Aug 2018 – Dec 2022 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Delft, South Holland, Netherlands · Hybrid

• My role in the IT Infrastructure team is to design new infrastructure solutions and automate the applications
• deployment and management. Several projects that I can proudly showcase are as below:
• Working on projects like automated deployment of any OS and any platform. I automate applications deployment
• and configuration like SQL, IIS, MS Office, Synergy, Globe on VMware infrastructure, Azure, AWS using vRealize
• orchestrator and cloud orchestration and automation tools respectively.
• Explore the possibilities of using Azure and AWS services to develop and host cloud native applications
• Core responsible owner for enabling IaaS and SaaS solution, Self Service Portal for our users and partners using
• VMWare and vRealize Suite, provide secure environment for inhouse developers to research and develop
• applications based on containers, Kubernetes, microservices architecture.
• Provided on premise end to end automated solution for Exact’s Learning and Development team (Exademy). In this
• project, I developed workflow to orchestrate end to end deployment of Practice and Exam environments in house
• which resulted in cutting down huge costs to the company which was earlier hosted on a third party cloud and was
• not maintainable for security vulnerable threats.
• Successful lead the project from decision making till migrating the workload from EMC VNX to Pure storage to boost
• the performance and availability of Infrastructure

Aug 2011 – Jul 2018 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Ensuring the Service Delivery delivered as per Service Catalogue agreements.
• Designing vCenter architecture.
• Designing, Planning and Patching entire DataCenter components using VCM
• Automation using Powershell, VBscrits, vCO
• Designing and implementation of Squid server
• Designing and applying group policies for different servers as per the requirement from the respective team.
• Auto Healthcheck of ESX, Cluster, Vsphere Tasks, events and Alarms
• Configuring Clusters for HA and DRS
• Administration of vCenter.
• DR setup using Vmware Site Recovery Manager and RecoverPoint (VPLEX)
• FTP scripts to auto transfer files across different ftp servers
• Automation of AD, Password resets and Account creations
• Recover Point Configuration for DR
• Administering Xtrem IO, VPLEX
• Customer Engagement:
• Customer: One of the leading banks in Europe
• Project: Federation EHC Cloud
• Designing of vRealize 6 suite (vRO, vROPS, vCAC, vR Loginsight, vRB)
• Designing of vCenter 5.5 with clustering, VDS, Datastore Clustering and rules
• Designing of Host Profile and Auto deploy of ESXi
• Designing the ESRS gateway and Policy manager for the remote access of the infrastructure
• Administration of vCenter components
• Administration of NSX for Host Prep and Service Deployments
• Background environment used here:
• ESX Platform backing with Cisco UCS blades, HP DL 580 Gen 8
• vSphere, VCM, vCO, SRM, vRealize 6 suite
• VNX, Recoverpoint, Avamar
• Microsoft Windows 2k3, 2k8 and 2012 Servers
• Tools used here:
• VMware vSphere, vRealize Suite
• vCAC, vRO, vROPS, NSX, Log Insight
• Onsite Travel:
• Dec 2014 Dublin & Cork, Ireland for Datacenter Refresh
• May 2015 - August 2015 - Rotterdam/Amsterdam - Nederlands for Cloud Designing and Architecture of ING Private Cloud using FEHC - vRealize Suite and EMC components

Mar 2011 – Aug 2011 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• This role requires managing multiple customers across globe with having different types of requirement & architecture supporting Datacenters. Complete life cycle management of Virtual Environment supported by VMware.
• Testing & Production Support for VMware ESXi Hypervisors.
• Disaster recovery plans. VMDK & File level backup.
• Host Patching using VC and audit the security configuration with IBM standards.
• VMware Infrastructure management and providing High availability and Load balance through VMware Host HA clustering, DRS, and VMotion.
• Creating new VM’s or deploying VM from Template & adding/removing virtual hardware to VM’s.
• Managing DNS, DHCP, GPO, IIS.
• Involve in Incident Ownership, Monitoring, Tracking and Communication, Resolution and Recovery and Incident Closure.
• Performing P2V, V2V.
• Background environment used here:
• ESXi 4.1 Hypervisors & Windows Servers 2003, 2008.
• Multiple networks including DMZ
• Tools used here:
• VMware Virtual Centre
• HP Systems Director

Dec 2008 – Mar 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• This role was responsible of leasing support to internal EF offices & users throughout the globe. Building customized solutions for the new products & delivering IT service solutions matching Service Catalogue.
• Production support for ESX servers, Virtual Centre & VM’s.
• Troubleshooting Group Policies & AD Replication.
• Remediate Security Health checking Violations.
• Performs root cause analysis and create change plans.
• Migration of Physical Servers into Virtual Environment. P2V & V2V
• Capacity management & Utilization analysis.
• Entire Infrastructure Setup starting from Promoting of Domain Controllers, Setting up VPN tunnels, LAN setup and Deploying WDS for Client OS installations.
• Set backup scripts to backup files and folders on Fileserver to NAS devices
• Onsite Travel:
• December 2010 Office Expansion & Requirement Analysis – Europe (Austria, Denmark, Poland, Belgium, Finland and Norway).
• Implementing Cisco ASA firewall, Dell Power edge r710 server
• Office expansion activity carried in Denmark by extending Storage, Network capacity.
• May 2010 EF School & Office Setup and Virtual Office Setup– USA (New York, Boston, LA and San Diego)
• Conversion of Physical Servers into Virtual Environment.
• Enabling High availability with Servers.
• Setup of Cisco Catalyst 3560 L3 switches with Optic fibre connectivity
• Setup of Virtual Office for Sales Employees who work travel frequently and work on road.
• March 2010 Office Movement Planning & Consultation – Lisbon, Portugal
• Capacity Planning for Network and consultation for office Movement.
• Usage report and eliminated unnecessary data and decommissioned old IT devices
• October 2009 Office Expansion and Refurbishment – Malta
• Network Planning and Implementation According to the Floor Plan and Office Standards.
• Installation of New Cisco Firewall, Dell Server and upgrading tp Windows 2008 Domain Controller and Servers

May 2008 – Dec 2008 · 7 mos · Bangalore

• Summary of Skills and Experience:
• Experience in Administration with Windows 2000, Windows 2003 and Windows XP, Windows Vista and Macintosh Leopard. Experience in Software Installations, Hardware assembling and troubleshooting. Basic knowledge of Networking. Presently handling all system and networking operations for the branch office in Bangalore.
• Core Competencies:
• Hardware : Assembling and troubleshooting of computers, Installation and troubleshooting of Network printers. Hands on Experience on all HP Parts.
• Operating System : Windows XP, Server 2003, Vista, Linux, Leopard (Apple MAC)
• Installations : Installing software like MS Office, Visio, Adobe creator, Reader, Secure CRT, LANDesk Management, Putty, Sygate Firewall, Cygwin, and all O/S, Oracle 9i, 10G client and Server.
• First level Support to all Technical Incidents raised by the user through Service Desk console.
• Day to day management and maintenance of all types of Desktop, Laptop and Server & Network related problems.
• Installation and Troubleshooting of MAC OSX
• Installation of Operating systems through Ghost Image.
• Installation and troubleshooting of Network Printers
• Promoting Domain Controllers