Azure Engineer

VIJAYAKUMAR PANDURANGAN

Mobile: ***-774-***-****

Email ID: ************@*****.***

Skills and Qualifications:

15+ years of IT experience highly focused on Azure Cloud, VMware and Windows system administration

Experience on deploying app services (paas) components through release pipelines

Worked on ARM templates to deploy the infra through release pipelines

Hands on Experience in Azure Build pipelines and can configure through Yaml

Evaluation Azure VMSS to auto scale up and scale down Azure vm workloads

Automated ARM resource creation using ARM templates

Creation of Azure NIC, Azure Virtual networks, Azure VM's and provide access users

Responsible for creation and management of various Azure IAAS services

Managing entire Azure infrastructure services

Migration of on-premises servers (Hyper-V & VMware) to Azure

Migration of IAAS services like virtual network, network interface various Azure IAAS operations like Start VM, Stop VM, Delete VM.

Hands on knowledge on Azure Virtual Machines which includes the Peering between VNets, Site- to-Site Connectivity between VNets of two different Subscription

Responsible for creating Network Security Groups and add inbound rules for various ports like RDP (3389), to allow access only from private network address prefix to provide utmost security.

Creation of PowerShell scripts and add as extensions while creating VMs

Implemented solution for Managed and Unmanaged Availability Set which includes operations like Creation and Deletion of Availability Set, Adding and Removing machine in Availability Sets.

Basic knowledge and understanding on Azure Web Apps and Azure Site Recovery (ASR).

Hands on Experience on VMware ESX 3.0/4.0/5.0/6.0/6.5 Servers and vSphere 6.5

Experience in Installation (Server Build) of all type of Windows Operating Systems (2000/03/08/2012/2016 R2 server), VMware and Application software under multi-platform environments, deployment & monitoring servers, disk quota management & distributed file systems.

vCenter upgrades and Migration of vCenter from one version to another and migration of virtual servers from one vCenter to another vCenter

VMware SRM configuration and Administration

ESXi upgrades and patching using VMware update manager

Experience in building Windows 2019, 2016, 2012, 2008, Windows 2003 and Windows 2000 standalone & cluster servers

Professional Working Experience on HP Servers (DL360/380/580, ML580), HP C7000 chassis IBM X Series Servers and DELL R720, R730’s servers.

Designing and implementation of Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, and AD Enabled applications.

Microsoft applications including WINS, DNS, DHCP, SQL, printing, Proxy, IIS, Active Directory, SMTP, FTP, Print Server and Active Directory.

Maintaining Web Servers by installing IIS 6, 7 and IIS 8.

Technical skills: -

Microsoft Azure administration

VMware Infrastructure design and setup

Datacenter Migrations

Design and implementation of High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions.

Implementation of hosted and stand-alone application solutions using nTier standards

Academic Qualification:

1. B.E. in ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION.

2. DIPLOMA in ELECTRONICS & COMM.

Certifications:

Certified Microsoft Azure Administration

Certified VMware professional 6.5 Datacenter certification

Underdone AWS sysops training

MCSE 2003 (Microsoft Certified System Administration) trainee and MCP certified

Professional Experience:

Company: Cognizant Technologies US Corp

Role: Infra Ops Specialist

Period: Sep 2016 to till date

Client Site details as follows:

Company: JP Morgan Chase, Dallas, Texas - USA

Role: Senior Engineer

Period: Nov 2017 to till date

Job Responsibilities

Design, Build, Configure and Manage the VMware ESXi 5.5/6.0/6.5 Virtual environment.

Migrating 200+ production virtual servers from vCenter 4.1 legacy environment to vCenter 6.0 and decommission of ESX4.1 infrastructure.

Migrating 10000+ virtual servers from old UCS/G5 infrastructure to latest infrastructure

Upgrading ESXi hosts from 5.1, 6.0 to 6.5 using VMware update manager

Designed and Implemented Solution using Power ShellRun book and ARM (JSON) Template to Create Virtual Machine (involves Windows and Linux) with options for Workgroup and Domain Join including the Network and Subnet selection along with the VHD placement.

Developed automated solution for Azure Storage Operations like Addition, Expansion and Deletion of VHD and Renaming of Virtual Machine on IAAS level as well as OS Level.

Hands on knowledge on Azure Virtual Machines which includes the Peering between VNets, Site- to-Site Connectivity between VNets of two different Subscription.

Implemented solution for Managed and Unmanaged Availability Set which includes operations like Creation and Deletion of Availability Set, Adding and Removing machine in Availability Sets.

Basic knowledge and understanding on Azure Web Apps and Azure Site Recovery (ASR).

Managing EMC VNX Fiber channel storage for VMware infrastructure and Physical Windows ser

Hardware refresh and Upgrading ESXi hosts from old version to latest in around 800+ servers

Updating drivers and firmware in ESXI hosts to keep the environment compliance

HP C7000 Chassis firmware update using VCSU utility

Responsible for end-to-end delivery of corporate solutions to internal customers. Working with Business Units, Application and other Infrastructure Services teams.

VMWare environment upgrade from ESX 4.1, ESXi 5.1 & 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 (180 ESXI hosts), isolation of production environment from others and make sure production environment is up to date with both software and hardware updates.

Capacity planning using VROPS - Plan for future growth as well as maintain healthy environment

Remediate CP-34 security related auditing issues in VMware environment

Create Power Shell script to manage multiple subscriptions in Classic portal using publish settings file.

Create users in Azure AD from Portal as well as form Power Shell.

Migration of on-premises vms (Hyper-V & VMware) to Azure.

Migration of Azure vms from Classic portal to ARM portal.

Migration of IAAS services like virtual network, network interface etc.

Company: Christies Auction House., USA

Role: Technical Lead

Period: Sep 2016 to Nov 2017

Job Responsibilities

Responsible for end-to-end delivery of corporate solutions to internal customers. Working with Business Units, Application and other Infrastructure Services teams.

VMWare environment upgrade from 5.5 to 6.0 (50 ESXI hosts), isolation of production environment from others and make sure production environment is up to date with both software and hardware updates.

Configure and use SCCM for distribution of applications, patches and installations on server environment with automated deployments

Experience in Creating secured cloud infra using (VPC) for Staging and Development environment on AWS

Set up ELB for different applications to ensure high availability of applications

Company: Capgemini Financial services USA INC

Role: Senior Consultant

Period: Nov 2013 to Sep 2016

Client site details as follows:

Company: Fiserv Inc., USA

Role: Windows Engineer – ETG

Period: Nov 2014 to Sep 2016

Job Responsibilities

Responsible for end-to-end delivery of corporate solutions to internal customers. Working with Business Units, Application and other Infrastructure Services teams.

Working with cross-functional project teams to design and implement highly available solutions using Microsoft technologies

Configure and use SCCM for distribution of applications, patches and installations on server environment with automated deployments

Client site details as follows:

Company: Nomura Securities, NY, USA

Role: System Administrator (3rd and 2nd Level support)

Period: Nov 2013 to Nov 2014

Job Responsibilities:

Collect data from application team and build server, install application and configure them as per the requirement and handover.

Citrix Uplift project – Upgrading Citrix application from XenApp 4.5 to XenApp 6.5

Building ESXI servers with ESXi 5.0 update 2 and adding them to cluster

Support Xenapp 6.5 environment – deploy new apps as and when required and troubleshoot issues that would arise in Citrix environment, patching Citrix servers.

Supporting Windows 2008/2003 servers, Citrix XenApp, Meta Frame/Presentation Server 4.0 and VMware ESX Servers 4.0/5.0.

Professional Experience:

Company: Cognizant Technology Solutions

Role: Senior Associate

Period: Dec 2011 to Nov 2013

Client site details as follows:

Company: Christies Auction House Inc., Plainview, NY, USA

Role: System Administrator in Datacenter (3rd Level support)

Period: Dec 2011 to Nov 2013

Job Responsibilities:

Build and Configure VMware ESX 5.0 environment as per the project

Support Xenapp environment – deploy new apps as and when required and troubleshoot issues that would arise in Citrix environment, patching Citrix servers.

Configuring vNetwork Distributed switches and migrating the networks from Vnetwork standard switches to vNetwork Distributed switches.

Managing EMC VNX Fiber channel storage for VMware infrastructure and Windows servers

Managing, Installing, and Supporting Windows 2000/2003servers, Citrix XenApp, Meta Frame/Presentation Server 4.0 and VMware ESX Servers 4.0/5.0.

Design, Implementation of Active Directory infrastructure and Network fundamentals, protocols (such as TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS), Group Policy and Profile Management

Company: Keane Inc. an NTT Data Company

Role: Associate Operations Manager

Period: May 2005 till Dec 2011

Client site details as follows:

Company: Hanover Insurance Group, Worcester, MA, USA

Role: Citrix and Windows Build Engineer (2nd and 3rd level support)

Period: July 2008 till Dec 2011

Job Responsibilities:-

Maintenance of Citrix 4.5, XP & 4.0 server farms (125 Citrix servers).

Troubleshooting the Citrix server issues, deploying new Citrix servers as and when required.

Publishing application in Citrix environment, providing access to end users & troubleshooting issues pertaining to it.

Building ESX 3.5/4.0/5/0 Host and maintain those ESX servers through VI Client.

Installing and Maintaining the VC Server and VC License Server to main ESX Hosts

Data recovery, recovering all the business-critical applications of client at different site (different datacenter in New Jersey) testing & validating them.

Experience on Host Profiles, Distributed Switch, DRS, VMotion, Resource pools, permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Tools Upgrade, disk expansions, Template

Company: Bright Grey Insurance Ltd (A division of Royal London Group), Edinburgh, UK

Role: Windows Technical Analyst (2nd level support)

Period: Mar 2006 till Jul 2008.

Job Responsibilities:-

Configuring Blackberry for end users, troubleshooting all sorts of problems that arise in handheld, and maintenance of BES server.

Administration of the SMS 2003 server, Application deployment & patch management, & deploying OS for the entire client PC's using SMS server.

Active Directory administration adding secondary domain controllers, checking domain replication, transferring the FSMO roles using NTDSutil tool and troubleshooting problems related to it.

Job Responsibilities at Keane India Ltd:-

Installing the operating system (Windows 95/98, 2000 & XP) using GHOST imaging software, application Software's & packages.

Configuring Client Operating System for Windows Network

Troubleshooting hardware & software /application problems related to desktop

Installing and configuring SQL server and configuring clients as per the project requirement

Address for Communication: -

Vijayakumar Pandurangan

6201 Windhaven Pkwy. #2927

Plano, TX – 75093

Date: -

Place: - (P. Vijayakumar)

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