Data Center IT Professional with6 years of proven technical experience in a Data Center career span with diverse expertise in running day-to-day 24x7 Tier-III compliant - carrier neutral - Data Center Operations and Data Center Facility Management. Well versed in Data Center Standards (TIA-942 and CDCP best practices) along with the hands-on experience in different Backup Replication solutions, server virtualization softwares techniques, Adminisration of different vendors Hardware's (Chassis, Power machines, Servers, Switches). Lead multiple Data Center projects and successful in building, migrating and optimizing data centers operational structures, services, technologies, teams and Standard Operation Procedures to improve performance / PUE, minimizing risk and enabling competitive growth.br / br / Including System Implementation, Data Centre Management, Enterprise Mid-tier Storage Management, System Administration, Disaster Recovery Planning, Enterprise Network Infrastructure Systems Management, Technical documentation, Physical security devices, Business Continuity Plan Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Virtualization Consolidation.br / br / SKILLS SUMMARY br / Data Centre Designing/Administration.br / Veeam Backup Replication.br / EMC Data Domain (Virtual Tape Library)br / EMC SAN V-MAX 450f200k, 20K SAN.br / EMC SAN VNX 5400, VNX 5100, NS 120 SAN, RecoverPoint Appliances.br / IBM SAN A9000, V7000, DS 4800, HP SAN P2000.br / IBM/HP/UCS Blade Centre.br / Windows Server Administration.br / Exchange Server Administration.br / Infrastructure Network Design.br / Disaster Recovery Management .br / IT Project Management.br / IT Strategy Architecture .br / Cost Containment.br / Team Leadership.br / Operations Optimization Streamlining.br / AutoCAD MS-Visio./p
Data Center Operations and Facility Management
Managing Tier III Primary Data Centre & DR SITE to ensure high availability (exceeding 99.9% uptime) for company’s utilization.
Leading, motivating and managing a team of Data Center Officers in daily operations and their shifts roster management.
Supervising the provisioning of all DC services; including racking & stacking, hardware installation, power and network connectivity.
Provisioning and ensuring the proper functioning of power sources (AC/DC), Fire Suppression Systems, VESDA, UPS, Gensets, HVACs, Air Purifiers, Humidifiers, CRACs.
Responsible for capacity planning, inventory management, budget planning, CAPEX & OPEX.
§ Scheduling and supervising of all Datacenter team projects.
§ Strategized Planning for future enhancements in IT Infrastructure, IT equipment and vendor analysis.
Creating, revising & implementing Standards Operating Procedures for Datacenter Operations.
§ Creating & updating Professional Datacenter Layouts, Network Layouts and Electrical System Layouts in MS Visio & AutoCAD.
System Administration
§ Successfully rolled out global deployments of Enterprise Servers, Storage and Network Equipment’s.
§ Establish, configure, test and maintain operating systems, application software’s and system management tools.
§ Up-gradation of Patches & Firmware of Windows Server Environment, FC Switches, Chassis, Storage & Blade Servers.
§ Successfully deployed, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems on Microsoft Azure.
§ Maintaining the usage of cloud services and implementing cost-saving strategies.
§ Verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server and network resources, reviewing system and application logs.
§ Administration of HP Super Dome SX3000, IBM Chassis including Blade HS22, HP Chassis C-7000 including Blade 460\620 & Lenovo Flex System.
Backup & Storage Administration
§ Managing a global Backup & Recovery solution for the virtualization clustered environment with multiple remote sites based on Veeam Backup & Replication v9.5, Veeam Enterprise Manager & Veeam ONE.
§ IBM Spectrum Protect (formerly Tivoli Storage Manager) Administration.
Administration of HBL Virtual Tape Library EMC Data Domain appliance DD6300, DD6800 & DD9300 installed in primary and DR sites of HBL
• Data Center planning & designing (w.r.t. IT, Space, Power & Cooling infrastructure).
• Leading and managing a team of 10 Data Center Shift Engineer’s in daily operations, network queries and shift scheduling.
• Optimizing the current infrastructure of Data centers to meet TIA-942 Standards.
• Responsible to ensure Data Center customers network health remains at optimum level.
• Involved in troubleshooting of daily routine routing and switching issues related to customers or network.
• Involved in establishing of NNIs (both layer 2 and layer 3) with international providers..
• Creating & updating Professional Data Center Layouts and Electrical system Layouts in MS Visio & AutoCAD.
• Managing & Proposing Data Center Co-Locations for Customers.
• Providing Data Center solutions & consultancy.
• Responsible for scheduling and performance of all Data Center team projects.
• Responsible for proper performance and metrics of project tasks necessary to ensure the most efficient and
effective execution of all Data Center projects.
• Responsible for analysis of cost, schedule, and performance of the projects.
• Writes and reviews Data Center program-related technical documents.
• Coaches, mentors, and motivates team members influencing them to take positive action and accountability for
their assigned tasks.
Responsible of all Facility & IT Infrastructure, including the data center environment ensuring all customer server environments are secure, operational and being maintained by 99.999% uptime.
Monitoring & Managing of Data center & Network operations include:
• Deployments, Configuration, Management and Optimization of customer network equipment.
• Level 1 & 2 IT & Power support to all DC emergencies & operational queries.
• Aligning contractors & vendors for faults & emergency queries.
• Supervising Preventive Maintenance of Air-cons, FSS, Gensets, and UPS.
• Ensuring that the Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are being followed accordingly.
• Generating Trouble Tickets for any operational related issues.
• Generating daily Data Center Status Reports & Shift Reports in timely manner.
• Sharing RCA/RFO for any DC mishap.
• Mounting & dismantling of Telecom & IT equipment (including DWDM, SDH, ODF, Servers, SANs, Firewalls, Switches &
Routers).
• Laying of power cables, fiber cables & Ethernet cables for Data Center according to TIA-942 standards.
• Providing power feeds, earth, groundings & internet connectivity to the installed racks.
• Provisioning and ensuring the proper functioning of power sources (AC/DC), Fire Suppression Systems, VESDA, UPS,
Gensets, HVACs, Air Purifiers, Humidifiers, CRACs.
• Maintaining backup of Access Control Systems, CCTV recordings and Environmental control systems.
• Ensuring that relevant DC environmental parameters are maintained as per standards. (relative humidity, ambient
temperature).
• Creating, revising & implementing Standards operating Procedures.
• Worked closely with members of the R&D team, participate in the development of electrical engineering designs for electronic and electromechanical products that have stringent requirements for size, precision, reliability and cost.
• Produce, troubleshoot and analyze electronic and electromechanical prototypes. Design and fabricate test fixtures for use in product development and production.