Ajit Punchhi

• Oversee all delivery service and technical support to managed service clients. • Monitored systems for performance and availability and responded to alerts and system error • Trouble short, diagnosed, and resolved SW/HW problems on various environments • Tracked and Logged incident problems relating to computer hardware and software, and networks, for resolution. • Used Remedy Ticketing System to track customer requests. • Managed, monitored, and scheduled backup and Restore Jobs • Handled various customer/user requests regarding Servers, Exchange, VMware, office 365. Active Directory, NAS, SAN and Firewalls via phone calls, e-mail and Ticket System. • Installed and configured Windows Servers 2008, 2008 R2, and 2012 using the Initial Configuration Task and the Server Manager. • In depth Knowledge of AWS cloud service like Compute, Network, Storage and Identity & access management. • Hands-on Experience in configuration of Network architecture on AWS with VPC, Subnets, Internet gateway, NAT, Route table. • Worked on Amazon Web Services ( EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, CloudFront, IAM, RDS, Route 53, CloudWatch, SNS,). • Installed and Setup Web Servers ( Apache and Tomcat ), DB Server ( MySQL). • Worked on Virtualization (LVM, Bridge, KVM, Disk, Ram, Cpu, Swap) on Superb DC. • Active Directory installation and configuration, newly installed Windows Server to a Domain Controller, add roles and services, account management on Windows Servers Knowledge of Windows registry management. • Decommission the Old Server and Migrate to new servers • Design, implement and maintain VMware vSphere infrastructure

• Installing, Maintaining, Monitoring and Troubleshooting IT Infrastructure of Ten HP DL380 Server, Three Dell PowerEdge R730 Server, Four Synology NAS, Two Cyberoam Firewall and MPLS Network in Kenya. • Built VMware ESXi hosts, and convert physical servers to VMs using VMware VCenter Converter. Built MS Hyper-V server and convert physical servers to VMs using Disk2vhd software. • Design and install ESXi hosts, VCenter. • Configure HA and DRS for the VMware and Xen Server. • Design and install VMs in Xen, VMware and Hyper-V environments. • Operations and Support: Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups. • Perform daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media. • Create, change, and delete user accounts per request for both Windows and Linux environments. • Design, implement, maintain Veeam Backup and Replication servers. • Manage, Configure and Troubleshoot Active Directory, DNS, IIS, File Server, LDAP, NFS and Samba Shared for the Internal User • Designed and built Red hat, CentOS, and Windows servers templates to later use in production. • Designed and built Open stack Private Cloud for the Client across the Africa Region. • Designed and built client custom configuration and Security Policy in Cyberoam Firewall. • Work with service providers (Go Daddy, 1and1, Bright House Networks, Cox, Windstream, Rackspace) on client's behalf to add new services or troubleshooting issues. • Managing Print Solution on Private Cloud on AWS EC2, S3 and Load Balancer. • Migrating and Maintaining on Premises Application on AWS Platform using EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM, Cloud Front, Lambda.

Responsibilities: Deployment and Troubleshoot of all types of Windows and Linux Server. Managing Different projects on Linux Server, Web Server , Hosting Server, Windows Hosting Server, Exchange Server, Cloud Server, Cyberoam Firewall. Managing and Troubleshooting Local Area Network ( Team Size 200). Generate Daily Server and Monitor Report of the Client Server . Daily Backup of the Server . Handling a team of 3 IT Administrator and 2 Onsite projects of Linux Server. Type of Wok in Network and Server Administration Web Server: Apache, IIS with Virtual web hosting. Operating System: Red-Hat/CentOS, Ubuntu/Debian, Windows Server and FreeBSD. Storage Management: Backup, Restore and Disaster Recoveries, RAID Management. Networking: DNS, DHCP, FTP, VPN, NFS, SAMBA (Domain/Workgroup), Squid Proxy with authentication & bandwidth control, Firewalls, Clusters, Remote Installation, Remote Booting, NAT, NIS, GFI Tools. Control Panels: WHM, Cpanel, Plesk, Webmin, DirectAdminHigh. Virtualization: VMware ESXi, Xen Center, Microsoft HyperV. Database: MS-SQL 2000/2005/2008, MySQL, PostgreSQL. Mail Server: Exim, Sendmail, Postfix, working knowledge of Exchange, Google Apps. Version Control: VSS, SVN, Git, SourceVault. Others: Amazon EC2, Cloud Computing, Digital Ocean. Security: Cyberoam Firewall, Clark Connect Firewall

I have Worked in Smart Buzz Web Services as a Sr. Network and Linux Administrator. I am RHCE, CCNA, MCSE Certified . Technologies involved: - Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X - Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, WebSphere, FreeIPA, OpenLDAP, Kerberos, NTP, DNS, IIS - Active Directory, FTP, SQl Server , PHP, MYSQl, Samba Server, LDAP Server, Cyberoam Firewall, Log Shipping Role: Handling Team Of 120 Designers and Developers Handle local Area Network. Installing and implement Window Server 2003 and 2008. Implement IIS 6.0, 7.0 and 8.0 Configuring Active Directory, DNS Server, FTP Server and Shared Server Handling Live Server of Amerifleet With SQl Server and Replication LINUX Server Installing and Configuring Centos Server and Ubuntu Server for the Php Development Implementing and Configuring Apache Server with PHP and MYSQL Implementing Samba Server on the local Network Installing the Mysql Service and PHP Environment with Modules Configuration and administration of SQUID WITH BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT and USER AUTHENTICATION Configuration and administration of VIRTULIZATION VIRTUAL BOX AND VMWARE Configuration and administration of WEBMIN AND OPENNESSU Implementing Iptablesand Clark Connect for Security Managing Mail Server ,Squirrel mail and Dns Server Implementing SquidProxy Server with Squid Guard. Firewall Working and Managing Cyberoam Firewall with all Local user

I have Worked as a IT Head at Skydek Solutions. I am RHCE, CCNA, MCSE Certified . Technologies involved: - Linux (Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Solaris, Windows, Mac OS X - Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, Kerberos, NTP, DNS, IIS - Active Directory, FTP, SQl Server , PHP, MYSQl, Samba Server, LDAP Server, LINUX Server Installing and Configuring Centos Server and Ubuntu Server for the Php Development Implementing and Configuring Apache Server with PHP and MYSQL Implementing Samba Server on the local Network Installing the Mysql Service and PHP Environment with Modules Configuration and administration of SQUID WITH BANDWIDTH MANAGEMENT and USER AUTHENTICATION Configuration and administration of VIRTULIZATION VIRTUAL BOX AND VMWARE Configuration and administration of WEBMIN AND OPENNESSU Implementing Iptablesand Clark Connect for Security Managing Mail Server ,Squirrel mail and Dns Server Implementing SquidProxy Server with Squid Guard.