SUMMARY

• IT Infrastructure Specialist over 10 Years of Experience
• A Positive Thinker and Committed Professional with over 10 years of experience in multinational customer facing environments with abilities in Solutions, Datacenter Design, Build, Migrations, Implementations & Managing enterprise level Solutions.
• Designing remote DataCanter backups from on - prem to cloud (AWS) using hybrid model
• Working as Backup Architect/Implementation/BAU Engineer & have more than 10 years of experience in Driving, Architecting, Solution Designing, Due Diligence (DD), Data Migration Implementation, and deployment of backup Environment for Global customers.
• Designing and implementation on-pre to cloud backup solution specially using Commvault.
• Solution Architecture design for datacentre hosting solution, Backup Architecture, Disaster Recovery Strategy as part of a Global RFP response in line to presales Team.
• Solution Architecture design remote Data Centers into AWS and Hybrid cloud.
• Extensive technological hands on, architectural experience on multiple platforms & technologies which includes Backup & Storage, NDMP, VMware, Datacenter Design, Backup Infrastructure Design and Implementation, Replication, Disaster Recovery.
• Efficient in handling of complex situation in line with existing business trends and making appropriate decision in the larger interest of the organization.
• Translate Customer requirement into Competitive Solutions and Proposals including overall value proposition, Transformation solution, technical implementation approach, milestones, and timelines
• Technology evaluation, POCs and cost benefit analysis
• Work closely with OEM partners to qualify right fit products both from technical and commercial perspective.
• Having good knowledge on High Availability/Disaster recovery Scenarios.
• Working on end-to-end lifecycle of IT outsourcing engagements in transition/Transformation and BAU handover

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Backup: Symantec NetBackup7.1 to 8.1.1 on UNIX and windows Master/Media

Storage: NetApp cluster Mode, EMC ECS, Pure

Tape Library: IBM TS3500, TS3400, TS3310 and Quantum I5000/6000.

Datacenter Transformation: Strong experienced on various types of Data protection Migration strategies and planning, including Data Migrations, and Datacenter relocation/consolidation, Capacity Management.

Builds/Enhancements: Experience with NetBackup infrastructure setup and build, NetBackup Catalog migration, NetBackup7.5 Upgrade, Data domain DDOS upgrades. Solaris 10 Live upgrade.

NetBackup and Backup Exec options & agents: NetBackup RMAN agent for Oracle DBs, SQL, Exchange, and NetBackup for VMware option, NetBackup SLPs, NetBackup Ops - centre, Backup Exec for SQL and Exchange.

Ticketing Tools: BMC Remedy, SERVICE NOW, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Backup Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the Backup Engineering group supporting over 8 PB FETB of daily backups and 95PB of backup storage across multiple locations in North America, Europe, and Asia.
• Product owner for the entire Backup and Data Protection environment. Working closely with Senior Director to define Quarterly OKRs and yearly goals including capacity planning, End of Life hardware and software planning, POC for new technology etc.
• Collaborating with various infrastructure team to create SLA based on application and business requirement including RPO/RTO and Retention planning for data protection.
• Collaborating with GSO team for security compliance including security patching, service account maintenance and working on audit.
• Responsible for Annual Capital budgets for Backup hardware and software.
• Responsible for Developing the strategy and roadmap for comprehensive backup assessment and redesign to identify and mitigate performance, availability, and security concerns
• Worked as a single point of contact for the complete Backup related all technical, Non-technical and finance related discussion with Senior Leadership.
• Working on new transformational initiatives in the existing environment including NetBackup to Commvault migration, Data Domain to EMC ECS migration, File backup solution. Along with that designing and implementing on prem to cloud backup solution for our remote DC.
• POC with Cohesity as new backup software for VMs.
• Configuring Cohesity Data Platform for VMware and NAS environment.
• Configuring Avamar for NAS environment.
• Working on multiple hardware refreshes and new build across the environment.
• Working on AWS backup solution for remote datacenters.
• Configuration of Media agents, Disk library and Storage policy.
• Upgradation of Commvault to latest version (11.6 SP16) as recommended by Vendor.
• Planning, Designing and Installation of new Data Domain systems and configuration in NetBackup and Commvault.
• Configuration of reporting, alerts, and integration of backup infrastructure with the monitoring solution. Created multiple SQL query-based reports as per the client requirements.
• Successfully implemented the DR drills happening regularly in the environment.
• Audit of complete environment internally before the actual third-party audit.
• Successfully automated the onboarding of client systems in Commvault using rest API co-ordination with build Teams

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Backup and storage SME

Responsibilities:

• Recently the client separated into two unit and TCS was setting up two new datacenter for the client. As a Backup and Storage SME my primary role was planning the backup architecture and setting up all the backup, replication, and DR setups to the industry standard from existing NetBackup environment to newly built data center Commvault environment.
• Installation/configuration/upgrade of new CommCell servers, media agents and client servers on various platforms.
• Configuring storage policies for backups for various servers and testing replication setup and DR setup using Commvault replication agent.
• Coordination between operation team and project team is one of the key roles as most of the operation team is working from offshore.
• Environment assessment and moving existing backup from NetBackup to Commvault with better RPO and RTO is one of the key points from client side which we have achieved.
• Working on long term backup retention policy which can be fast and cost effective.
• Netapp cluster mode configuration for user personal drive.
• Configuring and managingNetAppstorage systems
• Configuring and managing NetAppdeduplication, Snapshots, Snapmirror and Snapvault.
• Configuring and managing AVscanner for file share

Confidential, NYC, NY

Backup and storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation/configuration/upgrade of new master, media and client servers on various platforms.
• Configuring policies for backups for various servers on the NBU GUI as per requests made by users and DBA's.
• Analyzing Database backup failures by checking the Oracle DB logs and crontab scripts.
• Taking Backups, Replication, and Archival of databases, setting of ACL of databases.
• Creation of Schedules, Agents, & databases like personal address book, mail-in.
• Configuration setting of user preferences, mail database preferences, Notes.ini, Etc.
• Configuring and managingNetAppstorage systems
• Configuring and managing NetAppdeduplication, Snapshots, Snapmirror and Snapvault.
• Configuring and managing AVscanner for file share.
• In our early environment we did not had separate Backup NIC (backup interface) for NetBackup. Now we are implementing dedicated backup NIC.
• My primary responsibility was to plan and document the entire project and coordinate with offshore for implementation and drive the project.
• Creating and configuring newly owned cluster mode Netapp filer and migrating all data from existing old filer. Designing how to build the SVM and how to design the shares was my responsibility.

Confidential, PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA

Backup and storage Administrator, System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• To provide 2nd level product support for Symantec NetBackup (NBU) across various accounts.
• Installation/configuration/upgrade of new master, media and client servers on various platforms.
• Configuring policies for backups for various servers on the S NBU GUI as per requests made by users and DBA's.
• Installed and upgraded the NetBackup master/media server and firmware version of Tape libraries and Drives.
• Administration of NetBackup environment through console and Ops Centre.
• Prepared the technical documentation for existing setup and service improvement plan to the customer.
• Working on day-to-day activities and handled the L1/L2/L3 tasks w.r.t. to Backup infrastructure including the data centre activities.
• Performed on call duties and supporting the team 24/7 for any escalations.
• Worked on the error codes and created SOPs for it.
• Worked on the hardware issues including Drive replacement and Library maintenance.
• Worked for the tape management including the media offsite.
• Configuration of BCV backups in NetBackup through scripts.
• Configuration and administration of File system backups, DB backups, Flash backups and NDMP backups.