02/28/2024 updated

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Senior Consultant -IT Infrastructure, Lead- System Engineer, Senior System Engineer -Team Lead

Hyderabad, India
Only remote
Hyderabad, India
Only remote

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CV - Manikandan Pushpasvanam

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Project history

Associate Lead - Windows

ATMECS Technologies
Role & Responsibilities

* Managing Windows Server infrastructure involving 40,000+ virtual and physical servers
* Administering 2016 AD infrastructure consisting of 80+ domain controllers across multiple domains
at the different forests.
* Having experience with Kerberos authentication, AD trust, ADFS, and MFA.
* Managing Microsoft Identity Management products (AD, ADFS, AD Connect)

* Familiarity with the following areas: ADFS, SAML, SSO, Oauth, and related authentication
mechanism

* Managing Exchange 2010/2016/Ofice365 Hybrid Environment.

* Migrating mailboxes from on-Prem to Office365 and vice versa for onboarding/off-boarding.

* Administering DHCP, DNS, ADFS, Azure AD Connect, Windows Failover Clusters, File servers, and
Print servers.

* Administering Certificate authority, Group Policies management through AGPM.

* Designed, evaluated, and configured custom AzureADFS and B2C environment for the customers to
access ServiceNow with Social email accounts.
* Created dev, QA, and Production instances of ServiceNow to comply with customer's requirements
for the complete overall solution.

Senior Consultant -IT Infrastructure

RK Solutions
Role & Responsibilities

* Manage Exchange Online users, manage recipients - create, modify, delete, shared mailbox,
recover deleted emails.
* Perform network troubleshooting to Isolate and diagnose common network problems.
* Performing crash and performance analysis - implementing upgrades and improvements on
environment
* Set Up and Manage Information Rights Management in Exchange Online
* Assists in evaluating new products and conducts research on products, services, and
standards to remain abreast of developments in the industry.
* Work with asset management team to maintain accurate records of all Exchange/Messaging
software.
* Expertise in handling mail routing and mail-flow related issues
* Draws upon concepts of tools, technologies, and methodologies to collaborate with other
technical specialists when carrying out assigned duties.
* Managing Mailbox databases/ Backups/ Repair/ Recovery
* Fair knowledge Cross forest Migrations and Domain Name Space Sharing
* Inbound\Outbound mail flow troubleshooting on all the version of Exchange server.
* Supporting Exchange infrastructure for Microsoft Professional Customers for US, UK & Asia
Pacific region

Lead- System Engineer

ACS Global Tech Solutions Pvt Ltd
Role & Responsibilities

* Design, implement, evaluate, and document the infrastructure technologies.

* Establish standards and best practices to support high-performing computing environments.

* Building resilient infra in various cloud models with standard Security and Compliance.

* Experience with migrations of prior Exchange Server versions to O365 Exchange Online.

* Experience in Windows Server, Hyper-V, MS Cluster Server/Multi-vendor Cluster, and SAN

* Being remote successfully completed transition of Microsoft (virtual) servers running DHCP,
AD/DNS, SCCM, DFS, and Print services for various corporate offices in India to ensure that the
corp. infrastructure has the right processing capacity.

* Design, investigate, and implementation of public-facing websites on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

* Good Exposure to Infrastructure Implementation, Remote Management, Vulnerability, and Penetration
testing.

* Conversant with Wintel, Linux, and Unix Platforms (server administration).

* Strong understanding of Microsoft Office 365 in integration with Exchange server 2010 /2007 over
cross-premises Hybrid deployments.

Senior System Engineer -Team Lead

RK Solutions
Role & Responsibilities

* Installation and up-gradation of servers as per requirement.


* Maintaining File Server, Provide access on share drive as per Standard Procedure.

* Monitoring servers through SCOM2012R2 & scheduled Server backups on daily basis. (Monitoring
Server Updates, Parching, Offline & Online Alerts, Disk Space Alert, Backups)

* Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2008 R2 and 2012 R2 on HP Blade Servers and Dell Power
Edge R710, and R720 Servers.

* Working on SCOM Server for checking the Health of the Servers and resetting Health Services.
Monitoring alerts-Critical alerts.

* Troubleshooting HP, Dell server booting issues using ILOM (HP Server), HP onboard Administrator,
and iDRAC console

* Maintaining the Group Policy Infrastructure based on the policies and guidelines, including
creating/amending GPOs per business requirements.

* Promoting new Domain Controllers into the environment as required and decommissioning of legacy
Domain Controllers.

* Creation of new AD trusts as per the requirements and removal of trusts which are no longer
required as part of Trust validation.

* Auditing/Monitoring of AD on security events using Quest Change Auditor and reporting issues.

* Working on Power shell and Quest power shell and AD Manager plus tool

* Working on incidents, Service, Change requests, and SPOC for Problem Management.
* Installed certificate and create trust between two different domains for monitoring the agents
in DMZ environments.

Senior Consultant - Systems

Labridge Consulting
Role & Responsibilities

* Expert in Configuring and administering windows server 2003/2008/2012, IIS 6.0/7.0, WSUS 3.0
SP2.
* Maintained more than 1500 servers both physical and VM environment with 99% uptime.
* Mastered in trouble shooting windows OS issues, handled escalated L3 issues in end user
computing.
* Managed a large-scale global environment of 50,000 user base with SCCM 2007/2012 and SCOM
2012.
* Experience with deploying, configuring, Apache Tomcat, PHP, MySQL/Oracle.
* Firm understanding of Windows security including file system permissions, file sharing,
event logging, performance monitoring and disk administration.
* Designing an Active Directory and Network Infrastructure, Forest, and Domain Infrastructure.
* Implementing Group Policy, Managing and Monitoring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP
managing and monitoring Domain Name System DNS.
* POWERSHELL 2.0/3.0 scripting skills.
* Involved in Installation and Configuration and Maintenance of Windows 2008/2003/2000 on HP
ProLiant Servers.
* Created User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory.
* Configured HA, DRS clusters and capacity planning for new clusters and configured FT for the
important
* VM's and Maintained FTP Sites, Web Servers and created Virtual Directories in IIS7. O
Cloning, deploying VM's to Template, Templates to VM's, VMotion, Storage VMotion etc
* Configured the NTP server in ESX Server for the time synchronization between ESX and VM's.
* Involved in troubleshooting the issues related to Servers, Local Services, Data Canters, and
Server Configuration for Microsoft Windows Systems.
* Generated report summary and performance for ESX Servers and VM's. Created snapshots for the
VM's and created new folders, data canters, clusters, and resource pools in the VC.

Senior System Engineer

Adduri Technologies
Role & Responsibilities

* Supporting customers in Server deployment like Exchange 2007, SharePoint 2007, and Office 365
servers

* Providing end-to-end delivery support for HP Storage devices

* Experience in DNS, DHCP & RIS, RAS, and VPN Servers.

* Monitoring the infrastructure through the SCOM tool.

* Linux and ESXi hosts are configured in SCOM for monitoring.

* Monitor Diagnose and remediate sccm client/server problems Document changes/enhancements to the
sccm infrastructure.

* Perform Software Packaging and distribution, Software Metering troubleshooting client connectivity
and package installation issues by analysing SMS/SCCM logs.

* Implement and manage federated identities - SSO managing all break and fix scenarios.

* Use of Windows Power Shell and basic scripting.

* Day-to-day support on 2008 R2 Web servers hosted in AWS Cloud and ensure to provide 100%
availability to customer websites and services.

* Commissioning and Decommissioning of websites for Production and Staging.

Senior System Engineer

Green IT Ventures
Role & Responsibilities

* Configuring and maintaining Windows 2003 & 2008 DNS Servers like Zones and Resource records
creation and deletions.
* Installation of ISA 2006, TMG 2010, Sonic wall NSA 2400, Fortinet, and Linux-based open-source
firewalls.

* Experience in managing the ticketing tools like Sy said, and ServiceDesk Plus.

* Experience in storage like HPMSA P2000.


* Primary focus on Virtualization and Windows Server / Consolidation Projects

* Expertise in building servers, configuring, and testing for various server.

* Performing role of Change Supervisor and Control / Review, Post implementation 4eye check.

* Monthly data review meeting with clients

* Worked on RCA for high incidents and initiative-taking measures as a part of the incident
reduction drive.

* Creating SOPs, KB Articles& process, and is related to WINTEL and VMware operations?

* Expertise in H/W diagnostics / firmware / SPP upgrade in the HP BL / DL model servers/
Enclosures

System Manager

Sybrant Technologies (SEZ)
Role & Responsibilities

* Playing an essential role in maintaining the company LAN network.

* Installation of windows 2003 R2, 2008 R2 servers

* Implementing Backup and Restore using Microsoft Backup Utility

* Managing about 200 servers (Physical and Virtual) containing Windows and Linux.

* Hardening of Servers, Co-ordinating with concerned vendors for permanent & quick fixes.

* Server daily health and performance check-ups, Disk space utilization maintenance.

* SCOM Server2007 configuration and maintaining, network monitoring.

* Installing and configuring Internet Information Services (5.0 & 6.0) and Maintaining Web
Sites.

Technical Support Engineer

Athenainfo Consulting (P) Ltd
Role & Responsibilities

* Regularly scheduled monitoring checks of Active Directory replication and monitoring of
replication service on all remote domain controllers.

* Responsible for assessing and distributing Microsoft monthly patches and updates.

* Server hardening in windows and Linux.

* Configuring a File Server to server as a centralized storage unit for clients of various teams
and securing it from other team members.

* Managing printer server, accessed by 4000 users with 75 printers installed.

* Responsible for datacentre day to day daily operations.

* Maintaining DFS, SCCM, SCOM, WSUS, DHCP, and File Server quota management.

* Working as a NOC Administrator and giving Support to NOC Engineers to resolve the onsite and
fore site issues.

* Managing ITIL-based Service desk for our Clients and Managing the Process-oriented workflow in
NOC

Centre Co-ordinator

Chennai Software Solutions
Role & Responsibilities
* In charge of entire Computer Lab & entire campus Systems/Printer

* Deployed Microsoft patches on the servers running with the Windows platform.

* Conducted MCP Certification training for college students.

* Implemented Trend Micro Office Scan for entire windows systems.

* Taking daily Normal Backup of Server and user data in DLT tape drives.

* Streamline patching calendar & monitoring deployment activity.

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