Sarbjeet Singh Dhillon

• Designed and implemented scalable applications for data extraction and analysis.
• Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
• Maintained and built VMs and containers through Azure and Azure Kubernetes Services.
• Strengthened infrastructure stability with proactive maintenance schedules, minimizing unplanned downtimes.
• Supported application development teams by providing guidance on best practices for Linux-based environments.
• Optimized resource allocation within virtualized environments using technologies such as VMWare ESXi or KVM hypervisors.
• Maintained high-availability environments by configuring load balancers, clustering solutions, and failover mechanisms.
• Managed installation, upgrade and deployment projects and provided on-site direction for network engineers.
• Enabled continuous integration workflows for developers by setting up build pipelines based on Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD platforms.
• Exercised leadership capabilities by successfully motivating and inspiring others.
• Delivered services to customer locations within specific timeframes.
• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Standardized server provisioning processes using configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet or Chef.
• Automated server provisioning using tools like Ansible or Puppet for efficient resource allocation and streamlined deployments.

• Designed and implemented quality control processes to facilitate customer satisfaction.
• Streamlined communication between engineering and other departments, fostering collaboration and synergies across the organization.
• Assisted in developing cost-effective solutions to engineering problems.
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• Enforced rules and regulations to keep working environment safe.
• Maintained high-availability environments by configuring load balancers, clustering solutions, and failover mechanisms.
• Managed installation, upgrade and deployment projects and provided on-site direction for network engineers.
• Explored emerging Linux technologies and tools to maintain currency in the field, upholding a cutting-edge infrastructure.
• Enhanced team collaboration efforts by documenting standard operating procedures, contributing to knowledge sharing among peers.
• Simplified configuration management tasks with the implementation of automation tools such as Ansible and Puppet.
• Improved system performance by optimizing Linux server configurations and implementing efficient monitoring tools.
• Worked effectively in fast-paced environments.
• Spearheaded cloud migration projects, ensuring secure data transfer and storage across all platforms.
• Assisted with the successful migration of company data to a secure cloud-based storage system, enhancing overall data protection capabilities.
• Assisted in the successful migration of company data to a cloud-based storage solution, minimizing disruption to daily operations.
• Maintained detailed documentation of storage infrastructure components for easy reference during troubleshooting or upgrade projects.
• Collaborated with IT teams for seamless integration of storage solutions into existing infrastructure, improving overall system stability.
• Migrated legacy applications to the Azure cloud platform, resulting in increased flexibility and reduced operational costs.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design, develop, and launch scalable cloud solutions on the Azure platform.

l Day-to-day administration and execution of NAS Migration using Storage X.

l Working on creation of Storage X policy for data migration and do the proper analysis before execution.

l Handling all the storage policy (creation/modification) in the project that is raised by the user.

l Knowledge into NetApp FAS2240-2 and FAS8040 HA series Filers, EMC Clarion CX-480 and VNX5400 Unified Storage boxes.

l Manage and resolve problems identified by monitoring software for any migration policy.

l Work with change management tools for Prod migration.

l Vendor liaison analyze and resolve escalated problems within target.

l Installation, configuration and Maintenance of NetApp Filers.

l Knowledge on Planning, preparation and implementing data migration.

l Expertise in Creating and Managing the Aggregates and volumes (flexible & traditional).

l Expertise in managing storage Migration for NetApp Storage Boxes.

l Volume resize, adding disks to aggregates and LUN resize.

l Physical Storage Management: Assigning disk ownership, RAID-DP, Disk Scrubbing, De-duplication etc.

l Managing NAS Environment using Storage X and NetApp Unified manager.

l Troubleshooting of Storage Policy for any missing sources or any parameter missed while creating policy.

l Daily monitoring of storage policy, Performing Checks on all created policy for Prod and Non –Prod and Coordinating with onsite team in case of any failure through mail or call.

l Did onsite Due diligence and Storage transition from Europe and Singapore of Clariant international AG , Created the run book and Scope of work for team to follow

l Being a part of migration team I have been involved to setup cloud data protection for customer based out in Europe.

l Grew a team of 10 to a team of 26 in six months for a $50M deal transitioning storage infrastructure of Clairant to HCL Tech; consulted client in collaboration with HCL pre-sales on RFP's, scoping, and managing project operations before go-live.

l Troubleshooting NetBackup, Data Domain and Avamar application issue related to backup and recovery.

l Application Performance troubleshooting on Redhat Linux Operating system.

l Managing full lifecycles of servers deploying, provisioning, troubleshooting, maintenance, and decommissioning.

l Installing and configuring services such as NFS, AUTOFS, DHCP, NTP and DNS.

l Implementing and taking part in administration of NFS, exporting file and directories, mounting exported file sys executed multiple projects, which were not part of the initial contract and added an extra 2 million to the initial contract, related to Installation & Configuration of new NetApp storage by collaborating with various other platforms teams. Managing IBM N-Series storage arrays are mostly used for NAS Environment.

l Storage, H/W and S/W incident management and storage reporting.

l Creation of Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, iSCSI &; FC LUN

l Configuring snap mirror in Synchronous and Asynchronous mode.

l Managing and monitoring the storage appliance using DFM.

l Analyzed business requirement through constant interactions with the business team.

l Involved in the preparation of high level and low level infrastructure designs, design document with use cases.

l Planning sizing and DR replications.

l Creating SOPs, Handover document, Test Cases, CR process and Storage Policy documents.

l Planning and configuring NAS provisioning over FCP and iSCSI.

• Designed tailored engineering solutions for customers based upon key requirements.
• Provided remote assistance to clients, ensuring timely resolution of software and hardware concerns.
• Conducted root cause analysis of technical issues, implementing preventive measures for future occurrences.
• Patched software and installed new versions to eliminate security problems and protect data.