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CURRICULUM VITAE
Sivaiah Yakkanti
Contact NO. : +6585958913
siva.yakkanti@gmail.com
Synopsis:
 VMware (VCP 4 & 5.5), Microsoft & Red hat Linux Certified Professional with overall 11 years of
experience in Server Administration and Virtualization.
 Well versed in the administration of Wintel, Vmware and Linux/Unix and Storage concepts.
 Proven ability in interacting and maintaining relationship with customers & stakeholders,
understanding & translating business requirements.
Career Goals:
Enthusiastic and experienced server engineer with diverse knowledge of Implementation, installation,
planning, and maintenance of various hardware and software systems, exposed in areas of Virtualization
and Cloud, willing to utilize my skills and experience in a growth oriented organization. I am self-
motivated and enthusiastic about information technology and stay up to date with changes in the IT
industry.
Technical Exposure Areas:
 Administration on Enterprise Windows, Hyper-V, VMware & Red Hat linux
 Active Directory user and group administration
 Data Center activities like server installation, move, upgrade and decommissioned of physical servers
 Microsoft Exchange 2010, Blackberry user administration
 Administration on Sophos enterprise Antivirus
 Administration on Symantec altries patch management tool
 HP CSA (Cloud Service Automation) Tool for IAAS provisioning
 Data Center migrations includes Server de-racking with in DC & across DC
 P2V and V2V Migrations using Platespin tool and Vmware standalone converter
 Physical and Virtual server installations and upgrades
 Server OS Installations, upgrades and Rebuilds part of EOL
 Puppet tool for configuration management
 DHCP Scopes & Print Queue creation and migrations
 Data migrations from NAS Filers to on boarded Production shares.
 Support of Rack mount, Chassis vendors like HP P/C-Class, Dell Power edge machines and IBM servers
 Performance tuning which includes CPU, Memory, network and disk I/O utilization
 Commissioning of Physical / Virtual and also de-commissioning of the servers.
 Networking and Fiber Access
 Storage (SAN & DAS) disks configuration using VERITAS volume manager
 RAID level 1, 1/0 & 5 configuration for internal disks
 Symantec Netbackup client and Commvault backup tools.
 Ticketing tool like ServiceNow, GRS and ITCM.
Operating Systems:
 Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 & 2012 Server; Red hat Linux 5.x & 6.x; ESX/ESXi 4 and 5; Solaris 10
Technology Protocols:
 TCP/IP, WINS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, SMTP, SNMP, NFS & NIS
Antivirus:
 Symantec Norton Anti-Virus Corporate Edition
 McAfee Enterprise Virus scan
Servers Hardware
 HP Rack mount servers hardware DL 360, 380, 580 series and HP Chassis c3000/c7000 configuration
with FLEX10/20 modules

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 Dell Servers Poweredge R720, R730, M630, R920 & R930 and Dell MD3460 DAS Enclosure
 IBM HS21 8853, HS22 7870 and x3850 Server hardware
Storage Technologies:
 DAS, SAN and NAS
Infra:
 Patching: Redhat Network Satellite, Yum Repository, Puppet Enterprise Dashboard, WDT (Windows
Deployment Services).
 Virtulisation: VMware Vsphere Client, VMware Web Client, VMware vCenter Convertor, HP CSA IAAS
cloud infrastructure provisioning, Platespin (V2V & P2V Migrations), VMPT – VM provisioning tool
 Inventory: CMDB Inventory mgmt,
 Remote Management: HP ILO / DELL IDRAC management console, Visionapp RDP, Putty.
 Ticketing System: Service now (SNOW),GRS (Global Request Service) & ITCM
 Monitoring Tools: Netcool
 Backup Applications: Symantec Veritas NetBackup and Commvault
Virtualization VMware
 Installation, configuration & management of VMware ESXi Servers
 Managing & Monitoring ESXi Servers with vSphere Client & vCenter Server
 Installing, Configuring and managing vCenter server
 Creation of virtual datacenters and clusters.
 Configuring Cluster level features - HA, DRS, vMotion.
 Creation of vSphere Standard Switches, different types of port groups and NIC Teaming.
 Configuring data stores to ESXi Servers using ISCSI, FC, NFS shares.
 Creation, management and deployment of virtual machines
 Performing P2V & V2v migrations using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone and Platespin tools.
 Rapid provisioning of Virtual Machines using VM Templates & Cloning
 Creation and management of virtual machine snapshots
 Managing resources of virtual machines on user's request
 Creating and Configuring Clusters in VMware vCenter Server
 Migrating VM’s through vMotion, cold migration and storage vMotion.
Windows Server:
 Installing, Configuring and Hardening of Windows 2008 / 2012 Servers
 Installing, Configuring and Managing AD, DHCP, DNS, FTP, File, Print server & DFS
 Installation, Configuration and managing Microsoft Failover Cluster HA & NLB with 2/3 nodes
including Geo cluster and Always ON Groups.
 DHCP Scope creations and migrations
 Print Queue creations and migrations
 RAID Configurations and Disk management utilities tools.
 Package and Patch management through SCCM.
 Perform Security Health Check of Windows servers and other compliance related activities.
 Joining the servers into a domain
 Managing network interfaces, NIC teaming and backup configurations and adding the routes as
requested.
 Providing access to the AD users and groups
 Configuring windows firewall by defining the inbound and outbound rules
 Managing disks from different storage arrays like EMC, NETAPP
 Storage disk configuration with VERITAS volume manager
Linux and Unix:
 Installation & Configuration - Red Hat enterprise Linux 5, 6 (PXE & ISO) & Solaris 10
 File system management using fdisk, mkfs, fsck and mount
 Manage servers through Red Hat Network Satellite Server to install/upgrade the packages

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 Creating LVM and extending the size of LVM by adding new disks from DAS and SAN storage.
 Applying puppet manifest as per the project requirement & managing the clients on puppet dash
board
 Installation of Packages and required Patches to the application.
 NIS, NFS, AutoFS & FTP configuration
 Day to day troubleshooting / Zones & ZFS configuration and administration
 User/Group Administration.
 NFS server’s/clients administration
 File system Management including permissions and security settings.
 Job Scheduling and Automating process using CRON & AT
 Swap space management
 Configuring and managing network interfaces, NIC Bonding/IPMP and backup configuration
 Monitoring server performance using iostat, vmstat, top, prstat
 Oracle & Sybase database software/binaries installation and configuration on Red hat 5 & 6.
 Array Controller, iLO/iLOM/ALOM, BIOS firmware upgrades and configurations.
Database:
 Oracle 10g and 11i, Sybase, MSSQL 2008 R2/2012 Server & Client software/binaries installations on
relevant OS platforms as per the client request.
 DB files systems & RAW devices for ASM configuration
Professional Certification and Trainings
 VMWare Vsphare 5.5 (VCP)
 Redhat Certified System Administrator
 Redhat Certified Engineer
 MCSA (Microsoft Certified System Administrator)
 AWS Technical Essentials Trained by Amazon
 Architecting on AWS (Amazon Web Services) Trained by Amazon
 ITIL 2011 Foundation.
EDUCATION
Master of Compute Application (MCA ) from Osmania University
ACHIEVEMENTS
 Awarded the “Techno Talent” certificate from Cognizant Technology Solutions
 Twice awarded the “Associate of the Month” from Cognizant Technology Solutions
Professional Experience Summary:
 11 Years’ of experience in IT infrastructure and Server Management and out of 4+ years worked
experience at client UBS Bank location in Singapore.
 Working with Kelly Services and placed for Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment bank from
September 05 2016 to till date.
 Worked with Cognizant Technology Solutions Ltd as a Technical Lead from June 2010 to 25 August
2016 (total 6.3 years out of 4+ Years worked Onsite in Singapore).
 Worked as IT Support Specialist from Feb 2009 to June 2010 with Brigade Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.,
 Worked as System Administrator from Jan 2006 to Feb 2009 with St. Joseph’s Degree & PG College.

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Projects 1
Organization: Kelly Services
Project Details:
Title Infrastructure Systems and Storage Department
Client. Credit Agricole Corporate & Investment banking, Singapore Branch
Role Senior System Engineer.
Responsibilities:
 Enterprise Administration on Microsoft Windows, Redhat Linux and Vmware.
 Administration of Enterprise Hyper-v virtual infrastructure
 Administration of Active Directory user and groups
 Data Center activities like server installation, move, upgrade and decommissioned of physical servers
 Microsoft Exchange 2010, Blackberry user administration
 Administration on Sophos enterprise Antivirus
 Administration on Symantec altries patch management tool
 Servers physical and virtual installation and maintenance
 OS patching for dev, test and followed by Production and DR servers
 Basic knowledge on powershell to manage day to day admin tasks.
 SharePoint administration
 V2v and P2v migrations for Wintel and linux platerform servers
 Monitoring tools like Nagios and HPSIM administration
 Ticketing tools like Service Now, HPSC and Grant
Projects 2
Organization: Cognizant Technology Solutions Ltd, Singapore
Project Details:
Title Infrastructure Service Delivery – Global Sys Admin
Client UBS AG Singapore Branch
Role Technical Lead
Description:
Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) is a large integrated financial services company located in
Switzerland. UBS was the second largest bank in Europe and one among top 20 largest banks in the
World. As of December 31, 2009, UBS Service Centre (India) Private Limited was acquired by
Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation. It provides software solution services.
Responsibilities:
 Managing, Maintaining and Troubleshooting Windows, Linux, ESXi and Virtual Machines
 Managing and design of distributed, high availability server-based network computing infrastructures.
 Implemented and managing High Available Clusters 2/3 node installation and Configuration including
“Always ON”.
 Implementing and Administering Windows 2003/2008/2012 servers and network services like DHCP,
DNS, WINS, DFS & FTP.
 Managing/Maintaining/Troubleshooting the FILE SERVER & PRINT SERVER issues and giving folder and
file level security permission to the end users on the file server
 Managing/Maintaining server hardware such as HP Rackmount & Chassis enclosure, Dell Poweredge
and IBM, including installations, firmware & BIOS up-gradation and device drivers installation as per
engineering certified versions.
 Setup the new virtual infra by configuring the HP chassis c7000 with flex 10/20 switches to create &
configure the new virtual DC's with the clusters

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 Actively involved UAT/Prod HP CSA IAAS cloud implementation and exposure on VM instance
creations, up-gradations and decommission
 Schedule calls time to time to liaise with business to get the list of servers to be moved to new data
centre, prepare schedules, back put plans & change request management for the smooth execution
as part of Data Center Migrations
 Perform server hardening which include system health monitoring, verifying the integrity and
availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and
application logs for any errors/risks.
 Provide Level 2 support. Investigate and troubleshoot issues. Repair and recover from hardware or
software failures.
 Arrange & co-ordinate weekly business calls to get the relevant teams to understand upcoming
activities and capacity issues.
 Incident and Change Management as per Organization process
 Installing & Configuring secured / DMZ zone Windows and Linux servers
 Backup schedules via Symantec Netbackup and Commvault backup tools
 Working on tickets and tasks for Windows, Linux and VMware
 Creating Virtual machines, Templates, Cloning Virtual Machines on VMware
 Installing Configuring and scheduling the Deployment of software installations via SCCM
 Server rebuilds part of End of Life cycle remediation project
 OS and Hardware upgrade for Physical and Virtual servers
 Applying patches/updates for Prod, Dev and UAT servers as per Organization patch cycle
 Antivirus patch updates and fixes Mcafee Virusscan Enterprise
 Interacting with all the required teams like data center (MVS) team, networking team, patching team
etc. for sorting out the issues.
 Monitor chat channel and hotline for requesters to contact us.
 Escalating the issues to vendor/ principal whenever required.
 Created of standard and strategic documents’ for all the tasks in scope of the team and got them
approved from BANK.
 Mentoring new joiners as per the training plan and help them to get into production with enough
depth of understanding.
Actively involved in the following projects:
 Data center EXIT: We have handled the 5000+ server moves with in the DC as well across the DC.
 Physical and Virtual migration: migrated the 2000 physical and virtual servers as part of migration.
 HP CSA Cloud Automation: Actively involved HP Cloud (CSA) UAT and implementation plan.
 Server hardware upgrade: Involved in upgrading physical disk, memory, network, HBA card
installation and memory, cpu, disk up gradation for virtual servers. Successfully completed
approximately 3000+ servers.
 Print Q creation and migration: as part of Print Q server migration, we have unshared the print q and
created new Print Q in the new servers.
 DHCP scope migration: To accomplish the migration of the DHCP migration, taken the existing server
DHCP scope dump and export to the new server using PS tools. Engaged the local IT team to report if
there are any IP address issues.
 DNS & WINS remediation project: Part of Windows 2003 EOL, all legacy DNS & WINS servers migrated
to Windows 2008 and then repointed
 OS upgrade project: we have coordinated with business stream and upgraded 2500 windows 2008 and
2012 OS.
 DNS and WINS remediation: Due to legacy DNS/WINS decommission request, we updated the new DNS
entries in all servers with the help of engineering script.

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Project 3
Organization: Cognizant Technology Solutions
Project Details:
Title UBS Datacenters & Service Transition
Client UBS AG Singapore Branch
Role Technical Lead
Responsibilities:
 Installation and configuration Red Hat Linux 5/6, ESX 4 & 5i and Solaris 10,
 Windows Servers 2003/ 2008 R2/ 2012 remotely through PXE and ISO.
 Applying Customer recommended latest patches and packages on Red hat Linux 5/6, ESXi & Windows
servers and Solaris 10 servers by liaising with server owners during the approved change Window by
change management board.
 Configuring different Raid levels like RAID 0, 1, 5, 6 0+1 and 1+0 on different hardware as per the
client requirement.
 Upgrade the firmware like BIOS, ILO, Array Controller to the latest version.
 Creation of virtual machines and installation of different operating systems and verify the
Configuration as per the requirement.
 File system administration and management like monitoring various logs and file system usage.
 User administration and management.
 Monitoring Virtual Memory, adding additional Swap Space as needed.
 Configuring and managing network interfaces and NIC teaming/bonding/IPMP & backup configuration
as per the client request.
 Job Scheduling and Automating process using CRON & AT
 Maintaining and Administrating NFS server and Client.
 Configuration and maintenance NFS server with Autos clients.
 Centralized management of resources by implementing NIS.
 Solaris zones installation and configuration, share resources from global zone.
 Installation and configuration of disk using VERITAS volume manager.
 Handle stakeholder’s request for Install, Move, Add, Change and De-Installation (IMACD) of servers
for all the global regions like APAC/EMEA/STAMFORD
 Decommissioning of servers as a part of IT change management on customer demand
 Providing day-to-day support and administration of the technology infrastructure
 Performing the migrations through change management
 Creating new Virtual servers, P2V & V2V on ESX environment
 Escalating the H/W issues with vendors.
 Expertise in configuring, validating & certifying customized servers of Linux/UNIX/Windows/ESX
operating platforms of various units with the organization
 Software/binaries Installation and Configuration of Oracle 10g/11i, Sybase, MSSQL 2008 R2/ 2012 on
relevant OS platforms as per the client requirement.
 Puppet Manifests apply on servers and manage them on the puppet dash board.
 Servers QA and configuration as per the requirement provided in the blue print & hardening.
 Cluster configuration on Red hat Linux 6 & Windows using VERITAS
 Implementing the projects as per the solution architect design
 Flex 10 configuration on HP chassis and server profiles configuration to the blade servers in the
chassis.
 Monitor chat channels and attend hotline for requesters to contact us
Managerial:
 Maintaining the run books for team members with detail information of OS installation and servers
QA as a Process Active Ownership (PAO).

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 Documenting the incidents along with fixes in KEDB (Known Error Data Base).
 Involved in the process transition and document it for the team's reference.
 Resolving issue trackers which are raised by team and assisting them when and then struck up with
issues.
 Checking the scope of automation and coordinating with Tools team to provide a tool with the
required enhancements.
 Drive the team to achieve the SLA's as a Deputy shift lead and manage the work load accordingly
 Mentoring the new joiners in the team to get them acquainted with the process.
 Providing the timely updates to the stake holders and arrange/participate in daily/weekly
conferences to discuss ongoing issues to resolve in collaboration with respective teams, inflow of
requests in future and plan time lines for delivery of the servers on time.
 Involved in testing of packages/patches with engineering teams before the release of the
packages/patches into the production.
 Working closely with Application Development group to provide technical support, advice and
implementation to the various phases of development (DEV), user acceptance testing (UAT),
production (PROD) and disaster recovery (DR) where applicable, for all database, web and
application servers.
Brigade Corporation India Pvt. Ltd.,
Role: IT Support Specialist.
Key Responsibilities:
 Installing and configuring of Linux and Windows 2003/2008 servers, maintaining servers with regular
software updates and antivirus updates.
 Installed and configured an Active Directory Domain Controller.
 Installed, Configured and Administering DNS, DHCP, FTP and Web server.
 Installed, Configured and maintaining RIS server for deploying client machines via PXE boot method.
 Creating Users, Groups, Organizational units and Applying Group Policies to users on the server
according to the requirement.
 Managing File servers and applying Disk quotas on File servers for employees in the Organization
depending on the privileges of the user.
 Installing, configuring and troubleshooting of Local and Network Printers.
 Updating OS patches through group policies on clients using WSUS server.
 Software installation and Configuration.
 Symantec antivirus Installation and updating definitions on regular basis.
 Installing and troubleshooting of blade and rack mount servers.
 Backup and recovering Windows AD and other data.
 Making sure that the ITIL standards & SLA driven process is followed while resolving issue.
St. Joseph’s Degree & PG College,
Role: System Administrator.
Key Responsibilities:
 Installations of Windows 2000/2003 Server, Linux & Windows XP
 Creation and administration of user accounts with Active Directory Service and giving permissions to
user’s network access. Applying Group Policy on users as per requirements.
 Implementing and Managing Access to Resources, Server Environment, IP Addressing, Network
Infrastructure, Network Security, Active Directory Infrastructure, Group policy and Roaming profiles.
 Configuration of DNS, DHCP & FTP Servers in Windows 2000 and 2003.
 Managing Desktop Support team and Hardware related issues.
 Managing File servers and applying Disk quotas on File servers for Staff and Students in the
Organization depending on the privileges of the user.
 Deploying desktop’s using RIS Server and Symantec Ghost.

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 Implementing, configuring and troubleshooting Websites and FTP sites, and performing database
backup.
 Implementing and configuring FTP and Samba servers in Linux.
 Providing login Linux console through telnet for students.
Personal Details:
Name : YAKKANTI SIVAIAH
Father’s Name : Yakkanti Seshaiah
Date of Birth : 03-02-1982
Marital Status : Married
Languages known : English, Telugu, Hindi.
(YAKKANTI SIVAIAH)