Sindhu K

Provided technical advice to support implementation of new initiatives or programs.

Vblock administration, monitoring, and health checks.

Customer-facing position as a consultant, with technical consulting.

Managing ESXi, vCenter, Update Manager, DRS, HA, and vMotion.

Preparing a technical document for VMware Aria operations with VxRail and VRO integration with ServiceNow.

ITIL, Vblock, VxRail.

Migration of VMs to a different cluster, and planning on retiring the hosts.

Collaborating with different teams, all to make sure that we drive outcome-focused value to our customers.

Performed cost and benefit analysis on proposed solutions to determine effectiveness.

Collaborated with cross-functional teams throughout the organization to ensure alignment of objectives.

Provided technical advice to support implementation of new initiatives or programs.

This position requires analysis, design, and planning of IT infrastructure in accordance with best practices, while guaranteeing high levels of data quality and availability, as part of one of the largest private cloud infrastructures in the world, Dell Digital Cloud.

• Building new IT infrastructure in various Dell data centers.
• Expanding and upgrading existing IT infrastructure in various Dell data centers.
• Responsible for ESXi cluster health management.
• Responsible for vulnerability assessment and remediation management.
• Responsible for ESXi cluster capacity and performance management.
• Configuring hyperconverged infrastructure, which includes configuration at the networking, storage, compute, and virtualization technologies.
• Vendor and stakeholder management.
• VM migration between DCs using HCX.

Worked with Flex R&D to test the PowerFlex product (software-defined storage from Dell) as part of new releases.

Perform RCM upgrades for PowerFLEX, including PowerFLEX OS upgrades.

Work includes requirement analysis, planning, designing, drafting, execution, and documentation.

Upgrade testing of the product for various release codes. Testing the different CentOS versions of Jumpserver.

Preparing the technical content document for the PowerFlex Rack product and presenting it to the customer and internal stakeholders.

Coordinated with suppliers and vendors to negotiate contracts and secure high-quality materials within budget.

Guide operations staff regarding technology issues, lead, and develop the system administrators team.

Prepare new best practices documents, technical documents, and process documents for the project/technology, as applicable. Working with infrastructure management solutions and data center infrastructure in the Converged and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (Cloud solutions), with experience working with Linux.

• Client-AIG: Point of contact from India team for AIG for Image installation and Host Configuration for ESXi Host Builds and Working closely with the Server Build Team, VMware Operations and Engineering
• Configuration of ESXi Blades, Service profiles templates, Creating Datastore, Storage pools, RCM Upgrades and related tasks in vcenter, UCS, Nexus switches and Storage
• A wide variety of design, build, migration, installation, configuration and upgrading of vCenter, ESXi servers and related hardware and software in a complex enterprise environment
• Provide support in patch management, investigation, diagnostic testing and repair/resolution of system, hardware, software and infrastructure
• Managing compute/storage/network stack
• Experience with capacity planning and monitoring within VMware infrastructure
• Knowledge of industry security principles and server vulnerability remediation practices
• Excellent knowledge of server/computer hardware and software Ex: Cisco UCS, Dell
• Document existing and new infrastructure deployments using Run Book and architecture diagrams
• Service delivery management experience, server build, decommission, patching, hardware upgrades of servers following ITIL framework (incident, change, problem management)
• Client- Kaiser, Pfizer, Woolsworth: Logical build and configuration of vblock and vxblock infrastructure and RCM upgrades for these customers

• Worked for ARUBA project as wireless Network Engineer
• As a network engineer my profile includes Analysis, Design, configuring, implementing and maintaining various Real time networking scenarios both at enterprise and customer levels