08/25/2026 updated
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Experienced Expert in Systems, IT & Cloud Infrastructure with over 12 Years of Profound Proficiency
Bangalore, India
Worldwide
Bachelors of EngineeringAbout me
OpenShift and hybrid cloud consultant with 12+ years in infrastructure and containers. I specialize in on-premise Red Hat OpenShift cluster builds, VMware migrations, RBAC/SCC security, and GitOps CI/CD. Known for end-to-end delivery, from planning to cutover, backed by solid SOPs and DR practices.
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12+ years in enterprise IT infrastructure, hybrid cloud, and container platforms, with deep specialization in Red Hat OpenShift.
OpenShift & Containers Cluster commissioning and operation on-premise (HPE Synergy 12000, RHCOS), OCP 4.x administration, RBAC (ClusterRoles, RoleBindings, ServiceAccounts), Security Context Constraints (SCCs), OVN-Kubernetes CNI, network policies, integrated Container Registry, Docker, Kubernetes. Led full VMware-to-OpenShift Virtualization migrations: application assessment, containerization, controlled cutover with minimal downtime.
Automation & CI/CD GitOps with ArgoCD, Ansible, Red Hat Satellite, Terraform, GitHub. Automated patching, configuration management, and deployment pipelines to cut manual intervention.
Monitoring & Security Prometheus, Grafana, SELinux policy configuration, LDAP/Active Directory identity integration (OAuth on OpenShift), vulnerability scanning, PCI-compliant NTP deployments, SNOW and SCOM for Linux/UNIX estates.
Cloud Platforms Microsoft Azure (VMs, virtual networks, storage, security groups, Azure AD, Azure Monitor), Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI 2023 Certified Foundations Associate), AWS, GCP, IBM SoftLayer IaaS.
Virtualization VMware vSphere and ESXi administration and optimization, Hyper-V, KVM, HPE Synergy infrastructure.
Storage & Backup SAN/NAS management, Dell EMC Avamar and Data Domain (250+ TB estate, 3,500+ clients), NetApp, HP Data Protector, Oracle RMAN, application-level backups for MS-SQL, Exchange, SAP HANA.
Operating Systems RHEL, CentOS, SuSE, Solaris, Windows Server, Apple OS X Server.
Highlights
- End-to-end planning and execution of VMware-to-Red-Hat-OpenShift migrations
- Configured 3,500+ servers for global backup and DR/BCP across two data centers
- Migrated production data from NetApp FAS2020/EMC Clariion to EMC VNX5300
- Delivered projects for Citizen Bank, Sysco Foods, Baker Hughes, and Wolters Kluwer
- Strong documentation discipline: SOPs, runbooks, and DR plans for smooth handovers
Certifications OCI 2023 Certified Foundations Associate, RHCE EL5, Dell EMC Avamar, MS Windows Servers
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2018
Languages
EnglishNative speaker
Project history
- Install,Support,Configure,Upgrade automated Security health checking client,Patch management client
- Install,Support,Configure,Upgrade High Availability / Clustering environment
- Configure High Availability / Storage,Network Devices
- Implement security patches – Manual, Automated implementation
- Abiding by Change Management and Problem Management procedures, including complying with the Service Level Agreements as documented in the Problem Severity matrix.
- Create regular reports for Management requirements.
- Develop,Modify Platform automation and support Script
- Develop,Modify Application Fail over Scripts
- Participation in projects from application area
- Installing and preparing new application environments
- Knowledge of Disaster Recovery policies and procedures
- Capacity and performance analysis, data collection and reporting for network, server and storage
- Skills in all levels of support (including implementation of Backup&Restore solutions, preparation of DR plans)
- SPOC for Global Avamar backup environment – Hibu Account
- Currently Managing 4 Avamar grids with size of 250TB
- Configuration and restoration of Share point, Exchange, mail box backups
- Performing Backup clients upgrades for Windows, UNIX and Linux variants
- Working on BMC Remedy ticketing tool for incident, Work order and change management
- Capacity planning and Management of Avamar backup
- Coordinate with Vendors for major escalations
- Identify requirements ,Recommends system improvement plan and involvement on required change & incident management
- Proactive fixing of issues and improving system stability & availability
- Leading team of 5 members
- Training and mentoring team members
- Global Avamar backup environment upgrades
- SPOC for HP-DP Backup environment – Coop Account
- System and backup administrator to provide application levels support
- Backup configuration of Oracle RMAN,SAP HANA and VMware on HP-DP
- SPOC for Global Avamar backup environment (KOP,CDR,BLR & HYD grids of size 250+ TB )
- Policies configuration and backup configuration of different flavors of OS including, Windows, UNIX, Linux and Solaris backups
- Global Avamar backup estate management and addition of clients (3500+)
- Configuration of applications level backups including MS-SQL server, Oracle RMAN and Microsoft exchange
- EMC Avamar version upgrade, Vendor coordination, change management.
- Working as the L3 escalation poc towards troubleshooting any backup failures and performing the remedial action for the same
- Mentoring of team members
- Configuration & Integration of Virtualization backup environment
- Creation of Dataset & Capacity planning on Avamar Backup
- Linux OS level support for Dev & QA Linux VM environment (300+)
- Involvement on Global DR/BCP activity from backup perspective
Projects Worked:
1. Storage Technical refresh project - EMC VNX5300 storage technical refresh
Capacity and migration plan of data from Clarrion and NetApp FAS2020 to VNX5300
Architecture of VNX5300 storage environment
Host level replication b/w DR Sites through SUN M4000 server
Migration of UAT and DB data to VNX5300 storage
2.VMware technical refresh project - VMware technical refresh
Capacity and migration plan of VMs from version 3.5 to 5.5
Architecture of VMware 5.5 environment
Assessment of hardware requirement and vendor coordination
Migration of UAT and DB VMs to new vCenter 5.5
3.Avamar Backup implementation and migration project - EMC Avamar backup implementation – 2 DC locations
Capacity and migration plan of data from Netbackup to EMC Avamar
Initial Dataset, Backup, Retention & Schedule policy for EMC Avamar
Migration of data from Netbackup and additional backup configuration
Replication configuration b/w sites as DR measure