Laya Reddy

AWS Responsibilities:

• Provisioned and managed EC2 instances across development, testing, and production environments.
• Configured and maintained VPCs, subnets, route tables, Internet Gateways, NAT Gateways, and Security Groups.
• Managed IAM users, groups, roles, and policies, following security best practices.
• Created and monitored CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and SNS notifications.
• Managed S3 buckets, lifecycle policies, versioning, and access permissions.
• Supported RDS administration, including backups, snapshots, monitoring, and restoration activities.
• Performed EBS volume creation, expansion, snapshot management, and recovery operations.
• Automated infrastructure deployment using Terraform.
• Assisted in cost optimization using AWS Cost Explorer and Trusted Advisor.
• Managed CloudTrail logging and compliance monitoring.
• Participated in incident, problem, and change management activities using ServiceNow.

VMware Responsibilities:

• Administered VMware vSphere infrastructure, including ESXi hosts and vCenter.
• Created and managed virtual machines based on project requirements.
• Performed VM cloning, snapshot management, resource allocation, and migrations using vMotion.
• Supported VMware HA and DRS configurations.
• Monitored infrastructure performance, and resolved virtualization-related incidents.
• Assisted in the migration from VMware to the OLVM hypervisor.

Windows Administration Responsibilities:

• Managed Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019, and 2022 environments.
• Administered Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and Group Policies.
• Managed user accounts, permissions, and access requests.
• Performed patch management and server maintenance activities.
• Supported backup, recovery, and disaster recovery testing.