Manish Kumar Kushwaha

Experience

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  Indian Air Force

  Jun 2002 - Jun 2022

  • Building, configuring, patching, upgrading and troubleshooting of physical and virtual Linux servers (rack mounts/blades, and VMs). Building, configuring, patching, upgrading and troubleshooting of physical and virtual Windows servers (rack mounts/blades, and VMs). Taking care of backup, off-site tape storage, inventory-asset management. Investigating, resolving and closing user reported PC problems and application issues through our ticketing system• Built and configured physical/virtual Linux and Windows servers, ensuring system uptime and performance.• Served as WSUS Administrator, deploying updates and maintaining configuration baselines.• Supporting users in the use of computer equipment by providing necessary training and advice. Typical duties listed on an Active Directory Administrator resume include creating and managing domains, preparing disaster recovery strategies, offering technical support to users, upgrading software, and handling user accounts. Monitor server event logs, performance logs, growth of data on the network, and checking the status of nightly server backups. Ensures compliance with uptime and performance standards and develops system and product benchmarking and monitoring. Ensures compliance with uptime and performance standards and develops system and product benchmarking and monitoring. Provide detailed project status reporting as directed by management. • Performs day-to-day maintenance and installation of server, network equipment, virtual machines, messaging, backups and storage. Work on moderately complex assignments, using judgment to resolve problems and make routine recommendations Develop and maintain detailed maintenance and contingency plans and documentation for server infrastructure. • Led inventory management and procurement processes for avionics and IT infrastructure using GeM.• Trained personnel in system operations and provided hands-on technical support. Show less Radar Commn Engineer Asst, Technical Draftsman, Technical Writer, Workshop Manager, Test Engineer, Quality Assurance Asst, Facility Management, Work experience of performing 1st Line, 2nd and primary star servicing of of Avionics Equipment’s of Hawk Jet Trainer Aircraft that include onsite snag analysis, rectification and RI (Removal and Installation) of equipment’s and their further documentation. Independently Handled snag analysis, rectification, ground equipment’s and servicing of Aircraft. Trained to carry Ist line activities on Avionics equipment’s of AW101 Helicopter. Cross trained on Radio, Electrical and Instrument systems of Aircraft. Supervisor in Tarmac Management, Aircraft Marshalling, Aircraft Picketing, Ground Clearance, Fire Ext Manning, Crash Trolly Driving, Crash Duties. Experienced to organize, control and supervise office and subordinates. Independently managed Inventory Managements of Avionics Equipment’s and Avionics Testers used on Aircrafts. Experienced in Maintaining log books and technical documents related to Aircraft. Show less Work experience of performing 1st Line and 2nd Line servicing of Radio/Radar Equipment’s of MI-8 Helicopter that include onsite snag analysis, rectification and RI (Removal and Installation) of equipment’s and their further documentation.Radar Commn Engineer Asst, Technical Draftsman, Technical Writer, Workshop Manager, Test Engineer, Quality Assurance Asst, Facility Management, Customer Care.Experienced in Independently handling procurements of Electronics Equipment’s and IT peripherals on GeM (Government e- Marketplace). Show less

  • Senior System Administrator

    Jun 2002 - Jun 2022

  • Senior Technical Support Specialist

    Mar 2009 - Mar 2015

  • Radar System Engineer

    Jun 2002 - Mar 2009
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  Alvaria, Inc.

  Aug 2022 - now

  System Engineer

  • Diagnose and resolve complex technical issues across electronic systems and IT infrastructure.• Manage automation platforms. Maintain automation servers, scripts, repos. Continue to develop new automation and tooling. Conduct regular system audits.• Build and deploy customer systems, New add-ons and Upgrades on customer systems.• Maintain Production systems. Manage the infrastructure.• Build and manage virtual servers (Linux/Windows), including configuration, patching, upgrading, and automation.• Managing Bitbucket repos, reviewing and publishing.• Experienced in large production environments using configuration management tools like Ansible,wrote Playbook, Modules and utilized community Playbooks as well.• Knowledge in AWS Cloud which includes services like: EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, Subnets, ELB, Auto scaling,Security Groups etc.• Good Exposure to Virtualization.• Implement IT automation using tools like Ansible and Rundeck, enhancing operational efficiency.• Oversee Active Directory administration, including domain management and disaster recovery planning.• Develop and maintain technical documentation, contingency plans, and project status reports.• Provide mentorship and training to junior engineers, fostering skill development and team collaboration.• Worked in Agile environment and using JIRA for tracking and Confluence documenting a story.• Organized and prioritized work to complete assignments in a timely, efficient manner.• Cooperated with superiors and colleagues to achieve goals. Show less