System Engineer/System Admin/Windows/Vmware

RAKESH

EMAIL: **********@*****.***

Phone: *** – 643 - 6465

SUMMARY

Ambitious Systems Infrastructure specialist and a Project coordinator with emphasis on Virtualization and Cloud computing. Have worked in the areas of implementation, operations and support. Responsibly tracked and implemented deliverables according to the project plan, while keeping the stakeholders up to date. Seeking meaningful employment within an organization that will allow professional growth and a challenging opportunity.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

VMware vSphere suite 6.0/ 5.0 including VMware vCenter Server, VMware ESX/ESXi servers, Linux 5/6/7, Ubuntu Linux, Kali Linux, VMC on AWS, Cloud Endure, AWS MGN, JIRA, Confluence, vrOPS, vRealization, Hitachi Compute Blades, Windows, Cisco UCS, SAN, NAS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fannie Mae., Reston, VA Nov 2019 – present

Sr. Systems Engineer/ Project Coordinator

Achievements/Responsibilities:

•Interaction with application teams and when required end users to resolve escalated problems in the areas of installation, repair, upgrade, and maintenance for the VM’s which are on VMC

•Provides technical support and research related to the definition, development, implementation, maintenance, and support of applicable systems, applications, products, and services

•Run application migration calls involving all the stakeholders.

•Full design and deployment of Confidential Cloud Foundation (VCF), with Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF). Full application software defined automation solution. Includes Multi-Cloud feature set for AWS, Azure, and OpenStack. SDDC Manager and other VCF components are included with this skillset.

•Involved in Creating, Modifying and Deleting security policies and troubleshooting traffic flows in Illumio Firewall.

•Worked with Illumio Firewalls to segment their applications and reduce the risk of Data Breaches.

•Identify Disaster Recovery best-practices both internal and external. Support key stakeholders to ensure that those best practices are widely adopted by Disaster Recovery

•Guides management/staff in development of recovery procedures by recommending disaster recovery/avoidance and business continuity measures.

•Working on VMC on AWS cloud Infrastructure.

•Experience in deploying and maintaining vCenter/ vRealize Operations Manager.

•Knowledge about how to implement VMware vRealize Orchestration (VRO), VMware vRealize Automation (VRA) and creating workflows in VRO.

•Hands-on experience with setting-up function along with various trigger using python.

•Daily automated reporting of list of EC2 instance

•Built workflows for post migrations using Python.

•Working on Wintel and Linux platforms (Windows – 2008, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016, Linux 5/6/7) for all the application servers that are migrated to VMC.

•Worked with Ansible and Ansible tower as configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks

•Used Ansible to document all infrastructure versions into version control.

•Worked on automating the tasks that are required for the migration of machines.

•Update the infrastructure Inventory list every week for on-prem infrastructure & on AWS cloud infrastructure.

•Worked on Puppet facts and workflows that are required for migrations.

•Run workflows for pre and post migration tasks during Migrations.

•Developed PowerShell scripts to automate Post-Migration tasks.

•Worked on JIRA, Confluence and crowd administration extensively giving support to 4000 members across the company.

•Performed physical to virtual (P2V) migrations for approximately 50 physical servers utilizing VMware Converter.

•Actively manage, improve, and monitor cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, including backups, patches, and scaling

•Working with backup team on a daily basis for incremental and full backups for all the applications which are on on-prem and cloud infrastructure.

•Installed and configured Nagios to constantly monitor network bandwidth, memory usage, and hard drive status

•Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging.

QRI Technologies, INC. Houston . April 2019 – Nov 2019

Sr. Systems Engineer

Achievements/ Responsibilities:

Administrating production server's/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, File and print Servers, ADS, DNS, DHCP, and other Application Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2012.

Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.

Administration of Active Directory in Windows 2008/20012 environment and managing Active Directory issues such as: Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Group Policies, Network Connectivity, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions etc.

Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.

Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots and Cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.

Worked on Microsoft Azure, involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups.

Provide expertise in engineering secure networking technical solutions for the Information System within a Virtualized environment using VMWare NSX

Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008 R2,2012 Servers on Virtual Machines and Citrix virtual desktop support.

Exchange/Office 365 support, maintenance and administration.

Worked on building instances in AWS.

Architected, implemented and managed a new vSphere 6.5 environment which also included VMware NSX

Worked on Data Center move and migrations.

Migrated around 6000 virtual machines from one data center to another.

Worked on Mimecast installation for the users around the company.

Troubleshooting Mimecast issues.

Provides day-to-day technical support to employee’s desktop systems software & hardware

Built, installed, and tested Linux and VMware servers based on requirements from Design and Architecture or established standards.

Managed over 100+ VMware servers 2003, 2008 R2 & 2012 with vSphere client.

Provision VMware Datastore’s and configure storage for Virtual Machines

Test and recommend Replication/Backup solutions for VMware, SAN and Disaster Recovery

Performed tons of V2V Migration.

Worked with Palo Alto firewall setup, Installed on our environment.

Created security policies and groups on Palo Alto Firewall.

Worked with DellEMC Unity Storage.

Executed Validation Optimization methodology, increased MRM throughput by 50%, benefitting CCAR, DFAST cycles.

Created Resource Capacity Strategy, used for Optimized Model Validator Resource Forecast, estimated savings of 30 MM.

Process Simplification across MRM, High Impact Low Technology Initiatives identified and executed

Hitachi Data Systems/Hitachi Vantara, Santa Clara, CA Mar 2015 – Mar 2019

Systems Administrator

Achievements/Responsibilities:

Administration and management of Virtual infrastructure environment - monitor, analyze, identify and troubleshoot issues, upgrade of Virtual infrastructure products - VMware vSphere suite including VMware vCenter Server, VMware ESX/ESXi clusters, Virtual machines and templates; VMware Site Recovery manager for Disaster recovery of environment; physical to virtual migration (P2Vs); Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix virtual desktop support.

Administrating production server's/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, File and print Servers, ADS, DNS, DHCP, and other Application Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2012.

Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.

Experience working on boot loaders like GRUB and LILO and also upgrading Kernel on Red hat Linux servers.

Configure SSH server for password less login, secure ssh logins and restrict ssh logins to local network using iptables.

Configured firewall using iptables for system security.

Disk and File system management through Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on LINUX and experienced in RAID 1, 5, 10, configuration.

Worked on building Hortonworks clusters for testing. (5 node clusters)

Experience with Cisco UCS server blades with VMware ESX deployments on Cisco UCS

Administration of Active Directory in Windows 2008/20012 environment and managing Active Directory issues such as: Logon Failures, Account Lockouts, Group Policies, Network Connectivity, Authentication Problems, File and Printer Permissions etc.

Manage VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), vMotion and High Availability (HA) Clusters.

Creating and Deploying of Virtual Machines from Templates and creating Snapshots and Cloning of Virtual Machines for future Deployments.

Worked on Microsoft Azure, involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups.

Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008 R2,2012 Servers on Virtual Machines and Citrix virtual desktop support.

Exchange/Office 365 support, maintenance and administration.

Knowledge of VSAN, including installation, configuration and management of a real world VSAN solution

Install, configure and maintain the virtual environment utilizing VMware Horizon View

Designed, implemented and supported VMware Virtualization technologies and EMC storage

Responsible to analyze complex SQL queries and create stage tables in database to perform code execution.

Maintained SAN and storage technologies with the help of EMC hardware.

Created and Configured Red Hat, Ubuntu, CentOS, Solaris Virtual Machines in AWS using EC2.

VMs migration across the ESXI servers using advanced features like VMotion.

Configured Cloud Watch and Nagios to monitor real-time granular metrics of all the AWS Services and configured individual dashboards for each resource Agents.

Experience in Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, FTP environment, Virtual Server Administration, and Patch Management on Microsoft Windows Servers.

SENIOR SYSTEMS ADMIN, DEV-OPS ENGINEER, SCRUM MASTER, PROJECT CO-ORDINATOR

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