Siva Kumar

Having Around 10+ years of professional experience in Backup Administration with Backup Applications VERITAS Netback up 8.X, 10.X, NBU Appliance 5230/5330 and HP Store Once devices.

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Knowledge on NBU Appliance/HP StoreOnce devices, De-duplication engine, VM backups and restores, NDMP backups and restores, NetBackup Accelerator Backups, Database Backups (Oracle, MSSQL, MYSQL), Restore Process (VM, Physical, Database), Tape Library Management, Cluster Media Servers, SLP backups, MSDP configuration, and cloud-based backups for AWS (Cloud Catalyst Device).

Professional 2 Emerging Practices - DXC Technology - Chennai

(2020-12)

Managed Services for VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) backup provisioning and implementation for production servers.

• As part Backup Provisioning in VPC we will be taking care of Backup Implementation for new provisioned Production servers and adding them into regular backup schedules.
• Modification for existing backups and Backup removals as part of decommission requests.
• Backup implementing for all types such as File system, VM Snapshot, DB backups SQL/ORACLE.
• Backup configuration will done for server/cluster package/cluster.
• Managing the daily Team Meeting and Taking the action for day-to-day activities.
• Troubleshooting and fixing the issues during the Initial backup checks. Like certificate deployment issue, socket issue, DB script/permission issue, DNS issue, connectivity issue
• Weekly meeting with Management to discuss on weekly basis report and addressing the any pending issues and discussion on p1/p2 tickets.
• Performing the restores file level/VM/DB.
• Provide the On-Call Support on Weekend to support for P1, P2 issues.
• Consults with end users to coordinate scheduling of backups and address other Backup and recovery concerns.

Senior Infrastructure Analyst - Wipro Technologies - Chennai

(2018-07 - 2020-05)

Managing the backup team and operations for TAKEDAPHARM client with backup health monitoring and restoration support.

• Managing the Offshore backup Team with 8 team members
• Managing the Daily Operation call and SLC meeting with Customer weekly twice.
• Reviewing the daily backup health check report and environment failure trackers, taking the action accordingly.
• Managing and resolving the consecutive backup failure reports for global and sharing the backup failure status to customer.
• Generating the different kind of backup reports and sending to customer using Opscenter server licenced.
• Preparing IQOQ and SMTD documents
• Configuring/adding the backup into regular backup schedule of new server commissioning and removing the servers from backup as per decommissioning requests.
• Configuring and managing the FS/VM/DB/NDMP type of backups.
• Configuring and managing the Intelligence backup policies of data base backups like Oracle-OIP,SQL-SIP
• Performing backup restores as per requirement DRP, DB level, File level, VM restores, NDMP restores.
• Monitoring the backups and recovering the failed backups.
• Configuring and Managing the SLP Backup.
• Configuring a backup of the NetBackup catalog and perform a basic catalog recovery.
• Based on the client requirement performing the NetBackup Accelerator Backups.
• Tape Management: weekly once ejecting the full tapes and sending to Iron Mountain and inserting the new tapes.
• Performing the Decommission/commissioning process of any Media Servers.
• Performing the software Version upgradation for master /media servers and applying patches for nbu appliances.
• Provide the On-Call Support on Weekend to support for P1,P2 issues
• Configuring the events and notifications.
• Consults with end users to coordinate scheduling of backups and address other Backup and recovery concerns.

Datacenter Operations (Backup/Storage/Server) - UST Global Technologies Pvt Ltd (USTIPL) - Chennai

(2015-06 - 2017-12)

Managing backup policies, schedules, and recovery operations for MCGM Datacentre including storage array management and L1/L2 support.

• Managing and Configuring the backup Policies and Schedules as per the Customer/Client requirements for backing up the client/server data.
• Monitoring the backups and recovering failed backups.
• Working on restoring backups based on requirement.
• Configuring and Managing the NDMP backups for locally/remotely.
• Configuring and Managing the database backup for SQL/ORACLE databases.
• Configuring and Managing the VM backups.
• Configuring and Managing the SLP Backup.
• Configuring a backup of the NetBackup catalog and perform a basic catalog recovery.
• Based on the client requirement performing the NetBackup Accelerator Backups.
• Tape Management(Sending tapes to VRI after completed the Daily, Weekly, Monthly Vaulting, and receive Tapes from VRI on daily basis)
• Performing the Decommission process of any Media Servers.
• Performing the software Version up gradation for master/media servers and applying patches for NBU Appliances.
• Provide the On-Call Support on Weekend to support for P1,P2 issues
• Generating the different kind of backup reports and sending to customer.
• Configuring the events and notifications.
• Consults with end users to coordinate scheduling of backups and address other Backup and recovery concerns.
• Daily Health checks on Switches and two sites of Storage Arrays DMX.
• Monitoring the SRDF link for the replication. If its stopped need to resume the connection through command line
• Assign LUNs based on the requirement of (Wintel, Linux, DB) Servers
• Reclaim the LUNs for Decommission servers

Backup Admin - UST Global Technologies Pvt Ltd (USTIPL) - Chennai

(2011-11 - 2015-05)

Backup administration for PEPSICO including policy creation, management, and restoration services.

• Configuring and managing the backups for FS, VMware, Database servers.
• Creating and managing the backup policies and schedules, backup selection as per the client requirements.
• Configuring and Managing the NDMP backups.
• Configuring and Managing the SLP backups.
• Upgrading the master server software versions and applying the patches in case needed.
• Working on the restore backup requests based on the requirement.
• Configuring and scheduling the catalog backups.
• Defining policy attributes using best practices for multi-plexing, multi-streaming and disk-staging to perform faster back-ups and restoration.
• Monitoring the day-to-day backups and resolving the backup failures.
• Analyse problems and escalate to appropriate level.
• Configuring the events and notifications.
• Working with Decommission requests.
• Tape Library Management: Tape rotations, troubleshooting library and drive issues.
• Performing backup server migration activities.
• Generating the different kind of backup reports and sending to customer.

B.E./B.Tech - Engineering - University Of Madras