CAREER OBJECTIVE:

To gain the position of a Storage and Backup engineer

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Certified Storage and Backup Professional with 8 years of experience on Confidential Symmetrix VMAX, DMX3, Clariion, VNX, XtremIO, Isilon and Celerra arrays.
• Experience of administration and configuration of Hitachi AMS - 2500, Hitachi USPv, HUS-VM, G1000, Hitachi VSP, HCP, HDI, IBM DS8700/DS8800.
• Performance analysis using tools like ViPR SRM, Unisphere, Symmetrix performance analyser (SPA), Prosphere, Watch4net, ECC, Hitachi tuning manager, SolarWinds and IBM TPC.
• Experience on Confidential ViPR, Solutions Enabler, Powerpath, Hitachi Storage navigator, Hitachi Tiered Storage Manager, Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager etc.
• Knowledge of local and remote replications on Symmetrix VMAX, VNX and Hitachi arrays.
• SAN switch management and configuration of Cisco and Brocade switches.
• Configuring backups using Symantec Netbackup, Avamar, DataDomain for SAN and NAS infrastructure.
• Proficient in data migration between arrays involving Confidential DMX3, Celerra, Hitachi VSP, HUSVM and HNAS.
• ITILv3 certified with good experience on incident, change, problem management processes.
• Experience working in Linux, Windows, AIX, VMware, Nutanix, Cisco Hyperflex environments.
• Experience in utilizing RESTAPI’s using PowerShell and Python programming.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, FortWorth, Texas

Storage and Backup engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential SAN-NAS Storage engineer responsible for design, implementation and administration of Confidential VMAX, XtremeIO, Isilon, Hitachi and IBM storage arrays.
• Work on vMware, Nutanix and Cisco Hyperflex HyperConverged Infrastructure.
• Backup and recovery design, implementation and administration of Avamar and DataDomain.
• Design and implement disaster recovery using Avamar and DataDomain replications.
• Configure backups of multiple operating systems, vmware image level backups, configure DD boost plugins for SQL, Oracle etc on Avamar.
• Design and implement exchange server backups on Avamar.
• Integration of Avamar and DataDomain, configure Datadomain for multisite replication, mtrees etc.
• Isilon NAS backup and disaster recovery design, implementation and administration, use of syncIQ and Superna Eyeglass for disaster recovery.
• NAS migrations from windows file servers to enterprise NAS storage.
• Capacity planning and performance analysis of storage, backup and recovery infrastructure.
• Cisco fibre channel switch administration for Storage area networks.
• Implementation and administration of Recover point for virtual machine replication for disaster recovery.
• Backup migration from TSM, vRanger, IBM tape library to Avamar-DataDomain.
• Datacenter experience with rack and stack of storage and backup products, datacenter consolidation etc.
• Experience of Service-now for change management, incident management etc.
• Work closely with IT managers across different teams, project management, SME's to support TTI's IT infrastructure.
• Liaise with vendors for storage and backup, HCI and cloud solution purchases; act as a technical advocate for TTI's purchasing team.

Confidential, Tampa, Florida

Senior Storage engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Symmetrix VMAX20k, HUSVM, AMS2500, HNAS, Celerra, HCP, HDI, G800, IBM SVC, IBM V840 across two different datacenters.
• BAU tasks involves provisioning storage to VM and AIX environments, cisco switch administration, and zoning.
• Plan and design storage migration from VMAX20k to HUSVM, Celerra to HNAS.
• Performance analysis and tuning of infrastructure for storage to meet Hitachi best practices.
• Backup and recovery using CommVault.
• Capacity planning of both SAN and NAS infrastructure.
• Co-ordinate with application teams to meet their storage requirements.
• Liaise with storage vendors for purchase of new FC storage, Hyper-converged infrastructure.
• Plan and design storage refresh activities, upgrades, DR activities, data center move projects.

Confidential

Senior Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Product support and implementation for leading cloud ready Confidential products like ViPR, ViPR SRM, Watch4Net, VNX monitoring & Reporting, ECC and ProSphere.
• Installation of vCenter server 5.x and using vSphere Web client to create DataCenter environment by creating VMware clusters, adding ESXi hosts in the clusters, and implementation of HA and DRS.
• Implementation and administration of VMAX, VNX, Isilon arrays using ViPR software defined storage.
• Configuration and management of Hitachi USPv and VSP arrays.
• Storage provisioning to VMware, Linux, windows, AIX, Solaris and HP-UX hosts.
• Mentors and/or coach less experienced engineers, help develop and participate in presentations and informal for other engineers.
• Collaboration with product engineering to troubleshoot complex issues encountered in customer environment.

Confidential

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and maintain the Storage and Backup Infrastructure of client Marks and Spencer on daily basis.
• Storage provisioning to Windows, AIX, Linux and VMware ESX servers from Confidential VMAX, Symmetrix DMX3, Confidential VNX, Hitachi VSP, Hitachi USPv, AMS 2500 arrays.
• Configuring and managing disaster recovery activities on VMAX, USPv and VSP arrays using Confidential SRDF, TimeFinder, Hitachi Universal replicator technologies.
• SAN management of Cisco MDS switches.
• Develop tactical and strategic plans, standards, guidelines and policies for the storage resources based on growth, trends, available metrics, etc
• Generating weekly storage capacity report for DMX3, USPv, VSP, Celerra, HNAS and performing capacity planning to ensure strategies are in place to grow capacity as needed and well in advance.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• On the job on various computer technologies involving SQL, Business Intelligence, Informatica, Programming languages like C, C++
• Exposure to Confidential watch4net and datacenter monitoring applications like Control Center