Prabhu Devanasamy

• Provided technical and people leadership to a team of 15 or more engineers, supporting enterprise-scale, multi-vendor storage environments.
• Led the planning and implementation of enterprise storage arrays and SAN fabric across 20+ sites, delivering standardized solutions using NetApp, PowerMax, and Data Domain.
• Owned end-to-end backup migration from NetBackup to PPDM across 10+ locations, coordinating teams and vendors to deliver a seamless 400 TB migration.
• Led end-to-end storage capacity planning by analyzing growth trends, workload patterns, and performance metrics to design scalable, cost-optimized storage architectures.
• Performed OpenShift PoC to evaluate container-ready storage integration, performance, and scalability within the enterprise infrastructure.

• Lead a team of five or more engineers, managing enterprise storage infrastructure across multi-vendor platforms.

• Plan, schedule, and execute firmware and microcode upgrades for storage arrays and SAN switches, ensuring zero downtime.

• Perform root cause analysis for high-severity incidents, and implement preventive measures.

•Collaborate with vendors for proactive maintenance and capacity expansions.

• Conduct regular stakeholder meetings, and maintain high operational SLA adherence.

¨ Managing storage devices like Netapp ,IBM V7000 ,IBM XIV,QNAP,Pure storage , Lenovo Storage & Synology Storage

Managed storage builds, • array provisioning, and new project transitions.

Documented SOPs, deployment guides, and
KT materials for L2/L1 operations.
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Supported escalations for SAN connectivity
and replication issues.

Executed DR testing and created
documentation for DR runbooks and failover
processes.
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Partnered with operations teams to streamline
monitoring and alerting frameworks.

• Provided Level 2 support for global NetApp storage & IBM environments.
• Handled Power UP and Power Down activities at data centers during the weekends by coordinating with respective teams.
• Handled outage management and coordinated with NetApp support for hardware issues.
• Following up with vendors regarding the addition of new disks or any hardware replacements.