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Vinothkumar Gunasekaran

Green Bay,WI

Summary

Results-driven with 15+ of experience specializing in cloud automation, virtualization and infrastructure Management. Expertise in Vmware, AWS, GCP, Cisco UCS and Devops tools including Ansible, terraform, Jenkins, GIT. Adept at leading end to end cloud deployments, Automate processes and designing scalable solution for enterprise environments.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Cloud Automation Enginner

Amba Systems
Green Bay, Wisconsin
12.2024 - Current
  • End to End Vmware product support, deployment and optimization
  • Automated cisco UCS and ESXI management using Ansible.
  • Designed, implemented, and maintained CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions to automate code integration, testing, and deployment processes.
  • Managed cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), including provisioning resources, configuring networks, and optimizing performance for scalability and cost-effectiveness
  • Developed infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible to automate environment setup and ensure consistency across environments
  • Integrated Jira, bitbucket, Jenkins and inhouse tool for comperehensive automation.
  • Troubleshoot build failure, Optimized and improved deployment efficiency

Associate Consultant

HCL Technologies
10.2021 - 12.2024
  • Solution Architecture for Automation and tooling scope
  • Designed and deployed VMware Aria Suit with Ansible, Terraform for private and public cloud
  • Integrated VMware Aria with the Service now and provisioned the catalogue for end user
  • Catalogue creation, identifying and developing the use cases.
  • Coordination with SQL, Middleware and other application team for their automation use case
  • Installed and configured Ansible AWX, GIT
  • Integrated GIT with Ansible, vRA,vRO

Senior VCE Engineer

IP Soft Global Service PVT LTD
12.2018 - 09.2021
  • Upgraded vRA and vRO infrastructure
  • Troubleshooting build failure in the vRA and vRO workflow
  • VMC end point to vRA and automating the end-to-end provisioning
  • Created workflow for decision provisioning of workload with XaaS blueprints
  • Created subscription and vRO workflow for post provisioning changes
  • Created new workflow for installing the agents/software

Assistant Manager

Vodafone Shared Service India Limited
03.2016 - 12.2018
  • Creating Subscriptions and vRO workflows for Application, Web and DB tier for executing POST provisioning tasks (Agent installation and onboarding).
  • Closely working with build team for template update and testing catalogue
  • Creating new XaaS workflow for operation related activity which is time saving during ESXi failure
  • Bulk imports the list of VM which are not available in vRA
  • Modifying the existing workflow for decommissioning the VM
  • Creating snapshot workflow for operation related activity
  • Onboarding new IP’s and adding to cloud infra
  • Closely working with designer & delivery manager for new projects setup, implementation
  • Deploying cisco UCS, new blade implementation

Infrastructure Management Lead

ACS – Xerox
05.2014 - 03.2016
  • Deploying UCS
  • Physical datacenter movement including firewall
  • Data Center Activity
  • Racking UCS, 3 PAR Storage
  • Configuring CISCO UCS, Blade servers, Zoning storage thru fabric interconnect
  • Creating new infrastructure ESXI, Vcenter, storage from scratch to up and running
  • Performing P2V for different SBU’s including Active directoty (Financing and account, GM, XTCM etc)

Senior System Specialist

HCL Technologies
06.2009 - 05.2014
  • Managing 1000+ ESX hosts - DL585 G7 Rack servers , BL685 G7/HP BLC7000 Chassis
  • Installing ESX/ESXi servers through manually and kickstart file.
  • Configuring DRS & HA...
  • Migration - Physical machine to Virtual (P2V), Virtual to Virtual (V2V).
  • Increasing resource and migrating the VM using Vmotion and SVmotion
  • DCC – Data Center Consolidation Project - Centralize servers to mains data centers by using P2V, P2P, V2V technologies
  • Improve operations by documenting KM article and Best Practice

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Anna University
India
04-2008

Skills

Cloud Automation: vRealize Automation, Terraform & AWS Cloud formation

Scripting: JavaScript, Ansible

Cloud Technology: VMware, AWS, GCP

Compute Hardware: Cisco UCS, HP, DELL

Orchestrator: VMware Vrealize Orchestrator, Ansible

Version Control - GITLab, GitHub, Bitbucket

CI/CD: Jenkins and Code stream

Timeline

Senior Cloud Automation Enginner

Amba Systems
12.2024 - Current

Associate Consultant

HCL Technologies
10.2021 - 12.2024

Senior VCE Engineer

IP Soft Global Service PVT LTD
12.2018 - 09.2021

Assistant Manager

Vodafone Shared Service India Limited
03.2016 - 12.2018

Infrastructure Management Lead

ACS – Xerox
05.2014 - 03.2016

Senior System Specialist

HCL Technologies
06.2009 - 05.2014

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

Anna University

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