VINOTHKUMAR
GUNASEKARAN
SKILLS
• Cloud Automation: vRealize
Automation, Terraform & AWS Cloud
formation
• Scripting: JavaScript, Ansible
• Cloud Technology: VMware, AWS,
GCP
• Compute Hardware: Cisco UCS, HP,
DELL
• Orchestrator: VMware Vrealize
Orchestrator, Ansible
• Version Control - GITLab, GitHub,
Bitbucket
• CI/CD: Jenkins and Code stream
Results-driven with 15+ of experience specializing in cloud automation, virtualization and infrastructure Management. Expertise in Vmware, AWS, GCP, Cisco UCS and Devops tools including Ansible, terraform, Jenkins, GIT. Adept at leading end to end cloud deployments, Automate processes and designing scalable solution for enterprise environments. WORK HISTORY
December 2024 - Current
Senior Cloud Automation Enginner Amba Systems, Wisconsin October 2021 - December 2024
Associate Consultant HCL Technologies, Bangalore
December 2018 - September 2021
Senior VCE Engineer IP Soft Global Service PVT LTD, Bangalore
• End to End Vmware product support, deployment and optimization
• Automated cisco UCS and ESXI management using Ansible. Designed, implemented, and maintained CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions to automate code integration, testing, and deployment processes.
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Managed cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including provisioning resources, configuring networks, and optimizing performance for scalability and cost-effectiveness
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Developed infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible to automate environment setup and ensure consistency across environments
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Integrated Jira, bitbucket, Jenkins and inhouse tool for comperehensive automation.
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Troubleshoot build failure, Optimized and improved deployment efficiency
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• Solution Architecture for Automation and tooling scope Designed and deployed VMware Aria Suit with Ansible, Terraform for private and public cloud
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Integrated VMware Aria with the Service now and provisioned the catalogue for end user
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• Catalogue creation, identifying and developing the use cases. Coordination with SQL, Middleware and other application team for their automation use case
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• Installed and configured Ansible AWX, GIT
• Integrated GIT with Ansible, vRA,vRO
• Upgraded vRA and vRO infrastructure
• Troubleshooting build failure in the vRA and vRO workflow
• VMC end point to vRA and automating the end-to-end provisioning Created workflow for decision provisioning of workload with XaaS blueprints
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CONTACT
Green Bay, WI 54115
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March 2016 - December 2018
Assistant Manager Vodafone Shared Service India Limited, Bengaluru May 2014 - March 2016
Infrastructure Management Lead ACS – Xerox, Bangalore June 2009 - May 2014
Senior System Specialist HCL Technologies, India
• Created subscription and vRO workflow for post provisioning changes
• Created new workflow for installing the agents/software Creating Subscriptions and vRO workflows for Application, Web and DB tier for executing POST provisioning tasks (Agent installation and onboarding).
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Closely working with build team for template update and testing catalogue
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Creating new XaaS workflow for operation related activity which is time saving during ESXi failure
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• Bulk imports the list of VM which are not available in vRA
• Modifying the existing workflow for decommissioning the VM
• Creating snapshot workflow for operation related activity
• Onboarding new IP's and adding to cloud infra
Closely working with designer & delivery manager for new projects setup, implementation
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• Deploying cisco UCS, new blade implementation
• Deploying UCS
• Physical datacenter movement including firewall
• Data Center Activity
• Racking UCS, 3 PAR Storage
Configuring CISCO UCS, Blade servers, Zoning storage thru fabric interconnect
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Creating new infrastructure ESXI, Vcenter, storage from scratch to up and running
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Performing P2V for different SBU's including Active directoty
(Financing and account, GM, XTCM etc)
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Managing 1000+ ESX hosts - DL585 G7 Rack servers, BL685 G7/HP BLC7000 Chassis
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• Installing ESX/ESXi servers through manually and kickstart file.
• Configuring DRS & HA...
• Migration - Physical machine to Virtual (P2V), Virtual to Virtual (V2V). Increasing resource and migrating the VM using Vmotion and SVmotion
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DCC – Data Center Consolidation Project - Centralize servers to mains data centers by using P2V, P2P, V2V technologies
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• Improve operations by documenting KM article and Best Practice EDUCATION
April 2008
Bachelor of Science Information Technology
Anna University, India