Balram

9654440322,
7011963231
balramchhabra@gmail.com
Delhi-110085,India

Experience summary:
IBM india pvt ltd -- Present Employer
HCL technologies &Wipro technologies -- Previous employers
Exp –6.3 yrs

Summary of Skills
 Azure Cloud administration and support.
 Areas of Interest: Cloud, Terraform & server administration.
 Possess experience in System Administration, Software implementation and support.
 Supporting Azure Cloud Administration of customer in UK/US/EMEA region. Responsible for customer’s
Cloud environment where handling 1500+ servers count. Managing Azure Cloud & Private cloud.
 Sound knowledge of VMware HA and VMware DRS.
 HP C7000 chassis ,HP C12000 frames HP G5,G6,G7, G8, G9, G10.Proliant,Synergy boxes & HP One view
 Blade server & Dell blades: DL 360/380/385.

Skill sets

 OS : Windows 7, 2003, 2008,R2,2012,2016,2019.

 Platform/Hardware : HP,Dell, Power edge, R710,R810, R820, HPC7000, HPc12000 frames, Proliant, synergy.
 Virtualization : VMware ESX, ESXi 6.0, 6.5,6.7 vCenter, VMware standalone converter.
 DR and monitoring : SRM: 8.3 & vROPS: 8.2.
 Tools : BMC bladelogic, HP SIM,HP oneview, BlueCot IPAM Solarwinds, iDRAC 7.0,
ILO 4.0,manage engine,BMC remedy, bmc patrol.

Certification courses

Microsoft Azure
 Az-104:- Azure Administrator {H852-4875}
 Az-900:- Azure fundamentals {H332-2347}
 Cloudthat certification for Azure Administrator associate {CT/C/914040}

Azure Administrator
{Role: Azure Admin L2 & L1}
 VM creation both windows and Linux and manage i.e Windows with ARM template in respective
location of resource group.
 Storage account and container creation and upload blob using container and shared the same using
public containers and SAS key. 
 Configuring vNet,NSG,Storage account, container and upload blob using SAS for managing azure
infrastructure.
 Resizing the disk and size as per the ticket received. 
 Configure Azure scale-set & capture VM images for auto scaling , worked on Azure active directory. 
 Configuring local and global vNet peering across resource group, region between VMs.
 User creation and roles assignment as per the requirement and revoking under Azure IAM.
 Monitoring infrastructure and fetch out the percentage CPU metrics or data disk IOPS consumed
request by users by azure monitor and memory metrices by enabling diagnostic settings.
 Configuring recovery services vault and taking backup of vm under Azure backup.
 Collect data from an Azure virtual machine with Azure Monitor and setted up alerts.
 Worked on Cost optimization techniques like resource cleanup, reserved instances, snoozing the VM
as per the usage required by different teams.
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 Move the storage account to another resource group plus adding & removing disks from VMs and
decommission
 Worked on Managed disk, Unmanaged disk & having understanding of Patching the servers
manually.
 Imposing lock to critical VMs to prevent accidental deletion.
 Build Azure VM using terraform code and do the post configurations manually once built.
 Basic knowledge on Load balancer, application gateway,p2s & s2s ,traffic manager, service bus.
 Basic understanding on DevOps ,Docker,Terraform (init,apply,destroy) {Infrastructure as
code},concepts.
VMware Administrator
(Role: VMware Admin L2)

 VMware Virtualization, ESXi host, HA, DRS, storage vMotion.

 ESXi upgrade from 6.7 to 7.0.
 Troubleshooted disk consolidation issues plus worked in vSphere 6.0, 6.5,6.7 environments till now.
 Raid and ESXi 6.5 installation in Vsphere 6.5 infrastructure.
 SRM:Configuring PG and CG of respective sector for mission critical VMs & remove accordingly followed by DR
datastore creation of Powermax and UTY type.
 vROPS:Fetching the usage reports for datastore,CPU,memory. 
 Hardware: Fix all hardware related issues on physical/datacenters servers.
 Quarterly patching of the servers as a part of project activity to eradicate vulnerabilities through
Blade logic tool.
 ESXi patching through update manager and command line as well.
 Assess and implement best practices in line with change management process.
 Ticketing tool : SNOW and BMC remedy & providing access to user through Elevated access forum.

Projects worked:
PepsiCo
Responsibilities
 Creation of Virtual Machines by choosing the right size as per the requirement.
 Built Virtual Machines from Marketplace as well as in bulk using pre-defined ARM template.
 Attaching new data disk to Windows VM in azure.
 Defining Virtual Networks and defining Subnets, VNet Peering’s based on various requirement.
 Worked on Managed disk & Unmanaged disk & created Recovery Services vault
 Worked on Azure Virtual Machine Scale set , autoscaling.
 Create Azure storage and create container in the storage account.
 Responsible for creation and management of various Azure IAAS services.
 Configuring vNet, NSG and did VM troubleshooting, managing roles using Azure IAM
 Improving azure infrastructure by cost optimization plans and maintaining best security score
 Handle the creation of Virtual Networks, Storage Account, new blob storage for data dumping,
 Configuring Backups & taking Snapshot and creating vhd from snapshot or blob storage whenever required.
Abbott Laboratories
Responsibilities
 Worked on Managed disk & Unmanaged disk. Created Recovery Services vault
 Experience in creating NSG’s and allow/deny ports as per customer requirement.
 Responsible for Creating and assigning the servers to Availability sets for HA.
 Configuration of Azure Virtual networks, Azure VM’s and provide access users & configure availability set.
 Migrated VMs across site and datacenter within HA cluster to perform maintenance task on ESXi host.
 p2v and v2v migrations and across site migrations with the help of standalone convertor tool.
 Firmware upgrade, ip configuration, syslog settings, Join to domain, adding in Active directory as a part of ESXi
Post build.
 Nutanix post build task like upgradingAos,Ncc,Firmware,Lifecycle manager,bios,Foundation
and rest ipconfigurations.
 Performed daily housekeeping activities to keep my VMware infrastructure free from
vulnerabilities and threshold limit by monitoring alerts related with storage, VM and ESXi hosts.
 vCheck report i.e. snapshot deletion, dead path removal.
 Linux Administrator:

State street
(Role: Linux admin L1)
Responsibilities
 Extraction mappings and created the UNIT test case, fixed the bugs, done the documentation and then promoted
the code to the next level, Load the data in db with pargrp.
 Used vmstat & sar command to check the memory and CPU stats accordingly proceeded ahead.
 Creating directories and giving permission with chmod.
 All the jobs in DEV as well as in higher environment are scheduled using AUTOSYS tool to run both for ETL1
and for ETL2 and hence created the Jils for different scenarios (insert, update, delete and file watcher jobs)
depending on the various atomic conditions followed by a SNOW process.
 Preparing and managing MQ report for weekly client meetings & hurdle calls.
 In production support have adhered the time limit and tried to achieve the SLA’s adhered to the process.
 Worked on resource management, cost optimization to ensure good customer satisfaction approach.

Education acquired:-
Post graduation – MTECH from BITS pilani ( 2016-2020 )
Graduation – BCA from GGSIPU ( 2013-2016 )

Other info:-
Skills:
Primary:
Azure Admin

Secondary:
VMware admin ,Linux Admin

Awards:
 Best L2 resources for accurate and fast resolution
 Resolutions provided and awarded with 4 process enhancement certifications etc.
 Weekly project presentations for the client deliverables.
 Prepared various SOPs for educating L1 folks and acquired 4 certificates for introducing process improvement
plans.
 Cloudthat certification for azure administrator.
 Recognized with best customer handling skills via presentation and attending weekly hurdle calls.

Personal Dossier:
Current Employer:
Employer:- IBM India Pvt Ltd
Senior Infrastructure Specialist
Previous Employer:
HCL Technologies Limited
Job role: Senior Specialist

Wipro Technologies Limited

Job role: Senior Administrator
Languages:- English, Hindi,Punjabi

Interest:- Music, Travelling

 I hope you will find that I am qualified for the position you are trying to fill please let me know, if I can provide
you with any further Information on my background and qualifications. I appreciate your taking the time to review
my credentials and experience. Again, thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely, Date:18-09-2023
Balram