Managing Windows 2012/2016 servers and Domain controllers.
Active Directory users and groups management (Domain ID Creation, Deletion control management, Delegation)
Large scale Windows Systems Administration experience (Windows 2003/2008 Servers)
Experience in maintaining mission critical production systems running in a data center environment.
Excellent knowledge of Dell and HP server hardware, Excellent knowledge of Dell blade server hardware.
Understanding of IP protocols, networking and domain administration.
Group Policy Management, Patch management, Configuring and managing the corporate Antivirus. DHCP and DNS Management
Basic Active Directory management (users and computers, sites and zones, GPO management, etc)
Installation/configuration and troubleshooting of MS Distributed file systems and Replication - DFS & DFS-R.
VMware:
Manage and maintain the Virtual environment using Virtual Center Server v6.5/6.7 versions.
Manage the ESXi host and virtual machine resource allocation (CPU, memory, hard disk) and also monitor and managing performance of ESXi servers and Virtual Machines using VMware vRealize operations Manager.
Creation of Clusters, adding hosts in clusters, Manage the servers in the clusters according to the application and service.
Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESXi VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS.
Creation and hardening of templates for different applications/Services and provision servers from templates using Terraform automation.
Working with multiple Vendors (VMware and Cisco) to fix the hardware and application issues. Exporting and analyzing VM-support Logs for ESXi servers, UCSM/Chassis logs for CISCO blades and also vCenter logs to diagnose the root cause of the problem.
Virtualization
Working knowledge on Virtualization tech like Vrops & VXrail, comissioning of new guests, add/remove hardware or increase the disk space etc. 2)different High Availablity options. 5) Available,failover and failback, patching of hosts and guests along with running reports along with advance troubleshooting using the available log files/debugging mode 3) Capacity and Performance Monitoring 4) hands-on vSphere PowerCLI
Monitoring & troubleshooting performance related issues in the server.
ESXi Hosts patching using vSphere update manager to secure the environment.
Data store and VMware network knowledge.
vRealize and LogInsight knowledge would be an added advantage.