Siddhi Salvi
Thane
Summary
System Administrator with five years of experience managing Windows Server (2016, 2019, 2022) and VMware vSphere/ESXi environments. Hands-on experience in VAPT remediation, security hardening, and patch management, addressing vulnerabilities across Windows and VMware systems. Strong in incident and change management within ITIL-driven environments, ensuring SLA adherence and compliance. Proven ability to collaborate with SOC, and infrastructure teams to maintain secure, stable, and highly available systems.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Wintel Administrator
TCS
03.2024 - 01.2025
- Provisioned, configured, and managed virtual machines using VMware vSphere.
- Worked on ESXi host configuration, patching, cluster creation, HA, DRS, and vMotion to maintain infrastructure resilience.
- Administered and supported Windows Server environments (2016, 2019, 2022), ensuring system availability, performance, and security compliance.
- Played a key role in VAPT remediation, analyzing and closing findings identified during security assessments.
- Remediated vulnerabilities related to registry misconfigurations, weak cipher suites, insecure protocols, SMB, TLS/SSL, and missing security patches.
- Implemented Windows security hardening through registry updates, disabling deprecated protocols, enforcing secure cipher standards, and baseline configuration fixes.
- Coordinated and executed patch management activities for Windows servers and ESXi hosts, ensuring successful remediation and post-patch stability.
- Worked on datastore creation, addition, and expansion at the vCenter and host level.
- Handled Active Directory tasks such as user and group creation, security group creation, access and permissions, and password resets.
- Managed incident, service request, and change request tickets (P1 to P4 severity) using ITSM tools within SLA timelines.
- Monitored server performance using monitoring tools, proactively identifying and resolving issues to minimize downtime, and enhance service delivery.
System Engineer
Infosys Limited
11.2020 - 03.2024
- Majorly worked on deployment of virtual machines using golden image templates.
- Configured VMs with Windows and Linux OS.
- Experienced in the installation, configuration, and management of ESXi servers.
- Upgraded and patched ESXi servers from 6.7 to 7.0 using the Lifecycle Manager.
- Performed vCenter operations, including vMotion of VMs, assigning user privileges, roles, and permissions to vSphere users, and assigning vCenter tags.
- Performed tasks such as cloning virtual machines, taking snapshots and restoring them, creating clusters, and adding hosts to the cluster.
- Created and managed changes and incidents in the ServiceNow ITSM environment.
Education
Master of Science - Information Technology
University of Mumbai
Mumbai06-2022
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
B. N. Bandodkar College of Science
Thane10-2020
Skills
- Windows Server administration
- VMware vSphere
- Patch management
- VMware esxi management
- VAPT remediation and vulnerability analysis
- Windows security hardening
- Virtual machine deployment
- Active Directory management
- OS troubleshooting and performance monitoring
- Incident management
- Service request management
- Problem solving
- Team collaboration
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Marathi
Awards
- On the Spot Award, Received for best performance in the Month.
- Delivery Ninja, Received for the on-time delivery and excellent performance in the project.
- Rookie of the Quarter, Received for Excellent Performance in the Project.
Certification
Pursuing a VMware and AWS cloud administration certificate.
Timeline
Wintel Administrator
TCS
03.2024 - 01.2025
System Engineer
Infosys Limited
11.2020 - 03.2024
Master of Science - Information Technology
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
B. N. Bandodkar College of Science