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Dublin, Ohio, Us

Cloud Engineer,• Partnered with application teams to understand and address their requirements for Application, Web, and Database servers, ensuring the database and storage needs were fully provisioned for hosting applications.• Engineered and deployed a wide array of AWS cloud services, including EC2, Elastic Load Balancing, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, API Gateway, Auto Scaling, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, SES, and IAM, ensuring robust and scalable solutions.• Implemented and maintained essential networking fundamentals such as IPsec VPNs, Direct Connect, VPCs, DNS, subnetting, route tables, and firewalls. Applied AWS cloud security best practices to protect infrastructure and data.• Evaluated various proposals to identify and recommend optimal technical solutions, successfully leading the migration of Applications to AWS Cloud.• Provided architectural oversight and management to ensure that business and quality objectives were consistently met.• Managed web URL requirements, configured load balancers, and deployed security certificates (SSL) to ensure secure and efficient traffic management.• Utilized AWS CloudWatch for comprehensive monitoring, logging, and setting up alarms, ensuring the health and performance of cloud infrastructure. Enhanced operational efficiency through process improvements and task automation.

• Proficient in deploying, configuring, and managing VMware vSphere environments, including ESXi hosts, vCenter Server, and vSphere Replication.• Extensive knowledge of virtualization concepts and technologies, including virtual machine provisioning, resource management, and high availability.• Strong understanding of networking principles, including VLANs, routing, and switching, with experience in integrating VMware environments with network infrastructure.• Solid understanding of storage concepts and experience in configuring and managing storage systems such as SAN, NAS, and iSCSI in VMware environments.• Troubleshooting and Performance Optimization: Proficient in identifying and resolving issues, optimizing performance, and ensuring the stability of VMware environments.• Knowledge of disaster recovery principles and experience in designing and implementing VMware-based disaster recovery solutions.• Strong documentation skills to create technical guides, standard operating procedures, and performance reports.• Provide recommendations for best practices to maintain a secure and reliable environment.• Managed and monitored the AWS environment, adjusting and optimizations as needed.• Implements technology and infrastructure changes for platforms, performance, and scoring.• Proven ability to architect and implement scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure. • Expertise in AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch. Strong understanding of cloud security best practices.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

Daimler US ( 4,000 + servers )• Evaluation, Design, Development and Deployment of IaaS and PaaS technologies and automation for managed services on AWS, Best practice to build the infrastructure with Fault Tolerance, High Availability Scalability with minimum downtime. • Enterprise infrastructure setup Amazon AWS various Services EC2, IAM, Elastic IP, RDS, Lambda, CloudFront, Glacier, VPC, Route 53, Internet Gateway, NAT Gatway, Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Virtual Private Connect (VPC), Direct Connect, Virtual Private Gateway, EBS Block Storage, S3 Object Storage, Elastic File System, CloudFront , Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), CDN, Storage, SNS, VPC Peering, Direct connect and SQS to build best infrastructure according to customers’ requirement for Applications/DBs workloads and perform the various test cases post build and migration. • Build continuous integration/deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to accelerate development and improve team agility.• AWS Cloud Infrastructure setup based on resilient, disaster recovery, cost-effective and security-based practice, • Manage Enterprise Networks, Security & Identity Access Management and AWS Organization. • • Migrate the VMs workload to On-premises to AWS cloud using Server Migration Serice and Application Migration Service. • Managed the target VMware vCenters DCs, Clusters, Hosts and VMs, Datastores, vLANs, Networks and monitor and troubleshoot the VMware infra related issues Such as ESXI hosts, Network or vCenter performance related.• Worked on HCX implementation for VMs workload migration one DC to other DC.• Experienced Microsoft Azure service - Virtual Machine, Load Balancer, VPN, DNS, Azure Data Factory, Azure Storage (Blob or Data Lake), Databricks, Azure Functions, SQL Azure DB, SQL Azure Synapse, Configuring Private Endpoints, VNET/Subnets, Azure Logic/Function/Web Apps etc.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, In

Infosys Project : Daimler - US, (4000 + servers inventory)Discovery & Planning phase, conducting a deep dive of private cloud IT portfolio.• Build and review the migration plan SOPs.• Participate in discussion with business stakeholders for migration activities and give the inputs for best migration methodologies. • Plan VMs workload migration activities includes Pre-migration, Migration and Post migration and UAT• Experienced Servers (VM) migration using Double Take tool from On-premise to hosted cloud. • Monitored and tested application performance to identify potential bottlenecks, develop solutions, and collaborate with developers on solution implementation.• Actively listened to customers' requests, confirming full understanding before addressing concerns.

San Ramon, California, Us

Lead Engineer Cloud at Netpace IncProject : Oracle Evaluating the Customer requirement for new cloud hosting on Oracle Cloud Infra.• Planning, designing, implementing as well Managing Oracle Cloud infrastructure for various customers.• Work load migration from private cloud to public cloud for customers.• Designed and implemented system security and data assurance.

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, In

Projects: English Testing System, Metropolitan Community college, City of Tallahassee, AARP, Portland Public Schools - US, (1500 + VM servers, Windows and Linux)• Managing Cloud Infrastructure IAAS, Infrastructure as a Services and Managed Services.• Played a key role in evaluating, establishing and setting up Cloud Infrastructure, includes New VMs Build, setting up Root domain, Additional Domain Controller, Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, DHCP, File Server, FTP, Print Servers, RD Licensing Terminal Servers, Servers’ Hardening and WSUS configuration for customers.• As a key member of team, ensure successful in designing, building and migrating applications, software and Services on on-premises datacenter.• Office365 Administration, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business, One Drive for users.• Security Solutions Windows Patch Management using WSUS and Kaspersky Security.• VMware Infrastructure management using VMware vCloud Director 5.5, vCenter server management, New Servers build, DRS, HA, P2V, vDS• Successfully performed the host migration across Customers to meet the application servers’ licenses as well resource optimization within vCloud Abstract layer.• vBlock environment Hardware management and monitoring using UCS Manager• Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager administration and troubleshooting.• Handling AWS Enterprise Customers on clouds EC2 and ELB etc,• Work Closely with Application team to ensure business functionality and SLAs are met• Successfully Performed the DR for Customers.

Rockville, Md, Us

Projects: English Testing System, Metropolitan Community college, City of Tallahassee, AARP, Portland Public Schools - US, (1500 + VM servers, Windows and Linux)Managing Cloud Infrastructure IAAS, Infrastructure as a Services and Managed Services. • Played a key role in evaluating, establishing and setting up Cloud Infrastructure, includes New VMs Build, setting up Root domain, Additional Domain Controller, Active Directory Domain Services, DNS, DHCP, File Server, FTP, Print Servers, RD Licensing Terminal Servers, Servers’ Hardening and WSUS configuration for customers. • As a key member of team, ensure successful in designing, building and migrating applications, software and Services on on-premises datacenter.• Office365 Administration, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business, One Drive for users.• Security Solutions Windows Patch Management using WSUS and Kaspersky Security.• VMware Infrastructure management using VMware vCloud Director 5.5, vCenter server management, New Servers build, DRS, HA, P2V, vDS • Successfully performed the host migration across Customers to meet the application servers’ licenses as well resource optimization within vCloud Abstract layer. • vBlock environment Hardware management and monitoring using UCS Manager• Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) Manager administration and troubleshooting. • Handling AWS Enterprise Customers on clouds EC2 and ELB etc,• Work Closely with Application team to ensure business functionality and SLAs are met• Successfully Performed the DR for Customers.

Houston, Texas, Us

Project : Marathon Petroleum Corporation ( 2500 + VM servers ) Managing client Windows infrastructures supports for Windows VM and Physical servers.• Detailed working knowledge of Microsoft Operating Systems (Windows 2003, 2008, 2012)• Responsible for Windows unexpected reboot investigation and Memory dump analysis• Have worked on various complex windows Server performance Issues and provided RCA• Multitasking role includes Windows servers troubleshooting, Server performance issue and Server unexpected reboot issue and MS Clustering, Server build and Problem Management• Proven track record of leveraging vendor and consultant expertise for IT project delivery and support

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Project : CenturyLinkRemote infrastructure Support on 6,500 + Windows server 2003 & 2008 servers includes Domain Controllers, GC, VM Servers, MS Microsoft Clustering – Server, Terminal servers.• AD management, FSMO Management, Global Catalogue, DNS, DHCP, IIS, Print Cluster, AD OU and Group Policy Creation and Administration, Vertias Enterprise Administrator• Extensive experience of a VMware infrastructure including vCenter, vSphere, ESX 3.5, 4.0 & ESXi 5.1 and 5.5, Host build, HA, DRS, vMotion, Cloning, VDs, VM host deployment via Template, Physical to VM Migration (P2V), cloning, Snap shot and FT (fault tolerant).• Update Manager Remediating security patches to hosts ESX and ESXi• Experience in Remote Management Tools like ILO, Integrated Management Module (IMM) and RDP

• Project: Shared Delivery - Ralcorp, Scotts, Heinz, Carmax and Hess, Servers inventory - 3500 +• Remote Infrastructure delivery on more than 3,500 Windows servers• Giving Remote support on Windows server 2003 & 2008 servers includes Domain Controllers, GC, VM Servers, MS SQL servers, Print Cluster, MS SQL Cluster.• Proficient in handling ADDS, FSMO Management, Global Catalogue, DNS, DHCP, Terminal Server, IIS, Hyper-V, Metadata cleanup, AD OU and Group Policy Creation and Administration, Vertias Enterprise Administrator, EMC Power patch for storage Solution.• VCenter with ESX 3.5 and 4.0 hosts management, Hosts build, VM host upgrade, HA, DRS, VMotion, Cloning, VM host deployment via Template, Physical to VM Migration (P2V), Snap shot.• Expertise in Citrix MetaFrame MPS 4.0/4.5, Xen-app 5.0, Citrix Secure Gateway, Citrix Web Interface, Citrix Resource Manager, Load Manager and Citrix Farm configuration, publishing citrix applications, • OEM (HP, IBM, DELL) server hardware, D-Rack, ILO, IBM blade console & PSP & devices’ firmware upgrade, Memory dump analysis major.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

• Project: CapitalOne – Bank holding Company • Wintel Server Support Engineer Supports 3000 + Windows server 2000/2003/2008• AD management, FSMO Management, Global Catalogue, DNS, DHCP, IIS, Print Cluster, SQL Cluster, AD OU and Group Policy Creation and Administration, Vertias Enterprise Administrator• Giving remarkable effort to resolve AD, DNS, Group policy, TSM Backup issue• Citrix MetaFrame with understanding include Citrix MetaFrame MPS 4.0/4.5, Citrix Secure Gateway, Citrix Secure Ticket Authority, Citrix Web Interface, Citrix Resource Manager, Load Manager and Citrix Farm configuration, publishing citrix application, VMware infra. Support• VCenter with ESX 3.5 hosts management, building VM host, VM host upgrading, HA, VMotion, Cloning, Deploying VM host from Template, Physical to VM Migration (P2V), Snap shot.

Delhi, Delhi, In

• Project: LG Electronics India Private Limited • Supports 1600 + Windows Server 2000 /2003 include desktop, servers & networking devices. • Remote administration of Servers & installation, Configuration and trouble shooting, Maintaining AD, User administration, DHCP, DNS, Terminal Server & FTP servers.• Citrix Metaframe XP farm management, Publishing applications, Web Interface servers, Secure Access Gateway, citrix printer driver management and Troubleshoot of citrix issue. • Managing ESX 3.0 hosts, building VM servers, P2V, Cloning, Template and Snapshots also worked on Linux network environment including samba server.• Wi-fi zone enabled & supporting to make secure IT infrastructure for entire network.• Monitoring & updating TrendMicro Server office scan clients / server antivirus.• Multitasking support on Cisco routers & Red Win lease line modem for RAO branches.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

• Project: General Electric (GE), SBI Life Insurance and Indian Oil Corporation (IOC)• Managing and monitoring more than 950 servers’ Systems network for multiple clients• Windows server 2000/2003 build, servers hardening, configuration and trouble shooting • Proficient in handling Active Directory Service in Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition and Remarkable efforts towards trouble shooting of User Creation, Group Creation, OU & Dist quota Configuration, Standard (According to Organization Standard) rights.• Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 9.0 & 10 Clients / Sever management and monitoring. • Maintaining DHCP server and DNS server monitoring & Lease line monitoring & checking daily basis.

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Technology

Diploma, Computer Engineering