SUMANTH GERA
Hyderabad
Summary
Experienced Senior Systems Engineer with expertise in storage and backup technologies. Managed diverse storage systems and contributed as Storage and Backup Administration in various storage and backup technologies like NetApp Storage ,Dell Unity Storage , Dell DataDomain Storage, Rubrik Backup, Commvault, Azure, Pure Storage, Nasuni Storage, and Nimble Storage. Excited about leveraging technical skills to drive innovation and efficiency in new opportunities.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Systems Engineer
VALUELABS
Hyderabad
01.2025 - Current
- 3.5+ years Proficient Experience on NetApp ONTAP, SAN/NAS configurations, data replication, and disaster recovery. Skilled in optimizing storage performance, ensuring data availability, and providing 24/7 support for mission-critical systems. Strong expertise in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and reliable storage infrastructure.
- Managed and sustained NetApp FAS/AFF storage systems, guaranteeing 99.99% uptime.
- Configured SnapMirror and SnapVault systems to support cross-site data replication.
- Designed and implemented NetApp SAN/NAS solutions for enterprise clients, ensuring scalability and performance.
- Managed user quotas, volume provisioning, and file-level permissions for NAS environments.
- Configured and maintained Fibre Channel and iSCSI SAN environments, supporting mission-critical applications
- Assisted in the deployment of VMware vSphere environments, optimizing storage performance for virtual machines.
- Monitor storage capacity and performance using OnCommand System Manager and Active IQ, proactively addressing potential issues.
- Monitored system health and performance, generating reports for management review.
- Participated in disaster recovery drills, ensuring readiness for business continuity scenarios..
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (TCS)
Hyderabad
12.2021 - 01.2025
- 3 years of experience in IT industry as a Storage (NetApp, Dell EMC, Dell DataDomain, PURE Storage, NASUNI storage) and Backup Recovery (Commvault) Administrator, Cloud Administrator (Azure), VMware Administrator in TATA Consultancy Services
- Configured volumes and qtrees on NetApp filers
- Configured NFS and CIFS shares from NetApp Filers
- Worked with Team in upgrading DATA ONTAP from 9.11.1P8 to 9.13.1P110 on over 200+ nodes
- Implementing provision requests from clients for NFS/CIFS shares, configurations, and managing permissions.
- Worked with NetApp technical support on various maintenance issues
- Documented the bugs and their workarounds and solutions with NetApp KB articles
- Facilitated weekly meetings with team, managers, and clients to ensure regular updates were provided
- Configured and maintained Snapshot backups export policies based on client requirements.
- Configured and managed SnapMirror for data replication across multiple locations.
- Established seamless data transfer for Disaster Recovery using SnapMirror replication
- Managed storage and backup systems to ensure data availability and integrity
- Configured and maintained storage arrays, achieving 99.9% uptime with redundancy
- Seasoned professional in NetApp ONTAP system upgrades, patching, security hardening, and monitoring of 64 clusters and 116 nodes in various global locations
- Seasoned Professional in Dell EMC Unity storage OE upgrades
- Seasoned Professional in Dell Data Domain OS upgrades
- Diagnosed and solved hardware, software, network and storage related problems
Rubrik Backup Administrator
VALUELABS
- Maintained and managed Rubrik clusters, backup policies, storage repositories, replication configurations.
- Ensured data protection and backup efficiency by monitoring Rubrik systems proactively.
- Managed configuration changes by adding and removing new servers to SLAs.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define and implement backup and recovery strategies, ensuring compliance with data retention policies and regulatory requirements.
- Configure and manage data protection policies and schedules, including backup, replication, and archival processes, to meet business needs and recovery objectives.
- Troubleshoot and resolve any technical issues related to Rubrik data protection and backup infrastructure, working closely with vendors and internal teams as needed.
- Conduct regular backups, test data recovery procedures, and perform periodic disaster recovery drills to validate the effectiveness of backup and restore operations.
- Staying up-to-date with the latest advancements in Rubrik technologies, attending training sessions and acquiring certifications to enhance your expertise and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
- Provided technical guidance and support to junior administrators or team members, fostering knowledge sharing and collaboration within the IT team.
- Documented system configurations, processes, and procedures, ensuring the availability of accurate and up-to-date technical documentation.
BACKUP Administrator (COMMVAULT)
- Supported server infrastructure spanning multiple operating systems including Windows, UNIX, and Linux
- Creating schedule and storage policies as per the client's requests
- Worked on three Backup Destinations storage system, cloud disk, and tape libraries
- Worked on customers' requests to add, remove, or modify backups and on restores of data
- Working as a SPOC and handling the shift, and sending reports to leads
- Experience in resolving all incident tickets that are getting generated due to issues on Master/media servers, as well as on clients
- Working on Quantum Scalar 16000 tape libraries in the environment and ensuring to work on alerts on priority related to the tape library for NDMP backups
- Experienced on troubleshooting with vendors if there is any issue related to tape libraries on a priority basis
- Following up with server owners if backups fail for clients due to hardware or network issues on the client
- Worked on Tape Drive down and media alerts
- Working on various reports like tape drive status, Offline clients reports, backup incident report, Compliance report
- Working on documentation part to build SOPs for various alerts or errors, if we do not have a procedure for that
Education
B.Tech/B.E. -
SRM University
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India05.2020
12th -
Sri Chaitanya Junior College
Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India04.2016
10th -
Sri Gurudatta High School
Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, India04.2014
Skills
- NetApp Storage Administration
- Commvault Backup Administration
- Rubrik Backup Administration
- Azure Storage Management
- Pure storage
- Nasuni storage
- Nimble storage
- Data domain
- EMC Unity
- VMware
- Service Now Ticketing
- Azure Devops Boards
Projects
- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) provisioned and administered various storage appliances (NetApp, EMC Unity, EMC Data Domain, Pure Storage, Nimble Storage) for client servers, and ensured regular maintenance of backups using Commvault-managed backups for client servers to ensure data integrity and availability
- Ultimate Medical Academy ( UMA ), Tampa , Florida - Provisioning Storage and Maintaining Backups for Client Environment to Ensure Data Integrity and Availability by Utilizing NetApp and Azure as storage solution and Rubik Security cloud as Backup Solution.
Languages
- English
- Hindi
- Telugu
Timeline
Senior Systems Engineer
VALUELABS
01.2025 - Current
SYSTEMS ENGINEER
TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES (TCS)
12.2021 - 01.2025
BACKUP Administrator (COMMVAULT)
Rubrik Backup Administrator
VALUELABS
B.Tech/B.E. -
SRM University
12th -
Sri Chaitanya Junior College
10th -
Sri Gurudatta High School