12 Years of professional experience in production operations with experience in AWS, Azure, Storage, Backup, DevOps Engineering.
Professional Support Specialist with broad experience in delivering exceptional client assistance and resolving complex issues. Strong focus on team collaboration, adapting to changing needs, and achieving results. Skilled in troubleshooting, communication, and conflict resolution. Known for reliability, problem-solving, and customer-centric approach.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
App/Cloud Support Specialist
Accenture Solutions Private Limited
03.2013 - Current
Earned a reputation for designing cloud deployment strategies that mitigate risk while meeting infrastructure, customer and budgetary needs
Excellent hands-on experience on AWS and Azure Cloud Technologies
Worked with Infrastructure health Monitoring Systems like: Cloudwatch, Nagios, Splunk, App dynamics, NewRelic, Graylog, PagerDuty and Grafana
Server Configuration and code management through:
Ansible
Puppet
GIT
NoSQL databases Configuration
Cassandra
MongoDB
Having experience in Cost-optimization tools (Cloudcheckr, CloudHealth) to save the cost in AWS
Responsible for creating and updating the projects in Jenkins to make a CI-CD solution for different environments
Adept at rendering viable solutions & troubleshooting for complex issues related OS, Applications and resolving customers issues
Collaborative thinking of big data and cloud technologies for future endeavours
Deploy, Support and Maintain Highly Available Production Environments
System Troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains
Expertise in Datacenter decommissions
Expertise in Production migration including Cross-region and Datacenter to Cloud migrations
Experience on designing cloud deployment strategies that mitigate risk while meeting infrastructure, customer and budgetary needs
Hands on experience on AWS and Azure Cloud Technologies
Experience Infrastructure health Monitoring Systems like: CloudWatch, Splunk, App dynamics
Maintaining log aggregation tool Splunk
Having experience in Cost-optimization tools (Cloudcheckr, Cloud Health) to save the cost in AWS
Adapt at rendering viable solutions & troubleshooting for complex issues related OS, Applications and resolving customers issues
System Troubleshooting and problem solving across platform and application domains
Design and support of infrastructure
Day to day support of entire IT product lines
Design, Integration and management of AWS Cloud solutions
Implemented and maintaining the Docker and Kubernetes environments
Maintaining EC2 services like launching instances, attaching volumes, configuring security groups, monitoring EC2 instance metrics like CPU Utilization, disk read/write operation and network performance of the EC2 servers
Maintaining S3 services like uploading/downloading files, configuring/editing bucket policies
Launching Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), creating subnet in the VPC, launching EC2 instance and RDS database instances, configuring and maintaining the route table, internet gateway within the VPC
IAM- Creating and managing users, groups and roles and assigning roles to the EC2 instances with identity and management system
CloudFormation – Creating and managing a collection of AWS resources by using the templates on the CloudFormation service
SNS- Creating an SNS topic for receiving alerts from an email, SMS, HTTP and HTTPS protocol for application status
CloudWatch – Monitoring and configuring the CloudWatch metrics for the EC2 servers also configured sending custom metrics like Tomcat memory and Tomcat thread count to CloudWatch
Installed, configured and maintained Dev, SIT, UAT, PPD and production systems in AWS
Supported and implemented cloud services and hosting centres
Created and managed application code with existing techniques
Provided technical assistance for test automation and application deployment
Participated in upcoming application releases and operational improvements
Expertise on migrations from On-premises to cloud and Cloud-Cloud
Planning, preparing, and migrating production servers
Expertise in Datacenter decommissions and Cloud Decommissions
Day to day jobs include storage allocation, Reclamation, troubleshooting and reporting on the SAN Environment
Assigning LUNs to ESXi Hosts and provision of storage as DataStores with respective formatting Storage
Troubleshooting routine critical issues including ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, one-path down, host not seeing storage and storage management problems
Troubleshooting zoning issues and connectivity issues between host and storage end
Alias, zoning configuration for the servers connected in FC environment in brocade switches
Performing routine SRDF health checks and preparing reports daily
Performed DR activities
Performing Deduplication for the volumes
Volume resize, aggregate disk add and LUN resize
Resolving the hardware issues in co-ordination with NetApp and responsible for the Hardware Co-ordination
As well
Decommission the Servers which needs to be removed from the SAN, i.e
Un-masking the devices from the Servers, un-mapping the devices, dissolve Meta devices into individual devices and remove the zones
Working on high priority incidents and resolving them within the given SLA
Always strive to perform and deliver service excellence to the client
Have very good experience with VNX, Clariion, Symmetrix DMX-4 , V-MAX Arrays
Storage provisioning in Symmetrix arrays using SymCLI
Storage provisioning in VNX, Clariion using Unisphere(GUI)
Storage Configuration, Switch port allocation, Storage (LUN) allocation and LUN security
Troubleshoot and resolve the Storage related issues generated in the production environments
Exposure in Configuring SRDF Synchronous/Asynchronous between Symmetrix Arrays
Creating Devices, binding Devices, Forming Meta Volumes, Mapping and Masking of the devices to the Front End ports and HBAs
Performed DR activities
Performing Deduplication for the volumes
Volume resize, aggregate disk add and LUN resize
Resolving the hardware issues in co-ordination with NetApp and responsible for the Hardware Co-ordination
As well
Decommission the Servers which needs to be removed from the SAN, i.e
Un-masking the devices from the Servers, un-mapping the devices, dissolve Meta devices into individual devices and remove the zones
Working on high priority incidents and resolving them within the given SLA
Following ITIL services best practice as a production support
Incident Management: Resolving tickets within stipulated SLA
In charge of ensuring that incidents are managed well and resolved with minimum impact
Problem Management: Analyzing the known errors and doing root cause analysis for resolving issues permanently
If there is any major issue then contacting vendors for support and working with them for resolving the issues
Change Management: Attending CAB meetings (Change Advisory Board) and getting approval for the activities to be done on priority
Prioritizing and implementing the activities and handling them accordingly