Engineer Management

Muthuraja jayaraj

Mobile: +91-900*******

E-Mail: *********.*******@*****.***

Seeking Senior positions in storage & Backup infrastructure solutions, Storage Area Networking (SAN) Administration / Storage Consultancy / Training & Development with a growth oriented organisation of repute.

Professional Synopsis

Nearly 6+ years in the areas of Storage Solutions, Backup Solutions,Storage Area Networking (SAN), Project Management, Storage Infrastructure Development, Systems Administration and Storage Production support & Technical Customer Support.

Strong understanding of SAN Disk arrays, SAN fabric & Storage virtualization

Expertise in spearheading numerous projects and ensuring delivery of projects in compliance with the quality, time and cost parameters.

Adept at rendering viable solutions & troubleshooting for complex issues related to SAN.

Very strong skills in the areas of SAN Storage Array & SAN Fabric Administration activities, which encompass planning, implementation & support.

Possesses good analytical, problem solving & organizational abilities with a flexible & detail oriented attitude.

An effective communicator with people management, interpersonal and troubleshooting skills.

Skill Set

Skill Set

EMC VMAX Implementation, Storage Management and Administration

EMC DMX Implementation, Storage Management and Administration

EMC Clariion Implementation, Storage Management and Administration

EMC VNX Implementation, Storage Management and Administration

Netapp Implementation, Storage Management and Administration

IBM XIV Implementation, Storage Management and Administration

Performance Tuning and Troubleshooting Storage related problems

Cisco SAN Director Switches Management and Administration

Symantec VERITAS netback-up 6.5 & 7.1 Administration

EMC Avamar and Data Domain backup Administration

IBM Protectier Backup Administration

Hitachi storage administration

HP EVA storage administration.

Functional:

Planning SAN setup of new storage requirements for business critical DR system.

Designing & Building new frames related to storage capacity planning or COD provisioning system.

Providing technical maintenance, operational management, tuning and troubleshooting of storage architect as well as technologies.

Rendering a stable and sustainable continuity of storage and storage network architectures and providing the foundation for centralized storage systems.

Providing production support for all normal & emergency hardware Break-fixes.

Taking care of Host storage connectivity & Storage performance monitoring.

Monitoring Storage traffic & bandwidth to ensure the effective data transfer for fast transactions for applications like trading & cards services.

Professional Scan

Since Mar’2011 with Accenture services, Bangalore

As Senior Storage Engineer

Role:

Providing production support for Bestbuy SAN Infrastructure

Monitoring & reviewing SAN performance & traffic and responsible for port provisioning & checking the growth of SAN capacity.

Handling the zoning request and executing them in a given timeframe.

Implemented and configured EMC DmX, Vmax,,IBM storage as per Database and Application requirement

Implement and monitoring Thin Provisioning pools and ensure the storage resources are used effectively. Sending report periodically to management about the storage utilization and ROI (Return On investment)

Ensure Storage Products Best Practices are implemented and maintained as per project standard.

Implemented automated daily error report from storage devices, using CLI script and batch jobs, which saved lot of man hours.

Ensure the LUNs are served by right storage tier based on data criticality

Ensure SAN switches are configured with active zones only; firmware is upto date, periodic backup of switch configuration.

Make sure storage spaces are utilized properly and allocated to projects based on the requirement. Make sure unused storage space is recovered periodically

Trend analysis to measure Storage and Unix Servers performance/utilization and identify potential or emerging problems and subsequently make the necessary recommendations to ensure optimal performance and proper data management of the infrastructure

Disaster Recovery setup between Data Centers, using Snap Mirror technology between Netapp Filers

Disaster Recovery setup between Data Centers, using SRDF technology between EMC Array.

Storage allocation tasks include, deployment of a new host, creating aggregate, volume, qtrees, quotas, resizing and creating exports entries. Like wise movement and deletion of instances from one host to anotherin netapp Array.

Performing restores of customer data as well as assisting in complete server recovery due to failures or as part of disaster recovery scenarios; writing operational procedures for daily backup checkouts, problem determination and file / server recovery steps

Configuring servers for backup using VERITAS Netbackup and EMC Avamar

Troubleshooting storage performance problem and backup failures/performance issues

Zoning the IBM-Protectier & EMC-Data Domain devices for data De-Duplication.

Troubleshooting the Backup failure and Backup Policy issue.

Troubleshooting the SAN performance issue and taking the SAN capacity report.

Key Projects Executed:

SAN migration Legacy Cisco MDS Switch

Microcode Code Review & Upgrade in Emc Clariion & Celerra

Migrated the Microsoft Exchange servers from EMC Clariion to IBM-Xiv Array.

Migrated the R-Pas,Terada Database from Emc Dmx to Emc-Vmax

Configure the Emc SRDF

Nov’09 – Jan’11 with HCL Technologies, Bangalore

As Senior, specialist-Systems (Senior Storage support engineer)

Key Highlights:

Lun creation, Mapping and masking to UNIX and windows server.

Device creation and mapping from Emc-Dmx and Hitachi array.

Implemented software based NAS system using iSCSI client and server software.

Device creation and mapping from Emc-Dmx and Hitachi array.

Map the device using with auto-provisioning groups on Emc-Vmax array.

Map the device using with auto-provisioning groups on Emc-Vmax array.

Migrate the data from Emc-Dmx to Emc-Vmax array using the Open replicator.

Co-ordinate with vendor and replace the HBA and Failed disk

Managing and maintaining the brocade 3950/3800/2800 switch.

Configure and replace the HBA card.

Configuring and troubleshooting the EMC powerpath.

Created and expanded the Netapp Array Volumes & LUNS.

Responsible for identifying, preparing and approving root cause analysis reports for end-customer arrays facing data loss/unavailability.

Environment: Dmx3, Dmx4, Dmx800, Vmax-SE, Hitachi NSC55, USP-100, USP-600

Clarion CX700/CX400/FC4700, IBM DS4000, 6000,

Mar’08 – Nov’09 with Wipro Infotech, Mysore

As Engineer-Server Management (Storage & UNIX Engineer)

Profile:

Profile:

• We are providing the remote support for multiple customers (India and middle-east countries.)

• Providing 24/7 monitoring and administration support for UNIX and storage.

• Analyzing and resolving the critical alerts from the remote servers within SLA.

• Work in a team to implement the underlying processes supporting support service management, such as change management, incident and problem management.

• Managing the Vendor Such as Emc, Hitachi, Sun and IBM. When ever need to escalate on any hardware relate issue or storage performance level issue, escalate on right time and co ordinate with vendor and close the issue.

Responsibilities: (storage)

Emc storage:

• Lun creation, mapping and masking

• Host integration for SAN access

• Online LUN Expansion using meta volume.

• Configuring the Lun security using VCM database..

• Performance Monitoring / tuning and implementing best practices.

Hitachi:

• Assigning and LDEV De-assigning LDEV from Storage.

• Creating and masking the LUSE volumes.

• Setting Date & time in Storage through SVP

• Downloading Storage Configuration Backup through Storage Navigator.

• Checking port status, Storage Information and Storage Status.

• Collecting Auto Dump through SVP.

Solaris:

• Exposure in installation and troubleshooting the Sun Fire M5000, Sun Fire M4000, Sun Fire T2000, Sun-Blade-T6320server and Sunfire V490, V890 work stations.

• Assisted end users with issues with problems related to login and environment settings

• Configuration and administration of disks file system and file security.

• Managing process control and scheduling system related jobs using cron.

• Backing up and restoring file system on a regular schedule.

• Configuring and troubleshooting the IPMP.

• Installation and troubleshooting the file system (UNIX, VXFS)

• Used Sun Volume Manager and managed disks, state databases, volumes, root mirroring,

• Monitoring the server using memconf, top, iostat, lsof, network monitoring using snoop, netstat.

• Implement operating system and product-specific security hardening & patches

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Febr’07 – Nov’07 with Slash support india (p) LTD, Chennai

As System Engineer (Unix administrator)

Profile:

• Provide ITIL based remote support to the customers (US/APAC)

• Supporting and maintaining SLA based service for around 5000 sun Servers.

• Analyzing and resolving the critical alerts from the remote servers within SLA.

• Work in a team to implement the underlying processes supporting support service management, such as change management, incident and problem management

• Follow up on scheduled changes for servers and escalations

Responsibilities:

• Installing Solaris 9 & 10 Operating Systems on Sun servers and Workstations.

• Installing Solaris Operating System, software patches, Package administration

• User Administration, File system Backups and restores

• Configuration and administration of disks file System & file Security.

• Managing process control and scheduling system related jobs using cron, at

• Backing up & restoring file system on a regular schedule

• Establishing Disk Management using Solaris Volume manager [RAID 0, 1 and 5]

• Configuring Root mirroring using Solaris Volume Manager

• Implementing jumpstart installation for around 10 Sparc work station.

• Maintained NIS naming service for centralisation of common network information.

• Maintaining and Monitoring log files in the server.

• Troubleshooting NFS servers, NFS Clients in Auto Mount Environment

• Providing technical support for real-time issues in SUN Network

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION:

DCE, Diploma in Computer Engineering

Government Polytechnic College, Chennai

2002-2005

Professional Certification::

Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10

Sun Certified system Administrator for sun cluster 3.2

Implementing HP StorageWorks EVA Solutions

Symantec certified Netback-up 7.0 for UNIX

Netapp certified datamangement administrator

EMC certified information and management system

EMC certified Data domain and de-duplication

Personal Details

Date of Birth : 6th August, 1984

Permanent Address : No:4, Solan Street, selliamman nagar, Otteri,

Vandalur, Chennai-600048,

Present Address : No: 21, Beena sam street, Sapthagiri layout,

Munakolala, Bangalore-560037, India

Passport Number : G6608456

NASSCOM, National Skills Registry ID : 711*********

Languages Known : English and Tamil

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