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Engineer Vmware

Location:
Singapore, Central, Singapore
Posted:
January 04, 2021

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Bitra Gnana Kumar

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FIN: G*******X

E-mail: adi5tc@r.postjobfree.com

Result-focused, subject matter expert on VMware infrastructure with progressive experience on enterprise hybrid cloud environment.

Professional Summary:

Masters in Electronics & Communications with 14.6 years of IT experience as a Senior Hybrid Cloud Consultant.

Subject Matter Expert on Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of VMware ESX/ESXi 3.x, 4.x, i5.x, i6.x servers, vCenter Server 2.x, 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x.

Creating and Managing Clusters for High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduler.

Extensive experience with vRealize Automation (formerly vCAC) and/or vRealize Operations Manager (vRops) and ability to create workflows.

Creating Virtual Machines along with setting up policies and using Formulas and Custom Images to deploy the network.

Creating, Configuring of vSwitches, Port groups & Distributed vSwitches.

Experience on VMFS, NFS Data stores and adding to ESX/ESXi hosts.

Installation & Management of Windows servers 2003, 2008, 2012, 2016 & Linux Virtual Machines.

Experience on P2V, V2V Conversion using VMware Converter 4.x, 5.x & 6.x

Ability in learning new skills and adapting to new situations with excellent team spirit.

Expertise with VMWare (Automation & Orchestration) vRealize vRA, vRO, vRops, VMware NSX, VMware vSAN, vRealize Log Insight

Migrating the existing physical firewall rules to the NSX Distributed firewall

Centralized security policy management. Firewall rules are managed from one centralized location and apply to the VM regardless of location or vCenter Server system.

Maintaining VMware vRops and reporting for confirmation, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.

Developing custom blueprints and workflows using NSX, vRA and vRO to automate and simplify tasks.

Providing expert solutions in VMware NSX technologies with focus on Local Load Balancer, Firewall as a Service, Multicast Support, Advanced network monitoring, and Micro segmentation

Integrate VMware NSX products with other software and services to provide end-to-end customer services

Hands-on experience to install and configure vRealize suite components

Deep Expertise in the design/usage of the core AWS Product set such as EC2, VPC, S3, CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS, Route53, CloudFront etc.

Work Experience:

Current : NCS Pte Ltd

Role : Lead Consultant, Systems

Duration : 29th October 2019 - Present

Previous Career Jobs:

Company #1 : Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd

Role : Virtualization Engineer

Duration : 14th December 2015 – 26th October 2019

Company #2 : HCL Insys Pte Ltd.

Role : Senior System Engineer

Duration : 24th March 2014 – 11th December 2015

Company #3 : Harsco India Services Pvt. Ltd.

Role : Senior System Engineer

Duration : 22nd August 2012 – 21st March 2014

Company #4 : Capgemini India Pvt Ltd.

Role : Consultant P3

Duration : 30th November 2009 – 21st August 2012

Company #5 : Genpact Information & Technology Services

Role : L2 System Administrator

Duration : 12th June 2006 – 27th November 2009

Education:

Masters in Electronics & Communications, 2004-2006

Bapatla Engineering College, Nagarjuna University, Guntur.

CERTIFICATIONS:

VCP6-DCV Exam - 2V0-621 completed successfully, Registration number: 308132829

VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 –VCP550- Registration number: 16085797

VMware Certified Professional on VSphere 5 –VCP510 - Registration number: 7832686

VMware Certified Professional on VSphere 4 - VCP410- VCP080413

ITIL(R) V3 Foundation Examination - ITIL/MY011934

Training attended for Computer Hardware, MCSE 2003, VI3, vSphere 4 and CCNA

VMware Certified Associate –Workforce Mobility –VCAW510: Registration number: 12420628

VMware Certified Associate –Datacenter Virtualization – VCAD510: Registration number: 12063377

VMware Certified Associate – Cloud –VCAC510 – Registration number: 12372854

VCP7-CMA Exam -2v0-731 Completed successfully, Registration number: 333725430

Microsoft Certified Cloud Administrator Associate, Certification ID: 17054401

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA), Validation Number BTJXSSKKJ2E4QYKQ

EXPERIENCE SYNOPSYS:

NCS Pte Ltd

Designation: Lead Consultant, Systems

Projects: Government Private Cloud (GPC) & Government Commercial Cloud (GCC)

Responsibilities:

Install, configure and Manage vSphere 6.5, Nutanix CVMs on DELL EMC Hardware X630, X640 & X640, X740 Models

Adding ESXi hosts to Production Clusters and experience in Nutanix Expand Clusters via Prism Central.

Monitor and troubleshooting all the Nutanix CVM and storage with Prism Central & Element

Hands on experience in PKI Servers to provide the certificates for ESXi hosts & Client VMs

Hands-on experience on implementing Cloud Solutions using various AWS Services including EC2, VPC, S3, EFS etc.

Hands-on experience on Architecting and securing the Infrastructure on AWS using IAM, KMS, API Gateway, Cloud Watch, Security Groups, NACL etc.

Experienced in designing cloud models for Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).

Ability to present technical concepts in clear manner to customers through demos, proposals & presentations

Previous Job Profiles

Profile 1:

Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd

Designation: Senior Virtualization Engineer

Projects: Sabre, REC, ACE Travels, NFC & LCP, Frasers, CapitaLand.

Role:

Working as Senior Virtualization Engineer for Sabre, REC, ACE Travels, Frasers, NFC, Fujitsu LCP& CapitaLand

Day to day activity includes supporting VMware infrastructure, working on incidents, changes, patching activities, new server build (both physical & VMs), File server management, Anti-virus, DHCP & DNS management, Backup & Restore Activities, DR.

Responsibilities:

Providing 24*7 On Call Support for Servers, ensuring 99.999% up time.

Server Consolidation, SEPM 12.1.6 Upgrade & Upgrade of vSphere 5.x to 6.x.

Supporting VMware Infrastructure exists all over the globe.

Troubleshooting of VMs and ESXi Host related issues, configuring DRS rules.

Working on Windows related issues related to file and print server management, customized access provisioning based on client requirement to shares, DNS issues, DHCP scope creation, modification, Antivirus Group policy management.

Responsible to identify the suitable physical server from DC and migrate to virtual environment to reduce the physical infrastructure cost.

Providing support for server hardware failures and assist remotely with hardware replacement

Providing configuration management and security compliance for the virtual infrastructure software and hardware.

Responsible for building new tenants, upgrading platforms, participating in the solution and architecting of our current and future vRA and vRO platform

Actively involving for vRealize Suite Implementation for CapitaLand Project

Working as Cloud Administrator on Microsoft Azure, involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups

Deploy, Configure, Maintain Compute on Azure Cloud

Designing and implementation of public and private facing websites on AWS Cloud.

Migrating from On-Premise Infrastructure to AWS Cloud.

Configured and managed various AWS Services including EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, Glacier, Cloud Watch, Cloud Front, and Route 53 etc.

Profile 2:

HCL Insys Pte Ltd.

Designation: Senior System Engineer

Projects: AVA, BCA, MND, NParks, HCL Insys In-house support, Other Clients & URA

Role:

Worked as Engineer for AVA, BCA, MND, NParks, HCL Insys In-house support & URA

Handled Datacentre operations, Windows Servers, Backup Management, VMware infrastructure projects for government customers in Singapore. Managing operations for Microsoft Windows 2003/2008R2/2012R2, Server issues related to VMware, Network, AD, DNS, DHCP, User Management, OS Hardening etc.

Responsibilities

Converting all physical servers to Virtual using VMware Converter 5.x for the MND, NParks customers.

Worked for Datacentre Migration Projects for AVA, BCA & Other customers

Hands on experience in vSphere Upgrade for the all clients

Participated for Disaster Recovery Projects for MND, BCA, URA & HCL Insys

Handled Technical escalations from the Team Members

Profile 3:

Harsco India Services Pvt. Ltd.

Designation: Senior System Engineer

Projects: Harsco In-house Infra Support

Role:

Worked as Systems Engineer II for Harsco, Day to Day Datacenter Operations, Handled & support VMware Virtual Infra, Windows Systems, SAN, Data Centre, and H/W Infrastructure for new projects & establish disaster recovery setup and large-scale capacity planning using VMware Capacity Planning

Responsibilities:

Co-ordinate with the vendor (IBM\EMC\VMware) for collecting quotes, implementation and technical refresh of the infrastructure

Astutely handled around 800 servers at Production, Development, Testing and DR Data Centers, entailing Windows, VMWARE Virtual Servers

Proactively draft capacity planning and carried out trend analysis to closely study & forecast future systems resource requirements.

Conversions for multiple physical servers and V2V conversions for multiple virtual servers; Upgrade legacy vSphere 4 to vSphere 5 without downtime.

Evaluating requests for hardware and software; research and recommend solutions which meet or exceed the customer requirements.

Profile 4:

Capgemini India Pvt Ltd.

Designation: Consultant P3

Projects: ECS, EGS, NISH, Invacare & Ashcroft

Role:

Worked as Consultant P3 for Capgemini multiple customers.

Provided Technical support 24X7, Handled Storage, Backup, VMware infrastructure projects for customers.

Responsibilities:

Implementation and documentation of virtualization environment on Capgemini Managing servers.

Supporting complete end-to-end delivery methodology to ensure maximum performance and availability to the customers.

Handling Datacentre operations, Windows, Backup, VMware infrastructure projects for EGS, ECS Invacare & Nish customers in USA.

Interacted and worked with vendors like Microsoft, VMware, HP and IBM to prepare RCA for the reported incidents.

Coordinate with IT quality, IT security and IT audit departments for varied quality assurance, system security, audit and compliance related activities.

Profile 5:

AZWEN Info Technologies Pvt Ltd.

Designation: L2 System Administrator

Projects: Genpact, Wipro InfoTech, IEG

Role:

Worked as L2 System Admin for Azwen multiple customers, Provided Technical support 24X7, Handled Backup, WINTEL, VMware infrastructure projects for customers

Responsibilities:

Creating and managing Virtual Machines and Templates. Working with Snapshots of Virtual Machines.

Configuration and Administration of DNS, DHCP and file server.

Managing Active Directory and user permissions

Handling severity one calls. All the new Software’s, Hardware’s, Upgrades, Patches, Service Packs are tested on the test environment to ensure that the production is not affected.

Managing the Physical Infra & VMware VI3 for Genpact, Wipro Info Tech & IEG Customers

Tools Used:

Hardware: HP DL Series, DELL PowerEdge, Cisco Switches, IBM X-series & Fujitsu Primergy Servers

Operating Systems: Windows Servers 2003, 2008 & 2012,2016; ESX Servers 3.X, 4.X, i5.X, i6.X

Management Tools: VI Client 2.x, vSphere Client 4.x,5.x & vCenter 2.x,4.x,5.x, EMC Uni sphere, AD, DHCP

Virtualization: VI3, vSphere 4.X &5.X, 6.x; VC 2.5, 4.X,5.X & 6.x, VMware Converter 5.x,6.X; NSX 6.x

Storage: EMC CX 300, CX 400 & EMC VNX 5300, HP EVA 5500, Net APP Storage

Patch Management: GFI LAN Guard, WSUS 3.0 SP2, SCCM 2007 & SCCM 2012

Antivirus Console: Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager [SEPM]11.0,12.X & McAfee ePO

Disaster Recovery: Plate Spin Protect 11.x; Offline Tapes Management; BCP using Backup Software’s

Backup Tools: IBM TSM, Symantec Backup Exec, Net Backup 7.x, CA arc serve, Veeam Backup

Capacity Planning: vCops – vCenter Operations Manager 5.8.5, vRops 6.X, 7.0

Monitoring: Whatsup Gold 15.X, Solar winds 10.X, HP SIM, DELL IT Assistant & vCenter Alarms

Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2005, 2008,2012,2014 & 2016

Syslog: vRealize Log Insight(vRLI) 4.x, Kiwi Syslog Server 9.x



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