Ansar Mohammed

IT professional with 10+ years of experience in systems administration, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure solutions across large-scale environments. Designed, deployed, and supported VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 infrastructure across enterprise private cloud environments, including deployment and lifecycle management of vCenter, ESXi, NSX, and SDDC Manager components. Proven ability to engage with clients and stakeholders to understand business goals, infrastructure challenges, and technology requirements.

Strong background in translating business and technical requirements into scalable, resilient, and cost-effective infrastructure solutions aligned with industry best practices.

Systems Engineering Senior Specialist – Infrastructure Architecture & Engineering (Private Cloud Engineering) - NTT DATA - IL

(2025-06)

• Managed Broadcom security advisories by assessing impact, prioritizing critical vulnerabilities, and executing patching, upgrades, and certificate renewals across VMware vSphere components including vCenter, ESXi, and SRM, minimizing security exposure and ensuring platform integrity.
• Designed, deployed, and supported VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 infrastructure across enterprise private cloud environments, including deployment and lifecycle management of vCenter, ESXi, NSX, and SDDC Manager components.
• Performed VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.1 bring-up, workload domain creation, cluster expansion, and infrastructure validation to support scalable and highly available private cloud platforms.
• Executed VCF 9.1 upgrades, patching, and interoperability validation activities while ensuring compliance with Broadcom release standards and minimizing operational disruption.
• Collaborated with infrastructure, networking, storage, and security teams to integrate VCF 9.1 environments with enterprise authentication, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Supported VCF 9.1 operational governance by implementing security hardening, certificate management, lifecycle automation, and compliance controls across cloud infrastructure environments.
• Monitored and remediated VMware vulnerabilities through security analysis, patch management, and VMware Tools upgrades across virtual machines, improving system stability and reducing operational risk.
• Tracked and implemented VMware and VC 9.1 security releases from Broadcom by reviewing release notes, performing risk assessments, validating updates in lab environments, and coordinating controlled deployments to test and production environments with zero disruption.
• Led VMware vCenter 9.1 lifecycle management initiatives, including upgrade planning, interoperability validation, compliance alignment, and operational support across enterprise private cloud environments.
• Strengthened authentication security by deploying multi-factor authentication (MFA) across vCenter environments and managing authentication token lifecycle processes to reduce unauthorized access risks.
• Delivered compliance and audit reporting through monthly NIC anomaly reviews, vulnerability scan remediation, and Qualys reporting via Availability Guard, ensuring adherence to infrastructure security standards.
• Partnered with internal audit and compliance teams to execute data center and LOE infrastructure audits, documenting findings, defining remediation actions, and tracking issue resolution within agreed timelines.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams including Windows/Linux L3, ICM, Information Security, and Authentication teams to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, conduct root cause analysis, and improve service reliability.
• Maintained operational excellence through proactive health checks, compliance reviews, participation in on-call rotations, and early identification of infrastructure risks.
• Represented LOE/VDT operational teams during daily stand-ups and weekly vendor review meetings with Dell and Broadcom.

Master's - Information Security and Systems - University of Cumberland's