Curriculum Vitae Srinivasan Rathinam Kannan Cloud Architect

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To excel in life in a professionally managed company that cares for human values and ethics and to carve out a niche for myself in IT
Industry by delivering up to my best.
Summary

As a Cloud SME, I have been Supporting AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms for the last 2 years with Cognizant Technology
Solutions, Trained on “Micro Services: Pivotal Cloud Foundry” Administration & Developing. Currently I am Responsible for
working closely with clients along with Service Delivery Manager. I do periodic review of the Cloud Architecture, Analysis and
suggest the best practice to be followed, to keep the platform stable, suggesting the benefits of new cloud services, which helps
the business. Based on the daily, weekly, monthly metrics of regular request and Issues I look for the scope for the Automation.

Around 11 Years of extensive experience in Virtualization and Networks, Storage/SAN & UNIX platform. Administration of
industry’s leading OS like IBM AIX, RHEL Linux –and in-depth hands on experience in VMware, VIOS, GPFS, HACMP, Data
Center Management, Project Management, Vendor Coordination & Incident and Change Management, Supported the clients
from different domains like HealthCare, Insurance, Banking, Telecommunication, Medical, Construction and Web-Design/Web-
Hosting. Currently working with Cognizant Technology Solutions as Associate Operations Manager.

 Onsite - Supported United Arab Emirates – Dubai based leading Nationalist Bank (ADCB), AIX Servers & Linux RHEL servers, Solaris,
VIOS with latest version and Power Linux flavors.
 Supported EMC VNX Storage, DMX, VNX, (symmetrix), Clarion Block and File, SAN Switches. Providing Basic Level support
for EMC Devices.
 Implemented shell scripts for Monitoring the file system usage, OS Backup status, Server Hardening, VIOS Backup,
 Onsite - Worked with Synechron (Esquire computer systems – Dubai) for client National Bank of RAS Al-Khaimah PSC - RAK BANK -Dubai.
 Managed AIX servers, Linux Servers and VMWARE.
 Worked with 3i-Infotech Ltd, managed AIX & Linux servers, supporting Remote support and Datacenter for Multiple Clients.
 Worked with IBM, managed DataCenter of Videocon Telecommunications with more than AIX High End servers & Linux Servers with
the latest versions of technologies.
 Worked with Scorpio Technologies, and managing AIX & Windows Servers.

IT Proficiency

 Cloud: AWS - Cloud Services: EC2, S3, VPC, RDS, security groups, Auto scaling, ELB, SNS, SQS, Cloud Formation, CLI, IAM, LAMDA.

 Cloud: Azure – Cloud Services, Resource Group, Subnet, NSG, Egress, Ingress Rules, Virtual Network, Network Services, Load
Balancing,VPN Connectivity – Site-to-Site and Point-to-Site, Storage Account, AZCopy, VMBackup and Restore.

 Cloud : Pivotal Cloud Foundry – Deployed Ops Manager, Elastic RunTime, App Manager, JMC Bridge, Custom User defined Services,
MySQL, Configured Nozzle for Data Dog and Log monitoring: Paper Trail
- Implemented the Pivotal Cloud Foundry in – VMWare VSphere & Google Cloud Platform

 Operating Systems: Skilled in installation, configuration and troubleshooting of IBM AIX 5.2, 5.3 , 6.1 + HACMP 6.1 + , GPFS, VIOS,
HMC and RHEL Linux & Linux Clustering.
 Machines: RS6K, pSeries 850, 750, 740, 510, 550, 570, 575, 590, 595, regatta, Power4, Power5, Power6, Power7, JS21, JS23,
PS701/702, PS703, Blade HS200, HP Proliant, IBM xSeries , IBM3852 Tape Libraries, IBM DS4000, DS8000.FASTT, EMC Storage –
Clarion, VNX Symmetric . Storage Devices: EMC VNX5500, VNX5800, Recovery Point, IBM DS8K, NETAPP, IBM XIV & SVC.
 Programming: bash + ksh shell scripting with debugging.
 Backup and Storage Administration: IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 5.3., Actifio Backup, and EMC Networker & AVAMAR.

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 Technical Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Level - 04-05-2017.
70-533 Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions - 10-12-2016.
IBM AIX 7 Administration - 19-03-2015.
IBM Virtualization Technical Support and Administration for AIX and Linux –v2 - 30-06-2015.
Oracle Enterprise Linux Certification Implementation Specialist - 14-11-2012.
Oracle Enterprise Linux Administrator Certified Associate - 15-11-2012.
IBM Certified Systems Expert –HACMP for AIX - 08-07-2010.
IBM Certified Specialist - System p Administration -17-07-2009.

 Profession Certification
ITIL – Version 3 Foundation Examination - 27-Jun-2012.

 Training Participated
Pivotal Cloud Foundry : Administration & Developing
HACMP System Administration : Planning and Implementation, Conducted by IBM Labs
ITIL V3 Foundation Course, Conducted by IBM & VINSYS IT Service Pvt.Ltd
Participated Oracle Solaris Training in Oracle Corporation Dubai.
EMC – Recovery Point Appliance, Provided by EMC
EMC VNX Storage Administration, Provided by EMC
Participate Online Training course “Hadoop Administration” which is provided by - Edureka Training Institute India.
EMC Storage Administration: EMC VMAX (DMX, VNX), Clarion, Brocade Switches, Provided by “Rootshell Technologies”.

Professional Experience

 Cognizant Technologies Solutions – INDIA – (CCS-Cognizant Cloud Services) From ( 18th April 2016 –Till Date)
Designation: Associate Operations Manager

Azure:
 Automated of Instance Stop, Start during Off Business hours using Run Book with PowerShell.
 Implemented PowerShell scripts for CPU & Memory alerts through Native Monitoring.
 VM creation through azure portal and CLI2.0.
 Virtual Network creation and subnet range allocation.
 Load Balancer configuration and inbound/outbound rules.
 Network Security Group creation and the firewall rules.
 Resource Group and Storage container creation.
 Attach a data disk and take snapshot of the disk.
 Disk backup using AZCopy, VM Backup through Dashboard by setting the Backup Policy.
 Monitoring the VMs health check.
 Disaster recovery and Backup configuration.
 Application gateway and Traffic Manager.
 Migration of On-premises VM to Azure cloud concepts.
 Scheduling auto scale VMs during peak times.

AWS:
 WAF - Directly working with AWS to Implement the WAF - Well Architected Framework for all my managed account.
 TA – Trusted Advisor – Going through the TA report and working with my customer on [Cost Optimization, Security, Fault Tolerance,
Performance] Pillars.
 Creating and managing AWS infrastructure Account.
 Creating Instance Tier based on the customer requirement and the application load consideration.
 Configuring Security group and NACL Rules to strength the Infra.
 Configuring AWS ELB & OS Level Load balancing using HAProxy.
 AMI(Amazon Machine Image) - Automate to create on monthly as per the request.
 Creating Snapshot using LAMDA and Python Script.
 Configuring Autoscalling for the demand based applications.
 Configured and maintained S3 bucket policies, Versioning, lifecycle policies, RRS for in frequently access data.
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 Create DR strategy for the entire customer environment.

 Configure and managing Cloudwatch, cloudtrail and AWS config.
 Creating the SOPs and sharing with Admins.
 Presenting Technical Session to Team on Nexgen Technology concepts.
 Troubleshoot on Cloud - AWS, Infra, Windows, UNIX Virtualizations.
 Creating and managing Cloud formation for DR Strategy.
 Automated of Instance Stop, Start during Off Business hours using Lamda & Pipeline.
 New Instance Onboarding into Zenoss.

 Cognizant Technologies Solutions – INDIA – (PDP-Chennai) From (19th Feb 2016 –17th April 2016)
Designation: Associate Operations Manager

 Cognizant Technologies Overseas Corporation – Dubai (Client – Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank) From (19th Feb 2014 – 18th Feb 2016)
Designation: Associate Operations Manager

Responsibilities:
Work Profile:
 Associate Operations Manager– managing Linux RHEL & AIX + VIO clients’ servers for ADCB--Dubai.
 These servers are mostly catering the Mission critical high availability (24x7) services, which is hosted with
different Database and Applications like.
IBM HTTP server, Oracle DB Server, Oracle RAC, DB2 server, banking applications.
 Providing Level 3 Support to client for AIX & Linux. Responsible for status update of ongoing projects, and the
BAU support. Providing Level 2 support for Sun Sparc machines.
 Providing high end performance monitoring through HP Sitescope & BSM.
 Providing on-call support over weekend and during non-working hours of weekdays (as per call -roster based).
Also responsible for knowledge sharing within team and KT to the new joiners.

I am responsible for proper execution of ongoing projects, planning and scheduling of activities involved in the project, attending status
meetings, keeping track of completed/failed/re-scheduled takes and knowledge sharing with other team members.

Responsible for planning, scheduling and assigning/implementing scheduled and un-scheduled changes and managing resources as per there
technical expertise, Call Schedule preparation for daily and weekly on-call schedule to ensure Business with proper support and keeping track
complimentary offs of team members.
Providing on-call support over weekend and during non-working hours of weekdays, as per ROTA. Also responsible for knowledge sharing
with team members and knowledge transfer to the new team members to make them feel comfortable with the project environment.
Responsible for troubleshooting escalated issues and high priority tickets and filling up RCAs, tracking of SLA of tickets and attending of SRT
(Service Restore Team) Meetings. Other than this, also responsible for looking into day to day issues in AIX domain, related to performance of
servers (AIX OS, VIO, HACMP & Linux RHEL), user related issues and ensuring proper pre-work of scheduled changes.

 Linux RHEL 5.9 Server Building on IBM xSeries & HP Proliant based hardware’s.
 Installing security patched as per security advisory on both AIX & Linux Servers - Red-hat Satellite server.
 Planning and Implementing AIX Upgrade & Migration on latest levels through alt_disk & NIM migration.
 Installing AIX servers on IBM Pseries server & IBM Blade centers.
 Installing VIOs 2.2.2.1 on IBM Pseries serves, Upgrading VIOs from 2.x to 2.2 version.
 Performance Monitoring and provide initial information for capacity planning.
 Maintenance of resources and resource groups in HACMP. GPFS
 User management adding changing the users attributes groups. Security settings for users.
 Server management, which includes Disk management, LVM management, Software installations, job
Scheduling, backup and restorations.
 Experience troubleshooting performance related issues (CPU, Memory, Network and I/O) File system
management - Creation, Deletion, File Systems Changes – Grow and Shrink
 Working with paging spaces – creation, increase, decrease-paging spaces as per the requirement.
 Installing Backup agents EMC, TSM, Actifio.Installing Storage Agents – Unisphere agent & EMC ODMS.
 Monthly scheduled backup of AIX, VIOS servers, HMC.
 Automation of scripting for Error log report, Security hardening script, Configuration collection script, Capture
the server before reboot and verify after reboot.
 Analyzing and Implementing the Performance tuning parameters as per the application / database requirement.
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 Synechron – Dubai (Client – RAK BANK) From (29th July. 2012 – 31st Jan 2014)
Designation: Sr. Associate

Work Profile:

 Sr. Associate– managing Linux RHEL & AIX + VIO clients’ servers for RAK Bank--Dubai.
 Handling the Team of 10 members and the Business Operations, and Reporting directly to the business for the
UNIX environment.
 Created several scripts Unix Monitoring, Performance and Backup status.

 3i-Infotech India Ltd. From (Dec. 2011 – Jul 2012)

Designation & Location: Senior Engineer – India - Chennai.

Project: Lodha Constructions - Mumbai.

TIER-2-3 support for around 100 high end AIX & Linux Servers in Lodha Constructions data centers.

Roles & Responsibilities:

 Performing OS migrations 5.3 and 6.1 on standalone nodes, HACMP through alternate disk installation
procedure. Also Performing HACMP migrations
 Apply patches of different quarters or as released by IBM after being tested in test environment.
 Handling Incident and Change management tickets in 24X7 production critical environment.
 Experience in installation, configuration, Troubleshooting and administration of AIX 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1
 Administration of HACMP nodes and performing activities like switching resources, Failover testing and other
HACMP maintenance activities.
 Managing the EMC, & IBM DS4000 storage.
 Performing firmware and microcode up gradation on AIX peripherals.
 Troubleshooting LVM, SAN Storage Configuration, File system issues.
 Administration, Monitoring and logging functions, User/Group administration, Usage scenarios of HACMP,
reduce planned downtime, Reduce unplanned downtime, Increase Maintenance availability.

 IBM INDIA PVT LTD. From (Nov 2009 – Nov.2011)

Designation & Location: UNIX System Administrator.

Worked with IBM INDIA PVT LTD. in the field of AIX & Linux Operating System. And Provided IT support to client Videocon
Telecommunications.

Work Profile: System Administration and Datacenter Management for Videocon Telecommunications.

Responsibilities:

 Management of LVM Installation of software and patches.

 Checking for error report on server and provide resolution.
 Performance Monitoring and provide initial information for capacity planning.
 Configuration and maintenance of resources and resource groups in HACMP
 Trouble shooting the hardware and operating system problems, network related problems.
 User management adding changing the users attributes groups. Security settings for users.
 Server management, which includes Disk management, LVM management, Software installations, job
Scheduling, backup and restorations.
 Experience troubleshooting performance related issues (CPU, Memory, Network and I/O) File system
management - Creation, Deletion, File Systems Changes – Grow and Shrink
 LVM Management in AIX – Logical and Physical Volume Configuration &maintenance.
 Backups – Daily, weekly, monthly incremental and complete backups. Using TSM clients
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 Scorpio Technologies – India – Chennai From (Aug 2006 – Nov-2009)

Designation & Location: System Administrator.

Worked as AIX Administrator in Scorpio Technologies.

Jobs Profile: -
 Providing support in areas of Operating systems (AIX,), Hardware/ LAN/ Installation of OS/ up gradation of
packages for power pc servers of IBM, Daily health check.
 Administration of AIX 5.3, Installation of AIX Operating system.
 User Management, Creation, Modification, Deletion, Access Control.
 Error Log monitoring, Performance Monitoring.
 Disk Space Monitoring and Capacity Upgrade.

 Educational Qualification

Bachelor of Engineering – Computer Science –from Institute of Road and Transport Corporation, (Jul 2005 - Mar 2008) – Anna University
Diploma in Computer Engineering from Thiru Seven Hills Polytechnic College, (Oct 2002 - May 2005) – DOTE
ITI (Industrial Training Institute) – from Aringar Anna ITI, (Aug 1999 – Jul 2001)
SSLC – Govt Higher Secondary School, Kodambakkam – (Apr 1998 – Mar 1999)

Personal Details

 Date of Birth: 30-12-1983.

 Marital Status: Married.
 Passport number & Expiry Date : M5744779 & 01/02/2025

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