Sr Storage Engineer

Krishnendu Sasmal

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Sr. Storage Engineer

Service-focused IT professional with 14+ years of success architecting, building, improving, enterprise IT systems and storage infrastructure; adept at implementing new technologies seamlessly into existing environments and keeping assets available and tuned for optimal performance in large enterprise data center . Positive and dependable team player noted for can-do attitude, readiness to tackle complex projects and challenges, and ability to form strong, productive relationships with clients, team members, vendors, and stakeholders at any level of the organization.

Areas of Expertise:

oOver 14 years of proven experience in architecting and administration of Block and File Storage, High Availability UNIX Servers with advance system administration hands-on and onsite experience with Infrastructure Architecture and implementation in large data center.

oResponsible for design, planning, installation and implementation, maintenance, troubleshooting and supporting HP 3PAR StoreServ (7200/7400/v400/v800) Storage,,EMC Isilon, NetApp, HP-UX, Linux, Service Guard in complex environment.

oProviding sign-off for pre-buy and pre-build design documents and processes, balancing cross -departmental impacts with big picture view, and ensuring adherence to project management standards and SDLC best practices. And at last preparing As-Build document which can be referred by next Infrastructure release project.

oSAN Storage technologies with HP 3PAR SS 8400/7400/7200/v400/v800/T400,NetApp, HP EVA, HP XP with Raidmanager, CommandView, XPINFO, EVAINFO

oData Center & Disaster Recovery Sites management

oInstallation and implementation of HP Openview Data protector 8 and integration with D2D, Virtual Tape Library. Hands-on experience of supporting large backup environment

oExtensively hands-on experience on shell Scripting with Awk and Sed and wrote many complex shell scripts as per requirement

oHands-on experience with the following HP9000 business servers G30,E45,L1000,L2000,K Class Servers,rp34xx,rp7420,rp8420, Superdome 32/64way. Itanium servers: rx2620, rx4640,rx6600

oExtensive experience Supporting DataCenter – Installation HP Integrity Superdome & Critical System Migrations

oDataCenter Migration: all hp-ux servers with Superdome and rx8640’s. Fiber & lan connectivity, cluster start up & verification, sanity check & to release

oInstallation and maintenance of HP Enclosure c7000 and administration using OnBoard Administration (OA)

oMigration from legacy physical system to virtual Redhat system including storage and application.

oMaintenance and managing DNS servers in Linux and updating zone files as per request

Technical Proficiencies

Operating System:

OpenStack Helion Cloud,3PAR InformOS, NetApp Data ONTAP, Isilon OneFS, HP-UX, Linux

Storage:

HP 3PAR StoreServ 8400/7400/7200/v400/v800/T400, FAS V3270/ V6290/V3170/FAS2240/FAS3240/FAS3070/FAS3160/FAS6290,HP XP512, XP1024, HP Virtual array EVA7400, EVA 4400, EVA 5000, EVA 6400, XP128, XP512, XP12000, Brocade SAN Switch SN6000B Brocade SN6000B, CISCO MDS 9513/9200,EMc Clariion, EMC vPlex

Systems:

HP Blade Enclosure c7000 (BL460c, BL870c), HP (Superdome, rp7420, rp7410, rp8420, rp4440, rp3410, rx6600), Sun Fire, Sun Sparc, HP Data Protector 6.11 and 8.0,

Application and

Utilities:

HP Service Any Where, NetApp OnCommand, NetApp ONTAP,OneFS, HP 3par System Reporter 3.1, HP CommandView, HP Openview Data Protector 6 & 8,Raidmanager, Glance Plus, xpinfo, evainfo, BMC, HP Onboard Administrator, HP ALM, MS Visio, MS Project

Professional Experience

HP Enterprise, SUNNYVALE, CA

Sr. Storage Engineer, Feb/02/2014 – Present

Technical Scope: HP Helion Openstack Cloud(Cinder/Swift),HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400/7200/V400/V800/T400,EMCIsilon, NetApp V3270/V6290/V3170 and FAS2240/FAS3240/FAS3070/FAS3160/FAS6290,HP 3PAR Service Processor, HP Brocade SAN Switch Brocade SN6000B, CISCO MDS 9513/9200,HP MSA P2000,3PAR Inform OS Management Console, VMware, Remote Replication, HP Blade Enclosure c7000,Onboard Administrator, RHEL, Service Any Where(SAW)

Architecting, design, install and configure business critical SAN/NAS Infrastructure for enterprise. Proven experience to upgrade storage systems and perform large data migration project. Providing expert level support to business critical Highly Available and mission critical Storage systems like 3PAR, NetApp and Isilon. Upgrading storage systems and Perform remote Replication from existing Storage and create new Storage environment and finally help to deliver whole setup to customer. Drive performance, delivery, and infrastructure release into production of large, cross, supporting systems across multiple business functions for leading provider of digital / satellite services. Interface Operations, infrastructure, Project Management and CRB; manage SDI,SDP and troubleshooting day to day issues and deploying automation scripts in production systems related storage.

Key Contributions:

oDesigning, configuration and installation of SAN infrastructure with 3PAR, NetApp and Isilon.

oWorked in large data migration project using 3PAR and VMware

oTroubleshooting critical Storage issues heavy focus on 3PAR performance

oAssist Cloud implementation team for Cinder and Swift Openstack and HP Helion

oMonitoring the infrastructure critical issues and take necessary action with team which working follow the sun.

oDevelop plans, agendas, action items, and related infrastructure release documentation; identified risks and issues early, and instituted mitigation efforts to control creep in scope, cost, or schedule and making sure milestones are mate.

oPerforming day to day provisioning / SAN Zoning which is part of large installation and migration

oCo-ordination with vendor for any hardware issues to resolve faster and adherence to SLAs.

oInstallation and configuration of 3PAR system with Attala solution which provides data security and Data Encryption

oPreparing document post implementation of new setup

IMETRIS, Carlsbad, CA

Storage Consultant, July/13/2013 – Sept/01//2014

Technical Scope: HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400/7200, HP Service Processor, HP Brocade SAN Switch SN6000B, MSL4048 LTO 5 Tape Library,3par Inform OS, 3par Inform OS Management Console, VMware, Remote Replication, HP Blade Enclosure c7000,Onboard Administrator, RHEL, D2D

Setup SAN Environment and providing support to business critical Highly Available Storage. Perform remote Replication from existing Storage and create new Storage environment and finally help to deliver whole setup to customer. Drive performance, delivery, and infrastructure release into production of large, cross, supporting systems across multiple business functions for leading provider of digital / satellite services. Interface Operations, infrastructure, Project Management and CRB; manage SDI,SDP and troubleshooting day to day issues and deploying automation scripts in production systems related storage.

Key Contributions:

oSetup HP 3Par SS 7400 Array, SAN Zoning and Provisioning Storage to the systems

oSetup Remote Replication and performing periodic sync

oPerformance and growth monitoring and reporting

oProviding sign-off for design documents and processes, balancing cross -departmental impacts with big picture view, and ensuring adherence to project management standards and SDLC best practices.

oDeveloped plans, agendas, action items, and related infrastructure release documentation; identified risks and issues early, and instituted mitigation efforts to control creep in scope, cost, or schedule and making sure milestones are mate.

oProvide LOEs for Infrastructure Release projects and helping team whenever it’s critical

oTroubleshoot a hardware issues and Co-ordination with HP for any hardware issues to resolve faster and adherence to SLAs.

Infosys, Bangalore, India

Sr. Consultant, Jun/16/2008 – July/12/2013

Technical Scope: HP-UX 11i V3, MC/ServiceGuard Cluster, HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400,EVA Storage, HP Command View ePlan, Remote Replication, HP Integrity Blade Enclosure c7000,Onboard Administrator, ILO3,RHEL, LVM, HP VM, D2D

Providing support to business critical Highly Available UNIX Systems and Storage. Drive performance, delivery, and infrastructure release into production of large, cross-functional application releases, supporting systems across multiple business functions for leading provider of digital / satellite video services. Interface Operations, infrastructure, Project Management and CRB; manage SDI,SDP and troubleshooting day to day issues and deploying scripts in production systems.

Key Contributions:

oAdministrating Storage and interfacing different team who has application running on the storage.

oManaging HP-UX High Availability with MC/ServiceGuard, SAN Zoning and Provisioning Storage to the systems

oProviding sign-off for pre-buy and pre-build design documents and processes, balancing cross -departmental impacts with big picture view, and ensuring adherence to project management standards and SDLC best practices.

oDeveloped plans, agendas, action items, and related infrastructure release documentation; identified risks and issues early, and instituted mitigation efforts to control creep in scope, cost, or schedule and making sure milestones are mate.

oProvide LOEs for Infrastructure Release projects and helping team whenever it’s critical

oCo-ordination with vendor for any hardware issues to resolve faster and adherence to SLAs.

HP India Sales Private Limited, Bangalore, India

System Administrator, 1/2008 – 6/2008

Technical Scope: HP 9000, Hp Ultrium 3 Tape Library, rpHP EVA 5K Storage, HP-UX 11.23, rp7420, rp7410, rp8420, rp4440, rx6600 HP OpenView Storage Data Protector 5.5, HP MC ServiceGuard

Played key role in enhancement and support of primary data center and disaster recovery site for UCO Bank, improving performance of production systems involved in daily banking operations and requiring 24x7 support.

Key Contributions:

oManaged MC ServiceGuard Cluster Services, SAN environment, user and group accounts and permissions, and disk and file systems.

oUtilized HP Replication Solution Manager to replicate data and HP Omni Data Protector to perform data backups and restorations; monitored transfer of Oracle Archive to disaster recovery.

oDirected changes in production, performed patch management, and prepared reports detailing performance metrics for daily presentation to client personnel.

CMC Limited, Kolkata, India

Assistant IT Engineer, 4/2001 – 12/2007

Technical Scope: HP 9000, HP Ultrium Tape Library (ESL 9000 / 712e, MSL 600), XP (12K, 1024, 128),HP Superdome, rp7420, rp7410, rp8420), Sun Systems (Ultra 10, Sparc 20, Blade 150 / 1000), Compaq Proliant 5500, HP-UX 11.23, HP OpenView Storage Data Protector, HP MC ServiceGuard, Hitachi Open Remote Copy, HP-UX, Solaris, Sco Open Server 5 (Sco Unix)

Delivered system administrator services to clients in banking and academia, performing wide range of system backup, restoration, user and group management, file system management, troubleshooting, and general system maintenance tasks.

Key Contributions:

o Kept data center and disaster recovery sites, networks, and infrastructure updated and tuned for optimal performance for major clients that included State Bank of India, Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur), UCO Bank, and Calcutta Stock Exchange.

oPerformed regular BC and CA operation and provided 24x7 support business critical systems running in HP-UX with MC/ServiceGuard cluster and RAC.

oInstalled Cisco L2 and L3 Switches and configured and integrated with existing network and prepared commissioning report.

Education & Credentials

Bachelor of Science in Information Systems

Institute: BITS Pilani, India

Diploma In Computer Science & Tech

Institute: Central Calcutta Polytechnic

Professional Certifications

oBrocade Certified Fabric Administrator(143-420)

oSNIA Storage Network Foundations Exam (S10-101)

oSNIA Storage Networking Management & Administration (S10-201)

oHP-UX 11i v3 System Administration (HP0-A01)

oHP-UX 11i V3 Advanced System Administration (HP0-P21)

oHP-UX High Availability using ServiceGuard v18 (HP0-P19)

oITIL V3 Foundation (EX0-101)

oSun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10-Part 1 (310-200)

oMirantis Ceritified Administrator for OpenStack (professional Level)

Training & Professional Development

oIsilon Storage

o3PAR Storage Admin

oC and UNIX

oIBM Web sphere MQ Training

oProblem Solving, Client Interfacing, and Articulation Skills Training

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