Rajavijay Nelakanty
Rajahmundry
Summary
Results-driven Sr. Infrastructure Consultant specializing in VMware vCenter management at Infosys. Expertise in enhancing system performance and streamlining operations through effective incident management. Successfully executed server migrations to Nutanix, ensuring business continuity and optimizing infrastructure efficiency.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Sr. Infrastructure Consultant
Infosys
Hydrerabad
12.2024 - Current
- Deployed, configured, maintained, and managed multiple VMware vSphere environments.
- Installed and upgraded various components such as ESXi hosts, vCenter Server Appliance
- Provided technical support and training to teams on cloud technologies and best practices.
- Reviewed system logs to determine usage levels, bandwidth, performance and system security to target inefficiencies and implement appropriate solutions.
- Monitored VMware cloud infrastructure performance and provided technical support to users.
- Completed day-to-day duties accurately and efficiently.
- Resolved incidents reported by customers related to Virtual Machines, Networking and Storage devices.
Sr.IT Analyst -Vmware/Nutanix
TCS
04.2022 - 11.2024
- Design, implement and maintain VMware vSphere infrastructure for project AMD
- Proactively identify and perform hardware and software upgrades
- Performed Vcenter Upgrade, Vcenter certificate renewal using CLI
- Provide technical guidance to other VMware administrators
- Managed infrastructure of Prism Central, Prism Element
- Migrated Server from VMware to Nutanix using MOVE tool
- Contributed to successful completion of numerous IT projects by providing expert VMware administration support throughout all stages of planning, implementation, and post-deployment maintenance
- Safeguarded business continuity with regular backups, snapshots, and replication of mission-critical data across multiple sites
- Utilized scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell to automate tasks when possible
- Performed regular maintenance activities such as patching on150+ esxi servers
- Planned and implemented upgrades to system hardware and software
- Improved data center efficiency with comprehensive virtualization solutions using VMware technologies
- Developed training materials for end-users in order to ensure proper use of new systems and applications
- Led daily standup meetings with team members in order to review progress on active projects
- Attended meetings to deliver status reports to key stakeholders
- Enhanced system performance by optimizing VMware configurations and settings
- Streamlined IT operations by automating routine tasks using PowerCLI scripting
- Diagnosed and resolved hardware and software issues
- Configured and tested Windows Server operating systems with roles features
- Delivered Tier 2 and Tier 3 support for problem identification, diagnosis and issue resolution
- Attended meetings to deliver status reports to key stakeholders
- Boosted application availability through effective monitoring and troubleshooting of VMware infrastructure issues
Vmware Administrator
Kyndryl
07.2020 - 03.2022
- Company Overview: Worked for LLOYDS Bank project
- Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of ESX 5.x, 6.x, vSphere vCenter 5.x, 6.x and vSphere Suite
- Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server, Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates, Configuration of Resource Pool, VMotion, Taking Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations
- Monitoring of Virtual machines (CPU, Memory and Disk Utilization), Building and Configuring hosts deploying them to existing environment, setting up Users and Groups, Upgrade Hosts and install security patches
- Enabling Site Recovery Manager on VM's, Configuring storage, Network mapping etc
- Managing and maintaining IAM policies for organizations in Vmware to define groups, create users, assign roles and define rules for role-based access to Vmware resources
- Create snapshots and amazon machine images (AMIs) of instances for backup and creating clone instances
- Established, Installed and managed ESX and ESXI 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5 host in different model blade servers
- Created baseline on update manager and remediating ESXI host with latest Patch
- Configuring DRS, HA and EVC cluster, creating DRS rules for High utilization VM's, Configuring FT and required host configurations for critical vms
- Using VMware Powercli scripts for reports and capacity planning
- Worked for LLOYDS Bank project
System Administrator
IBM Pvt LTD.
04.2015 - 06.2020
- Installing, supporting, and maintaining servers and planning for and responding to service outages and other problems
- Provided technical support to programmers
- Handled production, scheduling, and processing, as well as job abends and corrections, problem reporting, change control, and automation
- Ensured SLAs were met and serve as point of escalation
- Hands on experience of 3+ years as operational professional, infrastructure development for Cloud Computing platforms for IBM
- Competent Professional having experience in ~ Operations Management ~ Process Management ~ Client Relationship Management ~ Incident Management
- Excellent interpersonal skills with problem solving logical thinking and analytical abilities
Education
B.tech - Mechanical Engineering
GIET
Rajahmundry, India03.2014
Skills
- VMware vCenter Management
- VMware Administration
- Nutanix Products (Prism Central, Prism Element, MOVE URL)
- Problem-solving abilities
- Infrastructure management
- Incident management
- Server management
Learnings In Progress
- Azure administration
- Windows administration
Timeline
Sr. Infrastructure Consultant
Infosys
12.2024 - Current
Sr.IT Analyst -Vmware/Nutanix
TCS
04.2022 - 11.2024
Vmware Administrator
Kyndryl
07.2020 - 03.2022
System Administrator
IBM Pvt LTD.
04.2015 - 06.2020
B.tech - Mechanical Engineering
GIET
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