SUMMARY:

• Systems Engineer/Administrator with 12plus years of experience in VMware vSphere global virtualization, Windows Servers, Linux, Unix, Storage and networking infrastructure.
• Experience in designing, deploying virtual networks and upgrading systems including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral equipment.
• Managing Cloud infrastructure, SRM, vCloud director, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Office 365, VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) .
• Extensive experience in setting up of VMware clusters, HA, DRS, FT, Backup, Access and Authentication control, Update manager.
• Extensive experience in large multi domain Active Directory with over 80000 users.
• Extensive experience with GPOs, DHCP, DNS, IIS, Terminal servers, File servers, Print serves.
• Configure and manage the automated backup solution using Data Protector.
• Experience of setting up and managing Jenkins master and slaves.
• Experience managing Lab environment.
• Migration of vCenter, ESXi host, Active directory and other windows servers.
• Setting up of new chassis, blade serves, building ESXi hosts, Clusters, building Windows and Linux virtual machines.
• Configuring iDrac, ILO, RSA, KVM, Raid, NIC teaming, link aggregation.
• Patch management of ESXi hosts and virtual servers.
• Managing SAN and NAS.
• Extensive experience in Incident, change and problem management.
• Experience in regulatory environment, FDA compliance.
• Datacenter management and consolidation.
• Good knowledge of TCP/IP, OSI networking models and routing protocols.
• Experience implementing network security, active directory security hardening, deletion, access control and user administration.
• Experienced with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, Dell, Confidential hardware like blade servers, rack - mounted servers, tower servers, Cisco UCS-B, UCS-C and Nexus 1000v.
• Extensive experience working in cloud and infrastructure as service.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware : VMware vSphere 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.0/4.1, ESXi Server 4.1/5.0/5.5/6.0/6.5, vCloud Director, VMware SRM, VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO), vRealize Operations Manager (vROps), VMware vRealize Automation (vRA), VMware Horizon, VMware vCenter Converter, vshield, VMware Update Manager, VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure VDI, VMware Workstation, VMware VCB, VMware View, Pivotal Spring, Spring Enterprise and Spring Server

Windows Servers : Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Active Directory, ADFS, LDAP, ADRMS, DNS, DHCP, Microsoft Hyper - V, Microsoft Exchange server 2010, Exchange server 2016, Windows 10,8,7, Share point.

Open Source : Linux, Unix, CentOS, Ubuntu, KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine)

Cloud Services: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Office 365.

Storage: NetApp, EMC, Nimble, Hitachi, HP, Confidential

Patch Management Tools: SCCM, Bigfix/Tivoli Endpoint Manager (TEM), Shavlik, Batchpatch, WSUS.

Backup Solutions : Symantec, Commvalut, Veritas NetBackup, HP Data protector, vRanger, Veeam

Networking Equipment : Cisco Nexus series, Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Cisco Firewalls, Juniper Routers, Juniper Switches, Palo Alto firewall.

Server Hardware : Cisco UCS, HP, Dell, Confidential Enclosure Chassis, Blades, Rack mount serves, Tower servers, Layer 3 switches, Routers ect.

Ticketing Tools: Service now, Maximo, Jira, CA, HP Service Manager, Remedy.

Scripting: PowerShell, VB, SQL Scripting, Bash, Python.

Others : SCCM, SCOM, Jenkins, SPLUNK, Perfecto Mobile, Microsoft NLB and Fail over Cluster, Veritas Cluster, SQL servers, F5 Load balancer, Solar Wind Monitoring, Nagios Monitoring, Site scope, Site Maestro, Dell OME, HP SIM, NAS, NFS, iSCSI, Infoblox IPAM, Chef, Puppet.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, California

Senior VMWare/Windows Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrated VMware vCenter and ESXi server infrastructure environments to 6.0.
• Installed and configured new vCenter server for new datacenter.
• Set up new chassis and build ESXi cluster.
• ESX Server Maintenance, ESX Server Deployment, ESX Server Upgrades, Virtual Center Maintenance, Operational Troubleshooting, Virtual Server Maintenance, Storage Migrations and Patching.
• Upgraded the Active Directory schema to 2012R2 from 2008R2.
• Upgraded Confidential ’s Active Directory environment from existing 2008R2 to 2012R2.
• Migrated Users, Computers, OUs, Groups from Europe and Asia Pacific domains to Americas domain as a part of domain consolidation project.
• Built Windows server 2016 and migrated the application to Windows server 2016.
• Have set up QMM for migrating users, computers, OUs and groups.
• Documentation of new AD Architectural, Scope of the project, Project plan, Decommission plan ect.
• Implemented the active directory group policies.
• Installing and configuring Active directory certificate service (ADCS).
• Decommissioning of the 2008R2 domain controller in a regulated environment.
• Set up Jenkins master and slaves on Centos, Ubuntu servers.
• Managing System Configuration Manager.
• Managing large groups of computers running Windows servers, MacOS, Linux and Android mobiles using SCCM.

San Jose, California / Branchburg NJ

Subject Mater Expert VMware & Windows servers

Responsibilities:

• Built vCenter server, ESXi servers, ESXi cluster for the next generation datacenter.
• Research and develop technical solutions through virtualization in support of the SaaS Platform.
• Setting up the next generation software defined datacentre and Cloud infrastructure using SDDC, OPCx, VPCx.
• Set up new chassis, Dell blade servers, Cisco UCS for virtual environment.
• Configure and manage the automated backup solution using Data Protector.
• Assesses the current capacity, projected and planned further capacity requirements.
• Migrated Active directory servers, users, groups, OUs to the new domain.
• Migration of DNS, DHCP, file and print servers.
• Built, install configure and Manage Windows 2008R2 servers, Windows 20012R2 Servers, VMware Virtual environment.
• Migration of application from self-hosted environment (local server) to the Hosted (managed datacenter)
• Automation of some of the tasks using Power shell and VB scripts.
• Set up two lab environment consist of Jenkins, Exchange server 2016, Exchange server 2010, Perfecto mobile.
• Set up HP load generators, load controllers, Unified functional testing (UFT) servers for testing purpose.
• Manages mobile testing lab including perfecto mobile private cloud.
• Set up and manage the lab environment consist of ESXi host, VMware Virtual machines, Windows 2008R2, 2012R2 servers, Cisco Switches, F5 Firewalls ect.
• Responsible for further design of process improvement for ongoing support, operationalization of implemented solutions, and transition of ongoing tasks to support staff.
• Sound knowledge of working in FDA GxP regulatory environment requirements

Confidentiall, Palo Alto, California

Technical Lead VMware Windows

Responsibilities:

• Build new 2 VMware 5.5 clusters having 12 nodes for next two quarter expansion.
• Build 3 new ESXi 5.5 Cisco UCS cluster.
• Set up the new datacenter environment as a part of the datacenter consolidation.
• Setting up cloud environments OPCx, VPCx and Hybrid Cloud Computing and their supporting infrastructures.
• Managing vCloud director and Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
• Upgraded all the vCenter and existing ESXi hosts to 5.5.
• Updated the entire ESXi host with latest security patches using update manager.
• Writing scripts using PowerShell and Python.
• Configure and manage the automated backup solution using HP Data Protector.
• Built Windows, Linux servers and MS SQL Clusters.
• Upgraded the fiber NIC drives of all the Cisco UCS servers.
• Figured out and tagged the missing Vlans to the ESXi hosts to ensure that all the Vlans are existing in all the nodes of the cluster in order to avoid the vMotion isssues.
• Made sure that all the datastores are presented to all the nodes in the cluster in order to avoid the storage vMotion issues.
• Upgraded the RAM and firmware of few of the Dell servers. And replaced the faculty mother board of few ESXi hosts and added back to the cluster.
• Prepared new ESXi server, Windows server, Linux server building run book.
• Prepared the run book for decommissioning of servers.
• System patching, software distribution and inventory management using SCCM.

Confidential, Reston, Virginia

Active Directory Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Creation of Trust relationship between two forests.
• Migration of Active directory users, groups, OUs using Quest Migration Manager (QMM).
• Migration of applications, data, database using EMcopy and beyond compare.
• Setting up of vConveter for the migration of servers.
• Migration of large number of servers from the acquired company datacenter to the parent company environment.
• Migration of Windows 2008R2, 2012R2 servers.
• Built PowerShell scripts for the migration tasks.

Confidential, Moline, Illinois

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing and Implementation of large and complex VMware virtual infrastructure.
• Planning, Designing and Implementation of Wintel / Windows 2008R2 and 2012 servers for large Multinational Corporation.
• Installing configuring and maintaining vCenter server, ESXi server, Designing network configuration, Managing Virtual Machines, Configuring vMotion network, Fault Tolerance, Data Protection, Access control, Resource pools, Monitoring virtual machine performance, alarms.
• Configuring and managing High Availability, vSphere distributed resource scheduler (DRS), Configure and manage virtual storage, VSA Cluster configuration, Load-Balancing, Back up, Access and authentication control, Integrating ESXi with Active Directory (AD), vShield to secure the virtual data center, Resource management and monitoring, Scheduling changes to resource settings, Cluster resource allocation, Configuring vCenter update Manager.
• Up gradation of the existing infrastructure.
• Installing, Configuring and maintaining of ADDS (Active Directory Domain Service), DNS, DHCP, IIS, Terminal Service, Print and file servers.
• Migration of 2003 AD, DNS, DHC servers to 2008R2 and 2012.
• Build servers for production and test environments following strict build procedures.
• Data center management and Server consolidation.
• Deployed Unified Computing System (UCS) Blade chassis with 8 blades each to support the Network Tools Infrastructure and VMware Infrastructure.
• Configuring and maintaining UCS-B, UCS-C, and Nexus 1000.
• End to End patching of hundreds of servers spread across different time zone using Bigfix.
• Inventory management, software distribution, OS deployment using SCCM.
• Securing the distributed environments and helps to comply with regulatory standards on security.
• Setting up and troubleshooting Microsoft failover cluster and NLB cluster for the mission critical application servers. And configuring RAID 5 and Mirrored volume for DCs and other critical servers.
• Decommissioning of Physical and Virtual servers as per the norms.
• Raising the change and implementing the same within the change window.
• Resolving the Incident raised by the operation team with in the SLA time.
• Migration of user profile from thin client to Vista.
• Migration of large numbers of Active directory accounts and data.
• Pre migration validation and audit fixation in SQL DB.
• Post migration issue fixations in Active directory.
• Automation of routine System Administration tasks using VB Script and Microsoft Windows power shell script.
• Installing of various utilities Firmware up-gradation, printer packing and monitoring of servers.
• Providing on call support for the critical issues on rotation basis.

Confidential

System Engineer Windows & VMware

Responsibilities:

• Planning, designing and implementing Windows and VMware infrastructure.
• Effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of Windows Serves, VMware servers, systems hardware and software and related infrastructure.
• Manages AD, DNS, DHCP, IIS and file servers.
• Implementation and up gradation of VMware infrastructure.
• Providing level 3 support for entire Windows and VMware infrastructure.
• Utilized VMware to build networking & server lab environment that streamlined server OS / application deployments, increased system uptime, and improved reliability.
• Making sure storage and networking infrastructure met virtual infrastructure specifications.
• Responsible for support for all server related issues.
• System builds, upgrades, migrations, code deployments and patch management.
• Data Center Management, Capacity planning and management.
• Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
• Prepared and maintained documentation of technologies, standards and procedures.
• End to End patching of MS servers.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Windows 2000 Servers, 2K3 Servers.
• Installing and configuring ESX, ESXi hosts.
• Building and maintaining VMware Virtual Machines.
• L3 support of production issues and resolving the same with in the SLA time frame.
• Raising and implementing changes as per the change management process.
• Creation and maintenance of Active directory users, groups, OU and delegating assess to concern department administrator.
• Configuring and troubleshooting issues related to network printers
• Remote server/system administration.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting web servers.
• Monitoring server health and resolving issues related to hardware of HP, Confidential, Dell server by working with vendors.
• Patch management of servers.
• Generating various reports from AD and sending it to various management teams for auditing purpose