Gokul Krishna Ravi

Senior Virtualization Engineer Aws Systems Administrator @Capital One

Conferred with clients regarding the nature of the information processing or computation needs to analyze and architect the VMware environment (vSphere 6.5) to fit the different application requirements • Migrated VMs and decommissioned 500+ servers as part of move away from legacy datacenters using Platespin Migrate 12.3 (P2V Utility) • Installed VMware ESXi 6.7 U2 on new vSAN infrastructure • Worked on patching ESXi hosts to 6.5 U2(d) using VUM and enabling TLS 1.2 on all the hosts and vCenter as part of the Vulnerability remediation project • Patched 200+ ESXi hosts using VUM by creating baselines • Deployed new 6.5 vCenter appliance and migrated around 200 ESXi hosts to the new vCenter • Worked on creating storage policies for the vSAN HCI • Worked on deploying vSAN stretched cluster with 2 Fault domains and a witness host • Deployed vSAN witness host • Implemented various VMware tools like VROPS, Log insight • Built Windows 2016/Windows 2012/RHEL 7.2 servers in the new environment including documenting and revising system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standard • Provisioned servers to comply with the latest compliance standards from Microsoft • Patched servers to comply with Cyber standards every month • Created Python scripts to automate tasks in VMware • Worked on creating Infrastructure as Code templates using CloudFormation to deploy multiple stacks of resources like EC2 Web instances, VPCs and S3 buckets • Created and managed custom Windows and Linux based AMIs • Created resource monitoring alarms and notifications for EC2 instances using CloudWatch • Created IAM policies to grant least privilege to customers accessing our resources • Created Route53 DNS records including creating routing policies based on customer needs • Consulted with management to ensure agreement on system principles and code standards