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Khan Abdul Khafar khan

@khanabdulkhafarkhan

Infrastructure Architect at Cognizant Worldwide Ltd UK designing Nutanix and VMware platforms, hybrid cloud, and disaster recovery.

United Kingdom

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At Cognizant Worldwide Ltd UK, I design and maintain enterprise virtualization architecture across Nutanix and VMware platforms. My work includes highly available active-active datacenter designs, disaster recovery, and hybrid cloud integrations with Azure and AWS.

I’ve also implemented Kubernetes clusters and automated infrastructure tasks with PowerShell and PowerCLI. Earlier, at Cognizant Technologies India and IBM India Pvt. Ltd., I worked on VMware and Nutanix infrastructure, monitoring, migrations, and day-to-day operations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Infrastructure Architect - Nutanix & VMware Virtualization

Current

Cognizant Worldwide Ltd UK

May 2021 - Present (5 years 5 months)

Design and maintain enterprise virtualization architecture standards with focus on Nutanix AHV, AOS, and Prism platforms. Lead Nutanix cluster design, deployment, lifecycle management, and upgrades, and implement disaster recovery and software-defined networking solutions.

Nutanix AHV AOS Prism VSphere HCX VMware NSX VMware VSAN VMware Site Recovery Manager VMware VRealize Operations VRealize Azure AWS Kubernetes PowerShell PowerCLI Terraform Ansible

Infrastructure Architect - VMware & Nutanix Virtualization

Cognizant Technologies India

Sep 2013 - May 2021 (7 years 8 months)

Designed and implemented VMware infrastructure using vSphere 4.x, 5.x, and 6.x for large-scale datacenter virtualization. Deployed Nutanix AHV clusters and implemented Nutanix distributed storage fabric, data protection, and networking.

VSphere Nutanix AHV AOS Prism VMware NSX VMware VSAN VMware VRealize Operations VRealize Kubernetes VMware Tanzu PowerShell PowerCLI Azure AWS

Operations Professional - VMware Infrastructure

IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

Mar 2012 - Sep 2013 (1 year 6 months)

Installed, configured, and managed VMware vSphere 4.x and 5.x environments for multiple enterprise clients. Performed day-to-day operations, monitoring, and troubleshooting of VMware infrastructure including ESXi hosts and vCenter Server.