FAVP, System & DB Administration, Infrastructure

• Jan 2022 - Present

AVP, System & DB Administration, Infrastructure

• Feb 2018 - Dec 2021

* System Administration of Solaris Sparc Platform, logical domain, patch Management * System administration of Redhat Enterprise Linux, Virtual environment (vmware esxi) * Enterprise storage administration with replication and DR drill * Data protection management * Plan and evaluate: RFI, RFP and evaluation of projects to select product * Security setting deployment and Vulnerability mitigation as per PCI-DSS & ISO standard * Operating System security loophole identification and mitigation * Data center Security: antivirus, IPS and IDS configurations in unix systems * Enterprise System & Storage Administration, Replication and migration * Platform virtualization & Consolidation in X86 and Solaris SPARC Platform * Performance enhancement and operational excellence by selecting right solution * Cloud Solution sizing and tenant management Show less

Platfrom Specialist, Infrastructure Planning

• Jun 2014 - Jan 2018

* Planning, Evaluating and Selecting the right infrastructure product considering cost, performance and durability * Extensively work for business value of IT products, with finance to utilize capex efficiently and save opex considering quality, hence ensuring effective business case * Extensively work with supply chain management to negotiate highlighting the technical aspects to get right product with reasonable price and delivery * Extensively work with project management to map projects as per plan * Ensuring correct service operational procedure for physical servers, virtual platforms, Enterprise Storage, Backup system, Disaster Recovery plan for smooth IT operation and as per lifecycle roadmap * Ensuring operational excellence by ensuring best all features of an Infrastructure product * Extensively work with application team to understand the demand and map the requirement with system architecture to select optimal infrastructure and connectivity * Deployment planning and operation of EMC(vmax,vnx,clarriion, AX) and HP Enterprise Storage Arrays(EVA,3-PAR, MSA), seamless migration and replication between boxes and sites, fine tuning as demanded by the application * Vmware and Oracle Virtualization platform deployment and administration, optimizing performance, migration, overcoming rapid provisioning challenge * Disk based Backup system deployment, Backup policy review and mapping, ensuring backup and restore performance(HW: HP D2D, Sepaton, Oracle ZFS, SW: Netbackup, HP data protector) * Understanding the operational challenges of multi operating system environment, RHEL, HP-UX, Solaris, Windows, administrative guidelines in case of system failure or new system integration * Managing vendors to understand their demand to deploy and tie up with application strategies Show less

Assistant Manager

• Feb 2010 - Jan 2014

• Diagnose and troubleshoot for critical failure of the servers, storage systems, backup systems and ensure soonest possible uptime • Heath checkup and monitoring of systems running critical applications/ file systems hence ensure smoothness of operation • Administration of RHEL /HP-UX as required by the application’s best performance like network redundancy, tuning parameters, comply system security rules and also any kind of service like ftp, yum, samba, ntp or any custom script. • High availability (failover/failback) clustering implementation for two or more nodes systems and cluster performance testing, File system and logical volume management. • HP-UX administration and troubleshooting, integrity and PA-RISK based architecture support • Storage Area Network (SAN) management and troubleshooting of HP MSA, EVA. And mechanism of HP Backup devices. • Project Management of consolidation projects and ensue on time delivery Show less