AMARENDAR SINGH KAHAR
Assistant Consultant
Bangalore
Summary
Seasoned Backup & Restore Engineer with over 9 years of experience in the fast-paced Hi-Tech industry. Proficient in IBM Spectrum Protect (IBM TSM), IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, Cohesity Data Protect, and Veeam Backup & Replication. Skilled in monitoring, backup, restoration, LAN free client configuration, TSM DR restoration, scripting, scheduling, and more. Specialized in installation and configuration on AIX, LINUX, and WINDOWS platforms, with expertise in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus within VMware environments and managing Cohesity Data Protect. Proven track record of conducting cluster health checks, upgrades, performance optimizations, Mass Restore operations, and Failover drills.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
8
8
Certifications
4
4
Languages
Work History
Assistant Consultant – Cloud Operations (Lead Backup)
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2024 - Current
- Performed regular health checks of servers, reviewed error reports, and identified issues with recovery logs, databases, and storage pools.
- Troubleshot and resolved issues based on the criticality and impact.
- Installed and configured TSM clients on Windows, AIX and Linux systems, ensuring seamless integration with backup solutions.
- Monitored daily missed and failed backups, investigated the root cause, and resolved issues to ensure successful backup completion.
- Configured server processes such as expiration, storage pool migration, and reclamation of tape storage pool volumes.
- Monitored and ensured successful execution of administrative schedules like DB Backup, Backup STG, and client schedules.
- Troubleshot failures based on priority.
- Registered nodes to the domain and associated them with appropriate schedules for backups.
- Ensured proper system state backups and restored data according to client requirements based on ticket requests.
- Managed bad tape issues, worked on stuck tape issues, and handled tape library operations such as labelling, check-in, and check-out.
- Configured and troubleshot TDP Oracle and TDP SQL backup processes to ensure efficient database backup operations.
- Monitored and troubleshot TSM operations, including expiration, migration, reclamation, offsite vaulting, and tape/media rotations.
- Worked with ticketing tools like Maximo and Snow to resolve backup-related issues, maintaining SLAs and ensuring timely resolution.
- Successfully executed DC to DR restoration processes as part of disaster recovery procedures.
- Deployed and upgraded Veeam Backup Server and components for VMware, Hyper-V, and KVM, including SP and SPP upgrades
- Planning capacity and preparing the bill of materials (BOM).
Senior Service Engineer (Data Protection)
Providence Global Center LLP (PGC)
10.2020 - 05.2024
Senior Analyst (Backup & Recovery)
Sigma Aldrich Chemicals (Merck Group)
01.2020 - 10.2020
Senior Analyst (Enterprise Backup & Recovery)
HCL Technologies Limited (HCL)
05.2020 - 01.2020
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics
Andhra University
Visakhapatnam 04.2001 -
Skills
IBM Spectrum Protect (aka TSM)
Tivoli Data Protection Agents
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Dell Power Protect Data Manager
Cohesity
Veeam Backup & Replication
IBM Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager
Windows
RHEL
IBM AIX
IBM TS4300, TS3300, TS4500 Tape Library
Dell Power protect Data domain
Dell Power Edge Servers
ADO
Grafana
Ansible
PowerShell
Shell Scripting
Certification
Azure Administrator (AZ-104) Certified
Personal Information
- Date of Birth: 08/05/93
- Nationality: Indian
Disclaimer
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Timeline
Assistant Consultant – Cloud Operations (Lead Backup)
Tata Consultancy Services
05.2024 - Current
Senior Service Engineer (Data Protection)
Providence Global Center LLP (PGC)
10.2020 - 05.2024
Senior Analyst (Enterprise Backup & Recovery)
HCL Technologies Limited (HCL)
05.2020 - 01.2020
Senior Analyst (Backup & Recovery)
Sigma Aldrich Chemicals (Merck Group)
01.2020 - 10.2020
Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical And Electronics
Andhra University
04.2001 -