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Verified Expert in Engineering
Cloud Engineer and Developer
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Toptal member since July 5, 2023
Bio
Gitesh is a systems engineer with a background in corporate, banking, insurance, aviation, entertainment, outsourcing, healthcare, and government industries. He specializes in designing and implementing IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions on Azure, GCP, and AWS. Additionally, he excels in architecting and executing transformation projects using VMware and Nutanix. Gitesh's expertise extends to data center consolidation and migration strategies for moving legacy workloads to private clouds.
Portfolio
TAL Australia
Azure, Azure Administrator, Azure Active Directory, Azure PaaS, Azure MFA...
Endeavour Group
Azure IaaS, VMware, Nutanix, Nutanix AHV, Terraform, Azure DevOps...
Nutanix
VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, Nutanix, Nutanix AHV, Azure...
Experience
- Windows Server - 10 years
- VMware - 10 years
- Nutanix - 7 years
- Azure IaaS - 5 years
- Azure Cloud Services - 5 years
- Azure Active Directory - 5 years
- Terraform - 5 years
- Azure DevOps - 3 years
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Azure Cloud Services, VMware, Terraform, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure Active Directory, Windows Server, Azure Virtual Networks, Azure VDI, DevOps
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on was a migration of workloads from on-premises to Azure while implementing a cloud adoption framework.
Work Experience
Lead Cloud Engineer
2023 - PRESENT
TAL Australia
- Led the rollout of Azure AD PIM for high-privilege roles, reducing standing privileges across key subscriptions.
- Configured SSO integrations with over 50 SaaS applications using SAML and OpenID Connect.
- Deployed Conditional Access policies with Identity Protection integration for risk-based controls and compliance.
Technologies: Azure, Azure Administrator, Azure Active Directory, Azure PaaS, Azure MFA, Azure DevOps, Bash
Infrastructure and Cloud Designer
2021 - 2023
Endeavour Group
- Designed our organization's Azure landing zone structure following patterns defined in Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF).
- Implemented AWS and Azure resources using Terraform.
- Designed and set up Azure Active Directory Domain Services (Azure AD DS) to create fault tolerance with on-premise Active Directory.
- Created and implemented Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for our organization's policies, network services, and serverless models.
- Deployed different resources on Azure using Terraform and made proper version control on Azure DevOps.
- Set up and migrated on-premise file servers to Azure Files.
- Designed and implemented a new VMware farm on Nutanix for our 700+ hotel sites.
Technologies: Azure IaaS, VMware, Nutanix, Nutanix AHV, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Azure Active Directory, Kubernetes, Architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps, Microsoft Entra, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Python, Bash, Virtualization, Linux
Systems Deployment Engineer
2018 - 2021
Nutanix
- Assisted customers in migrating virtual machine workloads from legacy storage area network (SAN) to Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure.
- Designed and implemented Nutanix environment on customers with different hypervisor layers, such as Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, and AHV.
- Sized and migrated virtual machines from legacy VMware infrastructure to Nutanix infrastructure utilizing virtual to virtual (V2V), data migration, and NFS whitelisting.
- Designed and implemented Nutanix environment to build a new Citrix environment.
Technologies: VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, Nutanix, Nutanix AHV, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Architecture, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), DevOps, Microsoft Entra, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Python, Bash, Virtualization, Linux
Infrastructure Architect
2017 - 2018
HCF
- Built a new Citrix XenApp 7 farm for 800 concurrent users and created and implemented Nutanix environment.
- Designed and implemented a new Nutanix solution to replace the workload running on legacy computing and storage environments.
- Migrated virtual machines from legacy VMware infrastructure to Nutanix infrastructure using V2V.
- Designed and migrated on-premise Active Directory to Azure using Azure AD Connect and set up single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) in Azure AD.
- Troubleshot issues related to the ESXi host, virtual machine, and all other VMware infrastructure.
- Implemented Zerto for BCP and replaced VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM).
Technologies: VMware, VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, EMC VNX SAN, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure Active Directory, Citrix, Architecture, Microsoft Entra, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Bash, Virtualization, Linux
Senior Virtualization Engineer
2015 - 2017
Essilor Group
- Designed, implemented, and supported a complete disaster recovery environment using Nutanix products for on-premises.
- Automated a disaster recovery operation by migrating virtual machines from one VMware Nutanix data center to another VMware Nutanix disaster recovery site.
- Designed and migrated hosts, virtual center and virtual machines, and all related resources from vSphere 5.0 to vSphere 6.0.
- Assisted L2 and L3 support teams in troubleshooting the ESXi host, virtual machine, and all other VMware infrastructure issues.
- Migrated physical servers into virtual machines as part of a data center consolidation project.
Technologies: VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, Citrix, Citrix XenApp, Nutanix, Dell EMC, Architecture, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Bash, Virtualization, Linux
Solution Architect
2014 - 2015
AXA Group
- Designed and migrated workloads from legacy tier 3 storage to Nutanix hyper-converged platform.
- Implemented and supported new Citrix XenDesktop 7.0 for 1,000 users and different branches of AXA Bank across Belgium and Germany.
- Designed and implemented Nutanix environment to build a new Citrix XenApp 7 farm.
Technologies: VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, Azure Active Directory, Dell EMC, Virtualization, Linux
System Administration Advisor
2012 - 2013
Dell
- Migrated ESX and ESXi hosts from 3.5 to 4.1, VMware Tools, and hardware to upgrade virtual machines.
- Resolved intermittent technical issues on ESX and ESXi hosts via SSH console.
- Installed, managed, and configured vCenter Server and managed ESX host profiles.
- Supported customers by providing technical assistance for their Citrix, Windows, virtual infrastructure, and physical infrastructure involving server hardware from DELL, IBM, and HP. It also included VMware and 4.5, 6.5, and 7.6 versions of Citrix.
- Provided level 3 support for high-level incidents, resolved issues with proper root cause analysis, and maintained service level agreements with customers in an efficient manner.
Technologies: VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, Virtualization, Linux
Senior System Engineer
2011 - 2012
Tesco
- Monitored and maintained Windows and Citrix servers, which included a base of 10,000 users and over 100 applications.
- Created MSI packages using Citrix installation package in Citrix 4.5 and 5.0. Acquired proficiency in application streaming and publishing streaming profiles to enable user access.
- Published applications, content, and desktops to users in the Citrix management console.
- Created a test environment in Citrix or VMware for the production team to test their applications.
Technologies: Citrix, Citrix XenApp, Virtualization, Linux
Technical Consultant
2010 - 2011
IBM
- Designed and sized new hardware for migrating virtual machines workloads from one storage system to another.
- Migrated ESX and ESXi hosts from 3.5 to 4.1. Used VMware Tools to upgrade virtual machines.
- Solved intermittent technical issues on ESX and ESXi hosts using SSH console.
- Built virtual machines on ESX and ESXi hosts, using Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) and vMotion for load balancing, and provided user access to appropriate virtual machines and applications.
Technologies: VMware ESXi, VMware vSphere, Virtualization, Linux
Experience
Data Center Consolidation
Data center migration is the process of moving selected assets from one data center environment to another. It is also referred to as a data center relocation. As part of this project, we had to vacate a data center with 100+ physical servers. We migrated the physical servers to the VMware platform using various tools such as VMware vCenter Converter.
Education
2002 - 2006
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Applications
Panjab University - Chandigarh, India
Certifications
JANUARY 2021 - PRESENT
Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
Microsoft
OCTOBER 2018 - PRESENT
Nutanix Certified Systems Engineer
Nutanix
APRIL 2017 - PRESENT
VMware Certified Professional
VMware
Skills
Tools
VMware, Terraform, VMware vSphere, Citrix XenApp, Dell EMC, Azure MFA
Languages
Bash, Python, Python 3, C++
Paradigms
Azure DevOps, DevOps
Platforms
Windows Server, Azure IaaS, Linux, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, Kubernetes, Citrix, Azure PaaS, Windows, Unix
Storage
Azure Cloud Services, Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, EMC VNX SAN, Databases
Other
Azure Virtual Networks, Nutanix, Nutanix AHV, Architecture, Virtualization, Azure VDI, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Microsoft Entra, Identity & Access Management (IAM), VMware ESXi, Computer Networking, Azure Administrator
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