? Administer and support a multi-site VMware vSphere 8 infrastructure with integrated VCF and vSAN clusters across production and DR environments

? Fortified disaster recovery readiness by designing and maintaining 10+ custom VMware SRM recovery plans; successfully executed quarterly DR test exercises with zero downtime

? Optimized data protection for critical applications by managing IBM FlashSystem and Dell servers alongside VEEAM Backup & Replication; ensured rapid application-level restores (SQL) from multi-tier storage including hardened and tape archives

? Enforced security compliance using CIS Benchmarks and ISO 27001, leveraging vRealize Operations (vROps) for infrastructure analytics and compliance monitoring

? Deployed and validated VMware Identity Manager (vIDM) and Aria Automation (vRA) in lab environments, driving proof-of-concept success and guiding platform adoption decisions

? Deployed NSX-T 4.2 multi-node clusters as PoC, including Edge Clusters, Tier-1 Gateways, Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), and Distributed Firewall (DFW)

? Collaborated with internal IT teams and vendors to enhance infrastructure stability; led root cause analysis efforts and authored detailed technical documentation for troubleshooting and knowledge sharing

Designed, deployed, and managed private cloud solutions for both company and clients. Led operational activities, troubleshooting, and project execution. Transformed functional requirements into technical solutions.

• Design and configuration of VMware private cloud solutions
• Monitor and configure VEEAM Backup and Restore
• Deploy, configure and manage vLCM
• Deploy, update, configure and manage vRealize Automation, vRealize Operations, vIDM
• Deploy and configure VMware vCloud Director (vCD)
• Deploy, configure and manage VMware Horizon
• Configure and maintain vSAN Storage (Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS) and vSAN Witness Appliances
• Configure and maintain VMware VCF
• Configure Windows AD and DNS
• Provision and configure Linux (RHEL/Fedora) and Windows virtual machines
• Deploy and configure vSphere with Kubernetes Cluster ? Nodes and Pods
• Deploy and configure VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations
• Deploy VMware Integrated OpenStack with VMware NSX and Kubernetes support
• Install and configure NSX-T multi-node cluster, NSX Edge Clusters, NSX Manager

Administration and support of the VMware environment as well as administrative activities in the areas of Microsoft, Linux, Backup and Storage

• Backup and Recovery monitoring and troubleshooting (Veeam and Commvault)
• Error analysis NDMP Backup (VEEAM)
• Error analysis Exchange backups via VEEAM
• Upgrade ESXi hosts and vSphere
• Configured and maintained APC PowerChute
• Collaborated on storage-related troubleshooting (NetApp)

Monitoring and analysis of multi-region Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) VMware environment with more than 25 Virtual Center Servers, over 600 ESXi hosts and over 25000 virtual machines

• Prepared architecture-level environment documentation
• Performed environment monitoring and upgrades
• Implemented VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics
• Analyzed environment along with using Skyline Health reports for issue resolution
• Implemented VMware RabbitMQ for Kubernetes for monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Managed virtual server infrastructure for DXC Technology and their customers

• VMware SME for DXC Bulgaria
• Plan / Design / Deploy / Implement / Operation / Optimization / Maintenance of the vSphere infrastructure solutions, following the ITIL procedures, processes, standards and best practices
• VMware Security configuration and system hardening in compliance with the VMware, DXC and Industry standards
• Migration / Upgrade planning and implementation of vSphere/ESXi 3.5 through 6.7
• Set up / maintain Host Profiles
• Set up / maintain HP/IBM/DELL hardware, Blades and Enclosures
• Hardware Monitoring
• Clustering

Manage different types of VoIP based solutions for one of the biggest at the time VoIP providers in Bulgaria

• Installation and configuration of Asterisk server
• Configure CISCO VoIP
• Configure software and hardware VoIP telephony devices

Install, configure and manage of the Linux-based systems for one of the biggest Bulgarian ISP and hosting providers at the time.

• Installation, configuration and support of Linux-based systems
• Installation, configuration and support of Apache, MySQL, PHP, qmail, DHCP, DNS etc.
• Configuration of CISCO network routers.