Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Websites
Certification
Technical Skills
Awards And Scholarships
Timeline
Generic

Nagakumar Raju Penumatsa

Cerritos,CA

Summary

A dynamic professional with 20 years of experience in cloud, storage and backup engineering. Spearheaded the provisioning of multi-cloud & storage environments, implemented disaster recovery solutions, and optimized cloud resources. Automates allocation, monitoring and reporting of operational tasks by reducing repetitive efforts.

Overview

22
22
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Infrastructure Engineer(Storage/Backup/Cloud)

IngramMicro Inc
12.2018 - Current
  • Deployed, monitored, and optimized cloud Infrastructure (Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, VPC, Big query, pub/sub, Cloud Run/Function, Cloud SQL, GKE, cloud storage) using Terraform.
  • Experienced in Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform and services like Lambda, DynamoDB, EBS, ELB, AMI, CloudFront, CloudWatch, Glacier, Auto-Scaling, IAM, Route53, EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, VPN, Security-Groups and through AWS management console.
  • Deployed, monitored, and optimized Azure Cloud Infrastructure (Virtual Machines, network[Virtual networks, vHUB & vWAN], SQL DB’s, Storage blobs maintenance for backup tools, and EntraID etc.)
  • GitHub administration and repo maintenance activities. and also configured GCP cloud build for terraform CI/CD Pipelines on GitHub repositories.
  • Provisioning Multi Storage Environment PowerMax, PowerStore, Hitachi VSP, HUS-VM, IBM5300 and 7200 and managing cloud tools(terraform, GitHub Administration, confluence, Jira)
  • Worked extensively on brocade performance issues and increased uptime 99.99% of SAN environments during backup windows.
  • Performed technology refreshes(Netbackup -> Actifio -> Rubrik & Veeam) & migrated 80% core backup solution from Actifio to Rubrik and Veeam 11 within 1 quarter to meet compliance.
  • Automated storage and backup tools reporting using REST API & Bash reduced monthly effort by 100% and service-new integrations increased productivity by 100% on ticket creations.
  • Migrated data from VMAX AF systems to PowerMax systems while also migrating fabric from FC to NVMe.
  • Lead backup and storage infrastructure team members offshore (Philippines).
  • Provisioning Multi Storage Environment VMAX3-AF, PowerMax, Unity, PowerStore, Hitachi VSP, HUS-VM, IBM5300 and 7200.
  • Led the migration of VMware storage from FC to NVMe on PowerMAX, enhancing performance by 50% within 3 months through strategic planning and execution.
  • Migrated DR Design with old RecoverPoint solution to VMAX SRDF.
  • Maintaining Rubrik clusters across multiple locations and migrated DC across regions using Rubrik replication.
  • Configured and VMWare and SQL backups on Rubrik.
  • Configured Oracle & SAP HANA backups on Actifio.
  • Design and implement Actifio backup solution in across worldwide Ingrammicro Datacentres and move backup data to Azure Cloud.
  • Currently analyzing Veeam 12 backup in all the cloud(GCP, Azure & AWS) environments, the organization supports as per compliance requirements while updating leadership on costs.
  • Working on Azure Blob stores across the world for onvault access and GCS Cloud storage.
  • Configured cloud DR recovery in Azure using Actifio and later moved the solution to Veeam.
  • Worked on REST API project to automate Actifio and Rubrik automation using PowerShell and CURL.
  • Maintain Environment for Disaster Recovery and actively participate during the annual DR exercises.
  • Automated storage and backup tools reporting using REST API, Bash reduced monthly effort by 100% and service-now integrations increased productivity by 100% on ticket creation.
  • Strong experience of writing Shell(Bash & Ksh), Power shell, Perl and Python Scripts for automation.
  • Led infrastructure design initiatives to enhance system performance and reliability.

Storage and Backup Consultant

Docmation LLC
03.2016 - 12.2018
  • Worked for client: Molina Healthcare (Long Beach, CA) as Storage Consultant. Automated VMAX, VMWare SRM and SQL DR recovery using powershell which reduced recovery time for DR by 80%.
  • Design, Plan and handover DR strategy for SQL and VMWare SRM using SRDF.
  • Completed Migration of DR Switches from Brocade DCX to CISCO MDS 9706.
  • Completed DR SQL Cluster roles automount on Clones (SANPVX-COPY) using PowerShell.
  • Migration of prod and DR storage to new VMAX3 from VNX.
  • Plan and migrate from VNX and VPLEX using Recover Point replication solution to VMAX-3 SRDF.
  • Un-Vplex (encapsulated volumes) on the WV windows 2012 cluster servers and move production to VMAX3 directly and switched replication from RecoverPoint to SRDF for DR.
  • Design, Migration and integration of Replication Manager clone jobs for SQL server to AppSync (SNAPVX) and DR Test Strategy using AppSync.
  • Migrated enterprise from HP Blade Infrastructure to Cisco UCS Infra and VCE VBlock.
  • Provision storage on VMAX3, VNX2, Isilon Vplex, 3 Par, Pure, Isilon AF storage and SAN Switches(Cisco & Brocade) and VBlock.
  • Worked for client: LA County as a Storage Consultant worked on VMAX, IBM SVC Where in completed the multifold rollover upgrades of Isilon-AF within a week to 100%.
  • Worked on automation scripts for VMAX 450F to have multi clone setup of AIX using shell scripting.
  • Maintained and monitored ISILON AF for Internal cloud on OpenShift.

Senior Delivery Specialist – EMEA South

EMC2 - Middle East (Currently Dell Technologies)
11.2007 - 03.2016
  • Handled multiple clients during Tenure(BMI Bank, DU, Mubadala, Abu Dhabi municipality)
  • Performed Installations, Implementations, Migrations and DR Configurations for EMC products across EMEA region: VBlock, VMAX, VNX, VMWare, CLARiiON, Networker, Avamar & Datadomain.
  • Helped multiple EMC customers during an event crisis or DR-related issues while succeeding most of the time, by recovering 100% of user data.
  • Configuring Consistency groups For Recover Point VMWARE SRM and Microsoft Windows Shared Clusters.
  • Configured FTS on VMAX to use backend VNX for storage virtualization.
  • Helped multiple VBLOCK customers on reconfiguring storage and implementing backup solutions.
  • Create/update Dynamic SRDF groups along with DSE pool and clone configurations for T24 core banking and other Database servers.
  • Planned & executed Physical to Virtual migration along combining Thick to Thin migration on VMAX.
  • Configured NS-40G & VNX NAS shares for Linux and windows servers.
  • Configuring Cisco MDS 9509 switches for SAN.
  • Configured and Maintaining FCIP on Cisco switches for DR connectivity.
  • Responsible for Backup configuration depending upon customer backup requirements
  • Managing NMO (RMAN Backups), NMM for Microsoft Exchange 2010, VMware and NDMP for Celerra and file system.
  • Managing Customer VMWare Environment @Abu Dabhi Muncipality..
  • Designed & Planned multi-subnet-facing Data Domain to reduce backup times for multi-terabyte machines and reduce load on firewall @Abu Dhabi Municipality.
  • Plan and Design customer VMWare infrastructure.
  • Managing, patching and upgrading VMware infrastructure.
  • Plan VMWare replication strategies using Storage replication technologies.
  • Have worked on NMO (RMAN Backups), NMM for Microsoft Exchange 2010 and NDMP for Celerra.
  • Worked on migration projects for Data domain for replacing EDL and VNX for tier 2 applications and Celerra replacement.
  • Worked on technically challenging iSCSI implementation in Mubadala on CLARiiON using Dell R710 and Juniper switches.
  • Full Migration of Physical servers to VMWare Environment and planning DR for Abu Dhabi Municipality.
  • Helped new VCE Customers in configuring and designing - Storage, VMWare and Backup segments of Vblock.

System Administrator

Wipro Infotech
08.2005 - 11.2007
  • Clients Handled: Goldman Sachs (Aug2005 – Nov 2006) & Texas Instruments (Nov2006- Nov 2007).
  • Environment: Solaris 8 running on v210, v240 and v440. HP DL 360 for Linux, Citrix on UNIX and Platform LSF (Load Sharing cluster)
  • Maintaining Data Center and monitoring processes on production servers for Goldman Sachs.
  • User administration on NIS.
  • Citrix server the Administration for Remote Access.
  • Base lining UNIX and Linux servers and Patch Administration.
  • Helping users in Clear Case and LSF Related issues.
  • POP server administration for Contract employees.

System Administrator

Ushodaya Enterprises Limited (ETV News)
02.2004 - 07.2005
  • Configured 2621 and 2520 series Cisco routers and 2950 and 3550 catalyst switches.
  • Configured and installed V.34 and G.703 Modems (RAD systems).
  • Did structured cabling project for ETV foreign channel and management building.
  • Configured 2621 router in Delhi regional centre for 2Mb leased line connectivity.
  • Installed and configured Linux 8 for desktop pc’s. This included Custom KickStart Installations.
  • Managing machines as Network File Service (NFS), Network Information Services (NIS).
  • Configured SAMBA with over 20+ clients and configured NFS with over 150+ Clients in SGI origin 3200 server.
  • Configured NFS server (In Linux and IRIX) and mounted the file systems at clients through automount.
  • Administered and Managed Network Applications and Services like NFS with Hummingbird connectivity V7.1.
  • Installed and maintained OpenNMS for SNMP based management for company’s internal network.
  • Installed and maintained OpenNMS for SNMP based management for company’s internal network.
  • Maintained Windows 2000 server environment along with Organizations Active Directory Setup.

Education

MSc - Information Technology

Allahabad Agricultual Institute(SHUATS)
Prayagraj
01.2005

B.Sc. - Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science

Andhra University
Vishkhapatnam
03.2001

Websites

Certification

CLOUD:


  • Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate



Storage, Backup & Infra:

  • NVIDIA-Certified Associate: AI Infrastructure and Operations
  • EMC Proven Professional Associate for Storage Technology Foundations
  • Symmetrix Solutions Expert Exam for Storage Administrators 7.0 (EMCSAe) (E20-814)
  • Symmetrix Solution Specialist Exam for Implementation Engineers (E20-335)
  • Networker Specialist Exam for Storage Administrators (E20-597)
  • Data Domain Specialist Exam for Implementation Engineers (E20-385)
  • VCE Certified Converged Infrastructure Associate (VCE-CIA)
  • VCE VBlock Systems Deployment and Implementation – Compute (210-020)


OS & Virtualization

  • VMWare Certified Professional – Data Center virtualization 6(VCP-DCV6)
  • Sun Certified System Administrator (Solaris 9)
  • Sun Certified Partner Field Engineer (Level 2)
  • RHCE 3


Technical Skills

Cloud: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, GCP.

Container/ Orchestration Tools: Kubernetes, Docker.

CM & Deployment Tools:  Ansible, Terraform.

CI/CD Tools: GCP Cloud Build.

Build Tools: Maven, Ant, Gradle, MS Build.

Repositories: Artifactory, Nexus.

Monitoring / Visualization Tools: Jira, Splunk, Grafana, Datadog.

Version Control: GIT, Bitbucket.

Programming/ Scripting Languages: Shell, Python, Bash, PowerShell.

SAN DATA Storage Technologies:  

  • EMC H/W - CLARiiON, DMX-3, DMX-4,VPLEX, PowerMax, PowerStore, Recoverpoint,XtremIO

     EMC S/W - Unisphere, Solutions Enabler, PowerPath.

     EMC Replication: SRDF, RecoverPoint, Mirror view, San copy, snapvx.

  • Hitachi H/W - 9970, AMS-200, USP-V.

     Hitachi: SNMV2, Command Manager, Device Manager

  • IBM - 5300, 7200
  • PURE - M20

NAS (Network Area Storage): 

  • EMC - Celerra NS700G, FAS 2020, Isilon.
  • Netapp - v3140, NS40G, Unity, VG2 & VG8 Gateways, VNX2, VNXe3150

Fabric Switches (FC/FCoE): 

  • Brocade - 24000, 6520, 4900B.
  • Cisco - MDS9506, DS-12000, MDS-9250i, MDS9509, MDS-9706, X7.

Virtualisation : VMWare.

Operating Systems: IBMAIX, Redhat Linux, Suse Linux, ubuntu, windows.

Backup Technologies: Actifio, Avamar, Datadomain, Networker, Rubrik, Veeam.

Object Stores: AWS S3, Azure Blob, CEPH RADOS, Dell Object Scale, ECS, GCP Cloud Storage.

Awards And Scholarships

EMC2 Q4 2011 Residency Award for EMEA South region, 2011-01-01

Timeline

Principal Infrastructure Engineer(Storage/Backup/Cloud)

IngramMicro Inc
12.2018 - Current

Storage and Backup Consultant

Docmation LLC
03.2016 - 12.2018

Senior Delivery Specialist – EMEA South

EMC2 - Middle East (Currently Dell Technologies)
11.2007 - 03.2016

System Administrator

Wipro Infotech
08.2005 - 11.2007

System Administrator

Ushodaya Enterprises Limited (ETV News)
02.2004 - 07.2005

MSc - Information Technology

Allahabad Agricultual Institute(SHUATS)

B.Sc. - Mathematics, Physics & Computer Science

Andhra University

Similar Profiles

CREATE PROFILE
Nagakumar Raju Penumatsa
Want your own profile? Create for free at MyPerfectResume.com