Abdul Kareem Shaik
Hyderabad
Summary
Backup Administrator with 7 years of experience in managing enterprise backup and recovery solutions. Proficient in designing, implementing, and maintaining Rubrik environments, ensuring data integrity, security, and availability. Strong expertise in disaster recovery planning, automation, and troubleshooting backup-related issues. Adept at working in fast-paced IT environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and optimizing backup performance for business continuity.
Dedicated and adaptable professional with a proactive attitude and the ability to learn quickly. Strong work ethic and effective communication skills. Eager to contribute to a dynamic team and support organizational goals.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
Work History
Rubrik Backup Administrator
NTTDATA
Hyderabad
06.2022 - Current
- Manage and maintain the Rubrik backup infrastructure, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.
- Design, configure, and optimize backup policies and SLAs to meet business and compliance requirements.
- Implement disaster recovery (DR) strategies and perform routine DR testing to ensure data recoverability.
- Monitor and troubleshoot backup failures, resolving issues related to storage, network, and system compatibility.
- Automate backup tasks and reporting using PowerShell/Python to improve efficiency.
- Collaborate with security and compliance teams to ensure adherence to data protection policies.
- Provide technical support, training, and documentation for IT teams and end-users.
- Prepared detailed reports outlining current status of backups for management review.
- Ensured compliance with internal security standards by regularly auditing backup jobs.
- Monitored storage utilization trends to ensure effective capacity planning was in place.
- Implemented disaster recovery procedures including failover strategies and testing plans.
- Ensured the successful execution of all scheduled jobs with minimal disruption to business operations.
- Recovered lost files from tapes or disks in accordance with service level agreements.
- Performed regular reviews of backup logs to identify potential issues or problems.
- Created scripts for automation of daily system administration tasks related to backups.
- Trained junior staff members on best practices for backing up systems.
- Coordinated with other IT teams during problem resolution activities.
- Provided technical support to end users regarding their backup needs.
- Managed disk-to-disk backups utilizing SAN technologies such as iSCSI, Fibre Channel.
- Conducted periodic performance tests on existing infrastructure components associated with backups.
- Managed, troubleshot, backed up and restored data, operating systems, files, documents and drivers to provide comprehensive systems management and support.
- Trained and directed users on correct use of software and hardware within systems.
Backup Administrator
Wipro
Hyderabad
07.2018 - 05.2022
- 5+ year experience as a Backup Administrator in Avamar, Data domain.
- Experience in Avamar 7.4, 7.5, 18.1 and 18.2, 19.3, 19.4.
- Worked in product line support of EMC for Avamar and Data Domain.
- Having in depth knowledge in Avamar Hardware issues.
- Updating and Upgrading Avamar clients by relevant plug-in versions and Hotfixes.
- Installation, Configuration, upgrading, Administration and Troubleshooting of Server and Systems with various Microsoft Operating Systems.
- Troubleshooting and dispatching EMC drives.
- Installation of latest firmware versions.
- Analyzing Avamar Backup Server issues.
- Multi-site replication experience (Avamar to Avamar).
- Ability to grasp new technical things quickly.
- Diagnosed, troubleshot and resolved hardware and system problems.
- Coordinated with vendors and company personnel to facilitate purchases.
- Implemented and provided technical support for voice services and equipment.
- Analyzed equipment performance records to determine need for repair or replacement.
- Analyzed intricate server issues and supported large enterprise and business-critical applications.
- Increased system security and performance with proactive changes.
- Kept flexible schedule and resolved after-hours and weekend emergencies quickly and accurately.
- Trained and directed users on correct use of software and hardware within systems.
- Maintained records of transactions made during shift as required by law or company policy.
Education
MBA - H.R & Finance
JNTU Anantapur
01.2016
B.Com - Computers
Rayalaseema University
01.2013
Skills
- Backup Solutions: Rubrik
- Backup Solutions: Azure
- Backup Solutions: NetBackup
- Cloud Platforms: AWS
- Cloud Platforms: Azure
- Operating Systems: Windows Server
- Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL)
- Operating Systems: Linux (Ubuntu)
- Virtualization: VMware vSphere
- Virtualization: Hyper-V
- Storage Technologies: NAS
- Storage Technologies: SAN
- Storage Technologies: NFS
- Storage Technologies: CIFS
- Disaster recovery
- User training
Certifications
Rubrik Certified Systems Administrator (RCSA) – [2024]
Personal Information
Languages
Urdu
First Language
English
Proficient
C2
Telugu
Proficient
C2
Timeline
Rubrik Backup Administrator
NTTDATA
06.2022 - Current
Backup Administrator
Wipro
07.2018 - 05.2022
MBA - H.R & Finance
JNTU Anantapur
B.Com - Computers
Rayalaseema University