SUMMARY:

Results - oriented technology leader and accomplished IT professional with experience of architecting and managing storage media, data protection and recovery, public and hybrid cloud, and providing end to end solution for highly visible complex ERP based environment. In-depth hands-on technical expertise complemented by strong leadership, analysis, relationship building and strategic planning skills.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• Infrastructure strategy
• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
• Public & private cloud
• Big Data Eco system
• Architecture Framework
• Disaster Recovery Expert
• Enterprise Storage
• Datacenter automation
• POC analysis & report
• Team Management
• Governance & Compliance
• Problem Resolution

TECHNOLOGY STACK/PLATFORMS:

• Storage virtualization, NetApp, EMC, HP-3PAR, Pure Storage, Confidential Flash Storage, TPC,SVC, NAS, Cisco, Brocade, S3, EBS, ELB, AS, RDS VPC, Kinesis, EMR, CLF, Virtual Tape Library, NoSQL, DynomoDB, Hadoop/Big-data platforms, ELB, Containers
• AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Confidential Soft Layer, OpenStack, Cloud management platforms (CMP), Configuration management tool -Chef/Puppet/Ansible, CI/CD, Hybrid Cloud, Federated identity management, Docker, Kubernetes
• Server virtualization (Xen/KVM), Sun Solaris, HP-UX Red Hat, Ubuntu, Citrix, HPC & distributed computing.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Infrastructure Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Architecting and scoping feasibility to migrate existing ERP clients to Confidential co-location using NetApp, XIV & Cloud using Confidential Soft layer.
• Adoption of Multi Cloud strategy
• Responsible for Data Center migration including storage & switch stack migration too.
• Designing architecture framework for shared environment.
• Leading Certification team for storage software/hardware as per Product development team.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Sr. System Manager

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Confidential & Confidential integrated Cloud using open source open stack framework and big data eco system.
• Architecting and testing Infrastructure as Code using AWS in-built tools - Cloud formation.
• Leading POC efforts for Security/CMT/Big-Data/Storage using AWS marketplace on AWS environment.
• Leading Team efforts for NetApp CDOT, Confidential Flash & Pure Storage for Confidential & Confidential ITO group.
• Assist internal business units with technical solutions for both public and private cloud.
• Responsible for managing 50 PB+ storage based ASP model Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft etc. running across multiple Data Center.
• Implemented HP 3PAR S-series across the board for ERP clients.
• Utilize Agile Scrum methodology to plan, review and adjust team priorities to deliver value to our stakeholders.
• Managing on-shore & off-shore team on various projects which include data center migration, storage migration, standalone server to virtual based infrastructure.
• Architected and design ERP automation process Confidential storage level & design DR process for all critical ERP customer.

Confidential, Milpitas, CA

Principal Engineer, Hosting & Application Services

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for building Oracle Applications hosting practice employing Network Appliance NAS/SAN platform using more than 30 NetApp Filer clusters. Eliminated tape backups from the hosting environment to guarantee 100% data recovery.
• Designed a unique N+1 server fail-over/upgrade environment.
• Leading production support using on-shore & Off-shore team.
• Design and implemented new technology on production storage array after performing initial testing with Vendor technical team.
• Design and implemented complete ERP environment Confidential client location as part of consulting group.
• Provided training to our off-shore team to handle all support issue Confidential production level.
• Responsible for building Oracle Applications hosting practice employing Network Appliance NAS platform using more than 20 NetApp Filer clusters. Eliminated tape backups from the hosting environment to guarantee 100% data recovery.
• Extensive knowledge of EMC and HDS SAN platforms and related toolsets.
• In depth knowledge and implementation experience of Cisco network technologies used in cutting edge highly available and secure networks.

Confidential, Fremont, CA

Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architecting Confidential ’s hosting infrastructure and operations environment across geographically diverse data centers which include 500+TB of disk space, 300 SUN servers and 300+ hosted Oracle 11i instances.
• Building a 24x7 offshore support center in Bangalore.
• Responsible for building Confidential ’s hosting operations and business processes. Data center design for hosting and managing complex applications environments. Conducted technology evaluations for application hosting. Lead SAS70 type I and II audit compliance operations.
• Designed, implemented and evaluated server platform integration for Oracle ERP. Selected Sun and Network Appliance technologies to support Oracle 11i hosting design.
• Implemented HP platform and EMC/HDS SAN technologies in the hosted environment.
• Deployed server-less backups in large fabric networks (100+ hosts).
• In-depth knowledge and experience in installation and configuration of Microsoft technologies including Windows Active directory.

Confidential, Hayward, CA

Sr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing Oracle database using EMC Symmetrix SAN storage.
• Architect & Implemented Configuring Apache, Web Logic and other web related application.
• ERP related clone/refresh support on daily basis for Production client.
• Involved in all design level discussions with respective teams and finalize architecture.
• Design and implemented Legato based backup.
• Technical point of contact for application teams.