Devendra Narvariya

About Devendra Narvariya

With 16 years of experience as a Senior Database Engineer and team leader, specializing in MongoDB, DB2, MariaDB, with familiarity in Oracle, MS SQL. Experience in leading teams across multiple locations, driving TOIL reduction and automation, database risk and compliance. Excelled in various roles, leveraging my technical, business, and management skills.Managing large scale development and production database environments, where I am instrumental in team management, performance reviews, DB administration, Database security, Performance and troubleshooting, migrations, managing deliverables, vulnerability management, patching, overlooking database risk, audit and compliance and maintaining high-performance standards.Successfully led a diverse team of around 15 colleagues from various locations, driving performancemanagement and consumer interactions to solve problems and increase client satisfaction. Successfully integrated and streamlined DB Ops for technologies such as MongoDB and MariaDB by cross skilling existing and new DBAs. Achieved a 30%+ reduction in incidents and alerts annually by implementing automation and processimprovements. Extensive experience in installation, configuration, administration, upgrades. Transformed database patching to automated campaigns, reducing manual efforts by 90% quarterly. Review of CVE vulnerabilities in DB and preparation of CVSS scores and finalizing Ratings with CSO team. Led program to deliver SOP KB articles on Incidents/events to the L1/L2 Ops team. Created and standardized number of technical documents, saving time on technical onboarding and environment-specific skills development. Exposure to cloud database platforms on AWS, GCP, Azure for SQL and NoSQL platforms. Experience with Observability Dashboards such as Kibana and ELK stack. Visualization of various database metrics on Kibana. Worked on CI/CD pipelines with use of Jenkins to manage infra using Chef roles and cookbooks integrated via Bitbucket and GitLab. Actively participated in Scrum calls to ensure efficient project delivery within sprint cycles. Coordinated, participated, and managed triages and major incidents in the database area,demonstrating strong skills in handling pressure situations and ensuring minimal downtime. Managed disaster recovery, HA solutions. Reviewing and finalizing DIRP and SRP plans with application SME and its executions. Experience in Replica sets and Sharded clusters. For DB2 experience in HADR and partitioned systems. Skilled in secure builds using SSL, Kerberos, Encryption at rest.

Experience

1. Database Team Manager and Administrator

   Barclays

   Nov 2013 — Present · Pune, IN

   Experience:• Led a diverse team of 15 colleagues supporting database operations, driving performance management and consumer interactions to increase client satisfaction.• Extensive experience in planning, designing, installing, patching, sharding, upgrading, configuring, and performance tuning for DB2, MongoDB, and MariaDB on Linux platforms. Managed disaster recovery, HA solutions, risk & compliance, and backup & recovery. Led database migrations and built DB2 and MongoDB clusters. Ensuring timely patching across large DB infrastructure and sometimes in 30 days during High-Risk vulnerabilities.• Developed automation solutions and TOIL reductions, reducing incidents 30% annually through automations and process improvement. Developed components for end-to-end database automation patching in DB2 and MariaDB, recognized for quarterly achievement awards category.• Managed and supported database migrations across various RDBMS between Homogeneous and Heterogeneous environments. Migrated many DB2 databases from AIX to Linux or to Higher versions. SME support and advise on migration of MariaDB and DB2 environments to Oracle and MS SQL. Tech debt eradications.• Introducing and integrating DBA support for technologies such as MongoDB and MariaDB. Cross-skilling existing and new DBAs in all DB technologies.• Managed database team at Barclays in Pune, India, overseeing DevOps automation using Ansible, Chef, and CI/CD pipelines.• Implemented observability tools like Kibana and Elastic for system monitoring and analysis, enhancing performance.• Led risk management and ITIL frameworks, ensuring efficient change, incident, and problem management processes.• Proficient in using Kibana and Elastic for monitoring, logging, and analyzing system performance. Familiarity with AppDynamics. Netcool, MongoDB Ops manager. Exposure to OpenShift and Docker Desktop.• Experience with AWS EC2, GCP, Azure Lambda, RDS, TSM, BoostFS and Rubrik, CyberArk and Hashicorp

Education

• Shri G S Institute of Technology & Science

  Bachelor's degree

  2004 — 2008

Skills

• Db2
• Pl/Sql
• Unix
• Windows Server
• Itil V3 Foundations Certified
• Java
• Hadr
• Aix
• Dbaas
• Replication
• Sybase Adaptive Server
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Sql
• Linux
• Galera
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Rabbitmq
• Mariadb
• Stored Procedures