SUMMARY

• Lead Technical Architect with 11+ years of Experience in Designing and Implementing IAAS/PAAS,Private/Public Cloud infrastructure solutions using Virtualization, Storage, Server, Network and Cloud technologies.
• Conducted assessments and architected designs for numerous clients in several banking industries.
• Analyzed cloud, AWS, Big Data, storage and infrastructure related to data center migrations / transformations.
• Expertise in AWS, IBM, EMC, HP 3PAR, NetApp, Hitachi, Apache, Redhat,SUSE, Windows, UNIX, Linux, and Apache Hadoop.
• Analyzed storage offerings, solutions, capabilities, value, constraints, data type, SAN, NAS, VMware, Disaster Recovery, backup/recovery, compression and deduplication among major storage vendors.
• Proficient in design, troubleshooting and capacity management. s.
• Storage type, and systems requirements including capacity, storage growth, consumption, demand, and performance parameters and requirements such as - Metrics, KPIs, Disk I/O, latency, bandwidth, application upstream/downstream, app. flows, utilization, IOPS, Servers, Arrays, Systems, and Databases - Oracle / SQL and issues.
• Planning and Implementing Cloud/Infra migrations including Data center migrations and Application fork lifts.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: Windows, Linux and Solaris

Virtualization: VMWare EXSi,vSphere and Docker

Storage: EMC, HDS, IBM, HP and Netapp

Backup: Veritas NetBackup and Data Domain

Servers hardware: Dell,HP and Cisco

Application containers: Jboss and Tomcat

Web Servers: IIS and Apache

Programming: Python, Perl, Shell, HTML and Java Script

Databases: MySQL

Web Services: SOAP and REST,Microsoft Active directory and LDAP

Big Data: Hadoop and Spark

CI/CD: Jenkins

Version Control: GIT

Configuration Management: SCCM and Ansible

Converged: CISCO UCS

Cloud Solutions: AWS

Cloud Compute Services: EC2 and AMI’s

Cloud Databases: RDS

Cloud Load balancers: ELB’s

Cloud Network Services: VPC’s, Subnets, Route53

Cloud Storage: S3, EBS, EFS and Glacier

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Implemented IAAS and PAAS solutions using Cloud, Storage, Server, Virtualization and Network technologies
• Translate Business requirements into technical solution that lay an infrastructure foundation for development of scalable and highly available client facing enterprise applications.
• Responsible for business engagement, customer requirements, business communications, team management & delivery.
• Design and implement EMC VMAX, VMAX3, VMAX-AFA, XIO, VNX, Unity, VPLEX, G1000, G1500,3PAR SToreServe 8450, Netapp 7mode, CDOT, DS8K and XIV
• New Brocade fabric build, implementation and Migration of CISCO MDS and Enterprise Brocade switches
• Design, configure and Management of Virtualization using VMAWARE VSPHERE6x, DRS, VMOTION and SVMOTION
• Design, configure and Management of Linux server RHEL5,6 and 7 technologies
• File system management using Redhat LVM, Cluster Management using Veritas cluster and Pacemaker
• Implemented AWS Cloud Services EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, Dynamo DB, ELB, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, Auto Scaling, SNS, SQS, Cloud Watch and Cloud Trail.
• Configuring DNS (Route53), ELB, general networking principles, firewalls, route tables and route propagations.
• Developing applications using Lambda and Python
• Create and maintain SSL Security certificate management for enterprise, maintaining certificates across multiple SSL-providers, and integrating certificates into products such as nix, apache, tomcat, AWS -ELB.
• Tuning Cloud Watch to screen assets, for example, EC2, CPU memory, Amazon RDS DB administrations, Dynamo DB.
• Created work flows for AWS Data pipe line jobs using AWS resources with defining activities, schedules and parameters.
• Setting up AWS direct connect and monitoring private network connection between AWS and corporate datacenter and other regions
• Used Python SDK for creating custom monitoring scripts to maintain tagging Standards for AWS resources.
• Building DR solutions using various replication solutions between the DC’s using EMC, HDS, NETAPP and IBM replication solutions
• Storage and Server-side Automation Projects using Python, Rehat Sattelite server and Ansible Tower
• SQL integration with infra applications using Python
• Deep understanding in various network technologies Switches, Routers and Firewall appliances
• Application load balancers F5 and AWS ELB’s
• Deep understanding in Various Database technologies Exa data, Oracle,Sql, Data guard and Golden gate
• Extracting and Processing Various datasets like Json,Xml,Text and Databases

Confidential

AVP - Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Implemented IAAS and PAAS using Cloud, Network, Server, Storage and Virtualization technologies
• Study different LOB Application/DB storage related requirements and provide optimize solutions
• Do the Deeper investigation on the current SAN infrastructure and provide solutions.
• Write technical standards for Deploy, Capacity and support teams
• Design SAN for new application deploy and participate in application deploy testing’s
• Trend analysis of the current infrastructure and provide Capacity related solutions
• New frames design, Build and implementation for EMC VMAX, IBM XIV and HDS VSP
• Migration Projects EMC DMX to VMAX, VSP to VMAX, Clarrion to VMAX.
• Target modeling for Migrations for EMC VMAX, IBM XIV, VSP and StorServ 8000 series
• Virtualization using VMAWARE VSPHERE5x/6x, DRS, VMOTION and SVMOTION
• Design, configure and Management of Linux server RHEL5 and 6 technologies
• File system management using Redhat LVM, Cluster Management using Veritas cluster
• Implemented AWS Cloud Services EC2, VPC, Route53, S3, Dynamo DB, ELB, RDS, Elastic Beanstalk, Auto Scaling, SNS, SQS, Cloud Watch and Cloud Trail
• Design AWS formation templates to create VPC architecture, EC2s, Subnets and NATS to meet high availability application and security parameters across multiple AZs,
• Design roles and groups for users and resources using IAM
• Create and manage S3 buckets and policies for storage and backup purposes
• Manage overall physical & virtual storage structures for business functionality, data integrity, performance, recoverability, maintenance, and space requirement considerations.
• Provide expertise solutions for complex production issues and Provide permanent solution to chronic issues.
• Design and draft new operational procedures towards the process and technical benefits to the environment.
• Deep dive-in performance analysis and provide expertise remediation for performance issues.
• Proactively perform performance analysis to spot bottlenecks and enhance the environment performance.
• Develop, implement, and oversee policies and procedures to ensure consistent storage provisioning, availability, capacity planning, and developing data disaster recovery plans.
• Develop and implement processes and procedures to improve storage efficiencies, data availability, and service levels.

Confidential

Storage Delivery Specialist

Responsibilities:

• End to End implementations for multiple customer projects.
• VAMX to VMAX3 and VMAX to VMAX All Flash Array Migrations using SRDF
• VMAX installation and Deploy
• DMX to VMAX migrations using SRDF
• DMX to VMAX migrations using Open replicator
• Clariion to VMAX migration using SAN COPY
• Fabric Build and Implementation
• Switch build and addition projects
• Fabric upgrade projects - Brocade and CISCO
• DR setups and DR Drills
• Manage overall physical & virtual storage structures for business functionality, data integrity, performance, recoverability, maintenance, and space requirement considerations.
• Provide expertise solutions for complex production support issues. Provide permanent solution to chronic issues.
• Design and draft new operational procedures towards the process and technical benefits to the environment.
• Participate and provide high level support to the P1 issues to mitigate the business impact.
• Deep dive-in performance analysis and provide expertise remediation for performance issues.
• Proactively perform performance analysis to spot bottlenecks and enhance the environment performance.
• Perform environment health checks, fabric upgrades/Array firmware upgrades, participate in DR activities.
• Develop, implement, and oversee policies and procedures to ensure consistent storage provisioning, availability, capacity planning, and developing data disaster recovery plans.
• Develop and implement processes and procedures to improve storage efficiencies, data availability, and service levels.
• Administration of data ontap 7 and above using fileview and command line to manage the systems
• Storage allocation - Aggregates/Volumes/Qtree/Quota creation, resizing and deletion
• Configuring and Managing NFS and CIFS for file level access
• Implementation and configuration of snap mirror, snapvault, online backup technologies to ensure data protection for clients
• Planning and executing the site isolation and disaster recovery test as per the client requests
• Managing operations manager to perform capacity planning and configure alerts

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Nagios installations and configuration
• EMC smarts installations and configuration
• Configuring UNIX/WINTEL servers into Nagios Monitoring
• Nagios and Ticket tool integration
• Configuring Storage devices into Nagios monitoring
• Writing Plug-ins using Shell scripts to integrate monitoring to Nagios
• Writing test cases to test the functionality of Nagios

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring hosts (AIX, Solaris, Linux, VMware) with EMC Symmetric and EMC Clariion arrays.
• EMC Storage Administration and configuration
• Troubleshooting on Symmetrix, CLARiiON/Host/Switch/Layered application related issues.
• Brocade Switch upgrades.
• Interaction with client regarding P1 issues.
• Onsite/Offshore lab management like managing servers, Array ICA, Switch firmware up-gradation etc.
• Monitoring tool Nagios implementation
• Configured “Boot from SAN”, Solaris Cluster, Solaris Zones, Solaris ZFS, VMware Vmotion as part of my initiatives.
• Training team members and new joiners.