Profile Summary
Systems and Cloud Administrator with around 7 years running Windows Server, IIS and VMware infrastructure in 24x7 production environments, including 3+ years in vulnerability management and SOC operations. Experienced across AWS provisioning, ESXi cluster administration, F5 and IIS-based load balancing, SQL Server administration, SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle and PowerShell automation. Comfortable owning high-severity incidents end to end — triage, root cause analysis, remediation and documentation — while maintaining secure, reliable and highly available application infrastructure.
7+ Yrs · Systems & Cloud
3+ Yrs · Security
AWS · VMware
IIS · F5 · SQL
Qualys · SOC
Professional Experience
System Administrator
Nov 2022 – Present
eProductivity Software (ePS) India Pvt Ltd
VMwareAWS
QualysSOCSQL Server
- Administer VMware ESXi clusters across Production, QA and Development environments, including host provisioning, storage allocation, VM lifecycle management and live migrations.
- Provision and operate AWS infrastructure including EC2, S3, RDS, OpsWorks stacks and CloudWatch alarms supporting business-critical applications.
- Own OS patching and vulnerability remediation through Qualys, working scan findings to closure and reducing critical and high-severity exposure across the Windows estate.
- Act as SOC analyst on Security Onion: monitor alerts, triage and investigate suspicious activity, and escalate confirmed incidents with documented analysis.
- Manage the full SSL/TLS certificate lifecycle and application-level security configuration for internal and customer-facing services.
- Handle SQL Server administration including user permissioning, backup and restore operations, and production query support.
- Automate deployments, IIS administration and recurring maintenance with PowerShell, reducing manual effort on repeat tasks and configuration drift.
System Administrator
Dec 2020 – Nov 2022
EFI (Electronics for Imaging)
VMwareQualys
Security OnionF5 BIG-IPSCCM
- Administered VMware private cloud and ESXi clusters end to end — host additions, storage expansion, VM migrations and capacity planning.
- Partnered with the Qualys security team to drive vulnerability remediation across Windows infrastructure, closing findings within agreed SLA windows.
- Ran SOC operations on Security Onion, performing event analysis, incident response and escalation of security events.
- Led quarterly DR drills for cloud-hosted application servers, validating failover procedures and recovery objectives and documenting gaps.
- Configured and maintained F5 load balancers for application high availability and delivered monthly Windows patching cycles via SCCM.
- Performed SQL Server administration including schema creation, access management, scheduled backups and restores.
- Administered SSL certificates and built PowerShell tooling to automate repetitive administrative and reporting tasks.