Driven professional with keen analytical mindset and strong problem-solving abilities, coupled with adeptness in technical troubleshooting and process improvement. Proficient in applying DevOps principles and best practices. Experienced in various transformational projects and Ready to enhance operational efficiency and product quality in application deployment, improvement and support role.
· AWS Management console, MS DevOps/VSTS, JSON Scripts, Infrastructure as code
· Extensive in a practical DevOps role with AWS, EC2 configuration & troubleshooting
· Experience building and maintaining production systems within the AWS ecosystem using products such as EC2, RDS, S3, EBS, EFS, ELB, AG, IAM, Route 53, VPC etc
· Demonstrable experience of using VCS (Version Control System) in team environments (Git, GitHub, BitBucket), RDS, DynamoDB, Lambda, Serverless, Terraform, Windows, Linux
· Building & delivering continuous delivery/deployment solutions using AWS Code Pipeline
· Experience of Jenkins in software build and test, continuous integration, configure build triggers
· Visual Studio including config transforms, ASG, Elastic Load balancers, HTTP, HTTPS,
· Demonstrable experience delivering CI/CD pipelines, Azure Tooling, AWS CloudFormation,
· API - Knowing how API's talk to different technologies such as AD, Teamcenter support
· Tooling - Knowledge of DevOps tooling from an Azure DevOps on prem perspective.
· AWS Workspace Migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10, Microsoft Teams
· PowerShell Script/Module Development: create modular scripts and understand from an end-to-end perspective, Ansible automation, Nagios XI monitoring,
· Administration of the entire bank’s infrastructure and management on Windows Technologies
· Proficient in Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, vSphere 6.5, Horizon View VDI, vSAN, NetApp Storage, Cisco UCS Manager, Teamcenter install, configuration, development and support, Web Server IIS, Apache
· Experienced in management and administration of Red Hat and Sun Solaris Linux based systems
· Administration and Management of McAfee EPO for remediation & SIEM for monitoring and reporting
· Centralized Administration and Management of Nutanix storage for VMs and Physical Servers
· NetApp Administration Duties to include; Volume and LUN Expansion, scheduling snapshots, purging old snapshots, resyncing broken SnapMirrors, SCOM setup, monitoring and configuration
· NetApp SAN storage administration – Volume expansions, Volume Migration, iSCSI Volume Expansions, Mapping to LUN, NetApp Snapshot scheduling, Snapshot clean-up, Fixing broken SnapMirrors
· NetApp Failed Disk Arranging with third party to have the disk replaced once replaced resyncing data with new drive, LAPS Implementation
· Experienced in NetApp 7-mode via GUI and 8.3 Cluster Mode/cDOT Administration (from Command Line CLI)
· Installation, Administration, Backups, Maintenance and Support of Red-Hat Linux VMs and Servers
· Linux server configuration and support of physical and virtual IT operations solutions and services
· Involved in end-to-end migration activities on NetApp systems, configure target hardware and software products such as Windows Server 2008/2012 R2, Centos 4/5/6, WSUS, Shavlik Ivanti (10,000 servers)
· Proactively monitor the storage environments & evaluation of storage performance issues and storage requests, Knowledge of CIFS, NFS and iSCSI protocols, populate data ownership information and data owner’s validation, using migration tools and processes to support migration runbook & migration event
· Administration vCSA (Patching VMs using snapshots, creating VMs using templates, VMotion, disk space and memory)
· Investigating & Troubleshooting VM Servers issues and dealing with disk volume extension (VMDK)
· NetApp Administration Duties to include; Volume and LUN Expansion, scheduling snapshots, purging old snapshots, resyncing broken SnapMirrors.
· NetApp SAN storage administration – Volume expansions, Volume Migration iSCSI Volume Expansions, Mapping to LUN, NetApp Snapshot scheduling, Snapshot clean-up, Fixing broken SnapMirrors
· NetApp Failed Disk Arranging with third party to have the disk replaced once replaced resyncing data with new drive
· Administration of vSphere VMware, MS Exchange 2016 Administration & Support TSM storage systems
· User accounts, access, groups and permissions administration via AD, AD Tools, PowerShell scripting
· Linux server configuration and support of physical and virtual IT operations solutions and services
· Proactive monitoring and maintenance of internal IT servers, systems and platforms via SolarWinds
· Providing 3rd Line Infrastructure support (BAU), Office 365, Windows 10 Rollout, Server Builds & Upgrade
· Veritas Backups Exec for tape backup of LCO Servers, Cyber Essential Plus Security, NetBackup, SCCM
· Administration, Management and Support of Windows Server 2008/2012/2016, Windows 10 & 7
· Encryption Certificates Recovery & Management, Windows Server patching via WSUS, Updates and builds via SCCM Server, Protection, support, maintenance of Windows Severs, Clients and Desktop patching
· Providing support for Azure Migration Projects, resource groups, Azure Resource Manager Templates, JSON templates, REST API, CI/CD Pipelines, Azure Automation, scripting, Java Scripts, Java, Automation Tasks, builds and configs, NetApp Storage, Visual Studio, PHP, Web Services, IIS, Office 365 installations
· Providing support on F-Secure Antivirus, MessageLabs, Spam Titan, Bluecoat Firewalls, Firmware updates
· Working within a mature Shared Service or Commercial IT Services operatio, Dell & HP Servers
· Collaboration using Microsoft Team and providing support to the users
· Experience using Data ONTAP Cluster-mode storage systems and related storage fabrics
· Expert Knowledge of administration of NetApp FAS and E-Series products
· Improving NetApp SAN Storage performance & resolving LUN issues
· Experience of VMWare/Hyper-V virtualisation environments
· Hyper-V installation and configuration. (Creating new Hyper–V cluster, VM templates, building VM and troubleshooting cluster related, storage and VM issues. Managing Hyper-V 2012 and Hyper-V 2012 R2 environments. Migrating VMs from Hyper-V 2012 to Hyper-V2012 R2 cluster using Shared Nothing Live Migration)
· Administration Microsoft Dynamics 2013
· Experienced of large VSphere environments, deploying, configuring and troubleshooting
· Efficient use of ONTAP T & 8 NetApp OnCommand OS
· VMware vSphere 5.5 & 6.0 Virtualization, Server Disks Expansions and Network management
· A range of 3rd Line Support and Infrastructure orientated tasks which includes BAU Support server configuration, troubleshooting, maintenance and backup tasks
· VM Servers Migration from vSphere 5.0 to 6.0 and Post Migration Tasks
· Creating LUNs for the Linux Servers
· Providing copy volume filer to filer ndmpcopy and SnapMirror
· Increasing Traditional Volume, Flexible Volume, iSCSI, Resizing Aggregates, Scheduling Snapshots
· Undertaking Backup tasks
· User Profile Activations/Account Setups, User Terminations, EPOS Installations
· Maintenance of Windows Server for security updates (patches) through Shavlik, Genesys CIC
· Experienced in management and administration of Red Hat and Oracle Linux based systems
· Express Credit Agreements, Any Connect, BT Line Test, Antivirus Update, PGP Encryption, VLAN Config
· Checkpoint Licences, Broadband Order, Broadband Test, ADSL/Livelinks, IP Routing Table, FOB Reset
· File Server Maintenance & Other Server, SharePoint Administration, Netbackup 7, vSphere /vCenter, XP
· Telecoms – Aastra Phone Setups/Cisco Phones, UAC Voice Data Administration, VPN Install/Access
· Windows Server 2003/2008 Install & Administration, Upgrades via WSUS, Citrix Admin, Active Directory
· Maintenance of ProLiant, PowerEdge, Dell/HP & IBM Servers, VOIP systems & IT Equipment, EMC Raid
· Server Builds (Web/File/Production/Dev Servers) within VMware vSphere 4 platform using vCenter
· Tape Operations & Management, Netback-up and experience using Symantec Products
· Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 Administration, File & Print, AIX Administration, Server Build
· Server monitoring and server support, VMware, desktop and application support, Citrix XenApp Server
· Maintenance of Windows Server for security updates (patches) through Shavlik
· Migration of Lotus Notes to Exchange Server 2007, WindowsXP/7 using Quest Toolset and Robocopy
· Server Monitoring of critical alerts using SCOM & MUTINY Monitor and raising of Service Centre tickets
· Perform system health checks, SCOM threshold configuration, SCOM deployment, Wyse Terminal
· VMware ESX Server, VSphere, VCenter (VI), VMotion, VCB, Virtual HA, DRS, VMFS, VCMS, SAN
· TCP/IP, SQL Server, MS Exchange, ISA Proxy Server, IIS, Terminal Server, MS Server2003/2008
· Resolving post migrations problems from windows 2000/XP/Vista to Windows7 & Citrix Xenapp
· Monitor System availability (HA) for IBM, HP SIM, Servers, Redhat Maintenance for Linux systems
· Issues identification and faults diagnostics within Production Environments following SLA, OLA
· Cisco IP Telephony, Firewall support, Cisco Switches, SAN, LUN, Netbackup, SharePoint Moss 2007
· Incident & Service Request call management via Service Centre, user account admin via Active Directory
Tools and Technlogies
1. AZURE Cloud
2. AZURE DevOps
3. Git/VS Code
4. Docker
5. Kubernetes
6. Sonar Cloud
7. CI/CD Pipelines for various Programming Languages like React Js, Angular, Vue Js, .Net Core and HTML …etc.,