SUMMARY

• Over 10 years of IT experience in Backup and storage technologies supporting multiple platforms and applications.
• Experience in Implementation and administration of critical SAN and NAS environments
• Experience with Multi - tier Enterprise Storage systems design, installation, migration, virtualization, management, monitoring, Performance analysis & Reporting.
• Expertise in design architecture for EMC Storage arrays and Data Protection(XtremIO, Unity, ECS, VMAX3,VPLEX,Isilon,RecoverPoint,Data Domain,Avamar,Networker,DPA)
• Expertise in Brocade & Cisco Director switches.
• Expertise in planning and executing code upgrades on the storage devices
• Designed and implemented several Backup and recovery Environments that meet the requirements, compliances (both Audit and Security) with the best RPO and RTO.
• Documented Architecture, Implementation plans and operations run books for new and transformation projects.
• Experience working with On-premise and Public Clouds- designed and implemented data protection at various levels
• Experience in planning, designing, deploying Backup Infrastructure Using Avamar, Data Domain, Networker, Rubrik and Igneous.
• Expert in Installing, Configuring and integrating EMC backup products - Networker, Avamar, Data Domain, DPA and Rubrik
• Expertise with S3 Object Storage, EMC ECS
• Good Knowledge of network switching, routing, firewalls, DNS and load balancers
• Address and resolve third level problems related to the storage & SAN Switches
• Proficient in learning new technologies and quickly adaptable to new environment.
• Excellent analytical problem solving, communication, knowledge transfers and interpersonal skills with ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
• Expertise with capacity planning and performance reporting, tuning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Storage and Backup Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working as SME (Subject Matter Expert) on Storage and backup products
• Act as Senior Storage Engineer in coordinating level 3 support
• Experience in installing, configuring, upgrading and managing Storage and backup environments using Rubrik, Avamar, Data Domain and DPA, Cohesity, Elastic Cloud Storage, F5 Load Balancers VNX, XtremIO, Isilon and VPLEX and more products
• Transitioned from Networker,Avamar to Rubrik and Cohesity
• Archived data to EMC ECS,AWS s3 -DD cloud Tiering
• Installation of Fiber channel adapters & Fiber channel switches.
• Configuring, troubleshooting & performing Zoning on Brocade Switches using Web Tools & CLI.
• Set up the standard/best practices for Brocade switches & Cisco switches
• Isilon implementation and administration
• Extensive knowledge on Isilon and EMC ECS
• S3 storage administration
• Worked extensively on f5 load balancers and worked with networking teams to implement the networking for object storage access, cluster access and Geo-replication
• Health monitoring of SAN components. Creating daily logs to perform capacity planning and monitoring storage performance utilization.

Confidential

Data Protection Architect

Responsibilities:

• Integration of SAN management tools into operation. Updated SAN configuration inventory and installation documentation. Technical review of the hardware, software, mitigating risk and the deployment process
• Work with different application teams and database administrators in troubleshooting storage related performance issues.
• Implemented and configured Several data domains and DDBEA for DB backups(Oracle,SQL)
• Expertise with vmware backups using proxies in Avamar and Networker
• In-depth troubleshooting of backup and restore failures on both Windows and Linux servers,vmware with varied configurations, such as SQL clusters, Exchange, and Oracle applications
• Cloud Tiering with Data domain and Isilon
• Installation and Configuration of Avamar Grids, Networker software
• Installed, Configured and created custom reports with EMC Data protection advisor
• Monitor logs, remediate problems for EMC data protection services suite, Avamar, Networker Data Domain and Rubrik.
• Perform Common NetWorker, Avamar & Data Domain Configuration tasks, including (but not limited to): device configuration, media manager and disk storage unit configuration, storage unit group configuration, volume and volume pool configuration, storage server and disk pool configuration, and policy, schedule, and storage lifecycle policy configuration, job monitoring and administration, Networker report generation and analysis.
• Maintain the balance between the server, storage node and client versions and working on the compatibilities with Data domain.
• Create, maintain and document data protection services configuration, mapping, processes, and service records.
• Perform capacity management of data protection services environment

Confidential

Data Protection Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, Plan & Implement Avamar Backup solution to take the backups of the virtual environment.
• Design and Implement the container level backups on Virtual Machines
• Test and certify the DDBoost Plugin Backups and comparing with the networker scheduled backups
• Work closely with the oracle to team to design, implement the RMAN backups
• New implementation of Networker servers and Data domain servers.
• Upgrade NetWorker server, storage nodes to support the new databases and new applications
• Support the backups on legacy database applications
• Perform Common NetWorker, Avamar & Data Domain Configuration tasks, including (but not limited to): device configuration, media manager and disk storage unit configuration, storage unit group configuration, volume and volume pool configuration, storage server and disk pool configuration, and policy, schedule, and storage lifecycle policy configuration. job monitoring and administration, Networker report generation and analysis
• Configure the Replication across the Data Domains.
• Configuration of NFS, CIFS on data domain which is used for the RMAN migration activities.
• Configure Networker Controlled Data Domain Replication for DDBoost devices.
• Upgrading the networker servers, storage nodes to the version 8.1.1.
• Maintain the balance between the server, storage node and client versions and working on the compatibilities with Data domain.
• Configure NDMP accelerator solution for the NDMP backups on the Avamar environment.
• Set up new environment for the Data Protection Advisor.
• Create custom reports using EMC Data Protection Advisor (DPA) as per the business requirement.
• Configuration of Alerts and Notifications with the help of DPA (Policy Based Events/Triggers).
• Handling escalations, priority 1, 2 Cases as per the on-call schedule.
• Coordinate hardware replacements with external vendors Perform disk, nodes, code upgrades on regular basis.
• Perform Pre-Upgrade Health checks to avoid any potential adverse effects from upgrades.
• Coordinate down time with Stake Holders to avoid any unintended outages.
• Review Technical Advisories regarding Known Bugs with hardware/software.
• Develop project plans with clearly defined milestones and maintain project status

Confidential

Backup Architect

Responsibilities:

• Installing, Configuring and upgrade - Networker, Avamar, Data Domain and DPA
• Configuring Networker module backups of Oracle, DB2 and SQL
• Up-gradation of Networker and Avamar servers
• Integrating DD with Avamar and Networker products
• Installation and Configuration of Networker 7.x and above
• Installation and configuration of Networker Module for Microsoft Applications like Active Directory, MS Exchange, SQL and SharePoint
• Installation and configuration of Networker Modules for Oracle
• Integration and configuration of NMDA
• Configure VMware Backups using VADP and VBA appliance
• Integration of Networker with Data Domain as the target Backup device
• Configuration of Networker with Various Tape Libraries-Staging and cloning
• Optimizing backup and cloning performance by constantly monitoring the backup infrastructure

Confidential

Unix/Backup Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Configuration Avamar Single/Multi node solutions
• Integration Avamar with Data Domain
• Installation and Configuration of Avamar Plugins for various Applications such as MS Exchange, SQL and Oracle
• Configuring NDMP Backups with Avamar
• Configuration of VMware Image Level Backups to Avamar by deploying proxies for multiple vCenter’s
• Avamar Replication (Normal, Policy Based Replication & Root-Root)
• Installation and Configuration of Data Domain DD4500, DD880, DD990.
• Configuration of NFS & CIFS shares.
• Integration of DD with various Backup Applications as a target device.
• Expertise in DPA 6.x In-built & Custom Reporting for BRS Solutions.
• Installation of backup agents on servers, configuration of agents, scheduling the backups, restoring data.
• Managing LDAP User Authentications forDPAServer
• Creation of Customized Reports on Avamar and Data Domain Utilizations
• Created Backups Audit Summary Reports across all the Backup Server Application as per the Customer Requirements
• Good experience in handling multiple projects, extreme workloads with multiple vendors and business teams

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, upgraded and configuration of Red Hat Linux using the kick start installation.
• Responsible for creating builds, Staging and deploying Software Content across multiple environments (DEV, QA, Demo, Test, Staging, UAT and Production)
• Configuring and Maintained DNS servers, Mail servers, FTP servers, NFS, NIS, RPM.
• Scheduled Jobs using CRONTAB and AT Utility and wrote shell scripts to automate System Process.
• Develop, maintain and upgrade existing UNIX Shell scripts to customize daily work.
• Performed daily system administration tasks like managing system resources, writing scripts, LVM management and end users support, manage operations and security issues.
• Designed and worked with team to implement ELK to provide end-end search for visualization to investigate log files.
• Developed various bash shell scripts to automate resource, job monitoring and alerting.
• Created RPM packages using the RPMBUILD and checking the new build packages.
• Remote system administration using tools like SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin.
• Participated in setup Storage Area Network (SAN) and NAS and file system backup and restore