Velu P
Malmo,M
Summary
As an enterprise technologist with 14 years of expertise, I have successfully collaborated with clients to comprehend their business requirements and provide specialized technology solutions. Concentrate on developing scalable, dependable, secure, and managed solutions while matching technology to the unique needs of a client's industry. Have outstanding interpersonal skills to interact with technical and business resources at all levels. Professional architect with a focus on creating scalable and creative solutions that satisfy customers and promote company development. a track record of successfully designing and implementing reliable systems that integrate seamlessly with team goals and changing project needs. Proficiency in software development, system architecture, and cloud computing with a results-driven approach to every assignment.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Solutions Architect – Cloud
Cognizant
04.2015 - Current
- Driven all technical design and execution activities for moving existing on-premises infrastructure, server workloads, data and applications to the cloud IaaS and PaaS
- Develop, architect, and implement Microsoft Azure Stack Solutions, including Azure Active Directory, Network Setup, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Storage, Azure IaaS services, Storage, Backup, File Storage, Azure SQL, Cloud Networking, Security Concepts
- Experience with all aspects of ADO including project creation, Boards, Pipelines, Artifacts, ARM Templates, Key Vault, etc
- Worked with large scale cloud and datacenter design and migration patterns including network, virtualization, storage, security, and identity
- Experience in architecting, sizing, and costing cloud solutions
- Experience with Enterprise virtualization technologies and technical architecture and sales engineering
- Partnered with the Account Executive to achieve territory revenue and other financial metrics
- Work with Customers to design cloud solutions based on the company's IT requirements
- Qualify a sale opportunity based on the technical fit between a customer's requirements and the standard capabilities of the Dell Technology Platform
- Have design and manage Proof of Concepts (POC) in conjunction with the Dell Professional Services Team
- Have built a strong technical relationship with the customer and lead all technical efforts to ensure customer satisfaction
- Present Dell Tech value proposition, technologies, strategy, and product roadmaps to all levels at their customer including executives, technical management, and technical engineers
- Have knowledge and experience in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), Software Defined Networking (SDN), Software-Defined Storage (SDS), Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), or infrastructure security and expertise in enterprise applications
- Strong understanding of Application Virtualization, Server Virtualization, Networking, Storage, and Platform Performance/Sizing
- Provided end-to-end solutions for data center and cloud technologies to customers, includes traditional on-premises (server, storage, hypervisor, and backup) and hybrid technologies combined with an on-premises and cloud solution
- Experience architecting highly available systems that utilize load balancing, horizontal scalability, and high availability in Azure Cloud
- Architect and develop highly scalable enterprise applications on Azure platform leveraging the latest of Azure services in the areas of Compute, Storage, and Application Integration
- Lead technical discussions with senior customer executives that drive decisions and implementation approaches on Data Center & Cloud
- Design architectures with Microsoft Azure to meet our clients' technical, security, and business needs
- Create secure hybrid deployments of virtual machines, networks, and PaaS solutions in Azure
- Creation of platform specific Azure Resource Manager template to deploy the platform service type in alignment with defined use case(s) and implementation guidelines
- Worked on Azure Resource Manager, Resource Groups, Virtual Networks, Azure Virtual Machines, Azure Blob Storage, PowerShell DSC, Azure Automation, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Site Recovery
Senior Storage Engineer
Hewlett Packard Global Soft Pvt Ltd
05.2010 - 04.2015
- Configuration and Administration of NETAPP (AFF A250, A300 &A400), Dell EMC (VNX -5600/5700, VPLEX, Isilon, VMAX and Clarion), HP 3 PAR, PURE and IBM XIV Storage Arrays, Brocade and Cisco fabrics switches
- Maintain storage best practices and storage life cycle management including code and firmware upgrades and balancing load across various storage components
- Configuring the Raid/Storage groups in Dell EMC VNX Storage arrays
- Storage provisioning and reclamations, Initiator, and host creation in Dell EMC Storage arrays
- Configuring and managing CIFS & NFS shares, handling Access issues and Restoration requests
- Configured aggregates, volumes and qtrees on NetApp Flash Arrays
- Configured and manage NFS and CIFS shares/Vservers from NetApp Flash Arrays
- Designed and implemented remote and bunker replication using NetApp SnapVault and SnapMirror technologies
- Performed Data ONTAP upgrade on NetApp AFF A300 & AFF A400
- Performance and capacity monitoring of NetApp
- Restored data from snapshots using Snap Restore
- General administration including RAID groups, aggregates, vservers, volumes etc
- Co-ordinate with various customers and assisted with service catalog description regarding storage, backups and availability
- Configuration and management of Cisco Fabric environment
- Tasks include creation of device alias, zones, adding zones to the zoneset and activating the zoneset
- Implementing Business Continuity Solutions using SnapView Clone/Snapshot, SAN copy at CLARiiON level and Time Finder (BCVs/Snap), SRDF at the Symmetrix/DMX level
- Managed and implemented Emulex / Qlogic Fiber Channel HBAs; Qlogic / Microsoft iSCSI initiators
- Experience in installation, configuration and administration of Brocade and Cisco MDS Switches
- Report Generation, Alerts Monitoring & Troubleshooting Problem Tickets (HP SM)
- Plan, manage, and assist with migration activities
- Worked with the system administrators to troubleshoot Windows/Unix connectivity issues
- Snapshots, snapmirror replication and snapvault management
- Configure snapvaults and troubleshoot failed jobs
- Provided business groups with snapmirror replication with desired frequency and snapvault backups for disaster recovery purpose
- Responsible for snapmirror configurations and monitoring the relationships
- Understand and follow IT processes including Change & Configuration, Problem, Incident and Service Readiness and other established team procedures
Education
B.Tech - Information Technology
Pallavan Engineering College, Anna University
Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu01.2008
HSC -
Bharathidhasanar Matric. Hr. Sec. School
Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu01.2004
SSLC -
Bharathidhasanar Matric. Hr. Sec. School
Arakkonam, Tamil Nadu01.2002
Skills
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure Platform as a Service
- Data Center
- Power BI
- Cloud Architecture
- Azure Resource Manager
- Azure DevOps
- PaaS and IaaS
- PowerShell
- RESTful API and Web API
- Ansible
- Microsoft Security & Identity Management
- CI/CD practices
- Python
Accomplishments
· Client Award for Excellent Performance in 2023.
· Won Better Performer Awards in Client Town Hall meeting in 2024.
· Appreciation received from Clients and Top Managements for Successful Storage Migrations and implementations.
Certification
- AZ-305 - Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Dell EMC - Information Storage and Management Version 3 Exam
- Dell EMC - Specialist, Systems Administrator | VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 Solutions Exam
- HP Certified in Implementing HP Storage Works EVA Solutions
- HP Certified in Implementing HP Storage Works XP Disk Array Solutions
- NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator
- ITIL V3
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that all the particulars mentioned above are true to the best of my knowledge.
Timeline
Solutions Architect – Cloud
Cognizant
04.2015 - Current
Senior Storage Engineer
Hewlett Packard Global Soft Pvt Ltd
05.2010 - 04.2015
HSC -
Bharathidhasanar Matric. Hr. Sec. School
SSLC -
Bharathidhasanar Matric. Hr. Sec. School
- AZ-305 - Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Dell EMC - Information Storage and Management Version 3 Exam
- Dell EMC - Specialist, Systems Administrator | VMAX All Flash and VMAX3 Solutions Exam
- HP Certified in Implementing HP Storage Works EVA Solutions
- HP Certified in Implementing HP Storage Works XP Disk Array Solutions
- NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator
- ITIL V3
B.Tech - Information Technology
Pallavan Engineering College, Anna University
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