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Goutham Mada

Goutham Mada

Summary

A proficient Public Cloud, infrastructure architect and technologist with 19+ years of IT experience. Expertise in major building blocks of datacenter architecture, public & private co-location clouds, enterprise solutions architecture & deployments. Led and Manage the Solution architecture teams for various datacenter solutions like Availability zones, private cloud, distributed systems and storage solutions for IaaS, data protection & business continuity solutions. Understand & analyze the complex business needs, executive Leadership initiatives and enable them as IT solutions. Expertise in Data Centers engineering, architecture, administration, and Production support with specialized skills in automation, orchestration, software defined datacenter (SDDC), software defined network (SDN), compute, storage, virtualization & Dev-ops. Extensive work experience in business domains like Financial, Telecom & web commerce, Healthcare, ISP projects. Expertise in determine the sustainability, security, recoverability, strategic direction, interoperability, business value, TCO and service pricing for storage and compute solutions offerings. Hands on experience on self service automation, Dev-ops model implementation for IaaS, PaaS that deliver on-demand need for pre-configured VMs, Storage & networks. Very good knowledge in datacenter security compliances, firewall & load balancing requirements. Have worked extensively with continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD) and configuration management tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Airflow DAG, Jenkins. Hands on Experience with datacenter modernization, Datacenter consolidation, datacenter migrations, hybrid clouds, hyperconverged solutions, unified computing & unified storage solutions. Built Virtualization and Cloud Computing stacks in IaaS & PaaS (Private, Public and Hybrid) using Open Stack dashboard and AWS Implementation, development & support of OpenStack projects like Compute (Nova), Block Storage (Cinder), Identity Service (Keystone), Networking (Neutron). Expertise in AWS EC2, Route53 DNS, ELB, EBS, AMI, VPC, Cloud Formation Templates and Cloud Watch Monitoring and used puppet to leverage and manage AWS Instances. Expertise in Azure VMs, Virtual Networks, Storage, Netapp files, AzureAD, DNS and Load Balancer. Extensively worked With VMware ESXi, vCenter Server, Host Clustering with HA, DRS, Replication Manager 5.x/6.0, Site Recovery Manager, vMotion, Physical to Virtual Migration and Managing SAN Data stores with iSCSI, NFS & FC. Expertise in DevOps Engineering/SRE in automating, building, deploying, and releasing of code from one environment to another environment using puppet, GitHub, Jenkins, SVN, Ansible. Determine the expectations & solution outcomes with vendors, demonstrate the same with higher management & internal customers. Experienced in implementing different network protocols like TCP/IP, SMTP, NTP, SNMP, NFS, NIS, and DHCP services. Innovative Senior Software Engineer offering [Number] years of experience. Enthusiastic about developing forward-thinking solutions to tomorrow's productivity problems. Demonstrates hardworking and adaptable approach to challenges with strong analytical and critical thinking skills. Skilled Senior Software Engineer designs and implements new features, improves architecture and takes lead to launch new products. Excellent understanding of software design and programming principles. Meaningful experience shipping and maintaining large, complex systems. Experienced Senior Software Engineer skilled at leading cross-functional teams. Remarkable relationship building, decision making and communication skills. Drives software process improvements that enable progressively increased team efficiency. Organized and motivated employee eager to apply time management and organizational skills in various environments. Seeking entry-level opportunities to expand skills while facilitating company growth.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr. Software Engineer

Cisco Systems
RTP, NC
07.2018 - Current
  • Analyze & transform legacy product applications as cloud base product applications & support them in hybrid cloud environments
  • Performed the Production Architecture for Cloud - Planning, Designing, Migration/Set up plans, Billing and Project executions
  • Designed, developed, and maintained Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation using ansible playbooks, APIs, InfraDB, HashiCorp vault, python runners, Puppet modules and manifests
  • Designed & implemented the AWS disaster recovery solutions for on-premises monolithic traditional applications using AWS CloudFormation Templates, AWS Cloud DRS
  • Automated the DR build pipeline, continuous integration and continuous deployment using GitLab
  • Automated the AWS & Azure infrastructure provisioning and configuration management using IaC & Devops standards
  • Designed and Deployed AWS infrastructure resources like IAM roles, EC2 instances, ECS Fargate, CloudFront CDN, DynamoDB, RDS instances, S3 Buckets, route53, certificates, lambda functions etc
  • SSM parameter stores, key managers, cert managers using cloud formation templates
  • Led & implement the POCs on IaaS, PaaS (K8s Containers), datacenter availability zones for different product base applications
  • Designed and Deployed the Azure VM’s, security groups, IAM, Networks, azure files using terraform IaC
  • Worked on Google cloud networking services like VPC, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud CDN, and Cloud Interconnect
  • Architected and implemented scalable and resilient cloud architectures in GCP, utilizing services like Compute Engine, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine, and Cloud Functions
  • Designed and implemented the security groups and network for applications between on premise and AWS cloud using VPC, VPC Peering, VPC sharing, direct connect, cloud routers and MPLS BGP
  • Performed Capacity, cost, performance, reliability, scale analysis of all Storage, SAN & compute resources
  • Deployed ESXi, openstack compute nodes and Cinder storage & network configurations using Ansible playbooks & Jenkins Ci/CD pipelines
  • Architect and deployed the openstack environments and VMware ESXi Private cloud environments
  • Monitor the VMware Environment performance and health using VMware operations manager
  • Followed the architecture best practices like scale, reliability, AZ, HA, Fault domain, data protection, security to design all infrastructure solutions
  • Performed the POCs and strategies for HA, DR, Business continuity, data protection solutions using different vendor solutions
  • Led the Netapp storage grid object storage POC & implemented the solution in all global datacenters with one global S3 endpoint & local distributed endpoints
  • Architect & deployment the low latency storage network for all global datacenter locations
  • Built the Cisco UCS servers, fabric interconnects and install & configure ESXi on servers using automation tools
  • Connected and configured the ESXi Servers to storage arrays &upstream network for Fibre Channel and ISCSI SAN storage
  • Environment: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud (GCP) AWS DRS, Ansible, Cloud Formation, Terraform, Google Cloud deployment Manager, IaC, gitlab, github, Jenkins, pubsub, webhooks, InfluxDB, Openstack, Cisco Cloud center, Cisco UCS, Pure Storage, NetApp(Block, File, Object).

Sr. System engineer, •Architect

Arch Capital
Winston-Salem, NC
08.2015 - 06.2018
  • Plan & implementation of High Availability, Business continuity and Disaster Recovery solutions using EMC and VMware products
  • Implementing virtualization, cloud strategy, technical assessment, solution design, migration, and delivery of IaaS, PaaS and subsequent network, storage and virtualization components from VMware, Linux Openstack, EMC, Cisco, AWS
  • Infrastructure design, capacity planning and implementation of EMC VMAX, vPLEX, VNX, Isilon, XtremIO, ECS, Recoverpoint Avamar, Data Domain, NetApp storage arrays and UCS blades, VMware network switches etc
  • Design and deploy all components in VBLOCK 540 & 740 environment
  • Build, administration of 6248 and 6296 series Cisco Unified Computing System’s (UCS)
  • Managed Public and private cloud servers using puppet & Chef Configuration management
  • Hosting and cutover activities on Amazon AWS/EC2 and on Openstack
  • Perform the SAN Switch OS & Hardware upgrades & zoning of Cisco MDS SAN switches
  • Responsible for performing all storage infrastructure and vBlock component upgrades
  • Worked on Openstack services like Horizon, Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Ceilometers, Glance, Heat, Cinder/Swift to leverage the client Private and Public cloud needs
  • Written Chef Cookbooks for various DB & App configurations to optimize end product configuration
  • Deployed the VMware vcenters, VMware SRM and migrated the VMs between datacenters
  • Deployed, configured and maintain the VMware components like network switches, data stores, clusters, DRS, HA etc
  • Designed and implemented the Disaster recovery & Business continuity solutions using VMAX, XtremIO, Recoverpoint, and VMware SRM
  • Implemented and manage storage backup solutions in Avamar, Datadomain environment
  • Environment : EMC FEHC, ECS, AWS, Openstack, VBLOCK 740, 740, VMAX 40K, XtremIO, ViPR SRM, Netapp 8040, 8200 series, vSphere 6.x/5.x, Cisco UCS, DataLake, Ision, , Atmos.

Sr. Systems Administrator

Advance Auto parts, CARQUEST
Raleigh, NC
08.2014 - 08.2015
  • Design & configured the storage solutions for ESX server refresh & version upgrades
  • Plan & Perform the storage migrations & decommissioning of old arrays
  • Automated the pre-configured VM builds & deployments with chef, udeploy, SVN tools
  • Supporting software lifecycle & VM lifecycle in dev-ops model
  • Deployed Rally project for openstack performance benchmarking
  • Configured the VMAX storage drivers on cinder nodes for openstack
  • Install & configured object based storage (swift) for openstack, access through RESTful, HTTP-base interface
  • Performed the instance live & cold migrations in between openstack compute nodes
  • Install, configure & administration of EMC VMAX, XtremeIO, VNX, IBM XIV & V3700 storage arrays
  • Storage provisioning on both SAN & NAS based arrays for open systems operating environment
  • Monitoring the capacity, capacity growth trend analysis, performance analysis on storage arrays
  • Designed and implemented the BCP (business continuity plan) & disaster recovery using native storage & backup technologies
  • Implemented the storage system chargeback & monitoring solutions using EMC ViPR
  • Provide SAN cable patching & zoning configuration on Cisco MDS and brocade san switches
  • Environment: Vmware 5.5/5.1/5.0, Openstack Juno & Icehouse, VMAX, VNX 5500, IBM XIV, IBM v3700, XtremIO, AIX 6.1&7.1, VMware ESX 5.0/5.1/5.5 Vsphere 5.0/5.1, Sun Solaris 10, 11 Cisco MDS, Brocade.

Sr. Solutions Architect

EMC
RTP, NC
02.2014 - 07.2014
  • Responsible for Architecture, implement, migration, storage solutions using VNX, VMAX RecoverPoint, AIX, VMWARE ESX and Sun Solaris
  • Created the Standard operating procedures for storage provision, capacity management, performance analysis and health management
  • Integrated the VMAX systems in to Cisco UCS H/W environment & UCS director
  • Created the automated SAN connectivity, storage provision, storage expansion work flows in UCS director orchestration for UCS servers
  • Connected the IBM mainframe servers to VMAX through FICON & provisioned the storage
  • Prepared the Migration solution & plan using RecoverPoint appliances in AIX LPAR & VMWARE ESX SRM environment
  • Provisioned storage from both EMC VMAX and VNX storage arrays also performed zoning activities on Brocade and Cisco MDS SAN switches
  • Environment: VMAX 10K, RecoverPoint Appliances Gen 5, VNX 5700, AIX 6.1&7.1, VMware ESX 5.0, Vsphere 5.0, Sun Solaris 5.11, Cisco MDS, Brocade.

Sr. Storage Administrator

Gap Inc
Pleasanton, CA
07.2013 - 02.2014
  • Responsible for Architecture, Installation and maintain the storage arrays and SAN switches
  • Performed new builds of VMAX systems & Configured Thin pools, Tiers, and FAST VP on VMAX arrays
  • Performed storage allocations from VMAX, IBM SVC, IBM DS series, Hitachi and NetApp storage arrays
  • Performed the VLUN migrations across the thin pools
  • Configured the dynamic SRDF groups & SRDF/A between VMAX arrays
  • Performed Time Finder/clone and Time Finder/snap operations
  • Addition of nodes to IBM SVC and upgrade OS
  • Configured the FA, RA ports on VMAX 40K and VMAX 20K systems
  • Setting up the snapmirror relations between NetApp storage arrays
  • Performed SAN refresh activities on CISCO MDS SAN switches and removal of old brocades and directors
  • Worked on PERL & Python programming to extend and customize OpenStack components
  • Worked on REST API integration to integrate OpenStack with other tools for Orchestration, Monitoring
  • Worked on POC for CEPH nodes to build open object storage
  • Configured SyncIQ replication between Isilon clusters across different geographical locations
  • Environment: VMAX40K, VMAX20K, EMC Isilon, VNX, IBM SVC, Hitachi 9980, IBM DS8300, DS4800, NetApp FAS 6080, 3170, IBM N6040, CEPH, OpenStack, VMware ESXi 5.0, VSphere 5.0, NetApp FAS Data ONTAP 7.3/ 8.1.1, MDS 9513,9509, Cisco UCS, SAN, NAS, FCoE, NFS, CIFS, NetApp DFM, Solaris, Linux, IBM AIX.

Storage Operations Lead, •Team Lead & L3 Engineer

NetApp Inc
RTP, NC
02.2012 - 06.2013
  • For NetApp IT storage operations team
  • Responsible for resolving P1 & P2 issues, advanced troubleshooting, perform new builds, integration, administration of storage operations, tuning of storage architecture and technologies, TOIs for team members, coordinate with Apps and admin teams
  • Provide administration and maintenance for 350 + NetApp FAS storages at different geographical locations across the globe
  • Built and Configured all models of NetApp FAS storage Systems in ONTAP 7-mode & C-mode, configuring Aggregates, Vservers-Cmode, vfilers-7mode, volumes, ifgrp, lifs, CIFS, NFS, Dedupe, SnapShot, SnapManager, Snapvault and all other services
  • Implement FlexPod in pre-production by integrating the Cisco UCS5100, UCS6200 fabric extenders, VMware ESXi 5.0, Vsphere5.0, VMware VSC, NetApp FAS 3170 controllers & ONTAP 8.1 C-mode
  • Built and configured the ONTAP Cluster mode on 4 & 2 nodes, created the Ifgrps, Lifs, Vservers, DP, LS mirrors in both NAS and SAN environment
  • Troubleshoot cluster mode ONTAP administration and storage provision issues for NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, FCP storage services
  • Work with ESX team for Virtual storage console installation & configuration, Data Store provisioning, raw device mapping, SAN boot servers, DSM etc
  • Configure the Port channels, Creating VSAN’s, moving ports to VSAN’s, port descriptions, creating device-alias and zones using Cisco CLI/ Fabric Manager
  • Environment: NetApp FAS 6200, 6080, 3170, 3070, etc..
  • VMware ESXi 5.0, VSphere 5.0, NetApp FAS Data ONTAP 7.3/ 8.1.1, Cisco UCS 5100, UCS6200, MDS 9513,9509, SAN, NAS, FCoE, NFS, CIFS, FlexClone, NetApp DFM, Windows 2008/2003, Solaris, Linux, IBM AIX.

Sr. Storage Consultant

Steward Healthcare
Boston, MA
10.2011 - 01.2012
  • Responsible for storage design, advice and implement the best practices of NetApp storage and It's products, also responsible for integration and administration of Storage infrastructure that includes NetApp FAS controllers, EMC VMAX, Hitachi and IBM XIV storages
  • Designed and configured the thresholds for alerts, automated notifications, capacity planning, and performance monitoring using Netapp DFM (data fabric manger)
  • Performed SAN Storage migration from Netapp FAS 3170 to IBM XIV storage system
  • Performed Hitachi Async and sync TrueCopy, ShadowImage, Copy on write snapshot for replication and database/Application refresh activities
  • Strategic planning, analysis, performance of the storage infrastructure using NetApp SANscreen, OnCommand insight product suite
  • Environment: Netapp FAS 3170, Data ONTAP 7.3.5 , Symmetrix, VMAX, DMX-4, Clariion CX-3 series,VNX5700,Brocade DS5300 SAN switches, FCoE, NFS, CIFS, Linux 4.5 AS, Hitachi VSP, Vmware ESX 4.1, Windows 2008/2003.

Sr. Storage Ops Specialist

Cisco Systems, EMC Resident
RTP, NC
06.2010 - 09.2011
  • Designed and implemented the NetApp SnapManager for oracle on production databases
  • Created the SRDF R1-R2 pairs and starting the data synchronization from the Symmetrix VMAX and DMX over SRDF link
  • Performed the BCV clone and BCV snapshots for backups and Apps migration, release purposes
  • Performed the Array based migrations form DMX to VMAX frames using Open replicator
  • Changed and configured the FA bit settings according to the Host environment
  • Created the aggregates, volumes, Qtree and quota Management, NFS, CIFS Qtrees creation and management, Snap mirror, Snap shots Administration
  • Configured the upgrades, VSAN, Zonesets, and Zones, activating the configurations in redundant fabrics
  • Environment: Symmetrix, VMAX, DMX, VNX, Clariion, Netapp FAS 6070,6080, 3020, 3060,3040, Data ONTAP 7.x, Cisco switch MDS 9000 series, SYMCLI 7.2, SMC 7.3, NetApp SANscreen 6.1, Unisphere, Cisco fabric manager, Data Fabric Manager 3.8
  • Windows, VMware ESX 4.1 , Solaris 5.9/5.10 and Linux AS 4.5/5.0,AIX 5.3

Sr. System /SAN Administrator

ORCC Finance
Chantilly, VA
03.2010 - 05.2010
  • Built Sun Solaris, Linux, Systems on large scale in SAN and NAS environment involving EMC Symmetrix, Clariion storage arrays, and HP Eva storages
  • Installed and configured the Clariion CX-4 series and connecting it to the Fabric
  • Planned and created the data volumes, filesystems, and mount points on large scale with the help of Shell scripts
  • Involved in storage migrations from old EMC CLARiiON frames to IBM DS 8000
  • Installed the SUN Solaris, Linux operating system on servers, and tuned the OS according to security, performance
  • Implemented the VERITAS Volume manager for logical volume management
  • Configured the redundant power supplies, redundant network connectivity, I/O SAN multipathing for sun servers
  • Environment: Symmetrix, DMX1000/2000, Symmetrix 8830, 8730s Clariion CX 4,CX-3 series, CX-300,CX-500 .Netapp FAS 6070, 3020, 3060,3040, Data ONTAP 7.x IBM DS 8000, HP EVA 6000,8000 Cisco switch MDS 9000 series, Brocade silkworm switches, solution enabler, ECC 5.2, power path, Qlogic and Emulex HBA’s
  • Windows 2000/2003, VMware ESX 3.5, Solaris 5.9/5.10 and Linux AS4.

Solutions Specialist

Symantec Corporation
Mumbai, INDIA
06.2009 - 01.2010
  • Prepared high availability, and business continuity solutions on most of the operating system environments including SAN and NAS
  • Acted as trusted advisor and subject matter expert (SME) on systems and enterprise storage best practices
  • Provided inputs for external clients and contract proposals
  • Performed online Migration activities of datacenter with minimal downtime using all Veritas Business continuity products
  • Configured the dynamic multipathing using Veritas DMP, Emc powerpath, and Sun traffic manger
  • Involved in Customer requirement analysis, Design and execution of the Business continuity management services, and IT Continuity Management services
  • Designed and deployment of the Netbackup 6.0, 6.5 environments on the customer considerations of RPO and PTOs, , VVR 5.0, Netbackup 6.5, 6.0, 5.0, Sun Solaris 10, Redhat Linux AS 5, 4, IBM-AIX 5.3, windows server 2003, NetApp FAS 2020, 2050, DATA ONTAP 7.2, Symmetrix 8830, 3830, DMX 2000, Connectrix ED-140M, ECC 5.1.2, PowerPath 3.0.1/3.0.3, EMC SRDF and TimeFinder

Associate Customer engineer

OCS InfoTech/CapGemini
Muscat, OMAN
08.2007 - 06.2009
  • Performed various activities and roles including data center design, implementation, virtualization, system solution, Storage and system administration
  • Installation and Administration of 200+ Servers include Solaris 10 OS, Redhat Linux, Suse Linux, and IBM-AIX
  • Designed complex NAS / SAN Replications and data migration technologies
  • Designed complex Fibre switches migration from old to new environment
  • Perform necessary data migrations and replication on clarion and DMX
  • Created/administered and maintained the SRDF links between the production and remote locations

UNIX Administrator

Corporate Technologies
, INDIA
08.2004 - 07.2007
  • Installed and configuring Solaris 9.0 on SUN Fire V100 enterprise server, Sun Ultra Sparc workstations-II, III, V and networks, updating them as necessary, and keeping them running properly on a day-to-day basis
  • Administered LDAP user accounts, adding/removing users and groups, allocating resources to users and customizing user’s environment as per development team requirement
  • Trouble shot the application logs and system logs using monitoring tools
  • Maintained the systems for the system uptime, patch management, system security, user management
  • Configured the Jump start, flash archive methods to build the servers including patches
  • Installed and configured Solstice Disk Suite 4.2, Veritas Volume Manager 3.1

Professional service consultant

NetApp
RTP, NC
  • (PSC) at Zurich & Farmers Insurance
  • Responsible for storage design & architecture and implement the solutions at customer environment
  • Configuration and administration of EMC Symmetrix VMAX/FAST, FAST-VP, DMX and VNX5500, Clariion & NetApp Storage Systems
  • Migrated thin devices from one thin pool to another thin pool using virtual lun migration (symmigrate)
  • Built ESXi servers, ESXi HA in VCenter, configuring ESXi storage, data stores, ESXi networking
  • Plan and implement the migration and cutover plans, migrated large size of data across different geographical locations for datacenter migrations using QSM and VSM snapmirror
  • Planned and performed the NetApp ONTAP upgrades, RLM/SP upgrades, Disk firmware upgrades and filer head swaps
  • Prepared plan and implement the additional disk shelves, PAM card installations on filer heads
  • Performed EMC Celerra and Centera storage data migration to Netapp 6080 storages
  • Environment: VMAX/FAST, FAST-VP, DMX, VNX5500 , VMWare ESX 4.1, VSphere 4, NetApp FAS 6080, FAS 3170, Data ONTAP 8.1 ,EMC Centera, Celerra, HDS VSP/USPV, SAN, NAS, FCoE, NFS, CIFS, FlexClone, NetApp DFM, Windows 2008/2003, Linux, IBM AIX..

Education

Master’s - business administration

Kenan-Flagler Business school
01.2023

Bachelor of technology - Electrical and electronics engineering

JNTU
01.2005

Diploma - Electrical and electronics engineering

SBTET
01.2002

Skills

  • Expertise in
  • Python, Shell Scripting, Perl and SQL scripting
  • Installed and configured the server Hardware like Sun Fire V880,V890, V440,V400,V120 , V6800, V120, V240, M5000, T2000, Sun Blade serversX6000 and 6000, x4100 series
  • Deployed many ESX builds for Linux, and windows virtual machines
  • Configured the VMware ESX virtual network, storage, snapshot manager, licensing, ntp, and dns, for virtual machines
  • Performed 100s of p2v, v2v, virtual machine migrations and solved version fixing issues in ESX 35, VMWare workstations, servers
  • Environment: Sun Solaris 510/59/58, Redhat Linux AS 5, 4, IBM-AIX 53, Suse Linux 9, HP-UX 11i, windows server 2003, SUN Cluster 32, VCS 50,40 VXVM 50,40 VVR 50, Netbackup 65, 60, 50, Sun unified storage, NetApp, EMC Clariion, Symmetrix, Vmware 3x, Virtual center, oracle 10G,9i Oracle RAC, Oracle ASM, Apache, SUN fire M5000,T2000,V880,V440, V400,V220, IBM p-series hardware
  • Environment:
  • Sun Solaris 59/58, Redhat Linux AS 3,4, VCS 3x,40, VXVM 3x, 40, Apache, Sun Sparc

Accomplishments

  • AWS certified Solutions architect – associate
  • Cisco certified Network Associate-Datacenter (CCNA-Datacenter)
  • VMWARE certified professional- Datacenter virtualization(VCP6.5-DCV & VCP5.5-DCV, VCP-310)
  • Red Hat certified system Administrator (RHCSA)
  • EMC Symmetrix Solutions Specialist Exam for Technology Architects (E20-515) –EMCTA
  • EMC Isilon Infrastructure Specialist Exam for Technology Architects (E20-553) – EMCTA
  • EMC Symmetrix Solutions Specialist Exam for Storage Administrators (E20-517) – EMCSA
  • EMC VNX Solutions Specialist Exam for Implementation Engineers (E20-390) – EMCIE
  • EMC VNX Solutions Specialist Exam for Storage Administrators (E20-547) – EMCSA
  • EMC Certified professional (Information Storage and Management) (E20-001) – EMCISA
  • NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer for SAN & Virtualization (NS0-502) - NCIE
  • NetApp Certified Implementation Engineer for Backup & Recovery (NS0-510) - NCIE
  • NetApp Certified Data Administrator for C mode (NS0-156) - NCDA
  • NetApp Certified Data Administrator for 7 mode (NS0-153 & 163) - NCDA
  • SUN Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10 OS
  • SUN Certified Network Administrator for Solaris 10 OS
  • Data Protection Administration for UNIX using Netbackup 6.5 (250-265)
  • Administration of High Availability solutions for UNIX using VCS 5.0 (250-251)
  • Administration of Storage Foundation for Symantec VERITAS (250-240)
  • Sun Certified System Administrator for Sun Cluster 3.2 (310-345)
  • Professional Trainings
  • VMWARE Infrastructure Install, configuration, Management & optimize and scale – vSphere 6.5
  • VMWARE Infrastructure Install, configuration, and Management – VMware ICM 6.0 and VI 3
  • NetApp Data ONTAP cluster mode administration – 8.1.1

Additional Information

  • Cloud technologies: Amazon AWS, VMware, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Openstack, Kubernetes, Dockers kafka, Hyperflex. Cloud Services: IAM, Networking, Load Balancing, DNS & Routing, Compute Engine, Containers, Databases, Certificates, Key Management Services. Orchestration, Automation & DevOps: Cloud formation, Terraform, Ansible, Ansible tower, puppet, Jenkins, Chef, Jira, Cisco cloud center, vCloud Director, GitHub, Gitlab, SVN, airflow, rally, pubsub, webhooks, AWS CDK, CodePipeline, CodeBuild. Operating Systems: RHEL, Sun Solaris, Suse Linux , IBM AIX, Windows server Protocols and services: NFS, NIS, DNS, TCP/IP, SMTP, NTP, SNMP, NDMP, ISCSI, SCSI, CIFS, FCoE Scripting: Python, Perl, Bourne/C Shell , SQL, awk, sed, HTML, Javascript Databases & Applications: DynamoDB, RDS, Oracle, DB2, SQL, MangoDB, Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, etc. Backup Solutions: Rubrik, Cohesity, Veritas NetBackup. Server hardware: Cisco UCS, Cisco Hyperconverged platform, cisco rack servers, HP blade servers, IBM P series, Sun Sparc Hardware, OCP server HW. Storage: Block, File, Object storages – Pure Storage, EMC, NetApp, IBM, HP, Hitachi VMware: Vsphere 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.0,vRealize automation ,NSX, vROPS, vCloud Director 5, 5.1, vCOPS. Switches: Cisco MDS, Brocade, Cisco Nexus switches.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Sr. Software Engineer

Cisco Systems
07.2018 - Current

Sr. System engineer, •Architect

Arch Capital
08.2015 - 06.2018

Sr. Systems Administrator

Advance Auto parts, CARQUEST
08.2014 - 08.2015

Sr. Solutions Architect

EMC
02.2014 - 07.2014

Sr. Storage Administrator

Gap Inc
07.2013 - 02.2014

Storage Operations Lead, •Team Lead & L3 Engineer

NetApp Inc
02.2012 - 06.2013

Sr. Storage Consultant

Steward Healthcare
10.2011 - 01.2012

Sr. Storage Ops Specialist

Cisco Systems, EMC Resident
06.2010 - 09.2011

Sr. System /SAN Administrator

ORCC Finance
03.2010 - 05.2010

Solutions Specialist

Symantec Corporation
06.2009 - 01.2010

Associate Customer engineer

OCS InfoTech/CapGemini
08.2007 - 06.2009

UNIX Administrator

Corporate Technologies
08.2004 - 07.2007

Professional service consultant

NetApp

Master’s - business administration

Kenan-Flagler Business school

Bachelor of technology - Electrical and electronics engineering

JNTU

Diploma - Electrical and electronics engineering

SBTET
Goutham Mada