SUMMARY:

• Cloud Engineer/Architect with more than 16+ years of hands on experience in Infrastructure Technologies on VMware ESXi/NSX, Public Cloud (Azure & IBM Bluemix), Security, Microsoft Technologies and DevOps
• Strong knowledge on Traditional, Converged and Hyperconverged Infrastructure with Cisco Hyperflex, Cisco UCS, HPE SimpliVity and Dell VxRail Platform
• Extensive experience with design, builds/deployment automation/management tools, processes such as VRealize Automation, vRealize Log Insight, vRealize Operations Manager, VCenter and other virtualization technologies
• 9 plus years’ experience in Banking and Financial Industry with deployment, design and documentation on Infrastructure
• Strong experience on working with cloud security related projects such as Identity and access management, privileged access management and hytrust RBAC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Cloud/Security Engineer

Confidential

• Migrate On - Premises workload (VMware and Hyper-V) to Azure IAAS using Terraform and Azure Automation
• Integrate Azure AD with On-Premise Active Directory
• Implement Infrastructure security management system with Azure Security Center
• Provide Threat protection across hybrid workloads in the cloud
• Implement CI/CD pipeline with Azure Devops
• Track the work by Azure boards, Repos, pipelines, test plans and Artifacts
• Hands on with Docker images and Kubernetes
• Public cloud and security implementation using Azure and AWS on IAAS and PAAS for DEV, UAT and Prod environments
• Managed resource groups and its VMs, automation accounts
• New operating systems, front and backend applications implementation and migrations to virtual environment on cloud using Terraform, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), Git, Visual studio code, PowerShell.
• Worked on Azure Security tightening project for zero security risks - Azure security Center with most of its components like security policies, Identity and access, security solutions, pricing, IOT Hubs and resources, resource security hygiene, policy and compliance, advanced cloud defense, threat protection, encryption, VNET restrictions for multiple platforms and subnets.

Cloud Architect

Confidential

• Implemented the private cloud using VMware ESXi 6.5
• Upgraded their VMware environment to ESXi 6.5 including Vcenter
• Implemented fault-tolerance and VMware VSAN
• Migrated VMs from VMware to public cloud
• Integrated On-prem AD to Azure AD
• Implemented container solution using Docker

Cloud Engineer

Confidential

• Designed, Implemented and managed 5 VCSA in Enhanced Linked mode across multiple datacenters
• Built and configured VMware cloud 2.0 Lab Environment for Technology Validation on HP and Cisco UCS
• Designed High Level Design Documents, Low Level Design Documents and run books
• Deployed the new private cloud based on VMware Vsphere 6.5
• Deployed 450+ ESXi 6.5 hosts for new Vsphere environment
• Implemented Hytrus cloud control for RBAC
• Implemented Gaurdicore for network security and microsegmentation
• Implemented SIEM solutions using Splum
• Implemented Cyberark’s PAM solution
• Successfully upgraded VSphere environment from 6.0 to 6.5 across multiple datacenters
• Migrated VMs (VMotion, SVMotion) across and between the clusters
• Implemented VSAN 6.2 with 2 disk groups per host across multiple clusters which consist of 8, 12 and 16 ESXi hosts
• Migrated 5000 VMs from ESXi 6.0 clusters to ESXi 6.5
• Deployed vRealize Operations Manager (VROPS) Log insight and Network Insight for monitoring and logging
• Managed Health, Risk and Efficiency with vRealize Operations manager (vRops)
• Designed and Implemented VMware NSX 6.2 with multiple NSX Managers and controllers per site
• Designed and Implemented vRealize Loginsight (vRLI)
• Designed and installed vSphere Update Manager (VUM)
• Upgraded ESXi 6.0 to 6.5 with Update Manager
• Evaluated different Hyperconverged and converged vendors like HPE SimpliVity, Cisco Hyperflex, Dell VxRail and Cisco UCS
• Moved the workload from the legacy environment HP DL380 G9 to Dell VxRail and Cisco UCS
• Upgraded the ESXi hosts with vSphere Update Manager (VUM)
• Patched ESXi hosts and Upgraded VMware Tools with VSphere Update Manager (VUM)
• Migrated the workload from private cloud VMware to Public cloud such as IBM Bluemix using HCX

Senior Technical Consultant in VMware & Windows Infra

Confidential

• Responsible for managing the Vsphere ESXi and Active Directory infrastructure of Scotia Bank
• Responsible for forecasting, designing, and laying out future VMware infrastructure while organizing upgrade of current VMware hosts and consolidating older infrastructure
• Successfully migrated Vsphere Environment from 4.0/5.1 to 5.5/6.0
• Responsible for managing 75+ ESXi servers which are running 5000+ Virtual Machines
• Responsible for LUN Provisioning, Virtual Center and Host Upgrades/Rebuilds for blades and rack mounts, VMware License Management, P2V Conversions, Configuring Trunks and Access Ports on virtual switches using ESXi 3.x, 4.x, and 5.x
• Responsible for Seamlessly Migration P2V, V2V of hundreds of servers using VMware Converter, storage Vmotion
• Optimize the server/network/storage infrastructure and proactively monitoring applications by utilizing vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Hyperic, vRealize Log Insight, vCenter Configuration Manager and VMware Health Analyzer
• Upgraded VCenter from 4.1 to 5.0/5.5
• Upgraded/Migrated ESXi from 4.1/5.0/5.1 to 5.5

Senior Server Specialist in VMware & Wintel

Confidential

• Implemented, Architected and Optimized Vmware ESXi 4.1, 5.0
• Managed Virtual infrastructure of Reuters Environment, which consists of 500+ ESXi hosts with 3 different sites
• Configured HA, DRS, SDRS and vDS
• Monitoring VMs & ESXi Servers performance (CPU, Memory, storage, Network utilization)
• Migrated VMs using VMotion technology
• Performed 300 P2V (Physical to Virtual) Migrations using VMware Converter

Technical Specialist in VMware/Microsoft Active Directory & Exchange

Confidential

• Architected, tested and deployed Exchange 2007 on windows 2008 in a green two Datacenter environment
• Managed highly complex environment for AD and Exchange migrations from Multiple forest to single forest
• Consolidated 5 Exchange 2003 and 2007 Organization with 18,000 users into the newly built environment using Quest Migration Tools
• Managed clustered mailbox servers with CCR and SCR
• Prepared Standard Operating Procedure for Technical process
• Scripted reports using windows PowerShell
• Supported more than 600 VMs, 20+ ESXi servers and 1200+ Windows physical servers