V RAJA MOHAN

Seasoned Senior Infrastructure SME & Technical Team Lead with 13+ years of experience in enterprise-scale infrastructure modernization, datacenter exits, cloud migrations, and hybrid cloud transformations across VMware vSphere (6.x–9.x), Windows, Azure, AWS, Citrix, and Cisco UCS. Proven expertise in managing mission-critical environments, leading patching and migration initiatives, and driving automation to reduce downtime and optimize performance.

Recognized for crisis leadership, having restored services during major outages including ransomware and CrowdStrike incidents, ensuring rapid recovery and minimal business disruption. Adept at implementing security hardening policies, vulnerability mitigation, and disaster recovery testing, while delivering measurable cost savings through storage optimization and process streamlining.

Known for blending technical depth with strategic leadership, mentoring teams, collaborating across storage, networking, and application domains, and consistently aligning infrastructure initiatives with business goals to enhance resilience, scalability, and service excellence.

VCP- VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator

• Datacenter Exit Projects – Planned and executed datacenter exit initiatives within client-defined timelines, including on-prem to cloud migrations, infrastructure consolidations, and decommissioning of virtual and physical environments.
• Divestiture Migration – Led the seamless migration of VMware, Citrix, and Active Directory infrastructure during client divestiture, ensuring business continuity.
• Domain Controller Upgrades – Directed upgrades of 100+ domain controllers (On-prem and Azure) across multiple versions (2012 → 2016 → 2019 → 2022), with ongoing work toward 2025.
• vSphere Upgrades – Managed upgrades across vSphere versions (6.x → 7.x → 8.x), currently planning transition to 9.x.
• Hardware EOL Replacements – Executed end-of-life hardware replacements (Cisco M4 to M6 blades), including capacity management with AriaOps, UCS service profile configurations, VLAN setups, boot LUNs, ESXi builds, vCenter configuration, and VM migrations.
• Domain Hardening – Partnered with security teams to implement domain and controller hardening policies, strengthening defenses against cyberattacks.
• Azure Arc Deployments – Planned and deployed Azure Arc/AMA integrations via DevOps pipelines.
• CyberArk Integration – Researched, learned, and implemented CyberArk integration for Active Directory, including PowerShell scripting to standardize environments.
• Vulnerability Mitigation – Acted as VMware SPOC for vulnerability management, leading remediation efforts for Qualys scan findings, including critical LOG4j vulnerabilities.
• Telecom Infrastructure Upgrade – Partnered with telecom teams to upgrade infrastructure, overseeing hardware installation, UCS configuration, vSphere builds, and application upgrades.
• UCS Firmware Upgrades – Planned and executed Cisco UCS firmware upgrades without service disruption.
• Storage Optimization – Analyzed and reclaimed 100+ TB of storage across On-prem and Azure, delivering significant cost savings.
• Disaster Recovery (DR) Testing – Coordinated and executed DR tests for multiple applications/business units across VMware, OTV, and Azure platforms, meeting defined RTOs.
• Active Directory Health Monitoring – Developed PowerShell scripts to automate AD health checks and generate daily reports for proactive monitoring.
• Major Outage Leadership – Served as lead from Intel in restoring services during critical outages, including ransomware incidents and the CrowdStrike outage, ensuring rapid recovery and minimal business impact