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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.
• 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.
• 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.

• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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

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).
• 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.
• 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,

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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