Ms Simon

VMware Private Cloud Engineer with 13+ years of experience in VMware Cloud Foundation, virtualization, HCI, and enterprise infrastructure, delivering scalable, secure, and automated private cloud solutions. Linux administrator, Red hat Linux, Centos.

Senior Engineer at Zen and Art Infotek Limited (2023-08 – Present)

Client: DELL Technologies. Managed and supported enterprise VMware, VCF, VxRail, vSAN, and Linux infrastructure environments, ensuring high availability, reliability, and optimal performance across multiple data centers.

• Design, deploy, and maintain Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions using Dell VxRail, VMware vSAN, and Nutanix platforms based on business, capacity, and performance requirements.
• Lead VMware infrastructure upgrades, migrations, and disaster recovery implementations using vMotion, Storage vMotion, Site Recovery Manager (SRM), and vSphere Replication.
• Monitor and optimize infrastructure health, capacity, and performance through SDDC Manager, vRealize Operations (vROPS), and Log Insight by creating customized dashboards, alerts, and reports.
• Automate routine operational tasks using PowerShell, support AWS cloud environments, and drive infrastructure cost optimization and operational efficiency initiatives.

Senior Escalation Engineer at Persistent Systems Ltd (2022-01 – 2023-08)

Provided L2/L3 application and infrastructure support for enterprise production environments, ensuring high availability and service reliability.

• Administered and troubleshot Linux servers, including patch management, resource optimization, root-cause analysis, and new server deployments.
• Provisioned and configured virtual machines while leveraging AWS, Git, and GitLab within DevOps-driven environments.
• Managed production incidents through Salesforce, collaborated with cross-functional teams to resolve critical issues, and drove continuous process improvements.

Senior Engineer at CSS Corp Ltd (2019-04 – 2022-01)

Administered UNIX/Linux servers in a 24x7 production environment, ensuring system availability, performance, and operational stability.

• Managed Linux server installation, administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning, maintenance, and periodic patching activities.
• Administered VMware ESXi and vCenter environments, including VM provisioning, configuration changes, OVF deployments, datastore capacity planning, and hypervisor patching.
• Handled infrastructure services such as LVM management, NetApp NFS provisioning, Infoblox DNS/DHCP administration, and email server configuration management.
• Collaborated with vendors and internal teams to resolve technical issues, support critical production activities, and minimize service downtime.

Senior Engineer at HCL Services Ltd (2008-12 – 2019-03)

Administered HPE Blade Servers, HPE storage, and VMware clustered environments, ensuring high availability and optimal infrastructure performance.

• Configured and managed Linux services (Samba, NFS, FTP) and Windows infrastructure, including Active Directory, DHCP, WDS, and Microsoft 365.
• Led data center operations, driving improvements in server uptime, storage utilization, and overall operational efficiency.

Diploma in Electrical & Electronics Engineering – Pastor Lensson Polytechnic College, Tirunelveli

Higher Secondary in Maths & Biology – St. Joseph's Boys Higher Secondary School, Thiruvannamalai