Ajith Uthup

Experience

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  HCL Technologies (Infrastructure Services Division)

  Oct 2012 - Jan 2015

  Storage and Backup Administrator

  * Administration of NetApp FAS series, Dell Equallogic and HP EVA Storage frames.* Storage array management through Putty, Filer View, Oncommand system management, HP command view, and SANsymphony-V. * Installation and configuration of Virtual Storage Console for monitoring, migrating, cloning, back up and restoration of Virtual Machines. * Firmware up-gradation of Remote LAN Module, Disks and Disk shelves.* Configuration and administration of OSSV, snapvault and snapmirror. * Creation of CIFS/NFS shares, setting up quotas and access permissions on the shares.* Configuring de-duplication at volume level.* Installation of backup agents, creating policies and schedule backup jobs.* Monitor and ensure the backup jobs on Commvault & NetBackup tool completes successfully; if not troubleshoot and send daily reports.* Restoring files/folders from backup as per the customer request.* Monitoring the storage environment and for the hardware failures, coordinating with the vendors to get the replacement part on priority and working with onsite engineers to fix the issue on time.* Creating SOPs and educating team members to follow the processes.Handling incident tickets on priority by ensuring the resolution within given SLA. * Meeting the requirements of the customer on work order basis. * Understand the request, get approval if required and make the service available to the customer within the target time.* Documenting and implementing the changes on technical standards. Also presenting the change request in CAB meeting and educating the CAB members by explaining the requirement and impact of the change* Preparing monthly capacity management report. Show less

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  Saud Bahwan Group LLC

  Feb 2015 - Nov 2021

  Storage and server administrator

  * Physical installation of new Brocade SAN switches, configuration and administration.* Online migration of switches from rack to rack, migration of fabric and merging switches to existing fabrics.* Implementation, configuration and administration of IBM SVC, Storwize V9000, V7000, V5000 storages with flash and SAS drives.* Storage configuration and administration for IBM Disk Systems like DS4300, DS4700, DS3950 and DS5020.* Provisioning storage LUNs to Wintel and AS400 hosts.* Virtualization and migration of legacy storages under SAN Volume Controller.* Online firmware upgrades for SAN switches, storage controllers, disk drives and blade components like SAN module, AMM, servers etc.* Setting up DR by replicating data using Enhanced Remote Mirroring in IBM storage.* Implementation of IBM blade centers, blade servers and system x servers across the organization.* Server OS installation, hyper V configuration, setting up new VMs, cluster configuration, assignment of storage volumes to physical hosts and to VMs through NPIV* Performing DR drill tests once in every quarter and ensure the data availability and reliability in a very minimal down time.* Implementation and administration of Flash copy on all storage family.* Involved in major storage upgrade, migration and virtualization activities.* Involved in windows server OS migration from 2003 to 2012 R2 project.* Addition of new hardware like storage expansion units, disk drives to the existing enclosures.* Replacement of hardware failure units with the new ones on priority.* Monitor storage performance status using TPC and find the root cause for any abnormalities and involve concern users/teams if required. Show less

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  Viatris

  Nov 2021 - Aug 2023

  Manager - Storage and SAN Infrastructure
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  Al Khalili Technology LLC

  Sept 2023 - Jun 2024

  Enterprise Presales Engineer
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  MSARTECH

  Jul 2024 - now

  Enterprise Presales Engineer