Pankuri Mahajan
Noida
Summary
Results-driven IT professional with over 7 years of experience specializing in virtualization technologies, particularly in VMware's ecosystem. Adept at designing, implementing, and managing complex virtualized environments using VCF and vRealize suite. Proven expertise in Virtual Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployments, ensuring seamless integration and optimal performance.Proficient in assessing infrastructure needs, creating migration strategies, and executing seamless transitions while minimizing downtime and ensuring data integrity.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Solution Architect (Client Service Consultant)
VMware by Broadcom (Broadcom)
Remote
05.2022 - Current
- Working as a Solution Architect focused on migration, readiness checks and deployment of vRealize tools and VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
- The role involves assessing system readiness, strategizing migration plans, and implementing vRealize solutions and VCF to optimize virtualized environments.
- Responsibilities include coordinating with cross-functional teams, conducting thorough readiness assessments, ensuring seamless migrations, and providing ongoing support for vRealize tools and VCF.
- I am having expertise in VMware technologies, strong project management skills, and the ability to streamline and enhance virtualization processes within the organization.
Senior Software Engineer
Airtel
Gurugram
10.2021 - 05.2022
- Expertise in deploying, configuring, and managing the complete vRealize Stack (vRA, vRO, VROPS, VRLI) for diverse clients.
- Proficient in automating day-to-day tasks, including VM provisioning and network promotions, utilizing VRA/VRO.
- Successfully implemented and supported multiple provisioning integration and automation tasks across various projects.
- Developed custom dashboards, views, and report templates in vROPS to meet specific customer requirements and as proof of concept.
- Accountable for automating complex use-cases, such as automatic backups using VRO and NetBackup, coupled with automatic ticket creation on ITSM tools.
- Engaged in handling customer queries, providing timely solutions, and designing tailored vRealize Suite solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to design solutions for customer challenges, creating proof of concepts to showcase feasibility.
Senior Analyst (Level10)
Accenture
Gurugram
07.2019 - 09.2021
- Managed the entire vRealize Suite in a production environment, seamlessly integrating with Azure as the public cloud.
- Supported vRealize Automation and Orchestrator for daily tasks, including VM provisioning and day-2 operations.
- Implemented and supported provisioning integration and automation tasks across multiple projects.
- Developed customized dashboards, views, and report templates in vROPS, addressing specific customer requirements and serving as proof of concept.
- Worked with super metrics and multiple widgets in vROPS.
- Handled daily customer requirements, resolving issues in the vRealize Suite and designing tailored solutions.
- Executed precise planning and upgrading of the vRealize Stack to newer versions.
- Proficiently created SMBP and MMBP in vRealize Automation and Orchestrator.
- Enhanced existing automations and proposed new ones, such as Automatic Health Check monitoring and Automatic Snapshot of Private Cloud VMs.
- In vRealize Operations Manager, created user-requested dashboards, integrated Azure, and automated availability reports.
- Integrated vROPS with ServiceNow for incident creation and facilitated alert creation with recommendations in SNOW incidents.
- Enabled vRealize Log Insight as a Syslog Server, and conducted redeployment with cluster resizing and authentication setup.
Senior Analyst
HCL Technologies
Noida
07.2017 - 07.2019
- Handle responsibilities of vRA and vRO in an EHC environment
- Responsible for supporting VMware vRealize Automation and Orchestrator for day to day activities like VM provisioning and day-2 operations
- Responsible for implementing and supporting multiple provisioning integration and automation tasks for multiple projects
- Successfully shown POC to customer and the entire team for Plugin Development using MAVEN and Eclipse for various tasks for vRO such as using SSH in Plugin, running PowerShell Scripts in Plugin etc
- Leading the entire team responsible for vRealize Suite for Enterprise Hybrid Cloud for Synchrony Financial
- Performed VM provisioning on venter server
- Performed Data store migration for a VM
- Performed VM reconfiguration tasks based on client request
- Creation of template for vRA
- Research root cause of problems and escalate to engineering and vendor support as necessary.
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science
Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh06-2017
Skills
- Virtualization: VMware vSphere, vCenter, ESXi
- Cloud Foundation: Expertise in Virtual Cloud Foundation (VCF) deployment and management
- Automation: Skilled in leveraging vRealize Automation for orchestration and automation of IT processes
- Operations Management: Extensive experience with vRealize Operations for performance monitoring and capacity planning
- Migration: Proven track record in planning and executing successful migration projects
- Troubleshooting: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills in identifying and resolving virtualization-related issues
- Collaboration: Effective communicator, adept at collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
Accomplishments
Awarded with ACE (Accenture Celebrate Excellence) for FY 19 Q4.
Certification
- VMware Certified Specialist - Cloud Foundation 2023
- Double VCP - Data Center Virtualization & Cloud Management
- VMware Certified Professional - Cloud Management and Automation 2022
- VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2022
- Double VCP - Network Virtualization & Cloud Management
- Double VCP - Data Center Virtualization & Network Virtualization
- VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization 2023
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Timeline
Solution Architect (Client Service Consultant)
VMware by Broadcom (Broadcom)
05.2022 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Airtel
10.2021 - 05.2022
Senior Analyst (Level10)
Accenture
07.2019 - 09.2021
Senior Analyst
HCL Technologies
07.2017 - 07.2019
B.Tech - Computer Science
Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College
- VMware Certified Specialist - Cloud Foundation 2023
- Double VCP - Data Center Virtualization & Cloud Management
- VMware Certified Professional - Cloud Management and Automation 2022
- VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2022
- Double VCP - Network Virtualization & Cloud Management
- Double VCP - Data Center Virtualization & Network Virtualization
- VMware Certified Professional - Network Virtualization 2023
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
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