SUMMARY

• 12 Years of Professional Experience as a System Administrator and Engineer on Information Systems Implementing, Administrating, Operations Management. Configuration management, change management, Enterprise Client Support, on call support, liaising with Vendors, Data Centre Maintenance Support, Knowledge Transfer Support, Systems Migration and Transition Support
• Level 2 - 3 mission critical system support and problems resolution in highly organized & timely manner
• On site System Administration and scheduled Server maintenance duties according to SLAS
• Member of network transition teams including scheduling, planning and support for installation, migration, planning, preparation of projects, On Site Project Work, Support, Data Centre Administration, enterprise Customer Support, External client support, Liaising with Vendors
• Windows Server 2012,2008,2016,2003 domain based on
• Active Directory Domain and Topology Design, Group Policy Objects Deployment, Objects and Services Access Management according to best practices, Domain Naming System and Dynamic IP Address Allocation Server Implementation, MSCS- Microsoft Failover Clustering,
• VMware ESXI 6.0,5.5,4.X virtualized Data Centre Environment configuration and administration, VCENTER Deployment, VMware High Availability Clusters, VMOTION, DRS for Optimizing Resource utilization, Live Server, Storage migration, Replication, VCOPS, VROPS manager for Health Diagnose Capacity Planning and diagnosing, Update Manager, ESXCLI, POWERCLI Automation, ESXI Server Multipath configuration for fault tolerance and Load balancing, iSCSI, Fibre SAN connectivity, VM Fault Tolerance (FT) configuration and disaster recovery planning using SRM, Virtual SAN Storage Configuration
• Office 365, Microsoft Exchange Server 2013, 2010 and 2007 messaging solution designing and deployment for high availability environments, SSL Certificates Configuration, Email Security Appliances Configuration, Configuring and Administrating Exchange Online Protection for Office 365 and on-premise Exchange Servers, Configuring,
• SQL Server Clustering, SQL Server Configuration, Enterprise Backup Configuration, database access management, SQL Server Integration with Business application servers
• Windows Server Update Service Server Implementation for Windows OS and non-windows Applications, SCCM 2012 R2,2007 R2 (App OS Packages Updates Deployments, Updates, Asset Management), SCOM 2012 R2,2007 R2, SCSM, SCVMM configuration tasks
• VEEAM, Symantec and Shadow Protect Disaster Recovery Solutions Implementation for Virtualized and non-virtualized Environments, Enterprise Antivirus Deployment via Centrally Managed Servers
• Sophos, WatchGuard and CISCO PIX, ASA Firewall Configuration, Firewall Centralized Management, Inter Site IP Sec VPN Configuration, Router, Switch Configuration, HP, Dell, NETGEAR Managed Switch Configuration, NetApp, EMC, Nimble SAN Configuration
• CISCO UCS, F5 Load Balancers an Riverbed WAN Optimizers configuration and administration
• HP, Dell Server Configuration, RAID Storage Configuration, Data centre Server Hardware Configuration and Troubleshooting, Cloud Infrastructure Configuration on NTT Cloud Services, good Azure and AWS Cloud Skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Microsoft Server Technology: Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2008 R2 2016, Windows 2011 (SBS), Windows Server 2003 R2

Email & Collaboration Solutions: MS Exchange 20010,2013,2007, Share-point 2007,2010

Virtualization: VMware ESXI 6.0, 5.x, 4.x Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Xen Server

Cloud Technology: NTT Cloud Services, Office 365 (Exchange Online, SharePoint), Working Knowledge on Azure and AWS

Firewall security & VPN Solutions: Sophos Firewall, WatchGuard, Cisco PIX, ASA firewall

Routing Switching Wireless: Cisco Routers & switches, HP managed switches, NETGEAR managedswitches, CISCO Wireless Access Controllers

Database Technologies: Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008 and 2012

Backups & Disaster Recovery: Symantec Backup Exec, Symantec Systems Recovery, VEEAM Backup Replication

Server Hardware, SAN: CISCO UCS Platform, HP ML & DL Servers, Dell Power Edge Servers, Dell Chassis, Wintel Servers, NetApp, EMC, HP MSA, Nimble Storage

Network Monitoring Tools: Solar Winds, GFI, PINGDOM, WHATSUP, Nagios

LINUX/Mac OS X: CentOS, Ubuntu, Mac OS X 10.X, Server App, Profile Manager, Apple Configurator, Casper Suite

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Systems & Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and Administration of Windows 2012 R2/2016 domain in VMware ESXI (6.0,5.5) virtualized Data Centre environment
• Active Directory, Group Policy, Single Sign on (SSO), DFS, DHCP, DNS.LDAP, ADFS configuration
• Office 365 Administration and mailbox migration in to office 365 Cloud, attending post migration issues
• Configuring On premise and office 365 cloud mail box security with Exchange Online Protection
• Undertaking Project deployment activities, day to day Network Operations and troubleshooting
• series switches, CISCO Wireless Network and Access Points, CISCO Routers, Palo Alto Firewalls
• Utilizing Solar Winds and BT IPAM tools for IP address management
• Configuring and supporting F5 Load Balancers (IRULES, Virtual Servers, Pools, Monitors creation)
• Managing Riverbed LTM, GTM WAN Optimization Infrastructure and upgrading firm ware
• Administrating Windows File and Print Servers
• Managing Server Backups (Tape Libraries and Network Backup using Symantec Backup Exec), Restoring Backups in disaster situations, Creating Backup Jobs
• Configuring and Managing User Account permissions in the Active directory
• Administrating Storage (EMC VNX, Data Domain, Avamar)
• Configuring and supporting company specific business applications
• System monitoring and diagnosing using multiple monitoring tools (Solar Winds, WHATSUP Gold etc)
• Utilizing Service Now I Portal for Change and incident Management

Environment: Windows Server 2012 R2, 2008 R2, Office 365, Exchange 2013, VMWare ESXI 6.0, 5.5, VCENTER, Dell PowerEdge Blade Servers, Quantum Tape Libraries, DNS/DHCP, Active Directory, GPO, OU, SCOM, PowerShell, MacAfee - EPO Enterprise Antivirus System, CISCO Switches, F5 Load Balancers, Riverbed WAN Optimizers, CISCO Routers, Palo Alto Firewalls, Solar Winds, WHATSUP Gold, BT IP Address Management, ServiceNow Ticketing and Change Management System.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing and administration of Windows 2012 R 2, 2008 R 2 network Infrastructure in a multi-site (US, Canada, Hong Kong and Australia etc.) which was implemented on CISCO UCS and HP Chassis platforms in state of art multimillion Dollar Data Centre (s), Windows Migration Project Planning and Deployment
• Administration, Deployment and troubleshooting of VMWare ESXI 5.1, VCENTER Server, VCOPs based Virtualization platform consisting of multiple data centres/clusters which are hosting more than 2000 Windows/Linux Servers
• CISCO UCS Chassis (Domains) management, configuration of UCS software and hardware issues in modern Data centre environment
• Managing DFS File System, Advanced CIFS, NFS SAN Files Shares, Managing Windows Printer Servers/Queues
• Managing Net App/HP MSA Storage Clusters, LUN Expansion, LUN Migration, Supporting Exchange Server Farms,
• Supporting Data Centre Power, Cooling Systems, Storage Systems Maintenance, Data Centre Server Hardware Configuration, Liaising with Vendors
• Supporting SCOM, AD, GPO, Security Groups, Users management, Enterprise Antivirus System, Data Centre Assets management, SSO, Security Certificate Services (PKI, CA)
• Supporting Internal client base of over 6000 members, off shore IT team’s training/knowledge transferring (KT Sessions) using CISCO WebEx sessions

Environment: State of Art Data Centre, Windows Server 2012 R2,2008 R2, On Premise, Exchange 2010, VMWare ESXI, VCENTER Server, VCOPs, SRM, CISCO UCS, HP Chassis, NetApp, HP MSA, EMC, Pure Storage, DNS/DHCP, Active Directory, GPO, OU, SCOM