Pankaj Patil

As a Senior Storage SRE at Akamai, I specialize in the design, deployment, and enhancement of scalable storage solutions. My expertise encompasses the construction and management of both object and block storage clusters, ensuring high availability and robust performance. Key responsibilities include:

• Cluster Deployment and Management: Successfully built and maintained complex storage clusters, enhancing data accessibility and disaster recovery processes. Implemented automated solutions for routine operations, reducing manual intervention and potential human error.
• System Upgrades: Orchestrated seamless upgrades of storage systems with minimal downtime. Employed rigorous testing protocols to ensure compatibility and performance benchmarks were met post-upgrade.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Developed and maintained CI/CD pipelines for storage solutions, ensuring code is deployed efficiently and consistently with reduced rollback rates. Integrated best practices in pipeline architecture to support rapid iteration and deployment cycles.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Proficient in using Terraform to manage infrastructure provisioning and configuration. This practice supports scalability and reproducibility across environments, significantly cutting down deployment times and increasing operational reliability.
• Kubernetes and Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE): Managed Kubernetes environments to orchestrate containerized applications with Linode Kubernetes Engine, optimizing deployment strategies and ensuring scalable and resilient container management.

• Designed and implemented scalable and highly available cloud infrastructure solutions using AWS
• Conducted cloud assessments and provided recommendations for optimization, cost reduction, and security enhancements
• Automated infrastructure deployment and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and CloudFormation
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to architect and deliver cloud-based applications and services
• Implemented monitoring and alerting solutions to ensure high availability and performance of cloud resources
• Assisted in troubleshooting and resolving infrastructure-related issues in production environments
• Contributed to the development of best practices and standardization of cloud engineering processes.

• Provide global AWS Cloud Support to the developer, business, and enterprise customers
• Administer and troubleshoot cloud services, ensuring their availability and optimal performance
• Replicate customer issues in a test environment, analyze and provide effective solutions.

• Successfully migrated Red Hat Linux to Oracle Linux, ensuring a seamless transition
• Conducted major and minor OS upgrades, storage migrations, and hardware migrations to Gen10 servers
• Managed PCS and RHCS clusters, including adding resource groups and switching resource groups to different nodes
• Troubleshot cluster issues, ensuring high availability and stability
• Diagnosed and resolved hardware problems in HP Enterprise Servers, minimizing downtime and impact on operations
• Met agreed SLAs by promptly resolving escalated tickets and ensuring server availability
• Collaborated with application, database, storage, and network teams, providing assistance with deployments and configurations.

• Installed and administered RHEL OS on physical servers, specifically HP ProLiant DL Series
• Migrated Linux VMs from one Host/Data store to another in vSphere client, ensuring minimal downtime and data integrity
• Tuned kernel parameters to align with extensive requirements, optimizing system performance
• Monitored server performance using tools such as sar, iostat, vmstat, and top, identifying and resolving performance bottlenecks
• Managed file systems on Linux servers, ensuring efficient storage utilization and data integrity
• Troubleshot boot issues on Linux VMs, quickly resolving issues to minimize downtime
• Performed patching using automation tools and satellite server, ensuring systems are up-to-date with the latest security patches
• Coordinated with vendors for server hardware and OS-related issues, managing vendor relationships effectively
• Added nodes to AD-domain via Centrify and troubleshooted any related issues.

• Prepared daily checklists for HP-Unix and Linux servers, monitoring logs to ensure system health and availability
• Raised and resolved tickets using HP Service Manager, ensuring timely resolution of issues
• Created LVM disk layouts and extended file systems, optimizing storage utilization
• Utilized tar backup utility for backup and restore operations, ensuring data integrity
• Knowledgeable in MC/Service guard cluster suite administration, ensuring high availability and fault tolerance
• Performed system administration activities such as managing file systems, monitoring hardware status, and tuning performance and security services
• Managed user and group accounts, ensuring proper access controls and permissions
• Handled software and patch management, keeping systems up-to-date with the latest security patches
• Customized and hardened Unix servers according to the company's secured configuration documents
• Coordinated with application, database, and backup teams to carry out data center operations and prepared technical reports
• Registered cases with backend teams for part failures or unresponsive servers, ensuring prompt resolution
• Prepared server performance status reports, including CPU, memory, and file system utilization
• Conducted performance monitoring and tuning to optimize system performance
• Maintained cron jobs for automated tasks and scheduled processes.