Shankar prakash Thirumalaiappan, Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Shankar prakash Thirumalaiappan

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Bahwan Cybertek

Location
India - Chennai
Education
Master's degree, Computers and Information Science
Experience
16 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 10 Months

Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Bahwan Cybertek
  • India - Chennai
  • My current job since May 2016

L3 supporting wintel and vmware

Responsibilities and Technologies Handled:

Amazon Cloud Services (AWS):
•New workload management in AWS
•Determining the service limits for various AWS services.
•Vmware to AWS migrations
•Managing EC2, VPC, S3, ELB, RDS services
•Consolidating database servers to cloud infrastructure
•Cloud access management through IAM

Vmware Virtualization:
•Installation and configuration Esxi 5.0, 5.5 working environment,
•Managing virtual Datacenter in the environment
•Implemented VMware DRS, HA and FT
•Upgradation using VMware Update Manager, Vmotion, VCenter Update Manager, vCenter converter

Migration and Implementation:
•New Server Build of Physical and virtual
•Migration of servers from VMware to OVM environment, Physical to OVM environment
•Performing sanity testing post application/Server migration and provided support till cutover lifecycle
•Worked with customer team for server migration related issues
•Implement hardening and compliance as per client standards

EMC,

Associate Delivery Specialist at EMC data storage
  • India - Chennai
  • June 2014 to February 2016

Been part of a team handling Server builds, migration of VM, storage migration, Handling elevated and problem incidents, performaing server health checks, firmware upgrades, troubleshooting erros on servers

ITO Services consultant II at HP
  • India - Chennai
  • May 2011 to June 2014

Been part of Pfizer, Airbus Projects

Responsibilities and Technologies Handled:

Vmware Virtualization:
- Installation and Deployments of New VMs as per client requirement for Server build of 2003, 2008 servers
- Working on VMware ESX 4.0 for Creation on New Virtual Servers.
- Handling and Performing Virtual Servers Migrations, P2V
- Handling Issues Related to VM's Migrations, Deletion, Disk Expansions etc on ESX 4.0 for Production environments
- Responsible for physical installations as well as Light-Touch Installations of VM
- Performance tuning of VMware servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization)


Infrastructure Support:
- Incident handling for various server related issues for performance issues, disk space, server hung, server reboot for patch update, backup failure due to vss errors and shadow copy failures, analysis of unexpected reboot etc.,
- On-Call support for 3 NATCOs in Europe on critical server down alerts
- Initiating Hardware calls on array battery failure, failed HDD, etc for replacement of failed parts on servers and coordinating to respective regional Hands and Eyes team

Systems Engineer at CSC
  • India - Chennai
  • December 2009 to April 2011

Responsibilities and Technologies Handled:

Wintel and Vmware administration
• Server Administration (win 2000, 2003, 2008 and VMware clients)
• RAID Configuration
• Commissioning and decommissioning of servers as per project requirement
• Installation and configuration of backup software
• DHCP, DNS, ADS Implementation
• Troubleshooting IIS related issues
• Troubleshooting Backup problems and File / Folder Restoration in Tivoli
• NAS / NFS share permissions, Personal drive creation
• Resolving disk space issues, performance and memory leak problems in servers
• SSL certification creation, DLL component registration, FTP sites creation and relevant share permissions

Systems Engineer at Precision Techserve
  • India - Chennai
  • February 2007 to July 2009

Responsibilities and Technologies Handled:

Wintel Administration
• Configuring backups and Managing antivirus with Symantec endpoint;
• Server Patch updation;
• Managing proxy server and File server and maintaining user security level permissions;
• OS installation in Servers through WDS;
• Being part of preparing reports for QMS review and for ISO audits

Education

Master's degree, Computers and Information Science
  • at Madurai Kamaraj University
  • April 2005

from

Bachelor's degree, Physics
  • at Madurai Kamaraj University
  • April 2001

(

High school or equivalent,
  • at American College Higher Secondary School
  • April 1998

in

High school or equivalent,
  • at American College Higher Secondary School
  • April 1996

courses: Shankar Prakash T.

Specialties & Skills

COMPUTER
ADVERTISING
ANTI VIRUS
COMPUTER HARDWARE
CUSTOMER RELATIONS
MANAGEMENT
OPERATING SYSTEMS
SERVERS

Languages

English
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