NARASIMHA REDDY BANDA

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Experience in AWS/VMware/Windows Administration.

Involved in designing and deploying a multitude of applications utilizing AWS services such as EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, IAM, RDS, Route53, CloudWatch focusing on High Availability, Scalability Fault Tolerance.

More than 6 years of experience in Planning, Designing, Implementing VMware Virtualization Technologies, Storage, Microsoft Technologies, and Virtual Network Infrastructure.

Designed, Installed and Configured VMware ESX/ESXi within vSphere 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x and load balancing, DRS, HA, FT, DPM, vMotion and VMware Data Recovery.

5+ years’ Experience in maintaining VMware ESX / ESXi environment, Microsoft Windows Server, EMC Storage Arrays, Data Center management and day-to-day operations with Skill and Efficiency.

Experience on different vendor hardware (IBM/HP/DELL/Cisco UCS).

Experience on Nimble/HP/EMC/NetAPP/Dell/IBM storage administration.

Deployed and Maintained Microsoft Technologies including:

oWindows Servers: 2000/2003/2008/2008 R2/2012/2012 R2;

oSQL servers :2008/2012/2014

oDNS, DHCP, Active Directory, Group Policy Design and Implementation, Remote Desktop Services, Windows Deployment Services.

Responsible for basic website maintenance like configuring Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), updating HTML pages, and managing Share Point sites.

Installed, Configured, and managed Cisco Switches, Access Points across multiple sites.

Designed and Implemented VMware environment backup procedures and disaster recovery solutions

Strong experience in System Administration, Installation, Upgrading, Patches, Migration, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning.

Office 365 Configuration, Administration and configuring DLP policies for the organization.

Installed, configured, and maintained OKTA for SSO, Provisioning and Active Directory Integrations.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software

AWS, OKTA, VMware vSphere 5.5/6.0, VMware ESX/ESXi 3.5/4.0/4.1/5.1,5.5,VMware vCenter,, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware Update Manager, ServiceNow

Storage

HP 3PAR,Solidfire, IBM SAN, Nimble Storage

Databases

MS SQL Server 2008/2012/2014

Servers

IBM : X series, Blade Centers, Dell PowerEdge,

HP ProLiant DL/ML Series, HP Blade Center C7000, CICSO UCS

Directory Services

Active Directory, DHCP & DNS server services

Backup Solutions

Veeam backup, Barracuda, SolarWinds

Migration Tools

Vmware converter

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

EMPLOYER: SIMNA SOLUTIONS LLC

COMPANY: FLAGSHIP FACILITY SERVICES, San Jose, CA DEC'2015 –PRESENT

Role: Systems Engineer/Helpdesk Manager

Experience with AWS modules and migration of existing on-premise environment into virtualized hosting environment using EC2, VPC, S3, ELB, Auto Scaling with Cloud Watch Metrics integration.

Manage Route53, IAM Users and Roles in AWS across globally.

Monitor the AWS Environment with CloudWatch and CloudTrail Services.

Setup and managed EBS, EFS Volumes to EC2 Instances.

Created, maintained snapshots for EC2 instances, volumes according the requirements.

Provided VMWARE / Windows L2/L3 support.

Responsible for Disaster Recovery process implementation for the critical servers in the infrastructure.

Installed and configured vCenter Server, Clusters and resource pools.

Conduct in depth technical IAM research, assessments and performance analysis to support and design technical automated IAM strategies.

Designed and implemented fully automated DRS and HA clusters with IBM, HP and CISCO UCS servers and SOLIDFIRE SAN storage.

Build, configure and deploy VMware Virtual Machines and templates.

Implemented DRS affinity and non-affinity rules for the vms in the clusters.

Created and managed Standard and Distributed Switches (dvSwitch) in the vCenter servers for making use of best network design and stability across the vCenter servers.

Responsible for vmware and ESX patch management using vCenter update manager.

Responsible for troubleshooting vCenter and ESXi issues and system hardware failures.

Configuration of VMotion, vSwitch, and VLAN in VMware Virtual center.

Created resource pools and added VM's into the pools.

Responsible for SQL server database administration of vCenter.

Responsible for performing monthly patching on infrastructure servers.

Troubleshoot the ESX issues and provide Root Cause Analysis.

Managed separate VMware clusters like QA, Development and Production.

VMware tools upgrading and Windows patch updates.

Migrated datacenters and converted physical servers to virtual servers using VMware Convertor.

Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage.

Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX & Virtual Machines

Creation of templates from VMs and deploying VMs from templates.

Added and removed server roles and features; configured AD Domain Services roles; configured network infrastructure roles; configured file and print services.

Managed user accounts, groups, print queues and controlling access rights using Active Directory.

Manage IIS, DFS, and NTFS file and folder security issues, file server migrations & troubleshooting of file share issues.

Worked on integrating OKTA with Active Directory and setup SSO for various application like Office 365, ServiceNow etc.

Managed Office 365 policies, user accounts, DLP policies, licenses for the organization.

Implementing, configuring, and troubleshooting DNS service, forward & reverse lookup zone.

Developed organizational units in Active Directory (AD) and managed user security with group policies.

Worked with the team in setting up Solar Winds application used for alerting purpose.

Use network monitoring tools such as Solar winds Orion to evaluate network performance and usage.

Worked on setting up different kinds of alerts for monitoring various server aspects such as storage, performance.

Monitor incident management database and follow up with assigned personnel to ensure timely resolution of problems, meeting operational Service Level Agreements.

Manage the overall Service Desk performance for the region of responsibility as well as the performance of individual team members.

Create and manage reports to upper level management about all aspects of IT Technical Management including SLAs.

Led three-member help desk in providing phone and onsite support to 1,500 users at various customer locations, took ownership of escalated technical issues and provided solutions. Documented the root cause analysis for such issues.

ENVIRONMENT: AWS EC2, ESXi 5.1/5.5, vCenter 4/5/6, Windows 2003, 2008 r2, 2012R2 SQL server, Active directory server, Microsoft Exchange, VMware vCenter client, HP 3PAR, VMware Standalone Convertor, vshpere update manager, Barracuda backup, ServiceNow.

EMPLOYER: SIMNA SOLUTIONS LLC

COMPANY: ENDICIA, Mountain view, CA OCT' 2014 – DEC' 2015

Role: Systems Administrator

Evaluated and implemented new technologies. Deployed and maintained 200+ servers, windows servers that include VMware, Microsoft platforms.

Conducted Log Analysis and Troubleshoots on Performance of ESXi environment

Implementation of Distributed vSwitch Network Configuration in VMWARE infra.

Provided Consultation for Troubleshooting in Virtualization, SAN Configuration and Active Directory group policy design.

Utilized Microsoft Active Directory (AD) to manage objects, policies, users and groups.

Creating and updated network shares, adding permissions software and groups for users through Active Directory.

Administered Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, including Group Policy, creation and deletion of user accounts, managing access controls, and domain structure configuration.

Supported Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Outlook and OWA (Outlook Web Access) email connectivity.

Provided Technical Recommendations for Installation and Implementation of Virtual Environments in Industrial Pl2ants. Identified Administrative Standards, Issues and Process Improvements

Created scripts in PowerShell to Automate Tasks in the Guest VMs

Migration and P2V conversion Experience on many applications like SQL Server, Exchange running on Windows and some applications running on Red hat Linux appliances.

Provided technical assistance and best practices for customers to simulate in their own environment

Presenting LUNs, RDM and storage to various different hosts such as windows, VMware along with host side configurations of SAN storage.

Troubleshooting VSphere ESX/ESXi, ESXi Clusters, Host Profiles, vDistributed Switches, HA, DRS, VMotion, Storage VMotion, Fault Tolerance, Resource pools, Vcenter Permissions, Snapshots, Disk expansions, Templates, snapshots, Disaster Recovery (DR) and High Availability (HA) using PowerCLI and Remote CLI

Server Type Owner and responsible for around 310 servers with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 / 2008 / 2008 R2,2012 R2, Consisting of Microsoft Clusters, SQL clusters, Webserver, Terminal Servers, License servers and other applications.

Implementation Of different Host Profiles for Multiple Clusters across Multiple Data centers.

Maintained inventory of IT assets through Track IT and other accounting spreadsheets.

Environment: IBM X series, Blade Centers, HP Proliant servers, vSphere 4 and 5,Clustering, Windows 2008/2003, ESXi 5.1/5.5, vCenter 4/5/6, Windows 2003, 2008 r2, 2012R2 SQL server, Active directory.

Education:

University of Missouri, Kansas City, MO, USA August 2012- May 2014

Master of Science, Civil Engineering

GPA: 3.04/4.00

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India August 2008- April 2012

Bachelor of Technology in Civil Engineering

GPA: 3.0/4.00

Declaration:

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