Anirud Yadav
Senior Advisor IT Infrastructure
Bengaluru
Summary
Strategically minded Senior Storage Engineer known for designing, configuring, maintaining, and operating storage platforms with a focus on datacenter floor space planning, disaster recovery, and data migration. Genuinely cultivates powerful relationships that enable collaboration and enhanced strategic planning.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
4
4
Certifications
Work History
Senior Advisor Infrastructure
Varite India PVT LTD
06.2024 - Current
Lead 2 Infrastructure Specialist ( STORAGE SME )
KYNDRYL
02.2022 - 06.2024
- Planning and execution of NDM Migrations (VMAX3-450F to PMAX8K) and Open replicator Migrations
- Publishing the monthly forecast and planning for new array procurements
- SCG Deployments
- Certificates renewals for Brocade and VMAX-3
- Switch Migrations from Gen 6 to Gen 7
- Provide technical solutions & lead technical implementation projects that meet client requirements in-line with Vendor best practices followed
- Handling performance issues and performing root cause analysis on any escalated issues to ensure operational stability
- Collaborate escalation calls with required stake holders and drive towards the resolution
- Ensure a strong and seamless relationship by maintaining communications about project and day to day activities to the right stakeholders
- Create technical documentation including solution briefs, technical specifications, diagrams, and standard operating procedures as necessary
- Responsible for infrastructure Support and projects including system design, planning, installations, configurations, upgrades, and planning
- Provide storage infrastructure system management including capacity planning, performance monitoring and tuning, security management.
Advisor
Virtustream, DELL EMC
06.2019 - 01.2022
- Troubleshooting Appsync issues and ensuring the backups are done on the periodic basis
- Maintain VMAX, VNX, Unity storage arrays and fabric with CISCO Switches
- Unity remediations and SP balancing using UAM and UPA tools
- Preparing Storage Capacity planning reports
- Performing Local Replication and disaster recovery operations
- Data Collections from all the Deployed assets and running Utilization charts using BI Tools
- Creating & updating standard operating procedures (SOPs) and operational Runbooks
- Troubleshooting and performance issue for Storage arrays
- Symmetrix storage management using symcli
- Perform capacity planning related to storage growth and system utilization, trend analysis and predicting future storage requirements.
Delivery Specialist II: EMC
EMC
09.2015 - 01.2017
- Providing Associate Storage Administrator Level 1 support
- Performing Health checks on daily basis
- Attending Storage team meetings and Vendor meetings
- Working with vendor during the hardware failures, end engaging L2 and L3 teams for critical issues
- Collecting Support logs SP Collects in Storage & Switch Environment
- Incident, change management and problem management
- Working under Solution Architect to analyse new environments and participation in Bridge calls
- Lead the problem management team for issues related to storage and coming up areas of improvement to avoid future reoccurring incidents.
Storage Administrator
IBM India Pvt LTD
09.2010 - 01.2012
Education
Skills
EMC Storage
Disaster Recovery and Data Migration Strategies and Solutions
EMC Storage – EMC VNX, UNITY, ISILON, RecoverPoint, VMAX, PMAX, VPLEX
NetApp Storage - FAS & All Flash FAS Series
Guiding the team through Incident management
Handling Frontend customer escalations and driving RCA’s
Driving transition of new technologies from Build to operations team
Keeping up to date with new/emerging technologies
Certification
ITIL V3 Foundation Certification
Languages
English
Advanced (C1)
kannada
Advanced (C1)
Timeline
Senior Advisor Infrastructure
Varite India PVT LTD
06.2024 - Current
Lead 2 Infrastructure Specialist ( STORAGE SME )
KYNDRYL
02.2022 - 06.2024
Advisor
Virtustream, DELL EMC
06.2019 - 01.2022
Delivery Specialist II: EMC
EMC
09.2015 - 01.2017
Storage Administrator
IBM India Pvt LTD
09.2010 - 01.2012
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