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Sid Dasari

Summary

Skilled professional with robust background in infrastructure automation, continuous integration, and cloud services. Expertise in scripting, system administration, and container orchestration, ensuring seamless deployments and efficient system operations. Strong focus on team collaboration and adaptability, consistently delivering reliable and effective solutions. Passionate about leveraging technical skills to drive operational excellence and support organizational goals.Skilled in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, with focus on automation, scalability, and security. Known for fostering collaborative team environments and adapting to evolving project needs to drive results

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

SRE Engineer

Toyota Motors NA
02.2023 - Current
  • Responsible for the Site reliability engineering for applications dealing with car head units within and external to the organization
  • Manage Infrastructure using Ansible playbooks and developed Terraform modules to spin on prem and on AWS cloud as needed
  • Setup of Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, ELK and Uptime KUMA monitoring tools to ensure our docker containers and the applications are not facing any issues or downtime
  • Managed and setup the Jenkins server and various open source tools in the corporate network as needed
  • Moved applications from Lab networks to Corporate world within DC and on cloud as requested
  • Design, implement, and support various Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions
  • Conduct in depth technical IAM research, assessments and performance analysis to support and design technical automated IAM strategies
  • Lead scalability and performance planning for future IAM needs
  • Creation of User, Groups & Policy
  • On-boarding new user with MFA and access policy
  • Enforcing key rotation policy
  • Worked on ADFS integration with AWS IAM for SSO capability
  • Creating complex policy for granular access
  • Worked with Jenkins, AWS services, Open shift , Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Gitlab, GitOps to support our application needs
  • Handling various storage arrays and open source backup solutions , also implemented Open shift and K8s cluster to spin up our front end applications based on Go and Python languages.

DevOps/ SRE Engineer

Mckinsey
01.2021 - 12.2021
  • Responsible for the Site reliability engineering for various solutions with in the organization
  • Working with Kubernetes cluster solutions and migrated them from older gen on prem solution to AWS cloud sets
  • Worked on DevOps models and enhanced the software release lifecycles across various solutions
  • Developer terraform scripts and made deployments to ensure we have enhanced application releases when required in both AWS cloud and Azure Cloud Infrastructure sectors
  • Manage SPLUNK , NewRelic and Prometheus monitoring tools to track logs, metrics, outages in our Java Microservices applications
  • Created user accounts (create, delete, modify, etc.)
  • Create data retention policies and perform index administration, maintenance and optimization
  • Work with third party application, hosting and CDN providers to integrate data feeds to a centralized Splunk platform
  • Working with Akamai configurations for DNS related issues, Cache issues, Deployments for new application to go live
  • Provide overall management of the Splunk platform
  • Experience with Akamai, Kubernetes, Docker , Jfrog, Quay , GitHub, CircleCI, Jenkins, Splunk tools to establish a solid and provide DevOps best practices to launch, deploy & release the applications
  • Assist with design of core scripts to automate Splunk maintenance and alerting tasks
  • Support SPLUNK on UNIX, Linux and Windows-based platforms
  • Assist with automation of processes and procedures
  • Used New Relic APM to monitor Preproduction and production environment proactively and to identify application performance issue or availability
  • Created dashboard in Dynatrace and New relic console for the monitoring purpose
  • Setup of various services like EC2, S3, cloud trail monitoring events, Terraform users, IAM users and roles, Simple Email Services, Lambda, KMS, Kinesis, VPC, S3 Glaciers, Secrets Manager, API Gateway, Security Hub, Systems Manager etc
  • To maintain infrastructure setting up for applications running on Node.js and Python
  • Troubleshooting Networking related issues on the NAT Gateways, Security groups and Firewalls on daily basis when applications face access related blockages
  • Configured and Maintained the Google Cloud Virtual Data Center cloud computing platforms with conjunction of Compute, Storage, Network, Stack driver and other google cloud tools for multiple applications
  • Worked with CI/CD and DevOps teams for automating infrastructure inside the Google cloud
  • Worked and monitored scalable infrastructure on Google Cloud & Config Management using Docker, GKE
  • Installation and management of Secrets Management tools ( vault ) with AWS cloud, Google Cloud for controlling the credentials of various services
  • Creation of Google Cloud Storage Buckets, maintaining the policy managements of these buckets used for storage and backup
  • Packaged, deployed containerized web applications onto Google Cloud Platform using GKE to manage clusters, implemented autoscaling conditions to work with traffic
  • Created full automation build, test, deploy processes with Google Cloud Build for deploying new versions of containerized web applications and maintained a repo of docker images in the Google Container Registry.

SRE Lead Engineer

CapitalOne
12.2021 - 01.2021
  • Responsible for the Site reliability engineering for applications dealing with wire transfers within and external to the organization
  • Manage AWS services with Terraform IAC and integrated into the Jenkins Pipelines to get releases run smoothly on various GitHub branches
  • Developed CI/CD roadmap and implemented the code release activities with Jenkins
  • Use NewRelic and Data Dog monitoring tools to take care of the applications on daily basis
  • Work with Arow jobs scheduler which have been scheduled to run on daily basis to run intraday and end of the day jobs
  • Work on IAM, Lambdas, EC2, Step functions, RDS databases, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, VPC, Route53, CodePipeline, CodeStar, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, S3 Buckets to get them ready for application to live on with
  • Create IAM Policies to delegate administration within AWS and configured IAM Users/ Roles/ Policies to various AWS resources and grant fine granular access to users
  • Failover from East to West on regular basis to test them and make them go live when there is a unforeseen outage
  • Significant experience building out Application Performance Monitoring solutions with Prometheus , Grafana, Dynatrace , New Relic, Datadog
  • Lead work with updating and deleting on IAM roles/profiles for various applications in financial domain
  • Worked with Jira, ALM, ServiceNow and Slack
  • Worked with Docker images and vagrant
  • Contribute to System and application architecture
  • Participate in an on-call schedule in local time zone

Cloud Lead DevOps/ SRE Engineer

Consolidated Edison
07.2020 - 01.2021
  • Setting up Horizontally Scaled Kubernetes Cluster - AKS Engine, Azure Managed Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engines
  • Configure Ingress and Ingress Controller using Nginx, Azure App Gateway with TLS/SSL Configuration
  • Automate creation of Namespace, RBAC configuration with Active Directory integration, Setting up Kubernetes Dashboard
  • Worked and configure Helm & Helm Operator to automate package management in Kubernetes
  • Automate CI and CD for Java Microservices app deployment into Kubernetes using Azure DevOps with Maven for build, SonarQube for static code analysis, Jcoco for code coverage and JUnit for Unit Testing
  • Created baseline docker files for Open Source JRE with TLS modules and created a baseline microservice deployment and machine learning model dockers and scan with Twistlock and push to ACR
  • Created helm charts for Microservice deployments as a template
  • Integrated Azure Kubernetes to Azure Log Analytics for Pod and services monitoring like Pod Status, Node Status, Deployment Status, logs
  • Supported multiple Scrum teams with deployment configuration management and coordinate with release engineer to promote code in higher environment
  • Created ARM templates to deploy Azure IAAS and PAAS services like AKS, Event Hub, Service Bus, Key Vault, ACR, Azure Function App, Azure WebApp, Azure SQL, Azure SQL MI, Cosmos DB, Log Analytics, App Insights, Azure VM creation (Linux, Windows) in standalone and availability sets, APIM, Azure App Services Environment
  • Created deployment pipelines to automate ARM templates deployment using Azure CLI in Azure DevOps and configure policies and RBAC's as applicable
  • Experience with NPM packaging , YAML Scripts for creating new container and orchestrating them
  • Handled SSL Certificate creation and configuration
  • SSL creation and mapping them as TLS secrets in Kubernetes per Microservices
  • Created API for inbound and outbound calls from Microservices in APIM, enables service token for services access to enable security
  • Created CI and CD pipeline for deploying Azure WebApps and Function Apps into Azure App Service environments
  • Working on Nutanix Cluster deployments and maintaining them on day to day basis
  • Worked , managed AWS Cloud formation to modify and provision infrastructure resources for the developers
  • Developed with PowerShell scripts to stabilize the environment on daily basis for reporting VM Disk usages, RAM consumption etc
  • Migrating existing DELL EMC VMAX, VNX, Isilon, PowerMax ,ViPR, VBlock, Netapp FAS Cluster mode solutions to Nutanix HCI Infrastructure in both on premise & off premise lift and ship type of migrations
  • Working with the VMware Virtualization softwares to manage multiple vCenter including ESXi versions 5.5 , 6.0 and 6.2.

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Healthfirst
02.2020 - 07.2020
  • Worked on Google Cloud Platform GCP services like compute engine, cloud load balancing, Cloud Storage, Stack Driver monitoring and Deployment manager
  • Worked and setup GCP firewall rules to allow traffic to and from different VMs instances based on specific configuration and used GCP CDN to deliver content from GCP cache locations
  • Created GKE topology diagrams including master ,slave, RBAC, Helm, KubeCtl, ingress controllers
  • Created Cloud Formation Template for main services like EC2, VPC and S3 for reuse the current environments
  • Creating EC2 Instances for running and installing our applications
  • Creating S3 buckets to store different war and jar files and also to store the build artifacts
  • Using Cloud Formation to create different services by scripting in Json format
  • Integrated Jenkins with GitHub private repositories, build Automation tools (Maven and Ant), and Artifact repository for pushing successful build code
  • Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy
  • Automated the cloud Deployments using Chef, Python and AWS Cloud Formation Templates
  • Container management using Docker by writing Docker files and set up the automated build on Docker HUB and installed and configured Kubernetes
  • Used Rest Controller in Spring framework to create RESTful Webservices and JSON objects for communication
  • Experience with PCI in preventing payment card account data breaches
  • Used Cloud Watch for monitoring AWS cloud resources and the applications that deployed on AWS by creating new alarm, enable notification service
  • Worked in all areas of Jenkins setting up CI for new branches, build automation, plugin management and securing Jenkins and setting up master/slave configurations
  • Worked on CI/CD tools Jenkins and GIT version control system for continuous smooth code release process
  • Developed Shell Scripts to run the unit test on different jobs on Jenkins like testing the code
  • Created Shell Scrips to Automate manual tasks
  • Good understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Programmable Infrastructure), and how you can achieve that by using tools like Chef, Ansible etc
  • Worked on developing own Monitoring Dashboard using Python, Shell and Bash scripting
  • Deploying the code from Dev to QA and QA to Production environment
  • Involved in designing and deploying a multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling
  • Migrated the current Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux environment and used auto scaling feature
  • Install and configure chef server / workstation and nodes via CLI tools to AWS nodes
  • Increasing EBS backed volume storage capacity when the root volume is full using AWS EBS Volume feature
  • Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions
  • Used GZIP with AWS Cloud front to forward compressed files to destination node/instances
  • Created users and groups using IAM and assigned individual policies to each group
  • Created SNS notifications and assigned ARN to S3 for object loss notifications
  • Created load balancers (ELB) and used Route53 with failover and latency options for high availability and fault tolerance
  • Configured Security group for EC2 Window and Linux instances and also for puppet master and puppet agents
  • Manage AWS EC2 instances utilizing Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing and Glacier for our QA and UAT environments as well as infrastructure servers for GIT and Puppet
  • Supporting for Enterprise customers on Microsoft Azure (IAAS, PAAS, SAAS)
  • Protecting on Premise& Cloud Workloads using Azure Backup
  • Responsible for support Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure IaaS VM Backup & Hyper-V virtual machines
  • Worked and deployed NodeJS, ReactJS, JS, Python Applications
  • Experience in managing Microsoft Windows server infrastructure and data-Centre operations by effectively planning, installing, configuring and optimize the IT infrastructure to achieve high availability and performance
  • Deployed Azure IaaS virtual machines (VMs) and Cloud services (PaaS role instances) into secure Vnets and subnets
  • Implemented operational efficiencies using scripting tools (PowerShell)
  • Azure Cloud Infrastructure design and implementation utilizing ARM templates Created users and groups using IAM and assigned individual policies to each group
  • Creating Azure Backup vault and protecting required VMs to take the VM level backup

Devops & VMware lead

AIG
01.2017 - 04.2018
  • Support current migration of Data Center to Amazon Cloud
  • Created Chef Cookbooks
  • Automate the infrastructure using Terraform and chef recipes using AWS ops work for deployment
  • Installing, configuring and administering Jenkins CI server on Linux machines and utilized Jenkins for deployment into various Web/Application Servers in lower environments
  • Lead Infrastructure automation using DevOps tools such as Chef, Jenkins, Terraform, Vagrant, Test Kitchen, Docker, Docker Swarm
  • Support for AWS Cloud infrastructure automation with multiple tools including Gradle, Chef, Nexus, Knife, Docker and monitoring tools such as Splunk, New Relic and Cloudwatch
  • Implemented, maintained, and monitored server roles, services, applications, and policies such as Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, SQL, IIS, Exchange/Office 365, File and Storage Services, Backup Policies, and Remote Access Management
  • Managed GIT repositories for branching, merging and tagging
  • Worked on user admin setup, maintain an account, monitor system performance utilizing Nagios
  • Responsible for the Plugin Management, User Management, Build/Deploy Pipeline Setup and End-End Job Setup of all the projects
  • Support of VMware Clusters with ESXi 5.0 /5.5/5.6/6.0/6.5 hosts on the vCenter servers
  • Daily support and troubleshooting on the VMware clusters / vCenters and Virtual machines for new issues
  • Worked on the vRealize Operations Manager, vRealize Automation Appliance and vRealize suite on daily basis by deploying VMs, decommissioning VMs and troubleshooting tasks based on request received in SONIC/Service Now tools
  • Patching of 4000 ESXi hosts from VUM, seeing the latest vulnerabilities in the AMD and Intel processors to a stabilized version of ESXi so all the hosts are brought to a stabilized versions
  • Support for the DR environment to test VMs/Wintel and physical servers using VMware SRM 5.0 and 6.0 to ensure all the servers are protected during disasters
  • Migration of VMs from ESXi 5.0 to 5.5 or 6.0/6.5 using the Swing LUN migration method or VMotion.

Sr. Cloud Engineer

CVS Caremark
05.2018 - 02.2018
  • Experience in working with GIT to store the code and integrated it to Ansible tower to deploy the playbooks
  • Created all high-level design documentation for Ansible and Ansible Tower Infrastructure
  • Setup the config files of multiple SQL Instances using Ansible
  • Used Ansible to document all infrastructure and application dependencies into version control
  • Deploy puppet to setup & manage AWS EC2 instances, volumes, DNS, and S3
  • Involved in deploying the content cloud platform on Amazon AWS using EC2, S3, and EBS
  • Used GIT for branching, tagging, and merging
  • Setup environment for UAT, Functional and Performance testing
  • Provisioning and administration of EC2, ELB, Elastic Container Service, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, CloudFront, Elastic Filesystem, RDS, DynamoDB, DMS, VPC, Direct Connect, Route53, Lambda, Kinesis, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudFormation, IAM, EMR, Elastic Search
  • Managing company website deployed using AWS Lambda and S3
  • Extensively focused on managing existing applications and increasing scalability with AWS Load Balancing (ELB)
  • Scripting using Terraform and cloud formation
  • Design, Plan and create Azure virtual machines, Implement, and manage virtual networking within Azure and connect to on-premises environments
  • Supported and maintained Ecommerce Platform on Azure and AWS
  • Providing Release Management (Build and Deployment) and Build Automation with TFS Build Automation
  • Experienced in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like GIT, Subversion (SVN) and TFS on Linux and windows platforms
  • Support and enhance SDLC cycle by using Docker containers delivered to Openshift Container Platform
  • Used Openshift platform to build the PAAS applications
  • Wrote Ansible playbooks to manage configurations and automate installation process
  • Troubleshoot and identify performance, connectivity and other issues for the applications hosted in Azure platform
  • Responsible for moving data between different AWS compute and storage services by using AWS Data Pipeline
  • Management and design of integrated build pipelines using continuous integration workflows such as Jira, Git, Jenkins, Docker, Artifactory, and Nexus
  • Provided configuration management expertise to all software development projects
  • Migrated various artifacts from TFS to GIT
  • Working as Cloud Administrator on Microsoft Azure, involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups
  • Support of VMware Clusters with ESXi 5.0 /5.5/5.6/6.0/6.5 hosts on the vCenter servers
  • Help resolve issues with VMs on ESXi farms & clusters to ensure all the testing criteria is met during testing phases
  • Built over 20 Clusters, over 200 ESX hosts, built 2 Virtual Center Servers including backend SQL and VUM, NFS and SAN storage by provisioning the required storage by using industry’s best practices
  • Upgrade various Esxi clusters using VUM for vCenter servers with over 1500 ESXi hosts
  • Supported Active directory clusters to help create and organize many Organizational Units and linked various GPOs to them on day to day basis
  • Experience with DCPROMO process and configuring AD Site, OU structure, Site Link, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Global Catalog servers, directory services, subnet mask, DNS forwarders, Reverse Lookup
  • Deployed Domain controller in Azure and joined to On-prem domain controllers.

Storage migration lead

Capital One Financial Banking
04.2015 - 01.2017
  • Daily support and troubleshooting on EMC VMAX 10K/20K/40K, DMX 3/4, Hitachi VSP/USP/G1000,VPLEX Local/Metro/Geo, ISILON, NETAPP, PURE Storage Arrays and CISCO MDS 9513/9700 FC Director CORE-EDGE Fabric switches
  • Successfully implemented a Storage Refresh (VMAX/VPLEX to Hitachi) and currently leading a Cisco Refresh project to replace older generation Cisco Core- Edge 9513 switches to Cisco Core-Edge 9710 Switches
  • Successfully migrated 10 Older Generation 9513 EDGE Switches to 9710 EDGE Switches
  • Provisioning and decommissioning the servers with new storage after a cutover to Hitachi VSP Storage arrays
  • Provisioning storage to AIX/SOLARIS/RHEL/UNIX/LINUX /VMware ESXi hosts /Windows servers and clusters
  • Creation of new pools on Hitachi (General and Performance tiers for better maintenance of data
  • Experience in supporting the IBM Hybrid Flash Storwize arrays V5000 and V7000,IBM SAN512B-6 and SAN256B-6 Director SAN Switches, IBM SAN Volume controllers
  • Supported scheduling of backup jobs and creation of new backup jobs in the IBM Tivoli Storage Manager for various virtual and physical hosts and ensured none of the Clients were missed during the weekly and monthly backup schedules
  • Data migration from VMAX 10K, 20K and 40K using Encapsulation technique to Hitachi VSP Arrays
  • Data Migration from VMAX 10K / 20K to VMAX 40K using Open Replicator Hot Push/ Hot Pull
  • Technologies
  • Cleanup the old storage arrays after UNIX hosts have been successfully mirrored to new storage
  • Arrays
  • Implementation of DR Setups between EMC VMAX 10k/20k and 40k Arrays using SRDF S/A, BCV and Hitachi VSP Arrays using HUR/Shadow Image for critical application related servers
  • Successfully migrated the VMware clusters (ESX Hosts) using the rebuild activity for the boot luns residing on the EOL Storage arrays (Hitachi VSP/VMAX 10K Arrays ) to PURE / Hitachi VSP G1000s frames
  • Create bash/shell scripts on the management hosts to carefully provision storage on VMAX Arrays and do the pre works for required migration activity.

VBlock Senior Resident

Novisync Solutions Inc
01.2015 - 04.2015
  • Daily support and troubleshooting on VCE VBlock 300/700 series
  • Administration of EMC VNX/VNX2/ISILON/VMAX 20K and VNX files using the SYMCLI, UNISPHERE and ISILON ONE FS tools/webui
  • Successfully migrated data to EMC VNX2 series from ISILON using Robocopy/Securecopy tools
  • Provide knowledge transfer to end client staff and provide documentation for VBlock
  • Systems Administration on VMWare ESX/ESXi,Rtools, VClient and CISCO UCS B/C Blades
  • EMC VNX/VMAX Storage system implementation and administration for VMware environment
  • VBlock Converged Infrastructure Administration and Management
  • Provide Operational support across all layers of the vBlock platform including Virtualization (VSphere), Compute (UCS), and Storage (EMC VNX/VMAX)
  • Configuration of data movers on VNX 2 series to enable NDMP backup run successfully on the
  • EMC Networker/ Data domain backup grid
  • Scheduling of new backup jobs in Avamar, Networker / Data Domain clusters and configuration of
  • Pre-requisites in every day environment
  • Administration of NAS Isilon 3-node cluster and help migrate data using secure copy from NAS

Storage Management Lead

Novisync Solutions Inc, Atos/McGraw Hill Education
01.2014 - 01.2015
  • Day to Day administration of Symmetrix V-MAX, DMX, CLARiiON,VNX and NAS ISILON arrays
  • Troubleshooting activity on VNX5300,5500,5700 and 7500 with ACL permissions issues, and allocated new storage when required
  • Administration of Celerra & VNX 5300/5500/5700 and 7500 storage from Unisphere and NaviSEC
  • CLI 7.1 versions on both production site and DR site
  • Working on Clariion CX3/4 ,DMX3/4 and VMAX Storage arrays in day to day activities as checking zoning, troubleshooting new issues
  • Worked along with migration teams for SAN and NAS migrations and helping for the cutovers from the host side
  • Worked with the teams with migration and app migration from Storage arrays to other arrays
  • Co-ordinated works between two teams for the migration schedules coming up and helping with Storage zoning to hosts on Brocade and Cisco MDS fabrics
  • Port enabling and zoning configurations activity on Brocade fabric/ Cisco MDS activity for SAN attached to VMAX and DMX storage arrays
  • Migrated data from MHF VMAX Arrays to MHE VMAX 10K, 20K and 40K using SRDF and OPEN REPLICATOR technologies
  • Performed the DR testing on the DR Site with application teams on the VMAX / VNX / VPLEX / Celerra Storage Arrays
  • Worked on backup technologies like EMC Avamar/ Networker / Data domain , Commvault and Backup exec
  • Documentations of work going with migration teams
  • Successfully involved in application and database migrations and setting up with safe ways of migration techniques and validating the designated storage arrays in the back end has been migrated prior to application & database migrations
  • Executing migrations using SanCopy, RoboCopy, Snapview, Mirrorview and SRDF technologies to move data between CX to VMAX, DMX arrays and between NAS arrays as celerra and VNXand 7500 storage arrays
  • Successfully ran host grabs against different hosts such as solaris, RHEL, Windows 2008R2, CentOS , VMware servers and generated HEAT reports against them
  • Maintained the tickets and giving support as needed.

Storage Management Specialist

Novisync Solutions Inc, Quest Diagnostics
08.2013 - 01.2014
  • Installation of DMX/VMAX arrays with latest builds and Service pack upgrades to new builds
  • 24
  • 7 monitoring for the Clariion/Celerra/VNX/DMX/VMAX storage arrays
  • Executed migrations to the secondary site and DR site
  • Experience with EMC Recover point and successfully configured them between two sites
  • Successfully maintained the NETAPP FAS storage array and executed migrations from bare metal servers using tools like RoboCopy, and Netapp Snapmirror
  • Expertise in Snapvault and Snapmirror technologies of NETAPP, which has helped me to monitored the storage with great efficiency
  • Working on VNX 5100, 5300, 5500, Symmetrix arrays such as DMX-3,4 and VMAX 10K ,20K
  • Regular monitoring of alerts and filing new tickets in HP Service manager and notifying other storage team
  • Created Storage Pools and RAID Groups on multiple VNX 7500 arrays
  • Implementing and Maintaining FAST Cache and FAST VP in VNX, configuring and managing network File in VNX
  • Monitoring and managing alerts in VNX using Unisphere manager
  • Performing software installations
  • Using Unisphere Service manager
  • Experience with Hitachi VSP series of storage arrays for provisioning new storage to hosts AIX
  • Solaris, VMware ESX, LINUX ,Windows servers
  • Experience with Sancopy, Robocopy, SRDF/TIMEFINDER, Mirror view /Snap view technologies
  • Working on documentation required for the Storage Team by getting all the host information’s from Symmetrix, VNX, Clariion and Celerra.

Storage & Linux Test Engineer

Novisync Solutions Inc
02.2012 - 08.2013
  • Installation of Dell storages with latest builds and Service pack upgrades to new builds
  • Hands on experience with Dell series of storages such as FS 8600, FS8610, NX3600, NX3610,NX3500
  • Managing the Storage sub systems using Dell FluidFS manager, Modular disk manager, Compellent
  • Enterprise manager, Storage center manager, NAS initial deployment utility tool, worked
  • On zoning with the FS series storages and Dell switches, Em data collector tools
  • Proficient with CIFS and NFS technologies and worked on LDAP and NIS servers
  • Hands on experience with IO tools such as IO monkey,Iometer, Diskercise and many testing tools
  • Testing on various platforms such as NFS, NFSv2, NFSv3, NFSv3 on RHEL, SUSE, SUN SOLARIS
  • Linux platforms
  • Tested and executed replications, NDMP backups, Snapshots, creations of Clones volumes, quotas
  • On the volumes, scheduled and manual replications and maintaining the data on the CIFS
  • Shares and NFS exports
  • Worked on various Dell switches and executed zoning concepts on FS series storages
  • Collected logs and diagnostics to file bugs in the testing environment of storages
  • Used various tools such as SNMP traps, VM workstation, VSphere client, Vmware ESXi servers to
  • Maintain different versions of windows/ linux clients
  • Hands on experience with ISCSI and FC network topologies in Dell environment
  • Worked on Windows 2008R2, Windows 2012 servers and various other Windows platforms
  • Performed tests in various AD domains and managed Active directories by creating users, groups and assigning permissions to various users and maintaining the storages with users and groups assigned
  • Worked on Kerberos security levels for NFS exports and hands on experience with Kerberos protocols.

SAN & NAS Administrator

Volvo IT Consulting
06.2008 - 06.2010
  • Managing the Storage sub systems using EMC Control Center, SYMCLI and CISCO Fabric Manager
  • Proficient in EMC hardware and software, especially VMAX, DMX, ECC, ESRS
  • Performing host remediation, upgrade of Power Path and HBA BIOS/Drivers, OS includes, Windows
  • Linux
  • Performing host based migrations using Power path Migration Enabler (PPME) from DMX-3 to
  • VMAX, OS includes Windows/Linux native LVM migration
  • Configuring Celerra Replicator on Celerra systems for Local and Remote Replication after creating
  • Checkpoints
  • Administration of DMX-3 and VMAX with the help of ECC, SMC and CLI.

Education

Master of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Carbondale, IL
12-2011

Skills

  • Critical thinking
  • Project management
  • Project planning
  • Data analysis
  • Root-cause analysis
  • System design
  • Programming languages
  • Network configuration
  • Cloud computing
  • Excellent communication
  • Problem resolution

Certification

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Solutions Architect
  • Microsoft Administrator Associate
  • EMC ISM Storage Associate and Symmetrix Solutions Specialist
  • VCA- DCV, VCA-Cloud, VCA-Workforce Mobility,VCE-Certified Converged Infrastructure Associate


Languages

English
Full Professional

Timeline

SRE Engineer

Toyota Motors NA
02.2023 - Current

SRE Lead Engineer

CapitalOne
12.2021 - 01.2021

DevOps/ SRE Engineer

Mckinsey
01.2021 - 12.2021

Cloud Lead DevOps/ SRE Engineer

Consolidated Edison
07.2020 - 01.2021

Cloud DevOps Engineer

Healthfirst
02.2020 - 07.2020

Sr. Cloud Engineer

CVS Caremark
05.2018 - 02.2018

Devops & VMware lead

AIG
01.2017 - 04.2018

Storage migration lead

Capital One Financial Banking
04.2015 - 01.2017

VBlock Senior Resident

Novisync Solutions Inc
01.2015 - 04.2015

Storage Management Lead

Novisync Solutions Inc, Atos/McGraw Hill Education
01.2014 - 01.2015

Storage Management Specialist

Novisync Solutions Inc, Quest Diagnostics
08.2013 - 01.2014

Storage & Linux Test Engineer

Novisync Solutions Inc
02.2012 - 08.2013

SAN & NAS Administrator

Volvo IT Consulting
06.2008 - 06.2010

Master of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

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