Infrastructure Architect

AMIRTHARAJ GANAPATHY

Mobile: +91-968*******

E-mail: ***.**********@*****.***, **************@*****.***,

Holding US VISA valid till 2021

VCPN610: VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization

Looking for a position that requires working effectively in delivering IT strategy, IT Architecture

Design and Implementation

Skillsets: VMware vSphere + NetApp FAS Storage + Cisco UCS / Nexus Switch configuration / (Active Directory & Exchange Server) + Red Hat & SUSE Linux Administration + Networking.

Trained on Red Hat Open Stack (IceHouse)

Personal Skills and Preferences

Flexible self-starter, who enjoys solving problems and technical challenges, Team player with passion – who understands and respects personal & cultural differences

Good analytical skills regarding the transfer of business requirements into technical design

Ability to maintain a healthy and trustful relationship with the customer and external counterparts on projects

Keen to develop my own skills and extending own level of influence, Flexible with willingness to travel and work at client locations.

professional experience – Infrastructure Specialist - 11 years 6 months of experience

1.Senior Subject matter expert – IBM India Pvt Ltd (24th Feb 2015 – till date)

2.Senior System Administrator – JDA Software Pvt Ltd (18th July 2013 – 16th Feb 2015)

3.Technical Specialist - Mindtree Ltd. (28th June 2010 – 5th July 2013)

4.Assistant System Engineer - TATA Consultancy Services Limited. (24th May 2006 – 12th January 2010).

5.System Engineer - Boan Communications Pvt Ltd. (1st March 2005 – 23rd May 2006)

Project Experience

RECENT AND NOTABLE PROJECTs

Technical Lead (IBM) March 15 – till date

Customer Name: US Customers – Shared Infrastructure Support & Services

Description: Infrastructure Design / Implementation / Migration / Configuration / Ops

Tools & Technologies: VMware + HP Blade + CISCO UCS

Operating System: Windows 2003 / 2008 /2012

Role Played: Technical Solution Provider (Design / Configuration / Troubleshooting)

Team Size: 15

Responsibilities /Contribution:

Technical leadership for Data Center Migration, New Infrastructure Design, Implementation, Configuration and testing of the implementation effort for mid-sized customer projects or sub-projects on large customer engagements

Assess and manage functional and non-functional requirements and ensure that they are addressed with the technical solution

Conceptual and detailed design for state-of-the-art and complex development projects based on Microsoft, NetApp and Virtualization technologies

Coaching and guiding colleagues in the progression and development of their personal and technical skills

PRIOR EXPERIENCE

Cloud Service support July 13 – Feb 15

Customer Name: JDA Software Pvt Ltd – Infrastructure Support

Description: Datacenter Migration / Infrastructure Design / Implementation

Tools & Technologies: NetApp FAS 2240-2 + HP/DELL Hardware support + LINUX support.

Operating System: Windows 2003 / 2008 + RedHat Linux

Role Played: Technical Solution Provider (Design / Configuration / Troubleshooting)

Team Size: 4

Responsibilities /Contribution: Data Centre Migration / New Infrastructure Implementation and Configuration as per the client requirement. Setup the HP hardware monitoring and management using HP SIM server.

HP c7000/BL460c blades, Virtual Connect networking and SAN modules, HP Proliant and Dell PowerEdge servers

RHEL OpenLDAP / Postfix Mail server and patching server setup.

Experience with NetApp NAS/SAN Storage – Design, Implementation and Configuration

Hands on Experience with NetApp Filers FAS2040, FAS2240

Data ONTAP Upgrade and storage provisioning for both Physical / VMware ESXi environment.

Data Center Setup / Migration Dec 11 – Jun 13

Customer Name: AlpInvest Partners BV.

Description: Datacenter Migration / Infrastructure Design / Implementation

Tools & Technologies: VMware + NetApp FAS 2040 + CISCO UCS (FI & Nexus).

Operating System: ESXi 5.0 + Windows 2003 / 2008 + RedHat Linux

Role Played: Technical Solution Provider (Design / Configuration / Troubleshooting)

Team Size: 3

Responsibilities /Contribution: Data Centre Migration / New Infrastructure Implementation and Configuration. As per the client requirement, migrated the legacy infrastructure including applications from the previous vendor to the client owned new infrastructure that includes current technology products and tools implementation (VMware ESXi + NetApp FAS storage + CISCO UCS)

Architect for VMware vSphere environments on Cisco UCS infrastructure

• Key role in creating purchasing requirements for hardware and software including VMware ELA and all server hardware infrastructure.

• Provided presale technical overviews to large prospective Cisco UCS clients as per customer reference agreement.

• Design and execution of all MS Windows clusters utilizing Microsoft Cluster Services

• Worked with facilities, network and storage teams to design an efficient rack/power/cooling design as well as what specific components would be needed during the rollout such as blade type, configuration, SFPs, and mezzanine cards

• Configured 6120 fabric interconnects and created the initial service profile templates and associated pools and policies for the server blades

• Created storage design (on UCS side) connecting multiple SAN fabrics for failover and performance

Server Provisioning

• Provisioned 100+ servers to date and Setup Monitoring solution to record all performance data and track OS and application health from 80+ server systems (Windows, Linux)

• Setup Patch Management solution to automate security patch distribution of all Windows server systems

• Designed Active Directory Infrastructure for production, pre-production and development environments

• Engineered backend Microsoft SQL Server (2005/2008) database clusters

Storage Management

•Requirements analysis and gathering technical details. Project planning for tasks of moderate to high complexity. Technical lead for the delivery team (Engineers/Administrators) throughout the engagement

•Configuration of NetApp hardware and software products. (Data ONTAP configuration). Operational experience with NetApp’s Manageability Software (Operations Manager, Provisioning Manager, Protection Manager).

•Implementation of backup and restore, disaster recovery, storage consolidation, data protection, storage performance, etc., in accordance with the customer’s ITSM processes

•Storage Efficiency Optimization activities such as upgrades, performance tuning, and system audit tasks. Knowledge of storage administration and the concepts of file systems, disk partitions, mounts, quotas, mirroring storage sizing, performance and high availability.

•Mentoring of any Resident Engineers or Admins on the account / project. Interpreting enterprise class assessments (objectives, data collection and analysis, reporting against objectives).

•Documentation – Created and maintain NetApp storage infrastructure best practice documentation for the customer.

AIG (TCS) & Boan Communications pvt ltd.

Enterprise Systems Network Engineer (Lead Engineer)

• Supported Mixed OS environment (Windows NT, 2000, 2003)

Administered LAN/WAN environment (Approx. 700 users)

• Provided technical support for Field Technicians

• Assisted in technical interviews for prospective employees

• Prepared and installed servers at remote sites

• Repaired and troubleshoot computer problems

a.Designed/Implemented/Maintained AD & Exchange setup - Boan Communications.

b.Individual Role - Limit Login Setup – For Desktop user restriction

Windows 2000 to 2003 Domain Upgrade Sep 09

Customer Name: AIG - TATA Consultancy Services - ODC

Description: Upgraded the windows 2000 domain to windows 2003 domain

Tools & Technologies: Windows 2000 and 2003 support tools

Operating System: Windows 2003

Role Played: Planning, Configuration and Implementation.

Team Size: 1

Responsibilities / Contribution:

1.Created the plan for upgrading,

2.Analyzed the existing windows network and applications present inside the offshore AIG environment.

3.Pilot testing.

4.Backed up the necessary files and did the final Implementation successfully.

5.Documented the steps followed.

Firewall IOS upgrade and Access control list implementation Dec 08

Customer Name: AIG - TATA Consultancy Services - ODC

Description: Firewall Access Control List consolidation and IOS upgradation

Tools & Technologies: Cisco IOS file and TFTP Server

Operating System: Cisco IOS Version 7

Role Played: Implementation

Team Size: 3

Responsibilities / Contribution: Configuration Backup, IOS Upgradation, Consolidated the Access Control List based upon the projects available and Object creation as per the project requirement.

Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 Migration Sep 06

Customer Name: AIG - TATA Consultancy Services - ODC

Description: Added a new windows 2003 enterprise server into the windows 2000 domain network. Prepared the server/network to accept the new Exchange 2003 server using adprep tool. Used ADMT tool to move the mailboxes from the exchange 5.5 server to exchange 2003. Configured the OWA.

Tools & Technologies: Windows 2000 and 2003 support tools

Operating System: Windows 2003

Role Played: Installation, Configuration of Exchange 2003 server

Team Size: 3

Responsibilities / Contribution: Prepared the server/network to accept the new Exchange 2003 server using adprep tool. Installed / configured the new server.

Server Room Setup Mar 05 - Nov 05

Customer Name: Boan Communications Pvt Ltd

Description: Boan Communications is a company basically dealing with IVR products.

Tools & Technologies: Windows 2003 Small Business Server and windows XP.

Operating System: Windows 2003 Small Business Server

Role Played: System Engineer

Team Size: 1

Responsibilities /Contribution:

1. Separate Forest/Domain configuration and Exchange 2003 server configuration.

2. Cisco 506 Firewall configuration and ACL implementation.

3. Web/File/SQL Database server Installation/Configuration and Maintenance.

4. ISA 2000 server Installation/Configuration and Maintenance.

5. Configured and maintained external DNS records.

6. OWA configuration.

PERSONAL PROFILE

Education

Year Degree Institution

2003 MCA ANNA University, Chennai - Full Time

Passport Number: K2764548 Date of issue: 08.05.2012 Date of Expiry: 07.05.2022

Place: Bangalore (Current Location) G. AMIRTHARAJ

Ref:

1.Vinod C – Project Manager – IBM India pvt ltd. Mobile +91– 900**-*****

2.Dinakar Prabhakar - Project Manager - TATA Consultancy Services. +91 – 973**-*****

3.Joyson – Director - Boan Communications Pvt Ltd. Mobile: +91 - 984**-*****

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