AMIT CHADHA

Mobile 302-***-****

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LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-chadha-5ba717140/

Professional Summary

I have over 16 years of experience in the field of Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Infrastructure Engineering, datacenter consolidation and migration, design and implementing Disaster Recovery Management.

Provided Cloud Architecture and Design consulting service for various customers.

Worked on different RFP’s from the Presales and Technical standpoint.

Successfully designed, deployed, and delivered secure Cloud Solutions for major organizations.

Performed roles of Solution Architect, technical lead, System Admin, System Integrator, Presales, and subject matter expert for variety projects.

Several years of experience in using, operating, and developing on top of cloud infrastructures and services therein, e.g. with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or IBM Cloud Platform

Good understanding on Migrating applications to cloud infrastructures and services like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud Platform or multi cloud deployments

Education Summary:

Master’s in science. Form Annamalai University, India

Master’s in computer application Form Annamalai University, India

Bachelor of Commerce from Delhi University, India

Certifications:

Pursuing AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional

AWS Certified Sysops Administrator Associate

AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate

IBM Cloud Solutions Architect v3

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Certified Architect Associate

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Certified Associate

Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate

Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals

HP-UX Certified System Administrator (CSA)

HP-UX Certified Advance System Administrator

NPP-Nutanix certified Professional

SCSA (Sun Certified Systems Administrator)

SCNA (Sun Certified Network Administrator)

MCSE (Microsoft Certified System Engineer)

Two-year Diploma in Software Management from Aptech Computers Ltd.

Technical Skills:

Infrastructure Architecture

Develop Architecture and Designs that align to technology strategy and business requirements.

Design and implementing Disaster Recovery Management for Critical Servers

Collaboration with different architects and business teams to establish controls, procedures, and governance model.

Investigate new technologies. Perform proof of concepts to evaluate various products, designs and help make decisions.

Network Operating Systems

UNIX (SCO UNIX V/SUN Solaris 7.0/8.0/HP-UX 11.x)

Different Linux Distribution (RHEL/SUSE/Oracle Linux)

Windows NT 4.0/2000/2012 R2/2016

Storage

Good knowledge of NetApp (Network Appliances) Filer storage (NAS).

Implemented NIS, NFS, Quota, Windows, UNIX user drive sharing, ACL and capacity upgrade on NetApp F740 Filer

Experience with SAN device HP XP512

Virtualization: HP integrity virtual machines, VMware ESX 6.x/5.x

Converged/Hyperconverged: Nutanix, SimpliVity

Cluster Solutions: MC Service Guard, VERITAS Cluster Server

Public Cloud: Amazon Web Services /Microsoft Azure/IBM Cloud/GCP

Orchestration Tools: Ansible, Terraform, chef, Kubernetes

Cloud Management Tools: AWS Cloud Formation

Containers: HP9000, Docker

Scripting/ Languages HTML, DHTML, Shell Scripting, C, C++

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Duration : October 2012 – Till Date

Position Held : Senior Consultant.

Organization : HCL America INC.

Duration : April 2011 – October 2012

Position Held : Consultant.

Organization : HCL Technologies LTD.

Duration : March 2008 – April 2011

Position Held : Technical Solutions Consultant

Organization : Hewlett Packard Pvt. Ltd.

Duration : Feb 2004 – March 2008

Position Held : Senior System Administrator

Organization : ST Microelectronics India Pvt. Ltd.

VISA Status: GC(EAD)

Projects during working for above organizations:

Procter & Gamble (Remote) Nov 2018 – Till Date

Role: Infrastructure and Cloud Architect

Performed roles of Presale and Solution Architect

Solution Designing of SaaS offering for four User Experience Application.

Solution is Multi Availability Zone.

Designed the solution on (AWS/ Microsoft Azure /IBM Cloud).

The application to be deployed are Click2Connect, OptiBot, Work Blaze, My Ownership.

Evaluated CSP for the offering (Like Services, Security, Compliance, Cost).

Creating BOM for each application.

Presenting the solution to P&G Architecture board for their approval.

Setting up the landing Zone.

Setup of VM which are running mix of Windows and Linux workloads

Active Directory deployment for MS SQL 2016 Cluster.

The Applications are running out of 3 Region (USA, EMEA, APAC) .

Designed runbooks, HLD and LLD

Sempra Energy (San Diego) August 2018 – August 2020

Role: Infrastructure and Implementation Architect

One of the biggest Nutanix deployment for an Energy company in San Diego.

Leveraged Nutanix on Dell-EMC for HCI & VMware 6.5+SRM for DC Virtualization & Disaster Recovery.

Leverage VMware NSX as Software Defined Network Solution

Leverage Secondary DC for Planned Maintenance & Disaster Recovery capabilities

Migrated 6000+ workloads from exiting HW to Nutanix on Dell-EMC using VMware converter.

Workloads included Web Servers, Apps Servers, and Database Servers.

Active-Active, Active-Standby & Active-Failover solutions depending on application requirements between Primary DC & Secondary DC

Nutanix HCI & Discrete – Targeted Recovery Point Objective – 1 hour (To be tested)

Cross-vCenter in Enhanced Linked Mode for NSX

Dedicated network bandwidth for NSX Edge Gateway Traffic (V2P)

Minimum of 3-Nodes, Maximum of 10-Nodes per Nutanix Cluster

HYCU backup for Nutanix HCI

Enabled Patching using Nutanix Prism Element, VMware ESXCLI

Monitoring using Prism Central, vROPS, Integrate with Splunk

Automated configuration management and deployments using Ansible playbooks. Creating roles and updating Playbooks to provision servers by using Ansible.

Written Ansible Playbooks to deploy 400+ Oracle RAC nodes.

Creating runbooks, HLD and LLD.

Reverse KT for operation team

POC for C2M 3 tire application stack on AWS.

Services leveraged in AWS were EC2/S3/EFS/Route53/ELB

Creating and uploading AWS AMIs

Setting up AWS Autoscaling group for EC2 workloads.

Using AWS CloudFormation to build application stack

Engaged in DevOps architectures for automation of using industry standards and tooling and Infrastructure As Code (IaC)) to deploy to AWS cloud and on-prem, which helped establish and maintain DevOps culture in the organization and serve our customers better.

Estee Lauder (Remote) Jan 2018 – August 2018

Role: DR Architect

Discovery, Designing and Deployment of DR solution on Microsoft Azure for C2M application stack.

RTO and RPO was 4 x 8.

Creating BOM for the environment.

Presenting the solution to Estee Lauder Architecture board for their approval.

The OS images getting replicated from ON- on-premise using Rack Ware RMM Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Management.

Setup the landing zone.

Workloads running in Azure are mix of Windows and Linux.

The environment is 3-Tier Architecture. (Web-Tier/Application Tier/DB Tier)

Workload sharing is done using Load Balances.

Security traffic is managed using Palo-Alto Firewall between the Vnets.

Authentication is Managed by the AD running on Azure.

Setting up performance alarms using Azure Monitor.

Participate in application releases, testing and deployment into production

Azure virtual networks, networking services, DNS, DHCP, and IP addressing configuration

Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing systems and develop strategies for improving or further leveraging these systems

Provide orientation and training to end users for all modified and new systems

Services used in Vnets, NSG, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Load Balancer, Azure Active Directory, Virtual Machine, Blob Storage

Configured Azure CLI for Terraform

Used Terraform to build application and Infra stack

Designed runbooks, HLD and LLD.

NXP Semiconductor Manufacturing (Netherlands and Texas) Nov 2016 – Dec 2017

Role: Lead Architect for NXP

Requirements study

Solution and BOM designing

Designing SOW from the technical standpoint and taking Sign-off from customer

DR solution designing

Designing new Consolidated projects solutions

Designed LLD and HLD for the Central Management System

Oversaw Infrastructure design and solutions being proposed and review them prior to

Implementation

Participate in meetings to understand customer requirements, Due Diligence and Proposal presentation sessions

Responsible for the delivery of engineering solutions to improve cost, quality and productivity of client infrastructure.

Architecting, designing, implementing and supporting of AWS Cloud-based Applications, infrastructure and its solution architecture.

Services leveraged in AWS were EC2/S3/EFS/Route53/ELB, SNS

Setting up workload for LSF Grid Computing Environment On AWS.

Creating and uploading AWS AMIs

Setting up AWS Autoscaling group for EC2 workloads.

Setting up performance alarms using CloudWatch.

Using AWS CloudFormation to build LSF stack

Rogers Communications Canada Inc. (Remote) March 2016-Oct 2016

Role: Implementation Architect

Solution designing and BOM designing.

Solution of DR designing and Implementation.

The requirement study, design and Implementation.

Solution designing for Lift and shift and Implementation.

Migrated the VM’s using VMware converter/Plate spin /Storage Replication

Doing P2V, V2V migration of all different Linux environments.

Configuring and Administration of HANFS and troubleshooting

Analyzing Systems for Critical Patches, applying them and upgrading drivers

Creation/Migration SAP cluster packages.

HA environment is VCS/MCSG /CSF/CVM

Pepsi Co. (Texas) Apr 2014 –September 2016

Role: Solution and Implementation Architect

Datacenters consolidation across globally, migration planning

Presentation of technical migration plan to customer.

Solution designing and BOM designing.

Solution of DR designing and Implementation.

The requirement study, design and Implementation.

Migration of all different environment running in different sector’s (LAR/NA/ASIA/EUROPE)

Data center consolidation for Virtualization, consists of 300 ESXi hosts and 2000 VMs to a two data center in North America

Migrated the VM’s using VMware converter/Plate spin /Storage Replication

Implementation of new Consolidated projects

Interfaced directly with client executives.

Configuring and Administration of HANFS and troubleshooting

Analyzing Systems for Critical Patches, applying them and upgrading drivers

Creation/Migration SAP cluster packages.

Storage Migration from XP 12K / EVA 4400 / EVA 8400 to EMC VPLEX.

Migration platform involves HP-UX 11.v1/11.v2/11.v3/AIX/ SUSE 11.1/3.

HA environment is VCS/MCSG.

Configured and Managed DNS and AD in Isolated Zone.

Automated the Server deployment and migration using shell scripting.

Designed runbooks, HLD and LLD.

Reverse KT for operation team.

Clorox Services Company (California) July 2013 - March 2014

Role: Solution and Implementation Architect

Migrating DC from HP DC to HCL DC

Solution designing and BOM designing.

Solution of DR designing and Implementation.

The requirement study, design and Implementation.

The Change management and Problem Management Process.

Implementation of new Consolidated projects

Storage Virtualization using Hitachi VSP

Reconfigure HA environment after migration which was using HP MCSG.

Configuring and Administration of HANFS and troubleshooting for SAP.

Storage Migration from XP 12K / EVA 4400 / EVA 8400 to Hitachi VSP. Appx Data for 100 TB.

Designed runbooks, HLD and LLD.

Reverse KT for operation team.

AstraZeneca (Delaware) Jan 2012-July 2013

Role: Solution and Implementation Architect

Migrating DC from IBM DC to HCL DC

Solution designing and BOM designing.

Solution of DR designing and Implementation.

The requirement study, design and Implementation.

The Change management and Problem Management Process.

Implementation of new Consolidated projects

Storage Virtualization using Hitachi VSP.

Configuring and Administration of HANFS and troubleshooting for SAP.

Coordinating with vendors such as HP, IBM for fixing unresolved issues

Analyzing Systems for Critical Patches, applying them and upgrading drivers

Creation/Migration SAP cluster packages.

Storage Migration from XP 12K / EVA 4400 / EVA 8400 to Hitachi VSP. Appx Data for 5 PB.

Designed runbooks, HLD and LLD.

Reverse KT for operation team.

Johnson & Johnson (Remote) March 2008- Jan 2012

Role: Solution and Implementation Architect

Solution designing and BOM designing.

Solution of DR designing and Implementation.

The requirement study, design and Implementation.

The Change management and Problem Management Process.

Implementation of new Consolidated projects

Coordinating with vendors such as HP, IBM for fixing unresolved issues

Analyzing Systems for Critical Patches, applying them and upgrading drivers

Hewlett Packard Pvt. Ltd March 2008 – March 2011

Managing and leading teams working on OS technologies like Redhat Linux, Suse, HP-UX, Solaris

Escalation Management- Collaborate and work closely with other cross functional teams to drive timely resolution of customer issues

Work closely with HPE Engineering teams for product delivery & product quality issues.

Lead the key projects which were targeted lowering resolution time & improving customer experience.

Leading the knowledge management efforts on HPE products – Knowledge creation/transfer/tech talks

Drive Crit-sit calls and Root cause analysis for

ST Microelectronics India Private Ltd. Feb 2004 – March 2008

STMicroelectronics is a French-Italian multinational electronics and semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It is commonly called ST, and it is Europe's largest semiconductor chip maker based on revenue

Role: System Engineer

(HP-UX to Linux Migration)

Mission was to migrate Development, QA and Production environment from HP-UX to RedHat Enterprise Linux. Applications and environments migrated to Linux included:

The entire project was divided in different phases starting from Proof of Concept (POC), to beta deployment, soft opening and final deployment.

Achievement of maintaining 200 days of up-time of Linux system.

Migrating the data from DAS to NAS (Netapp Filer F740).

Role: Implementation Engineer

(HP-UX High Availability using Veritas Cluster Server)

Mission was to migrate EDI Application environment to High availability environment which was running standalone server.

Two node cluster with one package running on Primary Node.

The Cluster Runs in Active/Passive mode.

The entire project was divided in different phases starting from Proof of Concept (POC), to beta deployment, soft opening and final deployment.

Storage: HP XP-1024

Role: Implementation Engineer

(HP-UX High Availability using MC/Service guard)

Mission was to migrate Development, QA and Production environment from all HP-UX servers which were running standalone servers to cluster environment

Two-node cluster with one package each running on all the nodes.

Other Node act’s as a fail over node for the other node.

The entire project was divided in different phases starting from Proof of Concept (POC), to beta deployment, soft opening, and final deployment.

Role: Implementation Engineer

(Citrix Farm Migration)

Citrix farm migration from Citrix Metaframe 1.8 to Metaframe XPe, and further to Metaframe Presentation server 3.

This server farm included 16 Windows 2000 Advanced Server serving to more than 1500 Users. The architecture of the farm is designed to load balance among servers and high availability.

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