CHANDRASEKHAR. VELPULA

Role : Infrastructure Lead & Cloud Architect

E-mail : adgcpw@r.postjobfree.com & adgcpw@r.postjobfree.com

Phone : +91-984*******

Career Objective:

Versatile IT professional with sound knowledge of AZURE Cloud Technology with over 18+ Years of experience Spread across traditional infrastructure, Software Development, Project Management, Change Management, Risk Analysis & Mitigation, Keen to seek opportunity as Transition/Technical Project Manager.

Executive Summary:

Architect / Lead / Consultant / Admin/ with 19+ years of experience in system design, development, analysis and implementation using IBM, Microsoft, Hitachi & EMC Technologies for enterprise applications.

Extensive End to End working knowledge in AZURE cloud service Including IaaS, PaaS, Service bus, azure blob and table storages and API Management. Configuring private and public facing Azure load balancers, implementation and Data migration.

Working with large teams and involved in architecture of highly scalable, secure, distributed applications, aligned with company standards, process, methodologies, and best practices.

Strong people leadership skills with the ability to lead, manage and mentor; able to work effectively in large diverse multi-cultural global work teams.

Lead and drive sustainable operations in all Compute environments (Datacenter operations, Disaster recovery, Server and Storage Management in Wintel, Linus and AIX environments and Cloud Orchestration/Cloud Engineering)

Coordinate with Vendor/Partners/Internal for all aspects of run/maintain support according to SLAs and KPIs

Ensure compliance practices are followed. Participate in audits as required.

Help develop global strategies and best practices by leveraging best practices and technologies

Participate and provide knowledge following MIM (Major Incident Management) Processes. Also participate as required on SRT’s (Service Restoration Team’s) and CWT (Collaborative Work Teams) when issues occur, and troubleshooting is required.

Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system administration tasks

Have regular operational review calls to identify any issues in the operating environment.

Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning

Collaboratively work with other teams, including the Application Services teams, businesses, and alliance partners, provide and ensure end-to-end delivery of ‘Compute’ services. These services will include servers (and their integration with applications), storage, backup, virtual servers, data centers, disaster recovery, life cycle management, documentation, etc.

Possess good general IT management knowledge and skills in the areas of service support, service delivery, compliance/audit, vendor management and client management. Knowledge of IT service management frameworks (e.g. ITIL, MOF etc.) and strong vendor management experience

Technical Skills :

Azure Expertise:

oIaaS, PaaS, Power Shell, VM creation & Migrations, VNet, Traffic Manager, Azure Cloud Services, ExpressRoute, Security Center, Service bus, blob storages and Data Migration.

Server Based Technologies:

oIBM AIX, LINUX (SUSE & RedHat), Windows, VMWARE and Citrix and Oracle Solaris

oIBM p870, 824,595,570,520, IBMRS/6000 series Servers, IBM7026-H50, IBM Enterprise S7A Servers, Hitachi Tagma Storage USP100, AMS2300 and HUS VM

oDELL Power Edge 6400, 6600, 6300, 2500, Dell Power Vault 210s, Dell Power Vault 120T

Web based technologies:

oIIS, Apache, Tomcat, Extranet, Ecommerce, Microsoft SQL, ERP Solution (Oracle, SAP etc…)

Storage and Backup Technology:

oHitachi Storage like USP100, AMS2300/HUSVM and IBM TSM/EMC Avamar, Data Domain.

oSAN Cisco MDS Switches and Brocade Switches and IBM 3874 Tape Library

Asset Management e.g. License management: Oracle DB2, HANA, SAP, etc.

Data center management and Vendor Management

Basic networking concepts and infrastructure setup (IBM Power)

Educational Qualifications

B.Tech. (Electronics & Communication Engineering) from G.Pulla Reddy Engineering College, Kurnool, AP in 1998

Professional Certifications

oITIL3.0 Certified

oIBM e-Server Certified Specialist (p-Series Administration and Support for AIX 5L v5.3)

oMicrosoft Certified Systems Engineer [MCSE] Windows 2000

oCisco Certified Network Associate [CCNA]

Attended Internal IBM Trainings:

oIBM Cloud Private - Foundation Technology

oIBM Cloud Private Infrastructure and Architecture

oMicrosoft AZURE Cloud Training

oAGILE and SCRUM methodology

Professional Experience

Duration

Organization

Role

Oct'16 Till Date

IBM India Pvt. Ltd

Infrastructure Lead & Cloud Architect

Apri'08 to June’16

DsG(Dubai Smart Govt) @Dubai

Senior System Specialist

Sep’07 to April’08

Emirates Bank @Dubai

Sr. Sys Admin (Consultant)

Oct’05 to Aug'07

IBM India Pvt. Ltd

Systems Lead Specialist

Mar’03 to Oct’05

HSBC India Pvt. Ltd

Systems Engineer

Apr’02 to Mar’03

Frontline Soft Ltd

System Administrator

May’00 to Apr’02

Neem Systems Pvt. Ltd.

System Administrator

Technical Achievements:

Managed projects such as Backup Solution, Hitachi Storage Migration and IBM hardware (p595 and p870 etc) driven by Systems Operations and other IT & Business Groups.

Successfully implemented the Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Project for Oracle ERP (Dubai Govt) based on the mission risk management framework with physical and logical data security layers.

Migrated the Legacy TSM environment to EMC Avamar backup environment with Data Domain deduplication technology.

Implemented encryption method on new EMC backup solution as per security standards

Preparing the RFP (Request for Proposal) for new projects and awarding the vendor selection.

Automated sysadmin activities by using Unix shell scripting (System backup, Altcolne method, DR process, etc)

Architecture, Virtualization and Systems Administration Activities:

Achieved 99 % uptime and resolving a history of system/ network failure by directing the implementation and performance tuning of a UNIX server environment, rebalancing workloads, correcting server configuration problems and writing scripts to ensure smooth server functioning.

Planning, implementing and controlling user and account security rights and restrictions by integrating Microsoft AD users in SUSE servers.

Creating the SAP supported SUSE 12 SP3 Linux VMs on AZURE portal with in availability groups.

Involving with application team to migrate Oracle On-premise to SAP HANA into AZURE Cloud by using SAP DMO tool

Configured data migration by using Signiant tool and IBM Aspera by mounting DB dump data and copy to AZURE Cloud

Creating and Managing the ISCSI target servers as per SAP recommendations (#3 SUSE Linux servers)

Creating and Managing page maker cluster in LINUX SUSE for SAP service high availability.

Creating and Maintaining NFS cluster by using DRBD replication method in LINUX SUSE servers.

Creating and Maintaining the Internal Load Balancer as recommended by Microsoft for SAP project

Configuring and Maintaining the OS VMs backup and enabling the notification of the backup status.

Configuring and Maintaining the rsync tool to copy NFS data from main site to DR site for SAP Project.

Creating and Maintaining the LPAR by using IBM VIO concept and periodical maintenance on VIO servers. Maintain the DLPAR Operation on IBM AIX servers.

Configuring and Maintaining HACMP6.x/7.x and performing the Periodically maintenance on IBM HA environment

Periodically maintenance the DR activities and documenting the result.

AWS Technical Knowledge:

Knowledge for creating EC2 on AWS cloud

AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, Autoscaling Groups (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudFront.

Creating S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files, sometimes which are required to serve static content for a web application.

Creating EBS volumes for storing application files for use with EC2 instances whenever they are mounted to them.

Knowledge on Big data platform:

Hadoop cluster setup, installation, and configuration and administration experience of multimode cluster using APACHE AMBARI for HORTONWORKS distributions

knowledge on Hadoop Ecosystem tools such as HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, HBase and Spark etc.

Hadoop 1.x and 2.x Cluster Architecture

Involved in bench marking Hadoop/HBase cluster file systems various batch jobs and workloads

Experience monitoring and troubleshooting issues with Linux memory, CPU, OS, storage and network

Experience on Commissioning, Decommissioning, Balancing, and Managing Nodes and tuning server for optimal performance of the cluster.

As an admin involved in Cluster maintenance, trouble shooting, Monitoring and followed proper backup& Recovery strategies.

Experience in HDFS data storage and support for running map-reduce jobs.

Brief about previous employers:

Worked for Dubai Govt (H.H The Ruler’s Court) as a senior system specialist Apri'08 to June’16

The Government Departments affiliated to His Highness The Ruler's Court, with a view to providing various services to the Government and Government entities in the Emirate of Dubai.

Worked for Emirates Bank as a senior system admin consultant from Sep’07 to April’08.

one of the leading banks in the United Arab Emirates, Emirates Bank offers both corporate and retail banking and a wide range of financial products and services

Worked for IBM India Pvt.Ltd. as a Systems Lead Specialist, October 2005 to Aug'07

IBM India’s Global Service Delivery Center (GSDC) is a big leap forward in the execution of IBM's stated strategy: to offer On Demand Services competitively to our clients on a global basis. Worked on Carlson project, which is one of the leading companies in US for Travel and Hotel business

Worked for Front-line Soft Limited as a Systems Administrator, from April2002 to March 2003

Frontline soft Limited is an Offshore Development Company focusing on E-commerce and database applications on Microsoft and Sun Solaris Platforms.

Worked for Neem Systems Pvt. Limited as a Systems Administrator, from May’00 to Apr’02

NSPL provides mail solutions, internet and intranet solutions and web site hosting. Create E-Commerce projects, to collect Annual Maintenance Contracts for different clients. Important clients were NMDC, DRDL, Multination banks.

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