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Vinay Sherkar

Philadelphia,PA

Summary

Results oriented Infrastructure Cloud Computing Engineer with over Sixteen years of Demonstrated success of managing complex IT projects. Extensive experience in Storage, Cloud computing and backup technologies, architecture, design, operations, dev-ops/automation, engineering & IT Modernization, designing solutions that leverage cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Design discussions regarding new projects and enhancements to existing systems and applications. application deployments on AWS environments, migration of Data to cloud/storage, backup solutions & disaster/recovery plans. Change management, Data center, Storage/backup capacity planning & forecast problem management for complex IT issues/scenarios which involves high level root cause analysis study. Strong interpersonal skills, highly adept at diplomatically facilitating discussions amongst teams and senior management to provide an experts opinion considering a holistic view of the customer needs and environment. An accomplished IT Professional with a solid history of delivering outstanding customer satisfaction. Innovative professional with expertise in promoting academic, career and social development programs. Possesses excellent communication, problem-solving and organizational skills. Trusted advisor goes extra mile to help individuals succeed.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience

Work History

Condenast Publications
  • Migration from on Prem
  • Storage & Backup environment to AWS cloud with Riverbed
  • Analyze space & cost savings, chargeback & scalability for the AWS cloud compute
  • Engineer and maintain NBU, TSM, Commvault, Veeam, tape libraries & external storage devices
  • Working on Symantec Pure disk/MSDP, Storage Tek PTL/VTL, and EMC Data domain for Backup
  • Cloud Computing, Storage & Backup skills in: Windows, Linux, Solaris, Oracle, SQL databases etc
  • Backup and Storage system Auditing, Legal holds and compliance
  • Maintaining Licenses, Ports Consumptions, Backup policies, Iron Mountain Tapes, Retention, Audits
  • Documenting & troubleshooting, process, known error, bugs, configuration changes, SOPs, KB articles
  • Advance troubleshooting of critical issues with Cloud computing, Storage and Backup related issues
  • Workload management and performance tuning for Storage and backup environment
  • Member of Technical Review board and guided problem solving
  • End to end operations upgrade, migrations for SAN Switches, Cloud, SAN/NAS & backup systems
  • Vendor management and procurement of new hardware, licenses, contract renewals
  • SAN: Brocade/Cisco switches, Zoning and zone configurations
  • Work with Pre-sales, Delivery Excellence and Project management on identifying the scope of work
  • Capacity planning and forecast management
  • Delivery of a multiple projects via effective project management in terms of time, price and quality
  • Effective SLA management, Customer Relationship, People and Performance Management
  • Received 3 performance-based awards with this particular client.

Sr, Data

SIG LLP
01.2019 - Current

Infrastructure Architect, Manager IT

Cognizant Technology Solutions, Mortgage Ltd
05.2015 - Current
  • Managed and maintained the company’s AWS infrastructure, including EC2 instances, VPCs, Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), Route53 DNS records, CloudFront distributions, Auto Scaling groups, RDS databases, etc
  • Created a new deployment pipeline for deploying applications to production using Jenkins CI and Docker containers
  • Built an internal web application that allows engineers to submit support tickets directly from their computers without having to use email or phone calls
  • Implemented a system that automatically terminates idle EC2 instances after 5 minutes of inactivity saving over $1K per month on unused resources
  • Designed and implemented a custom monitoring solution with Zabbix that provides real-time visibility into all aspects of our infrastructure health allowing us to quickly identify issues before they become critical problems
  • Design and Architecture of complex Cloud and Infrastructure related solutions
  • Coordinating with supporting teams for various Cloud infrastructure implementations
  • Setting up Access control and Identity management for the various cloud-based options
  • Managing and monitoring the cloud chargeback and cost effectiveness
  • Migrating from On-Prem to Cloud and On-Prem to On-Prem on a multi-vendor platform
  • Upgrading unsupported/End of Life hardware and Firmware
  • Performing several migrations with cross platform options with multiple migration tools OS or third party specific
  • E-series, VAST and other Hyper converged infrastructure with GPFS, Lustre
  • Commvault/Simpana automation with the use of Shell scripting, PowerShell cmdlets, Workflows
  • Block and NAS solutions for Netapp 7mode and CDOT, EMC Isilon OneFS, EMC NS480, EMC CX340, Isilon One FS, HP-P2K, MSA, Nimble, EMC: VMAX 10K, VNX 5300, Pure X70/X90/M50, EMC RPA (Recover Point appliance), Active Cluster for Pure Storage, Metro Cluster with Netapp
  • Commvault, Veeam backup environment design and implementation
  • Tape based and Disk based backup solution implementation
  • Rest API implementation and automation
  • PyFOS, PowerShell, Python, Node.js implementation for automation
  • Expertise in SAN Zoning for Brocade and Cisco Nexus Switches
  • Expertise on firmware upgrade of EMC Isilon OneFS, Nimble, Netapp Data OnTap SAN/NAS, Pure
  • Expertise on VMware, Windows, UNIX environment with Storage & Data Protection
  • Expertise on OnCommand Tools like Perf
  • Manager, OnCommand System Manager, OnCommand Unified Manager, OnCommand Insight, SnapCenter, Snapmanager for Exchange, Snapdrive, Snapmanager for SQL, Graphite, Grafana, DFM alerting, etc
  • For 7mode/CDOT systems etc
  • SANNAV Implementation for Fabric Monitoring and management
  • Maintaining documentation for Standard operating procedure for Support teams to manage operations seamlessly
  • Working with Line of business to ensure the objectives of business are achieved
  • Capacity Reporting and Forecasing
  • Maintaining latest hardware and Software version, inventory
  • Determining Purchase decisions and coordinating with vendor for best solutions and design ideas
  • Ensuring 100% uptime and business continuity for critical business models
  • Maintain SLA for Infrastructure with the business needs
  • Lead Storage, Cloud Computing and, Team Size: 10 Office: College station, TX
  • Client location, , TX
  • Responsibilities:-
  • Created a cloud-based environment using AWS, including EC2 instances and S3 buckets for data storage
  • Implemented monitoring tools to track the performance of all cloud infrastructure components
  • Built an automated deployment system that used Ansible playbooks to update production servers with new code
  • Reduced time spent on manual tasks by automating routine processes using Python scripts and Fabric commands
  • Improved server security by implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for SSH access
  • Data Migration for AWS/Azure cloud and On Premise
  • Identify & Access control to users needing access to volumes/snapshots and managing the Cloud Infra
  • Ensuring Cost effective Storage and Backup solutions on AWS and Azure Cloud
  • Managing Chargeback & purchase of additional instances on AWS, in concurrence with Server teams
  • Various migration & tools like Netapp 7MTT, IMT, Hardware Universe, Upgrade advisor, SANCopy, Double take, Foreign LUN Import, Robocopy, Tier storage migration, etc
  • For migrations
  • Managing complete AWS Cloud Computing using CLI and Web console
  • Expertise in Data Center migration for Storage, Cloud computing and backup technology
  • Expertise in SAN and NAS migration with Netapp 7MTT, Nsanity, One Collect, IMT
  • Expertise in Disaster recovery with Netapp: SME, SD, OCSM, Netbackup, Veeam etc
  • Netapp & Netbackup automation with the use of Shell scripting, PowerShell cmdlets, Workflows
  • Design and Implementation for SAN and NAS solutions for Netapp 7mode & CDOT, EMC Isilon OneFS, EMC NS480, EMC CX340, Isilon One FS, HP-P2K, MSA, Nimble, EMC: VMAX 10K, VNX 5300, Pure M50, EMC RPA(Recover Point appliance)
  • Expertise in SAN Zoning for Brocade and Cisco Nexus Switches
  • Expertise on firmware upgrade of EMC Isilon OneFS, Nimble, Netapp Data OnTap SAN/NAS, Pure
  • Expertise on VMware, Windows, UNIX environment with Storage & Data Protection
  • Expertise on OnCommand Tools like Perf
  • Manager, OnCommand System Manager, OnCommand Unified Manager, OnCommand Insight, SnapCenter, Snapmanager for Exchange, Snapdrive, Snapmanager for SQL, Graphite, Grafana, DFM alerting, etc
  • For 7mode/CDOT systems etc
  • Expertise on End-to-end operations and upgrade of NetBackup, Veeam, Commvault, HPDP, TSM etc
  • Backup Hardware for Oracle SL3000, HP Storeonce, Data Domain, HP store ever, T10K libraries etc
  • Backup auditing and reporting for SOX and compliance audits for the infrastructure
  • Working on various solutions for Disaster recovery mock drill and actual DR
  • Designing Storage and backup solution based on the client requirements
  • Performing Detailed Root Cause Analysis & resolving critical outages/impact
  • Design and Documentation on Standard operating procedures, Knowledge articles
  • Subject matter expert for Storage & Data protection to handle critical technical escalations/outages
  • Guiding the team members for escalated and complex situations towards solution finding
  • Received multiple awards and recognitions from the client management on several occasions.

Lead Storage & Backup/Recovery Consultant

Cyberthink Inc, Sungard Availability Services
08.2014 - 05.2015
  • Add and improve Cloud and storage product features
  • Improve cloud and storage product reliability, availability, maintainability, cost/benefit
  • Design new hardware architectures for cloud products
  • Design new network architectures for cloud products
  • Re-architect Bloomberg's OpenStack distro
  • Public Cloud Infrastructure expertise, preferably AWS
  • In a technical position using AWS cloud technology
  • Build & design Cloud, Storage & backup components for Availability Services for more than 200 Clients
  • End to end Ops
  • For NBU, TSM, Commvault, Puredisk, Data domain, IBM SAN, Netapp, HDS, EMC
  • Expertise in Commvault, Symantec Netbackup, Backup Exec, TSM, Veeam, HPDP, Avamar
  • Storage Data Management on Windows, Linux, Solaris, Oracle, SQL databases, Share point & Exchange
  • Complete Configuration for TSM, Netbackup, Veeam, Avamar, HP Data Protection & Commvault
  • Complete documentation for Backup technologies and guidance as a SME
  • Performance tuning for Storage and backup environment
  • Firmware version upgrade for SAN Switches and NAS/SAN Storage systems & backup systems
  • Project management for various Cloud, Storage, Backup, Replication/DR, migration & Projects
  • Optimization and Cost Saving on Cloud, Storage Backup Technologies
  • Shell Scripting & other scripting languages for Automation of routine Tasks
  • SAN: Brocade switches, Zoning and SAN migrations,
  • Work with Pre-sales, Consulting, and Quality Engineering and Support teams
  • Work on new hire talent acquisition & staffing
  • Performance review, Quality Audits, Problem management, Change management, RCA management
  • Capacity planning & forecast for Cloud computing, Storage and Backup data growth.

Lead Storage & Backup Consultant

Lnt Infotech Ltd
05.2011 - 08.2014

Backup Consultant

Crystal Solutions Ltd, HDFC Bank Ltd
12.2010 - 05.2011
  • Designing, implementation & end to end operations for multi-platform server’s backup
  • Resolution of any enquiry/problem escalated to the team and troubleshooting it further
  • Responsible for installing and configuration of Netbackup environment
  • NBU upgrades, performance tuning and other enhancements
  • SAN Media Servers and Netbackup agent Installation on daily basis
  • Management of Shell Scripting automation for day-to-day activities
  • Media Management on Daily basis on all Data centers
  • Providing RCA for issues on all Data centers
  • Capacity planning
  • Change management and problem management
  • Ensure RPO and RTO is met for the client on a very critical banking environment
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  • Customer SLA management and RCA creation.

Senior Systems Specialist

IBM India Pvt. Ltd, Walt Disney Entertainment
12.2009 - 11.2010
  • Team Size: 25 Client:, End to End Operations on Netbackup, Backup Exec, TSM, IBM DS Storage for major OS & solutions
  • Performance tuning, Capacity forecast/planning and continuous service improvements
  • Responsible for weekly maintenance activity at all supported backup datacenters
  • Server builds/provisioning, SAN/NBU upgrades, automation & performance enhancements
  • Configuring & troubleshooting hardware: tape drives/libraries, servers & external storage devices
  • Creation & config
  • Of Symantec Netbackup/ IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) backup policies
  • Expertise in creating detailed documentation on troubleshooting, processes & workflows
  • Expertise in monitoring and troubleshooting Storage, data backups & restore operations
  • Creating, modifying, removing SAN zoning & upgrade of Cisco MDS, Brocade switches
  • Performing Quarterly Review for storage and SAN environments health and improvements
  • Attending development calls & conferences for CSI, ongoing activities, bugs & patches etc
  • Storage and Backup Audit & latest/n-1 version compatibility per requirement
  • Following SLAs and ensure closure of Change, Request, Service items
  • Part of IBM GDF (Global Delivery Framework) or Lean Framework Team.

Backup and Storage Administrator

Reliance Communications Ltd
10.2007 - 12.2009
  • Manage, Design & provision Storage and Backup Infrastructure
  • Design and implementation for Commvault, TSM, NetBackup, Hitachi, EMC and HP Storage
  • Managing and monitoring Brocade SAN switches and alerts
  • Manage and Administrate IBM, HP, and EMC Storage., Storage Tek L700 & L700E library
  • Using Commvault, TSM, and NetBackup for the backup environment
  • Firmware upgrade activities for SAN and Backup systems
  • Maintaining enterprise-wide backup policies, retention, recovery/restores & Capacity management
  • Working on a variety of restores like file system or database e.g., exchange, oracle, SQL restores
  • Troubleshooting and tracking performance issues/failures on SAN and Backups
  • Provision and Zone SAN Storage to Hosts
  • Major contributor or lead in all upgrade and migration activities
  • Ability to adhere to & provide support for change control, Incident & Request management.

Jr. Operations Engineer

India Flex Industries Private Limited
05.2006 - 10.2007
  • Performance & Space Monitoring
  • Health Checkup of System & Database
  • Taking, Backups & Restorations via VERITAS NetBackup, Beginning & ending of days activities
  • Monitoring and Troubleshooting Daily backups, Resetting Users password as per their request
  • Troubleshooting errors encountered while performing backup & restore
  • Handling the Operations team single handedly.

Education

Master of Information Management -

Consistent performer, leader; received many Client appreciations for effective project management and migration activities.

Masters - information management

Welingkars Institute of Mgmt
2014

Pursuing AWS cloud Solutions Architect/ Networking Specialist Certifications. Netapp Certified Implementation Engineer (CDOT), Netapp Certified Data Administrator (CDOT) NetBackup 7.5 Certified for UNIX Administration. ITIL v - undefined

2011

Bachelors - Electronics and Telecom Engineering

K.C.College of Engineering
2006
Amongst the top 2 rankers on the final year

Skills

  • Cloud: AWS (Proficient), Azure, GCP(Beginner), Kubernetes (Beginner)
  • Storage: All- Netapp, Dell-EMC, Nimble, Pure Storage, HP, Nimble, Hitachi, VAST
  • Backup: Commvault, Netbackup, TSM, Avamar, Clumio, Veeam
  • Automation with MS PowerShell, Shell Scripting, Python, Perl
  • Cisco certified network associate (Certified in 2010), Broadcom SAN/network switches expert
  • VMware (vSphere), Linux, Unix, Solaris, Windows, Graphite/Grafana/Carbon/Prometheus, and Service now, Jira Service desk

Timeline

Sr, Data - SIG LLP
01.2019 - Current
Infrastructure Architect, Manager IT - Cognizant Technology Solutions, Mortgage Ltd
05.2015 - Current
Lead Storage & Backup/Recovery Consultant - Cyberthink Inc, Sungard Availability Services
08.2014 - 05.2015
Lead Storage & Backup Consultant - Lnt Infotech Ltd
05.2011 - 08.2014
Backup Consultant - Crystal Solutions Ltd, HDFC Bank Ltd
12.2010 - 05.2011
Senior Systems Specialist - IBM India Pvt. Ltd, Walt Disney Entertainment
12.2009 - 11.2010
Backup and Storage Administrator - Reliance Communications Ltd
10.2007 - 12.2009
Jr. Operations Engineer - India Flex Industries Private Limited
05.2006 - 10.2007
- Condenast Publications
- Master of Information Management,
Welingkars Institute of Mgmt - Masters, information management
- Pursuing AWS cloud Solutions Architect/ Networking Specialist Certifications. Netapp Certified Implementation Engineer (CDOT), Netapp Certified Data Administrator (CDOT) NetBackup 7.5 Certified for UNIX Administration. ITIL v,
K.C.College of Engineering - Bachelors, Electronics and Telecom Engineering

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