Key focus is to establish Stability & Resiliency. Responsible for Steady State Operations.IT Infrastructure Hardware/Software purchase and Licensing. Coordinating server builds for On-Premise Private Cloud using Calm on Nutanix,ICP, Kubernetes. Overseeing Server Build, Storage, Network and application deployments.Establishing collaboration between Application/Middleware/Infrastructure teams to minimize downtime.

Focused on Automation & Virtualization to minimize the footprint, increase the efficiency and reduce the Human Error. Managing Audit & Compliance to standardize the Authentication Complexity as well as server hardening to meet the E&Y as well as Disney’s Guideline.Lead and Managed Priority Incident Bridges, orchestrated the resolutions.Lead a Project to implement historical data/configuration capturing by deploying configuration management reporting tools.Lead the Automation Project of workflow for Server Health reporting at Enterprise Level. Analyzed and planned automation for the reoccurring issues for the quick resolution.Worked closely with DB Team to implement Performance Tuning as per the Vendor Guidelines.Responsible of the daily operations and provided resolution of customer queries.Ensuring the process improvement, implementation of ITIL Best practices and involvement in technical design/architecture discussion to better understand the requirements. Cross trained the team to uplift the individual’s Skills in multiple OS flavors.

Primary focus was to redesign the Data Center and to build a DR site. Awarded for Leading/Delivering Multi Million Dollar Project of SAP/ERP "Enterprise Resource Planning".• Re-Designed the architecture for improved operational resiliency and performance.• Capacity planning and advising the hardware requirement for the Data Center Migration projects.• Worked as liaison between application development and operations teams for the migrations.• Build quality control documents, perform gap analysis, collected metrics to generate reports and graphs. Performed value creation and KM activities for the company.• Implemented Audit & Compliance, SOX & Cyber Audits, remediation as per the CIS & General Dynamic’s Standards. Successfully passed Audits for 5 years.• Implemented of ITIL Best practices to meet the ITAR and General Dynamics standards. • Created project plans and keep track of progress for timely delivery as per the defined quality standards of the customer. Used HP Project and Portfolio Management for tracking progress.• Designed Patching Calendar, automated patching, resulting in cost saving by 60%. • Engaged resources to create Run Books, knowledge-base articles, known errors, RCA and Proactive measures.• Lead the Data Center Build project, Virtualization on IBM p770+, E850, E870 frames. Ensured the timely delivery of lpars for production and DR Sites.• Designed the Centralized Authentication and Managed the Centrify deployment. • Designing & Deployment of High Availability by using of PowerHA, Configured Fault Tolerance and vMotion for Linux production servers.• Ensured the Server Build Quality, consistency & Hardening as per GAC Standards. • Leaded the storage Migration project from Netapp & IBM to EMC, as well as VMAX2 to VMAX3. • Awarded for Value Creation and Idea Generation three times. • My achievements published in HCL’s magazine “Chronicles of Ideapreneurs”

Worked for "Coca Cola" on a Project of Data Centers Migration, Client has 2000+ Server, migrated them using various tools/methods e.g. TSM, VPLEX. Build & Tested the Disaster Recovery Servers using Recovery Point Software.Designed and configured IBM power servers p570, p720, p770s.Configuration of (VAS) Vintela Authentication Services for Central Authentication.Configuration & implementation of HACMP/PowerHA, Performed failover & fallback testing.Performance tuning, capacity planning and troubleshooting of issues in production environment with minimal down time, backup plan for critical Production Servers.Configuration of NIM to take the Mksysb’s and deploy the Operating System AIX 5.3, 6.1 & 7.1.Worked on the QA (Quality Check) on the newly built servers. Decommissioning of lpars and old power frames.Experienced in HP Open View, Maximo & Remedy Incident Management and Change management System.

Worked on upgrade project of AIX5.3 to AIX 6.1. Worked on creation of Logical Volume Management. Experienced in Virtualization, Deployed VIO Server, and configured NPIV and VSCSI Lpars.Configuration and Administration of HACMP.Perform system monitoring and failure recovery of AIX and Solaris servers for mission critical systems in the health care industry.First line of support for any issues deemed high or critical impact. Other responsibilities include troubleshooting day to day issue, lvm tasks.Responsible for troubleshooting of performance and capacity issues.Worked as RFC Writer. Expert in Maximo & Remedy Change management Systems.

Administration of Microsoft Windows, AIX/UNIX & Linux Servers.Setup of VIO servers (AIX), VIO clients, upgrading the VIO server.Creating and managing LPAR profiles and system profiles, Designed, implemented and configuration of LPAR on p5, p6 frames using HMC.Taking backups / Mksysb’s of the servers.Responsible for Active Directory Administration on Microsoft Windows 2003 Server.Installation/Administration of TCP/IP, NIS/NIS+, NFS, DNS, NTP, Auto mounts, Send mail and Print servers as per the client’s requirement.Handling tickets of AIX & Linux regarding Operating System and Hardware issues.

Trained the IT Staff of Nishat Mills Limited on Red Hat Linux OS. The Core contents were:System Installation, Configuration, Performance & Security.Network Resources Access Control.Organizing Networked Systems.Network File Sharing Services.Web Services. Users Account Management.Installation of Applications.RPM Installations.