ROHIT NIKAM
BENGALURU
Summary
Accomplished engineer proffering extensive Data Center and Cloud management, deployment, monitoring and troubleshooting skills. Defined, built and maintained infrastructure using vendor-neutral and platform-specific tools. Organized and focused person with extraordinary leadership acumen.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DATA CENTER & CLOUD OPERATIONS ENGINEER 2 (GLOBAL LEAD) PROJECT - DC INFRA DESIGN ARCHITECTURE, TRANSFORMATION AND MIGRATION
CLOUD SOFTWARE GROUP (FORMERLY CITRIX SYSTEM PVT LTD.)
01.2021 - Current
- Coordinated with stakeholders to align workload migration scheduling to minimize business process disruptions.
- Worked with Different Business units of talented software engineers to define, build and maintain required infrastructure.
- Reviewed existing testbeds systems and made recommendations for improvements.
- Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities and application deployment issues.
- Collaborated with internal teams and customer representatives to determine workload migration requirements prior to accepting projects.
- Provided technical leadership and delivered innovative products and services to address specific requirements.
DC NETWORK ENGINEER L3 (PRODUCTION DATA CENTER)
CISCO SYSTEM PVT LTD.
10.2018 - 01.2021
- Managed and maintained Production Data Center along with engineering labs.
- Provided network support services for devices such as Cisco Switches, Routers, Firewalls and Wireless devices
- Linux and windows server Administration
- Vmware ESXI, VCenter management.
- Managed, tracked, and coordinated problem resolution and escalation processes.
- Troubleshot complex multi-vendor network service provider issues.
- Performed troubleshooting for Juniper, Cisco, HP, Extreme and packet analysis.
DESKTOP AND NETWORK ENGINEER L2 (ENGINEERING LAB)
WIPRO LIMITED.
07.2017 - 10.2018
- Provided complete end-to-end engineering and installation of route-based IP network solutions.
- Performed troubleshooting for Juniper, Cisco, and packet analysis.
- Managed, tracked, and coordinated problem resolution and escalation processes.
- Monitored network capacity and performance to diagnose and resolve complex network problems.
- Assisted with implementation and support of network monitoring tools.
- Provided network support services for devices such as hubs, bridges, routers, and other hardware.
- Troubleshot complex multi-vendor network service provider issues.
NETWORK ENGINEER (NOC)
COMPCARE TECH PVT LTD.
10.2016 - 03.2017
- Collaborated with vendors to identify best options for optimizing network performance.
- Installed and Implemented small scale Data Centers and provided end to end support.
- Configured and troubleshot Cisco Switches, Routes, firewalls and multi-media distributed systems and platforms.
Education
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATION -
SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY
Kolhapur, MH01.2016
DIPLOMA: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATION -
GOVERNMENT POLYTECHNIC
Kolhapur, MH01.2013
Skills
- Data Center Configuration and Management
- Azure cloud resources Implementation
- Data Center Networking
- Linux and Windows System Administration
- Virtualization (VMware, Xenserver and Hyper-V)
- Technical Support and Assistance
Certification
- Certified Data Centre Technician Professional (CDCTP)
- AZ-900
- AZ-104
- Nija Security Certified (Purple Belt)
Additional Information
- Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Network devices such as Cisco Routers, Switches (Cisco, HP), Citrix NetScaler, UCS, Tyrone, Dell, Lenovo servers and PDUs (Raritan)
- Providing Data center support for stakeholder's testbeds setup as well as working on the topology creation in the Engineering lab
- Working with users for migrating workload from On-prem to cloud (Microsoft Azure)
- Core infrastructure (Racking, Structured cabling, and Cage setup)
- Data Center design, DC network architecture and DC Migration
Roles And Responsibilities
- Data Center infrastructure management
- Data Center design, DC workload transformation and migrations
- Microsoft Azure Cloud Resource Implémentations
- Linux and Windows OS server Administration
- Virtualization (VMware ESXI, XENSERVER and MS-Hyper V)
- External console connectivity configuration (OpenGear, KVM etc.)
- Cloud Resources Monitoring (New Relic and Cloudaware)
- Agile Project Management (PI Planning, Scrum Master)
- External vendor collaboration
- Data Center Tools - Ariba, Jira, P HP IPAM, DcTrack and PowerIQ
Coursework
- CERTIFIED DATA CENTER TECHNICIAN PROFESSIONAL (CDCTP)
- CISCO CERTIFIED NETWORK ASSOCIATE (CCNA)
- REDHAT SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR (SA1 & SA2)
- AZ-900 MICROSOFT AZURE FUNDAMENTALS
- AZ-104 MICROSOFT AZURE ADMINISTRATOR
Timeline
DATA CENTER & CLOUD OPERATIONS ENGINEER 2 (GLOBAL LEAD) PROJECT - DC INFRA DESIGN ARCHITECTURE, TRANSFORMATION AND MIGRATION
CLOUD SOFTWARE GROUP (FORMERLY CITRIX SYSTEM PVT LTD.)
01.2021 - Current
DC NETWORK ENGINEER L3 (PRODUCTION DATA CENTER)
CISCO SYSTEM PVT LTD.
10.2018 - 01.2021
DESKTOP AND NETWORK ENGINEER L2 (ENGINEERING LAB)
WIPRO LIMITED.
07.2017 - 10.2018
NETWORK ENGINEER (NOC)
COMPCARE TECH PVT LTD.
10.2016 - 03.2017
BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATION -
SHIVAJI UNIVERSITY
DIPLOMA: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATION -
GOVERNMENT POLYTECHNIC
- Certified Data Centre Technician Professional (CDCTP)
- AZ-900
- AZ-104
- Nija Security Certified (Purple Belt)
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