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Ganesh Gangatharan

CEO

Puducherry, India13 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 13 years of experience in IT Infrastructure.
  • Expert in Azure Cloud solutions and management.
  • Proven leadership in cloud team management.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Infrastructure Expert with extensive experience in Azure solutions and IT management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Azure Infrastructure ManagementIacAzure Virtual DesktopAzure IaasAzure PaasActive DirectoryO365 AdministrationTechnical Support

Other Skills

DevOpsIAMWindows Server ManagementAutomationAzure FirewallAzure Data FactoryRBACAzure BackupM365 AdministrationVirtualizationBackup SolutionsExchange ServerAzure SQL SaaS/PaaSAzure Application GatewayAzure Virtual WAN

About

IT Professional with 13+ years of industry experience, seeking a challenging career in the field of IT Infrastructure and wish to work in an environment which explores current technologies and will utilize, challenge and advance my talents to best potential.

Experience

13 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 8 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 4 mos
Current Experience

Cloudologix

Cloud MSP Team Lead

Jan 2024Present · 2 yrs 4 mos · India · Remote

  • Roles and Responsibilities
  • Leadership & Team Management:
  • Lead and mentor the Cloud team managing Azure Infrastructure, AVD & M365.
  • Define best practices, policies, and governance frameworks.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to align cloud strategies with business goals.
  • Azure Infrastructure Management & IAC:
  • Design, deploy, and manage IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions.
  • Ensure availability, scalability, and security of Azure environments.
  • Optimize cloud costs and implement financial management strategies.
  • Manage VNets, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateways, Load Balancers, and Azure Firewall.
  • Enforce security with Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and compliance standards.
  • Design and manage Backup and Disaster Recovery strategies.
  • Implement site resilience and failover mechanisms.
  • Deploy and manage AKS, ACR, and ACI with orchestration, security, and HA.
  • Implement Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and Application Insights for monitoring.
  • Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) & DevOps:
  • Design, deploy, and manage Enterprise AVD solutions.
  • Automate deployment and management via Azure DevOps pipelines.
  • Configure & Scale profile management through FsLogix.
  • Identity & Access Management (IAM):
  • Configure and Manage Microsoft 365 Entra and ADDS solutions.
  • Enforce RBAC and conditional access policies.
  • Configure and Manage Delegation and policy management.
  • Windows Server Management:
  • Manage VMware ESXi & Hyper-V environments.
  • Oversee Windows Server, Active Directory, NPS, Exchange, DNS, DHCP, and GPO.
  • Automation & Process Optimization:
  • Automate tasks with PowerShell, Power Automate, Power Apps, Logic Apps, and Azure Automation.
  • Enhance efficiency by automating cloud processes and workflows.
Azure Infrastructure ManagementIACAzure Virtual DesktopDevOpsIAMWindows Server Management+1

Vectrus

Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Jun 2022Jan 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos · Tamil Nadu, India · Remote

  • Azure Cloud Environment:
  • Design and Deploy Azure IaaS for various programs and teams based on their needs.
  • Design and Deploy Azure PaaS for SQL & Application services hosted in Cloud.
  • Deploy and Manage Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse and Azure Analytic services.
  • Manage RBAC & Conditional access for Azure resources.
  • Migrate VM, App server, Web server, SQL server from On-perm to Azure cloud.
  • Migrate On-Prem files servers to Azure storage via Azure file sync.
  • Configure and Manage Azure Backup for resources like VM, SQL, Azure Files.
  • Configure and Manage Azure Disaster recovery for critical resources.
  • Configure and Manage Azure Virtual Desktop for External Contractors.
  • Azure Backup & Disaster Recovery for Azure virtual machine, File System and Database.
  • M365:
  • M365 Global administration and managing features like Exchange, Azure Active Directory, Intune, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive, Power BI & Power Platform.
  • Manage Azure AD, AD connect, MFA, SSO, PIM & Conditional Access.
  • Create and Manage Teams Channel & Teams PSTN.
  • Develop and Manage SharePoint Online sites.
  • Create and Manage Power BI Workspaces.
  • Design and automate tasks with Microsoft Flow & Power Apps.
  • Virtualization:
  • Install, Configure & Manage Virtual Environment Using VMware Products like ESXi Servers & Virtual Center
  • New Build, Migration and Redesign existing VMware Infrastructure.
  • Automation/Scripting:
  • Writing PowerShell scripts to automate frequently performed windows/azure cloud tasks.
  • Creating runbook within Azure automation account to perform schedule tasks in cloud.
  • Experience in Designing Logic flow in Power Automate and Integrate with Power App.
  • Experience in Designing Logic flow in Function App for monitoring ADF pipelines.
  • Incident Management:
  • Handling Escalated tickets from Level 1 & 2 Engineers
  • Identifying Root cause for recurring/major incidents and applying corrective actions using ITIL methodologies as a part of Problem Management
Azure IaaSAzure PaaSAzure Data FactoryRBACAzure BackupM365 Administration

Forcepoint

2 roles

Senior System Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2019May 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Below are my roles and responsibilities for different platforms.
  • ACTIVE DIRECTORY:
  • Install, Configure & Manage Active Directory for Many Domains and All Functional Levels
  • Ensure GPO, Users & Groups are Created as Per the Corporate Standards for Seamless Distinguish.
  • Installation, configuration, and deployment of new servers (Both Physical & VM).
  • Promote to a DC, Maintain and Manage AD Replication across Domains.
  • Configuring and Managing DFS, DHCP, DNS, WDS, WSUS, Backup & Restore.
  • VIRTULIZATION:
  • Install, Configure & Manage Virtual Environment Using VMware Products like ESXi Servers & Virtual Center
  • Manage VMware features like HA, DRS, Resource Pool, Clone VM, Snapshot VM, Host and Datastore Alerts, Cold & Hot Migration, NTP, to make sure that the Production runs seamless.
  • O365:
  • O365 Global administration and managing features like Exchange, Azure Active Directory, SharePoint, Teams and OneDrive.
  • Managing SharePoint Online sites and development.
  • Managing Microsoft Flow & Automate.
  • BACKUP SOLUTION:
  • Primary focal for Backup issues on backup tools (Commvault & Veeam) and troubleshooting.
  • Managing backup for VM, File System & Database.
  • Configuring and managing backups over the cloud solution.
  • INCIDENT MANAGEMENT:
  • Primary Focal for all Escalated tickets from Level 1 & 2 Engineers as a part of Incident Management
  • Identifying Root cause for recurring/major incidents and applying corrective actions using ITIL methodologies as a part of Problem Management
  • Participating in Change management process
  • Managing all documentation related to running IT recourses.
  • AWS Cloud Environment:
  • Configuring and Managing Route53 for public DNS.
  • Configuring and Managing S3 buckets for Backup solution.
  • Configuring and Managing EC2 instances within our VPC.
Active DirectoryVirtualizationO365 AdministrationBackup Solutions

IT System Specialist II

Apr 2016Sep 2019 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Responsibility:
  • Supporting end user challenges in Technical aspects for APAC, EMEA & US employees.
  • Administrating Active Directory, Exchange Server and Office 365.
  • Installation and configuring the client & server machines with all the required application.
  • Creating and managing the applications packages in IBM Bigfix Endpoint.
  • Hands on experience with VMware Exsi & Vcenter.
  • Diagnosing system problems and implementing solutions for local & remote users.
  • Configuring & administrating Cisco Call Manager for Desk phone & Softphone for users.
  • Managing Cisco IPCC user administrator for customer support.
  • Implemented VMware Infrastructure for Engineering team lab.
  • Auditing and logging the Hardware and Software maintenance periodically.
  • Procurement of new asset and performing asset management periodically.
  • Developing and updating the Knowledge base article frequently.
  • Performing Daily check for default application used every day.
Active DirectoryExchange ServerTechnical Support

Sutherland

Mcafee Techmaster Consultant

Dec 2014Apr 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Chennai Area, India

  • Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for diagnosing & resolving hardware, software and end users problems.
  • Support for Installing software, maintaining system and User administration.
  • Administration of AD, Exchange, GPO & File Server.
  • Handling Hardware, Virus, Network Connectivity, Drivers & Software issues.
  • Supporting for Boot issue, BSOD, Printer & Scanner Installation.
  • Answering incoming calls from clients, processing emails and logging calls.
  • Following procedures and updating support documentation in CRM.
Technical SupportActive DirectoryExchange Server

Ihorse technologies

Technical Support Executive

Dec 2012Nov 2014 · 1 yr 11 mos · Pondicherry

  • Responsibilities :
  • Supporting Technical issues with client machine for end user.
  • Supporting Active Directory, GPO & Exchange Management.
  • Diagnosis of Desktop, Application, Networking and infrastructure issues.
  • Handling Virus, Network Connectivity, Drivers & Software issues.
  • Backup & restore user files and managing file server.
  • Installing and Configuring Windows server administration.
  • In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Windows client operating systems, XP, Vista / Windows 7, Windows 8 & Windows 10.
  • Maintaining Customer Relationship Management (CRM).
Technical SupportActive Directory

Education

Perunthalaivar Kamarajar Institute of Engineering and Technology

Bachelor’s Degree — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2012

Amalorpavam Higher Secondary School

High School — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2008

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