Associate Infrastructure Architect
DXC
Total years of experience :16 years, 10 Months
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Designing & Driving Transformation of scalable, highly available solutions with DR capability for
global customers around on-premises data centre, converged and hyper converged infra, Hybrid & public cloud platforms
• Analyze and define clients' business strategy and determine system architecture requirements to achieve business goals.
• Formulate strategic plans for component development to sustain future project objectives.
• Gather detailed business requirements and use cases, and translate technical specifications into
product requirements.
• Create team strategies and establish project scopes of work; communicate project deliverable timeframes and benchmarks to clients.
• Suggest architectural improvements, design, and integration solutions, and formulate
methodologies to optimize object-oriented software and database development.
• Create IT Infrastructure HLD/ LLD design documents, Build documents, BOMs for Customer environments.
• Worked as Lead Infrastructure Architect for various transformation build and migration projects.
• Meetings with customer team, Enterprise Architects and Operations Management service owners to assess and plan the design and implementation of infrastructure platforms.
• Coordinating with Client, Vendors and all other required stakeholders during project lifecycle.
• Defining capacity needs and implementation/migration plans for target IT infrastructure
• Design and implementation of virtualization platforms VMWare vSphere
• Implementing hyperconverged and converge solutions
• Automating tasks with Shell and PowerCLI scripting
• Providing Level Three support for virtualization and compute layer.
• Implemented security baseline on all the vblocks in the infrastructure.
• Works on complex assignments where independent action and a high degree of initiative are required in resolving problems and developing recommendations.
• Perform installations, patches, upgrades, capacity planning and performance tuning, through approved change management mechanisms and following ITIL service management standards.
• Taking up Escalations and Performing RCA on Escalated issues.
• Organize end user training and problem analysis for server, desktop, and IT infrastructure work.
• Write and implement new server, DevOps tools and application standards. Key Achievements:
• Automated repeated tasks and achieved 30% reduction tickets/tasks, which intern reduced human eforts and errors
• Successfully migrated one of the large FMCG customer IT infrastructure from in house datacentre to Microsoft Azure cloud platform
• Delivered multiple trainings inside organization and mentored employees
• Handled college graduates on boarding to projects and made sure they are ready
• Rearchitected existing legacy applications to leverage critical services of cloud platforms to eliminate infrastructure operations and costs, leading reduction in data centre footprint and dependency across the enterprise
• Participated in one of largest ransomware attack remediation activity. Restored the server services within stipulated time frame
• Migrated several applications to containerization platforms
• Documented all common issue troubleshooting steps and work/operating procedures
Roles and Responsibilities:
• Accountable for handling any customer escalations related to Data Protection Suit (Backup and Recovery) product line
• Providing technical support to customers for EMC Backup and Storage products like NetWorker, Avamar and Data Domain, VNX, Isilon
• Implementing backup and storage infrastructure for clients
• Helping customers in disaster recovery and live disaster recovery and DU/DL scenarios
• Working on Data Unavailability and Data Loss issues and making sure customer service is up and running within set SLA
• Working on Disaster Recovery scenarios and Disaster Recovery tests
• Helping customers to set up backup and storage environment with defined RPO, RTO and to meet defined SLA requirements
• Integrating third-party databases and applications like MSSQL, MS Exchange, SAP, Oracle, SharePoint, NDMP and other major modules
• Handling DU/DL situations, performing Disaster Recovery of Backup servers and application servers
• Troubleshooting storage, host and network-related issues. Working with the engineering team and vendor.
• Training clients, users, colleagues, and new joiners.
• Working with Presales whenever required
• Collaborating with third-party vendors and partners to provide custom solutions to customers
Deputed at client site HP GDIC, Bangalore
• I was part of the team which provided level 1 technical support and hands and eye coordination for all Data Center and Network operation centers, daily operations.
• Gained very good knowledge on DC management and physical hardware
• Gained good knowledge on vendor management and
• Handled asset inventory and management for HPs DC comprising of various vendor hardware