SUMMARY

• Over 20 years of experience in the Enterprise Information Technologies in the role of Cloud Solution Architect,Backup Storage Administration,Unix Administration, Clustered and HA technologies, Virtualization platforms, Cloud Computing(IAAS/PAAS) and Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure.
• Experience in the design review process and support the overall Enterprise Architecture Management process and Collaborate with the broader architecture community to provide input into IT strategies and standards.
• Team leader with demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships with coworkers.Possess strong technical skills, with strong background in Storage,Backup and Recovery,Cloud based Solutions.
• Experienced procurement professional skilled in managing equipment needs, controlling inventory, and overseeing distribution of hardware.
• Experience in DR planning techniques, technologies and the methods used in performing risk analysis.
• Experience in IT Infrastructure areas including UNIX/Linux Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Server Platforms, AWS and Azure.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Cloud Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Establish infrastructure architecture strategies, choices, and standards including the management of the performance, availability and capacity of the Confidential Provider.
• Build and configure build plans,codepipelines and create automated solutions that can be frame worked and re - used with the Azure ARM templates and the AWS Cloud Formation templates.
• Architect, Design and implemented cloud-based, cloud-native solutions in Dev, test and Production environment workloads on Azure.
• Migrated the On-prem Database,Application and Web Vmware Servers to the Azure Cloud Platform.
• Build the Servers using the Arm templates on MS Azure and the Docker Contaainers.
• Created ARM Templates and deployed the Linux and Windiws VM’s on Azure.
• Created the Azure blob storage on Azure and used Storage explorer to migrate data
• Mounted the Azure blob storage as cifs shares on the Application and Database Servers.
• Implemented Accelerated Networking and LIS on the Linux VM’s for improving the Network latency, throughput on the entire environment.
• Used Azure Netapp Volumes for the Database and Applications Servers.
• Used Application and Network ELB on AWS for load balancing the http,https and network traffic on the VPC Network.
• Used AWS EFS on linux Servers for mounting the EFS filesystem on AWS EC2 instances.
• Develop the Roadmap and planning of Application implementation and migrations to the Cloud Infrastructure.
• Bootstrap the nodes and apply the Chef Roles and cookbooks through the Chef Server on Azure VM’s.
• Implemented the Cloud Infrastructure and the Application Servers Security.
• Automate Linux Server operating Systems, including monitoring, build, patch, upgrade, configuration management, storage management.
• Responsible for Chef automation of tasks across multiple technologies/applications.
• Build the AWS EC2 instances, AMI’s, Application deployments using S3, IAM, VPC,Cloud Formation templates.
• Created new VPC for separate accounts and managed the accounts using AWS Organizations.
• Used AWS S3, EBS, SNS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, Storage Services,IAM, Secuirty Groups, NACLS,Route 53 and various AWS Services for designing and implementing the Projects.
• Built the Kubernetes clusters, worker nodes using AWS ECS Service. Used IAM roles and Authenticator for managing the users.
• Developed Procedures and Shell Scripting to support the daily operations of the Networker Backup environment on the Cloud Platform Azure & AWS Servers.
• Build the Backup and Recovery Solution for the Infrastructure Servers on On-prem and Cloud.

Environment: Azure,AWS, Chef, Azure NetApp, EC2,S3,Cloudtrail,VPC,IAM,Route 53,Cloud Formation, CI/CD tools,EFS, ECS,VMware,Networker,DataDomain DD990, Git, Docker,Kubernetes,Terraform, Powershell, Jenkins.

Confidential

Lead Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Cloud Solution architecture and Design,Enterprise Storage, Backup and Cloud Solutions for various Confidential ’s Clients.
• Establish infrastructure architecture strategies, choices, and standards including the management of the performance, availability, capacity, compliance, and responsiveness of the services delivered by all service providers.
• Lead discovery and assessment of applications and current infrastructure and recommend application migration to public and private cloud.
• Implement AWS Network architecture for an enterprise covering design and build of common service rails such as Network, Compute, Storage, Security, Integration, Monitoring, Automation, Tools etc.
• Responsible for automation of tasks across multiple technologies/applications within AWS.
• Build the EC2 AMI’s, Application deployment and data migration on AWS.
• Built the Puppet, Arm Templates, Chef Recipes for Automating the Server builds.
• Configured AWS RDS, EC2, S3, CloudFront, Cloudwatch, Elasticache, Route53, and VPC.
• Experience in AWS provisioning,Enterprise VPN and Amazon VPC integration with data center.
• Participate in cross-functional IT Architecture group to reviews designs from an enterprise perspective.
• Provided the storage capacity analysis, planning and forecasting information, including storage utilization, optimization,usage, forecasting and planning for short and long term needs.
• Provided expertise in capacity planning and the design and integration of AWS Clouds and Backup technologies inlcuding TSM, Netbackup and Commvault.
• Provisioned the Storage and worked with the business owners for storage capacity needs and forecast demand and support.

Environment: AWS EC2,S3,IAM,Cloudtrail,VPC,Route 53,Cloudera, Hadoop 2.6.0, Map Reduce 2.0, AWS EBS/S3, Puppet, Chef, Git, Jenkins, Docker, Confidential VMAX 20, NetApp, Eternus, Confidential ECC, Unisphere, SRM, Watch4Net, TSM 7.1/6.3.4, Netbackup 6.5/7.5/7.6/7.7.1 , CentricStor CS800,DataDomain DD990,IBM TS3310,LTO-4/5,Opscenter 7.6.0.4/7.7.1 , DPA 6.5.

Confidential

Principal Partner Integration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary role is to Administer, support and maintain the Confidential Data Domain Enterprise SAN Infrastructure, System Design, Planning, Implementation, Hardware, Firmware upgrades, Storage Capacity Planning.
• Configuration and management of VNX arrays using Unisphere Manager.
• Provisioned storage to unix and windows servers and configuration of NFS exports and CIFS shares using Unisphere manager
• Responsible for administration of storage arrays Symmetrix, VMAX, DMX4-950, Clariion CX4-960, CX4-240.
• Configuration and management of Cisco and Brocade Fabric environment. Tasks include creation of device alias, zones, adding zones to zoneset and activating zoneset.
• Provided analysis and solutions for server storage configuration and utilization improvements
• Configured Confidential VNX7500 with 8 Datamovers and configured 3 way NDMP backup for Netbackup,Commvault and Networker Backup Applications using DataDomain Deduplication.
• Created Integration guides to implement the Solutions with DDR and third pary applications and vendors.
• Zoning on Brocade and Cisco MDS Switches for the VTL Backups, CIFS and NFS Protocol backups using Arista 10G Switches over 10G Network.
• Worked on various Customer Escalation issues to reproduce and provide the solution inputs to Development team and the Vendors.

Skills Utilized: Netwroker, DataDomain, Confidential V-MAX, DMX-4/DMX-3, DS8300, VNX, CX3-80, CX500/700,Cisco MDS 9513 and McData 6400 Enterprise Director,SYMCLI, ECC6.1, SMC, Unisphere Manager, Navisphere Manager/CLI, SRDF, TimeFinder, Snap View, MirrorView, SANCopy, Cisco Fabric Manager and Confidential PowerPath, Celerra Manager and DATA Ontap,AIX, Solaris, Windows 2K 12/2008/2003 and Linux.

Confidential

Sr. TSM Admin

Responsibilities:

• Performing day-to-day support of 24x7 environment TSM and Netbackup Servers running distributed instances across the global 4 Data Centers on AIX,Linux,Windows Servers with tasks inclusive of building new TSM Servers,setting up new Confidential DL4400,4200 VTL maintenance.,IBM 3584 and HP MSL 8096 Physical Tape Libraries,upgrades, troubleshooting,TSM DB and Log
• Administrative support, maintenance and troubleshooting of TSM Servers with an automated tape robot system - IBM System Storage TS3500 (3584) Tape Library, HP MSL Library.
• Managed and supported SRDF replications between DR data center locations
• Defined and configured the Policy domain, Management class, Policy set, Archive and Backup group.
• Monitoring and creating reports of the components of TSM, including databases, logs, tape libraries, messages and backups results using Confidential Data Protection Advisor (DPA).
• Implementation of Tivoli Data Products on 32 bit and 64 bit OS Oracle and Exchange Servers.
• Perform restores of customer data as well as assist in complete server recovery due to failures or as part of disaster recovery scenarios using Cristie Bare Machine Recovery (CBMR).

Skills Utilized: TSM 5.5.2.0/6.1 , Netbackup 6.1, IBM 3584 Tape Library, LTO4, LTO3 Tape Drives, HP MSL 8096 Library, AIX, Windows 2008 and Linux.

Confidential, Bloomington, IL

Sr.Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Primary role is to Administer,support and maintain the enterprise TSM Backup and SAN Infrastructure, Research,System Design, Planning, Implementation,Hardware,Firmware upgrades, Migration, Estimation, Storage Capacity Planning,Performance of SAN infrastructure and Disaster Recovery Planning of Storage Technologies.
• Working closely with various application teams, Business Partners to provide highly available business data recovery solutions, Defect Management Services, Processes and Procedures, Problem and Change Management and end user training.
• Additional Responsibilities included day to day TSM & SAN administration, investigating and evaluation of new storage technologies and SAN Tiered storage Designs in a large scale corporate environment across 5 Data Centers.

Skills Utilized: TSM 5.4.1.2, 3494, 3590 Tape Library, LTO1, LTO2 Tape Drives, STK Library

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Open Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities is to install,configure and maintain the Enterprise TSM Servers .
• Implemented Disaster Recovery Planning and wrote shell scripts for offsite tape vaulting, tape management, automation and monitoring the daily operations of the TSM Servers.
• Manage the Enterprise Storage Capacity and Performance of SAN infrastructure.
• Defined and configured the Policy domain, Management class, Policy set, Archive and Backup group.
• Administrative support, maintenance and troubleshooting of TSM backup service of servers with an automated tape robot system - IBM 3590 & L700e Storage Tek Tape Library. Used Bocado for the monitoring and reporting of Backups.

Confidential

Sr.Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various projects on Design, Planning, Implementation, Hardware, SAN,TSM upgrades, Migration, Estimation, Capacity Planning and Disaster Recovery Planning.
• Responsibilities included day to day SAN & TSM administration, evaluation of new technology. Working closely with various application teams to provide highly available business solutions. Data Migration from Windows NT to Windows 2K Servers, System Level Recovery Backups on Win2K Servers.
• Installation, maintainenance of the Storage Systems and managing Enterprise Storage Arrays allocations.