Sandeep Narayana
Bangalore
Summary
Results-driven IT professional with 10 years of experience in system administration, virtualization, and cloud technologies. Started as a Windows Administrator, progressed to VMware Administration, and now specializing as an Azure Cloud Engineer. Skilled in Azure DevOps, Terraform, and automation to optimize cloud infrastructure. Adept at designing, deploying, and managing scalable solutions to enhance operational efficiency and reliability.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior System Engineer
IBM India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
06.2021 - Current
- Deploy and manage Azure cloud resources like Virtual Machines, Storage Accounts, Networking, and Databases
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform to create and manage Azure resources
- Write and maintaining Terraform modules for reusable and scalable infrastructure
- Manage Azure DevOps pipelines (CI/CD) to automate deployments and updates
- Monitor and troubleshoot cloud services to ensure high availability and performance
- Managing Azure Repo's based on the projects and configuring CI/CD pipelines
- Optimize cloud costs by analyzing usage and recommending right-sized resources
- Collaborate with development and operations teams to streamline deployments
- Perform infrastructure updates and patching with minimal downtime
- Document automation workflows and infrastructure changes for future reference
- Manage EC2 instances, S3 storage, RDS databases, and networking components (VPC, Security Groups)
- Implement IAM policies, security groups, and encryption to secure AWS resources
- Automate AWS infrastructure deployment using Terraform
- Monitor system performance and health using CloudWatch
- Configuring S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data to storage classes based on requirement
- Manage EBS volumes, EFS, and S3 buckets for scalable and cost-effective storage
IT Specialist
Scientificgames Pvt Ltd
Chennai
10.2017 - 01.2021
- Provision, configure, and manage virtual machines (VMs) using vCenter Server
- Perform live migrations of VMs and storage without downtime
- Implement HA for failover protection and DRS for automated resource balancing
- Configure and manage VMware vSAN, NFS, iSCSI, and FC storage for VMs
- Configure standard and distributed virtual switches, VLANs, and NIC teaming
- Monitor and optimize CPU, memory, and disk performance
- Managing user accounts in Active Directory
- Handling virtual machine performance issues and disk utilization issue
Senior Executive
Vodafone Shared Services India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
03.2016 - 10.2017
- Worked as a VMware & Windows Engineer for Vodafone Cloud Hosting Services
- Build and Implentation of the physical and virtual servers in cloud environment for UK Customers
- Worked with different teams for building and implementing the new servers as per customer requirements
- Handling different Active directory environments for different customers
- Installation of Windows server 2008/2012 R2 Using WDS servers
- Configuration of ILO setting, System Management Home Page, SNMP settings, HP Insight Management, Array controller and RAID configuration as per Designer document
- Following the Vodafone process to build the virtual and physical servers at operating system level
- Handling the VCenter servers in different datacenters for diff customers
- Migration of VM’s from local storage to SAN
- Live Migrations of VM's from one ESXI host to another ESXI host
- Adding the newly build servers into BMC patrol agent and assigning the OS level Knowledge-Module for monitoring the server in production environment
- Updating the patches for build servers using Lummension End Point Management
- Providing the quality analysis for build servers before entering into the Production
- Assigning the server into right group in Symantec End Point security and applying the Policies as per company standards
- Working with Backup team for configuration of Backup in newly build servers and performing the backup and restoration test before goes into the Production
- Providing the troubleshooting support for Windows, VMware and Physical servers in OS level
System Administrator Sr. Associative Consultant
NTT Data Global Delivery Services
Bangalore
09.2014 - 02.2016
- Worked on 24/7 support with rotational Shifts on both Windows and VMware
- Performing L1 level troubleshooting and communicating with L2/L3 for priority level
- Monitoring more 1 Lakh windows server located in different Datacenter around the world
- Managing and Administrating share path NTFS permissions for the users
- Managing and Administration of Windows Server 2008/2012
- Initiating the bridge calls and connect the related teams to resolve the issue
- Interacting with different team to resolve the issue with in SLA’s like Hardware, Networking teams
- Worked with OEM hardware (IBM/HP/DELL), & remote connectivity tools
- Worked on daily basis scheduled RFB’s (Ready for Business) and taking actions based on Reports
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting the Alerts using IBM Net Cool Board
- Resolving Priority based Windows issues on Tickets using Service Now ticketing tool
Education
B.Tech - Computer Sciences
JNT University
01.2011
Skills
- Azure
- AWS
- Terraform
- Azure DevOps (CI/CD Pipeline)
- Linux (CentOS, Red Hat)
- Docker
- Jenkins
- Ansible
- Shell scripting
- Python
- Vmware Vsphere Administration
- Windows Server Administration
- Virtualization
- Jira
Certification
- Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
- Azure Administrator (AZ-104)
- Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals
- AWS Cloud Practitioner
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above written particulars are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Timeline
Senior System Engineer
IBM India Pvt Ltd
06.2021 - Current
IT Specialist
Scientificgames Pvt Ltd
10.2017 - 01.2021
Senior Executive
Vodafone Shared Services India Pvt Ltd
03.2016 - 10.2017
System Administrator Sr. Associative Consultant
NTT Data Global Delivery Services
09.2014 - 02.2016
B.Tech - Computer Sciences
JNT University
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