Sr. System Admin
Cepheid
Total years of experience :15 years, 3 Months
The Primary responsibilities, in this project, are to manage Cepheid Server and IAM
Infrastructure, Vulnerability management, and Threat mitigations are key requirements.
Actively involved in Migrating On-Prem Servers to AWS Cloud, Configuring NPS servers,
Managing EC2 instances, On-Prem AD and Azure Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, VMware Infra,
Backup, and Storage Management are a few of the day-to-day activities
KJO is Joint venture of ARAMCO and Kuwait Oil Company. Achieved success in upgrading Physical and virtual infrastructure. Decommissioned old hardware and replaced/ upgraded to the latest. Participated in defining KJO standards, guidelines, best practices and metrics. Assisted in evaluating new requirements, technical designs to meet ARAMCO standard.
Key Deliverables:
• Designing, implementing and managing core network Infrastructure Services including:
Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Certificate Authority, DFS, File Server, Print Server & RDS
• Managing and implementing Data Center Virtualization Solutions, which include:
VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, SAN, NAS & SRM. Streamlined Virtualized Infra.
• Hyper-converged Infrastructure Solutions which including:
EMC & Symantec NetBackup, HP 3PAR Storage, SAN, NAS and DAS
• Upgrading, Patching and securing server and client infrastructure using below solutions:
SCCM, WSUS, VUM & Symantec Endpoint protection
• Management, maintenance of monitoring environment globally
• Handled 4 parallel projects and achieved success on all of them
• Worked on Hyper-V and VMWare mixed environment
• DataCenter migration at France.
• Windows Servers and VMWare upgrade and migrations
• Implementing global file servers centrally and AD migrations
• Managing Hyper-V & VMWare clusters in mixed environment
• Troubleshooting Windows and VMware vSphere servers using various tools
• Sites Capacity and CMDB management
• Implementation and management of Private and Hybrid Cloud
• Working on SCVMM and Azure cloud for server provisioning and configurations
• Planning DR and Configuring and Implementing VMWare SRM
• Management, maintenance of monitoring environment globally
• GDT (Global downtime) Management for implementing planned changes
• Presenting Normal and emergency changes in CCB meetings
• Windows Servers 2003/2008/R2 and VMWare vSphere upgrades and migrations
• Implementing global servers centrally and AD migrations
• Patch Management through WSUS, SCCM and Other third party tools.
• VMware updates and upgrades using VUM.
• Taking ownership of highly visible and critical issues
• Supporting more than 4000+ servers Windows and VMWare based environment
• Windows Server 2003/2008/R2/2012R2 administration and management
• Working in a heterogeneous environment with mixed technologies
• Following ITIL standard process to deliver services to various clients
• Migration of old Windows Servers and HP hardware
• Automating the tasks using VB and PowerShell scripts
• Part of North America and Latin America team
• Coordinating and updating old infrastructure and application platform
• Part of global DR, Storage and Security team
• Implementation of TrendMicro and Deep Security Antivirus
• Implementing new infrastructure and managing the existing one.
• Suggesting latest technologies available in market and making available to clients
• Implemented VMWare 5.5 infrastructure and managing more than 1000 VMs
• Participating in Disaster Recovery and delivering the support in defined ETA.
• Tickets and CMDB management.
• Windows Server performance tuning, reliability
• Windows Server 2003/2008/R2/2012 administration and management
• Recommendations, research on windows OS
• Understanding client’s environment and testing the scenarios in LAB
• Analyzing logs, providing RCA
• Coordination with various application vendors, internal escalation team to provide resolution
• Documentation of the issues for knowledge base
• Specialty in memory management, reliability, RDS, Print Management of 2003/2008/R2/2012/2012R2
• Providing proactive suggestions to the customers to maintain server performance
Configuration and Management of server infrastructure at Heterogeneous site and Managing 180+ Servers
• Installations, Configuration and management of Windows Server 2000/2003/2008
• Designing/Configuring Infrastructure for new projects
• Operations Management: change, incident, capacity etc.
• Managing and maintaining Application and Database servers
• Process adherence & incident reports with 99.9% uptime
• Server Hardware augmentation for new/existing setup
• Configuring RSA/ILO, Firmware update in HP and IBM Rack/Blade servers
• Applying daily releases, patch management and upgrading various Java based applications
• Maintaining asset details, Installation Certificates in Site
• Product Support, Production Support/Application Support
• Troubleshooting on platform/ products/ networking/ telecom/ database
• Windows 2003 cluster management
• System heath check, Hardware stability, Backup management and Schedule tasks
• DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, group policy, FTP servers, cluster management etc.
• Managing windows / Linux servers, storage systems & Network Server/product deployment, expansion & testing
Maintenance of servers, computer systems and software
• Installing and managing Applications in Servers for users
• Troubleshooting Computers and peripheral equipment
• Configuration of Windows servers NT/2000/2003 in Workgroup and Centralized environment
• Repairing and upgrading laptops, computer systems and software packages
• Performing hardware, software and Antivirus support
• Performed daily monitoring, maintenance and backup of Windows 2000/2003 domains
Completed BE in Computer Technology