Sr Virtualization Engineer Vmware resume example

• Worked as Specialist Advisor in private cloud engineering team which hosts to many client’s production environment spread across multiple data center locations in USA.
• The environment is quite large and complex comprising of 1000+ ESXi Hosts and 12000+ VMs.
• Clients run many varieties of workloads such as SAP/HANA, Windows, Linux also Clustered Windows VMs.
• The entire private cloud environment is run on VMware vSphere 6.7/6.5/6.0 with Pure //x50, //m50 all flash storage and Compellent SC9000 hybrid storage as the back-end storage with all fiber-based connectivity using Brocade switches.

Some of key responsibilities at NTT Data Services

• Virtualization/Storage Level-3 and Engineering systems administration
• Providing Private Cloud Hosting services to customers
• Assist in planning, forecasting, implementation, and identification of resource requirements for virtualization and storage systems of high complexity
• Responsible for ensuring that virtualization and storage infrastructure has been designed and installed to meet customer requirements on contracted solutions
• Solves virtualization and storage problems and incidents that occur within the infrastructure.
• Evaluates virtualization and storage performance to ensure that there are no delays or down times
• Work independently on complex issues to ensure that the infrastructure stays operational and up to Cloud Standards
• Assists in evaluation of new products, performs infrastructure problem resolution and assists in development and documentation of technical standards and interface applications.
• Participate in creation of work instructions and knowledge base articles, update support documentation through evergreen process
• Effective Utilization of engineering practices that support standards, which
• Ultimately enhance virtualization and storage availability, performance, proactive monitoring and reliability
• Maintain best practices, knowledge articles, system diagrams, problem/resolution articles for use as reference and solving future issues
• Managing and administering VMware vSphere infrastructure
• Managing and Troubleshooting small VMWare VSAN environment

Worked as team Infrastructure lead in complex environments different datacenters and demanding client projects. I have executed several Infrastructure projects at various client locations.

Some of the projects that I worked as team lead is for Windows, VMware and NetBackup tower at Emdeon Business Services, Nashville, TN for 4 years, in a tech refresh project for JP Morgan Chase, Dallas for 7 months, in a server migration project for IndyMac Bank, Tempe, AZ, in IT infrastructure support project for Align Technology Inc, Santa Clara, CA.

In Cognizant I have received “Associates of the Quarter” award multiple times and several SPOT awards including many client accolades while working at different client locations.

Major projects include moving 700 physical servers from one datacenter to another. Completed entire datacenter server migration to the newly built datacenter in Nashville, TN. Setting up VMware vSphere 4.1 ESXi infrastructure and migration of user mailboxes to newly built exchange environment.

Other support activity includes, maintenance of Windows AD and Exchange platform, patching of Windows servers using HfNetChk, supporting enterprise wide McAfee ePO setup, Veritas NetBackup 6.5.x in a large datacenter environment.