Srikant R. Gawai

Microsoft Azure

• Expertise in migrations of SAP and NON-SAP to Azure cloud. Transition servers from data centre infrastructure to Azure.
• Implemented high-availability infrastructure architectures in an Enterprise and Cloud environment adhering to DR, Business Continuity, and availability best practices.
• Designed and implemented Security Solutions for the Customer using NVA, Azure Firewall & UDR setup in Azure Environment.
• Designed Network Security Groups (NSGs) to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces (NICs), VMs and subnets.
• Executed technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving identified workloads to Windows.
• Strong Experience working with service provider likes BT, Megaport, and ATT etc. to bring private Express Route connectivity to Azure DC.
• Designing and implementing of network connectivity which cover Site to Site, Point to site from Customer On-premises to Azure Cloud.
• Planning & implementing Azure Backup, Disaster recovery, Failover in Azure Cloud.
• Experienced in Azure IAAS services, Provisioning VM’s, Virtual Hard disks, Virtual Networks, reserved VIP, Azure AD.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration, and Maintenance of Windows 2008/2012R2 Servers.
• Implementation and maintenance of policies of safety (access monitoring, FW / Azure groups of safety...).
• Management of policies of backup and recovery.
• Management of the restore for those services that require disaster and recovery.
• Management of inventory of resources Azure.
• Management of the resource of Azure as Activity log, Access control (AIM), Tags or Locks.
• Management of the configuration of the resource from the portal of Azure.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Expertise in migrations of SAP and NON-SAP workload to AWS cloud using AWS Server Migration Service. Transition servers from data centre infrastructure to AWS.
• Implemented high-availability infrastructure architectures in an Enterprise and Cloud environment adhering to DR, Business Continuity, and availability best practices.
• Designed and implemented Security Solutions for the Customer using NVA & UDR setup in AWS Environment.
• Designed Network Security to control inbound and outbound access to network interfaces, EC2 instances and subnets.
• Executed technical feasibility assessments, solution estimations and proposal development for moving identified workloads to AWS.
• Configure and VPC and AWS Site-to –Site connectivity and enable communication between the VPC and your own on-premises network over an AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection.
• Create a Client VPN endpoint in the same region as the VPC.
• Add a route and add an authorization rule that allows access to the AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection.
• Planning & implementing Backup, Disaster recovery, Failover in AWS cloud.
• Experienced in AWD IAAS services, Provisioning EC2, Virtual Hard disks, Virtual Networks, reserved VIP.

• Storage Administration of a complex multi peta byte storage environment consists of EMC Symmetrix VMAX/DMX4, Clariion arrays
• Storage allocation to new build and existing UNIX, Windows servers/clusters and VMware ESX environment using auto provisioning on V-max using SYMCLI/SMC. Tasks include creation of tdevs, binding tdevs to thin pools, creation of initiator/storage/port groups and creating masking view and enabling bit settings to initiators
• Provisioning storage to existing UNIX, Windows and ESX servers from DMX4/DMX3 arrays using SYMCLI/SMC
• Configuration and management of Cisco Fabric environment. Tasks include creation of device alias, zones, adding zones to zoneset and activating zoneset
• Implemented thin provisioning from VMAX to UNIX (AIX, Solaris and Linux) and Windows2003/2008 (clusters) servers, and VMware ESX Servers

• Performed masking using EMC SymCLI and zoning on Cisco MDS 9509 for DMX3000 Managed and monitored SAN environment with EMC Clariion storage array CX3-40/80 with Brocade 4100, DS-16B2 switch with provisioning and zoning to hosts
• Created meta devices on Symmetrix DMX 3000/2000
• Worked on an EMC Symmetrix 8830 to EMC DMX1000 with SRDF/S -based data migration project in SAN environment for UNIX and Win2003
• Configured different RAID groups and allocated LUNs to storage groups using Navisphere Manager
• Depending upon the host’s request created Meta LUNs or allocated additional LUNs for additional storage and also decommissioned the unused storage to improve resources availability, based on Thin Provisioning
• Non-disruptively Migrated LUNs from one RAID group to another to overcome the performance issues with I/Os in SAN environment
• · Registered new HBAs whenever there is a failure in the HBA of particular host using EMC Navisphere manager

• Configured, Administered and Managed a SAN storage environment of 800 TB, consisting of EMC VMAX, DMX3-4/3000/1000 and Clariion CX 4-240/480/960 Storage arrays, Cisco MDS 9509 director and MDS 9216 switch using SYMCLI, Navisphere Manager, EMC Connectrix manager, Fabric/Device Manager and EMC Control Center
• Storage provisioning and administration of EMC VMAX, Symmetrix and Clariion arrays using SymCLI, SMC 7.0, Navisphere and ECC 6.0
• Implementation of FAST, Virtual and Thin Provisioning on VMAX storage array
• Designed and implemented SAN disaster recovery solutions for Tier-1 storage using SRDF/A Configured different RAID groups and allocated LUNs to storage groups using Navisphere Manager
• Worked on Symmetrix TimeFinder BCV/Clone/Snap, Clariion SnapView snapshot/Clone for multiple point-in-time copies of file systems/databases for backup/test purposes Responsible for the setup of SAN Fabric, comprising of MDS 9506/9216 switches for the expansion of fabric with minimum downtime to the host applications
• Provisioned and Decommissioned SAN storage from DMX 3–4, DMX 3000/1000 and Clariion CX4-240/480/960 for Windows/UNIX hosts using ECC/SYMCLI and Navisphere Manager Maintaining and troubleshooting SAN backup networks, using EMC TimeFinder by configuring diskbased backup using CX series storage

• Managing storage including storage provisioning, performance tuning, adding volumes, assigning ports, data movement, maintenance of severs & troubleshooting problems in environment
• Implemented, administered, and maintained EMC Clariion CX 700/500 systems
• Create RAID Groups, Bind LUNs, and Create Storage Groups using Navisphere Manager