Sandeep Reddy Gudimetla

Experienced Security and Infrastructure Engineer with 14 years of experience in Windows environments, Hypervisors (VMware, KVM, Nutanix), SAN Storage, and Cloud Platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS). Certified in Azure, VMware (VCP), and GCP, with specialized skills in Penetration Testing, Vulnerability Assessment, Solution Design, and Troubleshooting. Renowned for delivering customer-focused solutions through strong interpersonal skills. A highly motivated, detail-oriented self-starter with a passion for project planning, implementation, engineering, architecture, and product development.

• Managing Team members, SLA across India, Europe and Mexico.
• Architectural Designing and Compliance.
• Maintaining the environment with N / N-1 Versions, Depending on organization requirement.
• AWS Basic build and EC2 Maintenance.
• vCenter Upgrades to 7.0 and ESX Upgrades to 7.0.
• Windows 2012 to 2016 Migration Automation (In-place Upgrade done with limited human intervention).
• Expert in Configuring and administering windows server 2003/2008/2012, IIS 6.0/7.0, WSUS 3.0 SP2.
• Maintained more than 1500 servers both physical and VM environment with 99% uptime.
• Firm understanding of Windows security including file system permissions, file sharing, event logging, performance monitoring and disk administration.
• Provide end users with hardware and software support on time within the support SLA.
• Involved in Application upgradation with all the hotfixes and server patches.
• Expertise in taking backup and restoring data using various techniques.
• Involved in troubleshooting and fixing day-to-day problems of the applications in production.
• Supported 24 7 on call schedule for Production support.
• Support on installing Vendor based applications like 1099 Pro and Varonis along with Product vendors.
• Server Deployments, Configurations, Decommissions on Azure and On-Prem.
• VRA & VRO Implementation, Configuration on Lifecycle of server (Build, Decommissions, Application & SQL installations, Maintenance and Rubrik / Cohesity Backup configurations)
• File Server / Shares Migration to Isilon Storage and Permissions validations and corrections.
• Automation on Reports generation “Active vMotions, vCenter Permissions, Active snapshots, Automatic Reboots, Automatic Disk Cleanup”
• Migrate on-prem Servers to Azure using ASR tool And Maintain post migration, Along with ASR tool setup
• PCI Scans for Vulnerability Scans worked on PCI Audit for the Year 2015 / 2016 / 2017 / 2020 with external Auditors and Addressing Vulnerabilities on Windows Servers and ESX machines.
• Work closely with application development and infrastructure teams on day-to-day tasks along with project planning and implementation.
• Design, Implementation, testing and development of Windows, ESX, vCenter, vRops,
• Implemented Upgrades on 750+ Windows 2K3 to Win2k8/2K12 & 1400+ 2k8 to 2k12/16.
• Upgraded Virtual Infrastructure (vCenter/vSphere & ESX) from 4.x, 5.x, 6.x to ESXi 5.x,6.x
• Data Center Migration, Build, Configure, Migrate approximately 4000VM's and 400 ESX Host's. Along with Site Recovery Manager Configuration..
• Maintenance of ESX and Windows Servers with Up-to-date Patching and Firmware. Using Automation, VUM & WSUS
• Implementation, Configurations and maintenance and Code upgrade of hardware (VxRail / Dell VRTX / Nutanix)
• Storage Maintenance and configurations for (VxRail / Dell Vertex / Nutanix)
• Configured Virtual Networking (Create Virtual Switches, Security, and port group policies)
• Virtual Infrastructure Access Control (Users/groups, Roles, Privileges, and permissions)
• Troubleshooting day-to-day support issues and Performance related issues like HBA Failures, Port Failures, Disk failures and Performance related issues.
• Work on a variety of OS Platforms (Windows, Linux, and VMware) & Diagnosing hardware/software problems and provide solutions.
• Providing and maintaining user access in VC, configuring mail alerts for any failure in HA, DRS, CPU or memory.
• Configure Storage Spaces and Data Deduplication.
• Installing, configuring, and managing Hyper-V and virtual machines.
• Overview of high availability and disaster recovery.
• Implementing failover clustering.
• Implementing Network Load Balancing.
• Creating and managing deployment images.
• Managing, monitoring, and maintaining virtual machine installations.
• Planning and implementing an IPv4 network.
• Implementing DHCP.
• Implementing and managing IPAM.
• Remote access in Windows Server 2016, 2019.
• Implementing DirectAccess & VPN's
• Implementing networking for branch offices.
• Configuring advanced networking features.
• Implementing Software Defined Networking.
• Troubleshooting issues related to ESX host, VC, HA, DRS, VMware Update Manager & disaster recovery (SRM).
• Re-engineered the company's systems setup, establishing automated server generation routines, optimizing system performance, installing upgrades/patches, establishing system monitoring and maintaining security protocols.
• Ensured that all server hardware, operating systems, software and procedures aligned with organizational standards and strategic business plan.
• Increased team productivity and automated repetitive tasks by using batch files, PowerShell, VBScript and WMI.
• Acted as an escalation point for troubleshooting advanced network/systems issues; consistently earned 100% issue-resolution scores by providing excellent service to internal and external customers.

• Google Cloud Certified: Associate Cloud Engineer
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
• VCP Certified: Professional VMware vSphere 6.7

• GLOBAL RECOGNITION AWARD 2024
• TITAN AWARD 2024
• GLOBEE AWARDS 2024