About Me

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Have above 11+ years of experience in IT industry in AWS, Windows, Linux and VMware administration.
• Hands on experience in supporting AWS services, Windows Active Directory, MS SQL, GPO, IIS and VCenter.
• Hands on experience with monitoring tools like Cloud Watch, Nagios, SCOM, Op-manager, Open NMS & Cacti.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

• Deployment, Monitoring and Managing IT environment which includes physical, virtual and cloud servers.
• Designing and Deploying Highly scalable infrastructure using AWS EC2, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancer, VPC, IAM, Cloud Watch, RDS, S3 and Route 53 services.
• Deploying and Managing AWS Services using Terraform.
• Migrating on premise VM’s to AWS.
• Managing Backups of Instances.
• AWS Single Sign On, AWS VPN Connections, VPC and Migrating and Managing DNS Routing in Route 53.
• Provisioning RDS database Instance for application services.
• Configuring Cloud Watch alerts and for monitoring Instance, RDS, ELB and EBS.
• Created and configured S3 bucket with restricted policies, Lifecycle Management, Versioning and Amazon Glacier.
• Deployed and Managed MS SQL 2016 Clusters
• Managing Active Directory Domains and Group Policy objects (GPOs) in multiple sites throughout India.
• Building, Installation, configuration and administration of servers on the request from Capacity Management team.
• Migrated virtual servers P2V & v2V through VMware VCenter and utilized Hyper-V with SCVMM.
• Scheduling and patching servers Using AWS Patch Baseline & GFI Patch Management tool.
• Monitoring and alerting on physical servers, VM’s and aws Instances using SCOM, Nagios and Cloudwatch.
• Involve and supporting in all operations in Datacenter, like in Day-to-day activities and during maintenance and emergency time. Need to review the Active Directory policies, manage users, computer, groups and OUs as per ISMS needs.
• Work with OTRS Ticketing tool to closure tickets from ISMS and IT Support as per the SLA.
• Building, Installation, configuration and administration of Windows 2012/2008 servers for applications hosting.
• Maintenance and Monitoring of Servers like HP EVA, HP Blade server and Dell power edge servers.
• Managing of DHCP, DNS, File servers, FTP, Terminal, WDS, WSUS, and SOPHOS Antivirus servers.
• Managing Active Directory in windows server 2008 R2 & 2012 and Group Policy.
• User Account Creation, Appling group policies in DC, Permission Management: Security Policy, Provide Access rights based on business need.
• Maintaining Sophos Endpoint Protection Server (Updating the Virus Definition, creating the package, configuring Group Policy and also configuring the Client Exception scanning & Generating Reports).
• Hardware and Software Asset, License compliance Management through Dell KACE and providing Technical tool for the same.
• Having knowledge in Microsoft Exchange management Console in Mailbox creation, distribution group creation, Mail Contact.
• Configuring VOIP phones (Zultys VOIP integrated with MXIE softphone), Webconference through MX Meeting.
• Used Dell KACE Ticketing tool providing Technical Support to production.
• Published Microsoft IIS web sites (Ingegno.in, Qbend.com, etc. ) 

Certification:

AWS Certified Security – Specialty
Validation Number : Z0HSTXZK51Q1Q6WD

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Validation Number : EV84FNRKB1EQQ8GZ

Educational Summary:

• Masters of Business Administration, Annamalai University, Chidambaram, T.N. (2014 - 2015)
• Bachelor of Engineering (E.C.E.),Apollo Engineering College, Kancheepuram Dist., T.N. (2008 - 2011)
• Mech. Gen. Electronics, SAM Industrial School, Egmore, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (2007 – 2008)
• Diploma in Electronics & Communication Engineering Thai Moogambigai Polytechnic College, Nerkundram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. (2004 - 2007)
• SSLC, The Madras Progressive Union Higher Secondary School, Sowcarpet, Chennai, T.N. (2003 - 2004)