SUMMARY

• An IT professional wif over 11+ years of experience across Infrastructure Service management, operations management,
• Project management and project transition; currently working as an VMWare Architect and an Infrastructure Specialist at Avon, USA
• Infrastructure Specialist\Architect, leading the role of designing and Implementing and Managing Technologies across the Data - Centre
• Adept at mapping client’s requirements, custom designing solutions & troubleshooting for complex networking related problems;
• Customer focused, wif TEMPeffective customer service skills at all levels and demonstrated capability to manage technical aspects and architect tailor made customer solutions.
• Exceptional analytical and troubleshooting skills, enriched wif logical reasoning. Working as a Datacenter Specialist.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Total Experience or more TEMPthan 10 years, presently working as a VMWare Architect, Implementing, designing upgrading the Infrastructure for better resource utilization and Go-Green Initiative.
• To write/update clear and useful documentation
• Working as a DataCenter Specialist and Virtualization Expert.
• Hands-on Expertise includes - LAN Design, configuring end-to-end Virtual Infra. (VMware, LDOMs, LPARS, HP Integrity), Unix, Windows DHCP, DNS, AD, FTP Implementation, Administration and Training End-users support.
• Committed team player wif strong analytical and problem solving skills and ability to adapt quickly to new environments and technologies.
• Ability to quickly master new concepts and capable of working in-group as Well as independently wif excellent Communication skills.
• To improve the quality and TEMPeffectiveness of computing; to create and maintain high available, secure, resilient system.
• Designing and Architecting the Virtual Infrastructure and end-to-end support of Datacenter responsibilities. Servers (x86 Machines, SPARC host, IBM Power Machines, HP-UX Itanium machines), Storage (NetApp, Dell Equilogic, Software storages)
• To enjoy my work; to expand the efficiency, scope and impact of my TEMPeffectiveness; to make lasting contributions to my company and my field; to excel in the same.
• OpenStack (EX210 Certified) MCSE, MCITP, CCNA, VCP 550 Certified and VCAP-DCA.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked wif Avon USA as a Sr. VMWare Architect (7th Dec’15 to 31st May’16).
• Designing the Virtual Infrastructure and Improvising the present one to accommodate the new VM’s.
• Planning and Designing VMWare Infra to accommodate all core application and database servers (P2V)
• Setup new instance and extend the vRealize Operations Manager to support more TEMPthan 400 hosts and close to 7k VM’s
• Storage optimization (multi-tiering storage) for VMWare Infrastructure.
• Capacity planning and future projection of VMWare Infrastructure.
• Worked at Progress Software as TEMPPrincipal System Administrator (Systems Specialist) (18th June’10 to November 2015).

Confidential

Sr. technical

Responsibilities:

• Remotely maintaining some 800+ servers; US, UK, Singapore, Honk Kong, Australia, Morrisville, Rotterdam.
• Completely responsible for design and Implementation of the ESX Infrastructure based on the business requirement.
• Servers include (Wintel/Solaris/Linux/RHEL/CentOS/IBM AIX/HPUX)
• Configuring and Administering the Windows Cluster for the file server, SQL Cluster and other business critical environments.
• Complete VMWare ESX 3.5/4.x/5.x, LDOM’s, LPARS, HP Integrity and Lab Manager Design & Administration (two separate farms of 2500+ Virtual Server), NSX
• Troubleshooting complex ESX and VM issues, and creating new VM as per company standards (using templates and clones); repairing corrupt VM’s, P2V, V2V, exporting/importing VM to and from different environment (VMware ESX, LDOM’s, LPAR’s, HP Integrity). ZFS Cloning and Migration, Solaris Domains and Containers (Global, Sparse, Branded).
• Build servers (ESX, Solaris, AIX, and HPUX) as per company standards. NPIV wif AIX LPAR, PowerHA 7.1, IPv6 configuration
• Network, compute and Virtualization, a simple solution. Building and Managing the Cisco UCS B200-M3 and C220-M3 models (RACK and Blade Servers) via multiple Service Profiles (h/w, n/w & Virtualization in one preconfigured template). Working on evaluating Cisco UCS Central 1.0. Managing the system using the onboard KVM dongle (f8) and CIMC 1.2 & UCS Manager.
• Configuring and maintaining IBM RAC, Dell DRAC, HP Rilo, IBM HMC, LDOM Manager.
• Administer the Citrix XenApp 6.5 and experience in upgrading from XenApp 6.0 to 6.5. Branding the WFE and the Storefront server, and customizing to suite the business need.
• Commissioning and Decommissioning of Servers as per specific Standards.
• Preparing Reports (Capacity Planning, Health Checkup), via HPOMW, vMatters, vCops, perl and shell scripts and batch files for the physical and virtual Infrastructure as per requirements.
• Doing RCA on business critical server issue related to all Virtual Infrastructure.
• Involved in various projects (ESX upgrades, Samba upgrade, Windows 2012 evaluation & implementing direct-access, Solaris/hpux/aix migration & upgrade), Internal Audits and Asset management.
• Capacity planning of the storage and the ESX servers (using VCops, Splunk, RVtool, custom Pearl and Python scripts etc) and take appropriate action to meet the resource requirement . Upgrading the resource on the VCenter Server to accommodate new Host’s added later.
• Resource utilization of VMWare Infrastructure (considering the vmsprawl) vCops 5.7
• End-to-end Implementing and managing VMware Horizon™ 6 and VMWare vCD 5.5 for the test and the dev. groups.
• Working wif the Dev group supporting the Docker’s, Vagrant, Puppet, GitHub repository, OpenStack, etc.
• Leading a Virtual team of 12 members in and across all offices for all kinds of issues related to the Servers (Virtual and Physical) and the networking components.
• Take care of the Life Cycle Management like patching/upgrading of ESX using the VMware vCenter Update Manager, and CLI using SC as and when required; Solaris and AIX using tools from HP xMatters and HP Operations Manager, zabbix and naggios.
• Logging support calls to VMWare for highly critical issues.
• Symantec Enterprise Antivirus Administration.
• Maintaining the Surgient Private Cloud, creating the images and deploying them as per the requirement. RedHat Enterprise OpenStack (Juno) implementation (packstack) and management
• Implement and manage OpenStack (Juno) in our environment. Helping the uses to be self-sufficient accessing the cloud environment and create their own template, etc.
• Work wif the Network team in design of the DC for efficient utilization of Network resources, like Riverbed and the Packet shaper and various other IT infrastructure components using Solar Winds (prioritizing and access control).
• Onsite exposure to setup the complete DC Infrastructure for the office in Singapore in co-ordinations wif the local vendors their.
• Last but not the least; coordinating wif the onsite team before opening/performing any change requests.

Confidential

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Remotely maintaining some 7500+ servers for ML and Bank Servers; US, UK, Singapore.
• Configuring and Administering the Windows Cluster.
• Troubleshooting VM issues, and creating new VM as per company standards (using templates and clones)
• Backup administration using Legato, Net Backup 5.0
• Hardware monitoring using HP SIM
• Commissioning and Decommissioning of Servers
• Preparing daily Reports, customizing scripts and batch files as per requirements.
• Doing RCA on business critical server issue
• Involved in projects, Internal Audits and Asset management.
• Administering H/W and OS related alerts.
• Working wif team of 25+ members in India office and reporting to the SA managers in US and UK.
• Patch Management using Bigfix.
• MacAfee Enterprise Antivirus Administration
• Assisting the onsite SA team members in server up gradation, etc.
• Weekly Activities (Comm, Decom, VM Migration and configuring the Clusters as per Industry Standards, preparing audit reports etc.)

Confidential

Windows server Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Remotely maintaining some 200+ servers for RMG, UK
• 5 windows servers configured as clusters
• Hp Open View Data Protector: 6.0 and VERITAS Exec 9.0
• SAN EVA4000 (Hp Storage area network)
• Mainly working on DL380 G5 Hp servers.
• Monitoring the servers and analyzing its TEMPeffects.
• Working on ticketing tool (Remedy), Meeting target SLA’s as according to client requirement.
• Hardware Monitoring
• Operating System Monitoring
• Backup and Restore Monitoring and Remote Management
• Print Spool Service Check
• Anti-Virus & Password Quality Evaluation
• Detect identified events and follow notification and escalation procedures appropriate to that event
• Server Production Job Scheduling
• Server Security Advisory
• Server User Administration, Patch management using WSUS
• Deploying and maintaining Trust Relationship.
• Configure user access to desired resources via configuration of users and user related attributes (such as groups) wifin the supported Customer environment.
• ESX Server: Installation & Configuration, Creations of VM, and storage management, Cluster configuration of ESX boxes, etc.

Confidential

System/Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing Software Firewalls
• Very good experience on windows Active directory
• Terminal Server / Citrix configuration for MS ERP application Sharing for remote users in UK, USA.
• Installation and configuration of Linux Desktop / Servers in India & US.
• Maintaining network security levels & Systems/Software wif Service Packs, Hot Fixes, Security Fixes, latest Update Versions, and monitoring WEB server logs
• Support project development teams for Client Projects in the implementation of Software / Hardware upgrades and system installs in accordance wif the various clients Project needs.
• E-Commerce Domain Registration, IP Mapping for Domain, Domain Alias in Web Server
• Lotus Notes and Dominos server Administration.
• Proxy Servers to provide Internet connectivity to the workstations and IIS for Web Hosting
• Servers configured as a DHCP, DNS and File and Print Sharing.
• Installation, configuration, troubleshooting of .NET Servers
• User and group account creation, configuration and administration for Windows 2003, Visual SourceSafe and other authentication required applications.
• Setting up local and network printers and troubleshooting common problems.
• Maintaining regular backups & restoration of all the servers & Clients.
• Configuring Modems, Hubs and Webcam, Video Conference, Fax Server
• Providing 7/24/365 Technical support for all UK requirements.
• Internal Auditor for Internal Auditing Documentation related to Networking