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Sunny Bahl

Sunny Bahl

Technical Consultant with expertise in Public Cloud | Oracle Cloud | OCI | Cloud Native | IT Pre-Sales | Support | Implementation | Linux, Ansible, KVM, Virtualization | Devops | SRE
Noida

Summary

With 19 years of experience as a competent Technical Consultant, I have a proven track record of transforming specific business goals into new system designs that drive growth and improve efficiency. Bears wide experience in achieving operational efficienty by Planning and implementing IT Solutions, IT Support, Team Leader, Pre-Sales.

Possesses versatile skills in project management, problem-solving, and collaboration. Brings fresh perspective and strong commitment to quality and success. Recognized for adaptability and proactive approach in delivering effective solutions.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience
8094
8094
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certificates

Work History

Technical Consultant

HCLTech Ltd.
06.2024 - Current
  • I am currently assigned to a US based project and currently working on migration running On-prem applications on to Oracle Cloud
  • Migration planning and discussions with multiple stakeholders and initiation of migration plans
  • Managed multiple a team i.e. Cloud and Linux Engineering team, while prioritizing deadlines effectively under pressure through meticulous organization skills and time management.
  • Trained end-users on new systems, fostering a smooth adoption process and empowering users to maximize the potential of new technologies.
  • Getting OCI environment ready with IAM policies, Network Layouts, Storage / Objects deployment and configuring OKTA MFA integration with OCI by setting up federations.
  • Spearheaded deployment of cloud-based solutions, enabling clients to achieve more scalable and flexible IT environments which includes automated Cloud Landing Zone deployments using Terraform and CD3.

Principal Solution Engineer

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2022 - 05.2024
  • Support on OCI and Oracle's Open Source GBU products which includes Oracle Linux, OLVM (Virtualization), OLM (Satellite), Ksplice (Kernel Patching tool), OLAM (Ansible), Container orchestrator (Verrazzano)
  • Work with senior architects and product management to define requirements
  • Design and implement new features
  • Designed and implemented OCI solutions for enterprise-level clients
  • Integration of OCI with desktop virtualization tool named oracle Virtualbox to manage resources
  • Installation, configuration and management of OKE clusters
  • Good experience on complete OCI Administration on strong understanding of Tenancy, VCN, Compartments, Network Layers, storage options
  • Install, configure, migrations, tuning, patching, administration & monitoring)
  • Experience in performing hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required
  • Configure CPU, memory, and disk partitions as required and ensure high availability of infrastructure
  • Hands on Experience with provisioning storage, compute nodes, network
  • And understanding requirements for the same
  • Manage user security permissions, IAM, and OCI Compartments and hands on in OCI CLI
  • Configuration / management of OSHM for Linux infrastructure patching

Subject Matter Expert

Kyndryl Solutions Ltd. (IBM)
09.2020 - 06.2022
  • Supporting 300+ Servers (Day to day tasks hosted on Onprim / GCP environment)
  • Keeping Servers compliant as per the policies
  • Handled Server OS migrations from RHEL 7 to RHEL 8
  • Successfully Migrated RHEV from 4.3 to 4.4
  • Managing routine tasks via Ansible Tower

Associate Consultant

HCL Technologies
12.2016 - 09.2020
  • Handling support to 1300+ Servers
  • Linux and AWS Cloud Server management and issues on them
  • New Server Builds using based upon build sheet using CloudFormation and Manual
  • Routine Security Patching
  • Routine Vulnerability assessment and remediation
  • Work on AWS services like Ec2, S3, ECS, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, RDS, EFS
  • Instance Resize, Server refresh through new AMI, Working on Security group and NACL to resolve access related issues
  • Based upon request Manual Upscale and Downscale of cluster task and auto scaling servers due to heavy network traffic
  • Successfully automated L1 and L2 routine tasks using shell and python scripting
  • Taking care of various Linux related issues like User Management, Patch Management and providing support to some of the application related issues like Drupal and tomcat etc
  • Working on Automatic Daily Admin task through Ansible

Technical Services Specialist

IBM India Ltd.
04.2016 - 12.2016
  • Handled Linux Server Installations, and involved in critical incidents
  • Working on IBM's Compliance activities (Trace Vulnerabilities encountered and provide solution to Resolve them)

Module Lead: Backup and Linux Administrator

SCDL
03.2015 - 12.2015
  • Company Overview: Doha, Qatar
  • Successfully Installed /Configured / Managed NetBackup environment which includes NetBackup Appliance 5230 (Production and Disaster Recovery Site) And configured AIR replication between 2 Sites
  • Handling and Procuring New Physical / Virtual Linux Server build request
  • And Successfully Handled / Configured Linux Server Hardening to meet Security Standards as per Corporate Policy
  • Worked on complex Production on Redhat and NetBackup issues before reaching out to Enterprise Support from Vendors
  • Doha, Qatar

Sr. Support Engineer

Symantec Software India Ltd.
10.2012 - 02.2015
  • Company Overview: Pune
  • Provide Support for Appliances (Netbackup 5200, 5220 & 5230) which includes Support for Customized SUSE O.S
  • For Appliance and Hardware and Netbackup Application for Appliance
  • Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting issues related to NetBackup enterprise server and its options like MSDP
  • Strong technical expertise in diagnosing hardware alerts and data loss prevention in NetBackup appliances
  • Importing the MSDP storage on the DR site using NetBackup AIR
  • Pune

Sr. Associate Systems

Synechron Technologies Ltd.
01.2011 - 10.2012
  • Company Overview: Pune
  • Perform Installation Configuration of RedHat v
  • 4 /5 through Sun / HP ILOM
  • System software and hardware Installation, up gradation, patching and configuration of RedHat servers and cobbler based and interactive installation
  • Experienced in Volume management, Disk Management, software and Hardware RAID and LVM
  • Regular Kernel / Server Patching, through Satellite Server (RHN)
  • Monitoring and taking relevant actions and handle escalations
  • Puppetize the box and make it available for Central Monitoring Cockpit by configuring Nagios and Ganglia
  • Configuring / Managing YUM Servers/ Clients
  • Creating / Implementing XINETD Security directives
  • Pune

System Administrator - Infrastructure Specialist

IBM India Ltd.
04.2010 - 01.2011
  • Company Overview: Gurgaon (Client)
  • Installation / Configuration / Monitoring / Managing RHEL 5 Servers
  • Installation and Configuration of Squirrelmail v
  • 1.5 (Webmail)
  • Installation and Configuration of Websphere Application Server 7, IBM WebSphere Message Broker V7.0, Oracle Spatial 11g, IBM InfoSphere DataStage V8.1
  • Managing User Rights / Permissions Administration
  • Gurgaon (Client)

System Engineer

Indian Express Newspapers Ltd.
05.2006 - 04.2010
  • Perform Installation / Configuration of RedHat v
  • 4 /5 and Servers viz
  • DNS, SAMBA, SENDMAIL, NIS, APACHE, DHCP, SQUID, LDAP, Lotus Domino Administration
  • Creating and Managing User/ Group policies, Security Policies, User Specific Samba Shares authenticated with central LDAP Server and Squid proxy caching and Host based Web Site browsing, DNS, DHCP administration
  • LDAP-Samba Central Authentication for multiple Linux Box
  • Managing Central McAfee EPO Server / Client Administration

Network Engineer

Alchemist Ltd.
05.2005 - 04.2006
  • Routine Health checkup of Systems / Network
  • Managing day to day activities for IT Team of company
  • Building New Servers and Managing Proxy Servers for Internet / Corporate Security Policies

Education

Bachelor of Computer Applications (B.C.A.) - Computer Applications

Maharishi Dayanand University
05.2001 - 01.2005

RedHat Certified Engineer (R.H.C.E) -

RedHat Linux Engineer
05.2001 - 01.2008

AWS Associate Architect -

Amazon

GCP Certified Architect Associate Professional -

Google

OCI Oracle Certified Architect Associate -

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Certified Kubernetes Administrator -

Kubernetes

Skills

RedHat / Oracle Linux

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Personal Information

Date of Birth: 08/18/83

Projects Details

  • Worked on Containers with Dockers, familiar with orchestration tools like Kubernetes.
  • Managed and optimized cloud infrastructure on OCI and AWS, ensuring high availability and performance.
  • Design and implementation of DevOps strategies, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code (IaC), and automated testing, resulting in reduction in deployment times.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to streamline development workflows, improve release management, and ensure high availability of applications in a microservices architecture.
  • Implement security best practices, conducting regular assessments and audits to enhance system resilience against potential threats.
  • Implemented Docker containers and orchestrated them with Kubernetes and Oracle Verrazzano, leading to increase in application scalability and resource utilization.
  • Automated configuration management using tools like Ansible, reducing manual errors, and ensuring consistency across environments.
  • Collaborated with development teams to integrate automated testing and SonarQube into the CI/CD pipeline resulting in improvement in software quality.
  • Handled implementation of continuous monitoring tools - AppDynamics, Splunk and APM tool Introscope.
  • Set up complete CI/CD pipeline using Git, Maven, Jenkins, Jfrog Artifactory and DAP (DB internal tool).
  • Experience in CVS tool Git with branching/merging and resolving conflicts.
  • Stakeholder management- Continuous interaction with the client and meeting client expectations by suggesting available tools to automate the deployment and monitoring tasks.

Certification

RedHat Certified Engineer (R.H.C.E)

Work Preference

Work Type

Full TimePart TimeContract Work

Location Preference

RemoteHybridOn-Site

Timeline

Technical Consultant

HCLTech Ltd.
06.2024 - Current

Principal Solution Engineer

Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2022 - 05.2024

Subject Matter Expert

Kyndryl Solutions Ltd. (IBM)
09.2020 - 06.2022

Associate Consultant

HCL Technologies
12.2016 - 09.2020

Technical Services Specialist

IBM India Ltd.
04.2016 - 12.2016

Module Lead: Backup and Linux Administrator

SCDL
03.2015 - 12.2015

Sr. Support Engineer

Symantec Software India Ltd.
10.2012 - 02.2015

Sr. Associate Systems

Synechron Technologies Ltd.
01.2011 - 10.2012

System Administrator - Infrastructure Specialist

IBM India Ltd.
04.2010 - 01.2011

System Engineer

Indian Express Newspapers Ltd.
05.2006 - 04.2010

Network Engineer

Alchemist Ltd.
05.2005 - 04.2006

Bachelor of Computer Applications (B.C.A.) - Computer Applications

Maharishi Dayanand University
05.2001 - 01.2005

RedHat Certified Engineer (R.H.C.E) -

RedHat Linux Engineer
05.2001 - 01.2008

AWS Associate Architect -

Amazon

GCP Certified Architect Associate Professional -

Google

OCI Oracle Certified Architect Associate -

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Certified Kubernetes Administrator -

Kubernetes
Sunny BahlTechnical Consultant with expertise in Public Cloud | Oracle Cloud | OCI | Cloud Native | IT Pre-Sales | Support | Implementation | Linux, Ansible, KVM, Virtualization | Devops | SRE