Cloud administration lead
ZS ASSOCIATES
Total des années d'expérience :9 years, 0 Mois
VMware, AWS, Azure, RDS & Citrix
✓ Creating/managing ESXi hosts, Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.
✓ Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS, P2V & V2V in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
✓ Performing regular ESXi patch management with the help of VMWare Update manager and ESX cli commands to resolve security vulnerabilities, bug fixes and lifecycle management.
✓ Performing periodic DR testing using VMware Site Recovery manager to ensure DR services would be up and running if required.
✓ Working with VMware, Microsoft, Amazon support to resolve P1 critical issues within SLA.
✓ Publishing applications over Citrix and RD Host environment and troubleshooting issues related to them encountered by end users.
✓ Carried out projects to migrate Citrix Xenapp users to Microsoft RD host environment which saved the organizations licensing expenses on Citrix.
✓ Deploying/managing AWS EC2 instances, AMI images, Azure Virtual machine & monitoring them using tools like Solarwinds and Splunk.
✓ Creating CI/CD pipelines with TeamCity to automate day-to-day repetitive tasks.
✓ Utilizing PowerShell scripting to efficiently and securely manage remote servers, automating tasks and ensuring seamless administration across multiple systems
✓ Taking Care of application, patch deployments, compliance management using SCCM, WSUS and troubleshooting Issues related to them.
✓ Using vulnerability scanning tools like Rapid7, AWS inspector to identify & mitigate vulnerable settings on servers.
✓ Investigating security issues using Sentinel, Splunk & Dell Change Auditor logs.
✓ Overseeing team resources, including workload distribution, task assignment, and project timelines, ensuring optimal utilization of skills
✓ Mentoring/Coaching team members to enhance their understanding and proficiency in new technologies, resulting in increased productivity and improved work outcomes
Active Directory
✓ Creating and managing Users, Computers, Groups, OUs, DNS, DHCP in Active Directory using PowerShell scripting.
✓ Deploying/managing domain controllers and troubleshooting issues related to them
✓ Performed end to end automations of access provisioning requests using REST API calls to ServiceNow with combination of Active Directory PowerShell modules to manage user access in Active Directory eliminating the need for 2 FTEs fulfilling such requests manually.
✓ Securing AD accounts using Beyond Trust PIM solution to rotate/manage critical account passwords, group membership (JIT) regularly
✓ Use of Microsoft provided AD assessments to secure AD environment by implementing recommendation/best practices on domain controllers and member servers.
Skills: Active Directory, Windows PowerShell, VMware VCenter Server, VMware SRM, Citrix XenApp, Microsoft RDS, Microsoft SCCM, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, GIT, Terraform, Bitbucket, TeamCity, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Solarwinds, Lansweeper, Beyond Trust (PIM Solution), MS SQL Server. GoAnywhere MFT, Globalscape EFT, Nasuni.
Scored distinction percentage every semester of my engineering degree