Santha Kumar G
Backup Storage And Cloud Engineer
Edison,NJ
Summary
- Leading-edge Sr. Server, Backup Architect with extensive experience designing, building, & deploying, complex Enterprise grade solutions. Strong leadership, communication and team building skills.
- Primary areas of technical experience include Backup and Recovery, Storage, Disaster Recovery, and offsite Data Management.
- With 17+ years of IT experience including 15 years of Strong experience in Enterprise Backup Analysis, Migrations, Planning, Solutions, Implementations, replication, maintenance and administration.
- I bring an innovative and pragmatic approach to analyzing complex business needs, enabling me to conceptualize, design and implement cutting edge solutions based on the latest backup, storage, Virtualization& cloud technologies.
- Performed Analysis, Planning, Designing and Implementation of Storage & Backup Solutions.
- Expertise in Data Centre Design & Build, Backup Infra Installation, configuration, and Troubleshooting. Proficient in AWS Cloud Backup and Recovery, VTL, De-Duplication, NAS, SAN, CIFS, NFS protocols extensively worked on various backup Integration of Exchange, SAP,Oracle,SQL, VMware UsingNetworker,Commvault,DataDomain,Avamar,Netbackup,Rubrik,DPA,PPDM and Cohesity Data protection.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
12
12
Certifications
Work History
Backup Storage Cloud - Engineer
HCL America INC
01.2021 - Current
- Expert in Evaluating New technologies for backup/Storage/cloud/consumption model/Hybrid solutions.
- Expert in migrating data between multiple backup products and storage products (AWS Cloud/Hyperscale/Data domain) to Understand, assist with the migration of client data, edits to client data, and completing timely reconciliation to ensure data integrity
- Specialist in planning, building, managing and executing Commvault Commcell migration (CCM) between Commvault backup environments
- Specialized in security Hardening for all the backup products in establishing Ransomeware protection, sensitive data discovery and protection.
- Deployed Hyperscales and configured policies/schedules/storage pools for backup and recovery
- Commissioned/decommissioned Isilon/netapp storage and migrated to cloud (AWS/Azure) integrated with Commvault
- Analyzes customer requirements and provides highly innovative technical expertise on cloud cluster computing techniques, technologies, and related cloud architectures
- Provides expert knowledge for the research, evaluation, and deployment of advanced cloud computing systems and large data analytics
- Provides expert knowledge for data integration and migration efforts, including mapping schemas and defining domain specific otologies Design/Report/Transition/SOP document validation and submission for the new project products such as IDPA and PPDM
- Backup, replication and restore operations—on-prem, multicloud and at the edge Data center migration Cloud integration and migration Data lifecycle management Performance monitoring and troubleshooting Maintenance and upgrades Infrastructure and procedural documentation
Provided CommVault Enterprise Data Protection Expertise
SPECTRA GROUP INC
07.2017 - 01.2021
- Provided CommVault Enterprise Data Protection Expertise in the managing, encrypting, storing, archiving, and organizing of data in Client’s environment
- Assess the current resources in our environment and determine backup time using throughput rates Managing Devices and Storage Nodes- Library, Tape and drive configuration
- Worked on creating use cases which involved planning, design, build, test and deployment of a new Commvault with Data domain infrastructure in DC
- Implementation of Commvault 1 touch BMR, Live sync migration, Virtualize me and Disaster recoveries
- Managing upgrades for products/firmware/drivers/OS
- Provides expert knowledge for the research, evaluation, and deployment of advanced cloud computing systems and large data analytics
- Provides expert knowledge for data integration and migration efforts, including mapping schemas and defining domain specific ontologies Design/Report/Transition/SOP document validation and submission for the new project products such as IDPA and PPDM
- Evaluate customer needs based on applications requirements, current capacity and growth trends from Commvault to IDPA and PPDM for database solutions
- Strong Technical knowledge on Dell PPDM and IDPA.
Backup & Recovery Engineer
Wipro Limited
06.2016 - 05.2017
- Installed EMC Networker and configured backup jobs for various servers as windows, Linux, VMware virtual machines& integrated with Azure cloud solutions
- Installed EMC Data Domain and EMC Avamar and configured backup jobs for various servers as windows, Linux, VMwares
- Configured NDMP backups and other Networker module backups such as exchange and Oracle RMAN
- Configured DPA reports for the Backup Environment
- Upgraded EMC Data Domain from V5.3,V5.6 to V6 Managing and adminstration of Backup & Recovery Manager (BRM)
- Frequently contacted by EMC for advanced troubleshooting of networker installations
- Upgraded Netbackup Enterprise Master & Media Servers from 7.6.0.4 to 7.6.1.1 & 7.6.1.2 Upgraded OpsCenter Server from 7.6.0.4 to 7.6.1.1 & 7.6.1.2 Managing & Administrating of CommvaultSimpana V11 across large environment includes 4000 clients Installation and upgradation of CommvaultSimpana V10 and idata agents for UNIX,Windows,Databases to V11
- Administration knowledge of Networker/Datadomain software - working in monitoring backups, creating policies & performing restores as per client requests Involved in meetings with vendor to analyze capacity planning, lifecycle, scale out & scale in Worked in setting up the lab environment & testing new features that needs to be applied on the production systems Implemented storage efficiency techniques like creating snapshot policies,deduplication policies in data domain and commvault Involved in quarterly site disaster recovery testing for critical applications
Part of EMC's DPAD Team responsible for Implementing EMC Networker,EMC Data Domain, EMC Avamar
CIBERSITES INDIA PVT LTD
02.2015 - 02.2016
- Part of EMC's DPAD Team responsible for Implementing EMC Networker,EMC Data Domain, EMC Avamar across various clients
- Performed installation and configuration of Networker and configured Clients for the backup on AIX, Linux and Windows platforms Performed disaster Recovery planning and testing for all Unix/Linux/Networker, ESX environments Managed tape libraries (IBM TL3585, IBM TS3310 & Quantum Iscalar500) for the Networker environments Configured and managed Virtual Tape Libraries (VTL) on Data Domain Worked on Networker Cross country migration, upgrade and design enhancements Data domain integration with Networker/Netbackup/Commvault Creating and Managing CIFS,NFS Export share with data domain Configuring and expansion of Shelf add for data domain
- Configuring Data domain as AFTD,as disk libraries and as VTL with EMC neworker and other backup products.
Provided CommVault Enterprise Data Protection Expertise
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2009 - 01.2015
- Provided CommVault Enterprise Data Protection Expertise in the managing, encrypting, storing, archiving, and organizing of data gathered from various server systems within the boundaries Client’s environment
- Installation, Managing, Administrating and Upgradation of CommvaultSimpana V9 &idata agents for UNIX,Windows,Databases Managing Devices and Storage Nodes- Library, Tape and drive configuration
- Monitor and Maintain Enterprise Netbackup 7.6.0.4 infrastructure Troubleshooting Netbackup, EMC DD890,DD7200, IBM TS3500 library related issues
- Upgraded Symantec Netbackup Master & Media Servers from V7.1 to 7.2 Completed POC for Netbackup Backup environment and ensured reliable backups to meet operational and data recovery requirements
- Investigated backup failures, determining root cause of issues
- This resulted in a reduction of backup failures and an increase in system availability
- Experienced in TSM,Azure cloud and SAN fundamentals
- Managed 20 TSM server environment connected to StorageTek L700E libraries and IBM 3584 and 3494 libraries
Worked in Compound Netbackup and networker environment
Six Sigma
11.2007 - 06.2009
- Worked in Compound Netbackup and networker environment contains different versions of backup software e.g
- Veritas 5.0, 5.1& Networker 7.4 to Networker 7.6 Providing End to End Support for all Netbackup related issues
- Restoration - Flat file, Archive, Exchange, Lotus Notes, validation Restores and media management
- Daily vaulting and troubleshooting vaulting issues
- Creating RCA based on the Incidents received in the environment
- Identify opportunities for improving systems in terms of Backup Time Available 24X7 support whenever required Troubleshooting failed jobs
- Handling escalated Data restore request from the Customer.
Installation, Configuration and Administration of solaris 10
Selwin Computer
06.2006 - 11.2007
- Installation, Configuration and Administration of solaris 10
- Managing file systems and users
- Create unix file permissions and bash scripting Booting, Restart and shutdown procedures for solaris 10 system.
Education
Skills
Commvault Simpana V9,V10,V11
Commvault Hyperscale (HPEFujitsu) V15 & X
EMC Data Domain V54,V56,V6x,V7x
Rubrik Backup V9
Cohesity Backup V6x
DELL Power Protect PPDM V1914
DELL IDPA
Netbackup V7x
EMC Avamar V5x, V7x
AWS - CloudEMC Avamar Administrator consoleNetBackup OpsCenterDELL DPA - Data protection advisor
Backup design and DocumentationDELL DDMC - Data domain management center
Cohesity - Helios reporting
SOP/IQOQ/document validation/Configuration documentsBuilds/Enhancements/POC/Evaluting New technologies
Dynatrace/Moongsoft/Splunk
HPE ONEVIEW V8
Managing Jira & Agile
Servicenow
BMC Remedy
Tivoli Workload scheduler v8
Service Express Connect
Ansible Automation
DELL Cloud IQ
Real Time Hands-on on BMR/Bulk Recovery/Orchestrated Recovery/Disaster Recovery/Ransomware Recovery
Security Hardening Both from software and Hardware
Reporting & Documentation
Certification
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner 2021
Training
- ITIL V3 Foundation Course
- Data ONTAP 7-Mode & C-Mode Administration
- Enterprise NetBackup 7.x Administration
- Commvault simpana Administration
- EMC Networker Administration
- Microsoft Azure Cloud solutions.
- Devops - Jenkins,ansible and Linux administration training.
Timeline
Backup Storage Cloud - Engineer
HCL America INC
01.2021 - Current
Provided CommVault Enterprise Data Protection Expertise
SPECTRA GROUP INC
07.2017 - 01.2021
Backup & Recovery Engineer
Wipro Limited
06.2016 - 05.2017
Part of EMC's DPAD Team responsible for Implementing EMC Networker,EMC Data Domain, EMC Avamar
CIBERSITES INDIA PVT LTD
02.2015 - 02.2016
Provided CommVault Enterprise Data Protection Expertise
Tata Consultancy Services
06.2009 - 01.2015
Worked in Compound Netbackup and networker environment
Six Sigma
11.2007 - 06.2009
Installation, Configuration and Administration of solaris 10
Selwin Computer
06.2006 - 11.2007