Kayode S. Elepe

About Kayode S. Elepe

Innovative and highly collaborative Storage, VMware & Cloud Engineer with experience on Implementation and management of multi-vendor, multi-tiered, multi-petabytes Enterprise Storage Systems and with a demonstrated knowledge of • Storage Systems: EMC ( VMAX-1/2/3, PowerMAXs, VNXs, Unity, PowerStore, Isilon, XtremIO, ECS, vPLEX), Pure (FlashArray X-Series, C-Series), NetApp ( FAS, AFF, E-Series, EF-Series), HPE (3PAR, XP7, XP8), IBM ( XIV, SVC, Storwize IBM N-series), Pure ( FlashArray/X20, X50), Converged Infrastructure (vBlock, NetApp HCI, Nutanix), Grafana• Backup Systems: EMC Avamar, EMC Data domain, Commvault.• Storage Migration / DR / Business Continuity: EMC Recoverpoint, SRDF, ONTAP SnapMirror, SyncMirror, MetroCluster, IBM Global Mirror, Metro Mirror, EMC Open replicator• SAN Switches / Fabrics: Cisco MDS, Brocade DCXs• Host Operating Environments: Linux, Windows, VMware, AIX, SUN, HPUX, Microsoft Hyper-V• Storage / SAN Tools: EMC Unisphere, SymCLI, VNX Monitoring & Reporting, OnCommand Insight (OCI), OnCommand (Unified Manager, Performance Manager, System Manager, Cloud Manager) XIV Mgmt GUI (XGUI), XTOP, DSGUI, IBM Storage Manager/DSCLI, Copy Service Manager (CSM), IBM Spectrum Control, EMC PowerPath, ViPR SRM, ECS UI, ECS Sync UI, XtremIO XMS, DCNM, Fabric Manager, BNA, Virtual Wisdom, Web Tools etc.• Virtualization Tool: vCenter Manager, vSphere Client, Web Client, vCenter Operation Manager (VCOP), vCenter Update manager, SRM etc.• Cloud Storage: Cloud Volume ONTAP, Cloud Volume Services, NetApp Private Storage, AWS EBS, AWS EFS, AWS S3, Azure Blob, Azure Files, • Public Cloud Services: AWS EC2, VPC, EKS, Glacier, S3 Intelligent Tiering, EBS, EFS, Azure Instance, Azure Files, Auto scaling, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Application Insights, Azure Operational Insights• Automation / Orchestration Tools: BASH, Professional Certifications EMC Proven Professional - Storage Administrator, Symmetrix Specialist>> EMC - Information Storage Associate (EMCISA)>> NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP (NCDA)>> Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)>> Brocade Certified Fabric Designer- 16 Gbps>> VMware Technical Solution Professional (VTSP) Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate Microsoft Certified- Azure Administrator

Experience

1. Snr Storage Engineer

   KellyMitchell Group

   Feb 2019 — Present · Austin, US

   Storage optimization and design across client’s hybrid platforms which include but not limited to NetApp Storage systems (FAS 8200, AFF A700, A300, Pure Storage (FlashArray/X20, X50), EMC (PowerMAXs, XtremIO, Unity) and Cloud Storage Systems (EBS, Cloud Volume, S3, File gateway, EFS). Monitoring, troubleshooting NetApp Filer/Cluster leveraging Statistics CLI (sysstat, ifstat, statit commands. Storage management which include Performance tuning, CIFS/NFS and multiprotocol provisioning, defining Quotas, configuring export policies and snapshot schedules. Data Protection design, planning and implementation leveraging SnapMirror, SnapVault on NetApp and SnapVX, SRDF on Day-to-Day Storage management which include Performance tuning, CIFS/NFS & multiprotocol provisioning, defining Quotas, configuring export policies and snapshot schedules Data Protection design, planning and implementation leveraging SnapMirror, SnapVault on NetApp and SnapVX, SRDF on Managing virtual machines, datastores, RDMs through features such as DRS, vMotion, Storage vMotion etc. in vCenter Performance monitoring of VMWare environment using vSphere client and web client. Administration, monitoring and implementation of Dell/EMC VMAX, PowerMAX, XtremIO. Developed, implemented Ansible modules, creating volumes, user roles, Qtrees, aggregates, LUNs, snapshot policy, volume autosize, hosts, host groups, volume clone, lun_copy, lun_map, schedule jobs. Consolidation and Refresh activities on EMC VMAX3/NETAPP CDOT and data protection using SnapVX, SnapMirror Created NFS Shares in SVM, Volumes, aggregates, Interface group ensuring effective performance by moving volumes across from one aggregate to another in NetApp FAS running ONTAP. Migrated or Rehost Volumes from one SVM to another SVM in ONTAP 9. Deploying Cloud Volume ONTAP HA for Disaster Recovery Solutions and as a Business continuity plan.

Education

• University of Lagos

  Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2006 — 2011

• Colorado Technical University

  Master’s Degree, Information Technology (MSIT) Security Management

  2015 — 2017

Skills

• Big Data
• Cisco Technologies
• Vmware Esx
• Solaris
• Linux
• Virtualization
• Disaster Recovery
• Software Installation
• Cloud Computing
• Operating Systems
• Microsoft Office
• Vmware Vsphere
• Networking
• Vmware
• Storage Area Networks
• Troubleshooting
• San
• Vmware Infrastructure
• Project Management
• Graphic Design
• Storage
• Cluster
• Emc Storage
• Creative Writing
• Data Center
• Data Lakes
• Windows Server
• Storage Area Network (San)
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Nas