AMIT KUMAR RAJ
System Administrator
PUNE
Summary
Team Leader, 17 years experienced in directing activities of workgroups. Develops strategies. Specialize in Windows and Active Directory administration, cloud migration, PowerShell scripting, and infrastructure management. In current role, lead a team of engineers to plan, manage, and administer the infrastructure for various clients. I am passionate about delivering high-quality solutions and enhancing customer satisfaction. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. Big picture focus with excellence in communicating goals and vision to succeed. Problem solver, networker, and consensus builder.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certificates
Work History
Technical Team Lead
Birlasoft Ltd
05.2022 - Current
- Windows and active directory administration, responsible for enhancements and project works.
- Managed 3 forest with Multiple sites with 50+ Domain controllers.
- Experienced in Forest Migration using ADMT tool.
- Experienced with power shell scripting to automate repetitive and manual tasks
- Troubleshoot AD Authentication Issues, DNS, DHCP, DFS management and other infra supports
- Promote/Demote Domain Controllers
- Monitoring of replication/troubleshoot AD replication issues
- Creation of Group Policy Object (GPO) and troubleshooting, WMI Filtering
- Work with security team to mitigate reported vulnerabilities and external Pen Test
- Bit Locker implementation on all computers across Organization
- Experienced with Certificate Authority, working on Certificate management of internal and external authority
- Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, Fix, and implement preventive measures
- Implementation of windows LAPS, Sync Admin accounts with Azure AD
- Print server management and Implementation of Azure Load Balanced Print servers
- Managing Azure Environment in enterprise environment
- Experience with AAD Connect, Administration of Azure AD – User and group MFA, SSPR and administration of other services
- Experience with Azure Migrate, Migration of servers from on-prem to Azure
- Configure Azure update Manager and used for patching for cloud and on-prem servers.
Service Delivery Associate
Fujitsu Consulting India P. Ltd
04.2019 - 04.2022
- Key roles include Windows & Active directory Administrations
- Creating and managing Active Directory (AD) Organizational Units (OU) and user administration, Delegate permissions, Account issues, Rights Assignment
- Reporting of AD users, AD reports for old, disabled, expired, privileged user accounts
- Plan and manage all migrations, upgrades and demotion/promotion of domain controllers
- Monitoring of replication/troubleshoot replication issue
- PKI Management, Working on Certificate Management and Administration
- Management of certificate, template creation and issuing certificate
- Scripting experience through PowerShell and command Line
- Creation of Group Policy Object (GPO)
- DNS and DHCP Servers management
- DFS server management, troubleshoot and manage File Servers
- Troubleshoot servers performance issues
- PKI – Design and deployment of various certificate templates, Management, creation and renewal of certificates
- Participate and work experience on high priority incidents with strict SLA
- Plan change and have ownership of project work and their implementation
- Mitigate security vulnerabilities in line with security and penetration test findings
- Perform root cause analysis, Coordinate with problem and change management Team
- Automate various reporting and server Health Checks through PowerShell scripting.
Technical Support Specialist
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
05.2016 - 04.2019
- Provide support on Windows & Active directory Administrations, includes: Group Policy Object (GPO) Creation and troubleshooting, DNS servers, DHCP servers
- Responsible for reviewing and updating RCA document for Severity 1 & Severity 2 calls
- Worked with planning, designing, and transforming environments from on-premises to cloud-based Azure Active Directory, AAD Connect
- Move workloads from On - Premises AD to Azure
- Upgraded and demotion/promotion of domain controllers
- Monitoring of replication/troubleshoot replication issue
- Scripting experience through PowerShell and command Line
- Troubleshoot servers performance issues
- Perform root cause analysis, Coordinate with problem and change management.
Process Manger
eClerx services Ltd
11.2007 - 05.2016
- Have opportunity to work on multiple technologies – windows, Active directory, ADFS, SQL and IIS servers, remote servers, Dell Rack and Blade servers
- enter Managing Physical Data Center experience
- Experience setting up Fail-over SQL server cluster and NLB Cluster
- Design and implement high availability (HA), disaster recovery (DR) of SQL and web servers/Sites
- Hands-on experience of migration of Active directory
- Experience with IIS server migration from 6.0, 7.0 to IIS 8.5
- Performance tuning of website, website troubleshooting
- Certificates Management, Binding SSL Certificates
- Consolidation of SQL and web servers
- Configure failover clustering for SQL servers, performance tuning of SQL servers, database mirroring, Log shipping, Track server Activity
- SQL Servers administration and their troubleshooting
- SQL queries, Maintenance tasks
- Exposure on VMware Environment, Configure and manage vcenter, ESX Server 4/5.x
- Design and Architect the solution, Make Project plan and responsible to execute, Define Ownership, Task Assignment, Schedule Meeting with other stakeholders, Creating MoM, and reporting to Management Meeting
- Work with security team to mitigate vulnerabilities reported from internal and external Audits.
Jr. System Administrator
Electrobug Technology Ltd
03.2006 - 10.2007
- Provide support on Windows & Active directory servers Administration, Managing FTP servers, DNS, DHCP, WSUS, Backup and Symantec Antivirus
- Responsible for uptime of remote client server remotely hosted in Datacenter- Rackspace
- Windows Update, Symantec AV
Education
Bachelor in Computer Application (BCA) - Computer Application
IGNOU
New Delhi 03.1999 - 03.2003
Master In Business Administration (MBA) - Computer And Information Sciences
Pune University
Pune, India 01.2016 - 04.2018
Skills
Operating Systems: Windows server 2022, 2019, 2016,2012 and 2008
Servers – Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, DFS, File servers, SFTP Server and other Application servers
Cloud Platform – Azure, MS Entra ID
Technical architecture
PKI - Certificate Authority (CA)
Virtualizations – VMware vSphere, Hyper-V
Cluster – Failover Cluster, NLB cluster
Database and web servers – SQL server and IIS servers
Languages – Command Lines, PowerShell command and Scripting
Other Tools – MS SysInternal Tools, Manage engine password Manager, AD Manager
Monitoring - Nagios
Certification
Azure Solutions Architect (AZ-303)
Timeline
Technical Team Lead
Birlasoft Ltd
05.2022 - Current
Service Delivery Associate
Fujitsu Consulting India P. Ltd
04.2019 - 04.2022
Technical Support Specialist
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
05.2016 - 04.2019
Master In Business Administration (MBA) - Computer And Information Sciences
Pune University
01.2016 - 04.2018
Process Manger
eClerx services Ltd
11.2007 - 05.2016
Jr. System Administrator
Electrobug Technology Ltd
03.2006 - 10.2007
Bachelor in Computer Application (BCA) - Computer Application
IGNOU
03.1999 - 03.2003
Passport
T1772670 (Expire: 02/18/2029)
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Om Prakash Sharma
- Date of Birth: 01/31/1981
- Marital Status: Married
Noticeperiod
Immediate
Passport
T1772670 (Expire: 02/18/2029)
Personal Information
- Father's Name: Om Prakash Sharma
- Date of Birth: 01/31/1981
- Marital Status: Married
Notice Period
3 Months