Krishna Tirumala Kanduri

Client: MBAG USA and DTAG USA

• Built two global DCs and Two Edge DCs on VCF stack.

• Responsible for Design and build of VMware Cloud platform on VCF stack.

• Managed a team of ten people both offshore and onshore.

• Build hardware for OpenStack requirements and other Infrastructure needs.

• Built a VMware platform on VCF 4.4 and Integrated vRealize suite into it to manage the environment.

• Worked on NSX-T network setup including network segmentation and edge node creation.

• Worked with product vendor on support issues and installing patch fixes.

• Guided DC team with racking and stacking of equipment and cabling.

• Worked on creation of OS templates to be used for VM builds and Polycloud Automation.

• Responsible for Implementation of Zero Trust design using NSX-t DFW Firewalls.

• Mentoring the team on Day-to-Day activities and act as a point of contact for escalations.

• Worked with SCCM Architect team to setup tenants for NAFTA Region.

• Navigated Build team to register all the servers deployed in the region to SCCM tenets.

• Planed and upgraded VCF stack through different versions of release.

• Data Center visits as needed before and during the builds.

• Client: Johnsons Controls PLC., Atlanta, GA
• VMware SME January 2021 – July 2021.
• • Working on a Data Center build out and Migration Project for Client Johnsons Controls,
• • Part of the Migration team responsible for migrating the Private cloud environment to VxRail infrastructure from vBlock.
• • Migrated around 1900 VMs and Physical servers.
• • Worked on NSX-T network setup including network segmentation and edge node creation.
• • Worked on the project to build and configure VxRail environment.
• • Worked with product vendor on support issues and installing patch fixes
• • Troubleshoot VM provisioning related issues
• • Monitor, configure and update reservations to target environments.
• • Managed Releases in the vRA, vRO environment.
• • Worked on RP4VM environment setup and configuration of RP4VM on all the virtual machine in the environment.
• • Worked on a full Data Center upgrade with new hardware and networking setup.
• • Racking and stacking of equipment.
• Hewlett Packed Enterprise Atlanta, GA VMware Engineer March 2019 – Till date.
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• · Part of the Infrastructure team responsible for managing the virtual and physical vLabs environment inside HPE.
• · Responsible for managing the Virtual infrastructure running on HP hardware and vSphere 6.0 and 6.5.
• · Working on course builds and rebuild of environments after each course work.
• · Work with different project teams in implementing new courses and build the server and ESXi environments for them.
• · Responsible for day-to-day BAU tasks inside the vLabs Data Center.
• · Worked on a project to Inventory the current Firmware levels for HP Blade systems and upgraded them to an approved version.
• · Part of RCA escalation team responsible for timely resolution of issues inside vLabs VMware environment.
• · Attend the weekly CAB meeting and implement the changes in a timely fashion.
• · Monitor the VMware environment using tools such as vROPS for overall health and take proactive measures to avoid unplanned downtimes.
• · Work with the automation group to assist them with building scripts to automate the course rebuilds.
• · Deployment of vApps in vCloud Director and setup access for different course teams based on the requests.
• Creation of run books for vLabs new course builds.

• Client: Oldcastle Materials (CRH America’s) Atlanta GA.
• Sr. Systems Administrator Sep 2018 – February 2019.
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• · Work as part of Infrastructure team responsible for building and managing the Virtual and Physical Infrastructure of CRH.
• · Monitor and optimize all installed systems and infrastructure.
• · Installation, Configuration and Management of Virtual Infrastructure running on VMware vSphere 6.0 and 6.5.
• · Configuration and Management of Citrix environment consisting of over 150 applications and 600 Citrix servers.
• · Worked on publishing the Citrix applications in Citrix app center.
• · Responsible for management of CRH multi domain AD infrastructure consisting of 28 different domains and Azure AD connect.
• · Responsible for administration of OKTA and Office 365.
• · Worked on configuration and management of Cloud infrastructure running on Azure.
• · Worked on a project to implement HCI solutions HPE SimpliVity in the DR environment.
• Client: City of Atlanta, DOA Atlanta GA.
• Sr. Systems Engineer Nov 17 – September 18.
• Roles and responsibilities:
• · Responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting and preforming preventive maintenance on the DOA physical and Virtual server environments.
• · Installing, Configuring and Administrating ESXi hosts and vCenter Servers.
• · Troubleshooting Critical and High Priority VMware issues and driving to resolution.
• · Perform – vMotion, Storage vMotion, Cloning, Snapshots and other maintenance tasks as needed to achieve stress free environment.
• · Configuring HA and DRS on clusters and setup affinity and anti-affinity rules for application, web and DB servers.
• · Troubleshooting performance issues on VMs and ESXi hosts using tools such as ESXi top.
• · Working on a project to upgrade vCenter server and ESXi hosts from 4.1 to 6.0.
• · Worked on a project to upgrade the File server from MBR to GPT Volumes.
• · Worked on a POC project to implement VxRail in the environment.
• · Worked on a project to upgrade vCenter Operations Manager to vROPS.
• · Worked on build, configuration and management of Domain controllers, and Domains.
• · Worked on a project to upgrade a Domain from function level 2008 to 2012.
• · Worked on a project to redesign the File server environment, converted all the old file servers from MBR partitioning to GPT with Dynamic Disks, and configured them all to DFS.
• · Worked on Creation and Implementation of Group Policies from Scratch and comply them with CISCAT standards.
• · Responsible for the design, installation, configuration and maintenance of HP C7000 chassis, blades and their management through One View and Virtual Connect Manager.
• · Worked on firmware upgrades for HP interconnects, Onboard- Administrators and Chassis.
• Client: Verizon Telematics Atlanta, GA.
• Sr. Systems Administrator Oct 2016 to Nov 2017.
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• · Primarily responsible for management of physical server and VMware Infrastructure.
• · Last point of escalation for all Sev 1 and Sev 2 production issues. Worked on RCA for production outages.
• · Installation and configuration of Microsoft Windows 2003, 2008 R2,2012 Servers on Virtual Machines and Citrix virtual desktop support.
• · Installed VMware ESX server 5.0/5.5 and created virtual machines on ESXi Servers. Designed standard templates and deployed virtual machines from these templates.
• · Managing large VMware Infrastructure - 100+ hosts and 3000+ virtual machines and performed hundreds of migrations such as P2V and V2V using VM Converter and Platespin.
• · Performed Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations, deploying new virtual servers, maintain templates, and perform updates when necessary.
• · Planning and implementation of decommission process of VMs and claiming back recourses across three data centers.
• · Monitoring roles and responsibilities to the users and Groups for access of the vCenter.
• · Working on a project to migration instances from vSphere suite to AWS cloud.
• · Work closely with Dev-Ops teams to participate in patching using Automation tools such as Jenkins, Python scripting and PHP.
• · Worked on a project to automate VM deployment from Template using python scripting.
• · Worked on creation and execution of PowerCLI scripts for different needs.
• · Participate in On-call schedule.
• Client: WorldPay Atlanta, GA.
• EMC Resident October 2015 to October 2016.
• Windows and VMware Administrator
• Roles and Responsibilities:
• · Installation, Configuration and Management of HP One View and C7000 blade enclosures.
• · Creation of server profiles in OneView and Virtual Connect Manager.
• · Worked on a project to build a POC for Nutanix implementation and setup of Prism console.
• · Hardware provisioning for the SQL and Oracle Cluster builds.
• · Periodic Firmware and BIOS reviews and upgrades as needed.
• · Installation and Configuration of Microsoft Failover clusters including the storage provisioning, VIP and DTC setups.
• · Responsible for the management of servers and duties include regular and proactive monitoring of servers, responding the alerts.
• · Creation of run books for compute infrastructure install and management.
• · Participate in the on call schedule to support the environment.
• · Configuration and troubleshooting Microsoft AD, exchange, GPOs for AD.
• · Patch management using SCCM.
• · Installation, Configuration and Management of vSphere 5.5 environment.
• · Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS and Fault Tolerance in acquiring higher efficiency for VMwareVirtual Infrastructure.
• · Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating and patching of ESXi hosts and Virtual machines.
• · Worked closely with Storage and network teams to provision resources for VMware environment.
• · Responsible for capacity planning and resource allocations to VMware environment and creation of reports using RV tools and VCOPS.
• · VMware automation using Power CLI and python scripting.
• · Upgrade of vCenter server and hosts in the VMware environment from 5.1 and 5.5 to 5.5 update 3.

Client: SunTrust Bank Atlanta, GA.

VMware Engineer Dec 2014 – Dec 2015.

Roles and Responsibilities:

· VMware ESX/ESXi Host Server Installation, Configuration & Maintenance.

· Virtual Machines Installation, Configuration & Maintenance.

· Configured HA, DRS on clusters and did capacity planning for new clusters using vRops.

· Configured FT for business critical VM's.

· Designing dashboards and pull reports using vCops.

· Worked on ESXi and VM storage issues and coordinated with the storage teams.

· Worked on a project to upgrade vCenter from 3.5, 4.0 to 5.5 across three Data Centers.

· Creation of VDI templates in Horizon View 5.0 and updating the VDI pools with windows patches.

• Management of VMware Infrastructure through vCenter and vSphere client.
• Installation, configuration and deployment of VMware products such as VMware Workstation, VMware converter, VCB and more in virtual environment.
• Configuring and maintaining VMware View VDI environment.
• Installation, configuration & management of Cisco UCS Blade Server & Rack Server.
• Responsible for successfully upgrading all hosts and vCenter servers to vSphere 4.1.
• Conducted routine and emergency maintenance of assigned data center equipment.
• Maintained flexible schedule and responded to after-hours and weekend emergencies.