SUMMARY

• Storage Professional ( Confidential /Dell EMC/ Confidential / Confidential )with Over 12 years of strong IT experience in the areas of system installation, configuring and troubleshooting with extensive expertise on Confidential Storage in Windows 2012/2016, Linux, Solaris and Vmware Environments.
• Experience in writing Python and shellscripts for automationg storage testcases for testing/daily/provisioning tasks.
• Experienced in Confidential single and clustered mode, provision storage as part of day - to-day activity.
• Experience with VMware vSphere, Confidential UCS blade servers and Dell PowerEdge R730
• Experience in manual and Automation testing on storage products.
• Experience designing and implementing blade server-based and Rack server end user computing environments.
• Played a Major role in designing the Datacenter and migrate the Physical and Virtual machines from variuous legacy datacenters to the cloud based (AWS) newly built.
• Scripts related Defect fixing using Perl, Shell script and Python.
• Specialized in creating Cluster using Linux operating system and storage products.
• Experience in filesystem, Multiprotocol Environments like CIFS,NFS,SMB and mixed mode in Islion and Confidential NAS environment
• Managed Confidential FAS960c FAS3040c and AFF provided support functions using FilerView and CLI, monitored performance data using Data Fabric Manager Suite.
• NAS Storage; Confidential FAS3260, Confidential FAS6240 and Confidential AFF
• NAS Replication: Confidential Snap Mirror, Confidential Snap Vault
• NAS Management: Confidential On Command Unified Manager
• Experienced in HA design implementation, Disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
• Experienced in interacting with Client solutions, IT operations and management of teams,clients and vendors.
• Experienced with enterprise class storage including SCSI, RAID and Fiber-Channel technologies and the accompanying enterprise class software solutions.
• Expertise with Snapshots, FlexClones, SnapMirror, Snapvault and Confidential management tools like FilerView, Confidential system Manager, Operations Manager.
• Demonstrated in administering overall production process including conceptualization, planning and execution. Possess a comprehensive knowledge of all quality tools and various quality control systems.
• Proven track record in administering overall production process to ensure that projects are completed within the budgeted cost .
• Experience in performing end to end testing including Data Validation, Unit Testing and User Acceptance.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to interact with people at all levels, good presentation skills, excellent team player, ability to meet deadlines.
• Performed Manual testing of Confidential Antivirus all versions in all operating systems of Windows 2012/2016
• Performed and configuring the Brocade and Confidential Switches using Zoning for SAN Servers
• Working experience on dell products Dell VMAX,,XtremIO ISILON, UNITY, Clarion,VPLEX and VNX for NAS and SAN protocols.
• Working experience Dell RPA and SyncIQ related to backup tools and Migrations between two storage products.
• Working experience on Power Max and HP3Par storage boxes for testing purposes
• Working experience on AWS cloud environment with EC2,S3,VPC, Elastic bean stack,
• Working experience on amazon cloud on Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, Cloud watch
• Working experience on amazon on sys operation in cloud
• Working experience on Backup and restore in Tapes, VERITAS NetBackup and commvault

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Dell Storage Arrays: Xtreme IO, Dell Scale IO, EMC VMAX 100K, VMAX200K, VMAX3VNX 5700,7500,VNX 5300, EMC Islion X-400,NL400, VMAX, Unity, ScaleIO, VNX, Isilon

Confidential Storage Arrays: Confidential FAS3260, Confidential FAS6240, AFF

Switches: Confidential MDS fabric switches,Brocade and Brocade

IBM Storage Arrays: IBM storage V700 and SVC

Third Party Storage systems: Tryone OPslag FS2

Backup and Restore: Tape,Vertias Netbackup,Comman Vault

Confidential software: HPSA, HP3PAR

Third party Software: .Ansible, HA, VSAN, DRS, HA, VRA, VROOperating systems Windows 2012/2016, RedHat Enterprise Linux, datacenter migration, Vmware ESX 6.5, 6.0, Confidential -UX.AIXDebain,solarisScripting Languages Shell Script, Perl, Python

Storage Technology: NAS, SAN, RAID, DRBD, ISCSI, FC, NFS, CIFS

Others: Cluster installation, Confidential UCS, HPSA, SATA, SAS, and PCIe

Webservices: Amazon web services with cloud migration

Monitiring tools: Maui,Gangila

Tools: Git, SVN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago Illinois

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential On Command System Manager, and 7-mode transition tool for managing Confidential storage
• Reviews the Unix/Storage performance metrics during the migration Phase
• Support change management by working with IT staff to identify and manage risks, gaps, and competing priorities involving the systems managed with different storages
• Provide input for team member performance evaluations
• Responsible for design the HLD and LLD documents and getting reviewed by the client
• Storage Area Network Attached Storage ( Confidential ), SAN/NAS management and monitoring tools
• Responsible for configuring NFS (Network File System), SMB (Server Message Block) .
• Worked on cloud ontap manager and cloud volumes with AWS, Azure and GCP
• Coordinating with team members.
• Developing Automated scripts using bash script and Python.
• Responsible for solving the issues while configuring the Confidential storage.
• Configuring the new feature Phoenix in Confidential storage and perform testing.
• Administers Confidential with current version ONTAP (7-mode and Cluster mode) management console; Data Fabric Manager (DFM); Operations Manager.
• Participate in disaster recovery preparedness efforts.
• Responsible for the day-to-day management of the storage area network (SAN) and (NAS).
• Created ontap volumes with Confidential storage and try to resolve issues related to Confidential
• Troubleshooting the issues related to hosts machines Linux and RHEL

Environment: Shell Script (bash shell). Linux, Windows 2012/2016,IO-Meter, AJAX, hammer(tools),vcentre ESX,VROPS,IBM storage, AWS

Confidential, Sunnyvale, California

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Confidential On Command System Manager, Unified Manager and Performance Manager
• Reviews the Unix/Storage performance metrics and reports provided by the Managed Service Providers. Identify issues and recommend remediation plans
• Support change management by working with IT staff to identify and manage risks, gaps, and competing priorities involving the systems managed
• Provide input for team member performance evaluations
• Responsible for hardware and software installation and configuration or storage subsystem, upgrade and patches;
• Storage Area Network Attached Storage ( Confidential ), SAN/NAS management and monitoring tools
• Responsible for configuring NFS (Network File System), SMB (Server Message Block) .
• Deftly carrying the task of major protocols such as NFS (Network File System),iSCSI ( Internet Small Computer System Interfaces ) by running automated Scripts.
• Coordinating with team members.
• Developing Automated scripts using bash script and Python.
• Responsible for solving the issues while configuring the Confidential storage.
• Configuring the new feature Phoenix in Confidential storage and perform testing.
• Administers Confidential with current version ONTAP (7-mode and Cluster mode) management console; Data Fabric Manager (DFM); Operations Manager.
• Participate in disaster recovery preparedness efforts.
• Responsible for the day-to-day management of the storage area network (SAN) and (NAS).
• At least 5-7 years of storage systems engineering using Linux or FreeBSD.
• Experience installing, configuring, managing, and monitor Confidential storage system using CLI (command line interface).
• Experience installing, configuring, managing, and upgrading storage operating systems.
• Experience installing, configuring, managing, and upgrading Confidential On Command Management Software.
• Performing testing in different types of platforms of Confidential storage by using NATE tool and NACL.
• Performing testing in firmware version of RLM/SP/BMC and Stress in ONTAP.
• Performing testing on different types builds of Confidential ONTAP OS.
• Performing testing of different areas of Confidential Storage using tool.
• Performing testing of Confidential Storage in C-mode (cluster mode ).
• Performing testing on different hardware and firmware for hardware used in Confidential Storage.
• Performing testing using vROPS,Vmware,ESX,vcentre.
• Perform branding for IBM storage boxes V700 and svc for testing.
• Worked on Amazon cloud to access the Netpp filers using Ontap cloud API
• Working on the SSD, SATA, NVMe disks with Confidential filers and setting up Lab,
• Responsible for installing and configure Active Directory and AD) Security groups, Windows 2012/2016 servers.
• Working Experience on designing rest API using Python framework flask and Django
• Responsible for working AWS cloud on tap volumes sing Confidential ontap cloud manager.
• Responsible for working Aws with EC2, Elastic search, S3,VPC,IAM,Cloud watch and cloud monitoring
• Responsible for installing the instances (OS) in AWS and making test setup ready by using Elastic Bean stack and Lambda.
• Performed the backup and restore to tapes/disks using NetBackup/Commvault
• Working to optimise backup infrastructure with NDMP, disks, software and different OS types
• Configure Storage Units, Storage Devices, Tape volumes, Volume.
• Performance monitoring and tuning of netbackup
• Configuring the flex groups on ontap volumes on C-mode or c-dot storage volumes
• Configured large metro cluster in the customer-based environment and resoled issues.

Environment: Shell Script (bash shell). Linux, datacenter migration, Perl Python Windows 2012/2016,IO-Meter, AJAX, hammer(tools),vcentre ESX,VROPS,IBM storage, AWS,Veritas NetBackup, Confidential

Confidential

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Enable/Disable IDRAC interface for Dell Servers.
• Responsible for configuring the IDRAC virtual Media ISO/CD/DVD for installing OS on Dell Power Edge Servers.
• Responsible for configuring SNMP in the IDRAC to receive alerts from Dell Servers to the V-Centre.
• Responsible for Upgrade/Downgrade the IDRAC based on requirement of customers.
• Responsible for Installing OS ESX 6.5 above and Configuring the Network using IDRAC.
• Responsible for Installing Vcentre and configuring ESX host on vcentre with Guest OS.
• Deploy the Specter Application Ova file on the Vcentre install, implement, configure, manage and support Virtual Machines with Vmware.
• Respond and resolve escalations from Implementations, Support, Storage Infrastructure Engineering, and Infrastructure Management teams.
• Apply patches, update and upgrades to servers, workstations and stored images
• Investigate root cause of severe and systemic outages, identify corrective actions and apply across the enterprise.
• Responsible for configuring VSAN and Vmotion during the ova deployment of Spectre.
• Responsible for writing for the different test cases .
• Coordinating with team members.
• Running Automated scripts with python.
• Responsible for sending the reports to the client team.
• Responsible for testing Manual scenarios of Dell Blade Servers (M640) (MX 7000) and Rack servers (R 640)(R340.)(R440),(R540).
• Responsible for raising the Defect using Jira tool.
• Responsible for having a client meeting
• Ensuring consistent delivery of quality solutions that meet operational deadlines
• Configuring the Ansible for performing automatic tasks for different operating systems

Environment: Shell Script (bash shell). Linux, DELLPowerEdge R340RackServer, Dell Power Edge M Series,PowerEdge Mx and FX,Vmware, VSAN, SDN/SDDC concepts, DRS, HA,vxflex

Confidential

Storage engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuring of Dell EMC storage boxes (in different data centres with SPE and DAE
• Storage Provisioning and expansion in XtremIO using the XMS.
• Creating the NFS shares in Isilon and export to the requested clients.
• Creating the SMB Shares in Isilon and export to the requested clients.
• Creating the Sync IQ for replicating the shares to the remote locations.
• Creating and expanding the storage quota as per the customer requirement.
• Working experience on storage provisioning for both VMAX3 and VMAX.
• Working experience on creating storage groups, port groups, initiator groups and masking view.
• Working experience on set the flags for initiator groups for different operating systems.
• Working experience on creating the Virtual volumes, host sets, volume sets and export the virtual volumes to the host set in HP3PAR.
• Working experience in creating the virtual and physical copies in HP3PAR.
• Working experiencing creating the remote copy groups and perform the remote replications in HP3PAR.
• Working experience in performing the DR test on quarterly basis as per the customer requirement.
• Good Working experience for reclaim the storage and removal the zones from the active zone Set and clean the zone database.
• Good working experience on creating the zones in both Brocade and Confidential switches.
• Good Trouble shooting knowledge on both storage and switch parts.
• Good working experience on creating the LUNS and assign to the hosts in HPP4K.
• Creating the point and application management snapshots in HPP4K as per the requirement.
• Creating the volumes, volume tag, initiator groups, initiator tags and map the volumes to the initiator groups in XtremIO.
• Creating the storage pools, RAID groups and bind the LUNS in VNX
• Creating the filesystems and creating the CIFS and NFS shares in VNX
• Expand the filesystems and CIFS\NFS shares as per requirement in VNX
• Creating the file level replication for business continuity plan (BCP)
• Good working experience on Recover Point for replicating the data.
• Responsible for storage provisioning and reclaim from different storage arrays for new and existing hosts using SYMCLI and UniSphere
• Good working experience on adding and removing the LUNs from the existing replication sets and removing the consistency group.
• Good working experience in creating the LUNs, storage groups, initiator groups, port groups and masking view using SYMCLI
• Responsible for Confidential SAN Migration using Dell Storage boxes using zoning
• Participated in the VNX flare code and Recover point version upgrades.
• Participated in the migrations from EMC Storage array to Confidential Storage array using Peer Motion (PM)
• Participated in the migrations SRDF, Time finder, Open Replicator in Dell EMC boxes
• Responsible for configuring the Confidential and Brocade Fabric switches
• Responsible for configuring zoning and troubleshooting switches
• Responsible for Adding hardware and creating lun and modify the lun in San setup
• Responsible for performing the restore and backup based on storage operations using different tools
• Responsible for doing the Robocopy, EMcopy operations with Dell EMC

Environment: ShellScript(bashshell).VMAX,,XtremIOISILON,UNITY,Clarion,VPLEX, VNX/XtremIO/VPLEX/ Confidential /Brocade,HP3PAR, F800

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Configuring the Confidential UCM
• Responsible for Configuring the raid of FI called Confidential UCM
• Responsible for Configuring converting UCSM to FC switch mode.
• Responsible for Install and Configuring the Confidential UCM.
• Responsible for Configuring the Confidential UCM using CLI Mode and GUI Code
• Responsible for Configuring the Confidential UCM ports as 10 G using CLI/GUI
• Responsible for Configuring the Blades are rack servers using SAS cables from Confidential UCM.
• Responsible for install OS on Blade and Rack Severs using SAN Boot.
• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality
• Work closely with the U.C. Manager to regularly report status on projects, issues, and developments
• Responsible for checking the state of the Burt cycle using Quality center and Bugzilla.
• Responsible for writing for the different test cases .
• Coordinating with team members.
• Developing Automated scripts with python qali.
• Responsible for testing the UCSM which has rackservers, Blade server and storage.
• Responsible for the running automation test cases.
• Responsible for configuring then Confidential MDS fabric switches
• Responsible for firmware upgrades, smart and traditional zoning

Environment: Shell Script (bash shell). Linux, Confidential UCM, Confidential MDS, VMWare vRealize suite including VRA, VRO

Confidential

Senior software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for checking the state of the Burt cycle using Quality center.
• Responsible for writing for the different checks .
• Coordinating with team members.
• Responsible for testing the Confidential Product.
• Installing the Confidential products on the Windows 2012/2016 .
• Responsible for testing Manual scenarios.
• Responsible for writing Automated test cases using shell

Environment: Windows 2012/2016 and Linux

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for checking the state of the Burt cycle using Quality center.
• Responsible for writing for the test cases using different checks to servers .
• Coordinating with team members.
• Responsible for testing the audit and remediation of the different checks.
• Installing the SA core of the Confidential in Linux machine.
• Configuring the LNC for testing the builds.
• Responsible for installing different OS on the Confidential servers like Windows 2012/2016 and Linux OS
• Example: Debain,centos,red-hat,Suse, Confidential -Par
• Responsible send report to customers how may servers are compliant and non-complaint

Environment: Windows 2012/2016 and Linux

Confidential 

 I .T. A

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for checking the state of the Burt cycle using Quality center and Bugzilla.
• Responsible for writing for the different test cases .
• Coordinating with team members.
• Developing Automated scripts with quarts in Perl.
• Responsible for testing the Confidential Products and configuring.
• Responsible for the running automation test cases in Perl.
• Responsible for sending the reports to the client team.
• Responsible for testing Confidential using web portal links.
• Responsible for testing Manual scenarios of Confidential product
• Testing All Areas of Confidential Storage