SUMMARY

• 8 years of IT experience in Windows Azure Cloud Computing, Server Administration, Storage Administration and Application support
• Expertise into Administration in Windows, Linux & Storage (NETAPP, EMC, IBM, HP, Pure & Hitachi) technologies
• Worked as Storage and System Administrator/Implementer/Designer/Architect for some of the giant in large enterprise infrastructure environment
• Maintaining & Managing User Profiles (Local, Roaming, Mandatory). Windows Azure infrastructure As A Services (IAAS Platform). Creating cloud service, Virtual Machine Creation in Azure Portal
• Design, architecture and deployment of SAN & NAS (ISILON, VNX & NETAPP) technology infrastructure to deliver systems and services with high availability and reliability, Dell compellent sc40/3
• Experience in designing, deploying virtual networks and upgrading systems, including hardware, software, networks, databases, servers and peripheral equipment.
• Extensive experience with Active Directory, GPO’s, DHCP, DNS, IP, Sub Nets, VPNs, vLAN, Network routing, firewalls, LAN/WAN switching and Backup & Recovery, File & Print Server, IIS (Web Server), FTP, Terminal Server
• Extensive experience developing procedures, policies, technical manuals, software guides and instructions, executive briefings and presentations
• Team management experience in both Systems Administration and Software Engineering project environments.
• Expertise in Windows Azure Deployment Engineering (WADE)
• Expertise in with Virtualization technologies like installing, configuring, VMware vSphere. Creation, management, administration and maintenance of virtual servers and clients
• Extensive knowledge in advance features of ESX VMOTION, SVMOTION, HA and DRS.
• Experience inP2V, V2V MIGRATION using VMware Converter / Plate Spin 6.8.x. Creating host and client VM templates and cloning.
• Proficient in NetApp FAS - 3000/6000 Series Filer Administration, NFS/CIFS configuration, exports, quota management, near store Administration, and Data migration support.
• Experience in Data Fabric Manager/Operation Manager for NetApp storage Allocation and Monitoring for issues.
• Expertise in object storage technology EMC Arrays- VNX, VMAX, VPLEX, VBLOCK, ISILON & ECS
• Very good understanding of EMC ISILON, VNX & NETAPP FAS series hardware architecture
• Expertise in integration of NAS & SAN storages in Datacenters
• Comprehensive understanding of Storage products of EMC Data Storage, IBM Storage, HP 3PAR, NetApp, DELL and Hitachi Data Systems, Fiber Channel switches of CISCO and Brocade
• Strong experience in EMC, IBM, HP 3PAR, NetApp & Hitachi local and remote replication Technologies
• Strong experience in Virtualization - VPLEX, SVC, IBM Storewize, XIO, XIV, NetApp Virtual Provisioning, FAST VP, Easy Tier, NetApp DP, Flash, HDP, HDT and UVM.
• Worked as Storage and System Administrator/Implementer/Designer/Architect for some of the giant in large enterprise infrastructure environment
• Experience with NetApp Filers FAS2220, FAS2520, FAS3210/40, FAS8020, AFF200, AFF700s, AFF400, V-Series & E-Series
• CIFS/NFS and multi-protocol migration from NetApp 3xxx to Isilon X series, VNX and Celerra to Isilon 6 node cluster.
• Extensive experience of file level migration in multi domain environment
• Knowledge of NFS and CIFS share creation using Filer view/OCI and CLI interface on FAS filers and Isilon GUI and on CLI
• Expertise in implementing DR solution using HDS True Copy, Shadow Image & Universal Replicator
• Expertise in Storage Array Migrations and Switch Migrations

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Isilon: Design & Implementation, Configure Cluster, SmartConnect Advanced, SnapShotIQ, InsightIQ, SyncIQ, Smartlock, Nodepool migration & SmartFail, Isilon HDFS Integration, CloudPools, SMB/NFS files sharing, permissions and firmware/Onefs code upgrades.

ECS: Configure & Administrator of VDC, Namespace, Buckets, Replication, storage pools and integration with isilon.

NetApp: Configuring of aggregate, volumes, SMB/NFS files sharing, SnapMirror, Snapshot, SnapVault and network configuration.

EMC: EMC VMAX, VMAX3, Xtreme IO, DMX, Celerra, VNX & VBLOCK

Storage Management Tools: EMC ECC, EMC Vipr SRM, Unisphere, SYMCLI, SMC, HDS Hi-Command Suite, Tuning Manager, Storage Navigator, SNM2, SMU, RAIDCOM, IBM TPC/TPC-R, DS-CLI, Data on-command manager

Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services, GCP & Azure

Migration Tools: DataDobi, Robocopy, EMCOPY, Open Replicator, SRDF, PPME, SVC Migration Tool, TDFM, IP Replicator & HDS UVM and Tiered Storage Manager

Fabric Administration : Fabric building, Brocade Network Advisor, VSAN, ISL, Trunking using Cisco MDS and Director Class switches. DCFM, FM and DM

Data Protection Tools & S/W : EMC SRDF, TF, Recover Point, IBM Metro, Global Mirror, Flash Copy, NetApps Snapshots, Snap Mirror, Snap Vault for both 7 and C-Mode, Thin Image, CCI, Veritas NetBackup, RMAN backup, Actifio, Rubrik and TSM.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. Storage & Backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working as Cloud Administrator on Microsoft Azure, involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups.
• Remote login to Virtual Machines to troubleshoot, monitor and deploy applications.
• Managing Windows 2012 servers, troubleshooting IP issues and working with different support teams.
• Troubleshoot Azure related issues and engage internal teams and vendor for issue resolutions
• Develop and maintain knowledge base articles
• Managing day to day activity of the cloud environment, supporting development teams with their requirements
• Responsible for the planning, scheduling, license tracking, coordination for deployment of monitoring solutions & lead project to completion.
• Understand the business application/service need for a monitoring & event management solution
• Perform hands-on system configuration and lead the team to meet service level expectations
• Regular health check for monitoring tools & audit for tool’s event, health, capacity
• Installed and configured Splunk to monitor applications deployed on application server, by analyzing the application and server log files
• Develop processes to monitor and alert for critical business transactions and applications to catch an issue before the impact
• Configured the alerts, jobs and performing administration tasks for on boarding projects.
• Worked with server team in resolving connectivity issues with external partners
• Led design and layout of NetApp storage units for production and DR, including Snap mirror connection between the storage units. Performed of data documentation for go-live of the DR environment.
• Lead SAN Architect, Re-architected SAN environment from ground up. Doubled the capacity of SAN without any impact to the service levels. Implemented one of the first successful Cluster SAN (C-Mode) solutions.
• Lead NAS Architect, Re-architected NAS environment from ground up. Doubled the capacity of NAS without any impact to the service levels. Implemented one of the first successful EMC Isilon NAS solutions.
• Ensure storage & backup strategies are in-line with business objectives and team goals
• Identify, evaluate, PoC, design, test and automate storage architectures around object and file storage as well as cloud integrated backup and recovery pipelines
• Provide proactive consultancy and definition of requirements to other IT teams ensuring projects are aligned with the storage & backup architectural strategy and will meet required service levels
• Research and develop designs, including strategic roadmap for all infrastructure NAS/SAN devices and associated software and tools, ensuring enterprise-wide architecture consistency.
• Write technical documents and developed manual for SAN and NAS
• Participate to change management process by handling various system upgrades and migrations
• Analyzing and performing space savings remedies, which results in saving bidget cost of the project
• Responsible for the storage & backup lifecycle management strategy including architecture/design & NTI, ensuring solutions are implemented in a state of operational readiness (accurate & complete CMDB, SOP’s, run books) and strategy for managing end of service life
• Oversight of storage & backup infrastructure ensuring sufficient capacity and that systems continue to operate as designed
• Identify, evaluate, PoC design, test and automate storage architectures around object and file storage as well as cloud integrated backup and recovery pipelines
• Developed detailed knowledge of various vendor’s storage and backup solutions such as NetApp, IBM, Isilon, Actifio, Rubrik and others
• Configured and implemented a DR solution between multiple data centers utilizing NetApp SAN and NAS for Cluster Mode.
• Design and deployed Actifio Backup solution for Oracle environment
• Design and deployed Rubrik Backup solution for VMware environment
• Performed the block level migrations from XIV to NetApp using Foreign LUN Import (FLI)
• Performed the unstructured Data Migration from NetApp 7-mode to EMC Isilon by using EMCOPY, ROBOCOPY, RYSYNC & DataDobi tool.
• Integrate Storage platform logging APIs with data pipelines to establish effective monitoring, dashboards and self-healing platforms to facilitate a data-driven approach to problem resolution, capacity management and costs effectiveness
• Installed and configured the ISILON H500 and managed the OneFS distributed File system with OneFS Storage Administrator GUI

Confidential

Storage & Backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared quality technical documents as a deliverable, prepared technical presentations for CIO, VPs and directors
• Performs initial backup run and testing and provide remediation if necessary
• Reduced costs by implementing a small footprint large capacity drive solution for storage products.
• Provides workaround for incidents that cannot be resolved immediately
• Create and maintain technical documentation for all related activities
• Performs Storage LUN provisioning, LUN extension and LUN decommissioning
• Perform daily enterprise storage network activities and administration including management, zoning, provisioning, troubleshooting and debugging
• Reduced costs by implementing a small footprint large capacity drive solution for storage products
• Establishing Universal Replication relationship between PROD & DR environments.
• Create and maintain NFS and CIFS share creation using Filer view/OCI and CLI interface on FAS filers and Isilon GUI and on CLI
• Managed and Provisioned Storage from different protocols SAN and NAS (FC, ISCSI NFS & CIFS), Data Replication and Snapshots in a multiprotocol environment from NetApp
• Configured unified manager, WFA & Operations manager required for Cluster Mode administration with respect to provisioning, monitoring & checking performance on the file systems
• Working as Cloud Administrator on Microsoft Azure, involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups.
• Remote login to Virtual Machines to troubleshoot, monitor and deploy applications.
• Managing Windows 2012 servers, troubleshooting IP issues and working with different support teams.
• Troubleshoot Azure related issues and engage internal teams and vendor for issue resolutions
• Develop and maintain knowledge base articles
• Managing day to day activity of the cloud environment, supporting development teams with their requirements
• Responsible for the planning, scheduling, license tracking, coordination for deployment of monitoring solutions & lead project to completion.
• Understand the business application/service need for a monitoring & event management solution
• Perform hands-on system configuration and lead the team to meet service level expectations
• Regular health check for monitoring tools & audit for tool’s event, health, capacity
• Installed and configured Splunk to monitor applications deployed on application server, by analyzing the application and server log files
• Develop processes to monitor and alert for critical business transactions and applications to catch an issue before the impact
• Implemented BizTalk 360 monitoring tool
• Resolved BizTalk issues related to data flow, IIS and connectivity
• Configured the alerts, jobs and performing administration tasks for on boarding projects.
• Configured email notification alerts and auto correction for BizTalk artifacts using BizTalk360
• Worked with server team in resolving connectivity issues with external partners
• Created SSIS packages to import data from SQL, CSV and text files
• Extensively worked with SQL tasks, script task, Derived column, conditional split and fuzzy lookup
• Implemented error handling mechanisms in SQL code utilizing try catch blocks, throw and other error functions

Confidential

Storage & Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintain highly available and scalable environments in a zero-downtime configuration
• Providing support and advice to other Infrastructure teams as well as developers and end users
• Maintaining a consistently high level of service delivery for incidents, requests and changes
• Strong knowledge of Dell EMC Data Domain, Enterprise-Class tape libraries
• Knowledge of other enterprise backup software products such as Veritas Backup Exec, Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM), Spectrum Protect (Formerly Tivoli Storage Manager) is a big plus
• Strong knowledge of NetApp, EMC VMAX, IBM XIV, DS8K, V7K & SVC
• Knowledge of other enterprise storage software products such as IBM DS8K, Hitachi VSP
• Performed DR drill on NetApp 7-Mode and SVC as part of POC and documentation
• Recovered Lost Storage Data using Snap Restore, Flex Clone, Snap Mirror and Snap Vault
• Configured DFS links for the CIFS shares
• Knowledge in SAN Structure - Disk allocation, LUNs, Zoning & Mapping

Confidential

Storage & Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configured NDMP for Snap Vault and Tape Backups
• Creation of Data ONTAP 7G Aggregates, Flexvols, VIFs and VLANs as well has allocating storage through iSCSI, NFS, FCP
• Implementation and Administration of de-duplication (SIS)
• Added DS4243 Shelves to New or Existing Loop to Increase Storage Space
• Configured DSM MPIO 3.4,3.5 and 4.0 in the Environment for Load Balancing
• Managed Snapshot Retentions and Snap mirror Intervals as a part of Backup Strategy
• Recovered Lost Storage Data using Snap Restore, Flex Clone, Snap mirror and Snap Vault
• Created Volume and Qtree Snap mirror Relationships as a part of Disaster Recovery Planning
• Implementation and Administration of OSSV & performing backup's and restore through OSSV
• Managed Filers using On-Command System Manager, Filer View, CLI and Provisioning Manager
• Implementing and Administering NAS Solutions (CIFS & NFS) on windows and different Unix O.S
• Created Aggregates, Volume, Qtrees, Vlans, Virtual Interfaces, Igroups, VFiler's, CIFS Shares and NFS Exports