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Janardhanan Perumalsamy

Westborough,MA

Summary

Experienced Systems Administrator with 12+ years of expertise in design, development and maintenance of complex software and management of server infrastructures and data center operations across operating system platforms. Highly proficient in implementing enterprise solutions for business applications in broad scale, web-delivered environments. Determined to deliver best technical solutions to meet functional and business requirements. Diligent troubleshooter, with strong communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with employees and departments various IT environments. Flexible with positive work attitude focused on producing results under tight deadlines. Demonstrated understanding of the Windows Servers Migration and Maintenance Life Cycle. Focused on improving business productivity and efficiency by designing new systems and improving existing infrastructures to meet changing demands. Good communication, planning and organizational skills developed over 17+ years in the field.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Infrastructure Architect

Cognizant technology Solutions
06.2014 - Current
  • Cloud Migration and Operations support
  • End to end Analysis, Planning and executing Datacenter Migration Scope servers from One Datacenter to another datacenter/Cloud for Physical and Virtual servers Migration
  • Administrating AWS and Azure platform services - create, delete, update AWS services as per requests from Stake Holders
  • Giving support to Dev team in case any optimization/troubleshooting if any issues in Cloud and on-perm Infrastructure
  • Automated User Provisioning and De-provision user Accounts using Azure Identity management, PowerShell
  • Create and manage Aws Storage Gateway for Tape Library and Manage Virtual tape library and Rotation
  • Creating Encrypted AWS AMI and updating Monthly and Prepare for Iteration
  • Creating Automation scripts for Ec2 Instance creation/Deletion, Add/Remove EC2 servers to Existing Load balancer or Creating New Load Balancer using AWS CLI and AWS SSM
  • Providing L2/L3 Support for Windows/VMware/Cloud technologies
  • Maintain DHCP/DNS and IPAM Infrastructure
  • Providing Exchange support for 0365 Migrated users and On-Perm Exchange 2010 Environment
  • Build 2012/2016 Windows Clusters services and Maintain cluster
  • Maintain Esxi/VDI Infrastructure, also support Monthly patching to maintain Compliance
  • Closely Involved on Tabletop discussion on migrating Servers to Cloud environment.

Senior System Administrator

Wipro Technologies
06.2010 - 06.2014

System Analyst

Merrill Lynch India Technology services
07.2008 - 05.2010

System Administrator

Byzan Systems Pvt Ltd
08.2007 - 07.2008

Appnomic Systems

Vitage Technologies
08.2005 - 05.2007

Junior Engineer

HITECH informatics Pvt Ltd
12.2004 - 08.2005

Education

BE: Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering -

Adhi Para Shakthi Engineering College
05.2004

Diploma: DECE -

Swamy Abedhandha Polytechnic
04.2001

Skills

  • Server hardware (Rack/Stack, Configure, Maintain - Leading Hardware Models "HP, DELL, IBM & Nutanix"
  • Windows Operating System (2003/2008R2/2012R2/2016/2019)
  • Virtualization (VMware Esxi 40 - 70 And Hyper-V Manage /Install/Configure)
  • NexGen Technologies (AWS, Azure Cloud)
  • Scripting Tools (PowerShell and PowerShell Core)
  • VMware Horizon View (On-perm and Cloud VDI management)
  • System Center (Task sequence/OSD/Patch Management and Monitoring)
  • Directory Services (Windows Active Directory, Azure Active Directory

Certification

  • 11/2005 Microsoft Certified Systems Admin (MCSA)- Windows 2003 server
  • ITIL Certified - Version 2.0
  • 07/2016 Microsoft Certified Systems Admin (MCSA)- Windows 2012 server
  • 12/2017 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
  • 12/2022 Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
  • 12/2021 Microsoft Azure Security

Accomplishments

  • Team collaboration: Active team member Assisted L1 team and Coordinated with Engineer team to fill underlying technical fulfillment.
  • Wintel: Worked On major Windows builds and Operating system Upgrades, 1500 Server's Upgrade (Windows 2003 to Windows 2012) completed in 6 Months. without any major outbreak or outage to applications. smooth transition not exceeding Deadlines. Continuous improvement on Patching Cycle using SCCM, starting 2003 to 2019. Maintained SCOM Environment, Provided Numerous Dashboard to Site reliability Team and Operations team.
  • Automation: Automated most of Repeated Day to Day tasks like Health check, Deployments, and time-consuming tasks (Weekly/Monthly) Using Power shell tool. Contributed 20 + Scripts for team to make Jobs easy. Received Multiple appreciation from Business Leads and Infrastructure Managers.
  • Cloud Services: Amazon Storage Gateway - After Customer moved to Cloud, still the Tape library was Physical and tape Movement weekly, Monthly and Yearly happening between Datacenters (East to west Region NA), cost to rotate tapes, Maintain Physical tapes requires more time, resource, and cost. Also, restoration over Slow Links. Hence suggested customer to Move AWS storage gateway with Modified cost solution the same was great success. Amazon SSM - Design and Implemented free Amazon SSM solution to Patch All EC2 instances, this solution completely reduced the SCCM Per License cost. Currently customer has 1000 Ec2 Instances, all Instances SCCM License completely removed from Renewal. On Amazon SSM, Each Ec2 instance will reach Internet to scan and download Patches. hence this will create Internet download cost per Ec2, to overcome an WSUS server placed to download one-time patch from Internet and the WSUS server will provide patches to Local Ec2 instances. Also Introduced Software Deployment using Amazon SSM Documents.
  • Virtualization: Headed VMware Upgrade and Vulnerability remediation Project twice (5.5 to 6.0 and 6.0 to 6.5) zero downtime to Production VM and Zero escalations. Introduced Most of the VM ware Best practices and Hardening Practice to Customer environment. Built Customer Nutanix Environment from scratch and Migrated, VM from Legacy Host to Nutanix Hosts with very Minimal Downtime (No Third-party Migration tools used) VMware Horizon View - End to End Design Support, worked with VMware and MS Azure team to on board PODS on Azure Subscription. Also Maintaining On-premises View Infrastructure.

Work Permit

H1B- 09/2013 - 08/2025 (I-140 Active)

Timeline

Infrastructure Architect

Cognizant technology Solutions
06.2014 - Current

Senior System Administrator

Wipro Technologies
06.2010 - 06.2014

System Analyst

Merrill Lynch India Technology services
07.2008 - 05.2010

System Administrator

Byzan Systems Pvt Ltd
08.2007 - 07.2008

Appnomic Systems

Vitage Technologies
08.2005 - 05.2007

Junior Engineer

HITECH informatics Pvt Ltd
12.2004 - 08.2005

BE: Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering -

Adhi Para Shakthi Engineering College

Diploma: DECE -

Swamy Abedhandha Polytechnic
Janardhanan Perumalsamy