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Jacksonville, FL ***** 904-***-**** ad4no4@r.postjobfree.com Visa independent

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JALITH LAL KOOLOTH

OBJECTIVE

To seek and maintain a position that offers infrastructure and hyperscalers architect role utilizing innovative solutions to organization problems through automation, technical knowledge, strategy execution, leadership experience, interpersonal skills, problem-solving skills and commitment to quality.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY Resourceful Cloud Solution Architect with 22+ years of experience across numerous technology and leadership roles. Highly skilled in public clouds & IT infrastructure, enterprise architecture, hybrid cloud solutions, IT strategy, Infrastructure transformations, and operations support. Excellent communication skills and extensive experience working with enterprise clients and partners. Detail-oriented resource with strong organizational skills. Participate in pre-sales activities like solution designing, resource estimation, planning, delivery model, etc.

SKILLS

● Public clouds - Certified as Azure

architect, AWS practitioner

● Private clouds - Certified in

VMWare ESXi, Windows servers,

Hyper-V, WSSD, Azure stack HCI

● Datacenter Technologies

● In-depth Infrastructure

Automation, IaC, workflow

automation

● Disaster Recovery and Business

Continuity architect

● Cloud networking, Cloud security,

and automation

● Storage, Backup solutions

● Datacenter transformation and

migration with High availability

● ITIL process adoption

● IT infra project management

● IT presales engagements

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WORK HISTORY Azure Infrastructure solution architect (contractor) Lam Research, Fremont, CA, USA - from Oct 2017 - present

As an Azure Architect, helped the client to design, develop, automate, and implement cloud-based cost effective solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform, leveraging best practices and industry standards to ensure maximum performance security and scalability. Responsible for designing and deploying robust cloud architectures, managing automating & optimizing cloud resources, and ensuring the security and reliability of Azure-based solutions in an agile manner.

Major Achievements:

Cloud Transformation

● Built organization cloud strategy and adoption methodologies – Conducted the evaluation of Azure and AWS

● Platform design, build & implementation along with cloud networking and security

● Support cloud native transformation of Apps and modernization efforts

● Promote and support DevOps journey

● Implement infrastructure automation and workflows using Powershell, Az CLI, ARM, servicenow, Azure functions, Playbooks, KQL etc.

● Cloud Security – Segregated subscriptions, Hub n’ Spoke VNETs design, Palo Firewalls, Express Route, NSGs, Private endpoints, VNET integrations, Web App firewalls, Log Analytics and Sentinel roll out

● Deployed and managed Azure resources like – Subscriptions, Management groups, VMs, VMSS, Service Fabric clusters, Storage accounts, App gateways, WAF v2, Webapps, Function apps, Azure backups, Recovery service vaults, Azure migrate, Azure Storage sync (AFS), SQL PaaS, SQL MIs, Reservations, VNETs, Load balancers, Azure Kubernetes Services, ACI, ACR, Subnets, Express Route, S2S VPN, Key vaults, Az DMS, Azure Netapp Files, Cognitive services, integration of Azure DevOps, NetApp CVO, SDWAN & PAN firewalls etc

● Deployed AKS clusters privately with in the client network and deploy nodes, PODS using provided YAML

Helped enhance Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity

● Enhanced business continuity for the entire suite of business critical applications with improved RTO and near-zero RPO by migrating from DC based DR to ASR and Azure based solutions

● Architected, modernize and migrate Disaster Recovery environment to Azure

● Used multiple technologies including Azure Site Recovery, NetApp Cloud Volume Ontap, Netapp clones & snapshots, Azure SQL replicas, Storage accounts replication, Azure Webapp, Service fabric cluster builds etc.

● One-click automation for the DR exercise - Designed and built the DR recovery automation framework

● Automation at every level - 5000+ lines of PowerShell codes to bring up the DR environment

(ASR, AD, Netapp volumes, DB clusters, SAP HANA DBs, web/app servers, etc.) Migrated TBs of file shares to Azure Files

● Cost effective highly available file share solution for the business

● Migrated multiple globally distributed file servers to Azure files using azure storage sync

● On-prem hefty storage cost saved by enabling cloud tiering

● Implemented integrated azure backup as per the business policy Azure migrate for VM and SQL DB workload migration

● Accelarated Cloud adoption using Azure migrate to address legacy hardware refresh

● Assessed, planned and migrated 100s of Unix and Windows servers to Azure AVD enablement

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● Enable the organization to scale using Azure Virtual desktop for remote employees during pandemic

● Deployed single and multi session hosts to meet various business needs including HPC and GPU workloads

● Rolled out FSLogix based Azure file shares for user’s roaming profile Azure network and firewall implementation

● Secure and protect client intellectual properties within the cloud

● Designing security strategy, implement the network silos and interconnect via NVAs

● Cloud Security – Segregated subscriptions, Hub n' Spoke VNETs design, Palo Firewalls, Express Route, NSGs, Private endpoints, VNET integrations, Log Analytics and Sentinel roll out

● Palo Alto firewalls in HA mode helped achieving highly available custom firewall solution in Azure

Multiple Datacenter consolidation and Trasnformation projects

● Helped client modernize several globally distributed datacenters

● Ensured currency of virtualization environment VMWare ESX

● Implemented Hyperconverged Hyper-V Cluster with S2D Previous assignment

Infrastructure Technical Lead/Architect (contractor) at CSX Rail, Jacksonville, FL, USA - Sep 2012 - Sep 2017

Manage the critical IT production support shop to effectively deliver the service deliverables within the stipulated SLA. Also ensure the quality services are delivered by following ITIL framework such as Incident, Problem, Change management and Service requests. Manage the critical landscapes for the train transport such as dispatch, PTC & traffic management systems.

Modernize the IT infrastructure to meet the quality of service and performance requirements.

● Administer and maintain vSphere ESXi environments

● Datacenter management – operations, inventory, purchase, logistics, facilities etc.

● Ensure the currency of the environment, on-time server refreshes, firmware upgrades and ESX version upgrades.

● Manage the onsite and offshore teams handling the day-to-day operations in Virtualization, Storage, Backup, datacenter, Performance and capacity area

● Regular reviews with client Project managers and Technical Directors

● Delivered outstanding service to clients to maintain and extend relationships for future business opportunities

● Modernized the IT infrastructure to meet the quality of service and performance requirements

● Improved revenue growth by converting client business requirements into billable projects Previous assignment

Infrastructure Admin/Architect at Infosys IT, Bangalore, India - Nov 2005 - Aug 2012

● Built and maintained datacenters and managed operations of Infosys IT to support 350K+ global workforce

● Managed datacenters, blade and rack servers, VMware ESX, Windows Server OS,

● Hitachi storage management including SAN & NAS

● Brocade fabric switch management and upgrades 12K and 48K

● Storage Virtualization and Infrastructure Optimization projects

● Enabled business continuity by leveraging DR technologies like HDS truecopy, Universal replicator, Hitachi storage cluster etc.

● Won several CIO innovations awards for implementing bleeding edge technologies IT SUPPORT ENGINEER 06/2005 to 11/2005

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CMC Limited, Bangalore, India

● Round the clock operations support of state datacenter

● Define and adhere to the stipulated service levels

● Physical server maintenance in the datacenter

● Microsoft Windows, Operations manager support

● HP EVA storage array management

● Security, Antivirus and vulnerability management

● Datacenter access management

SENIOR CUSTOMER SUPPORT ENGINEER - PART TIME 06/2000 to 04/2005 Penta Systems

● Delivered exceptionally high level of professionalism and support to each customer, upholding the company’s commitment to service.

● Deployment and support of IT environments for customers offices and factories

● Installation and support of laser printers, scanners, plotters, and other IT appliances

● Novel Netware and Windows NT deployments

● University and college labs setup

IT ENGINEER 08/1997 to 05/2000

I-Tech Computers, Kannur, India

● Delivered exceptionally high level of professionalism and support to each customer, upholding company's commitment to service.

● Deployment and support of IT environments for customers offices and factories

● Installation and support of personal computers, laser printers, scanners, plotters and other IT appliances

● Novel Netware and Windows NT deployments

● small scale networking deployments

CERTIFICATIONS ● Azure Admin and Architect

● AWS Cloud practitioner

● VMWare

● ITIL

● Microsoft Technologies

● Hitachi storage admin

● IBM storage admin

EDUCATION Kannur University, Kannur, India, India

Bachelor of Technology, Electronics and communication, 2004 State Board of Technical Education, Kerala, India, India

3 Year Diploma, Computer Hardware Maintenance, 1997

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