• Currently Managing EMC VxBlock 350 with Unity 550F, VNXe 3200 storage, UCS 5108 Chassis with UCS B and C series blades, UCS C series standalone servers, VPLEX and MDS 9148S switches in both Primary and DR locations.• Currently Managing EMC Networker, Avamar, Data Domain (EMC DPA)backup solutions• Managed NetApp C Mode Filers, Hitachi Storage Arrays (VSP,HUS, Gx00 and AMS Series), HP MSA arrays, IBM v7000, IBM DS series arrays, NetApp E2800, Dell EMC VNX and Hikvision storage arrays And, Veeam, CA ARCServe, Microsoft DPM and Backup Exec as backup solution and Brocade, Cisco SAN Switches for different customers• Analyzing storage trends to predict future needs, optimizing performance through tiering strategies, and ensuring that storage resources are used effectively.• Managing data life cycle policies and fine-tune storage and backup systems for peak performance.• Implementing capacity planning and supporting performance tuning procedures• Coordinated with customers and developed new backup and retention policies• Developed and maintained disaster recovery plans. Tested and ensured that the organization can quickly recover from any system failures. Also ensured storage and backup systems align with business continuity requirements.• Performed firmware upgrades for Unity, VNXe arrays, Data domain systems, DPC, IBM storage array, EMC Networker, Tape libraries… etc.• Involving in the new Storage and Backup products procurement and renewal processes.• Preparing SoW for the new requirements, identifying the compatible products, preparing RFQ documents and performing technical evaluation on technical offers from multiple vendors.• Performing daily activities such as configuring, provisioning, and troubleshooting storage resources, ensuring optimal performance, and conducting regular health checks. Also performing LUN expansion, new backup and clone/offshore clone policy creation, restore operations.• Prepared SOP documents for all the storage and backup operations• Coordinating with vendors to replace the faulty hardware components• Decommissioning of storage arrays, Servers and other hardwares
