Nikhil Pasari

• Built CI/CD Pipelines for provisioning Infrastructure through code.
• Deployed VPC, Subnet, Firewalls and various other resources using Terraform. (IAC)
• Created Autoscalable MIGs based on metrics behind LB.
• Configured Auto Patching updates using OS Patch Management.
• Implemented CloudNAT and PSC Configuration to have the Google Cloud VPCs isolated and secure.
• Created GCS Buckets with fine grained polices and implemented Archive, Lifecycle management, Data transfer jobs for data backup and recovery.
• Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance.
• Worked with cloud architect to generate assessments and develop and implement actionable recommendations based on results and reviews.
• Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
• Reviewed existing systems and made recommendations for improvements.
• Collaborated with teams in disaster planning, network backup and recovery process monitoring.
• Created runbook and documented the process followed in building the Infrastructure through Terraform (IAC).

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Windows Server Administrator, managing all server related issues for the client.
• Performing software installations and upgrades to Windows operating systems.
• Managing VMware ESXI servers and Virtual Center Servers
• Creating and Managing VMware Clusters by enabling and configuring the HA & DRS features.
• Upgrading and patching VMware ESXI Servers.
• Creating and managing VMs in VMware Vsphere.
• Creation of VM templates, clones and snapshots.
• Troubleshooting all Virtual Server related issues.
• Creating and Managing Desktop pools in VMware Horizon Environment.
• Provisioning of VDI’s in pools and entitlement of VDI’s to users.
• Creating and Managing VDI Templates.
• Upgrading and Troubleshooting all VMware Horizon environment issues.
• Creating and Managing GCP Instances – Compute Engine
• Creating GCP Projects and assigning appropriate permissions to users through IAM
• Creating GCP Budgets and Sinks for Projects.
• Creating GCP Users and Groups for Access Management
• Creating Storage Buckets – Cloud Storage
• Creating and deploying GCP instances through Ansible.
• Creation, management and configuration of DHCP Scopes as per client requirement.
• Creating and managing internal DNS (using Infoblox)
• IPAM (IP Address Management).
• Updating and maintaining the service-now CMDB, server CI records.
• Monitoring Servers health using Zabbix monitoring tool.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Create a Weekly report listing all the activities performed by the team and share it with Client
• Ticket Review every week and generating reports (ticket resolution).
• Configured and tested Windows Server operating systems with roles features.
• Attended meetings to deliver status reports to key stakeholders.