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Bengaluru Area, India

Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWSIdentifying appropriate use of AWS architectural best practicesParticipating in RFPs and SOWsArchitect and deploying Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud platform solutions that meet customer needs for scalability, reliability and performanceImplementation, Administration and troubleshooting on 400 ESX/ESXi hosts including more than 6000 Virtual machines.Designing Call, Home and Backup.Designing and deploying scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWSIdentifying appropriate use of AWS architectural best practicesWorking on features like EC2, EBS, S3, SNS, RDS, and R53Configuring AWS VPC, Storage gateway, ELB, Security groups, ACLs, Auto scaling, AWS Import/ExportArchitecting and deploying Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud platform solutions that meet customer needs for scalability, reliability and performanceLiable for configuring Cisco UCS including FI configuration, creating pools, policy’s and services profiles.Responsible for disaster recovery, closing security loopholes and access levels. Developing VMware/AWS failover cluster and adding hosts into clusters.Creating ESXi hosts on physical UCS/vBlock blades.Configuring failure over clusters.Configuring AWS VPC, Storage gateway, ELB, Security groups, ACLs, Auto scalingCreating Cisco UCS including FI configuration, creating pools, policy’s and services profiles, configuring Call Home and Backup.Providing recommendation to stake holders for virtualization.Conducting P2V and V2V using VMware Converter.Installing VC Server, creating datacenters and clusters.Including ESXi Hosts onto clusters.Generating datacenters and clusters with HA and DRS.Troubleshooting VMware environment from VI Client and CISCO UCS environment from UCS Manager.

•Working in Client Location (Global Service Center – Reckitt Benckiser) at Gurgaon, as Sr. System Engineer.•Working on ITIL , Leading VMware virtual infrastructure•Client Interaction.•Planning & Documentation –SOPs & Proposal. Implementation, Administration and troubleshooting on 54 ESX hosts including 980 Virtual machines.Responsible for all day-to-day activities related to virtual infrastructures, creation of new VMs, drive expansions for Windows VMs whenever required on CR basis.Installing ,configuring and maintaining ESX servers, Applying available patches and software release, Performance optimization of ESX servers, Troubleshooting network/storage related issuesManaging Users, Groups, Roles, and Permissions, Data store management for ESX servers Configuring ESX Network Ports and Firewall, Creating a vSwitch for Virtual Machines, Removing a Virtual SwitchAdding VMotion to Enable Virtual Machine Migration, Setting up the basic network security policies, Ethernet Traffic Shaping, Load Balancing and Failover.Configuring Software/Hardware iSCSI, Firewall Ports for an ESX iSCSI Software Initiator, Multipathing with iSCSI ,Configuring Virtual Machine CPU Limits, CPU Shares,CPU ReservationsSetting Up Resource Pools, Creating a HA Cluster, Adding Hosts to a Cluster, Reconfiguring HA on a HostEnabling DRS in a Cluster, Surviving a vCenter Server Failure or Outage, Identifying flaws in cluster and remediation.virtual machine performance tunning,Virtual machine cloning, Creating virtual machine templates, motioning and svmotioning of virtual machinesOptimizing virtual machine for specific application, Physical machine to virtual machine conversion, Extending virtual machine disks and backupCreating scripts for finding active snapshots, server configuration, VMFS datastore status, vmwaretools status in a presentable format (html,htm)Backing up ESX/ESXi server using Veeam Backup software and scripts.

Project General Electric (GE)Providing Remote Infrastructure support & supporting large windows server environment to GE. We are part of GIS compute run team and supporting mid range servers. Supporting IT infrastructure for GE’s all business domain including, GE Money, GE Energy, GE Corporate, GE infrastructure, GE Aviation, GE Real-Estate etc.Managing 5800 Windows Servers (Production, Disaster Recovery & Development) across the globe.Managing more than 20 VMware virtual datacenters based on geographic locations consisting more than 2000 windows virtual machines.Working on change management, performing planning, scheduling and implementing change.Applying Microsoft security patches using GE standards Automation tool (Opsware)Working on Problem management, to find out the root cause of repetitive incidents.Creating knowledgebase Articles on the basis of root cause analyses done on PMs.Handling incidents including Severity 0 to 4 and provide resolutions within SLA timelines.Installing, managing, configuring VMware ESX servers through CLI and virtual centerPerforming VMware Vmotion, VMware storage vmotion, troubleshooting virtual machinesApplying patches to VMware ESX servers as per the updates available.VMware consolidation, performing VMware P2V hot migration.Remediation of citrix presentation server related issues.Work on change management includes, planning & implementation.Supporting HA services , includes Microsoft and Veritas clusters.Managing H/w Firmware /Bios levelsExecution of LSA (Local account administration) requests and fixing operating system issues.Performing server builds, installation of Antivirus software’s, patching, prollient support pack.Administer and troubleshoot Active Directory and related environments such as WINS, DNS, file shares and folder.