SUMMARY

• A technocrat with over 11+ years of experience in systems engineering and Operations, Installation and Commissioning, Technical Support/Troubleshooting & Client Servicing.
• Have extensive experience in system administration\Design and implementation and providing end - to-end solutions.
• Adept in analyzing information system needs, evaluating end-user requirements, custom designing solutions, troubleshooting for complex information systems management.
• Excellent team player/building & troubleshooting skills with proven abilities.
• Extensive knowledge on Hypervisors such as VMware ESX\Citrix Xen\Microsoft Hyper-V\KVM.
• Extensive knowledge on cloud technologies such as VCAC, VRA, Openstack and AWS.
• Better understanding on protocols of Nova, Neutron, Keyston,Cinder Rabit MQ and other Openstack components.
• Implement and design the VMware NSX for the Network, firewall, router policies on the web and app related servers.
• Extensive working experience in automating, configuring and deploying instances on AWS, also familiar with EC2, S3, ELB, Cloud watch, Cloud formation, VPC, and managing security groups, subnets, IAM on AWS
• Windows, Linux, VMware ESX, Microsoft Hyper V environment planning and designing in the Datacenter management.
• Provides scalable log aggregation and indexing using Vrealize log insight for the clients.
• Excellent understanding of networking fundamentals and network security. Installation, Configuration and managing Firewalls like Fortinet, ZyWall, SonicWALL, ISA with content filtering, Virus, Anti-Spam, Web filtering, NAT, Application Publishing to public IP, Port Forwarding, log analyzing with Syslog Server. Experienced in installation, configuration, design and ongoing maintenance of Cisco router and switches and Dell router and switches.
• Experience in Microsoft Office Suite, Open Office, Visio, Outlook, Printing and Windows networking.
• Experience with wintel x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers & HP, EMC,storage, tower servers, other.
• Experience with KVM virtualization for Linux on x86 hardware and Hyper-V. Familiar with Data Center/Server Farm environment like Servers deployment, Cabling & labeling maintaining AC cooling, Environmental Sensing Devices, power and UPS monitoring.
• Familiar with PowerShell, PowerCLI and Python scripting. Ability to maintain a reliable and methodical approach to support and Documentation, Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

WINDOWS: Windows 2003, Windows 2008 and R2 and Windows 2012 and R2, Microsoft App V, IIS, DNS,DHCP.Active Directory and Domain controller migrations, Remote Desktop Services or Terminal services, PowerShell scripting,Azure.

CITRIX: Citrix XenApp 6.5,7.6, XenDesktop 5.6,7.6, Citrix Xen 6.0, Netscalers, load balancer, Gateway, 9,10,10.5, VPX,MPX and SDX.Citrix presentation to XenApp Migration.

VMWARE: VMware ESX 4.x,5.x,6.0,VMware Virtual Center Server(Vcenter),VMware DRS, HA and FT, SRM, VMware Capacity Planner, VMware Converter 3.0, VMware Update Manager, VMware Shield manager, VMware Horizon, VCAC, VMWare vRealize Automation, Leostream, Thin stall Application Virtualization Powercli scripting, Red hat Linux,Vrealize or VCAC, vRealize Orchestrator.P2V,v2v.

Health check and Monitoring tools: VMware health analyzer, VCOPs, VMSight, vmturbo, EG innovation.

Backup Solutions: EMC networker,Symantec Backup Exec, VMware VCB, Backup Libraries like HP MSL 2024, 4048, Dell Power Vault TL2000,EMC Networker.

Storage: HP EVA 6400 and HP 3PAR 7000, iscsi, FC,EMC XIO,VMAX,VNX 5200,Data domain,IBM v7000,Vblock,NetApp E5600,E2700.

Hardware and Datacenter: HP DL 380,DL 360,HP BL 480 G8,Dell PowerEdge servers, Cisco UCS B200 servers.

Process: ITIL V3 certified, Business continuity and Service level Agreement on issues.

Red Hat Linux\cloud: Red Hat Linux, CentOS, Ubantu,Puppet configuration

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Redmond Washington

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of VMware Auto Deploy, Kick-start and Ansible for Esxi installation automation.
• Design and implementation of vRealize Automation suite (vRealize log insight, Vrealize Business, Vrealize operations manager).
• Create workflows on VMware vRealize Orchestrator.
• Work extensively on PowerShell and python scripts for IT infrastructure requirements.
• Integration of VMware NSX and Juniper Contrail with existing cloud infrastructure.
• Design and implementation VMware Integrated OpenStack and Mirantis OpenStack.
• Support and Troubleshooting on OpenStack environments.
• Design and Implementation of entire IT infrastructure in Confidential & Confidential Labs.
• Implement best practices and monitoring tools across Confidential & Confidential datacenter.
• Design and implementation of HP oneView for managing HP chassis across datacenter.
• Work with application architecture team and developers to integrated the tools with cloud.
• Follow DevOps model and provide updates in JIRA, to SCRUM master.
• Design, implementation and migration of VMware Vsphere 6-6.5 Esxi, Vcenter environments.
• Troubleshooting on Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu and Windows environments.
• Installation and configuration of HP c7000 chassis and Cisco UCS B200 M2 .
• Management and design of integrated build pipelines using continuous integration workflows such as Jira, Git, Jenkins, Docker, Artifactory, Nexus.
• Implementation of flash Pure Storage PM7200.
• Integrating Nagios with other monitoring/alert solutions.
• Implementation of cloud infrastructure and framework using Ansible.
• 24/7 on call supports for emergency site maintenance and immediate build and install requests.
• Design implementation of Puppet configuration management tool.
• Hands on involvement in Amazon Web Services (AWS) provisioning and great information on AWS administrations like EC2, Elastic Load-balancers, Elastic Container Service (Docker Containers), S3, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFront, Elastic File system, RDS, Dynamo DB, DMS, VPC, Direct Connect, Route53, Lambda, Kinesis, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Cloud Formation, IAM, EMR, Elastic Search.
• Configuring AWS EC2 instances on cloud platform using Ansible.
• Design and configuration of VPC for AWS environment.
• Implemented and maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers/storage using AWS CloudWatch.
• Currently working on Implementation of Azure as Hybrid cloud.

Confidential, SanDiego CA

DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in managing the existing heterogeneous environment such as Windows, VMWare ESX, Linux, and Citrix, along with cloud environments.
• Follow DevOps model in order to complete the tasks on Jira with SCRUM master.
• Extensive work experience in design and implementation of VMware vRealize Automation.
• Managing Cloud Automation & many business groups in vRealize Automation 6.0/6.2/7.0
• Integration of NSX and Servicenow with vRealize Automation.
• Implementation and Support the VMware infrastructure (VMware Vcenter 6.5,ESXi 6.0,vRA).
• Designing, Implementing & Managing vROPs (vRealize Operations Manager) to monitor the Complete Infrastructure.
• Write documentation on common tasks and standard operating procedures for internal use and government deliverables.
• Develop custom PowerCLI scripts to automate VMware vSphere administration and deployment.
• Maintain the existing AWS cloud infrastructure for MSP clients and participate in design documentation.
• Design and implementation of Domain controllers and Active Directory services.
• Design and implementation of monitoring tools for IT infrastructure.
• Rack Mount the HP and Cisco UCS B200,400 and B and C servers across the datacenters and manage them.
• Deploy the servers (Linux\Windows) as per the requirement on the different hypervisor environments.
• Upgraded the entire VMware infrastructure such as Vcenter, ESX,(5.5 to 6.5) and Orchestrator.
• Design and capacity planning and upgrade for storage, VMware and cloud infrastructure and troubleshooting the existing cloud infrastructure.
• Migrate the physical machines (windows\Linux) P2v and V2V using RiverMeadow.
• Work schedule on call duty in order to maintain the business continuity and review meetings on the operations.
• Maintain and migrate the Domain controllers and entire AD environment.
• Implementation of F5 and Netscaler for the Citrix XenApp environment for the load balancing.
• Host and troubleshoot the Red Hat Linux, Cent OS and Ubuntu servers.
• Design and Implementation of Configuration management tool Puppet.
• Design and implementation of Docker containers and Juniper contrail -SDN and integrate with OpenStack.
• Administration and troubleshooting the Linux and Windows servers.
• Performed Various Data Migrations Activity across XIO using San Copy and Mirror view.
• Design implementation and migration of EMC VMAX, Data Domain, Pure 7200M storage systems .
• Work on regular issues and resolve them in timely manner and document them for future reference.
• Design implementation of VDI environment on VMware horizon view and Citrix XenDesktop.
• Design, implementation and configuration of Storefront and web interface servers .
• Design, implementation and troubleshooting of Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop servers.
• Stream the applications using Citrix Profiler and MS App-v and host them in Citrix XenApp Environment.
• Implementation and support Citrix Netscaler as Gateway in the storefront and web interface environment.
• Design and Implementation of VMware Site Recovery Manager as Disaster Recovery for site.

Environment: OpenStack, AWS,vRealize Automation,AWS, Linux,XenDesktop7.6,VMwareESX,Hyper-Microsoft,Active Directory, Storage EMC VMAX,XIO,VNX,DataDomain,Vblock,HP,DELL, Blade servers, VMware health analyzer,, Cent OS,Fedora,VMware Horizon view,puppet

Confidential, Collegeville, PA

Sr Systems engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working as a senior system architect on Citrix XenApp 7.6/XenDesktop 7.6 /VMware ESX/Microsoft Hyper-V \ Windows and supporting over the globe.
• Managing the total Datacenter (DTCS) with different cloud technologies.
• Product review and recommendations as needed to enhance the Cloud infrastructure.
• Detailed infrastructure analysis of various windows/VMWare/Citrix based services.
• Upgradation of Domain controllers, ActiveDirectory services, Maintain stringent GPO across the globe.
• Hosting the Red hat Linux server and basic troubleshooting.
• Implement and configuration of fileservers in the DFS mode, for Windows and Citrix Users across the globe.
• Design and implementation of VMware VRealize Automation and integrate with vrealize Orchestrator.
• Deploy application servers into the cloud environment, design blueprints as per the service levels.
• Define resource reservation policies according to service level.
• Participated in Datacenter migration and physical to virtual conversions using P2V converter.
• V2V conversions from Microsoft Hyper - V to VMware ESX.
• Maintain the MS SQL servers,Backup and restore according to requirement.
• Installation and configuration of Red Hat Linux and cent OS.
• Monitor and act on resources through the VMware Vrealize operations manager.
• Creating business groups and business users to attain the resources from Cloud infrastructure.
• Collects performance data from each object Confidential every level of your virtual environment, from individual virtual machines and disk drives to entire clusters using vRealize Operations Manager.
• Deploy instances in AWS cloud using EC2 .
• Plan and design for storage in AWS using S3 for entire server infrastructure.
• Maintain the IAM and delegate the role based access on the resources in the AWS cloud.
• Installation and configuration of WebInterface and storefront with Netscaler as load balancer.
• Monitor systems performance and capacity and advise higher level management of system status.
• Design and implementation of entire VMWare environment with cluster configurations.
• Migration of VMware ESX migration from 5.0 to 5.5.
• SAN HP 3 PAR 7200 and disk configuration and troubleshooting, network configuration and troubleshooting and Capacity management and system tuning.
• Design and implementation of EG innovation and Edgesight for environment monitoring.

Environment: CitrixXenApp7.6,XenDesktop7.6,VMwareESX,Vrealize,Hyper-Microsoft AppV, Storage 3 PAR, iscsi, SAN, NAS, Windows 2008 server,2008 R2,Windows 2012,R2,HP,DELL, Blade servers, Edgesight, VMware health analyzer, VCAC cloud platform,Red Hat Linux, Cent OS

Confidential

Senior IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• P2V/V2V migrations using VMware converter/Platespin migrate/Double take.
• Upgraded ESX and vCenter up gradation from 4.1 to 5.1 and 5.1.
• Involved in developing virtualization design including physical and logical architecture.
• Involved in developing virtual application sizing, a virtual machine layout and a vSphere cluster layout.
• Collects performance data from each object Confidential every level of your virtual environment, from individual virtual machines and disk drives to entire clusters and datacenters.
• Design and implementation of VMware ESX environment for the local datacenter and remote locations across the globe.
• Configuration of Virtual Switches like Distribution switch and standard switch.
• Virtual centers server’s configuration and troubleshooting.
• Maintaining the server inventory list, handling server backups and getting servers up and running.
• Configuration and administering consoles like ILO and DRAC to perform server management remotely.
• Excellent understanding of SAN, NAS storage architecture, Installed and managed.
• Performed Migration and cloning of VM’s. Distributed virtual switch configuration and HA, DRS, server and storage VMotion.
• Worked on Dell, HP and IBM blade, Rack and tower servers.
• Implement and configuration of AD services and Group polices across the forest.
• Designed and implemented VMware ESX 4.0 environment.
• Implemented the Citrix streaming profiler for the application streaming concept.
• Implemented and configured the Citrix PVS 6.0.
• Applied the patches and hotfixes to attain the performance across the citrix environment.
• Design and implementation of Citrix Netsclaers as Load balancer for web interface servers.
• Participated in DC and DHCP Migration for Confidential throughout the globe.
• Responsible for establishing forest level trust between different forest and authenticating users for unrestricted access in the specified forest and breaking trust between forest
• Managed the Symantec Backup Exec with DR strategies.
• ITILv3 / SDLC project methodology approach for project timeline scoping, milestones and deliverables strategic thought leadership with resource implementation planning.

Environment: CitrixXenApp,XenDesktop,Storefront,Webinterface,Netscaler,Gateway,VMware ESX, Hyper-Microsoft AppV, Storage 3 PAR, ISCSI, SAN, NAS, FC, Windows 2008 server,2008 R2,Windows 2012,R2,Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS, HP, DELL, Blade servers.

Confidential

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed and successfully implemented VMware ESXI Server for server consolidation.
• Performed periodical VMware hosts and guest patch updates, as well as perform parallel upgrade from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5
• Installed VMware ESXI Server and created Virtual machines on ESXI Servers. Created standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates
• Installed, configured and administered ESXi 4.1 on Dell power Edge T110
• Installed management server (vCenter server) instances to enable centralized management of multiple hosts
• Linked different vCenter server using linked mode to have a single instance a vSphere client to manage the whole virtual environment
• Creating and managing virtual machines and templates, worked with clones and snapshots of virtual machines
• Configured VMware on clustered environment, implemented migration of virtual machines using vMotion, virtualized windows servers using VMware converter and plate spin power convert.
• Hot and cold cloning of virtual machines using VMware converter.
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency of VMware infrastructure.
• Designed the Infrastructure and administered the environment running over 35 ESX Hosts and 700 Virtual Machines. Also, designed the performance monitoring processes and improved disaster recovery processes to utilize virtualization benefits
• Installed & Configured Storage Area Network (SAN) and Storage (RAID), Pool creation, LUN - creation, mapping, migration; Provisioning Storage Ports - host, arrays, tape devices and Zoning configuration using EMC Unisphere.
• Tested the system manually to check Networking applications, protocols and products involve TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IPv4, IPv6; also Carried out Configuration testing including Multi-path I/O, Positive and Negative testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Monitored systems for performance and capacity issues and recommends remedies as necessary; Implemented vMotion, Virtualized Windows servers using VMware Converter P2V and setup Lab Manager.
• Assisted with VMware planning, consolidation and upgrades; including the regional ESX servers.
• Provided technical support for Systems Engineering -including Operating System builds, Security, Access controls, User Account set-up, Storage solutions, Performance tuning & analysis, Backup/recovery, and business continuity activities.
• Involved in Disaster recovery solution for VMware vSphere Environment, vSphere Linked Mode and Replicated Storage, Configuring sites Roles and Privileges, Alarms for monitoring the Site Status; Failback Testing from Protected Site to Recovery Site in SRM and Shared Recovery Site across multiple Protected Sites

Environment: Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, VMware ESX, Hyper-Microsoft AppV, Storage 3 PAR, ISCSI, SAN, NAS, Windows 2008 server,2008 R2,Active Directory,IIS,DNS,DHCP,HP,DELL, Blade servers.

Confidential

Senior System administrator

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of Citrix presentation servers for application virtualization.
• Application streaming to attain best performance in citrix environment.
• Configuration of load balancing in Netscaler for application and web interface servers.
• Managed large-scale Virtualized Data Centers -VMware View, VMware ESX/ESXi and vSphere features including vMotion, HA, Virtual SMP, Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS).
• Installing, configuring, administration of Windows 2003 servers, Active Directory Services, DNS DHCP, FTP, WSUS, IIS Web Server and SQL Database Server, System Management Servers (SMS) servers.
• Designed, Acquired and Deployed a corporate VMware ESX Server infrastructure with capacity for 200 servers across 3 separate environments.
• Rolled out VMware View as our strategic Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solution to support globalization.
• Analyzed, Administration and Support of Desktops, Thin Clients using Virtual Desktop Interface (VDI) Technology. Identify, evaluate and recommend.
• Maintained, Implemented and Optimized Operating Systems/Software utilizing VMware virtualization technologies for vSphere 4.0 including Configuration of VMware HA and DRS.
• Deployed physical and virtual servers: install, configure, and troubleshoot operating systems and clusters. Run, maintain, monitor and optimize existing physical and virtual computer infrastructure.
• Developed Standard Operating Procedures document for the installation and configuration of ESX server V4.0.
• Managed Multiple Server suites (Windows, UNIX and Red Hat Linux) on VMware ESX server and designing of Active Directory.
• Performed cost analysis supporting consolidation of physical servers into VMware.
• Collaborated with multiple support teams to resolve critical time-sensitive issues, and responded to system emergencies.
• Worked closely with Storage and Networking teams to ensure allocated SAN, Fiber and networking infrastructure reflects specifications laid out in
• The initial VMware farm design to ensure successful deployment.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, SMS, SQL Server 2000,citrix presentation server, Netscaler, IIS 6.0, Active Directory, Microsoft WSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server and Workstation, Open filer, IBM TSM, EMC SAN, Dell NAS, Zywall and SonicWall Firewall.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Database Server, System Management Servers (SMS) servers.
• Experienced with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, IBM & Dell hardware like rack-mounted servers, tower servers, desktop, laptop and other peripherals.
• Managing Exchange 2003 servers and troubleshooting issues related to User and group accounts, mail delivery, configuring MX records to enable and disable domain.
• Administering DHCP Server-creation of reservation and under reservation options,configuring of router IP address.
• Responsible for Active directory, GPO, Domain users, Administrating users and groups and given appropriate permissions and privilege to access our LAN and Domain environment
• Configure and Managed Microsoft Outlook 2003/2007 for the users.
• Configured Terminal Server to access to the servers using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP).
• Analyze, log, track and complex software and hardware matters of significance pertaining to networking connectivity issues, printer, server.
• Creating a backup job and also took backup of data center on daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Responsible for Security Patch Management and Deployment to all clients using Microsoft WSUS.
• Installing, configuring, administering, and performance tuning Microsoft SQL Server 2000 familiar with Database Creation, Database Security, Database.
• Replication/ Migration, Database Performance Monitoring, User Management, Database Backup/Restoration, Import/Export of SQL Database, Transact.
• Installing, configuring, administering, and troubleshooting VMware ESX platform and VMware client, workstation.
• Installation and Configuration of networks, router/switches configuration and wireless access point/router with security, TCP/IP, VPN, Content Filtering,
• Access Control Lists on router/switches, VLANs (port mapping, naming etc.), and routing IP address in both LAN/WAN and wireless networks.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003, SMS, IIS 6.0, Exchange Server 2003, Microsoft WWSUS, Windows XP, VMware ESX Server, VMware Workstation.