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Subbrao - Avamar BAckup Admin

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Location: Taft, Texas, USA

Relocation: Open

Visa: H1B

Subba Rao Chittimothu Email: [email protected] Mobile: 5129578245 Objective: Talented and experienced Backup Engineer with diverse industry experience including customer service, technical support, operations, engineering, service delivery, and service management. Team oriented, self- motivated and proven technical expertise to better enhance the possibility of self-nurture and contribute to company s growth. Career Summary: I have 9+ years of experience in EMC Avamar, Cohesity, Commvault Backup & experience in IT infrastructure as well as good command in the areas of IT Operations, Solutions, administering & maintaining the Servers. Professional Summary: 9+ years of experience as a Backup administrator in EMC Avamar, Cohesity, Commvault. Hands on Experience in Avamar 19.3,19.4 & 19.8 versions. Hands on Experience in Cohesity 6.6 versions. Hands on Experience in Commvault Service Pack 11.20 with Version 11 Having in-depth knowledge in EMC Avamar, Cohesity, Commvault with VMware environment. Experience on Migrating the servers & Domain change process for Avamar & Data Domain in Environment. Experience on Implementation and configuring the VM s & Agent based backups. Upgradation of Avamar Servers to the latest release versions as per the requirement. Upgrading & Updating clients with relevant versions. Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of Server and Systems with various Microsoft & Linux Operating Systems. Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of Windows & Linux operating systems in Virtual Environment. Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting of Different agents like CIFS/NFS Shares, File Server, Databases. Creating Policy groups, Data Protection group and Replication copies in Cohesity to schedule the associated backups. Automation Implementation for the Daily Operations like health checks, Backup failure, Capacity utilization & Reports. Providing KT Sessions for New joiners & Cross tower teams. Technical skills: Tool : EMC Avamar, Data Domain, Avamar Proxy, DPC, DPA, Putty, Cohesity, Commvault VMware : ESXi 4.x/5.x/6, VC, VIC, P2V. Avamar with Vcenter: Avamar 19.3,19.4 & 19.8 Commvault : CommCell 11 Server OS : Windows 2016,2019 & 2022 Education: B.Tech in Information Technology from Vignan's LARA Institute of Technology & Science, Affiliated to JNTU University Kakinada (2012). M.Tech in Computer Science from Sri Mittapalli College of Engineering, Affiliated to JNTU University Kakinada (2014). CERTIFICATIONS: EMC Information Storage and Management V3 2017 E20-598 - Specialist, Systems Administrator | Avamar Exam English (ENU) E20-594 - Specialist, Implementation Engineer | Avamar Exam English (ENU) Commvault Professional Foundations 2020 COH100 - Cohesity Certified Data Protection Associate Microsoft Certified Azure fundamentals AZ-900 Achievements: Best Employee of the QUARTER (2016 -17,2017-18) Received an Award and reward for the automation process, received from the client (Dell EMC) GEM Individual Award for FY22 Q4 (OVERCOME BOUNDARIES AWARD) Professional Experience: Client: Migration Project Woodside Energy April 2023 to July 2024 Role: Infra Managed Service Specialist Roles & Responsibilities Designed, Developed the confluence page with current and target design for the environment. Migrated the Current Avamar versions to required target version. Migrated the Avamar server Domain name to the required Domain name. Migrated the Data Domain server Domain name to the required Domain name. Integrated the Avamar Server with Data Domain. Configured the required Backup Schedules, Polices & Retentions Configured the newly migrated Vcenters in the Avamar Deployed the proxies with new IP & Domain names. Reregistered the Physical Windows and Linuz servers with newly migrated Avamar server. Tested the OnDemand backup & restore for the new Domain servers. Reregistered the newly migrated Avamar server with Avamar for the replication configuration. Configured the replication to the targeted Avamar Configured the required Replication Schedules, Polices & Retentions Tested the OnDemand replication for the targeted servers Deployed the new DPC server to monitor the environment. Deployed the new servers for DPA to generate environment reports to the client and required Database teams to manage the environment safely. Configured the DPA server to generate the reports for Capacity, hardware issues, Scheduled Backup & Failure backup status to team & client. Environment: EMC Avamar, Data Domain, Avamar proxy, DPA, DPC, ServiceNow, Windows, Linux Client: Woodside Energy, Petroleum deepwater & BHP Jan 2021 to April 2023 Role: Cloud Migration & Imp Senior Analyst, Infra Managed Service Specialist Roles & Responsibilities Installation and configuration of the virtual proxies and leveraging Commvault for VMWARE Backup and Restore activities. Investigate and troubleshoot any critical Issues related to Backups and replacement of Faulty storage nodes in Commvault. Server decommission of both physical and virtual process. Troubleshooting the major backup application issues & library issues by co-coordinating with vendors Analyse and resolve backup-related issues in Commvault. Creating and adding Clients to the Backup Schedule. Modifying groups and schedule policies. Creating Storage Policies and add the respective associations (Prod/Non-Prod) as per the client requests. Configure the Auxiliary Copies. Upgradation to latest version of master, media & client based on dependencies and requirements. Maintaining backup data as per the industry standards and SLA. Restoring the user data as per the users request from the disks, Tapes, Cloud storage within the retention period. Design, Develop and maintain Avamar Systems and Servers and help facilitate any testing activities. Building and maintaining automation pipelines through Perl scripts. Develop plans for the upgrade of backup software to ensure supportability across all servers within the Datacentre. Implement proper security controls and backup/data recovery systems are in place for all State of servers and storage. Create, enhance metrics & reporting dashboards to communicate status on the overall operation and performance of the backup environments to higher management thereby providing visibility, Installation, Configuration & Management of Data domain systems, Client Software & Administration, Datasets, retention policies, schedules, groups, Avamar MCS. Perform capacity planning & Management for the backup and recovery environments on a regular basis to ensure the planned and anticipated growth of Data centres can be accommodated Collaborate closely with the server, networking, database, and storage teams to ensure compatibility between all components in the environment. Analyze the root cause for critical incidents including problems, define risks - during failover tests and close them with appropriate root cause analysis. Prepare Documentation on aspects related to Technical Design and Architecture and providing essential documents for the project. Capture and share best practice knowledge pertaining to the System outcomes and existing solutions to improve the technology designs. Ability to manage and resolve conflicting priorities and meet deadlines. Provide Technical Support, Troubleshoot and Performance Tuning of Backup/Storage/VM Environments as and when required. Configuration and Troubleshooting of Avamar backups, restore and Hardware issue as well as handle Physical and VM clients. (in client server technologies). Restoring the user data as per the users request from the disks, Tapes, Cloud storage within the retention period. Worked on Windows File level, Linux File level Exchange mailbox, VM- file & volume level & database restores. Checking and troubleshooting the Issue on the Client and server causing backup failures or latency. Familiar with Avamar server CLI and GUI environment as well as client Server, we took the case regarding any failure and fix them ASAP. Backup Validation Performing an on-demand and Scheduling backup validations. Performing an on-demand backups and Schedule, Monitoring and Canceling the backup s Perform the daily health checks and maintenance activities on Avamar nodes. Hot fix and Patch Updates on Server. Environment: EMC Avamar, Data Domain, Avamar proxy, DPA, DPC, Commvault, ServiceNow, Splunk EMC DDMC, Windows, Linux, VMware vcenter, Cohesity Client: BSWHealth Feb 2019 to Jan 2021 Role: Sr. Backup Admin Roles & Responsibilities Configuration and Troubleshooting of Avamar backups, restore and Hardware issue as well as handle Physical and VM clients. (in client server technologies). If any task or Incident is Created in the Service Now Take the owner ship and work on that issue. Checking and troubleshooting the Issue on the Client and server causing backup failures or latency. Configuring and troubleshooting Proxy related issues for VM's backups. Work on Avamar Backups, Restore and any Avamar server issue faced by customer either on their EMC Avamar Server or their any client server like SQL, window, VM. Familiar with Avamar server CLI and GUI environment as well as client Server, we took the case regarding any failure and fix them ASAP. Backup Validation Performing an on-demand backup validation and Scheduling backup validations. Performing an on-demand backups and Schedule, Monitoring and Canceling the backup s Perform the daily health checks and maintenance activities on Avamar nodes. Installing and Configuring Tape Out Solutions (AER/ADT/ATO) Hot fix and Patch Updates on Server. Environment: EMC Avamar, Data Domain, Avamar proxy, DPA, DPC, Commvault, ServiceNow, EMC DDMC, Windows, Linux Client: EMC corporation June 2016 to Feb 2019 Role: System Administrator Roles & Responsibilities Configuration and Troubleshooting of Avamar backups, restore and Hardware issue as well as handling Physical and VM clients. (in client server technologies). Checking and troubleshooting the Issue on the Client and server causing backup failures or latency. Configuring and troubleshooting Proxy related issues for VM's backups. Work on Avamar Backups, Restore and any Avamar server issue faced by customers either on their EMC Avamar Server or their any client server like SQL, window, VM. Familiar with Avamar server CLI and GUI environment as well as client Server, we took the case regarding any failure and fix them ASAP. Backup Validation Performing an on-demand backup validation and Scheduling backup validations. Performing an on-demand backups and Schedule, Monitoring and Canceling the backup s Perform the daily health checks and maintenance activities on Avamar nodes. Installing and Configuring Tape Out Solutions (AER/ADT/ATO) Hot fix and Patch Updates on Server. Data Domain Configuration and Troubleshooting. NDMP Configuration and troubleshooting. Environment: EMC Avamar, NDMP,AER Tapes, Data Domain, Avamar proxy, DPA, DPC, Service360, EMC DDMC, Windows, Linux Client: EMC corporation Nov 2014 to June 2016 Role: System Administrator Responsibilities: VM Ware: Managing VMware infrastructure environment with 35 ESXi servers, 800 plus virtual machines. VM Servers build & rebuild (Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an Existing VM) as per the client request through change management process. Installing and configuring ESXi servers. Installing, configuring and managing virtual infrastructure and virtual center. Creating and managing resource pools and adding the VM s into resource pools. Creating and managing virtual machines and installing VM Tools into VM s. Manage VM s using VMware virtual center. Managing VM s through web access. Creating and managing VMware cluster, Enabling HA, DRS and Fault Tolerance features in a Cluster. Configurations of Virtual switches and network connections. P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter. Performing Snapshots, Cloning, cold migrations and hot migrations. Creating templates from VM s and deploying VM s from templates and allocating resources. Creating duplicate VM s using cloning technology. Moving VM s from one LUN to another LUN using Storage VMotion. Environment: VMware, Avamar proxy, Windows, Linux Keywords: information technology Arizona Colorado