Karthik Raja Balasubramanian
Phoenix,AZ
Summary
14+ years of progressive experience leading the Architecture, Design, Implementation, File system assessment, Data Center Revamp, Testing the Environment, DR Drill and Disaster Recovery of business applications, within multiple industry experience.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Technical Consultant
Wipro Limited
Phoenix, AZ
01.2020 - Current
- Design, Performance tuning & build new storage environment per customer requirement and IT standards.
- Proficiency in operating datacenters, enterprise servers, storage systems, operating systems and high available infrastructures.
- Technical knowledge and breadth of Google Cloud Platform services (Identity, Networking, Compute, Storage, Containers).
- Launched GCP Windows/Linux Instances as per the requirements with appropriate tags and VPC.
- Created IAM users, groups, policies and associating to respective GCP resources.
- Created, administered, deleted Google Cloud Storage as per the requirements.
Lead Administrator
Wipro Limited
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
12.2014 - 12.2019
- Supported enterprise storage solutions around business continuity, high availability and bring in the continuous improvement initiatives using Continuous Excellence principles.
- Performed root cause analysis and defined action plan for the complex issues arising in the environment, by involving / coordinating with all applicable internal Teams and external Vendors and Ensuring smooth service delivery.
- Acted as primary contact for infrastructure migration projects include network, data, and server resources to the private data centers.
- Involved in design strategies with proper understanding on application RPO & RTO.
- Hands on experience in implementing & managing virtual fabrics, FCR routing, FCIP implementations.
Professional Storage Administrator
Computer Sciences Corporation
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
10.2012 - 12.2014
- Provided Engineering Leadership on major projects, Cross Platform Migration, Upgrades, Installations in Storage domain.
- Analyzed and recommended the purchase of Storage, Storage Area Network Equipment.
- Design, Performance tuning & build new storage environment per customer requirement and IT standards.
- Live migrations and replication of data across SAN’s, Disk Groups, ESX datastores and datacenters to optimize performance and reliability.
- Prepared status reports to accurately communicate progress, provided early notification of problems that could affect schedules, or the integrity or availability of business service.
Senior Specialist
HCL Technologies Limited
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
09.2010 - 10.2012
- Provided end to end support for various vendors like HP, Hitachi, IBM, Netapp and EMC storage arrays.
- Prepared high-level design and low-level design documents and presented to customers for the data-center consolidation projects.
- Configured FCIP tunnel in SAN routers for enabling the storage-based FC replication between datacenters.
- Performed disaster recovery implementation activity and managed its operational administration.
- Driven high priority issues to ensure to business is up and running as per SLA.
Software Engineer
HSBC Software Development India Private Limited
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
06.2008 - 09.2010
- Provided end-to-end delivery support for various HP & Hitachi storage arrays, tape libraries, high-end servers, and operating systems.
- Migrated Servers, Storage and backup using various tools. Performed storage configuration for both local and remote replications according to the business need and requirement.
- Installed Brocade and Cisco FC switches along with ISL connections to expand the SAN fabric.
- Performed FOS firmware patching in the event of security vulnerabilities.
- Managed In house LAN and provided fix whenever there was any issue or warning.
Education
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering
SRM University
Chennai05.2008
Skills
- Google Cloud Platform
- Block and File Storage technologies
- Brocade and Cisco SAN switches
- Data Architecture
- Kubernetes Architecture
Certification
Google Cloud Platform - Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud Platform - Associate Cloud Engineer
Timeline
Technical Consultant
Wipro Limited
01.2020 - Current
Lead Administrator
Wipro Limited
12.2014 - 12.2019
Professional Storage Administrator
Computer Sciences Corporation
10.2012 - 12.2014
Senior Specialist
HCL Technologies Limited
09.2010 - 10.2012
Software Engineer
HSBC Software Development India Private Limited
06.2008 - 09.2010
Bachelor of Technology - Computer Science And Engineering
SRM University
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