GANESH GOPINATHAN PILLAI
Yorktown,Virginia
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
FERGUSON ENTERPRISES
08.2008 - Current
- 8+ years of infrastructure solutions architecture experience with global enterprise mission critical hosting services
- 20+ years’ hands-on experience as a Unix infrastructure technical engineer
- 10+ years of experience with solutions of data center designs and migrations
- 12+ years of architecture design, implementation, and support of highly distributed major infrastructure setups ensuring high availability and reliability
- Deep and strong understanding of infrastructure hosting solutions
- Strong understanding of cloud concepts, automation, and networking
- Skilled ability to connect and analyze on-premises technology to cloud offerings
- Expert and Professional skills with Unix & Linux System Architecture, Unix Administration, Virtualization Technologies Project management, Infrastructure planning, Server consolidation, Security policy, SOX Audit, Disaster recovery, CyberArk Vaulting, Application migrations, Application service delivery, Business continuity, Budgeting, Vendor management and Business expansions
KANBAY CAPGEMINI
08.2006 - 08.2008
- Led Unix technical consulting for Capgemini's Marlborough data center with 500 servers.
AMDOCS Nextel
03.2005 - 07.2006
- Senior Unix System Manager and Product Management Engineer for one of the leading wireless telecommunication companies in the United States of America (Amdocs Nextel), data center located in Champaign, state of Illinois. The data center consists of about 400 Unix servers.
CITIBANK ASIA PACIFIC PROCESSING CENTRE
02.2001 - 02.2005
- Over four years of experience as a Sr. System Administrator and Project Leader of APPC Citigroup Technologies data center in Singapore, with proficiency in HP-UNIX, Digital Unix, Sun Solaris, Open VMS System, EMC SAN Storage, and Oracle FileNet Imaging software administration for mission-critical environments. The data center had around 1,500 Unix servers.
HP COMPAQ INDIA
06.1999 - 02.2001
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT INDIA LTD.
10.1996 - 05.1999
Education
Bachelor’s degree - arts & technology
Diploma - Management and Technology
Mumbai University
Skills
- Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Azure environments management
- Linux servers provisioning
- Azure infrastructure hosting plans
- Azure Linux virtual machines
- Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
- Unix machines deployment
- ARM templates
- Terraform
- Azure DevOps CI/CD
- AKS Kubernetes Cluster Administration
- Build and Release management
- Ansible deployment
- Linux business servers patching
- Web applications performance enhancement
- Cloud infrastructure automation tools
- GitHub
- Jenkins
- Docker
- Splunk agents integration
- Azure Sentinel
- Log Analytics workspaces
- Storage account administration
- Azure Key vaults
- Azure Active Directory
- Single Sign-On Services
- Azure NetApp Files services
- Linux System Administrator
- Custom images for middleware FUSE servers
- Migration of Linux services
- VMware ESX
- Red Hat Linux
- CentOS Linux
- Ubuntu Linux
- Kickstart installation
- Configuration
- Performance tuning
- Firmware updates
- Patching
- Monitoring software deployments
- Ansible
- YAML playbooks
- Data Dog monitoring
- Rubrik
- Veritas NetBackup
- Immutable backup software
- Middleware applications
- Apache
- Jboss
- Tomcat
- Agile Methodologies
- Jira
- Service Now ITIL
- SolarWinds
- Dynatrace
- Datadog
- AppDynamics
- File system concepts
- LVM
- VXVM
- XFS
- NETAPP
- Backup solutions design
- Security alerts analysis
- Vulnerability assessment
- Tenable
- Cybereason
- OCI Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Computing
- OCI architecture design
- Compartment configuration
- VCNs
- Subnets
- IDCS for OCI authentication
- VPN compartment
- Oracle Linux DB systems
- Data Guard database instances
- Backend sets configuration
- Remote peering
- DR environments
- OCI CLI
- Golden images creation
- Multiple Linux machines deployment
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator, LF-ab4qu27awn
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified Architect Associate, 02/21/20
- AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design, 17584647
- AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator, H362-878
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, 984FBTMKE1BEQLC3
- Udemy certified Project Management Level One, UC-YRLZK7KX
Personal Information
Date of Birth: 05/02/74
Skills
Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Azure DevOps CI/CD, Ansible deployment, Cloud infrastructure automation tools, Linux System Administration, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Computing, HP Green Lake Solutions, Database monitoring, User profile management
Timeline
FERGUSON ENTERPRISES
08.2008 - Current
KANBAY CAPGEMINI
08.2006 - 08.2008
AMDOCS Nextel
03.2005 - 07.2006
CITIBANK ASIA PACIFIC PROCESSING CENTRE
02.2001 - 02.2005
HP COMPAQ INDIA
06.1999 - 02.2001
DIGITAL EQUIPMENT INDIA LTD.
10.1996 - 05.1999
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator, LF-ab4qu27awn
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified Architect Associate, 02/21/20
- AZ-301 Microsoft Azure Architect Design, 17584647
- AZ-103: Microsoft Azure Administrator, H362-878
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, 984FBTMKE1BEQLC3
- Udemy certified Project Management Level One, UC-YRLZK7KX
Bachelor’s degree - arts & technology
Diploma - Management and Technology
Mumbai University
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