Pavan Kamishetti
Austin,TX
Summary
Over 17+ years of experience in Architecture , Implementation and Operations in traditional , converged , hyperconverged infrastructure & Cloud technologies
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Systems Engineer
Home Depot
06.2022 - Current
- Evaluating the entire technology stack, including operations, administration, automation, and PaaS (Platform as a Service), IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), and SaaS (Software as a Service)
- Performing a thorough technical discovery, identifying problem areas, technical and business requirements, and as-is and future state scenarios
- Evaluating potential solutions using both technical and commercial criteria that support the established cost and service requirements
- Designing a solution infrastructure that meets business and technical requirements, considering aspects such as high availability, scalability, performance, latency, cost optimization, integration, data movement, design trade-offs, success measurements, compliance, and observability
- Creating a migration plan that includes integration with existing systems, data migration, software license mapping, network planning, testing, and dependency management
- Cloud Cost optimization by analyzing the cost trends of the various projects and analyze the cost spends service and explore the cost saving opportunities and follow up with other teams to optimize the resources to save in the cloud cost
- Take part in the Production Operations and support for all the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) infrastructure that covers the following GCP solutions
- Compute: VCE, Instance templating, instance groups, disk technologies, snapshots, Machine images, Patch management
- GKE: creating apps utilizing Kubernetes and containers
- Building hybrid-cloud solutions based on VM and containerization technologies, such as VMware, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes
- Storage: Buckets, NFS File store ( Basic & Enterprise)
- Network: VPC, Firewall, Routes, VPC Peering, Shared VPC, Serverless VPC
- Network Services: Cloud DNS, Load balancing
- Data processing technologies: Cloud Big query, Cloud Data Flow, Cloud Pub/Sub, and Cloud Bigtable
- Cloud Security: WIZ tool extensively for Vulnerabilities, Serverless issues, Container security, External Exposures
- HA Technology for SAP HANA systems: Pacemaker
- Automation: Shell Script, Ansible, Gcloud command utility based scripts & Terraform
- Logging: Log explorer
- Access: IAM.
Consultant
Infosys
04.2012 - 06.2022
- Architecture and designing for upcoming datacenter's & Cloud solutions
- Building SAP HANA systems with best practices
- Specialized in Building large scale SAP HANA systems on HPE SD Flexes with 3-48 TB memory 112 – 896 Cores
- Work on some of the Cloud solutions related to AWS , AZURE and OCI
- Work on Cloud POC's before deploying the solutions in the infrastructure lower lifecycles
- Migrating the IT infrastructure from on Prem to the cloud
- Modernizing the legacy infrastructure
- Building Kubernetes clusters on the bare metal and cloud platforms
- Deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters
- Installing & configuring RHEL 7 , 8 / SLES 12,15 on wide verity H/W Platforms ( on HPE & DELL )
- Layout the Cut sheets from the initial proposals, providing capacity estimate for up coming builds
- Building small DC's that include designing & getting implementation executed by different DC teams
- Specialized in DC Operations and Coordination between Facilities, Network , Storage & Platform teams
- Designing & Implementing new SAN & Storage Infrastructure with wide variety of storage Arrays IBM DS 4k/5K/8K/V7000/SVC EMC & Netapp storage arrays
- Implementing SAN Infrastructure Brocade , Cisco MDS , QLogic SAN Switches
- Storage Consolidation & Storage Migration
- Handling the Day to Production issues on EMC VNX, Netapp FAS series, IBM SVC's, DS8000, XIV, DS4000, Cisco MDS 9124,9148,9509,9513
- Handling the Request/Incident / Change's as per the process guidelines set by the customer
- Monitoring backup environment that includes, monitoring health of the TSM Servers, Tape Libraries ( Tape drives and control paths)
- Performing regular backup health check's on backup infra
- Performing regular missed backups and failed backup investigation
- TSM Client Installation, Configuration on Windows & AIX Platforms
- Installing, configuration and troubleshooting TSM API for DB2 , TDP for SQL , TDP for ORACLE ( RMAN ) backups
- TSM Server installation and configuration
- Troubleshooting TSM Server Admin job issues (migration failures, Tape reclamation issues, DB Backups failures)
- Work on some of the Cloud solutions related to AWS , AZURE and OCI
- Do POC's on the new cloud offering before deploying the solutions in the lower lifecycles infrastructure
- Migrating the IT infrastructure from on Prem to the cloud
- Modernizing the legacy infrastructure
- Deploying applications on Kubernetes clusters.
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2010 - 04.2012
- Storage Management: Provisioning, SNAP Shot & Snap Clone configuration for Testing purposes, Working with Replication technologies on Multiple storage products
- NAS Management: CIFS/NFS Share Creation, Granting Access rights, Quota Management, File Server Migration
- SAN Management: Multiple SAN Switch Configuration's, Zoning in Multiple SAN vendors (Alias/ Nickname Creation, Zone Creation , Zone set Activation), Port Blocking, Port Labeling to identify the device connected port's in the absence of the device, SAN Health Report Analysis, Hanging Zone Removal, Running Port Diagnostics, Running Switch Diagnostics.
Sr. System Engineer Storage Management
Wipro Infotech
06.2008 - 08.2010
- Configuration and maintenance of the SAN (over 120 switches and directors configured across and storage boxes with capacity over 8 PB spread across data centres in three zones Europe, America and Australia)
- Configuration and Administration of DS8000,DS6800, ESS800, HP EVA and EMC Clariion Storage box
- Configuration of Software zoning using EFCM
- Lun creation, Mapping and Masking to the servers from the storages IBM ESS DS8100, IBM ESS 8300, IBM ESS 800/F20 and HP EVA 8000 and EMC CLARiiON CX700
- Installation, Configuration & Microcode updates of SAN Directors and switches using Administration Tools EFCM
- SAN Connection design for servers and Storages and requisite co-ordination with facilities
- Implementation, configuration and maintenance of SAN Directors and switches
- Management of the McData Fabrics and Brocade Fabrics
- Managing hardware failures related to McData Intrepid 6064, 6140 & Mi10K, Brocade 5000,5100 Scalable fabric directors and switches within SAN
- Management and troubleshooting of MAN link problems during port errors or Fabric Segmentation/Fabric Merging
- Managing ISL connectivity between core to edge directors/Switches
- Fabric management using Enterprise Fabric management Console (EFCM)
- Troubleshooting of multi-Pathing I/O (HP MPIO and IBM SDD) problems arising due to Path failure/Missing issues on the server
- Capacity planning, creation of the best storage layout following the best practices together with storage space allocation to servers as per the requirement for SAP servers with flashcopy implementation
- Allocation of Storage to business critical systems like SAP, HADR (High availability disaster recovery) and HACMP (High availability cluster mirroring) clusters
- Disaster Recovery (Failover and Failback) and Data Replication across primary and secondary sites through HP EVA
- Proactive monitoring performed on the fabric to troubleshoot the port issues.
Storage Administrator
Slash Support India Pvt Ltd
05.2007 - 06.2008
- Configuring Managing and Troubleshooting different Storage vendors in Production environment, Working on issues Based upon Ticketing System
- Updating the Ticket Status based up on its severity level to meet SLA
- Interacting with the PSE's (Primary support Engineer) and Onsite engineers to resolve issues
- Escalating issues to different supports centres to get the issues fixed
- Administering all EMC clariion models like CX-300, CX-500, CX-600, CX-700 & CX3 series models
- Performing day to day activities like Lun Provisioning, Lun Migration, Creating MetaLuns, Creating Snapshots, Configuring Multipathing s
- Configuring StorEdge 3510
- Managing Different Sun Storages (6020,6130,6140,6540) through CAM
- Logging Cases with Vendors and coordinating to resolving issues
- Managing 6920 through an integrated management tool
- Administering MSA arrays (MSA 1000, MSA1500) Through ACU and diagnosing Problems through ADU
- Configuring Redundant Controllers in MSA arrays
- Installing and Configuring Secure path in MSA arrays
- Configuring iSCSI SAN with MSA1500i & Intel Storages
- Configuring Brocade 3800, 4100, Mc-Data 4600 Speron, 4700 Switches
- Upgrading Firmware Of switches through Fabric Manager and taking backup's of the configuration
- Administering Switches through CLI mode
- Configuring Zoning (Hard Zoning & Soft Zoning) in switches and Adding switches to existing fabric
- Configuring Lun Masking in Clariion Storage Boxes and HP MSA Arrays (ACL)
- Managing Flex 3xx series storages through Santricity management tool
- Solving Legato7.1 and Netbackup6 and Backup Exec 8.6 and 9.1 issues
- Resolving Backup issues based up on Status codes
- Configuring LAN Free backups
- Coordinating with facilities to get the tapes placed in drives for restore operations
- Coordinating with Vendor to resolve the Drive and Library issues.
Storage QA
Vedams Software Solutions
10.2006 - 05.2007
- The primary role is to give support to QA & Development teams.
- Testing Storage management software on different NAS ,FC , iSCSI Boxes .
- Installing O.S in NAS box , Installing NAS management tool , Testing the Management tool
- Installing NAS management Patches, Performing Stress testing through I/O Metre
- Other Responsibilities:
- Administering Clarrion Storage and some other Third party storages
- Creating Luns and Mapping those to Different Platforms ( windows 2003, RHEL4,SLES10,HP-UX)
- Configuring Zoning in Brocade 3800 and 4100 switches
- Installation of RHEL4 , SLES 10 through PXE server on top of NAS
- Installing HP-UX through ignite server and through media
- Installation of RHEL4 through NFS , FTP , HTTP
- Installation of LSI RAID controller Drivers in RHEL4 , SLES 10 on top of a NAS Box
- Creation of RAID 0 , 1 , 5 , 50 , 10 and Creating HOT spare through LSI Megaraid RAID controller through Controller Bios and UI
- Installation of Storview, administration from Storview .
- Updating MegaRaid LSI controller firmware and SES firmware
- Installation of unix's ( RHEL4, SLES10 , HP-UX 11i, Solaris 9,10)
- Installation of RHEL4 and Solaris 10 through NFS, HTTP, FTP
- installing multiple O.S's
- Patch management and Package management in HP-Ux
- User Group Administration , ACL 's, Automation of jobs (crond) , Disk Partitioning , mounting filesystems
- User Group administration , Administration using SAM tool, Solaris Management Console , HP Open view
- Configuration of NFS , AutoFS
- Trouble Shooting in Linux
System Administrator
WorldPhone India Pvt Ltd
04.2006 - 10.2006
- Carrying out day to day activities in System Administration like Installation of Different O.S's and Network Management and Troubleshooting which includes.
- Configuring RAID , Administering NAS Box , Installation of Windows xp , and Windows 2003 Standard Edition, installing Active Directory , Adding Clients to Active Directory
- Configuring Group policies , Deploying Software's , Hard drive mirroring with Ghost
- Installation of third party applications , Configuring DHCP , Printer sharing
- Internet Sharing through NAT / Proxy Server / Routing, Configuring Cisco2502 switch
- Group policies , Terminal Services in windows 2003
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering
Jawhar Lal Nehru Technological University
Hyderbad, India04.2006
Associate of Science - Computer Science And Engineering
VMR Ploytechnic
Hanumakonda, TS04.2003
Skills
- Google Cloud Platform
- Amazon Web services
- Azure
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
- VMWARE
- RHEL / Centos 7 & 8
- SLES12 & 15
- HPE DL360/DL380/DL560/DL580
- CS500, SimpliVity,
- HPE Synergy 12000
Public Cloud :
Linux & Unix Platforms:
Server H/W :
- HPE Super Dome Flex
- DELL R6XX/R9XX
- EMC VMAX ( Vblock), VNX & VNXe Series
- Netapp FAS 2500, 30xx, 8060
- IBM SVC, XIV , DS8000, V7000, DS5000, DS4000, DS3000
- HP EVA ( 8xxx , 4xxx) , HP MSA Arrays
- Sun Storages 2540, 3510, SE6140, SE6540, SE6920
- Cisco MDS 9124,9148, 9509,9513
- Brocade ( 200, 300, 5000,5100,5300,DCX)
- Infrastructure Management
Storages :
SAN :
Certification
- Red Hat certified System Engineer ( RHCE 8 )
- Linux Foundation Certified System Admin ( LFCS )
- Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes Admin ( CKA )
- Red Hat certified System Administrator ( RHCSA 8 )
- SCA+ in SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability 15
- SUSE Certified Administrator on SLES 15 ( SCA )
- AWS Solution architect Associate Saa-C02
- Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate – AZ-103
- Certified Rancher level1 operator (for Kubernetes Cluster's)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2019 Certified architect professional
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer 2020 Certified associate
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 2020 Certified Architect Associate
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate
- Netapp Certified Data Management Administrator ( NCDA 8.0 )
- EMC Certified VNX Specialist
- EMC Information Storage Management Certified
- IBM Certified Specialist - Midrange Storage Technical Support V2
- IBM Certified Specialist - High End disk Storage Technical Support V2
- IBM Certified Associate - Tivoli Storage Manager V7.1
- IBM Certified TSM 6.3 administration
- Qlogic Certified Fibre Channel Associate
- Qlogic Certified FCOE Specialist
- Qlogic Certified Data migration associate
- Qlogic Certified Infiniband Associate
- Brocade certified Fabrics Professional ( BCFP ) 4GBPS
- Sun Certified Solaris 10 System Admin
- HP-UX Certified System admin ( HPCSA )
- HP Certified HP MSA storage Implementer
- Microsoft certified professional ( 070-270 ) Certification
Visa Details
H1B
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 3rd May
- Gender: Male
- Nationality: Indian
- Marital Status: Married
Timeline
Senior Systems Engineer
Home Depot
06.2022 - Current
Consultant
Infosys
04.2012 - 06.2022
IT Analyst
Tata Consultancy Services
08.2010 - 04.2012
Sr. System Engineer Storage Management
Wipro Infotech
06.2008 - 08.2010
Storage Administrator
Slash Support India Pvt Ltd
05.2007 - 06.2008
Storage QA
Vedams Software Solutions
10.2006 - 05.2007
System Administrator
WorldPhone India Pvt Ltd
04.2006 - 10.2006
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Engineering
Jawhar Lal Nehru Technological University
Associate of Science - Computer Science And Engineering
VMR Ploytechnic
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