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VENKATESWARLU GRANDHI

HYDERABAD

Summary

In quest of a prospective assignment in the domain of SQL DBA and Microsoft Azure SQL Database, AWS with a growth oriented organization.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Database Engineer

Wells Fargo India
2022.09 - Current
  • Maintaining more than 500+ SQL Servers which are in Dedicated and Shared Environments
  • LOB Support for Database Operations - RST
  • Successfully Migrated/Upgraded more than 200+ SQL Servers from 2016 to 2019
  • Managing 500+ databases size of 20 GB to 10 Terabytes
  • Configured and troubleshooting of Log Shipping, Mirroring, Replication and Clustering
  • Configured and troubleshooting of Always on (AG)
  • Automated DB Refresh, SLA & OLA reports and Password Expiry notifications
  • Index Rebuild and Update Statistics, Database Backup/Restore, Data Imports and Exports
  • Health Status report of all the jobs, Database Consistency Checks and Data Encryption
  • Created KB articles, Operational, Release Guide and RCA
  • Worked with business and IT management to explain benefits of design proposals
  • Collaborate with application development teams and operations teams to create synergy leading to successful application delivery
  • Contribute to technical process improvements across a variety of disciplines such as training, CM, Agile, and modern development practices
  • Troubleshooted and resolved deployment/configuration/set up issues and work with appropriate teams to correct any issues
  • Developed large-scale application architectures to meet business requirements in complex environments
  • Educated customers of all sizes on the value proposition of AWS, and participate in deep architectural discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
  • Captured and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS solutions architect
  • Created business continuity disaster recovery, fail-over and run-book documentation
  • Ensured security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions
  • Deployed Amazon Inspector, Macie, Guard Duty and AWS Shield & WAF to enhanced security in the customers AWS production environment
  • Extensive understanding of and ability to solution service offerings across; Infrastructure (including outsourcing best practices, transition, and ITIL)
  • Created new VM templates for several Operating Systems with all the recommended and required settings for optimum performance and efficiency
  • Configured NACL and security groups, thus limiting malicious attacks from blacklisted range IP addresses Shot on OnePlus Sanaged public/private cloud infrastructures, using Amazon Web Services which include EC2, S3, Front, Elastic File System
  • RDS VPC Diar
  • Experience in deploying and monitoring applications on various platforms using Elastic Bean Stalk, setting life cycle policies to back the data from Amazon Web Services AWS S3, RDS, EC2
  • Tuned 20+ applications and improved the performance from 50-90%
  • Implementation of Hosting SQL services in Azure IAAS and PAAS servers
  • Create and configure Logical SQL servers, databases, elastic pools in Azure Cloud
  • Deploy builds on multiple databases in Azure cloud
  • Manually take the schema and data backups of the databases and restore/copy databases and restore deleted databases in Azure cloud
  • Import and Export data within Azure Cloud environment
  • Creating and Managing logins/Access levels in Azure IAAS and PAAS environments
  • Migration of databases from On premise to Azure Cloud environment
  • Setup maintenance plans for databases using Azure Elastic jobs and Azure automation methods
  • Setup Audit and threat detection logs to ensure the security of the databases in Azure cloud and recover any in case required
  • Monitor performance and setup alerts to avoid performance issues occurring on Azure databases
  • Troubleshooting issues occurred with the databases in Azure cloud environment
  • Suggest Cost optimization solutions in Azure PAAS environment
  • Enabling and Managing data masking and encryption in Azure cloud environment
  • Enabling Geo replication to ensure availability of the Azure databases as DR plan
  • Enabling Long time retention backup policy for Azure databases
  • Creation of indexes, Partitions of the data in the Azure databases
  • Monitor the health check of the SQL server and review and apply azure recommendations
  • Enable and manage query store for the azure sql databases.

Technical Manager

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
2013.01 - 2022.08
  • Maintaining more than 600+ SQL Servers which are in Dedicated and Shared Environments
  • Educated customers on the value proposition of AWS and AWS services
  • Built deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud ad
  • Partnered with the sales team to design solutions for customers that drive AWS adoption and revenue
  • Captured and share best-practice knowledge amongst the AWS Solutions Architect team
  • Created business continuity/disaster recovery, fail-over and run-book documentation
  • Ensured security is integrated into all cloud architecture solutions
  • Conducted deep-dive 'hands-on' education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to internal customers considering or already using the AWS cloud
  • Built deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud adv
  • Hands-on experience writing Production-ready automation code to implement solutions with Puppet, Ansi CloudFormation or similar - e.g.: Chef, Terraform
  • Designed of customer's Cloud environments with a focus on AWS and demonstrated technical cloud archit knowledge, playing vital role in the design of production, staging, QA and development Cloud Infrastructure running in 24x7 environments
  • Experience in deploying and monitoring applications on various platforms using Elastic Bean Stalk, setting life cycle policies to back the data from Amazon Web Services AWS S3, RDS, EC2
  • Hands-on knowledge of transitioning clients to the Cloud, i.e., migrations, hybrid co-existence
  • Collaborate across multiple teams to research, architect, engineer, and configure complex cloud solutions to specified requirements in support of global, business critical systems
  • Successfully Migrated/Upgraded more than 200+ SQL Servers from 2005/2008R2 to 2012
  • Successfully Migrated/Upgraded more than 200+ SQL Servers from 2012 to 2016
  • Managing 500+ databases size of 20 GB to 4 Terabytes
  • Configured and troubleshooting of Log Shipping, Mirroring, Replication and Clustering (A/A/P)
  • Automated DB Refresh, SLA & OLA reports and Password Expiry notifications
  • Index Rebuild and Update Statistics, Database Backup/Restore, Data Imports and Exports
  • Health Status report of all the jobs, Database Consistency Checks and Data Encryption
  • Created KB articles, Operational, Release Guide and RCA
  • Tuned 20+ applications and improved the performance from 40-90%
  • Implementation of Hosting SQL services in Azure IAAS and PAAS servers
  • Create and configure Logical SQL servers, databases, elastic pools in Azure Cloud
  • Deploy builds on multiple databases in Azure cloud
  • Manually take the schema and data backups of the databases and restore/copy databases and restore deleted databases in Azure cloud
  • Import and Export data within Azure Cloud environment
  • Creating and Managing logins/Access levels in Azure IAAS and PAAS environments
  • Migration of databases from On premise to Azure Cloud environment
  • Setup maintenance plans for databases using Azure Elastic jobs and Azure automation methods
  • Setup Audit and threat detection logs to ensure the security of the databases in Azure cloud and recover any in case required
  • Monitor performance and setup alerts to avoid performance issues occurring on Azure databases
  • Troubleshooting issues occurred with the databases in Azure cloud environment
  • Suggest Cost optimization solutions in Azure PAAS environment
  • Enabling and Managing data masking and encryption in Azure cloud environment
  • Enabling Geo replication to ensure availability of the Azure databases as DR plan
  • Enabling Long time retention backup policy for Azure databases
  • Creation of indexes, Partitions of the data in the Azure databases
  • Monitor the health check of the SQL server and review and apply azure recommendations
  • Enable and manage query store for the azure sql databases.

Track Lead

HCL
2010.01 - 2013.01

Maintaining more than 500+ SQL Servers which are in Dedicated and Shared Environments

  • Successfully Migrated/Upgraded more than 100+ SQL Servers from 2005/2008R2 to 2012
  • Managing 500+ databases size of 20 GB to 4 Terabytes
  • Configured and troubleshooting of Log Shipping, Mirroring, Replication and Clustering (A/A/P)
  • Automated DB Refresh, SLA & OLA reports and Password Expiry notifications
  • Index Rebuild and Update Statistics, Database Backup/Restore, Data Imports and Exports
  • Health Status report of all the jobs, Database Consistency Checks and Data Encryption
  • Created KB articles, Operational, Release Guide and RCA
  • Tuned 20+ applications and improved the performance from 40-90%.

Software Engineer

Samcomm Technologies (P)Ltd
2006.07 - 2010.01
  • Technical Contribution: Enrolled users with required permission based on their roles
  • Maintaining the availability of database to the team by scheduled backup and restoration
  • Security of database by restricting the permissions to the users
  • Recovering the database after crash
  • Keeping the database in sync at offshore and onsite
  • Point in Time recovery of Database
  • Performance Tuning of Database
  • Administration of Data Base under the Test, dev and Production Environment
  • Query Optimization
  • Database Monitoring
  • Database Refreshing
  • Database Replication.

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology -

Manipal Academy of Higher Education
Manipal

MCA (Master of computer application) -

Sikkim Manipal University
Manipal

Skills

  • SQL Server 2005/2008/2008R2/2012/2014/2016/2017/2019/2022, Microsoft Azure SQL Database
  • Windows Azure, Azure SQL,Azure PowerShell Scripting,VM Provisioning, Platform as a Services(PaaS),and Infrastructure as a Service(IaaS),
  • AWS include EC2, RDS ,S3, Cloud Front, Elastic File System, RDS, VPC, Direct Connect Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail,
  • Windows 2000, 2003,2010,2012 XP, Vista,win7/2021
  • SSIS and SSRS(SQL Server Reporting Services)
  • ASP.Net, HTML and XML
  • SCOM,Actifio,REMEDY,MERCURY,LITE SPEED ,Idera(SQLSAFE),Snow
  • C, C++, C# and VB.Net

Certification

  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in SQL SERVER
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • 533-Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
  • 300- Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate
  • 104-Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
  • 464-Developing Microsoft SQL Server Database
  • ITIL Certified

Projects

Wells Fargo, Project involved in Problem Solving, Supporting, Monitoring and Customizing MultiInstance, Multi Complex SQL Server 2005/2008/2012/2014/2016/2019/2022 Databases and Complex Web applications & Cloud platforms (AWS,AZURE) for Wells Fargo bank, Offshore Sr.Database Administrator - Lead, Sep’2022-tilldate Extended StayAmerica.& Duke–Energy U.S.A, Project involved in Problem Solving, Supporting, Monitoring and Customizing Multi Instance, Multi Complex SQL Server 2005/2008/2012/2014/2016/2019 Databases and Complex Web applications (CMS,IIS & .Net, Java) for ESA & Duke -Energy, Offshore Database Administrator, May’2017-Aug’2022 Kaiser Permanente U.S.A, Project involved in Problem Solving, Supporting, Monitoring and Customizing Multi Instance, Multi Complex SQL Server 2005/2008/2012 Databases and Complex Web applications (CMS,IIS & .Net, Java) for Kaiser Permanente, Database Administrator With currency Upgrade, Jun’2014-May 2017 JnJ(JOHNSON n JOHNSON),U.S.A, Database Administration, Database Administrator With Engineering Team, Jan’13-June ‘14 MERCK, NORTHAMERICA, Database Administration, Database Administrator, Jan’10-March’12 TaxMantra, City of Tucson, Database Administration, Database Administrator, Jan’07-Jan’10 Toyota Financial Services, Administration of Infrastructure Services including Data Base Administration of Toyota Financial services, Database Administrator, Aug’06-Jan’07

Timeline

Senior Database Engineer

Wells Fargo India
2022.09 - Current

Technical Manager

Cognizant Technologies Solutions
2013.01 - 2022.08

Track Lead

HCL
2010.01 - 2013.01

Software Engineer

Samcomm Technologies (P)Ltd
2006.07 - 2010.01

Bachelor of Information Technology -

Manipal Academy of Higher Education

MCA (Master of computer application) -

Sikkim Manipal University
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) in SQL SERVER
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • 533-Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
  • 300- Microsoft Certified: Azure Database Administrator Associate
  • 104-Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
  • 464-Developing Microsoft SQL Server Database
  • ITIL Certified
VENKATESWARLU GRANDHI