Jul 2016 – Apr 2017 · 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Leading System Integration testing effort of Disaster Recovery service in vCloud Air Services division
• Involving in Integration testing of Hybrid Cloud Technology solutions like HCM, Advanced Networking Services and Dedicated DR services with L2 Stretch networks
• Involving in System Integration test efforts towards vCloud Air Dedicated, Multi-tenant DR service and Pay As You Go cloud services which involves various VMware products like vCloud Director, vSphere

Jun 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Lead System integration efforts of Disaster Recovery service in vCloud Air Service R&D

May 2007 – May 2014 · 7 yrs · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked as Senior Software Engineer in vCloud Air services R&D and vSphere R&D
• Lead System Integration effort of Disaster Recovery cloud services version 1.0
• Took lead in Datacenter deployment and validation of Disaster recovery service 1.0 GA release in 5 vCloud Air DataCenters
• Involved in System Integration efforts towards vCloud Air Dedicated, Multi-tenant and Pay As You Go cloud services which involves various VMware products like vCloud Director, ESXi, vSphere
• Participated in VCVA Large scale and uptime testing of vSphere 5.5 release
• vCloud director uptime testing for 5.1.2 (vCD 5.1U1)
• Was responsible for Scale and uptime testing of Host profile for vSphere 5.5 release
• Involved in Interoperability test planning and testing of vSphere Platform with vSphere solutions SRM ABR&VR, vShield, vDP/vDR, vCenter Server Heartbeat for vSphere 5.0/5.1 wave of products
• Lead End-End upgrade verification of vSphere platform components vCenter Server,ESX, ESXi, VMware Update Manager, Virtual Machine Virtual Hardware Upgrade and provided use case inputs for documentation team

May 2006 – May 2007 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• Member in Sysadmin team supporting Oracle On demand DR DataCenter operations which contains around 3000 Unix and Linux servers
• Working on customer DR environment setup and day to day support requests raised by customer and Oracle Monitoring agent (EM agent).
• Executing quota requests for NAS mounts coming from Netapp Filer
• Co-ordinate with onsite support personnel for effective resolution of problems.
• Perform testing of software updates and patches before applying them on Production Servers
• Work in coordination with the Hardware and Storage team to diagnose the cause and assist in resolving the issue.
• Configure, Manage and Monitor Veritas Netbackup backup jobs as required.
• Allocating storage from NetApp filers to Linux server running Oracle RAC
• Problem management for Linux, Sun Solaris, HP-UX and EMC related calls.
• Initiate and implement change management activities as per the workflow
• Server builds and typical OS configurations like SAN boot in Customer Environment Labs

Feb 2005 – Apr 2006 · 1 yr 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

• Maintaining a large number of servers (~ 3200) located in US and Europe which consists of RedHat Linux, SunOS, HP-UX and AIX. Our job is limited to OS and backup support which includes.
• Troubleshooting File system problems.
• Administering User accounts and groups.
• Installing, Managing and troubleshooting the Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster.
• Configuring and Maintaining NFS servers and clients.
• File system creation by allocating the space from SAN storage
• Refresh/Installation of Enterprise Linux 2.1 / 3.0 using Kickstart (NFS, Http, ftp)
• Installation of VMware ESX 2.x Server along with VMware instances (Linux, Windows) by allocating disk space from SAN Storage
• Patching up the kernels and OS related patches.
• Managing Veritas clusters on both Linux and Solaris systems
• Supporting HP-UX ServiceGuard clusters
• System startup problem handling
• Recovering the system from panics due to hardware or software failures.
• Kernel Tuning and Patches Installation on Linux, HP-UX, Solaris Servers and VMware.
• Maintaining Daily Backups with the help of Tivoli and HP Data Protector.
• Finding out the hardware problems, coordinating with Vendors to replace the failed hardware with minimum down time and within SLA.
• Maintaining PCI compliance for any change in the server configuration
• Monitoring the systems by using BMC patrol which generates alerts for defined problems.
• SiteScope to monitor the enterprise Infrastructure.

Aug 2004 – Feb 2005 · 6 mos

• Ybrant Digital delivers support services and software tools for enterprise e-marketing. Worked as Sysadmin for remote support to 200 Linux servers. The support includes OS, Databases and Applications
• Scope & Responsibilities
• OS installation and creating file system using Linux LVM.
• Setting up and Maintaining LVS and HA clusters for Webservers running with APACHE and TOMCAT
• Configuring and Maintaining Outgoing Mail servers (Power MTA).
• Configuring the Qmail for incoming mails.
• Installing and Maintaining the Database servers running on MySQL.
• Configuring DNS Master and slave servers for our Mailing Domains.
• Securing the servers using SUDO and IPtables.
• Preparing Installers using Shell Scripts for automating Installation and configuration of Application and Databases.
• Taking Backups on daily and monthly basis using conventional backup tools.
• Managing the site “www.usagreetings.com” which is one of well-known online greeting Card site.
• And maintaining the company LAN which consists of File servers (SAMBA), Gateway, Firewall servers

Jan 2003 – Jul 2004 · 1 yr 6 mos

Aug 2001 – Dec 2002 · 1 yr 4 mos

Apr 1996 – Sep 2000 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Worked as Metallurgist for 4 years in different Steel industries
• Sharq Sohar Steel Rolling Mills LLC, Oman,
• Jindal Vijayanagar Steel Ltd, Karnataka,
• MidWest Iron and Steel Co. Limited, Andhra Pradesh