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Younus Mohammed

New York City,NY

Summary

IT professional prepared for demands of high-level system administration role. Extensive experience managing and optimizing complex networks, ensuring seamless operations, and addressing critical issues. Known for strong team collaboration and adaptability, with focus on achieving impactful results through technical proficiency and effective communication.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. System Administrator

Infosys
04.2020 - Current
  • Supported 700 + production serves a mix of Windows and Linux serves. Building new Windows 2019/2022 VM servers to migrate from Windows 2012 guest servers.
  • Developed, maintained, and monitored virtual servers and VMware infrastructure.
  • Implemented, deployed, and configured multiple vSphere hosts and clusters.
  • Upgraded ESXi hosts and virtual machines to the latest version.
  • Configured and administered vCenter Server and its components.
  • Monitored the performance of all ESXi Servers and virtual machines.
  • Provided weekly and monthly status reports for server operations and patching reporting.
  • Investigated, researched, and implemented new technologies to increase the efficiency and stability of the server environment.
  • Managed and maintained Windows Server environments, ensuring optimal performance and security.
  • Implemented and managed Active Directory and Group Policy.
  • Developed and executed disaster recovery plans.
  • Automated administrative tasks using PowerShell scripting.
  • Monitored system performance and resolved issues promptly.
  • Provided technical support and training to junior administrators.
  • Deployed and configured Windows Server systems.
  • Managed Active Directory, DNS, and DHCP.
  • Provided technical support and resolved server-related issues.
  • Monitored system performance and implemented improvements.
  • Conducted regular backups and ensured data recovery.
  • Worked on Microsoft Azure Cloud to provide Iaas support to client. Create Virtual Machines through Power shell script and Azure Portal.
  • Manage and created storage account and affinity group in azure Portal
  • Capture an image of a VM. Attaching a disk to a VM. Manage and create Virtual Network and end points in azure portal

Vmware Administrator

IBM
01.2019 - 03.2020
  • Installing and configuring the windows server 2016 in production and development environment.
  • Installing and upgrading the ESX/ESXi hosts and Vcenters.
  • Upgrade the servers from 2008 to 2012.
  • Creating change records for Server builds for new servers to track the process.
  • Migrating Virtual Machines between the data centers.
  • Administration and troubleshooting DNS related problems on Windows/ Wintel environment.
  • Creating the Backup's and restoring the data for servers on scheduled basis.
  • Experience in decommissioned and rebuilding the servers in Data Centers.
  • Experience with Data Centers on a small and large scale.
  • Creating Clusters for High Availability (HA) and Distributive Resource Scheduling (DRS).
  • Configured Resource Pool, V Motion, Alerts, Alarms, NTP.
  • Experience in iSCSI SAN, NAS, and NFS Storage and RAID technologies.
  • Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter).
  • Migrating of Virtual Machines using V Motion.
  • Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
  • Creating Templates from VM's, deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources.
  • Monitoring of Virtual Machine's & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for Security.
  • Analyzing and reporting Virtual environment usage through VFoglight report and presenting the same to Site Lead and Stake holders.
  • Installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware.
  • Monitoring and managing the performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
  • Working on VMware clustering like HA clusters using VC.
  • Experienced running script to reboot windows.
  • Responsible for software upgrades.
  • Convert P2V and V2V using VMware Standalone Converter.
  • Creating duplicate Virtual Machine's using cloning technology (hot & cold).
  • Migration of Virtual Machines using V-Motion.
  • Creating Clusters for High Availability and Dynamic Resource Scheduling.
  • Creation of Virtual Switches, Ports and Port groups and setting up Layer 2 Security Policies for Virtual Networks.
  • Troubleshooting issues relating to Vmotion such as compatibility issues with help of event log.Experience in WAN, VMPLS, VLAN, Routing, Firewall.
  • Experience in DFS, DNS, GPO.
  • Experience in adding Rules and Monitoring Checkpoint Firewall traffic through Smart Dashboard and Smart View Tracker application on Checkpoint R77.
  • Created clones and templates of Virtual Machines.
  • Deploying VMs through Templates.
  • Configured and Managed Windows Failover Clustering on 2012 Server for SQL environment (GUI mode and PowerShell).
  • In depth knowledge of solutions such as server virtualization, high-availability clustering.

Systems Administrator

FNR Solutions
03.2017 - 12.2018
  • Deployment, configuration and administration of VMware VSphere 5.1 environments as well as Windows (2008/2012)/ Red Hat (5.x and 6.x) and environment and installed required binaries and packages.
  • Configured Resource Pool, V Motion, Alerts, Alarms, HA, DRS and deployed virtual servers using template.
  • Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Serves using VMware Converters and migration of Virtual Machines using V-Motion.
  • Migrated VM from one LUN to another LUN using Storage V-Motion.
  • Created Templates from VM's, deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources
  • Setting up Users and Groups for access to the Virtual Center.
  • Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of servers resources between Virtual Machines.
  • Implemented disaster recovery utilizing VMware Disaster Recovery.
  • Implement automation by programming and/or scripting using VMware API's
  • Create and maintain virtual machines in vCenter (templates) and vCloud Director (complex vApps
  • Provides software support for enterprise applications and services including Office365, Microsoft SharePoint, Citrix, IIS, FTP applications.
  • Monitored ESX Server alarms generated from Virtual Center and take the necessary action
  • Handled the VMware solutions to support multiple storage connectivity options such as FC-SAN, iSCSI, and NFS.
  • Extensively worked on VMware Update Manager for Host upgrades and patches
  • Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, Nic Teaming and VLAN
  • Involved in live migration of Virtual Machines and Virtual machines files using the vMotion and Storage vMotion
  • Assist in P2V conversion of Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 server editions using enterprise VMware converter and installed the VMware tools on that machines
  • Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual center server for HA, DRS.
  • Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network, ESX & Virtual Machines
  • Good knowledge in WSUS 3.0 and basic administration knowledge in SCCM
  • Experience in Configuring Windows 2008/2012 R2 Servers.
  • Good knowledge in WSUS 3.0 and basic administration knowledge in SCCM.
  • Basic understanding of Network topology TCP/IP, Layered topology.
  • Excellent Verbal and Written Communication Skills.
  • Managed Disk File Systems, server Performance, Users Creation and granted file access Permissions.
  • Created groups, added Users ID to a group as a primary or secondary group, removing Users ID from a group as well as adding users in Sudoers file.
  • Provides onsite administration and support of Nutanix/VMware/View environment.
  • Experience in Wintel IP remediation and Standardization of Mergers and acquisition infrastructure
  • Hands on experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud services, Storage Accounts vsanand Virtual Networks
  • Experience in configuration and deployment of network security devices, including Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems, Network Intrusion Detection Sikhole/Honeypots, VPN, and Identity Gateways.
  • Security hardening and Monitoring of VM's & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network Utilization) for Security Compliance.

Data Center Support

Axis Capital
12.2016 - 02.2017
  • Data Center project deployment and decommissioning of network devices, servers, security appliances and storage equipment.
  • Tier 1, Tier 2 Smart, and remote hands support (Physically troubleshoot various network components on network infrastructure, servers, switches and routers).
  • Hands-on, replacement of optics, line cards, supervisor cards, and chassis based hardware.
  • Tracing and isolating issues on copper and Fiber cables.
  • Hands on Linux OS, CLI navigation, Cisco IOS, JUNOS and bash.
  • Installation and management of structured cabling and infrastructure.
  • Manage, categorize and organize inventory of daily equipment and spares used for all work.
  • Manage Data Center Inventory of devices and Equipment.
  • Provide technical support for servers, switches, routers, SAN storage devices, and networking devices along with all relative hardware and copper/fiber cabling.
  • Install, and label data center equipment including network infrastructure, optical transport equipment, network devices, servers, and storage devices.
  • Support on-site vendor activity via escort and assist with internal tools.
  • Work directly with other IT groups to gather requirements and plan out installations and work requests.
  • Collect and organize technical data related to assigned projects.
  • Presents data and findings for review at the next level of engineering management.
  • Troubleshooting issues uncovered during testing and escalates issues to engage appropriate resources.

Build and release Administrator

BNY Mellon
06.2016 - 01.2017
  • Experiences in DevOps from Continuous Planning to Continuous Monitoring with strong knowledge of Continuous Integration Practices, DevOps Tools like Jenkins and Ansible on BNY cloud environment.
  • Integrating Ansible to Jenkins in CICD Pipeline Process and deploying build artifacts to target systems (EC2 instances, VM, Physical Database Servers).
  • Experience in integrating SonarQube scanner to Jenkins to perform Java Source code analysis from different branches and update the result to the developers.
  • Ability to write Jenkins Pipeline script using Groovy language to achieve the CI/CD process (including the deployments to Docker clients).
  • Knowledge in configuring the Pipeline script with Webhook with condition to build the code only if SonarQube analysis succeeds.
  • Configuring Jenkins with various Plugin Tools& scheduling Freestyle & Pipeline Jobs as per the Application Team requirements.
  • Scheduling Multi-branch Pipeline job (s) to scan the Master,developmentBranches and providing updates/status to Code Builders (Application Teams) for further action.
  • Installed Nexus Artifact repository to deploy the artifacts generated by MAVEN and to store the dependent jars, which are used during the build.
  • Used Jenkins as continuous integration tool: creating new jobs, managing required plugins, configuring the jobs selecting required source code management tool, build trigger, build system and post build actions, scheduled automatic builds, notifying the build reports.
  • Implemented backup process for Jenkins, Bit Bucket.
  • Implemented the setup for Master slave architecture to improve the Performance of Jenkins.
  • Repository management in Maven to share snapshots and releases of internal projects using Nexus tool.
  • Setup from scratch Continuous Integration (CI) environments (Jenkins on ec2 over vpc) complete with automated unit testing and Code Coverage tools.
  • Deployed and configured chef server and chef solo including bootstrapping of chef client nodes for provisioning.
  • Worked on Managing the Private Cloud Environment using Chef.
  • Experience in creating Jenkins Slave nodes (Ubuntu/RedHat/CentOS) with labels and configure the Test, Development and production build(s) accordingly.
  • Proven skills in working on Build, Configuration, Release & Deployment of Applications across Development, Certification, QA, and Production environments; identified process gaps & custom-designed IT Solutions as per changing business requirements.
  • Experienced in writing YAML Playbooks to deploy the Builds to Docker Hosts and containerize Web Applications; strong knowledge of:.
  • Docker Images and Containers with hands-on-experience in performing Docker Deployments.
  • Knowledge on creating the private docker registry to manage the Docker images as per requirement.
  • Troubleshooting the issues encountered during continuous delivery pipeline.
  • Installing and configuring Jenkins, Ansible & Docker on RedHat and CentOS.
  • Integrating the Docker with Jenkins &deploying the WAR/JAR build artifacts to target hosts.

Help Desk/Desktop support

Butler Technical Services India Pvt. Ltd
05.2012 - 07.2014
  • Administered and managed servers.
  • Install HP PC's - Image new pc's, load user data/applications/printers
  • Install HP Laptops - Image new laptop, load user data/applications/printers
  • Load OS image - reload image for issues
  • Data Transfer - transfer user’s data from old to new system
  • Help Desk/Desktop support - by phone, email, ticket system
  • Drive Encryption - encrypt drive to enterprise standard
  • Domain Setup - remove replace systems on the Domain.
  • Support Center - sitting in the call center answering phone issues.
  • Deployed security updates to client computers.
  • Reset and unlocked online customer accounts.
  • Used remote access software to supply clients with technical support.
  • Coordinated with third-party support representatives to troubleshoot issues.
  • Used analytical thinking skills to troubleshoot causes of issues.
  • Documented solutions found to fix specific issues for coworkers.
  • Installed software, modified and repaired hardware and resolved technical issues.
  • Communicated with non-technical personnel and clients to provide them with base level IT support.
  • Managed call flow and responded to technical support needs of customers.
  • Analyzed and solved technical issues with a variety of diagnostic tools.
  • Added users to a domain for access to company group policies.
  • Assembled and set up various workstations all over campus for classes to use.
  • Collaborated with fellow employees to find solutions to troublesome problems.

Education

Master’s - Computer science

Wilmington university
01.2016

Skills

  • Windows server administration

  • Active Directory management

  • Server hardware maintenance

  • Vmware Administration

  • Group Policy Management

  • Azure Cloud

  • Hp Blade

  • Incident management

  • IBM QRadar

Timeline

Sr. System Administrator

Infosys
04.2020 - Current

Vmware Administrator

IBM
01.2019 - 03.2020

Systems Administrator

FNR Solutions
03.2017 - 12.2018

Data Center Support

Axis Capital
12.2016 - 02.2017

Build and release Administrator

BNY Mellon
06.2016 - 01.2017

Help Desk/Desktop support

Butler Technical Services India Pvt. Ltd
05.2012 - 07.2014

Master’s - Computer science

Wilmington university

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