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Abraar Ahamed

Abraar Ahamed

Riyadh

Summary

Proficient in designing, implementing & conversing of Storage & Backup infrastructure, Business Continuity plans, Data integrity, Performance tuning & Risk assessment Expertise in defining IT Roadmap & Strategy, bridging the gap between functional groups and technology innovative solution development in Storage & Backup domain Executed projects like Digital Transformation, Storage Services/Migration, Disaster Recovery as Service (DRaaS) Successful career in large engagements entailing Delivery Management, Client Servicing, Team Leadership & Project Management Extensive experience in IT Governance & Compliance entailing with Cybersecurity & OEM Experience in building & operation of Disaster Recovery, Storage, Backup & recovery services Extensive hands-on and architecting Backup Governance, policies & strategies Robust knowledge on Storage & Backup Infrastructure - Consulting, Design & Compliance Additionally working experience in VMware & Hyper-Converged Infrastructure

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Specialist - Cloud & Infra Services

LTIMindtree
10.2016 - Current
  • Design, Implementation & Administration of Storage Infrastructure - SAN & NAS, VMware & Backup infrastructure
  • Experience in storage provisioning, masking, zoning, replication, upgrades, performance tuning
  • Design RAID group & storage pools with respective industry best standards for better IOPs and Throughput
  • Storage array performance analysis and fine tuning
  • Implementation & administration experience in Commvault Backup environment
  • Upgrading, Configuring and Managing Commvault Media Agents, Commserve & Libraries - Disk, HPE catalyst, Tapes
  • Implementation & Configuration of HPE Storeonce 5660 - HPE Catalyst Over Ethernet & Fibre Channel
  • Experience in configuring the Storage policy & AUX copy as per requirement
  • Workload Experience in backup & restore- Oracle & RAC, SQL cluster, AG, AD, Exchange, VMware & Filesystem
  • Troubleshooting of backup failures on all the above-mentioned client types
  • Experience in implementation, administration & configuration of Veritas Netbackup components 8.x & 9 version
  • Preparing Daily, Monthly backup reports and providing the enhanced in backup domain to the customer
  • Configured failover & failback -Business continuity operations for Isilon File share using Superna - Eyeglass
  • DR Drill, Backup restoration testing for audit purpose for various client types throughout the year
  • Leading migration of production workload from HPE 3par to HCI - SimpliVity
  • Transformation of Infrastructure services from physical data centers to cloud solutions
  • Experience in Azure Migrate, VM, Storage, Network, Backup center & Azure File share- IaaS & PaaS
  • Plan and build disaster recovery & business continuity for Isilon File Share, centralized Backup
  • Proof of concept for Storage, Azure File sync & Nutanix file share
  • Experience in Datacenter management activities
  • Perform cost-benefits & return on investment analyses and aid management in making implementation decisions
  • Executing Risk management and Vulnerability treatment plan & its execution
  • Installation, configuration, administration and troubleshooting of VMware
  • Attaining In-depth Proof of concepts from multiple vendors for Hybrid Cloud, centralized backup, HCI & Isilon
  • Prepare RFP/RFIs, SoW, technical evaluation & managing budgets - CapEx & OpEx for Storage & Backup domain

Storage Engineer

Hitachi Vantara
10.2015 - 10.2016
  • Worked as Storage implementation engineer and executed many Storage Infrastructure enhancement Projects
  • Worked with sales/presales & customer to understand business objective & develop technological solutions
  • Designed, installed & configured storage & backup infrastructure
  • Performed landscape assessments of customer environment and identify improvement opportunities
  • Responsible for building solution on Storage Migration & Consolidation
  • Implemented Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning
  • Performed proactive maintenance of storage, component firmware & management application upgrades
  • Performed Data center migration & consolidation projects

Technical Lead

Cognizant
02.2015 - 10.2015
  • Worked as Storage & backup engineer in migration project from legacy to New Generation Data Center
  • Achieved Storage migration to Hitachi VSP storage arrays
  • Managed Hitachi storage arrays of a totally 13 PB storage capacity spanning across 16 DCs
  • Administered Datacenter activities/documentation Created & updated SOPs and operational Runbooks
  • Executed migration from AMS array to G1000 array
  • Completed the implementation of a Disaster Recovery solution in Hitachi Enterprise storage
  • Implemented storage virtualization technique in Hitachi Enterprise storage, Decommission & Data migration activities

Senior Systems Engineer

IGATE
07.2012 - 02.2015
  • Designing & configuring of storage arrays by creating Fast cache, Storage pools and Host groups in EMC VNX series
  • Created Recovery plan and consistency group for data replication in Recovery Point Appliance & IBM SVC
  • Responsible for managing sixteen storage arrays of total 3 PB storage capacity spanning across five DCs globally
  • Created SAN copy migration and consolidation of data from VNX 5400 to VNX 8000 & Storage Performance testing
  • Ownership of day-to-day responsibility for troubleshooting, change management, security and monitoring of Storage
  • Experience with disaster recovery using EMC VNX Mirrorview & VMware Site recovery manager (SRM)

Education

B.E. - Electrical & Electronics

Anna University

Post-Graduation - Cloud Computing

Manipal
Dubai

Skills

  • HPE 3PAR
  • MSA
  • Dell PowerStore 3200
  • Netapp FAS8300
  • Hitachi G-Series
  • VSP
  • VMAX
  • Isilon
  • VNX
  • IBM Storwize V7K
  • Commvault
  • Avamar
  • Veritas
  • Networker
  • Azure Backup
  • HPE MSL Tape Library
  • Storeonce
  • DataDomain
  • Dell VxRail
  • HPE SimpliVity
  • Brocade 48K
  • 5300
  • Cisco Nexus 5K
  • MDS
  • EMC RPA
  • Virtual RPA
  • IBM SVC
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • Hitachi Command Suite
  • Backup Tools
  • EMC Unisphere
  • HPE management console 47
  • Eyeglass
  • InsightVM

Summary

Information Storage Associate, DELL certified, Hitachi Storage certified professional - Hitachi Vantara, VMware certified professional VCP-DCV 7, Disaster Recovery Professional (EDRP) - EC-Council, VCE certified converged Infrastructure Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, AWS Storage Block Specialized, AWS Cloud Economics, Trained in TOGAF Principles, A result-oriented professional with a proven record of 12+ years in conceiving and implementing ideas that create values for organization, targeting Senior Level assignments in IT Infrastructure, Techno-Management & Consultant., Data Migration, Hyper-converged Infrastructure, VMware, Project Management, Business Continuity Management, Data Centre Management, Cloud Technologies

Timeline

Senior Specialist - Cloud & Infra Services

LTIMindtree
10.2016 - Current

Storage Engineer

Hitachi Vantara
10.2015 - 10.2016

Technical Lead

Cognizant
02.2015 - 10.2015

Senior Systems Engineer

IGATE
07.2012 - 02.2015

B.E. - Electrical & Electronics

Anna University

Post-Graduation - Cloud Computing

Manipal

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