Sujith P

Seasoned Global Storage and Cloud Administrator with over a decade of experience architecting and delivering enterprise-scale Public and Cloud Solutions, With a strong focus on Microsoft Azure. Proven expertise in DevOps practices, Automation, and Infrastructure-As-Code to optimize cloud operations and accelerate deployments. Skilled procurement, financial planning, budget management, business case and roadmap development, and Vendor management. Recognized as a subject matter expert in cloud, Compute, Virtualization, Storage, and Backup Infrastructure. A passionate technology leader driving innovation, resilience, and efficiency across global IT landscapes. 

Experience

12/2024 - Present

Assistant Consultant – Disaster Recovery Consultant – TCS 

• Spearheaded the end-to-end creation and delivery of Disaster Recovery documentations, aligning with business continuity requirements and IT compliance standards
• Conducted regular stakeholder meetings with service owners, application support teams, and infrastructure SMEs to gather, validate, and refine DR requirements
• Acted as the primary liaison between technical teams and business users to translate complex DR needs into clear, actionable, and audit ready documentation.
• Tailored DR plans to match the unique recovery objectives (RPO/RTO) and compliance expectations of each application across cloud (SaaS), On-prem and hybrid environments. 

10/2019 – 10/2024 

Senior Support Engineer - Storage and Cloud

Wipro | Chennai, India 

Cloud - ANF and GCP CVO

• Creating and managing Azure NetApp Storage accounts.
• Configuring Azure NetApp Pool and Volume, including resizing and adjusting throughput as needed.
• Enabling replication by using Cross Zone replication feature.
• Execute native snapshots and utilizing the AZACSNAP tool.
• Verifying and updating Client and Secret IDs for seamless, uninterrupted operations.
• Establishing NFS and SMB shares in CVO.
• Creating Qtrees and enabling Quotas based on specified requirements.
• Diagnosing and troubleshooting permission issues in CVO.
• Conducting on-premises to cloud data migration using robocopy.

Devices located on site.

• Administering and sustaining on-premises storage arrays, including VNX, VMAX40K and 20K, VMAX 250F, XtremIO, Isilon, Unity, and Dell SCV, alongside the CISC MDS switch.
• Implement volume provisioning in adherence to Change ITIL policy.
• Implement thin pool creation and expansion procedures for enhanced storage efficiency.
• Managed volume deletion in alignment with the decommission change process.
• Conduct zero space reclamation in VMAX based on specific requirements.
• SRDF configuration and actively participated in all Disaster Recovery (DR) planning and testing.
• VMAX fast policy creation, addition, and removal of tiers, while effectively limiting tier usage.
• Creation of device group and enabling the data copy.
• Establish and expand storage groups and volumes in XtremIO.
• Monitor Counters and strategically planned storage controller reboots.
• Plan and execute controller reboots in XtremIO with precision.
• Coordinate with vendors to routinely replace faulty parts, ensuring system reliability.
• Create NFS and SMB shares in Isilon.
• Manage share permissions and quotas on Isilon.
• Conduct housekeeping activities on Isilon technology.
• Diagnose and resolve hardware-related issues in Isilon storage systems, adhering to vendor guidelines and best practices.
• Configure and Manage data protection mechanism in isilon clusters, including snapshots, replication, and backup, to uphold data integrity, availability and recoverability.
• Establish zones for the new devices, activate syslog communication in Cisco MDS switches, and oversee the creation and administration of user access to the fabric.

04/2018 - 10/2019 

Snr. Storage Support Engineer

ObjectWin Technology | Chennai 

• Analyze storage allocation requests for EMC VNX, VMAX, and XtremIO storage arrays, considering the nature of requirements, availability, and feasibility. Adhere to the ITIL process for allocation.
• Managing file systems and file permissions on Isilon clusters including Share creation, deletion, modification, access controls and quota management.
• Configuring and managing data protection mechanisms in Isilon clusters, such as snapshots, replication, and backup, to ensure data integrity, availability, and recoverability.
• Diagnosing and resolving hardware-related issues in Isilon storage systems, such as drive failures, node failures, and hardware replacements, following vendor guidelines and best practices.
• Developing and executing housekeeping activities for Isilon technology.
• Developed and executed comprehensive disaster recovery plans using EMC RecoverPoint technology.
• Conducted regular testing and validation of recovery plans to ensure data integrity and minimal downtime.

02/2017 - 02/2018 

Snr. Storage and Backup engineer 

Abdulla GN. Al –Omairi EST | Dammam, Saudi Arabia 

• Monitor and analyze storage usage trends.
• Plan for future storage requirements and expansion.
• Storage provisioning in Pure storage.
• Create Backup Jobs in Networker based on the demand.
• Deploy zoning configurations on Brocade SAN switches.

06/2013 - 01/2017 

Storage Admin

Fidelity National Financial | Bangalore, India 

• EMC Clariion, VNX, and Symmetrix administration including storage provisioning and monitoring.
• Monitor and optimize the performance of VNX and Clariion systems.
• Perform daily health checks on Pure Storage FlashArray (Capacity, Alerts, and replication status)
• Routine volume provisioning, expansion and snapshot creation as per the request in Pure storage FlashArray.
• Implement changes to storage configurations, following change management processes.
• Ensure changes are documented and communicated appropriately.
• Evaluate storage capacity and plan for future growth.
• Conduct regular testing of disaster recovery procedures.

2011 

Calicut University | Calicut

Bachelor of commerce :