Vardhana Seetala
Senior Cloud Engineer
Stratford,US
Summary
To seek a challenging position in a growth oriented organization that provides opportunity to expand professional advancement in the field of software engineering and upgrade my skills making a significant contribution to the organization.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2022 - 12.2022
- Administering Azure Update Management to ensure the timely patching of servers, enhancing security and reducing vulnerabilities
- Worked on the creation and decommissioning of virtual machines (VMs) to meet organizational requirements and optimize resource utilization effectively
- Executing VM resizing and disk expansion/addition tasks to accommodate evolving workload demands
- Implementing and maintaining backup solutions to safeguard critical data
- Supervised the establishment and upkeep of storage accounts, with a focus on enhancing data storage and retrieval efficiency
- Directed hardware upgrade initiatives aimed at PaaS databases, resulting in improved scalability and enhanced resource utilization
- Established alert configurations for backup activities in ServiceNow
- Implemented service health alert configurations in ServiceNow, enabling proactive monitoring and management of Azure service health
- Orchestrated the upgrade process of load balancers to standard versions, optimizing traffic management and application performance
- Managed server migration processes to mitigate the impact of host failures.
Application Development Analyst
Accenture
03.2021 - 02.2022
- Plan and implement the change requests (RFC's) as per the customer requirements in Azure Virtual Machines deployments using Powershell and ARM templates
- Implementation of Availability sets to provide high availability of applications
- Experience in creation of Internal Load balancer
- Configured Network Security Groups for subnet and NIC level for Azure Virtual Machines
- Creation of Resource Groups in Azure and providing IAM access to managed identities and security groups
- Migration of Unmanaged Disks to Managed Disks for Virtual machines thereby improving the durability and High Availability
- Configuring Azure Backup solution which ensures backups are in place and restore using Recovery service vault
- Create and manage Azure Storage Account in Azure Portal
- Participated in Azure Disaster Recovery drill
- Implementation of Power Operations which enables cloud servers/virtual machines to be powered off and on during defined periods/schedules or as required to save costs of running in the cloud
- Worked on providing cost estimates to users using Pricing tool based on the demanded services in Azure\AWS
- Placing servers in Maintenance Mode during the activity which are under SCOM monitoring
- Interacting with various teams and stake holders if needed while resolving the issues and also creating case with MS team as and when needed
- Monitoring scheduled event notifications of Azure/AWS servers and notifying the server owners and users prior to unexpected reboot
- Basic understanding and hands-on experience experience on AWS.
System Administrator Senior Associate
NTT Data Global Delivery Services
02.2018 - 03.2021
- Plan and implement the change requests (RFC's) as per the customer needs or requirements like Azure VM creation/deletion/modification, configuration of VNets, Availability sets, Load balancer and NSG
- Implemented VM snapshots which are very helpful to recover virtual machines from a disaster or human made error
- Good experience in increasing size and performance of the Disks
- Resizing the VM as per user requirements to increase the performance of the servers
- Redeployment of servers in case of host backend failure
- Adding/removing managed hosts in PCM (Patrol Configuration Manager), configuring agent, and troubleshooting configuration issues and also Performing MM activities
- Installed and configured additional monitoring KMs like MSSQL KM, Oracle KM, Exchange KM and Remote monitoring KM
- Worked on ticketing tools like Remedy and has a good exposure on Incident Management, Change Management and Work Order Management.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
Rowan University
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science Engineering
Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering for Women
Intermediate - Mathematic, Physics & Chemistry
Narayana Junior College
10th -
D A V Centenary School
Skills
45 years of experience in Information Technology which includes Monitoring, Managing, Administration and troubleshooting on multiple platforms
Microsoft certified Azure Administrator with around 4 years of experience in Virtualization
Professionally represents the infrastructure team as a L2 Cloud Engineer for Azure and AWS environments
Performing all the activities based on ITIL standards
Efficient Client handling with excellent interpersonal and presentation skills Recognized leader among the team and volunteer in taking higher responsibilities
Monitor, administer and troubleshoot the issues related to Compute, Network and Storage to meet the organization current and future requirements
Works in a team environment and have good analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
Works within strict time frames and elevate incidents and problem tickets within defined SLA
Works with various vendors to ensure productive environment
Ability to identify incident trends in order to elevate incidents in accordance with standard protocols
Document all the changes, analysis and known issues for tracking and future references Regularly update and maintain all the necessary documents like SOP's, run books, confluence pages in the central repository
Virtualization: Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS
Operating systems: Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019
Monitoring tools: Azure Monitor, SCOM, Splunk, BMC True sight, BMC BPPM
Ticketing Tools: Service Now, BMC Remedy
Other Tools: MS Office - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook
Certification
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals - AZ 900
Timeline
Systems Engineer
Tata Consultancy Services
03.2022 - 12.2022
Application Development Analyst
Accenture
03.2021 - 02.2022
System Administrator Senior Associate
NTT Data Global Delivery Services
02.2018 - 03.2021
Master of Science - Computer Science
Rowan University
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science Engineering
Gayatri Vidya Parishad College of Engineering for Women
Intermediate - Mathematic, Physics & Chemistry
Narayana Junior College
10th -
D A V Centenary School
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