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VINOD SURYAVANSHI

Pune
VINOD SURYAVANSHI

Summary

Accomplished engineer proffering extensive cloud monitoring, deployment and troubleshooting skills. Defined, built and maintained infrastructure using vendor-neutral and platform-specific tools. Organized and focused person with extraordinary leadership acumen.

Overview

15
years of professional experience
1
Certificate

Work History

Allstate
Pune

Cloud Operations Engineer
01.2021 - Current

Job overview

  • Provide support to Azure Global Managed Services in daily operations.
  • Setup Azure patch automation using, ServiceNow i-HUB flow, Git, Jenkins, and Ansible to reduce manual efforts.
  • Provision VM's for splunk application using Jenkins and Terraform.
  • Identify cost optimization opportunities within existing infra and implement it. AWS S3 cost optimization and Azure infra consolidation projects handled.
  • Troubleshoot any issues related to Azure infra and work with vendor to find the root cause.
  • Point of contact for Azure Operations from Allstate India and Lead a Team of 3 members.
  • Assist and track ongoing migrations or projects in to cloud.
  • Work with different business unit teams (Project Managers, VPs, Software Developers, Cloud Architects, Customer Delivery Managers) to coordinate planned activities across multiple regions/accounts.
  • Drive outages and provide technical wording for events in region or availability zone that’s impacting multiple customer accounts.
  • Participate in training, hiring, Mentor and developing of fresh graduates/new hires to get bring them up to speed and be able to perform daily chores.
  • Troubleshoot and Investigate Service Requests or Incidents then providing root cause analysis as well as sustainable permanent solution to customers and internal teams.
  • Participate on scheduled daily/weekly/monthly maintenance automation using cloud SSM (Patching, updates, config compliance.).
  • Automate manual process to reduce risk and efforts.
  • Setup ServiceNow i-HUB flow to manage incidents and changes in queue.
  • Used metrics to monitor application and infrastructure performance
  • Reviewed existing systems and made recommendations for improvements
  • Identified, analyzed and resolved infrastructure vulnerabilities.
  • Partnered with infrastructure teams on evaluation and feasibility assessments of new systems and technologies
  • Utilized code and modern cloud-native deployment techniques to design, plan and integrate cloud computing and virtualization systems
  • Developed conversion and system implementation plans
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes

Allstate
Pune

System Administrator
01.2016 - 12.2020

Job overview

  • Identified issues, analyzed information and provided solutions to problems
  • Conducted research, gathered information from multiple sources and presented results
  • Provided technical assistance, training and mentoring to junior level engineers/engineers.
  • Automate incident and change handling tasks.
  • Create i-HUB flows in ServiceNow to handle incidents in queue, create and deploy changes.
  • As a member of Linux operations team participate in an on-call support rotation to ensure 24x7x365 coverage for critical core and customer infrastructure.
  • Responsible for writing and reviewing SOP's as part of Tier Point change management process.
  • Provided operational support of Tier Point core Unix infrastructure as well as offer recommendations for improving overall performance.

Velocity Tech Solutions
Pune

Unix System Administrator
04.2015 - 11.2019

Job overview

  • Linux/Unix server build.
  • Installation and configuration of Linux, Solaris OS.
  • VM administration through VMWARE Vsphere.
  • Administering VxVM, ZFS and LVM.
  • Network and Storage administration in VMWARE and in Linux/Solaris physical servers.
  • OS package and patch installation/upgrade using HP-BSA.
  • User and cron job administration.
  • ESXi installation and configuration.
  • Well versed in ITIL process and handling 24*7 on call production environment.

Amdocs
Pune

Sr. Subject Matter Experts-SSME
10.2010 - 12.2014

Job overview

  • Monitoring tickets through Clarity and BMC Remedy and resolving tickets within SLA on Linux/Solaris/HP-UX/AIX/VMWARE Production and Development servers.
  • H/W exposure on HP Blade and Itanium servers, HP Enclosure c7000, SUN T series server, AIX Power 7 and X series servers.
  • Configuring Virtual Connect on HP enclosure c7000.
  • Administering VMware for installation, configuration and supporting virtual environment.
  • Firmware upgrade on HP blade servers.
  • Install and upgrade OS, rpms on Linux servers using HP BSA tool.
  • Managing configuration and VMWARE Site Recovery Manager.
  • Perform DR drills using VMWARE SRM tool for Linux servers.
  • Exposures to work on various Vsphere features like HA, DRS, FT and EVC.
  • System Administration related activities like setting up FTP's, NFS, Cornjob’s etc. on Linux/Solaris servers.
  • Documenting Tips and Tricks in Amdocs Knowledge Database.
  • 24*7 on call Unix Production support.

Softenger
Pune

Unix Administrator
09.2008 - 09.2010

Job overview

  • Resolved issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service.
  • Handled ITIO Monitoring Svcs and ITIL implemented environment.
  • Set up and configure monitoring on UNIX servers, Web applications.
  • Configured servers using various monitoring tools like BMC Patrol, BMC Performance Assurance for UNIX Console, HP Sitescope, NetcoolProviso, SunMC 3.6, NerveCenter and IP Sentry.
  • Managed troubleshoot of all sorts of issues related to all the various monitoring tools being used.
  • Involved in Sitescope Migration Project and administered change management request and incidents with Remedy 7.0
  • Configure different types of monitoring like server health, Webpage, weblink, system resources.
  • Diagnosed and resolved hardware and software issues.

Education

Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University
Shegaon

Bachelor of Engineering Technology from Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
06.2007

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Skills

  • Continuous Integration and Deployment workflows(CI/CD)
  • Source and Version Control: Git
  • Automation (IaC, Terraform)
  • Linux Systems Environments
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Debugging and Troubleshooting
  • Disaster Recovery Planning
  • Network Scaling
  • Data security
  • Security vulnerability assessment
  • Code reviews
  • Build releases
  • Cost Optimization

Certification

  • Terraform Associate
  • Azure Fundamentals AZ-900
  • RHCE7
  • RHCSA7
  • AWS- Solution Architect
  • Certified Solaris 10 System Administrator
  • VMware Professional 5 Certificate
  • ITIL V3 Foundation
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Timeline

Cloud Operations Engineer
Allstate
01.2021 - Current
System Administrator
Allstate
01.2016 - 12.2020
Unix System Administrator
Velocity Tech Solutions
04.2015 - 11.2019
Sr. Subject Matter Experts-SSME
Amdocs
10.2010 - 12.2014
Unix Administrator
Softenger
09.2008 - 09.2010
Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University
Bachelor of Engineering Technology from Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering
VINOD SURYAVANSHI