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Venkat D

Dallas,TX

Summary

VMware certified professional with 14 years of experience in the field of IT, focused on Linux/Windows System Administration with a major focus on Cloud Provisioners (VMware, AWS), Configuration Management, Continuous Integration/Deployment, Build and Release Management, Virtualization technologies which also includes Troubleshooting Performance issues and all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).

Overview

years of professional experience

Work History

Sr.Cloud Engineer

NiSource Inc

11.2021 - Current

Architected VRA8x deployment and planned for VRA7x migration
Deployed VRA8x High Availability environment and scaled out vIDM (3 nodes) using F5 Load balancers
Integrated Active Directory with VRA and planned Groups to onboard users into VRA without any manual intervention
Created Cloud accounts, Projects, Cloud zones, flavor and image mappings
Integrated infoblox,SNOW(ITSM), AWS and VMC into VRA8
Created cloud Agnostic templates and used tags, different policies and customized Catalog items
Created multiple action items using Java, Python scripting and called into cloud templates to customize various drop downs
Creating VRO workflows for POST tasks for both Linux & Windows servers and using extensibility to call the Workflows
Orchestrating vCenter operations using VRO to avoid manual steps
Orchestrating Day2 Operations
Coded various third-party tools to install them using Java, Python and Powershell as part of the VM POST process
Using VRO APIs and creating workflows to automate and avoiding manual steps
Using Chef, Ansible for VM configuration and management
Using LCM for latest updates and Content management, Version controlling using Gitlab.

Sr. Cloud Developer

Wells Fargo

12.2019 - 10.2021

Worked on Automated provisioning using vRealize Automation (vRA-8.x) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO-8.x)
Integrated and presented vRA Catalog items to external systems such as Service-Now using REST API
Implemented VMware vRealize Automation distributed deployment environments
Developing vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) Workflows to automate VM provisioning for different platforms
Configured vRA to provision VMs on AWS cloud
Designed vRA Blueprints and vRO Workflows for automating various Endpoints like AWS, Bluecat, Infoblox, Voicemail and Vmware vCenter
Design and implemented vRO Automation to automate Application failovers
Planned and migrated existing VRA7.x to VRA8.x
Creating Projects, Cloud templates, Cloud Zones
Developeed vRO workflows to automate Infrastructure tasks using JavaScript, Shell, Perl, Python and PowerShell coding
Managed the Tenant and Fabric administration in vRA by adding and managing the custom tenants and clusters to the Fabric groups
Created the Reservations as per the Business Group and managing the resource information in the reservations to accommodate the requests for building the workloads
Written vCO Workflows and presenting in vRA to perform Day2 Operations
Using vRA/vRO, created many Blue prints to present as a Catalog items to Endusers for anything as Service
Using VMware Life Cycle Manger and defined pipelines for Content managements between multiple VRA instances
Helping UNIX team to automate daily routine tasks using vRA / vRO
Deployed the build packages on cloud providing Continuous Integration
Participating in agile meetings with onsite and offshore teams to discuss the build processes and provided regular updates and suggestions for improving the existing processes
Establishing and executing the build processes for multiple projects
Serves as a subject matter expert for automation and orchestration
Redhat Enterprise Linux support and automating daily repeating tasks using VMware orchestration tools
Independently leads the design of automation solutions to include hardware platforms, services, and operation systems

Sr. Cloud Engineer

Southwest Airlines

10.2016 - 11.2019

Worked on Automated provisioning tools using vRealize Automation (vRA-7.x) and vRealize Orchestrator (vRO-7.x)
Developed VRO flows and used REST API methods to integrate External Systems
Supported highly available infrastructure systems
Experienced developing vRO workflows and actions using JavaScript
Automated provisioning, configuration of many nodes with code deployment and configuration management tools like Chef
Supported software container technologies (Docker)
Management of continuous integration servers like Jenkins
Strong experience in Linux Systems Administration / Windows and troubleshooting
Good organizational skills and the ability the track and prioritize several tasks
Excellent problem solving skills, along with the ability to work independently, as well as part of a cross-functional team
Ability to work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires in-depth evaluation of various factors
Worked on ITIL 'best practices'
Worked knowledge of networking and security concepts
Worked on relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL
Worked on architecture or engineering disciplines.

Sr. System Engineer

AT&T

08.2012 - 09.2016

Provided on-call support for critical production environment (RHEL , Oracle , HP and VMware ,) RHEL, SUN servers build from operating system hardening to set up apps/Data Base with high availability using VCS/CFS/Vmotion and Operational Readiness
Provided support and install Java/Apache/Tomcat/Jenkins for various projects where infrastructure involved with f5 connect load balancers, Virtual server running on VMware platform and RHEL, CentOS operating systems
Provided support to Hadoop environment
Pushing OS configurations and applying new changes on multiple servers using puppet, HPSA
Building and supporting Oracle RAC on RHEL plat forms
Capacity management and Tech refresh for EOL Hardware
OS level, storage level performance tuning and fixing servers' slowness
User authentications using LDAP and Boks RSA security installs
Planned and implementing storage migrations and Domain level migrations
Resolved load copy issues and tuning the machines
Planned and applying recommended OS patches on both SUN/LINUX servers Worked on Operational readiness for new project servers
Change Management for all production activities like new file system creations, addling new storage, applying any system tuning parameters, OS patching, new app installs and upgrades
Planned and participating in Disaster Recovery test and helping to Data Base / App teams with respect to infrastructure set up and SRDF split/attach, NFS and rsync
New storage detections and debugging if any SAN issues
Implemented NFS3 NFS4 using NAS ZFS volumes
Decommissioning unused machines and storage de-allocations Puppet agent installs, creating manifests to push configurations on multiple servers
Using GIT for version control
Deployed J2EE applications to Application servers in an agile continuous integration environment and also automated the whole process Jenkins is used as a continuous integration tool for automation of daily process Shell , Perl , Python scripting to automate administrative activities

Systems Engineer

World Bank

02.2008 - 07.2012

Provided Level-2 on-call support for critical production environment (RHEL , SUN and VMware) RHEL, SUN servers build from operating system hardening to set up apps/Data Base with high availability using VCS/CFS/Vmotion and Operational Readiness
Providde support and install Java/Apache/Tomcat/Jenkins for various projects where infrastructure involved with f5 connect load balancers, Virtual server running on VMware platform and RHEL, CentOS operating systems
Pushing OS configurations and applying new changes on multiple servers using puppet, HPSA
Building and supporting Oracle RAC on RHEL plat forms
Creating and managing Virtual Machines using Vcenter
Capacity management and Tech refresh for EOL Hardware
OS level, storage level performance tuning and fixing servers slowness
User authentications using LDAP and Boks RSA security installs
Planning and implementing storage migrations and Domain level migrations
Resolved load copy issues and tuning the machines
Planned and applying recommended OS patches on both SUN/LINUX servers Worked on Operational readiness for new project servers
Change Management for all production activities like new file system creations, addling new storage, applying any system tuning parameters, OS patching, new app installs and upgrades
Planned and participating in Disaster Recovery test and helping to Data Base / App teams with respect to infrastructure set up and SRDF split/attach, NFS and rsync
New storage detections and debugging if any SAN issues
Implemented NFS3 NFS4 using NAS ZFS volumes
Decommissioning unused machines and storage de-allocations Puppet agent installs, creating manifests to push configurations on multiple servers
Using GIT for version control
Shell , Perl scripting to automate administrative activities

Skills

Cloud: Amazon Web Services, VMware, OpenStack

Container Tools: Docker, Docker swam, Kubernetes and OpenShift

Version Control Tools: GIT, GITLAB, SVN, Bitbucket

Deployment Tools: Chef, Ansible

Web/Application Servers: JBOSS 4x/5x, Apache Tomcat, Web Sphere (40, 50), Web Logic (8/9/10)

Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Splunk, Dynatrace, ELK, AppDynamics

Testing & Ticketing Tools: Selenium, SonarQube, Jira and ServiceNow

CI & Build Tools: Bamboo, Hudson, Jenkins, Maven, Ant, Gradle

Scripting Languages: Bash/Shell, Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, PowerShell, JSON, Groovy, YAML

Languages: C, C, C#, Net, Javascript

Database: My SQL, Oracle, Dynamo DB, Mongo DB, Postgresql

Repository Management: Nexus

Virtualization: VMware ESX/ESXi, Windows Hyper-V, Power VM, Vagrant, Virtual box

Operating System: Red Hat Linux 8/7/6/5/4, Ubuntu 16/14/13/12, Debian, Fedora, CentOS, Windows 10/8/7/Vista/XP, Solaris 11/10/9/8, Mac OS

Networking/protocol: TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, ICMP, SMTP, DHCP, OSPF, BGP, UDP, and RIP