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Ravindar Reddy Kusa - VMware - System Engineer

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Location: Dallas, Texas, USA

Relocation: Yes

Visa: H1B

Ravindar Reddy Kusa [email protected] SUMMARY: Highly skilled VMware Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and implementing virtualization infrastructures for large organizations. Proven track record in reducing hardware costs by up to 50%, improving system performance by up to 30%, and ensuring business continuity through disaster recovery planning. Exceptional skills in automation, capacity planning, and technical support, with a strong commitment to staying up to date with emerging technologies and industry best practices. VMware vSphere and private cloud architecture, implementation, management and support of enterprise infrastructure for commercial clients utilizing best practices for availability, reliability and performance of compute, network, and storage resources to achieve dense virtualization ratios while maintaining SLAs. Experience in building VMware virtual servers and physical servers with windows. Performance tuning and capacity planning using various monitoring tools-vRealize Operations Manager (VRops), Splunk, VMware Log insight. Experience in installing and configuring the VMware NSX appliance for setup including VMware vSphere. Developed strategy to migrate Dev/Test/Production from an Enterprise VMware infrastructure to this IaaS Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud environment including runbook process and procedures. VMware Process automation using vSphere power CLI and windows power shell. Experience in server and desktop Management, Support, Analysis and maintenance. Supported large-scale Data Center projects including server installation hardware maintenance and break/fix activities. Experience in implementation and administration Software Define Network technologies such as VMware NSX, VMware vCloud Networking and Security. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: State Compensation Insurance Fund- Sacramento, CA-Remote Jan 2021 Present Role: VMware Architect Installed, configured and maintained the VMware Horizon View 8.x Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment. Good Experience designing, planning, testing, implementing, supporting and troubleshooting large VMware installations. I ve Strong technical design ability and expertise in the implementation and configuration of highly available virtual & physical infrastructure solutions. Good Experience of capacity planning and sizing methodologies for VMware virtualization solutions Worked with the infrastructure team in support of the vCenter hosting the VDI environment. Monitored, tuned and troubleshoot the VDI environment using vRealize Operations Manager for View. Good Experience with Aria Automation, Aria Orchestrator and Aria Operations Hands on Experience with PowerShell/Powercli scripting Security and Compliance: Implement and maintain security practices and policies within VM environments, managing user access controls, network segmentation, and compliance standards. Capacity Planning: Continuously monitor and evaluate the utilization of VM infrastructure resources, anticipating and suggesting enhancements or efficiency measures to ensure performance and scalability. Managing VMware On-Premises Cloud Infrastructure: Responsible for the design, deployment, and maintenance of virtualization infrastructure, ESXi, vCenter, vSAN, vROPs, NSX-T, and DR solutions. Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Proficiently identify and resolve VMware infrastructure issues, including performance bottlenecks, connectivity challenges, and other VMware related production issues. Backup and Disaster Recovery: Configure and oversee backup solutions for VMware infrastructure, encompassing regular backups, replication, and DR strategies to safeguard business continuity. Windows Infrastructure: Administered Active directory / Domain controllers environment consists of Windows 2016 - 2022 operating systems, DNS, Group policy, file servers, and Windows clustering. Administered Cisco UCS Blade, HP C7000 chassis, and HP ProLiant blade servers hardware Managed AWS tickets pertaining to identity access management, the deployment of EC2 instances and S3 buckets, configuration of auto-scaling groups, as well as the setup of HTTP and Network load balancers using Terraform. Created/Updated Git/GitHub version control documentations for approvals Firmware/ESXI upgrade on Fabric interconnect, Cisco Blades and RAC mount servers. Cisco UCS Hardware upgrade, troubleshooting and replacement of bad hardware. Cisco UCS Manager Installation, monitor, troubleshoot, testing and upgrade. Firmware upgrade of Cisco UCS. Working on AWS-Services (EC2, S3, VPC, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation, IAM, Route 53, and CloudFront). Maintaining Nagios Server and cloud watch for Centralized Monitoring. Working on various Virtualization and Hyper convergence technologies viz., Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor AHV, VMware s flagship hypervisor ESXi, and Microsoft Hyper-V. Successfully manage a complete VMware deployment and upgrade lifecycle-encompassing vSphere utilizing DRS, HA, vDS, VMotion, Storage VMotion and Update Manager. Deployed VDI Instances and created over 500+ desktops by building an entirely new infrastructure of Horizon View 8 also integrated with existing Infrastructure. Support Active Directory (maintenance, upgrades, Group Policy, troubleshooting) and changes to meet the client s growing needs of Windows servers management and administration. Tested, troubleshooted and deployed applications, upgrades and operating system security updates in the virtual desktop environment while working with application teams to minimize user impact. Worked on VMware aria suite (LCM, Logs, Operations, Network Insight). Worked on VMC on AWS. Built end to end CI/CD Pipelines in Jenkins to retrieve code, compile applications, perform tests and push build artifacts to Nexus. Good hands-on experience with NSX-T end to end. Environment: vCenter/vSphere 8.0/7.0, vRops 8.14, VRA 8, NSX-T, vRNI, VMware VDI, Pure Storage, Security Finance-Charlotte, NC Jan 2020 Jan 2021 Role: VMware Systems Engineer/Cloud engineer Installed, configured and maintained the VMware Horizon View 8.x Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment. Worked with the infrastructure team in support of the vCenter hosting the VDI environment. Monitored, tuned and troubleshoot the VDI environment using vRealize Operations Manager for View. Working on various Virtualization and Hyper convergence technologies viz., Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor AHV, VMware s flagship hypervisor ESXi, and Microsoft Hyper-V. Successfully manage a complete VMware deployment and upgrade lifecycle-encompassing vSphere utilizing DRS, HA, vDS, VMotion, Storage VMotion and Update Manager. Deployed VDI Instances and created over 500+ desktops by building an entirely new infrastructure of Horizon View 8 also integrated with existing Infrastructure. Providing support to customers on Nutanix hardware and software, Troubleshoot, debug, and diagnose issues encountered in the field. Working on hyper converged infrastructure provided by Nutanix. Support Active Directory (maintenance, upgrades, Group Policy, troubleshooting) and changes to meet the clients growing needs of Windows servers management and administration. Tested, troubleshooted and deployed applications, upgrades and operating system security updates in the virtual desktop environment while working with application teams to minimize user impact. Configure AppDynamics agents/extensions to monitor Applications (Connect +, Database) Experience in agent installation, troubleshooting and monitoring applications using AppDynamics. Creating AppDynamics dashboards and custom reports (either in the client or using Web Dashboards or both) Creation of health rules alerts to notify transaction performance, error events, CPU, RAM issues. Configuration of VM backups using Rubrik by creating and managing the SLA domains, Scheduling and modifying the policies, backup windows, retention. etc. based on business requirements, Automate the daily and weekly report generation. Hands on experience Cisco hardware. Perform the VM restores and the storage vMotion to move the VMs from Rubrik DS to VMware DS. Managing, scheduling and restoring backups in the Rubrik console. Environment: vCenter 6.0/6.7, vRops 6.7, VMware VDI, Pure Storage, Rubrik, AppDynamics, Solar winds. Charter Communications Inc. (Spectrum)-Charlotte, NC Oct 2019 Jan 2020 Role: VMware Hypervisor Engineer/IT Infrastructure Engineer Planning, Design and Deliver of VMware ESXi, vCenter, vRops, vRA, vRO, VDI and vCloud infrastructure. Improvises, Re-design and upgrade planning of legacy and existing VMware infrastructure. Planning decommissions, migration and consolidation work of legacy VMware infrastructure. Participated in regular 24x7 on-call rotations and coordinated with the global team. Operation, process improvement, monitors, troubleshoots and problem-solving approaches in a comprehensive understanding and effective resolution. Managing, scheduling and restoring backups in the Rubrik console. Introduced and designed a new backup and restore architecture utilizing Rubrik with Disaster recovery across multiple national data centers. Helped to standardize many of Charter s other infrastructures and internal services including Active Directory, PCI Compliance, streamlining project management and implementing Software. Design and Create templates in vCenter and develop corresponding blueprints in vRealize Automation. Design and Develop workflows to block port groups for a traditional Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS). Develop Orchestrator workflows to kill logical ports, switches and distributed firewalls in NSX-T environment. Integration of vRealize Code stream with vRA and vRO to promote code into production. Develop vRO custom workflows using APIs for infrastructure Automation and integrate with vRA blueprints. Installation and configuration of Windows root domain controllers, child domain controllers, Group policy, default domain policies, configuration of File, Print, DNS, DHCP roles and other Windows server features. Deploying and configuring Citrix Access Gateway to leverage connectivity for external users. Install, Configure, maintain monitor Citrix 4.5 Server and XenApp 6.0/6.5Servers making sure they are up to date with latest rollup hotfix and service packs as well server 2003/2008 updates. Engineered and implemented VDI solution using VMware and Citrix Technologies Infoblox integration with vRealize Automation as IPAM and DNS solution. Design and implement Hybrid cloud infrastructure (vRealize Automation and AWS). Create and maintain different AWS organizational accounts for clients. Environment: vCenter 6.0/6.7, vRops 6.7, Cisco UCS, Dell PowerEdge, vRa, NSX Texas Attorney General-Child Support Division-Austin, TX Nov 2018 Sept 2019 Role: Sr. Systems engineer Installed, configured and maintained the VMware Horizon View 7.6 Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment. Monitored, tuned and troubleshooted the VDI environment using vRealize Operations Manager for View. Design and implement VMware vRealize Operations Manager(vRops) in 2 Datacenters and act as an SME for the project. Installing, configuring, upgrading and troubleshooting VMware View Composer, View Connection Manager and new VMware View (VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) efficiently and simplifies desktop administrative management tasks. Responsible for the installation, configuration and support of VMware VDI Environment and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment. Provided highly detailed reporting of system performance and capacity utilization/planning using Horizon integrated with vRops. Implemented enterprise-wide infrastructure for monitoring all applications running in Azure by setting up and configuring Log Analytics, Azure Monitor & Application Insights Deployed, configured and maintained network monitoring tools such as vRops, Log Insight. Implemented VDI (Virtual desktop infrastructure) technology using VMware view/Horizon 6.0. Maintained configured VMware Horizon suite. Monitored logs by using VMware log insight. Created Customized dashboards for data store alerts using vRops, generated email notifications. Created thresholds and automated reporting with customized policies through vRops. VMware health check Data Store alerts checking with vRops. Working with VMware vRealize Operations manager and Export utilization reports through vRealize operation manager. Developing custom dashboard within vRops. Experience in Designing, Installing, Configuring, Administering and Troubleshooting VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) Environment. Configured RedHat Kickstart server for installing multiple production servers. Configuration, management, monitoring, maintenance and troubleshooting of all RedHat & CentOS LINUX servers. Collaborated with customer's infrastructure teams and implemented Azure Virtual Networks, Virtual Network Gateways & Local Network gateways to develop Hybrid networks with Azure Deployed VDI Instances and created over 500+ desktops by building an entirely new infrastructure of Horizon View 7 also integrated with existing Infrastructure. Deployed RDSH Desktop Hosts, DS Hosted Apps and Horizon Linux Desktops using Horizon 6.6 and 7.0 using the newly improved Blast Extreme protocol and PCoIP protocol to VDI users. Responsible for the implementation of VMware View VDI upgrades, Change Management, Problem Management, and ITIL related processes. Maintain OS versions RHEL 5,6,7 & Solaris, IBM Blade Server and CISCO C-Series Racks. Installation and Configuration of RHEL Servers 6.4 and 7.0 and DHCP and FTP. Assessed client system landscape to migrate existing workloads to Azure. Configured RedHat Kickstart server for installing multiple production servers. Created Linux Virtual Machines using VMware Virtual Center, creating VM Templates, and troubleshooting all Virtualization related issues. Installation & Configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora Linux and Centos, Maintenance & System Administrator. Worked on Windows 10 Upgrade Production Project for 1500 workstations, Including Image creation, Driver Management, Task Sequence Deployment, Customizations, In place upgrade and Wipe and Load. Collaborated with customer's infrastructure teams and implemented Azure Virtual Networks, Virtual Network Gateways & Local Network gateways to develop Hybrid networks with Azure. Creating a File system and configuring an available network through NFS. Monitor and maintain VDI systems Health Status & Work with Desktop Enterprise groups in resolving VDI related issues & performing other tasks as assigned by client manager. Installed and configured vRops with multi node cluster. Created Customized dashboards for data store alerts using vRops, generated email notifications. Created thresholds and automated reporting with customized policies through vRops. VMware health check Data Store alerts checking with vRops. Working with VMware vRealize Operations manager and Export utilization reports through vRealize operation manager. Developing custom dashboard within vRops. Azure Application Insights was used for performance Monitoring and logging Experience writing Ansible playbooks and deploying applications using Ansible. Used Ansible and ansible Tower as Configuration Management tool, to automate tasks, quickly critical applications, and proactively manages change. Managing the configurations of multiple servers using Ansible. Implemented Ansible to manage all existing servers and automate the Build/configuration of new servers. Installed and configured .Net Framework and SQL servers on windows server. Worked on vRops by Customized dashboards for data store, Hosts, VM, Services alerts using vRops, generated email notifications, created thresholds and automated reporting with customized policies through vRops. Environment: vCenter 6.0/6.7, vRops 6.7, Jira, Dell Idrac, UCS B200, DellOME, Jira, Service now, BMC, VDI Availity LLC, Jacksonville, FL Jan 2018 Nov 2018 Role: Infrastructure engineer-Server & Data Center Operations Availity operates the largest real time information network in healthcare, connecting over a million providers, health plans and their technology partners. Responsible for Build and maintaining all aspects of the VMware vSphere environment, vCenter 5.5/6.0/6.7, ESXI 5.5/6.0/6.7 and virtual server (Windows /Linux). Creating custom Workflow in vRO and Customizing schema, modifying scripts to automate tasks in vCenter. Worked on upgrading vCenter and ESXI from 6.0 to 6.7 version in the environment. Responsible for Maintaining Security Vulnerabilities by patching ESXi, vCenter and VMware Appliances to the latest patch level. Worked on Version control setups like GIT and integration tools like Jenkins. Used JIRA for ticket tracking change management and Agile/SCRUM tools. Involved in setting up Jira as defect tracking system and configured various workflows, customization and plug-ins for the Jira bug/issue tracker. Experience in working as DevOps engineer for release automation to achieve continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI and CD). Patching ESXI host using Auto Deploy Rule and VMware update manager Patching Linux Server using ansible automation tool. Developed Cloud Formation templates and deployed EC2 instances creation for multiple applications and created Cloud Formation templates and deployed AWS resources using it. Perform installation, Configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, optimizing & maintaining of mostly Linux and Windows servers, applications and backup and recovery of the systems. Experience in writing PowerShell Scripts to automate manual tasks in VMware Environment. Worked on a major migration project in migrating VM s to different vCenter through automation process using PowerShell and PowerCLI Scripts. Performing upgrades and applying patches or firmware updates to the virtual infrastructure hardware and software. Dell Open Manage Essentials-infrastructure monitoring and firmware upgrades across the organization. Virtualized the servers using the Docker for the test environment and dev-environments needs and configuration automation using Docker containers. Managing VMware NSX network components like VMware NSX manager, Controllers, DLR (Distributed Logical Routers), ESGs(Edge Services Gateways),Load Balancers and DFW(Distributed Firewalls). Managing VMware vSphere, which is the underlying Hypervisor layer for vCD & NSX. Designed and implemented Splunk infrastructure in a clustered environment. Used Splunk to Monitor the application logs, Server Logs, Indexes and server data. Managing Operations with VMware vRealize Operations and VMware vRealize Log Insight. Creating Proof of Concept with vRealize Automation for the already implemented multi-tenant private cloud. Environment: vCenter 6.0/6.7, vRops 6.7, Jira, IT360,Dell IDRAC, Cisco UCS B200, DellOME, Jira, Service now, BMC, Ansible. Merck & Co., Inc. Charlotte, NC June 2017 Jan 2018 Role: Systems/VMware Engineer Merck Pharma develops Innovative medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, consumer care and animal health Products. Responsibilities: Involved in Data Center migration Projects and Performed Preparatory work for Physical And virtual migrations and worked with the storage team regarding the storage and LUN Capacity. Broad experience with designing, implementing and troubleshooting VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products such as VM Workstation, P2V converters, VM Backup products and other products for virtualization. VMware ESXi 6.0 installation and configuration and Installing VMware tools, upgrade of virtual hardware on virtual machines. Involved in the cut-over and decommissioning of the physical server after the P2V server by working closely with the command center during the process. Creating S3 buckets and managing policies for S3 buckets and Utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for Archival storage backup on AWS. Monitoring system performances using Nagios and managing network issues. Supported AWS Cloud environment and configured Elastic IP & Elastic Storage and experience working on security groups. Involved in configuring S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to back up and archive files in Glacier. Experience with installation and configuration of VMware update manager, managing its baselines and Baseline Groups. Upgraded multiple ESXi hosts and virtual machines using VMware update manager to achieve 100% compliant level with the baselines. Monitored and responded to phone and email requests for technical support. Handled the various web servers and provided support to the clients on the chat, through Tickets and phone calls. Responsibilities include designing and developing new back-end services, maintaining, and expanding our AWS Infrastructure, and providing mentorship to others on my team. Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS. Implementing, using, and troubleshooting backup and recovery Commvault Platform. Responsibilities include designing and developing new back-end services, maintaining and expanding our AWS infrastructure, and providing mentorship to others on my team. Responsible for Migrating Production Virtual Machines running on Legacy IBM Blades to Brand New Vblock Environment without downtime. Create SolarWinds standard operational procedures documentation. Configure custom alerting and reporting for applications, services, and hardware within SolarWinds Manage and assign nodes and windows credentials to templates in SolarWinds Environment: VMware vSphere5.5,6.0, vCenter 5.5,6.0. Vcenters update manager, vRA, AWS, Cisco UCS, Blades, Commvault, SCCM, vROPS 6.2, McAfee, windows server 2003/2008/20012. Anuta Networks Inc, Milpitas, CA May 2016 June 2017 Role: VMware/Windows Administrator Responsibilities: Install and configure VMware vSphere 6.x and VI 3.5 environment for hosting the server on HP C7000 blade enclosure. Reconfiguring all ESXi Network Connectivity utilization VLAN tagging and teaming. Consolidated many smaller ESXI clusters and hosts to provide optimum resource utilization. Deploy VMs using Templates as per requirements. Clone VMs and took snapshots of VMs. Created and maintained environment specific installation and configuration guide for P2V migrations, ESXI server, vCenter server, vSphere Clients, VMware Tools, Patch Upgrades. Created the user accounts and profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory. Installed, configured, and troubleshoot windows servers 2003/2008. Implemented and managed IP addressing; configured TCP/IP addressing on a server. Worked on troubleshooting of virtual network, ESXI virtual machines. Locally & remotely managing Microsoft windows 2008/2012 servers. Capacity planning with the help of HP performance insight Manager reporting tool. Scheduled tasks for manual vMotion and Storage vMotion of VM s and managed snapshots prior to planned patch install or upgrade. Handle the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, NFS (NAS) and internal storage. Implement VMware vSphere, a new EqualLogic SAN, virtualize existing hardware. Configured Management and Resource Cluster, Add Host to a Cluster, Configure its licenses, Network Configuration, DNS and NTP. Designed lab infrastructure, created testing plans and test cases. Ricoh USA, Cupertino, CA June 2015 May 2016 Role: System Engineer Responsibilities: Creating and Managing Virtual machines, data stores, clusters, hosts and useful resource pools. Updated firmware and ProLiant aid percent for /windows 2000/2003 servers. Created Snapshots and reverted them back on user s requirement. Extensive experience installing, configuring, monitoring VMware vSphere, VMware Horizon (VDI) environments. Installation & Administration of VMware ESXI 5.5,6.0,6.5 and VMware vCenter 5.x /6. x. Experienced in Patching and Upgrading ESXi servers using VMware Update manager (UM). Design and Implement virtualization solutions based on VCenter server and Vblock series. Performed physical to virtual (P2V) and virtual to virtual (V2V) migrations using VMware converter. High Knowledge in VMware High-Availability, DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion, DVS and vCenter Update Manager. Upgrading VM tools, VM hardware versions and datastores upgrade to VMFS 5. Design, install and configure VMware vSphere 5.0 servers on Cisco UCS chassis and B250 blade server. Deploying and configuration of virtual machines from templates and administration of any associated tasks like installing VMware tools and upgrading the hardware. Ensured that all the software and hardware components are upgraded properly and designed the company s networking policy. Hands on experience working with configuration and management of VMware vSphere Standard Switch & distributed Switch. Experience in VMware networking concepts like creation of switches, vDS, different types of port groups, NIC teaming and VLAN. Experienced in maintaining performance and security on Linux servers Supported large-scale DATA Center Projects, including server Installation, Hardware maintenance and break/ fix activities. Solved many issues considering windows and VMware Performance. Entry-level support of Citrix NetScaler and Access Gateway. Implemented various applications on Citrix Servers. LUN provision and presenting to ESXi hosts based on the storage utilization and alerts. Setting up the UCS Servers from scratch such as configuring Fabric interconnect and MDS Switch for Cisco UCS. Creating Service profiles and performing day to day operations of Cisco UCS. Worked extensively with the team in case of Cisco UCS failure and fixed the issues. Effective interpersonal skills work well as a team member with people at all levels of an organization and of various cultures. Equally capable of working independently. Ensure compliance of all Standard Operating Procedures and other network related procedures for the SAN environment. Environment: VMware vSphere 5.1/5.5, VDI View5, Cisco UCS and HP Blades, SRM 5.X, VCOPS 5.8/5.7, vCloud Director, IIS, Active Directory, DNS and DHCP, SAN, Cisco MDS Switches. Datamine Infotech, Bengaluru, India July 2012 Apr 2014 Role: System Administrator Responsibilities: Scheduled and coordinated level-appropriate maintenance. Responsible for Windows 2000/2003 server, DNS and TCP/IP support. Experience with IIS and SQL server 2003 and good knowledge of DNS. Virtual memory defragmentation issues. Troubleshoot layer 1 up to layer 7. Responsible for capacity planning and testing for the remote office s LAN/WAN environment. In depth knowledge on VMWare ESXi Server and Desktop Virtualization products. Wireless Back office and guest network support. Troubleshoot systems and networks. Building servers and creating templates/images for deploying virtual machines. Troubleshooting equipment malfunctions, failures, and developing resolutions in a timely fashion. Setup and configured various RAID 1 and RAID 5. Applied patches and upgrades to the servers. Work with the Systems team to build and deploy standardized desktops. Database setup and design Installed and configured Oracle RDBMS on UNIX and Windows. Environment: Windows 2003 Servers, NAS filers and Zoning, VMware ESX servers, Oracle RDBMS on Windows and UNIX. EDUCATIONAL CERTIFICATIONS: Master of Science in Computer San Francisco Bay University-2015 B. Tech-JNTU-H-2012 VMware Certified Professional Network Virtualization (VCP-NV). Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA-R&S). Cisco Certified Professional-Routing & Switching (CCNP-R&S). AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate Keywords: cprogramm continuous integration continuous deployment sthree rlang information technology hewlett packard fibre channel California Colorado Florida Nevada North Carolina Texas