Sandeep Aluru
Dunwoody Gables Dr, Atlanta, Ga Phone: 404-***-**** ************@*****.***
SUMMARY
AWS Certified Solution architect Cloud Engineer with Overall 8 years of experience in Data and System Administration. I specialize in data maintenance, System administration and multiple storage technologies.
CERTIFICATIONS
AWS Solution Architect Associate & AWS Solution Architect Professional
Oracle Solution Architect Associate
ITIL V3, Symantec NetBackup 7.1
Hitachi Storage foundation
KEY SKILLS
Cloud Services
AWS services, Vcloud director, Century link cloud services, VMware, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Services, Microsoft Azure.
AWS Cloud Modules
Amazon EC2, S3, Route53, ELB, VPC, RDS, IAM, EFS, VPC Endpoints, API Gateway, EKS, WAF, Cloudwatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config.
Network Devices
AWS VPN, Cohesive VPN, LIBRESWAN
Automation Tools
Terraform, Cloud Formation, Ansible
System Administration
Rhel 7.5, Rhel 7.0, Rhel 6.9, Rhel 6.5, Windows server 2012 R2,2010,2016 R2
Data Management tools
Symantec NetBackup 5.0,6.0,6.5,7,7.5. Data Domain
EMC Avamar 10, EMC Networker 7.6.1 sp1, 9
Commvault Simpana 10
Symantec Backup exec 11D
Other tools
BMC Remedy Ticketing system, SCOM, HP service manager, Manage Engine Service Desk, MS office, Microsoft Visio, Symantec OPS center
Programming
Java, Javascript, PHP, HTML, Bash.
Certifications
AWS Solution Architect Associate &AWS Solution Architect Professional
Oracle Solution Architect Associate
ITIL V3, Syamtec NetBackup 7.1,
Hitachi Storage foundation
EDUCATION
Kennesaw State University Marietta, GA
Master of Science Information Technology May 2016
GPA: 4.0
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad, India
Bachelor of Electronics and Communication May 2010
EXPERIENCE
Consultant – Simeio Solutions, Atlanta, Ga (October 2016 – Present)
Responsible for architecting, designing, implementing, and supporting of cloud-based infrastructure and its solutions.
Proficient in AWS services like VPC, EC2, S3, ELB, NLB, API-Gateway, Auto Scaling Group (ASG), EBS, RDS, IAM.
Experience in writings CloudFormation stacks to deploy infrastructure.
Enabling logs for CloudWatch, CloudTrail.
Experience in creating multiple VPC’s and public, private subnets as per requirement and distributed them as groups into various availability zones of the VPC.
Configured IPSEC site to site VPN using Cohesive VNS3 devices, AWS VPN & Opensource Libreswan
Created NAT gateways and instances to allow communication from the private instances to the internet
Used security groups, network ACL’s, internet gateways and route tables to ensure a secure zone for organization in AWS public cloud.
Configured in creating VPC peering between multiple AWS accounts.
Experience in handling EKS Cluster, deploying ALB ingress controllers for cluster pods.
Created and configured application load balancers and auto scaling groups to across servers in multiple AZ’s to achieve high availability model.
Configured Route 53 as a part of disaster recovery region setup.
Created S3 buckets in the AWS environment to store files.
Knowledge in Configuring S3 buckets with various life cycle policies to archive the infrequently accessed data to storage classes based on requirement.
Configured API gateways and created VPC endpoints to have a private communication between the environments.
Possess good knowledge in creating and launching EC2 instances using AMI’s of Linux, Ubuntu, RHEL, and Windows.
Used IAM for creating roles, users, groups and implemented MFA to provide additional security to AWS account and its resources.
Maintained the monitoring and alerting of production and corporate servers using Cloud Watch service.
Created EBS volumes for storing application files for use with EC2 instances whenever they are mounted to them.
Experienced in creating RDS instances to serve data through servers for responding to requests.
Configure Snapshot policies via DLM roles and instance/volume tags.
Written Templates for AWS infrastructure as a code using Terraform to build staging and production environments.
Troubleshoot memory issues, file administration issues, install rpm packages on the machines
Create Virtual machines on ESXi, DHCP configuration
Install and configure LDAP on RHEL 6.6,7.0
Configure SFTP on Linux machines
Knowledge on LVM administration and creating nfs mount points across the systems.
Install and configure Samba servers, SVN server installation/configuration and Github
Knowledge on Cluster services and configuration.
Working with Active Directory, VCenter/Vsphere and EMC storage products
Supporting the Ansible patching project within the environment
Basics of CHEF, Python scripting and RUBY
Configure NetBackup 7.5 Master server, Media server installation
Configure client agents and client policies
Systems Administrator – Atlanta Police Foundation, Atlanta, Ga (August 2016 – October 2016)
Installed and configured windows servers 2008 R2, 2012 R2 on the servers.
Configured ESXi machines and created a test lab for the environment
Installed Software packages, performed VM cloning, snapshot recovery
Worked with HTML,Javascript, Css and PHP to create front end webpages for APF
Analyst – UCB Inc, Smyrna, Ga (June 2016- August 2016)
Worked as Business/QA analyst intern in requirement gathering/analysis from Business groups and testing the application.
Performed functionality testing on a tool within UCB called ERDOS and provided recommendations prior to its release.
Worked in agile development methodology creating wireframes/mockups & user stories.
Built a roadmap to raise internal awareness for Vimpat and also promoted the global product launch.
Responsible for building content as a part of internal community engagement.
Technical Associate – AT&T., Hyderabad, India (September 2013 - August 2014):
Worked with Symantec NetBackup, Commvault, VTL, Data Domain and EMC Avamar.
Provided tier 2 and tier 3 Data Management services, and product support for Symantec NetBackup (NBU).
Managed a team of 6 engineers in efficiently solving backup issues on time.
Maintained daily, weekly, and monthly backup reports
Installed/configured/upgraded new media and client servers on various platforms.
Generated Backup reports using scripts and Symantec OPS Center.
Experience creating NDMP policies, SLP units.
Proficient in Exchange backups, NAS filer backups, Vaulting, Tape library management.
Configured NetBackup infrastructure on 7.5 version using Symantec Appliances 5230
Configured NetBackup for Virtual infrastructure using Vmware intelligent policy.
Configured Duplications jobs for Google Cloud using Panzer controller for long term retention
Implemented Networker 8 backups solution
Integrated Networker for Avamar deduplication node
Administering Avamar 6.1 and 7 with Gen4 Nodes
Configured Avamar agents for SQL backups
Configured Avamar replications for DR
Upgraded Data Domain DD880s & DD990s from version 5.2 to 5.3 and from 5.3 to 5.4
Configured OpsCenter analytics for NetBackup infrastructure
Configured VMware backup solution to NetBackup 7.5 using Vstorage API
Configured Exchange backups and installed agents for SQL database backups
Performed the Disaster recovery tests
Day to Day Working on Backup infrastructure resolutions
Configured Storage Life cycle polices for open storage Disk Option
Configured Data Domain with NetBackup DDBOOST option
Experience in handling UNIX clients (AIX/LINUX/HP UNIX) and Windows clients.
Support the application level backups and restores of a robust exchange environment
Completed training on Hitachi Tagmastore, Netapp, EMC Vmax storage boxes.
Troubleshoot NetBackup error codes, resolve issues.
Design knowledge documents, maintain log with troubleshooting steps to resolve backup/recovery issues
Writing Scripts for Day To Day Activities
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) building, creating, and maintaining of volume manager.
System monitoring CPU, Disk, Memory utilization etc. Capacity planning inputs, Periodical
Specialist – HCL, Hyderabad, India (August 2010 - September 2013):
Worked on projects involving various backup technologies and multiple environments for clients such as Walt Disney, T-Mobile, UTI Bank and Freedom Communications.
Managed Symantec NetBackup, EMC Networker, Symantec Backup exec, and Commvault.
Designed backup environment, scheduled policies, tape management, vault administration and implemented crucial data restores.
Installed/configured/maintained master and media servers.
Wrote scripts for Chron jobs to automate backup report generation.
Experience in backing up NAS filers, Exchange backups, VM clients, UNIX clients and Windows clients.
Proficient in RMAN, DB2, Informix, Sybase, MySQL database backups
Remove decommissioned servers from backup
Worked with Active Directory, VCenter/vSphere and EMC storage products.
Trained new employees on Symantec NetBackup.
Creating physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes using LVM
Job Scheduling for daily activities
Managing Backups by using ufsdump, ufsrestore, tar and dd commands.
Monitor System Performance Parameters using iostat, vmstat and fine-tuning.
Processes administration and management like monitoring, start/stop/kill various processes/sub process.
Monitoring Virtual memory, adding additional swap space as needed.
Scheduled various regular, periodic, futures, queue tasks by using crontab & at.
Maintaining and changing file systems & disk assignments using meta disk.
Basics on Performance Tuning
Basics on Kernal programming
Bash Scripting for daily activities