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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

16
16
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

Timeline

Sr.Cloud Engineer

NiSource Inc
11.2021 - Current

Sr. Cloud Developer

Wells Fargo
12.2019 - 10.2021

Sr. Cloud Engineer

Southwest Airlines
10.2016 - 11.2019

Sr. System Engineer

AT&T
08.2012 - 09.2016

Systems Engineer

World Bank
02.2008 - 07.2012

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