RAJASEKHAR
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E-Mail:itsraj@outlook.com
To work in a challenging environment demanding all my skills and efforts to explore and adapt myself in different fields, and realize my potential and contribute to the development of organization with impressive performance.
Summary
- Over 18+ years of IT experience in infrastructure systems engineering, management and administration.
- 10+ years of experience with designing production SharePoint 2013 on-prem environment on Windows Server 2016 with NLB.
- Hands on experience with Microsoft SharePoint Server (WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007/2010/2013/2016/2019).
- Hands on experience with OOTB features of SharePoint Technology.
- Hands on experience with SharePoint Designer workflows, Power Automate and Nintex workflows.
- 10+ years of experience in Windows Servers Administration.
- 7+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure Cloud IAAS and AWS.
- Hands on experience with VMware and Hyper-V environments.
- Hands on experience with HP Servers/Blades (ProLiant) Hardwareâs EMC and HP Storage Environment (installing Windows Server OS on them usingiLOand maintaining).
- Hands on experience with Windows server 2012/16/19 and Linux (Ubuntu) Servers.
- Creation of internal application servers on Windows 2016 environment.
- Creation of RDS servers on Windows 2016 (to utilize them as jump servers for application teams).
- Hands on experience Active Directory, Group Policy, Group/User Management, DNS, DHCP, IIS, FTP, Exchange 2010/16 and O365 On Prem and Cloud Environment.
- Hands on experience with BigFix Patch Management Tool.
- Hands on experience with Symantec Backup Exec Backup Tools.
- Hands on experience with Nagios and other monitoring and Ticketing Tool.
- Hands on experience with modern cloud native web servers like Caddy, Traefik and NGINX.
- Hands on experience with code repositories and version control systems like Github, Gitlab, Gitea (self-managed on-prem).
- 6+ years of experience with CICD Tools or Pipelines like Github Actions, Gitea Actions, Gitlab CICD, Drone CI, Woodpecker CI, Jenkins and Azure DevOps.
- 5+ years of experience with Docker Containers (building and publishing custom containers to Docker hub as well as GitHub repo),Podman& Container Orchestration using Docker Swarm and Kubernetes.
- 5+ years of experience with ELK Stack (used ELK stack as an internal searchapplication in docker swarm environment and integrated different data sources using ETL tools like Kestra and Airbyte).
- 5 + years of experience with EKS and Kubernetes
- Hands on experience with distributed tracing environment using Jaeger, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus,Quickwit, ClickHouse and Pyroscope to analyze the logs, metrics & traces to improve the application performance.
- Hands on experience in deploying CMS Systems like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal in docker swarm environment with GlusterFS replicated volume for data persistent.
- Hands experience with IAAS tools like Pulumi, Terraform and Ansible.
- Hands on experience with AI Tools like Local AI, Anything LLM, Ollama andFlowise.
- Hands on experience with MSSQL/MySQL/Mariadb/MongoDB Database servers.
- Hands on experience with PCI, and SOX Security standards.
- Excellent Project Management and IT skills.
Computer Skills
DevOps: GitHub, Gitlab, Gitea, Drone CI, Woodpecker CI and Jenkins
Docker: Docker, Docker Compose,Podman, Docker Swarm, K8S
Cloud: Azure, AWS, Linode, Digital Ocean, SSD Nodes, Vultr
SharePoint: WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007/2010/2013/2016/2019
Monitoring: Nagios, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, ELK, Open Search
Webservers: Caddy Server, Traefik, Nginx, IIS
OS:Windows Server 2008/2012/2016/2019, Ubuntu
Database:MSQL, MySQL, Maria DB, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse
Frameworks:Astro
Experience
- Working asIT Systems SpecialistinFoundever, Bangalore from July 2013 to till date
- Worked as aSenior EngineerinNovozymes South AsiaPvt.Ltd,Bangalore from Sep 2010 to June 2013
- Worked as anIT EngineerinCMC Ltd,Hyderabad from Sep 2006 to May 2010
Education
- MTech, Electrical (C&I) fromMNNIT, Allahabad in 2003-2005
- BTech, Electronics and Instrumentation fromNagarjuna University, Guntur in 1998-2002
Projects
Recent Projects:
- On-Prem physical (HP ProLiant), Virtual (VMWare) and Azure Cloud Infrastructure (VMâs) maintenance.
- Windows Server 2012/16/19 Clustered Environment.
- Windows Active Directory 2008/03/12/16 Infrastructure.
- Supporting RDS environment.
- Corporate SharePoint 2010/2013 on-prem Infrastructure maintenance (Windows 2012 R2) and Cloud Environment (O365) maintenance as well.
- Migration of SharePoint 2007 to 2010 and 2010 to 2013 Foundation.
- Maintenance of IIS Application servers.
- Container based docker swarm infrastructure management (GlusterFS as replicated volume for data high availability).
- Creating and publishing custom docker containers using CICD tools like GitHub Actions, Drone CI, Gitea Actions and Woodpecker CI based on the requirement.
- Deployed Caddy Server as a reverse proxy and load balancer in docker swarm environment. Caddy automatically obtains and renews TLS certificates for the all sites deployed behind it.
- Internal Search Application using ELK Stack.
- Distributed Tracing Infrastructure using Caddy, Jaeger, Prometheus, Grafana,Quickwitand Pyroscope.
- Deployed AKS environment to deploy micro-services.
Company:Foundever(July 2013 to Till Date)
Responsibilities:
- Managing/Supporting of On-Prem Physical, virtual and Microsoft Azure/AWS Cloud Environment.
- Managing/Supporting of VMware vSphere 6.2, ESXi Server Environment,
- Creation, management of virtual machines, migrations, cloning/ templates.
- Creation and maintenance of Windows Servers (VMâs) on VMWare infrastructure as well as in Azure Cloud.
- Creating/Managing/Supporting of Windows Server 2012/16/19 Clustered Environment.
- Creating/Supporting/Managing of internal application server on Windows 2016 environment.
- Creating/Managing/Supporting RDS servers on Windows 2016 (to utilize them as jump servers for application teams).
- Managing/Supporting of IIS, DNS, DHCP, File Server and FTP.
- Managing/Supporting of Windows Active Directory 2008/03/12/16 Infrastructure.
- Managing/supporting of Group policy and Security Policies.
- Data Center Migrations both Azure Cloud and VMware Virtualized Environment.
- Designed and implemented production WSS 3.0 and SP2010/2013 Server Farm environment.
- Functional support to Intranet Portal and Enhancements based on user requests.
- Creating new department and project sites based on the user request.
- Worked with different OOTB web parts of SharePoint.
- Creating new permission levels and giving the user permissions.
- Creating custom workflows using SharePoint Designer 2007/2010/2013.
- Moving some of the sites to Cloud Environment.
- Hands on Experience with Veritas Backup Exes (Backup Solution).
- Hands on Experience with NetAppAltvaultAppliance.
- Basic knowledge SQL/Oracle Database Servers.
- Supporting/Managing Symantec End Pont Server.
- Supporting/Managing IBM Bigfix Patch Management Environment.
- Monitoring servers through Nagios Monitoring Tool.
- Designed and built production Enterprise Search Environment using ELK Stack and integrate different content courses with ELK Stack (SharePoint On-prem, SharePoint Online, GitHub etc.,) using ETL tools like CloudQuery, Kestra, Airbyte.
- WordPress environment on Docker Swarm cluster using GlusterFS as replicated volume and Caddy as reverse proxy.
- Hands on experience with Distributed Tracing or Observability Stack (Jaeger, Grafana, Loki, Prometheus,Quickwit, ClickHouse and Pyroscope).
Previous Project 1:Electronic Lab Notebook â ELN(Sepâ10-Junâ13)
Company:Novozymes, DK
Description:Electronic Lab Notebook is key application in Novozymes R&D department that replaces the daily manual research paper work. A basic electronic lab notebook system (ELN) consists of an authoring tool, notebook management and digital signing software. As today with the paper lab notebook, the system will support a number of lab notebooks. The lab notebooks are virtual of cause and can span sites, locations and have no practical limit in number of pages. It will be up to the super users of the system to administrate lab notebooks. An electronic lab notebook is regarded as collection of experiments grouped together (by project or personal).
An experiment is seen as a collection of following data:
- Office document (Word/Excel) with experiment notes
- PDF file with digital signature, rendered directly from the Office document
- Supplementary files, e.g., raw data, spreadsheets, etc.
- Images (gels, chromatograms, etc.). This is basically also just supplementary files
- Meta data about the experiment (experiment number and name, project, author, department, etc.)
SharePoint is used as central experiment repository and integration platform. Since quite a lot of experiment and files will be created in the system, and there are some specific requirements on security and search on experiment level, the technical design of the SharePoint model is very important.
Responsibilities:
- Main responsibilities include functional support to ELN, CSELN and RDC sites, i.e., SharePoint Administration
- Creating new department and project sites based on the user request
- Creating new permission levels and giving the user permissions
- Creating custom workflows using SharePoint Designer 2007
- Worked with Audience targeting feature of SharePoint
- Worked with different OOTB web parts of SharePoint
Previous Project 2:Electronic Content Management System (Apr 2007 to May 2008)
Company:Xerox Corporation, USA
Description: Xerox Corporationis the world's leading document management technology and services enterprise. Xerox's services expertise is unmatched and includes helping businesses develop online document archives, analyzing how employees can most efficiently share documents and knowledge in the office, operating in-house print shops or mailrooms, and building Web-based processes for personalizing direct mail, invoices, brochures and more.Free Flow Prepress Suite is a bundle of components of Free Flow Makeready, Free Flow Process Manager and Free Flow Web Services, Free Flow Print Manager and Common Printer Administration Components. FFPS allows user to scan the hardcopy documents to create electronic images; assemble the images into documents; edit and enhance documents; store, catalog, and retrieve documents; and submit documents to a Xerox Production Printer to produce high-quality output. Free Flow Prepress Suite enables the user to create and manage large volumes of huge documents in an organized way in the server repository.
Responsibilities:
- Developed an Intranet portal for Xerox production support
- Developed DMS (Document Management System) to store, catalog and retrieve documents
- Developed a bug tracking system to solve printer related issues for production purpose
- Developed custom user controls and web parts
- Configured enterprise search with BDC and also configured different iFilters to retrieve the docs based on meta data
- Developed a dashboard for production department
- Developed custom workflows using Nintex Workflow 2007
Previous Project 3:Pharmacy Management System (Sep 2006 to Mar 2007)
Company:Suncoast Pharma
Description:Sun Coast Pharmacy is a family owned and operated retail pharmacy servicing its local South Florida community. Sun Coast Pharmacy is looking to provide business-to-business partnerships and encourage non-traditional channels to sell their products. Sun Coast has made strides to create a new web presence that markets their name but also provides ways to enhance its relationship with its customers.
Responsibilities:
- Manual testing of the application
- Involved in functional testing
- Involved in prepared test cases based on FDCRâs
- Carried out System, Integration and Performance testing of the application
- Bug tracking and setting priorities using JIRA
- Worked closely with developers in reporting bugs reported
- Navigational testing of the hyperlinks provided in the web pages in different browsers and operating system combination.
- Tested for look and feel of web pages
Personal
Full Name:Rajasekhar Gundala
Father Name:PrasadaraoGundala
Date of Birth:20/06/1980
Sex:Male
Marital Status: Married
LanguagesKnown:Telugu, English & Hindi
Permanent Address:Habsiguda, Hyderabad, Telangana - 500007, India
Good Analytical & communications skills, work efficiently in group as well as individually, Self-starter & hardworking, Zeal to learn new technologies
Dear Hiring Team at Supplyhouse,
As a Senior Infrastructure and Web Platform Lead with a relentless drive for operational excellence, I am excited to apply for the Infrastructure Engineering role at Supplyhouse. My career has been defined by architecting scalable systems, establishing robust observability cultures, and aggressively pursuing automationâprinciples that directly align with Supplyhouse's goal of elevating reliability and developer productivity.
In my recent projects, I have focused heavily on modernizing distributed infrastructure and backend telemetry. By leveraging enterprise deployment configurations for Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry, I have established comprehensive SLAs, stronger anomaly detection, and rigorous capacity planning protocols. I believe that true reliability comes from setting unreasonably high standards for signal detection and ensuring that when a defect is fixed, it stays fixed.
Beyond traditional infrastructure, I am deeply invested in AI enablement. In March 2026, I architected and built a multi-tenant AI automation platform from the ground up, utilizing cutting-edge LLM tooling to scale high-traffic backend services. I am highly comfortable integrating AI into daily engineering workflowsâwhether using conversational LLM tools for rapid research and troubleshooting, or deploying AI to enhance internal toolingâto accelerate shipping velocity without compromising security.
I operate with a strong bias for action and candid collaboration. I am not bound by convention; if an established CI/CD pipeline, database schema, or deployment pattern is a bottleneck, I will champion a better way. I believe in earning trust through active listening and respectful debate, but once a decision is made, I commit wholly to delivering results. I thrive in high-growth environments where calculated risk-taking is encouraged and engineering standards are continually raised.
I would welcome the opportunity to discuss how my background in infrastructure, observability, and AI-driven development can contribute to Supplyhouseâs technical roadmap.
How is the infrastructure team currently balancing the rollout of new AI enablement tools against ongoing capacity planning and scaling for Supplyhouse's core services?
Sincerely,
Rajasekhar Gundala
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
SeasonedDevOps Managerwith 16+ years of experience in IT infrastructure, specializing inWindows Administration,VMware virtualization,SharePoint management, andmonitoring & observability platforms. Proven ability to lead DevOps transformation initiatives, architect scalable systems, and implement best-in-class CI/CD pipelines. Strong expertise inELK Stack,Grafana,Jaeger,ClickHouse, andOpenTelemetry, driving visibility, performance, and operational excellence across enterprise applications.
CORE COMPETENCIES
- DevOps Strategy & Transformation
- Windows Server Administration (2003â2019)
- VMware ESXi, vSphere, vCenter
- SharePoint Server Configuration & Maintenance
- CI/CD Pipeline Automation (Jenkins, GitLab CI)
- Monitoring & Observability: ELK, Grafana, Jaeger, Prometheus
- ClickHouse & OpenTelemetry Integration
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible)
- Cloud Platforms: Azure, AWS (basic exposure)
- Incident & Problem Management (ITIL)
- Team Leadership & Stakeholder Communication
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior DevOps Manager
ABC Technologies Pvt Ltd, Hyderabad |Jul 2018 â Present
- Led a 10-member DevOps team to streamline infrastructure and deployment operations across 100+ production servers.
- Migrated legacy monitoring tools toELK Stack and Grafana, improving system visibility and MTTR by 40%.
- Architected observability stack usingOpenTelemetry,Jaeger, andClickHouseto monitor microservices latency and distributed traces.
- Automated provisioning and patching of Windows and VMware environments viaPowerShellandAnsible.
- Championed CI/CD adoption withJenkinsandGitLab CI, reducing manual deployments by 80%.
- Collaborated with application and infra teams to enforceDevSecOpspractices and compliance monitoring.
Systems Administrator / DevOps Lead
XYZ Solutions, Bangalore |Mar 2012 â Jun 2018
- Managed large-scale Windows environments (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policies).
- Deployed and maintained multipleSharePoint farms, ensuring high availability and business continuity.
- Implemented VMware clustering and vMotion for dynamic resource management.
- Introduced centralized logging and alerting usingElastic Stack.
- Coordinated with developers to design pre-production environments and improve deployment cycles.
Windows Administrator
Infosys Technologies, Pune |Aug 2008 â Feb 2012
- Provided L3 support for Windows infrastructure spread across globaldatacenters.
- Configured performance counters, event log monitoring, and automated health checks.
- Supported early adoption of VMware in the organization, aiding virtualization of 100+ physical servers.
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology in Computer ScienceJNTU, Hyderabad â 2007
CERTIFICATIONS
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
- Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Administration
- Certified DevOps Leader (DevOps Institute)(optional, if available)
PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS
- Observability Framework Implementation: Designed a full-stack observability solution using OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, ClickHouse, and Grafana to trace distributed services.
- DevOps Enablement for Legacy Applications: Spearheaded transformation of traditional SharePoint-based applications with CI/CD automation and cloud migration readiness.
TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES
Windows Server | VMware vSphere | SharePoint | Jenkins | GitLab | Ansible | Terraform | ELK Stack | Grafana | Jaeger | ClickHouse | OpenTelemetry | PowerShell | Azure | AWS (basic)
