Gaurav Dhyani

• Working as cloud administrator on Microsoft Azure environments, involved in Azure AD Connect configuring virtual machines, Storage accounts, and Azure resource groups.

• Cost optimization in native cloud like AWS and Azure after analyzing the current organization module, by changing the instance type to a saving plan from on-demand of core infrastructure servers.

• Experience with cloud computing and Virtualization.

• Ability to install Operating Systems on Servers and Devices.

• Created Ansible Workflows with the one-click deployment of Servers in AWS, AZURE, VMware, and VMC for Windows servers. Manage Azure subscriptions.

• Implement and configure platform-level monitoring in Datadog for AWS, VMware, and Azure.

• Administrator Azure AD users, groups, and devices, and participate in migration between on-premises and Azure AD through AD connect.

• Designed and implemented Microsoft ADFS, Signal sign-on, Azure AD Connect, Azure AD, claims-based authentication (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), MFA, and RBAC.

• Hands-on experience with Unix/Linux environment.

• Working experience with Git and GitHub repositories.

• Administrator on physical server and virtual servers using virtualization technology using Hyper-V and VMware.

• Perform automation tasks in Ansible, PowerShell, Azure CLI, and YAML from ARM templates.

• Deployment of Virtual Machines to Virtual Networks using Azure portal or PowerShell.

• Working Experience with Microsoft Azure Administrator like configuring availability sets, virtual machine scale set(VMSS) with load balancers, Virtual networks, network security group (NSG), Docker, and Kubernetes.

• Configuration of Azure Virtual Networks, Subnets, DHCP, DNS, Network Security Groups, Load Balancers, Front door, Application Gateway, and Traffic manager.

• Provisioning, managing, and monitoring storage accounts.

Windows and Vmware Administrator

• Installation of windows Server OS (2008 R2 to 2022) on VMware and Physical Platform.

• EXSI host and vcenter appliance patching.

• Create multiple PowerShell scripts to manage the Datadog agent from the Operating system perspective

• Developed a unique Ansible Workflow/script for daily health checks of HP Server hardware versions Gen8, Gen9, and Gen10.

• created Ansible workflows for one-click deployments of various agents across servers in the environment.

• VCSA and ESXi upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0.3.

• Script to gather vcenter information daily and weekly using RVtool.

• Participate in installing, administrating, and supporting more than 1000 servers, providing excellent service and troubleshooting assistance to clients

• Domain signed certificate for winrm and RDP to minimize the vulnerability count.

• In-place upgrade of servers from windows 2008 to windows 2019 standard.

• Worked on vulnerability remediation on server OS.

• Part of team migration of the legacy data center to the HP synergy data center.

• Deploy security and monitoring tools like Splunk and Datadog over the environment on more than 5000+ servers.