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Michigan, United States

Michigan, United States

Michigan, United States

• Install, manage, and configure Virtual infrastructure in a Hybrid environment. • Azure administration such as rightsizing VM's, Azure AD, Azure Automate, troubleshooting.• Responsible for the migration of critical systems into Azure from the on-prem environment.• Responsible for hardening, patching, and resolving any issues with the VMware Venter vSAN Environment.• Responsible for the administration of Microsoft products such as Onedrive, Teams, Sharepoint, Exchange, and other Office 365 offerings.• Responsible for managing Active directory devices and groups for group policies, shared drives, and permission management.• Responsible for the configuration of remote printers at the several sites• Windows systems troubleshooting.• Day to day escalated tickets

Pontiac, Michigan, United States

⦁ Install, manage, and configure the virtual infrastructure spanning the virtual production, nonproduction, UCCE, and VDI environments using many VMware products including but not limited to the latest versions of Vcenter, VRA, VROPs, VUM, SRM, ⦁ Utilize PURE storage arrays in our virtual infrastructure⦁ Utilize, configure, and managed Cisco UCS platforms, MDS switches, Cisco FI's, Cisco DCNM, CWOM⦁ Responsible for patching and upgrading of the VMware virtual infrastructure. ⦁ Responsible for applying SSL certificates to existing Vcenters and applying a certificate model to best fit the needs of the infrastructure.⦁ Racked, configured and cabled Cisco chassis, blades, switches, and more⦁ Outside of VMware related I utilize and troubleshoot server integrations with Solarwinds, AppviewX, Thycotic Secret Server, Windows Active Directory, Windows DNS

Tucson, Arizona Area

Position Change within the same Organization * Manage over 30 Vcenter systems and 500+ ESXi hosts spanning across our Production, non-production, yellow, and red lab environments.* Datacenter consolidations* Create, present, and perform implementation plans for changes to production infrastructure. * Daily troubleshooting and problem solving * Troubleshooting of Linux, Windows and Apple operating systems* Build, expand, and support of virtual infrastructure for PCI compliant zones. * Build, expand and support of the companies main Virtual infrastructure they relied on for day to day business.* escalation support for resolution of tickets pertaining to our virtual infrastructure.* Work closely with external partners including VMware and Cisco to troubleshoot issues or the planning of onboarding new software, hardware, and upgrades to the environment. * Install, manage, and configure VMware Vcenter, Platform Service Controllers, Vcloud, NSX, VRA, VRO, VUM and VROPS.* Have an understanding of and work with Cisco UCS* Monitor, identify, and troubleshoot issues related to storage, compute, and network within our environment* Continued application of Yearly SSL Certificates to Vcenters, PSC's (Platform Service Controler), and many other VMware products.* Wrote documention on standard practices, procedures, general knowledge, FAQ, etc...

Eugene, Oregon Area

* First point of contact to our internal customers pertaining to the companies virtual infrastructure, our team also managed self-service infrastructure and IT lab spaces* Monitor ServiceNow for incoming incidents and requests* Perform changes to production and non-production infrastructure. Changes include but are not limited to service restarts, patching, Performance tuning, break/fix, etc...* Install, manage, and configure VMware Vcloud, NSX, VRA, VRO, and VROPS.* Monitor, identify and troubleshoot issues related to storage, compute, and network. * Supported a NetBackup solution for much of our environment* Application of Yearly SSL Certificates to Venters, Platform Service Controllers, and many other VMware products.

Springfield, Oregon

* Build temporary multiple node physical clusters used for lab and testing purposes.* Worked with operating systems including but not limited to Windows, Unix, and Unix-like systems* Racking and stacking of servers, tape libraries, top of rack switches, fibre Channel* Worked with several storage types of storage including NFS, Tape, Fibre attached storage, and ISCSI.* Work front line tickets for a labs self-service portal.* Support the Virtual Infrastructure in which our service ran on requiring knowledge of several Vmware products such as Vcenter, Vcloud, and others.

Eufaula, Alabama

Computer Science

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