Manager Engineer
Resume:
Ganesh Chirukuri
adcic7@r.postjobfree.com
Objective
Seeking a challenging position in an estimated organization where my Technical, Analytical and Software skills are utilized and add value to organizational operations.
Experience Summary
Over 14 years of experience as Senior Systems Engineer in Managing Windows Servers & VMWare Virtualization. Expertise in Windows 2008/2012/2016 Servers, VCenter 6.5, ESX6.5, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM 2012) & System Center Operations Manager (SCOM 2012)
Key skills
Windows Server Administration and Group Policy Management
Designing, Configuring and Managing Active Directory Services on Windows 2003/2008/2012/2016 Domain Controllers.
Configuring and Administrating DNS, WINS, DHCP & DFS servers
Configuring Failover Clustering and Network Load Balancing
Experience on Windows Deployment services and WSUS services
Installation, Configuration & Administration of VCenter 5.0,6.0 & 6.5
Installation, Configuration & Administration of ESXi 5.0, 6.0 & 6.5 servers
Configuring & Managing HA, FT, DRS, DPM and Affinity Rules
Patching ESX Servers using VCenter Update Manager
Patching VCenter servers in VCenter High Availability Cluster
Managing and Configuring Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates
Exposure on Virtual Networking (Virtual Switches, VM Kernel Ports)
Configuring vMotion & Storage vMotion
Implementing VMWare Disaster Recovery solution using Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
Exposure on Implementation of vRA,VRO and VMC on AWS
VM backup management using VDP
Installation, Configuration & Administration of SCCM 2012
Configuring Site Roles, Distributed Points, Software Update Points, Discovery Rules, Device Collections and install Clients using client push installations
Deploying Software updates & Applications using SCCM 2012 R2
Troubleshooting SCCM client issues using server and client-side logs
Exposure on Setup the OSD Task Sequence using SCCM
Installation, Configuration & Administration of SCOM 2012
Expertise in Configuring Alert Rules (Events, Collection, Performance) and subscriptions
Exposure on Microsoft Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, System Center Service Manager & System Center Orchestration
Expertise on Problem, Change and Incident Management
Installation, Configuration & Administration of Exchange server 2003/2010
Creating Virtual Machines, WebApps and Storage etc... using Microsoft Azure
Monitor Azure services using Alert rules and Custom metrics
Experience in Ticketing systems BMC Remedy, Jira, Service Catalogue, IPCenter, Clarify and ServiceNow
Exposure/Experience in Protocols TCP/IP, SNMP, SMTP, Subnetting and OSI model
Exposure on PowerShell scripting to perform tasks related to Windows administration.
Exposure on Configuration of Cisco Infrastructure using Cisco UCS & CIMC.
Working Knowledge on HP Blade/DL580 servers
Basic Administration of Linux & Ubuntu servers
Basic administration of SQL server 2008 and Database failovers
Experience in Middleware IIS, Apache, Tomcat and Oracle WebLogic etc...
Configuring Monitors & Reports using AppDynamics and HP Sites cope
Experience on Monitoring tools like Splunk, HP OMI, HP Site scope & Nagios etc...
Remedy Administration, Managing different ticket types SI, CM, CR, SR etc...
Exposure on AWS, DevOps tools GIT, Jenkins, Ansible and Nagios etc.…
Education
Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering from T.G.L.G Polytechnic, Adoni, Andhra Pradesh, India
Professional Memberships / Certifications
Professional Society / Certification
Member Since / Date Certified
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Feb 2012
Career Profile
Dates
Organization
From Jan 2020 to Till Date
Polar IT Services Inc
From Jun-2006 to Dec 2019
TATA Consultancy Services
From Oct-2005 to May-2006
Vertex offshore services (p) Limited
From Jun-2004 to Oct-2005
CMC limited
Polar IT Services Inc.
Client: AAA (Automobile Club of Southern California), Costa Mesa, CA
Period: 01/2020 to Present
Position: Senior Systems Engineer (VMware & Windows)
Responsibilities:
Windows Server Administration and Group Policy Management
Administration of Active Directory and User Management
Administration of DNS,DHCP & DFS servers
Administration of VCenter 5.0,6.0 & 6.5
Administration of ESXi 5.0, 6.0 & 6.5 servers
Configuring & Managing HA, FT, DRS, DPM and Affinity Rules
Patching ESX Servers using VCenter Update Manager
Managing and Configuring Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates
VM backup management using VDP
Deploying Software updates & Applications using SCCM 2012 R2
Troubleshooting SCCM client issues using server and client-side logs
Installation, Configuration & Administration of SCOM 2012
Expertise in Configuring Alert Rules (Events, Collection, Performance) and subscriptions
Administration of web servers using IIS (Internet Information Services)
Setup the monitors using AppDynamics and HP Sitescope
Leading Major Service Outage, Priority 1 & 2 case investigation conference calls
Perform Data Center Switchover/failover activities.
Coordinating with other teams to support network hardware such as firewalls, load balancers and switches and storage hardware such as SAN, DAS and NAS systems
Basic administration of SQL server 2008 and database failovers
Leading/Implementing Application deployments on test and production environments
Analyzing proactive monitoring alerts and fine tuning them for better monitoring.
Environment: Windows Server 2008/2016, Linux servers, Oracle, MSSQL Server 2008, IIS, HP Site scope, Splunk, AppDynamics etc.
Tata Consultancy Services
Client Name: Comcast Cable Communications LLC, Denver -USA, Hyderabad -India
Period Dec 2013 to Dec 2019
Position Sr Systems Engineer (Windows & VMware)
Responsibilities
Windows Server Administration and Group Policy Management
Designing, Configuring and Managing Active Directory Services on Windows 2012/2016 Domain Controllers.
Installation, Configuration & Administration of VCenter 5.0,6.0 & 6.5
Installation, Configuration & Administration of ESXi 5.0, 6.0 & 6.5 servers
Configuring & Managing HA, FT, DRS, DPM and Affinity Rules
Patching ESX Servers using VCenter Update Manager
Managing and Configuring Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates
VM backup management using VDP
Configuring Site Roles, Distributed Points, Software Update Points, Discovery Rules, Device Collections and install Clients using client push installations
Deploying Software updates & Applications using SCCM 2012 R2
Installation, Configuration & Administration of SCOM 2012
Expertise in Configuring Alert Rules (Events, Collection, Performance) and subscriptions
Remedy (TTS) Administration, working on administration of different ticket types such as SI, CM, CR, SR, etc...
Managing Application servers Tomact, Weblogic etc...
Administration of web servers Apache and IIS
Creating Virtual Machines, WebApps and Storage etc. using Microsoft Azure
Monitor Azure services using Alert rules and Custom metrics
Setup the monitors using AppDynamics and HP Sitescope
Incident/SR Reduction calls arrangement and driving for reduction by automations and permanent fixes wherever possible.
Service performance reviews with customer on Incidents, problem cases and other operational parameters – weekly and monthly basis.
Leading Major Service Outage, Priority 1 & 2 case investigation conference calls
Perform Data Center Switchover/failover activities.
Coordinating with other teams to support network hardware such as firewalls, load balancers and switches and storage hardware such as SAN, DAS and NAS systems
Basic administration of SQL server 2008 and database failovers
Leading/Implementing Application deployments on test and production environments
Analyzing proactive monitoring alerts and fine tuning them for better monitoring.
Environment: Windows Server 2008/2016, Linux servers, Oracle, MSSQL Server 2008 &Remedy, IIS, Apache, Tomcat, HP Site scope, Splunk, OEM and AppDynamics etc.
Tata Consultancy Services
Client Name: British Telecom – London -UK, Hyderabad -India
Period: June 2006 to Nov 2013
Position: Team Lead /Production Support executive
Responsibilities
Leading and Supporting End to End Vision Infrastructure and Application at Level 3 primarily the Incident Management.
Leading Major Service Outage, Priority 1 & 2 case investigation conference calls
Installation, Configuration & Managing Active Directory Services
Managing DNS, DHCP and DFS servers
Manage the BT Vision & SDP web portals hosted on IIS
Access level review of platform on every quarter and access termination notification.
Deploying Windows patches & Applications using SMS 2005
MOM 2005 Administration & Configure alerts and Review arrangement on weekly basis with Customer, Microsoft and team.
Service Improvements and implementation
Analyzing proactive monitoring alerts and fine tuning them for better monitoring.
Taking utmost care of production deployments without impacting the live customers.
Installation, Configuration & Administration of VCenter 5.0
Managing VMWare ESX servers in Data center environment
Managing and Configuring Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates
VDR backups and VCenter Management
Coordinating with network team / firewall teams for fixing issues which are identified on the BT Vision platform.
Escalating high priority issues to fourth line /design team and providing them required inputs/information on the issue.
Analyzing the incident trends and raising problems cases if there are any trends in the incidents, doing investigation and follow up for closure of the problem cases.
Preparing / participating in RCA and discussions of high priority issues on the platform.
Carrying regular audits on VOD servers’ hard disks to identify read / write errors or incompatible model disks and replacing them with supported model.
Participating in Internal project audits and external audits
Monitoring different upstream / downstream systems and notifying them in case of failures to make sure end to end customer satisfaction
Environment Windows Server 2003/2008, Microsoft Mediaroom Application 1.1 SP3.2, Microsoft Operations Manger 2005, Systems Management Server 2003, MSSQL Server 2005 &, Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0, Microsoft Performance monitor tool, Network monitor, Logparser 2.2, wireshark & Windiffer
Vertex Offshore Services (P) Limited
Period: Oct 2005 to Apr 2006
Client Name: Internal
Position: Systems Administrator
Responsibilities
Designing, configuring and maintaining Active Directory Services on Windows 2003 Domain Controllers.
Implementing disk quotas on users using Group Policy objects.
Familiarity with implementing TCP/IP features such as DNS Infrastructure
Implementation of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
Handling Wintel calls related to Active Directory, DFS Problems, Profiles issues, Shared area access.
Maintenance and Administration of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 network.
Configuration and Troubleshooting of LAN Network and Systems Installation.
Installation and Maintenance of Terminal Services for remote administration.
Backup and Restoration of files using NTBackup.
Environment Windows Server 2000/2003, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS, File Servers and Backup setup & Maintenance, Windows XP, Norton Antivirus 7.1, VSS 6.0 and WSUS 2003. IT connection Manager, Microsoft Performance monitor tool & Network monitor tool.
CMC Limited
Period: Jun 2004 – Oct 2005
Client Name: Indian Oil Corporation Limited
Position: Systems Administrator
Responsibilities
Designing, configuring and maintaining Active Directory Services on Windows 2003 Domain Controllers.
Managing Exchange Server 2003
Configure Mailboxes and Recipient policies
Managing the users and groups and assigning policies based on the role.
Familiarity with implementing TCP/IP features such as DNS Infrastructure
Implementation of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
Installing various applications on desktops and troubleshooting the same.
Maintenance and Administration of Windows 2000 and Windows 2003 network.
Configuration and Troubleshooting of LAN Network and Systems Installation.
Installation and Maintenance of Terminal Services for remote administration.
Backup and Restoration of files using NTBackup.
Environment: Windows Server 2000/2003Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, IIS, File Servers and Backup setup & Maintenance, Windows XP,Norton Antivirus 7.1, VSS 6.0 and WSUS 2003. IT connection Manager, Microsoft Performance monitor tool & Network monitor tool.
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