OBJECTIVE

• To be a part of an organization that leads a supportive and operating environment to its employees with ample chance to contribute and diversify one’s knowledge and skills, challenge them intellectually and offer them strong potential for future growth.

SUMMARY

• Having 8+ Years of Experience in Storage Engineer and Administrator.
• Strong Knowledge on EMC CLARiiON, VNX, Pure Storage, VNXe, XtremIO, Isilon, Symmetrix (PMAX, VMAXF), NetApp C - Mode, Hitachi (G1000, F1500), Confidential (SVC, V7000)
• Netapp Storage Grid.
• Experience in managing Brocade, Cisco SAN switches.
• Experience in managing Replication technologies SRDF, snap mirror, Mirror view.
• Experienced in Symantec Net Backup Tool.
• Experience in disaster recovery configuration using Mirrorview, Sancopy, SRDF and NetApp Snapmirror
• Proof of Concept performed in Confidential XIV.
• Experience in Application consistent technologies such as Hitachi Replication Manager, NetApp Snapmanager products
• Experienced in NetApp NAS and SAN technologies and creating NFS/CIFS shares on NAS and provisioning LUNs using ISCSI and FC
• Extensive experience in Systems Integration, Systems Administration, Installation, Configuration and Support on different UNIX platforms like Sun Solaris, HP UNIX, AIX and Red Hat Enterprise platforms
• Strong Knowledge on AWS services (EC2 Instance, S3, IAM, EBS, Auto scaling, VPC).
• Strong Knowledge on Devops Tools (Git, GIT HUB, Maven, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experienced in assigning datastore to cluster and labeling datastore on VSphere Client.
• Experienced in ASM Labelling to DB servers.
• Handling Bridge call on major incidents and service requests.
• Ability to handle team, while working on multiple deliveries simultaneously.
• Training the new members in team and getting them productive quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Storage Platform: EMC CLARiiON, VNX, Pure Storage, VNXe, XtremIO, Isilon, Symmetrix (PMAX, VMAXF), NetApp C-Mode, Hitachi (G1000, F1500), Confidential (SVC, V7000) Netapp Storage Grid.

SAN Switches: Cisco MDS, Brocade.

Backup: Symantec Net Backup, Networker

Server Platforms: Linux, Windows, Cisco UCS

Cloud: AWS Services (EC2 Instance, S3, IAM, EBS, Auto scaling).

Configuration Tools: Knowledge on Ansible, Git, Jenkins.

Ticketing Tools: HPSM, JIRA.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Lead Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to maintain the SAN environment up to date.
• Storage allocation for new build servers and existing servers from VMAX, PMAX, VNX.
• Worked on Port Group, Initiator Group, Storage Group, Masking Group Creation.
• Boot Drive Assignment when server Team upgrades OS.
• Worked with Server Team, to migrate the data from old Storage Frame to New Storage Frame.
• Reclaiming the unwanted space from server and storage frames.
• Working on replication setup, for the Database instances through Replication Manager and Storage Volume replication through Recovery Point.
• Performance monitoring & troubleshooting on SAN switches and EMC storage frames.
• Working with Vendors for hardware Related activities.
• Working with vendors for code upgrades.
• Worked on storage array Decom after migration - Host disconnect, Array zoning removal, port offline.
• Creating zones, naming the ports, creating alias for the WWN, and troubleshooting fabric using cli and running Fabric Health Check reports.
• Perform rezoning when faulty HBA card Replaced.
• File share creation on EMC Isilon and giving permissions to the file share at windows/folder level. Creating DFS entry for the file share.
• Troubleshoot and resolve the fabric related issues generated in the Production, Development and testing environments.
• Worked on Configuring and managing NFS, CIFS, FC and ISCSI protocols.
• Worked on able to create and manage aggregate, volume, qtree & luns.
• Worked on Configuring and managing snap mirror Replication on Source and DR
• Worked on Able to manage snapshot policies and restoring of snapshots.
• Worked on Able to perform and manage hardware replacements for filer.
• Worked on Able to manage and fix the basic trouble shooting issues.
• Experienced on Setup a New Netapp Arrays.
• Involved in upgrading ONTAP version for NetApp cluster from 8.3 to 9.xversion.
• Involved in upgrading NetApp intercluster switches.
• Worked on Tenant Creation by using S3 protocol on Storage Grid
• Worked on Storage allocation and de allocation to different open system OS through HITACHI Command Suite and Storage Navigator.
• Worked on Creating host group and add WWN’s no into it.
• Able to do ASM labelling for DBRAC Servers.
• Able to scan and label the datastore on ESX cluster.
• Backup Schedules, restores working with support to fix the errors on Symantec NetBackup.
• Configuring and working on application backups like SQL and Oracle Backups.
• Working on Tickets basing on the severity level and closing the Tickets.
• Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups.
• Troubleshooting on various issues while taking backups.
• Responsible for coordinating and carrying out storage related activities for Disaster recovery testing.
• Responsible for carrying out Data Centre move related activities which involved coordinating with vendors and planning the move of storage assets from one DC to another DC.
• Actively participating in Team/RFA calls.
• Actively taking ownership for new projects& finishing projects/NHRR with in target date
• Experience in working on DevOps/Agile operations process and tools area (Code review, unit test automation, Build & Release automation, Environment, and Services etc...
• Manage team repository, Branches and code merges using SCM tools like GIT.
• Experience with source code configuration management using GIT. From managing branches to rebase and merge conflict.
• Extensive experience usingMAVEN as build tools for the building of Deployable artifacts (jar, war & ear) from source code.
• Experience in conceptualization and implementation of CI/CD pipeline using tools like Ansible/Maven / Jenkins /Git /artifactory /Docker /containers.
• Create and establish build process using Maven to perform builds efficiently and deployment of the application using Kubernetes.
• Experience in Building Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Deployment/Delivery (CD)-pipeline.
• Experience in using configuration Management tools like Ansible etc.
• Experience in writing playbooks to automate infrastructure creation, configuration and operation changes with help of modules in playbooks.
• Expertise in Docker file, creating Docker images and configuring the Docker containers.
• Good experience on configuring Docker private registries to maintain Docker images.
• Experience on creating and configuring Docker volumes.
• Strong experience in Kubernetes cluster setup and deploying applications in Kubernetes cluster.
• Implementing CI/CD using Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience in using tracking tool like Jira.
• Taking the backup of S3 and attaching the EBS to instance.
• Managed Amazon Web Services like EC2, VPC, EBS, S3, ELB and IAMRoles through AWS Console
• Good practice on Root Cause Analysis to determine the scope and scale of issue impact
• Understanding of platform level concerns, such as configuration management, network request routing, blue/green and canary deployment
• Managed environments Dev, QA, UAT, pre-prod and prod for various release & designed instance strategies.
• Experience in supporting applications on different platforms Windows and Linux environments.

Environment: EMC VMAX, VNX, PMAX, Celerra, XtremeIO, Isilon, Cisco switches, EMC Networker, Symantec NetBackup, Netapp C-Mode, Netapp Storage Grid Hitachi VSP G1000, F1500, Storage Grid.

Confidential

Technical Analyst / Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lun provision and Meta lun creation on DMX, VMAX storage by using symcli & Unisphere.
• Storage allocation for new build servers and existing servers.
• Reclaiming the unwanted space from server and storage frames
• Implementing and maintaining Time finder snap, Clone & SRDF/A for Disaster Recovery.
• Performing quarterly Disaster recovery test based on customer requirement.
• Installing and configuration of SVC & V7000 Storage devices.
• LUN Provision, de-allocation, flash copy, Global mirror on SVC GUI& CLI.
• Monitoring the Confidential devices from TPC (Tivoli Storage Productivity Center).
• Collecting and scheduling the I/O reports by using Confidential TPC device
• Identify the single path serve and fix them with the help of respective platform team.
• Performing Daily Health Checks on storage frames and cisco switches.
• Planned the switch port connections on Brocade switches for server’s connectivity.
• Zone creation, modification & deletion on Brocade switches by using DCFM.
• Firmware upgradation and taking configuration backup & restore for Brocade switches.
• Performance monitoring & troubleshooting on san switches and emc storage frames.
• Working with Vendors for hardware Related activities.
• Working with vendors for code upgrades.
• DMX Symmetrix: Created metas, mapping and masking with SymCLI and SMC. Extensive experience on configuring storage devices on Unix machines primarily on Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux and HP-UX Machines.
• Installed and configured EMC PowerPath. Ensured all devices were appropriately configured with the right policies and failover capabilities.
• Designed and maintained remote replication and disaster recovery solutions to ensure 24/7 data availability using SRDF/A, SRDF/S for Symmetrix/DMX, SANCopy and MirrorView for Clariion.
• Using TimeFinder configured point-in-time BCV mirror copies/clones of production data, provisioned them to backup hosts and provided concurrent access local storage replication solutions.
• Troubleshoot performance issues on disks connected to Symmetrix and Clariion. Used tools like Navisphere Analyzer, ECC Performance Manager WLA, HEAT reports to analyze performance issues.
• Zoning and Fabric Monitoring using Brocade Web Tools for Brocade Switches.
• Troubleshoot host-based connectivity issues related to EMC software PowerPath, Navisphere, ECC client software and third-party HBA's Emulex and Qlogic.
• Migrated tera bytes of data from decommissioned storage frames to new ones by creating initiators, storage groups and masking views in our environment. Created FAST TIERS policies, associated Storage groups to FAST Policies.
• Used SPA to monitor Symmetrix performance issues.
• Implemented and maintained zoning, performed firmware upgrades, and integrated all SAN connected hosts on Brocade Directors using Fabric Manager and Cisco MDS switches using Fabric manger.
• Worked on Configuring and managing NFS, CIFS, FC and ISCSI protocols.
• Worked on Able create and manage aggregate, volume, qtree & luns.
• Worked on Configuring and managing snapmirror replication on Source and DR
• Worked on Able to manage snapshot policies and restoring of snapshots.
• Experienced on Storage allocation and de allocation to different open system OS through HITACHI Command Suite and Storage Navigator.
• Experienced on Creating host group and add WWN’s no into it.
• Experienced on Hitachi Dynamic Provisioning, Dynamic Tiering.

Environment: VMAX-20K, DMX-4, Confidential SVC, V7000, Netapp, Cisco switches, Brocade Switches, Hitachi VSP G1000, F1500.

Confidential

Storage Admin

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day monitoring and troubleshooting of Storage infrastructure using Navisphere for EMC, DS CLI and SVC CLI, XIV CLI, XIV GUI & DS Storagemanager for IBMDevices
• Coordinating with internal team for managing the hardware replacement/troubleshooting problems.
• DMX Symmetrix: Created metas, mapping and masking with SymCLI and SMC. Extensive experience on configuring storage devices on Unix machines primarily on Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux and HP-UX Machines.
• Installed and configured EMC PowerPath. Ensured all devices were appropriately configured with the right policies and failover capabilities.
• Designed and maintained remote replication and disaster recovery solutions to ensure 24/7 data availability using SRDF/A, SRDF/S for Symmetrix/DMX, SANCopy and MirrorView for Clariion.
• Using TimeFinder configured point-in-time BCV mirror copies/clones of production data, provisioned them to backup hosts and provided concurrent access local storage replication solutions.
• Troubleshoot performance issues on disks connected to Symmetrix and Clariion. Used tools like Navisphere Analyzer, ECC Performance Manager WLA, HEAT reports to analyze performance issues.
• Zoning and Fabric Monitoring using Brocade Web Tools for Brocade Switches.
• Performing Daily Health Checks on storage frames and cisco switches.
• Storage provisioning in Clarion arrays using NAVISPHERE MANAGER.
• Provisioned storage from DS4000 Series using DS Storage Manager and provisioned storage from DS8K, SVC using CLI and XIV using XIV GUI.
• Performing the Drive, ESS and Controller code upgrades on DS FAStT devices.
• Creating and managing space efficient volumes in DS8K and Vdisk expansions and Vdisk migrations on SVC using SVC CLI.
• Setup and managing the Disaster Recovery from Confidential Copy server.
• Storage allocation for new build servers and existing servers.
• Reclaiming the unwanted space from server and storage frames.
• Performance monitoring & troubleshooting on SAN switches and EMC storage frames.
• Working with Vendors for hardware Related activities.
• Working with vendors for code upgrades.
• Collecting and scheduling the I/O reports by using Confidential TPC device.
• Working on Tickets basing on the severity level and closing the Tickets.
• Managing backup policies, volume pools for daily, weekly & monthly backups.
• Troubleshooting on various issues while taking backups.

ENVIRONMENT: Confidential SVC, DSFAST devices, CX4-480, Ciscoswitches, Navisphere Manager, Fabric Manager, TPC, Symantec NetBackup, Symmetrix VMAX.

Confidential

Technical Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Storage provisioning in Clariion arrays using NAVISPHERE MANAGER.
• Forming Meta luns on Clariion depending on the request.
• Troubleshooting the LUN invisibility issues.
• Provided guidance, supported and trained to service engineers on failure analysis to interface with end customers their product problems, issues and solution.
• Served as Level 2 Support on specifically assigned products or lines, and work with Product Management, Engineering Dept., and outside sources to obtain training.
• Utilized that training to then train team members for Level 1 support.
• Managed and maintained a local area Windows NT network with over 2000 clients comprised of Windows 95/98/NT 3.51 4.0, Crystal Reports, Visual Basic, and SQL applications.
• Installed and configured Veritas Cluster Server on Solaris, with Veritas Vol. Manager, Oracle Enterprise Agent.
• Network Architect and Admin for Windows 2000 Domain containing services including but not limited to Active Directory, Exchange Server5.5/2000, Citrix Server, Remote Access VPN, SQL Server, DNS, WINS, and others.
• LUN Provision, de-allocation and monitoring and troubleshooting on Confidential DS FAStT.
• Taking Configuration backups on Brocade switches.
• Coordinate with Vender and replacing the failed parts in all storage devices.
• Preparing work status report and updating technology specific documents.

ENVIRONMENT: DS 5100 devices, CX-700, CX4-240 Brocade switches, Navisphere Manager.