Prasanth Butti

Accomplished L3 Storage & Backup Engineer with 4.3+ years of hands-on experience managing petabyte-scale enterprise SAN/NAS environments for Deutsche Bank — a Tier-1 global financial services client (via DXC Technology). Deep expertise in HPE 3PAR, Dell EMC VMAX/VMAX3/VMAX AFA/PowerMax, Pure Storage FlashArray, and NetApp FAS/AFF platforms. Proven in SAN fabric management (Brocade & Cisco MDS), SRDF replication (sync/async), LUN provisioning, capacity planning, and enterprise backup administration (NetBackup, Commvault, Veeam, Avamar, TSM).

Strong incident ownership, vendor coordination, and ITIL-aligned change management experience in 24x7 mission-critical production environments. Actively seeking L3/Senior Storage Engineer roles in Hyderabad, Bangalore, or Chennai.

Storage Engineer L3 (Analyst II) - DXC Technology - Chennai, India

(2022-02)

Client: Deutsche Bank (Tier-1 Global Financial Services). Total Experience: 4.3 Years. Notice Period: 90 Days (Negotiable / Early Joining Possible).

• Administered HPE 3PAR arrays end-to-end: storage provisioning, SSMC GUI and CLI administration, firmware coordination, performance optimization, and vendor escalation management.
• Managed host connectivity, SAN zoning, LUN presentation, and iSCSI initiator configuration for Windows and Linux (RHEL) servers via Brocade FC fabric.
• Configured and validated MPIO (multipath-tools / device-mapper) on RHEL hosts for path redundancy and failover assurance.
• Working knowledge of HPE Alletra and Primera platforms — architecture, SSMC management interface, and provisioning workflows.
• Managed Brocade and Cisco MDS SAN fabric across 20+ switches: zoning, alias/zone-set config, ISL monitoring, switch diagnostics, and config backups/restores.
• Performed Brocade firmware upgrades, configupload/configdownload, fabric troubleshooting; resolved port failures and performance bottlenecks.
• Proactively monitored fabric health using DCNM and Virtual Wisdom — resolved issues before production impact.
• Administered VMAX2, VMAX3, VMAX AFA, and PowerMax using Unisphere GUI and Solutions Enabler CLI (v9/v10); provisioned 200+ LUNs across production, UAT, and DR.
• Configured SRDF replication (synchronous and asynchronous); performed quarterly DR failover tests and RDF group troubleshooting for 10+ critical applications.
• Administered Pure Storage FlashArray//X90 R2 and R3: host connectivity, performance tuning, capacity monitoring, vendor escalations via Pure1 Manage.
• Managed NetApp FAS8040 and AFF-A250: NFS/CIFS provisioning, aggregate/volume expansion, health checks, and mount/access issue resolution.
• Administered NetBackup, Commvault, Veeam, Avamar, and TSM — backup catalog maintenance, VSS/agent troubleshooting, media/tape library management.
• Resolved complex backup failures: catalog corruption, agent misconfiguration, VSS errors; owned communication during major backup outages.
• Supported DR drills — snapshot validation, restore tests; contributed RCA inputs identifying recurring failure patterns.
• Provided 24x7 rotational on-call production support; coordinated with HPE, Pure Storage, Dell EMC, NetApp vendor teams for hardware/software resolution.
• End-to-end change management via ServiceNow (SNOW) — ITIL incident, problem, change, and peer review workflows.
• Collaborated with cross-functional infra teams ensuring data center redundancy, HA, and SLA adherence.
• Automated routine storage health checks and reporting using Bash and SYMCLI scripting.
• Mentored junior engineers (G4/G5) on troubleshooting standards and change validation processes.

Master of Computer Applications - MCA - KMM Institute of PG Studies (2022-06 - 2024-04)

Bachelor of Computer Applications - BCA - Shri Gnanambica Degree College (2018-06 - 2021-12)