Rahul Choudhary
Engineer | VMware Admin
Delhi/NCR
Summary
Resourceful System Administrator consistently responds to wide range of technical challenges with focused and creative approach. Highly effective at problem solving and decision making. 8+ Years of progressive IT experience. Specialist in performing inspections and ensuring the continuous integration process of cloud resources. Along with IT field, having experience in data analytics using MS Excel and Python language. Experience in Waterfall and SCRUM-Agile projects, good knowledge, and implementation skills in the complete software development lifecycle (SDLC).
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
5
5
Certifications
Work History
Senior Associate II Systems Management
Kyndryl Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
11.2021 - Current
- Delivered technical support and root-cause resolution for a banking consortium, both business and IT stakeholders.
- Managed VMware vCenter, ESXi, and IBM Cloud for the banking consortium; migrated workloads to Azure VMware Solution, reducing infrastructure costs 40%.
- Prioritized incident response and communicated technical solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Applied basic Linux/Unix administration to resolve VM, OS, and cloud-related issues.
- Maintained business continuity via VMware SRM, achieving organizational RTO/RPO targets and handling DR testing/failover.
- Capture infrastructure, migration, and client requirements.
- Adhered to ITIL, Agile, and DevOps best practices; utilized ServiceNow for change/configuration/incident management.
- Leading RedWash Team to support and install various tools in Linux and Windows (Okta, CrowdStrike, Dynatrace, Nessus, Splunk).
- Lead and participate in technical discussions to aid analysis and troubleshooting monitoring tools.
- Ability to carry out a range of tasks, plan, and priorities effectively.
- An ability to meet deadlines and deliver an excellent service.
- Act as liaison to support teams and client during migration.
- Using troubleshooting skills and work closely with operations, support, engineering and/or other functions to ensure successful migrations and installation.
- Enabling daily calls and gathering all the information from assets owners or lead architects.
- Capture migration requirements and installation of tools (Linux and windows).
- Ensures that there is sufficient capacity to meet service level targets.
- Assess existing capacity and develop operational plans and forecasts based on future for demand.
- Analysing performance issues while providing technical consultation and inquiries from the other IT technical teams.
- Utilize knowledge and research methods to benchmark capacity planning activities and to drive best practice results.
- To analyse performance issues while providing technical consultation and inquiries from the other IT technical teams.
- Refine systems and methods to continually improve plans so that the organization can better anticipate customer needs.
- Working to proactively to provide sufficient IT Performance and capacity management.
- Ensuring that capacity-related incidents and problems are addressed.
- Downloading and checking the weekly as well as monthly based CPU, Memory, and Disk reports from VMware vROps Tools.
- Analysing PCM (Performance, Capacity and Memory) reports to ensure the IT infrastructure meet service level targets.
Senior Software Engineer
Infinite Computer Solutions Ltd.
08.2019 - 10.2021
- Client- Iron Mountain- DevOps Coordinator.
- Ability and willingness to take the initiative to facilitate teamwork across roles, functional groups, and remote offices.
- Solve technically complex problems and prioritize tasks based on technical knowledge.
- Act as the point of escalation for Software Engineers and other technical delivery roles within project teams.
- Analysing and updating vulnerabilities report or data which is related to non-Operating System.
- Document and demonstrate solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts.
- Client- Ericsson - Infrastructure Engineer.
- Installation and configuration virtual machine servers of Microsoft Windows Server Operating System (2012, 2016).
- Deploy virtual machines and use templates, snapshots.
- To monitor the connectivity of VMs within an appropriate cluster or datacentre.
- Configuration of Virtual Machines (VM Tools, RDP, IP Address configuration).
Systems Engineer
PC Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
04.2018 - 08.2019
- Investigate and diagnose Incidents to restore a failed IT Service as quickly as possible.
- Resolve Incidents within the specified Service Level Agreements/Operational Level Agreements.
- Document troubleshooting steps and service restoration details.
- Installation and configuration windows Operating Systems (Windows 7, 10).
- Coordinate and support on software issues, installations for internal training.
- Follow-up with Vendor for hardware replacement as well as peak hardware issues.
- Client – Birlasoft Ltd.
Consultant- Jr. Systems Administrator
RCV Innovations Pvt. Ltd.
09.2016 - 03.2018
- Installation of ESXi Servers, vSphere Client, and vCenter Server.
- Maintain, upgrade, and implement improvements to the VMWare ESXi infrastructure.
- Configure and Manage Storage, Health Check for VMs and ESX host.
- Create templates from VM’s, deploy VM’s from templates, and allocate resources.
- Deploy Virtual Machines and use Clones, Snapshots, and templates.
- Successfully implemented VMware vSAN environment from the scratch level, in the stock broking organization with the team.
Education
Ph.D. - Computer Science
Bennett University
Greater Noida, India 04.2001 -
Post-Graduation Diploma - Data Science
IIIT-Bangalore, UpGrad
India 04.2001 -
Master of Science - Information Technology
Sikkim Manipal University Distance Education
India 04.2001 -
B. Tech. - Information Technology
Dehradun Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand Technical University
Dehradun, India01.2016
Polytechnic Diploma Engineering - Information Technology
Lovely Professional University
Punjab, India01.2013
Skills
Microsoft Windows, RHEL
Ubuntu Linux & other flavors
VMware VSphere ESXI, vCenter
DRS, Rules
VMotion, Snapshots, Clone
VRLI, vROPS
SRM
Patching, Host Management
User and Groups, Permissions, File Systems
Performance monitoring
Team leadership
Azure
Client engagement
Incident Management
AWS
Certification
Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900), 2020
Timeline
Senior Associate II Systems Management
Kyndryl Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
11.2021 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Infinite Computer Solutions Ltd.
08.2019 - 10.2021
Systems Engineer
PC Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
04.2018 - 08.2019
Consultant- Jr. Systems Administrator
RCV Innovations Pvt. Ltd.
09.2016 - 03.2018
Ph.D. - Computer Science
Bennett University
04.2001 -
Post-Graduation Diploma - Data Science
IIIT-Bangalore, UpGrad
04.2001 -
Master of Science - Information Technology
Sikkim Manipal University Distance Education
04.2001 -
Polytechnic Diploma Engineering - Information Technology
Lovely Professional University
B. Tech. - Information Technology
Dehradun Institute of Technology, Uttarakhand Technical University