Sri Harsha Dhanekula

Mobile No: +91-998*******

E-Mail Id: ad1cpt@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

An outstanding, self- motivated professional with around 7.8 years of experience in IT industry with major focus on Red Hat Linux administration, VMware, Cloud Migrations execution & Build/Decommission. Played roles of Technology Lead, System administrator, Fixed term hires.

Experience in Linux administration installation, configuration, Tuning and upgrades of Linux (Red Hat) and working in environment in an environment where uptime and availability are critical

Responsible for providing technical and system administration support through troubleshooting, identifying, and addressing issues, patching, and updating of RHEL servers

Perform necessary systems maintenance in accordance with Red Hat best practices and company change management policies.

Analyze Business user needs diagnose and troubleshooting skills in Linux, incident tickets and change management, Server Build.

Developing automation processes and deploy and manage the infrastructure as well as the implementation of monitoring tools and security practices to ensure the integrity and high availability of the environment

Familiar with Agile, involved in end-to-end implementations of Audits & Risks, Maintenance-requisites, Runbook’s preparations to execute Migrations and support the projects

Strong planner and organizer with demonstrated ability to master new concepts quickly, incorporate the latest technologies.

Provide effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of production Linux servers in a VMware virtualized Environment

Excellent documentation and presentation skills, Proven ability to learn and rapidly adapt to new challenges

Responsible for hardware/software troubleshooting and open case with red hat support for solutions and supported network for customers

Coordinating with Cloud provide service vendors to implement infrastructure service as well as diagnose and resolve infrastructure and application issues

Implement security tools, policies, and procedures in conjunction with the company's security team and build, tune and monitor server instances on the cloud platform

Technical Skill

Red hat 6.x, 7.x (Head on RHEL 8), VMware 6.5, IBM Cloud, Aws (Ec2, S3, cache, IAM)

Ticketing tool

Jira, Service Now, Tivoli, MAD (Mixed address database), USMS (remedy)

Monitoring tools

Grafana dashboard, IBM Tivoli, Netcool.

Operating systems

Red Hat Linux enterprise server 7,8, Windows XP/2008/2012

Cloud Migration Tools

HCX (Hybrid cloud extension), Carbonite (Double Take), Cloud Endure (AWS)

Build Tools

Opass, Omap Orchestration tools, BigFix, IBM RCA, IBM CC

Employment History:

Organization

Period

Designation

Infosys Limited

Nov2021 – Present

Technology Lead

IBM India Private Limited (Full Time) and transferred to

kyndryl Solution Private Limited

August 2015 – August 2021

September 2021 - Nov 2021

System Administrator

IBM India Private Limited (Contractor)

July 2014 – July2015

Fixed Term hires.

Project Details / Responsibilities:

1.Company: Infosys Technologies Limited (Nov2021-Present)

Environment: Linux & AWS Cloud

Project: Liberty Global, Pumpkin

Work Location: Hyderabad, India.

Role: Technology Lead

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Expertise in Hybrid cloud solutions and cloud migration techniques and work flows to (On- premises to cloud platforms and good understanding and working knowledge of security architecture across infrastructure and applications.

Creating S3 buckets and managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized storage backup for AWS

Involved in deploying the content cloud platform on Amazon web services using EC2, S3 and EBS

Automated the build and release management process including monitoring changes between releases

Responsible for hardware/software troubleshooting and open case with red hat support for solutions and supported network and remote printers for customers.

Maintain security for all production systems of Linux servers

Collaborate with team and conduct daily meetings to discuss on incidents and changes assigned.

Regular reporting project progress to management on daily work.

Patching and deployment of production system servers up to date.

Maintain documentation of processes, procedures, and share technical knowledge to new joiners

Responsible for tracking SSL certificates and creating changes in maintenance window and ensuring proper communication between Project manager and clients

Followed agile principles and used JIRA for maintenance and Bug development tasks

Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve issues related to build and deploy process

Interact with on-site team and lead the meetings on weekly basis to meet the project requirements

2.Company: IBM India Private Limited & kYndryl Solution Private Limited (Nov2019 to Nov 2021)

Project: Cloud Modernization Migration

Sub Accounts: Irving Oil, Asendia

Environment: IBM Cloud, Linux, VMware

Work Location: Hyderabad, India.

Role: System administrator

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Being part of various migration phases like Planning, Design, Build, Migration and develop project plans to manage end to end project activities.

Documented current environment including inventory of applications, IT equipment, data to be migrated and logical dependency map.

Execution of run books which lists the technical steps involved in performing the migration.

Checking readiness of the target infrastructure, networks, and other prerequisites.

Executing the migrations as per the plan and Run books.

Migration cut-over which involves testing and cutting over the application to the target environment.

Providing L1 & L2 support for Linux Servers and working on Cloud Migration Projects

Creating snapshot for virtual machine before system maintenance.

Using cloud tools, design, planning, discover the Migration setup according to the client requirement and move the data to Target Data centers using IBM cloud

Project: Cloud Managed application services (CMAS) (Aug2015 to Oct2019) Environment: Linux Build & VMware

Work Location: Bangalore, India

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Maintain 100% up-time of the production services

Providing day-to-day user administration like adding or deleting users, label modifications and password aging.

Installing, Checking & Removing Packages & Patches (YUM, RPM).

Extending partitions space as per standard change.

Troubleshooting of day-to-day issues such as logging related issues, Network configuration, disk space and permission issues.

Creating Cron jobs that monitored and reported security issues follow regular Operations procedures and complete all assigned tasks.

Resolve login, permission related issues and granting Sudo permissions to users based on request.

Sharing file system through NFS service and granting access only to specified servers.

Resolving NFS, NTP, SSH password less authentication and ftp related issues.

NFS server administration. Creating new NFS shares and configuring auto mount on clients.

Install application related software’s in LINUX like Java, telnet

Coordinating with vendor for hardware part replacement.

Adding additional RAM to end user machines as per request

creating new partition and extending partition by using LVM as per client request

Resolve user login related issues

Checking system performance by using SAR and TOP command

3.Company: IBM India Private Limited (Contractor) (July 2014 to July 2015)

Project: Internal global account (IGA)

Location: Bangalore, India

Role: (Fixed term hires) Audit and compliance Focal

Responsibilities / Deliverables:

Experience in handling security projects. Responsible for Vulnerability Management.

This involves a) Ensuring that vulnerability scans are run at scheduled time

b) Scan results are analysed in a timely manner.

c) Categorizing the vulnerabilities as per defined process.

d) Fixes are applied as per the vulnerability policy

Creating and Managing Users/Group accounts and setting up user's work environment

Communicates the information Risk strategy with business clients to ensure common understanding and acceptance

Conducting Knowledge transfer to new joiners and to the team on compliance activities.

Clearing all the internal and external SOX audits.

Rotated 24/7 on-call support.

EDUCATIONAL SUMMARY:

Highest Qualification:

Bachelor of technology in Computer Science & Engineering in 2013 from

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Kakinada University, Securing 58% with second class distinction. Kakinada- 533003, Andhra Pradesh, India.

CERTIFICATIONS:

1.Red Hat Certified System administrator (RHEL 7) Certification ID: 190-305-128

2.VMware Certified Professional 6.5 - Data Center Virtualization

3.Vmware vSphere 6.5 Foundations

Place: Hyderabad, India. D. Sri Harsha

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