SIVA NAGI REDDY VAZRALA

Phone: 484-***-****

E-mail: ad3ojf@r.postjobfree.com

Storage Engineer with 8 years of IT experience, specializing in a wide range of vendor technologies including NetApp, EMC, Hitachi, IBM, HP, Cisco and Brocade. Proven expertise in managing, optimizing and troubleshooting storage solutions for enterprise-level organizations. Committed to staying at the forefront of technology trends, I have upskilled in cloud Storage w ith a focus on Azure and AWS.

My experience includes successfully working on AWS S3 buckets and Elastic Block Store (EBS) configurations, contributing to cloud adoption and hybrid solutions. Currently, I excel in my role as a Level 3 support expert, providing invaluable guidance and solutions to both the Storage and Cloud teams within my organization. My dedication to ensuring data availability, security and performance has been instrumental in delivering outstanding results for the organization.

Technical Skills

•Storage Arrays: NETAPP (7, C-DOT mode), EMC Isilon, VNX, Unity, EMC Symmetrix (VMAX, VMAX-3), HITACHI (USP, VSP, G1000, HNAS), HP-3PAR.

•Backup Technologies: Cohesity, Commvault, NetBackup, Avamar.

•Cloud Technologies: AWS S3 buckets, EBS, EC2.

•San Switches: CISCO MDS 9000 series, Brocade.

•Storage Software/Tools: UniSphere, SRM, SRDF, OR replicator, UVM migration tool. Operating Systems: Windows, RedHat Linux.

•Languages : Java & Python

Professional Experience:

Company: Synectiks (INDIA) Pvt. Ltd. (Client: CITI Bank)

Designation: Storage Administrator

Period: August 2015 - November 2019

Technologies: NETAPP(7 mode), Dell EMC(VNX, Celerra, Unity, VMAX’s), HITACHI (USP, VSP, G1000)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Performed storage allocations with NFS, NTFS and Mixed protocols in the environments. • Conducted continuous Disaster Recovery (DR) tests on NAS & SAN devices to ensure data availability in emergencies.

• Demonstrated expertise in storage replications (Snapmirror,snapvault and checkpoints), ensuring data redundancy and failover capabilities.

• Excelled in troubleshooting various Storage issues, including performance problems and NDMP issues.

• Monitored alerts Performed regular health checks on all storage devices in the environment, identifying and resolving hardware failures.

• Need to perform Health checks and proactively find issues and resolutions using Netapp Active IQ and Unified Manager.

• Worked with the change management system and follow up with the approval process. • CISCO MDS SAN switches zoning, configuration & maintenance.

• Creating zones and adding HBA in Zones.

• Adding zone members to zone sets.

• Create and modify zones and troubleshoot issues with the switch ports using GUI. • Played a key role in the creation and execution of change requests, following ITIL processes such as Incident, Change, and Problem management.

• Collaborated regularly with vendors to resolve issues, obtain Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and upload logs.

• Need to monitor and check alert mails or quick response when the issue occurred. • Need to maintain SLAs, and make sure no SLA breach.

Company: Hitachi Vantara (Client: CITI Bank)

Designation: Storage Consultant

Period: December 2019 – April 2022

Technologies: NETAPP(7 & Cluster mode), Dell EMC(Isilon, VNX, Celerra,VMAX’s), HITACHI (USP, VSP, G1000,HNAS)

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Managed disk shelf and disk firmware upgrades in collaboration with vendors. • Upgraded NetApp ONTAP versions to the latest on devices in the environment. • Conducted continuous Disaster Recovery (DR) tests on NAS & SAN devices to ensure data availability in emergencies.

• Performing Decommissions on NetApp filer phase wise Releasing SnapMirror relation from prod NetApp to cob NetApp Deleting CIFS shares and NFS exports on NetApp filer after confirming there are no CIFSsessions and NFS activity using NetStat command, Deleting snapshots on the volumes, making volume offline and destroy, making aggregate offline and destroy.

• Performed storage allocations with NFS, NTFS and Mixed protocols in the environments. • Demonstrated expertise in storage replications (Snapmirror,snapvault and checkpoints), ensuring data redundancy and failover capabilities.

• Excelled in troubleshooting various Storage issues, including performance problems and NDMP issues.

• Monitored alerts Performed regular health checks on all storage devices in the environment, identifying and resolving hardware failures.

• Need to perform Health checks and proactively find issues and resolutions using Netapp Active IQ and Unified Manager.

• Determine backup frequency, retention policies, and backup types (full, incremental, differential). • Develop and document backup policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with data retention and legal requirements.

• Create and manage backup schedules to ensure data is backed up at appropriate intervals without disrupting operations.

• Worked with the change management system and follow up with the approval process. • Played a key role in the creation and execution of change requests, following ITIL processes such as Incident, Change, and Problem management.

• Collaborated regularly with vendors to resolve issues, obtain Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and upload logs.

Company: Stefanini IT Solutions (Clients: MNK, Adtalem, Lear & Lockton)

Designation: Sr. Storage Consultant

Period: May 2022 – Present

Technologies: NETAPP(Cluster mode), Dell EMC(Isilon, Unity, Power Vault, Power Store), IBM, HP(3PAR, MSP), Pure Storage

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Performed storage allocations with NFS, NTFS and Mixed protocols in the environments. • Conducted continuous Disaster Recovery (DR) tests on NAS & SAN devices to ensure data availability in emergencies.

• Demonstrated expertise in storage replications (Snapmirror,snapvault and checkpoints), ensuring data redundancy and failover capabilities.

• Excelled in troubleshooting various Storage issues, including performance problems and NDMP issues.

• Monitored alerts Performed regular health checks on all storage devices in the environment, identifying and resolving hardware failures.

• Managed disk shelf and disk firmware upgrades in collaboration with vendors. • Provisioned storage on a day-to-day basis, involving storage device selection, creation, zoning, and LUN masking.

• Need to perform Health checks and proactively find issues and resolutions using Netapp Active IQ and Unified Manager.

• Performed multiple ONTAP upgradations on devices across the environment. • Setup ISCSI / NFS volumes to ESXIhosts.

• Configuring NAS Aggregates (RAID4, RAID-DP and Raid-TEC), Volumes and file systems. • Created Aggregates, Volumes, Qtree, and configured CIFS, & NFS or Windows/Unix hosts. • Performing Decommissions on NetApp filer phase wise Releasing SnapMirror relation from prod

NetApp to cob NetApp Deleting CIFS shares and NFS exports on NetApp filer after confirming there are no CIFSsessions and NFS activity using NetStat command, Deleting snapshots on the volumes, making volume offline and destroy, making aggregate offline and destroy.

• Managed and deployed LUNs from storage frames to multiple servers(Windows 2008/2003, Red Hat Linux, Solaris, AIX, VMware ESX) ensuring proper configurations.

• Expanded Meta devices using concatenate and stripe configurations.

• Created and managed device groups for various operations, including establishing, splitting, and setting up BCVs (Business Continuity Volumes) for backup operations.

• Conducted server decommissions by unmasking devices, un-mapping devices, dissolving Meta devices, and removing zones.

• Generated storage capacity reports and shared them with project management and clients on a weekly and monthly basis.

• Played a key role in the creation and execution of change requests, following ITIL processes such as Incident, Change, and Problem management.

• Collaborated regularly with vendors to resolve issues, obtain Root Cause Analysis (RCA), and upload logs.

• Need to monitor and check alert mails or quick response when the issue occurred. • Need to maintain SLAs, and make sure no SLA breach.

• Assess the organization's data backup requirements and design an appropriate backup solution. • Determine backup frequency, retention policies, and backup types (full, incremental, differential). • Develop and document backup policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with data retention and legal requirements.

• Create and manage backup schedules to ensure data is backed up at appropriate intervals without disrupting operations.

• Implement data deduplication and compression techniques to optimize storage space and backup efficiency.

• Enforce security measures to protect backup data, including encryption, access controls, and authentication.

• Continuously monitor backup jobs and storage devices for errors or failures. • Set up alerts and notifications to proactively address issues.

• Develop and maintain disaster recovery plans that include backup and recovery procedures. • Conduct regular disaster recovery testing to ensure preparedness.

• Work with backup software and hardware vendors for support, updates, and issue resolution. • Maintain comprehensive documentation of backup configurations, procedures, and incident reports.

• Generate reports on backup status, success rates, and compliance.

• Investigate and resolve backup and recovery issues promptly, including root cause analysis.

• Expansions of cloud storage resources as required by using provided budget and required quantity of space.

• Monitoring and reporting pricing stats.

• Defining the change control cycle for the infrastructure components.

• Monitoring access to the data and users with AD.

• Leveraging cloud data management solutions, such as NetApp Cloud solutions, for better control of cloud storage and cloud usage costs.

Educational Qualifications:

• MBA in the year 2015 from UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE

• B. Tech (ECE) in the year 2013 from VIGNAN UNIVERSITY

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