SUMMARY

• VMware Consultant having over 8+ years of enterprise - level technical experience as a systems engineer specializing in virtualization, networking, server administration, Linux/Windows administration and storage management.
• Comprehensive Hands-on Experience in designing, implementing, VMware virtualization technologies, storage design, Microsoft technologies and network infrastructure
• Strong experience in system administration, installation, upgrading, patches, migration, configuration, troubleshooting, security, backup, disaster recovery, performance monitoring and fine tuning on UNIX, Linux (Red Hat Linux, Linux SUSE) systems.
• Strong expertise in Cisco Unified Computing systems (Cisco UCS) design, deployment and configuration specific to vsphere environments for compute platform high availability, redundancy and efficiency
• End to end administration experience in vBlock series 100,300,540,700 and 720.
• Strong expertise in installation and management of EMC storage arrays which include VNX, VMAX, XtremIO, VPLEX and ScaleIO
• Expert level knowledge and experience in VMware storage technologies such as vSAN, VVols, VASA
• Expertise in installation, configuration and troubleshoot of VMware ESXi 6.0/6.5 and vCenter Server 6.0
• Expertise in troubleshooting VMware issues using ESXCLI
• Managed all aspects of vSphere environments including vSwitches, distributed File, distributed virtual switches, HA, distributed resource scheduler, vMotion, Storage vMotion, access and authentication control, VMFS, host profiles, storage profiles, ESXi advanced configuration, Network/Storage IO control, VMFS Datastore, Cloning, Cold migrations, Hot migrations, snapshots, resource over commitment, contention management and advanced troubleshooting
• Experience automating test cases, tasks and deployment of infrastructure by developing vSphere PowerCLI and Shell scripting
• Hands on experience with HP Servers, IBM Blade servers, Cisco UCS and Dell Power Edge Servers
• Expertise in installation, configuration and management of DNS, DHCP, Active Directory, Domain Controller and PXE servers
• Expertise in design and management of storage area network fabric’s using Cisco prime data center network manager (Cisco DCNM)
• Experience with Cisco and brocade switch OS such as Cisco IOS, Cisco NX-OS, Brocade FOS, Brocade NOS
• Expertise in installation and management of Brocade and Cisco switch such as brocade 6000 series, brocade VDX 6700 series, Cisco Nexus 500 series and Cisco MDS 9000 Series
• Managed over 2000 lab equipment in a data center which included Servers, Switches and Arrays from various vendors

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Linux, SUSE, RedHat Linux, Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2012R2/2016, Cisco IOS, NX-OS, Brocade FOS, NOS

Networking: HTTP, TCP/IP design, DNS, DHCP, FTP, SMTP, TELNET, SSH, ICMP, BGP, OSPF, IGRP/EIGRP, RIP

Storage Area Networks: FC, iSCSI, NFS, NAS, FCoE

Tools: Apache, Puppet, Chef, Git, Jenkins, Wire Shark, Cisco Packet Tracer, DCNM, Traceroute and Linux Tools

Scripting Languages: Shell Scripting and Python

VMware: VVols, VASA, VAIO, SRM, vSAN, NSX, vRealize, vCenter Server, ESXi and workbench

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, MA

Senior Systems Integration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in management of EMC storage arrays such as Unity, VMAX, VPLEX, XtremIO and ScaleIO
• Automated test cases, tasks and deployment of infrastructure by developing vSphere PowerCLI, shell and python scripts
• Participated in customer escalations and provided resolution to OpenStack, VMware and Windows issues
• Certified and qualified various EMC storage arrays with Microsoft Windows Server and ESXi Operating Systems
• Certified EMC Cinder/Manila drivers against various OpenStack release such as RedHat OpenStack and Mirantis
• Hands-on experience on Server Consolidation with physical to virtual (P2V) conversions with VMware Converter
• Experience troubleshooting issues related to ESXi Host, vCenter Server, HA, DRS, vpxa, VMware update manager
• Organized and conducted weekly interlock meeting between VMware and DELL EMC to discuss product issues and updates
• Expertise with enterprise infrastructure technologies such as high availability, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, multi-pathing for HBAs and NICs, clustering at the OS level, load balancing, virtualization and SAN/NAS
• Attended technical conferences like VMworld, OpenStack Summit and identified business opportunities for our organization, also trained team members on the latest emerging technologies focused during these conference
• Evaluated new features within product releases, and collaborated with development groups, driving feature stability and scalability for customer release
• Developed and executed test plans, analyzed the results, reported findings and achieved resolution of any failed results
• Troubleshot test failures to determine if an issue was a test, product or integration failure
• Managed over 2000 assets/lab equipment as a lab manager for the team
• Acted as technical interface for the team with EMC partners and business units for Windows, VMware and OpenStack projects.

Confidential, MA

Systems Integration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured, maintained and upgraded firmware on Cisco, brocade and HP Switches.
• Configured SAN network components including servers, Switches and arrays.
• Experience with Cisco IOS, NX-OS and UCS Blade Servers.
• Good hands-on experience with Cisco MDS, Cisco Nexus, Brocade and HP Switches.
• Knowledge of Storage provisioning on Arrays and Zoning in Switches.
• Designed Storage Area Network Fabric’s using Cisco DCNM
• Experience in installation and configuration of vSphere 5.5/6.0 and vSphere 5.5 products, VMware vRealize, VMware vCenter Configuration manager, Microsoft Hyper-V
• Experience with qualification of iSCSI boot from SAN for EMC Storage arrays
• Installed and maintained VMWare VSphere and vCenter Server environments.
• Resource management Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for vMotion migration between ESXi Servers
• Experience with OS Installation and driver’s installation on Servers
• Administration of Microsoft Windows, Linux and other Operating Systems.
• Knowledge of FC, FCoE, iSCSI and FCIP protocols.
• Maintained 100% SLA in resolving problem tickets.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided infra and on call support to various CISCO P1/P2 applications hosted on cisco.com
• Managed load balancing between application and web servers.
• Resolved requests and application issues received by performing server level configuration changes
• Monitored critical server processes and disk usage on the servers
• Created and maintained Shell scripts for monitoring critical server processes
• Maintained 100% SLA in resolving incidents and documented all the resolved incidents
• Provisioned JVM’s and provided overall support for any issues related to JVM’s and Java servlet containers

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assist in day to day support activities of DDI services
• Assist in day to day support activities of DDI services
• Resolve network issues on as per the requests.
• Configuration of IP space management and allocation.
• Configuring Delegations, Forwarders, and DHCP template options.
• Create and implement changes for the installation of Bind Upgrades, IPAM Product
• Installations/Upgrades/Patches.
• Working with technical teams in processing all the Incidents for all Severities and chasing for
• Updates, making sure that it get resolved within SLA.
• Assign ports on switch as per the business
• Updating the team knowledge base.
• Involved in preparing official documents like Service Delivery Reports, Daily Dashboards,
• Standard Operation Procedure (SOP’s) and Activity Work books.
• ITIL process adherence.