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Santosh Kumar Suman

Pune

Summary

Experienced Storage Area Network (SAN) Engineer with 10 years in storage management and disaster recovery. Skilled in SAN provisioning, performance optimization, and troubleshooting within enterprise environments. Expertise includes Brocade SAN switches, EMC, IBM, and HPE storage solutions, contributing to effective incident and change management.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Storage & Backup Engineer

Wipro Technologies Ltd
Pune District, Maharashtra, India
11.2015 - Current
  • Administered enterprise SAN storage systems, including HPE Nimble, 3PAR, Alletra 9K/10K, IBM XIV, EMC XtremIO, VNX, Isilon, Vplex, and Data Domain.
  • Conducted SAN health checks, capacity planning, performance tuning, and resolved storage issues to ensure optimal system functionality.
  • Managed IBM Tivoli Storage Manager environments, optimizing backup schedules and retention policies to enhance data recoverability.
  • Provisioned storage resources based on specific business needs.
  • Executed storage migrations and code upgrades on SAN storage arrays, ensuring minimal downtime and data integrity.
  • Configured Brocade SAN switches using GUI and CLI for zoning and connectivity troubleshooting.
  • Monitored SAN fabric health while resolving path failures and coordinating vendor escalations.
  • Decommissioned obsolete SAN storage arrays following industry best practices.

Education

Bachelor of Computer Applications -

Magadha University
Bodh Gaya
01-2015

Intermediate - I.S.C

Forbesganj College
Bihar
01-2012

Matriculation -

Sri Rani Saraswati Vidya Mandir(CBSE)
Forbesganj, Bihar
03-2010

Skills

  • SAN solutions
  • HPE Nimble AF series
  • Alletra storage systems
  • IBM XIV storage
  • XtremIO technology
  • VNX storage arrays
  • Data Domain systems
  • Isilon scale-out NAS
  • ZFS file systems
  • IBM TSM management
  • Backup implementation
  • IBM Spectrum Protect software
  • SANNAV software
  • Storage management expertise
  • SAN storage administration
  • SAN switches management
  • Brocade SAN configuration
  • Brocade network advisor
  • Troubleshooting methodologies
  • Technical troubleshooting
  • storage migrations
  • capacity planning
  • performance tuning
  • Storage health reporting
  • Scripting automation
  • Cloud-based backup solutions
  • AWS services
  • Hybrid cloud solutions
  • AWS architecture
  • IT service management
  • vendor coordination
  • Problem solving
  • IT service management

Locations

  • Pune, Maharashtra
  • Gurugram, Haryana
  • Rest of India

Timeline

Storage & Backup Engineer

Wipro Technologies Ltd
11.2015 - Current

Bachelor of Computer Applications -

Magadha University

Intermediate - I.S.C

Forbesganj College

Matriculation -

Sri Rani Saraswati Vidya Mandir(CBSE)
Santosh Kumar Suman