Rajeev Vasudevan

Experience

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  HCL Infosystems Ltd.

  Nov 2000 - May 2005

  Customer Engineer

  Worked as a customer engineer on Installation, configuration and migration of HP UX and windows based servers. Managing server UNIX assets which comprises of multiple Unix Operating systems mainly HPUX,Sco Unix and Linux. I have also worked on design and configuration of data center network using network Switches and HP enterprise Unix Servers and work stations

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  CSC

  May 2005 - Sept 2013

  Principal Consultant

  Worked as Principal consultant and lead a team of engineers mainly responsible for consultation and implementation of new IT infrastructure for CSC clients.Responsibilities :• Handling the UNIX projects, which include server builds, migrations, decommissions virtualizations etc.• Working with the Technical Architects in the design phase of UNIX based environments.• Design and implementation of highly available virtulized environment using IBM VIO , LPARS and Solaris zones.• Design and implementation of highly available clusters using hacmp/vcs that provides resiliency for the critical applications.• Successfully completed the datacentre migration from the Client datacentre to the CSC Datacentres.• Working as a SME with a team of 30 members providing day to day support for 800+ Unix servers.• Worked onsite at the client office, directly interacting with the IT department of the client.• Responsible for handling the technical escalations from the team members.• Responsible to ensure that the team adhere to the processes defined for incident management, change management, problem management etc.• Working with the account management team to ensure that all the operational SLAs are met, projects are delivered in time, quality standards are followed etc. Show less

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  ANZ

  Sept 2013 - Jul 2016

  Unix Designer

  Worked as Unix Designerl lead part of Unix Project Delivery team mainly responsible for consultation and implementation of new IT infrastructure in the bank. Responsibilities :• Perform Consultation, implementation, documentation for multiple engagements• Develop Unix virtualization solutions taking into account sizing, infrastructure, data protection, disaster recovery, and application requirements• Participate in architecture solutioning, Infrastructure design documentation.• Design and implementation of highly available virtualized environment using IBM VIO, LPARS and Solaris zones and Ldoms• Design and implementation of highly available clusters using hacmp/Oracle Rac that provides resiliency for the critical applications.• Design, implement, develop, troubleshoot of customized technical virtualization solutions and solution offerings for virtualization in Datacenter.• Design and implement Disaster recovery solutions for Lpars,Ldoms and VM• Responsible for handling the technical escalations from the team members.• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives• Maintain infrastructure design standards ensure they are documented and up to date and lead efforts to take new technologies into stack on continual basis as appropriate.• Responsible for recommending ways to improve the efficiency of our platform and technologies• Recommend and implement best practices for virtualization products and solutions Show less

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  IBM

  Jul 2016 - May 2017

  Power Systems Consultant

  Worked as Power Systems Technical Specialist / Consultant in the IBM Digital Techline Center, POWER Team. Mainly involves providing technical consultancy to IBM Sales/BP/Distributors and removing technical inhibitors to the sale of IBM products, solutions and serviceResponsibilities :• Worked directly with IBM sales teams, Business Partners, and customers• Act as a technical consultant to our customers and remove technical inhibitors to the sale of IBM products, solutions and services• Provide technical sales support to the Power Systems sales teams to drive sales revenue, articulate technical benefits of IBM’s products, solutions and services to complement seller's discussion with customers, address technical issues and objections.• Provide solution using Power Systems technologies, including Power Systems architectures, IBM i, AIX and Linux operating systems, IBM i software products, virtualization, high availability and Power hardware and software products.• Provide expertise solution to technically differentiate and position against competition, compare and contrast product models, features, and functions, identify considerations to ensure customer readiness for products/solutions, identify considerations for implementation planning, identify considerations for successful solution installation.• Provide capacity planning and performance analysis studies• Design and configure IBM Elastic storage (ESS) solution using IBM Power servers, Storage expansions, Mellanox 100GB IB or Ethernet 10/56 network switches , IBM spectrum scale and Linux operating system• Design and configure IBM High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions.• Design and Configure SAP HANA Solution using IBM Power Enterprise servers and SUSE Enterprise Linux Operating system• Design and configure IBM Analytics and BigaData solutions• Design and configure IBM Power Enterprise Servers for multiple operating systems like AIX,Linux and IBM i series Show less

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  ANZ

  May 2017 - now

  Technical Lead

  Working as Technical lead part of Unix Project Delivery team mainly responsible for consultation and implementation of new IT infrastructure in the bank. Responsibilities :• Perform Consultation, implementation, documentation for multiple engagements• Develop Unix virtualization solutions taking into account sizing, infrastructure, data protection, disaster recovery, and application requirements• Participate in architecture solutioning, Infrastructure design documentation.• Design and implementation of highly available virtualized environment using IBM VIO, LPARS and Solaris zones and Ldoms• Design and implementation of highly available clusters using hacmp/Oracle Rac that provides resiliency for the critical applications.• Design, implement, develop, troubleshoot of customized technical virtualization solutions and solution offerings for virtualization in Datacenter.• Design and implement Disaster recovery solutions for Lpars,Ldoms and VM• Responsible for handling the technical escalations from the team members.• Responsible and accountable for the coordinated management of multiple projects directed toward strategic business and other organizational objectives• Maintain infrastructure design standards ensure they are documented and up to date and lead efforts to take new technologies into stack on continual basis as appropriate.• Responsible for recommending ways to improve the efficiency of our platform and technologies• Recommend and implement best practices for virtualization products and solutions Show less