Prateek Pathik
Summary
- Highly skilled, Passionate and results-driven professional with 9 years of experience in Azure/VMware/Nutanix and Wintel Administration with Powershell Scripting.
- Expert in designing, deploying, and managing hybrid cloud infrastructures, leveraging VMware on Azure to streamline virtualization and enhance scalability.
- Received Multiple Rewards and Recognition for Automating Daily Tasks using PowerShell.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate, Cloud Infrastructure
TIAA India GBS PVT LTD
09.2020 - Current
Cloud Administrator, Azure + VMware
Medline Industries, Inc.
05.2019 - 09.2020
System Administrator - VMware + Patching
Wipro technologies
08.2015 - 05.2019
Education
B.Tech - Information Technology
SRM University
Chennai, India05.2015
Skills
- VMware: VMwarevSphere 60, 65, 67, 70; vSAN ; SRM ; vRealize Operation Manager
- Cloud Platform : Azure Administration using Portal and CLI
- Nutanix : Nutanix HCI and Enterprise Cloud Administration
- Scripting Tool : Powershell and PowerCL
- Operating system : Windows server 2008R2, 2012R2, 2016, 2019
- Patching Tools: HPSA, SCCM 2012, Ivanti, IEM BigFix
Languages
English
Hindi
Certification
- VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization (2021)
- VMware Vsphere Troubleshooting
- Nutanix NCP-MCI 5.15 Course and Certification
- VMware vSAN
- VMware vRealize Operation Manager
- Active Directory, DNS, DHCP
- Microsoft Azure - 104
- AWS Solution Architect - Associate
Azure Administration
- Managed and maintained Azure infrastructure, including Virtual Machines, storage accounts, and Azure Virtual Networks, to ensure high availability and performance.
- Automated Azure resource deployment using ARM templates, PowerShell, and Azure CLI, improving deployment efficiency and reducing manual errors.
- Configured and managed Network Security Groups (NSGs), Azure Firewalls, and VPN gateways to secure network traffic and enhance overall security posture.
- Led the migration of on-premises workloads to Azure using Azure Migrate and ASR, resulting in a smooth transition with minimal downtime.
- Configured and optimized Azure storage solutions, including Blob Storage, Azure Files, and managed disks, to meet application performance requirements.
- Implemented and monitored Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery (ASR) to ensure data protection and disaster recovery readiness for critical systems.
- Optimized cloud cost management using Azure Cost Management and Azure Advisor, reducing unnecessary resource consumption.
- Implemented security best practices by configuring Azure Security Center and ensuring compliance with corporate security policies and industry standards.
- Troubleshoot and resolved issues related to Azure services, including virtual machine performance, connectivity issues, and storage limitations.
VMware Administration
- Designed, implemented and optimized virtualized environment for large-scale enterprises.
- Managed and maintained vCenter server in Linked mode of different regions.
- Led a project to migrate physical servers to virtual machines using VMware vCenter Converter, reducing hardware costs and improving resource utilization.
- Configured VMware vSAN for hyper-converged storage infrastructure, improving storage performance and reducing hardware dependency.
- Migration of Windows Based vCenter server to Appliance based vCenter 6.5.
- Upgraded vCenter Server and ESXi from v5.5 to v6.0, 6.5 and 7.0 using LCM to ensure compliance.
- Build and configured new ESXi hosts and adding them to vCenter.
- Monitoring Virtual inventory health and utilization requirement using vROPS.
- Automated VM creation, deletion, and maintenance tasks through PowerCLI scripts.
- Configured HA and DRS environments, Virtual Networking (Virtual Switches, VM Port Groups, VMKernel Port Groups), Virtual Storage (Creation, Extension and Removal of VMFS Datastores). vMotion, Storgae vMotion.
- Configuring Resource pool, Alerts, Alarms and setting up monitoring performance.
- Creating Templates from VM's, deploy VM's from templates and allocate resources,
Windows and PowerShell Skills
- Developed and maintained complex PowerShell scripts to automate daily administrative tasks and system management, resulting in a 60% improvement in operational efficiency.
- Automated repetitive system administration tasks, such as C drive clean up, Dot Net Installation, IIS and WSFC Installation and configuration, Snapshot creation, using Power-shell scripts.
- Hardware Management by logging the case with the vendor for replacing and fixing Battery/Hard disk/Cables/RAM/Motherboard.
- Supporting routine tasks involved in WINTEL scope like Printer management, File Share Creation, Access Management and all the L2 level WINDOWS SERVER related issues, Knowledge of Basic DNS concepts,
- Knowledge of Active Directory Concepts (Active Directory Structure like users, groups and object, FSMO Roles, Group Policy).
- Performed Windows Server Security Patch Deployment using SCCM 2012 which involves patch identification, Creation of Software Update Groups, Device Collection.
Nutanix Administration
- Nutanix Hyper Converged Infra deployment.
- Nutanix Cluster Expansion.
- Hands on building Nutanix Cluster from scratch on HPE and Nutanix Blades.
- Knowledge on Nutanix Software Upgrade (NCC, AOS, Firmware, AHV).
- Nutanix Prism Central deployment and Prism Element registration.
- Nutanix storage configuration (Storage Pool, Container Virtual disk creation).
- Identified and Resolved Nutanix Node down issues.
- Knowledge of CVM Command line.
Timeline
Associate, Cloud Infrastructure
TIAA India GBS PVT LTD
09.2020 - Current
Cloud Administrator, Azure + VMware
Medline Industries, Inc.
05.2019 - 09.2020
System Administrator - VMware + Patching
Wipro technologies
08.2015 - 05.2019
B.Tech - Information Technology
SRM University
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