enterprise environment.
• Worked with the Architects on SDLC process being the owner of post development environments.
• Experience configuring Linux guest in a VMware ESX environment.
• Administers VMware Infrastructure Client 3.5 and VSphere 4.1.
• Deploying the EAR and WAR archives into WebLogic and Apache Servers.
• Managed build results in Jenkins and deployed using workflows.
• Worked on building data centre with AWS. Installed SVN, GIT, Jenkins images on AWS.
• Installed and configured Jenkins for Automating Deployments and providing an automation solution.
• Integrated GIT into Jenkins to automate the code check-out process.
• Developed unit and functional tests in Python and Ruby.
• Used configuration management tools Chef, Puppet, and CF Engine.
• Developed and maintained Python /Shell scripts for build and release tasks.
• Experience with Technology level upgrades, Service pack upgrades using alternate disk method.
• Expertise in Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using LVM commands.
• Active member of the Production 24/7 on-call support teams to support Databases for critical Applications.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Basic understanding of Windows Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Windows desktop and Remote desktop.
• Implementation and administration of Active Directory in Windows 2008, 2012 and 2003 environment.
• Creating and Managing Users, Roles and Access Permissions.
• Installation, configuration and management of multiple server suites Windows on VMware ESXi server and Prepared the strategy and implemented ESXi Migration.
• Strong experience in windows server support
• Strong experience in existing Active directory environment domains
• Administering Windows 2008 Active Directory, building new windows physical/virtual servers as per the requirement of the project.
• Successfully Configured troubleshoot and maintain DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, Active Directory issue
• Configured trouble and resolved print server issue.
• Utilize SCCM to deploy patches and maintain environment.
• Installing, Configuring and Managing AD / DHCP / DNS Services.
• Creating Group Policies and implementation as per standard procedures. azure
• Data backup, allowing Remote access, folder sharing etc.
• User Profile Rename and recreation.