Aravinda Vatsavai
Hummelstown,PA
Summary
Results-driven System Administrator with expertise in Ansible automation, Windows and RHEL OS management. Proven ability to enhance operational efficiency and system performance through effective automation and troubleshooting.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
System Administrator
Ericsson
Hummelstown, Pennsylvania
03.2025 - Current
- Advanced Windows server administration experience; managing windows Server 2016/2019/2022, Active Directory and Group Policy using PowerShell scripting for Automation.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration updates through Ansible, enhancing deployment speed and reliability.
- Hands-on experience on Ansible and Ansible tower as configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications and proactively manage change.
- Developed and executed Ansible playbooks using YAML to automate provisioning of development and production servers.
- Experience in working with GIT to store the code and integrate it to Ansible tower to deploy the playbook.
- Manage automation playbooks and documentation related to OpenShift.
- Experience in migrating virtual machines in VMWare to OpenShift environment and testing the new environment in OpenShift.
- Configured and managed DNS, DHCP, and file sharing roles, automating routine tasks with PowerShell and Ansible to enhance operational efficiency.
- Upgraded Windows operating systems from 2012 to 2016, 2019, and 2022, ensuring system performance and security.
- Monitored server performance, applied patches and updates, troubleshot issues, and performed backups and restores to maintain optimal server health and availability.
- Maintained up-to-date documentation and ensured compliance with security and regulatory requirements using tools like Confluence or SharePoint for documentation management.
Contractor
Infovision
, USA
12.2021 - Current
- Advanced Windows server administration experience; managing windows Server 2016/2019/2022, Active Directory and Group Policy using PowerShell scripting for Automation.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning and configuration updates through Ansible, enhancing deployment speed and reliability.
- Hands-on experience on Ansible and Ansible tower as configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications and proactively manage change.
- Wrote several playbooks for automation that were defined through tasks using YAML format and ran Ansible scripts to provision dev and production servers.
- Experience in working with GIT to store the code and integrate it to Ansible tower to deploy the playbook.
- Manage automation playbooks and documentation related to OpenShift.
- Experience in migrating virtual machines in VMWare to OpenShift environment and testing the new environment in OpenShift.
- Configured and managed DNS, DHCP, and file sharing roles while automating routine tasks with PowerShell and Ansible for improved operational efficiency.
- Performed windows operating system upgrades for the windows 2012 servers to 2016, 2019 and 2022 servers.
- Troubleshooting hardware and software issues related to windows server and Linux systems.
- Utilized issue tracking tools Jira and ServiceNow to manage and resolve project-related issues.
- Perform regular system maintenance, backups, hardware and software upgrades. physical to virtual migrations and performance tuning.
- Monitored server performance, applied patches and updates, troubleshot issues, and performed backups and restores to maintain optimal server health and availability.
- Maintained up-to-date documentation and ensured compliance with security and regulatory requirements using tools like Confluence or SharePoint for documentation management.
Senior Systems Engineer
Thomson Reuters
Rochester, USA
08.2012 - 12.2021
- Supporting three Regions i.e. EMEA, US and APAC using remote management tools and through ILO.
- Working on various technology and Platforms. Building Windows, Oracle Linux, Solaris.
- Managing and configuring VMware VC server 4.X features Cluster, HA, DRS and V-Motion.
- Installing, configuring, administering, troubleshooting VMware server on ESX platform and VMware client, workstation.
- Deploying New ESX servers and applying patches using scripts.
- Installed and Implemented VMware ESXi 4.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI. Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
- Created virtual machines and set up Windows and RHEL servers.
- Built new Linux physical and virtual servers using kickstart and PXE boot, enhancing deployment efficiency.
- Experience in Active Directory, GPOs, DNS, DHCP, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server, KMS, WSUS, Microsoft Clustering.
- Promotion of Domain controller, Domain Naming service and advertising the DC as Global Catalog server.
- Implemented Microsoft Clustering for IIS Web Servers.
- Worked on OpenSSL to implement TLS testing, certification management and firewalls.
- Executed P2V migration during project transition, facilitating seamless operational continuity.
- Extensive working experience in process scheduling, disk and file system I/O, kernel tuning, TCP/IP networking.
- Managed backup and restore of VMware host server configurations, virtual machine backups, and snapshots, ensuring data integrity and disaster recovery readiness.
Systems Engineer
Logic Planet Inc
NJ, USA
10.2008 - 08.2012
- Administering production servers/network infrastructure that includes Windows Administration of Domain Controllers, IIS Web Servers (HTTP/S, FTP and SMTP), Exchange 2003/2010 Mail Servers, NAS, File and print Servers, and Terminal Servers on Windows 2003/2008/2010.
- Provided production support for Active Directory (AD), GPO, domain users, and groups, granting appropriate permissions and access to the LAN and domain environment.
- Administered Exchange 2003 Email Server, overseeing user creation and deletion while maintaining public folders to ensure reliable communication.
- Installed, Configured Citrix Xen Server and Windows 2008 Hyper-V R2 on Dell Hardware with ISCSI networks.
- Installed and implemented NFS server using windows UNIX service and configured with VMware Host servers for storage.
- Installed and implemented Open Filer 2.3 iSCSI SAN with RAID 10 for VMware and other servers, managing iStore SAN and Symantec Backup Exec 12 for data integrity.
- Installed and implemented Manage Engine monitoring application and configured SNMP and WMI on Servers and other network devices for reporting and alerts notifications.
- Administering Symantec Endpoint Antivirus console, managing 300+ antivirus clients' computers like definition updates, Exception policies, scanning, reporting etc.
- Security patching with the help of BigFix and McAfee EPO. Event application monitoring through Tivoli, Hp insight.
- Contributed to migration planning, development, testing, and transitioning the migration process to a fully operational production network.
Windows Engineer
Sopient Technologies
Hyderabad, India
07.2006 - 10.2008
- Collaborated with Wintel team to assess application load and configure triggers on Windows 2003 server environment for performance evaluation.
- Troubleshot and supported Premier customer environments, aiding in design through Advisory incidents.
- Also have expertise on Hangs and Lockups, Slowness, Server OS Performance Issues, System Resource contention Issues, System Monitor Log Analyses, System Monitor Event and Alerts.
- Executed server ghosting process to create system backups.
- Project managed the system engineering, development, and test effort and coordinated the work of other team members.
Education
BACHELOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY -
JNT UNIVERSITY
India04-2006
Skills
- Installation and configuration
- Management and maintenance
- Windows and RHEL OS
- Virtualization technologies
- VMware ESX and vCenter
- vSphere management
- Ticketing systems
- Troubleshooting skills
- Cloud environments
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- EC2 instances
- Documentation practices
- Ansible automation
- Ansible playbooks and roles
- Group variables and inventory files
- File module usage
- Git version control
- Ansible Tower management
- Networking concepts
- TCP/IP protocols
- VPN configurations
- VLANs and LAN/WAN setups
- Active Directory management
- Group Policy Objects (GPOs)
- DNS and DHCP services
- File and print server management
- IIS web services
- FTP configurations
- KMS and WSUS management
- Microsoft clustering solutions
- OpenShift deployment
Timeline
System Administrator
Ericsson
03.2025 - Current
Contractor
Infovision
12.2021 - Current
Senior Systems Engineer
Thomson Reuters
08.2012 - 12.2021
Systems Engineer
Logic Planet Inc
10.2008 - 08.2012
Windows Engineer
Sopient Technologies
07.2006 - 10.2008
BACHELOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY -
JNT UNIVERSITY