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Kiran Vuyyuru

Bangalore

Summary

Dynamic Site Reliability Engineer with extensive experience at Kyndryl Solutions, excelling in VMware vSphere and Azure cloud solutions. Proven track record in leading teams through complex technical challenges, driving successful project deliveries, and implementing automation with Ansible. Adept at fostering collaboration and ensuring compliance with industry standards.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Kyndryl Solutions Pvt Ltd / IBM India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
11.2015 - Current
  • Currently working as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE and Technical Lead), as part of the job role leading the team in technical issues and Manoj Incidents, analysing user requirements, designing and implementing solutions and delivery of projects.
  • Working on Problem Records for blameless root cause analysis.
  • Implementation of virtualization solutions in VMware/ Azure / GCP.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and support managed services based on client requirements.
  • Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations
  • Upgrade Firmware, ESX and vCenter.
  • Managing VMWare ESX servers and vCenter
  • ESXi host patching and firmware upgrades of hosts.
  • Involved in projects, migration of vRealize automation from 7.x to 8.x and NSX-T.
  • Handling MS Cluster Related issues and Windows server Patch Management.
  • IT Incident, Issues, Changes and Service improvement management as per ITIL Standards.

Principal Systems Engineer

Tesco HSC
Bangalore
02.2014 - 11.2015
  • Worked on Windows 2003 and 2008 Server Builds Physical and Virtual Servers, Pre-and Post-Build activities
  • Configured RAID volumes on Dell and HP Servers
  • Configuration and Troubleshooting File & Prints, DHCP Scopes Migrations
  • Worked on NIC, RAID, HBA, ILO, Hard Disk Drive and different other hardware driver and firmware upgrades
  • Configure and troubleshooting of MS Clusters
  • ESXi Host upgradation

System Operations Lead Specialist

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
02.2011 - 02.2014
  • As part of the Hardware refresh project 200+ servers are refreshed from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008, which involves below
  • Build Physical and Virtual Servers with OS Windows 2008 R2
  • Configured RAID volumes on Dell, IBM and HP Servers
  • Configuration and Troubleshooting File & Prints, DHCP Scopes Migrations
  • Additional Domain Controllers promotions and user profile migration, Modifying the GPO's and Logon scripts
  • Worked on NIC, RAID, HBA, RSA/ILO, Hard Disk Drive and different other hardware driver and firmware upgrades
  • Worked on Hard disk drive expansions of both Direct and SVC attached storage using IBM Server RAID Manager, HP Array Configuration Utility

Network and Systems Engineer

PointCross .Com Pvt. Ltd.
Bangalore
04.2005 - 02.2011
  • Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server Administration
  • Handling installations, configurations, and troubleshooting of workstations, servers, stand-alone servers in multi-domain environments
  • Installation, and configuration of DNS, DHCP, WWW, FTP, SMTP and IIS servers.
  • Managing Group Policies, Configuring Websites, email clients
  • Installation and configuration of automated backup systems.
  • Performing Operating system, and antivirus updates.
  • Monitoring of all Event Logs, subsystems and metrics gathering / analysis
  • Work with Developers, IT, and other operations teams

Education

B.Sc IT -

University of Mysore
Mysore, Karnataka, India
01.2024

Diploma - Civil Engineering

V.K.R & V.N.B Polytechnic
Gudivada, A.P, India
01.1997

Skills

  • VMware vSphere DCV
  • Windows server management
  • VMware Aria automation
  • Active Directory
  • VMware NSX
  • PowerShell scripting
  • vROPS operations management
  • Azure cloud solutions
  • vRLI log analysis
  • GCP cloud services
  • vRNI network insights
  • AWS cloud platforms
  • VMware HCX integration
  • Ansible automation tools
  • VMware converter utility
  • WSUS updates management
  • Dell, HP, Lenovo hardware

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate - AZ-104
  • Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies - AZ-305
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate – AZ-700
  • VMWare Certified Professional (DCV-VCP) 5.0 & 7.0
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
  • Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Architect Professional

Languages

English, Hindi, Kannada, Telugu

Synopsis

  • Competent IT professional offering around 18+ years of system administration experience with proficiency in designing, implementing, and administering large and small networks across multiple platforms Windows 2008 to Windows 2019 Server, VMware vSphere 5.X to 8.X and Azure, AWS and GCP cloud.
  • Windows, VMWare, Azure and GCP Cloud Administrator for a Global Client providing support to users who are located in different regions of APAC, EMEA &NA.
  • Creating and Managing Virtual Machines in VMware, Azure and GCP, setting up communication with the help of Endpoints and VM Migrations.
  • Setup Azure Virtual Networks such as Azure vNets, NSGs, Site to Site , Point to Site connectivity and VNet to Vnet peering
  • Hands on experience in creating VMs, Blob Storage, File Storage in Azure cloud
  • Have knowledge on Azure Template, Azure Site Recovery and Azure Backup
  • Configure diagnostics, monitoring and analytics
  • Designing, configuring, and maintaining Active Directory Services on Windows Domain Controllers.
  • Implementing Group Policies and System Policies.
  • Hands on experience in assisting infrastructure architects in resolving technical challenges
  • Ability to lead highly technical discussions and able to reach technical decisions quickly collaborating with key stakeholders
  • Implemented the concepts of Distributed File system.
  • Worked on different versions of VMware vSphere starting from version 5.X to 8.X.
  • Installing and configuring vCenter server, ESXi hosts, configuring standard and distributed switches, port groups, VLAN IDs and upgrading latest patches.
  • VM creation, VM Installation, VM Cloning, vMotion and Storage vMotion, vHardware Add and vHardware Upgrade.
  • Managing datastores, Clusters, HA, HA policy, DRS and Affinity rules.
  • Worked on VMware vSphere upgrade projects include ESXi host upgrade, vCenter upgrade, VMFS volume upgrade, vDS upgrade and VM version upgrade.
  • Monitor and manage vReliaze operations manager and vRealize Automation appliance.
  • Monitor and manager NSX Manager appliance and Controller Cluster.
  • ITIL Management experience in service changes, incidents, issues, and services improvement management
  • Currently associated with Kyndryl Solutions PVT LTD., BANGALORE, as Site Reliability Engineer

Timeline

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)

Kyndryl Solutions Pvt Ltd / IBM India Pvt Ltd
11.2015 - Current

Principal Systems Engineer

Tesco HSC
02.2014 - 11.2015

System Operations Lead Specialist

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.
02.2011 - 02.2014

Network and Systems Engineer

PointCross .Com Pvt. Ltd.
04.2005 - 02.2011

B.Sc IT -

University of Mysore

Diploma - Civil Engineering

V.K.R & V.N.B Polytechnic
Kiran Vuyyuru