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Education
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Accomplishments
Certification
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Sravanthi Gaddam

Storage Admin
Hyderabad,TG
Sravanthi Gaddam

Summary

Versatile and results-driven Storage Administrator with 10+ years of hands-on experience managing SAN/NAS infrastructure Proficient in enterprise-grade platforms including NetApp (CDOT & 7-mode), EMC (VMAX, VNX, Isilon), Hitachi (G-series, HNAS), HP (3PAR, EVA), and DataCore. Skilled in zoning, replication (SRDF, GAD, TrueCopy), provisioning, firmware upgrades, and full-scale DR activities. Adept in Brocade/Cisco SAN switch administration and backup environments (NetBackup, Avamar). Working on AWS (S3, EFS, FSx), Azure Monitoring practices to bridge traditional storage with cloud-native architectures.

Overview

10
years of professional experience
1
Certification

Work History

Cognizant Technologies Solutions

Infra Technology Specialist
11.2021 - Current

Job overview

Administering SAN & NAS Environment on Netapp (CDOT & ESeries), EMC(VMAX, VNX & ISILON), HP (EVA, 3PAR & MSA) & Datacore Storage including Upgrades, Migrations and all BAU Activities(Healthchecks, Provisioning and Reclaims)

Configuring and Managing AWS (S3, EFS & FSX) and Azure Monitoring.

Actively working on Full and Half DR Activities.
Management of Brocade & Cisco switches (including firmware upgrades, moving
hard zone to soft zones)

Hitachi Vantara

Technical Storage Engineer
12.2019 - 11.2021

Job overview

Performance Analysis, Capacity Planning Reports and
Recommendations, Storage Provisioning (HCS, Storage
Navigator/Device Manager, SymCLI to Windows/Unix/Esxi servers),
Zoning, Reclaim, Replication (True Copy, GAD & SRDF). FS, V-Vol
Expansions in HNAS.

Microcode/firmware upgrades on Hitachi
SVPs, HNAS and Brocade switches and DR Activities.

Infosys

Storage and Backup Administrator
11.2018 - 12.2019

Job overview

Allocate storage from EMC Symmetrix using SymCLI and VNX
using Unisphere, Replication (SRDF).

Perform zoning at Brocade Switch level using Brocade Network Advisor (BNA), EMC
Connectrix Manager and Command Line (CLI). Unzone/Unmap and LUN deletions.
Add/Remove hosts into/from backup rotation and resolve restoration requests in backup tools like EMC Avamar, Netbackup, BackupExec, Rubrik and EMC Networker.

IBM

Service Delivery Specialist
05.2015 - 11.2018

Job overview

Administration of the Storage (EMC & Hitachi) and Switch (Brocade) environment by performing health checks.

Storage Allocation from EMC Vmax using SymCLI, VNX using Unisphere, and Hitachi G1x00 using Hitachi Command Suite (HCS) File System, Virtual Volume and Quota expansions on Netapp 7 mode
and Hitachi HNAS.

Data Centre Access Management.
Troubleshooting the LUN visibility and LUN path issues.

Education

Aurora's Scientific Technological And Research Aca
Hyderabad, India

Bachelor of Technology from Electronics And Communication Engineering
04-2014

Skills

  • Experience with NetApp storage solutions
  • Hitachi storage solutions proficiency
  • Cisco switch management
  • EMC storage management
  • Brocade switch configuration
  • HP storage solutions administration
  • Data core management
  • Experience with AWS S3, EFS & FSX solutions
  • Azure resource management
  • Skilled in ServiceNow tool application within ITIL frameworks
  • Basic data recovery skills

Accomplishments

    Rewarded with “BE ESSENTIAL AWARD” for

    accomplishing all the assigned tasks effectively in IBM.

    Received SEAL (Service Excellence Achievement Letter)

    from Client in Infosys.

    Client Recognition Award at Cognizant for commitment and resolve storage issues on obselete hardware in the environment.

Certification

Amazon Web Services Cloud PractitionerAmazon Web Services Cloud Practitioner

Amazon Web Services (AWS)


Microsoft Certified: Azure FundamentalsMicrosoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

Microsoft

Timeline

Infra Technology Specialist

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
11.2021 - Current

Technical Storage Engineer

Hitachi Vantara
12.2019 - 11.2021

Storage and Backup Administrator

Infosys
11.2018 - 12.2019

Service Delivery Specialist

IBM
05.2015 - 11.2018

Aurora's Scientific Technological And Research Aca

Bachelor of Technology from Electronics And Communication Engineering
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