PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 13 years of experience in Infrastructure and Technology architecture.
• 4 years in Cloud architecture working on Compute, Storage, Database, Networking, Mgmt Tools, Security, Identity & Compliance, Analytics, Migration, Developer Tools and Application Integration.
• Advanced skills in SAN, NAS, Servers, Network, AD, Security, Sizing for Applications, infrastructure scalability, resiliency, DR, high - availability, infrastructure performance and its mapping to frontend applications from end to end. Years’ experience within engineering disciplines - Storage, Server OS, Networking, Messaging, Monitoring, Database, and Web technologies Deep technical expertise and understanding of SAN & NAS Technologies: DellEMC, Netapp, HDS, IBM, Cisco, Brocade, Veritas & VMWare
• Seasoned with exposure of working on multi-million $ efforts right through from inception and strategy down to implementation and run activities.
• In depth understanding on how Cloud solutions can benefit business and technology strategies.
• Worked on framing the Cloud Adoption Strategies for migrations and transformations to AWS Cloud.
• Expertise with working on AWS services such as VPC, IAM, EC2, ECS, Serverless Architecture (Lambda), S3, Kinesis, RDS, SQS, & SES. Developed several POCs on the same to prove the cost, performance and agility related efficiencies these services can bring.
• Exposure of making business areas adopt digital strategy and explore the options of prospect, customer and partner self-service for their organizational success.
• Driving innovation with directly designing and developing proof of concepts on the AWS Cloud.
• Serving as a Continuous Improvement Engineering and Solutions Architect leading 20+-member team.
• Present Enterprise Architecture status, progress and next steps to executives.
• Work on Enterprise Architecture initiatives to identify solutions that provide a consistent platform for all architects and across the organization.
• Build integrated roadmaps, which provide an insight into cross-enterprise planned efforts and help the business and technology teams identify inter dependencies.
• Work with the business team on annual planning (which is used for budgeting) and provide high-level solution approach and identify key stakeholders to obtain estimates.
• Provide thought leadership to the business teams on which efforts can be planned at what stage depending on various parameters such as cross-area dependencies, budget and industry trends and maturity.
• Key stakeholder and contributor to Disaster Recovery planning and Resiliency planning for CAF (Critical Functional Application for Confidential ) applications.
• Manage and approve vendors for storage infrastructure, constantly engage them and evaluate products.
• Play the role of Project/Solution Architect where needed. Develop architecture work products where needed such as Implementation Strategy, Conceptual Architecture, Logical Architecture, Data Architecture and Technology Architecture.
• Infrastructure analysis based on ongoing system improvements and to cater for growing business needs.
• Serve as the highest point of technical guidance during build of a project and review and provide guidance on non-functional requirements to meet organization standards.
• Manage Security and Risk Management teams to identify any potential issues or risks that could arise from a proposed architecture, for both internal and vendor product offerings.
• Lead and Participate vendor assessments. Provide vendor scoring based on various architecture domains of their product or service offering.
• Identify impacts which have a dependency with other organizational projects/efforts and liaise with the teams to conform on a plan which provides a platform for business teams to realize the best benefits and success.
• Partner with Business teams to plan the roadmap-identified key opportunities for their success and in business case.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Coding & Technologies: Compute (EC2, Lightsail, Elastic Container Service, EKS, Lambda, Elastic Beanstalk)AWS Storage (S3, EFS, Glacier, Storage Gateway)Database (RDS, DynamoDB, Elasticache, Neptune, Redshift)Networking (VPC, CloudFront, Route53, API Gateway, DirectConnect)Mgmt Tools (CloudWatch, AutoScaling, CloudFormation, CloudTrail, Config, Opsworks, Service Catalog, Systems Manager)Security, Identity & Compliance (IAM, Cognito, Secrets Manager, CloudDuty, SSO) Analytics (Athena, EMR, CloudSearch, ElasticSearch, Kinesis, QuickSight) Migration (Migration Hub, Application Disaster Recovery, Database Migration, Server Migration) SAN DellEMC Symmetrix, DellEMC Isilon, DellEMC ScaleIO, DellEMC ECS (Private Cloud), Netapp CMODE, Netapp 7mode, IBM SKLM/TKLM, NAS, Cisco MDS, Brocade 65xx, Netapp FAS Series, Netapp AFF A-Series, NVMe Storage, SolidFire, Netapp OnCommand Unified Manager, DFM, Netapp OCI, DellEMC SRM. Shell, Python, JavaScript.

Methodologies & Tools: Agile, SCRUM, JIRA, Bitbucket, CVS, SVN, Clear Case

Architecture & Mgmt. Skills: Process Modelling, Roadmap Development, Solution & Integration Architecture, Vendor Management

Database: Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL.

Operating Systems: Windows, Linux.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design Cloud/AWS migration and transformation architecture for several JPMC applications.
• Experience with laying strategy for infrastructure setup on AWS. Worked on setting up VM’s, Network connectivity and underlying infrastructure components such as VPC’s and Subnets.
• Experience with setting with DirectConnect between CHASE data center and AWS for application and VM migration.
• Worked on laying strategy to identify infrastructure needs to suit application specific non-functional requirements.
• Experience with provisioning up EC2 and EBS instances for support specific application patterns such as External Web Apps, Internal Web Apps, Database and Data Warehouse Apps.
• Experience with provisioning required IAM roles and permissions and required Security Groups for different application tiers to communicate on the AWS platform.
• Provided inputs and provisioned ELB’s where auto scaling of EC2 instances is required.
• Established patterns for Amazon VM Copy depending on specific application pattern, primarily for Web apps hosted on WebSphere and JBOSS application servers. This was used for Lift-and-Shift supported applications.
• Established patterns for Database Migration’s across Oracle, SQL and Sybase servers using Amazon DMS and RMAN backups.
• Experience with provisioning Amazon RDS instances for databases, which were identified for re-platforming.
• Identified and suggested application patterns, which are suitable for Serverless architecture and provided input on how to move to services such as Lambda.
• Setting up ECS service with underlying Docker instances.
• Performed storage infrastructure audits to meet the storage, server & network security needs and industry security standards to keep infrastructure of 70+ PBs secure.
• Experience in working within an Agile development environment
• Experience in migration and implementation of application from on premise to AWS.
• Expertise in DevOps, Release Engineering, Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure, Automation. It includes Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Chef, Bitbucket, GitHub, Build Forge, CVS, Tomcat, LINUX etc.
• Storage engineering in designing Cloud, SAN & NAS patterns for global storage builds across datacenters all over the globe.
• Architected production administration design with highly secure banking standards in mind to manage storage infrastructure across all regions.
• Worked on CI/CD tool Jenkins to automate the build process from version control tool into testing and production environment.
• Understanding of Browser based technologies (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc.).
• Code using Python3.5.1 and working via libraries sys, json, copy, logging, re, secure shell, socket, requests, os, numpy, pandas, matplotlib, django etc.
• Work closely with non-technical management to establish a product roadmap
• Provides recommendations and advise on system development, improvements, optimization, or support efforts, including proactive recommendations
• Coded & built tools for automation provisioning in SAN & NAS using workflow tools.
• Provide technical leadership in SAN & NAS engineering/architecture discipline and the setting of technology standards for new & legacy products.
• Participate in or lead strategic, policy level and/or governance development for technology, and create and/or maintain standards, documentation, roadmaps and assessment of strategy and execution.
• Work on Storage Tools like DellEMC SRM, Netapp OCI, Netapp OCUM, Netapp WFA to manage storage metrics across all SAN, NAS & Backup storage devices.
• Lead complex, cross-organization initiatives involving technical areas of expertise and interaction with Senior Management.
• Provide support to significant downtime/catastrophic events related to the area of expertise
• Develop and/or participate in specialized mentoring and/or technical development for employees in the technical discipline

Environment: AWS (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3, EBS, RDS, Route53, ELB, Cloud Watch, CloudFormation, AWS Autoscaling, Lambda, Elastic BeanStalk), SAN DellEMC Symmetrix, DellEMC Isilon, DellEMC ScaleIO, DellEMC ECS (Private Cloud), Netapp CMODE, Netapp 7mode, IBM SKLM/TKLM, NAS, Cisco MDS, Brocade 65xx, Netapp FAS Series, Netapp AFF A-Series, NVMe Storage, SolidFire, IBM Veritas Netbackup, Netapp OnCommand Unified Manager, DellEMC SRM, Netapp OCI, Netapp OCUM, Netapp WFA, GIT, Bitbucket, Jira, AWS CLI, Unix/Linux, Ruby, Shell scripting, Jenkins, Chef, Nginx, Tomcat

Confidential

Sr. Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed, tested, documented and implemented quality infrastructure within targeted due dates. Resolve complex infrastructure issues with no guidance.
• Responsible for over 150 controllers around the world and over 5 PB of data.
• EMC Storage experience in Administration/Design and Implementation on EMC Storage arrays, Symmetrix, Clariion, Celerra or Centerra
• Experience in capacity planning, Fibre Channel, Zoning, fabric topologies, volume and file systems management, clustering, replication and mirroring, backup/archive and recovery solutions, high availability, storage consolidation/migration, performance and tuning.
• Experience in SRDF and timefinder configuration in EMC storage environment.
• Experience planning, installing and administering of SAN/NAS environments with large enterprise storage systems, including Hitachi HNAS, EMC Isilon, IBM V7000. SAN fabrics, SAN Volume Controller (SVC), McData and Brocade switching technology
• Senior member of the implementation team responsible for the installation, configuration, migration and go-live process of new filers.
• Experience in Designing, Configuring and troubleshooting Fabric Environment constituting Brocade/ McData/ Connectrix/ Cisco switches.
• Responsible for Data ONTAP 7-mode operations, including setting up Vfilers, Vfiler DR, Snapmirror, Snapvault, CLI, SnapManager, SMVI backups of VM’s, SnapDrive.
• Responsible for Clustered Data ONTAP operations, including creating vservers, volumes, qtrees, setting up namespaces, setting up and implementing Export Policies and netgroups (NFS), setting up snapmirrors to DR site, and troubleshooting and escalating issues to NetApp when necessary.
• Proficient in the use of DFM/Operations Manager - configured to monitor filers worldwide and email alerts when thresholds are reached (% full aggrs/volumes/qtrees, loss of connectivity, performance highs/lows, latency).
• Data Migration using NDMP, Snapmirror and Qtree Snapmirror across same and different domains within the Enterprise, as well as Virtual Storage Console in the migration of VMs.
• Responsible for performing Data ONTAP upgrades (non disruptive).
• Experience working on storage subsystem I/O, NIC, and HBA, RAID, networking technologies including protocols, NFS, CIFS, TCP/IP, routing and QoS of LAN and WAN
• Lead and assist on setup and removal of SAV for NAS and Virus cleanup.
• Implement NFS, CIFS and Security on filers across the Enterprise.
• Implement Deduplication, setup snapshots.
• Setup and Implementation of DFS to access CIFS shares for all supported filers.
• Design, planned and implemented solutions: Unix (Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, RHEL, SuSEL) Severs (Sun Sparc/X86, HP RISC/BL/DL, IBM RS/6000, Dell) Consolidation, Storage (EMC) Consolidation, SAN (Brocade, Cisco, Qlogic) consolidation, Backup Solution, Data Center Consolidation, DR Solution that resulted in cost savings of $1+ millions.
• Setup NFS/CIFS clients on all platforms (Centos, Windows and Solaris).
• Developed key documentations and templates in Excel, World and Visio format that were used by various organizations to maintain and troubleshoot their environment.
• Automated Operating installations using Jumpstart, Kickstart, AutoYAST.

Environment: SAN DellEMC Symmetrix, Centera, Celerra, Netapp 7mode, IBM SKLM/TKLM, NAS, Cisco MDS, Brocade 65xx, Netapp FAS Series, Netapp OnCommand Unified Manager, Netapp OCI, Netapp OCUM, Netapp WFA, GIT, Bitbucket, Jira.

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gather information and perform research on leading edge technology trends for application to business opportunities including the determination of best practices and best practice adoption
• Configuring and troubleshooting Fabric Environment constituting Brocade/ McData/ Connectrix/ Cisco switches
• Determined optimal business logic implementations, applying best design patterns
• EMC Storage Administration/Design and Implementation on EMC Storage arrays, Symmetrix, Clariion, Celerra or Centerra.
• Experience working on Hitachi HNAS, EMC Isilon, IBM V7000, SAN fabrics, SAN Volume Controller (SVC), McData and Brocade switching technology
• Developed Python based API (RESTful Web Service) to track sales and perform sales analysis using Flask, SQLAlchemy and PostgreSQL.
• Developed and designed an API (RESTful Web Service) for the company’s website.
• Maintained customers relationship management databases (MySQL / PostgreSQL)
• Ensure completeness and compatibility of each NAS device on a case-by-case basis to support system stability and performance
• Contribute to on-call rotation with teammates to fill gaps in coverage
• Stay current with emerging technologies related to respective technology domain
• Capacity planning and performance analysis of NAS infrastructure as well as each NAS individually
• Routine upkeep and maintenance of NAS Infrastructure
• Accountable for NAS data migrations.
• Deep technical expertise and understanding of SAN Technologies: EMC, HDS, IBM, Cisco, Brocade
• NetApp OnCommand System Manager, Unified Manager and Performance Manager
• Reviews the Unix/Storage performance metrics and reports provided by the Managed Service Providers. Identify issues and recommend remediation plans
• Expertise working with EMC Clariion, Network Appliance, Brocade, McData and Cisco storage devices
• Expertise with at least three of the following operating systems; Redhat Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows, IBM AIX.