Praful Premadas

Email Id: praful.premadas627@gmail.com

Ph: +1-938-444-4249

Professional Summary:

 Over 10 years of experience as a storage consultant in enterprise level infrastructure management

 3 Years of experience in the field of DevOps Engineer in application configurations, code compilation,
packaging, building, automating, managing & releasing code to the production environment
 Experienced in creating various dash boards, metrics, alarms & notifications for using GCP stack logger,
AWS cloud watch & Grafana
 Hands-on Knowledge on AWS &GCP (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, CLI) compute engine, autoscaling, ELB &
EFS
 Provisioning & maintaining AWS S3/ Google cloud storage buckets using policy management
 Implemented automation of enterprise class array configuration using ANSIBLE
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 Test solution enabler software versioning using docker containerisation & deployment of embedded
solution enablers images in lab environment
 Implemented a CI/CD pipeline involving Jenkins, Ansible, and Docker, for complete automation from
commit to deployment.
 Extensive knowledge of networking and operating system to carry out assigned administrative tasks
 Knowledgeable on common SCM practices such as branching & code merge in GIT & GITLAB
 Hands-on experience on build tools (Maven), Build repository (Nexus) & code quality tools
(SonarQube)
 Provisioned and managed virtual machines, containers & serverless functions using compute engine,
APP engine & cloud RUN
 Monitor ApiGee hybrid using Apigee API monitoring
 Experienced in bug/Issue tracking tools like JIRA & confluence
 On-call support along with weekend change planning & implementations.

Skills Summary:

Operating system Linux, Windows and VMware ESX

Compute services, App engine, Kubernetes Engine, Route 53, EBS,
Cloud Services
S3
Containers &
Docker, Kubernetes
Orchestrations
Configuration Management Ansible
Source Code Management
GIT & GITLAB
Tools
Build Tools Maven
 Build repository Nexus
Monitoring Tools Grafana, HPOO

Experience:

Client: DELL EMC Corporation (Remote) (Dec 2019 – Present)

Role: DevOps Engineer

 Developed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for software deployment using tools such as Jenkins
 Containerised storage software applications using Docker
 Maintained GIT workflows of array configuration files for version control
 Managing the complete AWS/GCP life cycle, along with best practices, security, provisioning, and
automation
 Installing new storage frames, performing the initial configuration & publishing it to production
environment via ANSIBLE playbooks with roles, group variables & inventory files
 Managed docker containerisation & deployment of embedded solution enablers images in lab
environment
 Leveraging data from Cost Usage Reports to recommend cost optimization strategies, such as Amazon
S3 storage tiers, Amazon EC2 instances, and AWS Lambda resources.
 Provision, install & configure low to mid-tier lab servers in GCP for testing out the solution enabler
functionalities by leveraging compute, autoscaling & VPC to build a secure & scalable lab system
 Learn the metrics and also monitor the overall usage of several AWS resources with the help of
Amazon CloudWatch
 Provisioning & maintaining Amazon S3/Google cloud storage buckets using policy management
 Managed / monitored containers using Google cloud run as well as Kubernetes.

Client: IBM India Pvt Ltd (March 2019 – December 2019)

Role: Storage Administrator

 SAN/NAS Administration of a VBLOCK converged computing storage environment consists of EMC

Symmetrix VMAX/VMAX3, VNX, HP 3PAR & EMC Isilon array.
 Provision storage, expand storage to meet the new demand in the capacity as requested by the server team
from VMAX, VMAX3, HPE 3PAR
 Create SMB shares, assign user permissions, set replication in EMC ISILON
 Perform Disaster recovery per application from the EMC VMAX end and provide the technical
specifications like RPO & RTO to the business.
 Actively perform the performance analysis on devices in case of performance degradation & engage
vendor if needed

Client: HCL Technologies (October 2016 – February 2019)

Role: Storage Administrator

 SAN Administration of a complex multi-Peta byte storage environment consists of EMC Symmetrix
VMAX/VMAX3, VNX, HP 3PAR, HP HANA converged solutions
  Storage allocation to newly build and existing UNIX, Windows servers/clusters and VMWare ESX
environment on VMAX using SYMCLI. Tasks include creation of tdevs, binding tdevs to thin pools,
creation of initiator/storage/port groups and creating masking view and enabling bit settings to initiators.
 Responsible for solving and analysing the break/fix issues in the SAN switches as well as in storage
arrays.
 Implementing Zoning in highly available SAN environment involving configuration and management of
Cisco Fabric environment/DCNM. Tasks include creation of device alias, zones, adding zones to zone set
and activating zone set.
 Perform DR testing, analysis and trend of mission critical applications using SRDF technologies on
monthly basis and layout the challenges to the business unit of the management.
 Prepare the feasibility of codes in terms of the adoption rate in CISCO MDS directors and non-
disruptively upgrade them to comply the security as well as the functionality challenges in the
environment
 Troubleshooting routine critical issues including performance issue on LUNS, ports availability,
meeting zoning requirements, host not seeing storage and storage management problems.

Client: EY (Formerly Ernst & Young): (August 2013 – October 2016)

Role: IT Support Engineer

 Provisioning of block storage for Middle East windows servers during the w2k3 to w2k8 hardware
refresh project and provide monthly reports of array utilisation.
 Monitoring the SAN & NAS environment and served as the first point of contact for Storage and
Backup issues
 Perform Volume resize, disk add and LUN resize depending upon the Request from internal
customers on VMAX and VNX storage frames
 Troubleshoot and retaliate the events in the form of incidents, service requests and restore the affected
service components by providing a convenient work around.

Certification:

 Specialist - Implementation Engineer, PowerMax and VMAX Family Solutions

 Specialist -, Symmetrix Solutions VMAX Systems Administrator Version 7.0
 Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer
 Redhat certified system administrator
 Information Storage Associate Version 3 (EMCISA)
 CompTIA Storage+ (Powered by SNIA)
 ITIL foundation 2011

Education:

 Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics and Technology - 2013: Anna University, India