Backup Administrator Resume

SUMMARY

A flexible and versatile information Technology Consultant with extensive experience in designing, implementing, administering, monitoring, troubleshooting and reporting on Veritas NetBackup, SAN Switches, NetApp and HP Storage Solutions, EMC Storage, IBM TSM, IBM GPFS and AWS projects.
Experienced in managing large datacenters with more than 2800 Virtual Machines, 200 Physical Servers, Petabytes of storage, complex backup and DR strategies, performing DR and Backup audits and managing small projects.
More than 7 years of experience in administering and managing internal projects related to OpsCenter 7.5 / 7.6 Upgrade, EMC DMX3/Symmetrix, EMC Control Center, Brocade FCIP FR18i for Data replication between SANs across remote locations, HP Blade Servers, Itanium Servers, DL Series, ProLiant Servers, Remote Insight and Superdomes, VM Ware ESX 6 / vSphere servers, Veritas Disk Administrator / Enterprise Administrator and HA cluster configuration, HP - MSL 5000, MSL 6000, StorageTek Libraries, ADIC Libraries, Quantum Scalar i6000, Brocade Switch Administration (6505, 6510, 48k) and NetApp administration.
Currently working on IBM GPFS, IBM Spectrum Protect, building Spectrum Scale servers in AWS EC2 instance, adding S3 containers and EBS volumes, monitoring performance and working on internal projects to migrate backups for a large GPFS environment to AWS.
A team player with experience in working on multiple projects to implement backup and storage solutions, perform backup audits in line with security requirements, National NIST CP-9 Standards and HIPAA rules.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Backup Administrator

Responsibilities:

Migrated backup of 4 PB of data from Veritas NetBackup on Windows to IBM Spectrum Protect on RHEL 6
Integrated IBM Spectrum Protect and IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) Backups
Configured replication of backup data to DR site
Established processes and procedures to perform internal audits of backup data.
Established test environment to test backup configurations, patches and updates before implementing them in the production environment
Successfully coordinated and completed datacenter move between location.
Conducted peer training on backup and restore procedures
Migrated from tape-based backups to purely disk-based backups
Worked with security teams to identify security issues with the backup servers
Worked with multiple teams to backup RMAN backups, NFS, CIFS, VMware, Solaris, Windows and RHEL servers
Worked with storage team to decommission backup volumes or to reclaim volumes that were not needed
Documented the backup architecture and all other related processes and procedures in Confluence
Plan and predict data growth and provide metrics to the director of the contract for budgeting purposes
Currently working on implementing TSM in AWS
Working on GPFS backups using SOBAR and TCT on AWS
Create simple shell scripts and edit large custom-built scripts
Create SQL queries for backup reporting, licensing and auditing
Perform DB2 database management when required.

Confidential

Senior NetApp Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

Monitor backups, create documentation for backups and train junior teams
Configuring and managing new backup clients for VMware, SharePoint, Exchange, SQL and Oracle
Manage Oracle SL500 and SL3000 libraries
Manage Quantum Tape libraries - i6000
2800 plus clients and 300 plus TB of data
Advance Disk, Pure Disk configuration, De-Dupe, tape drive management.
Vault tapes and send them offsite
On-call 24/7 for backups and storage
Troubleshooting and resolving backup incidents, tape drive issues, robot issues.
Client upgrades to latest versions and patching NetBackup servers
Coordinating with various teams to ensure NetBackup functions as designed across firewalls, domains and server configurations.
OpsCenter reporting, Upgrade
Creating automated alerts for NetBackup through OpsCenter and Scripts.
Configure NBAC
Coordinate with multiple teams across different department for client-based backups.
NetApp administration, Share Creation, LUN Creation, Monitoring
Brocade switch monitoring, zoning, management.

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