Ravinder Kumar

About Ravinder Kumar

A Self-Starter, Self-Motivated, Self-Directed professionally qualified versatile person…

Experience

1. Cloud Storage Engineer

   Cognizant

   Jun 2015 — Present

   A Self-Starter, Self-Motivated, Self-Directed professionally qualified versatile person with extensive knowledge and skills in various fields of computer sciences holding more than 15 Years of IT Industry experience which include 6 Years in System Administration, Networking, storage area networks SAN, Backup and Disaster recovery. 6-8 years in Senior storage engineer positions, 2 - 3 year of Linux engineer with high-level problem solving. Excellent organizational skills and multi-tasking ability. Strong customer focus and results oriented. There to learn new technologies and applications. Interoperate with other technical departments. High ability to communicate effectively with internal and external customers, possessing a wide range of technical knowledge. Self-motivated and able to work independently on multiple group projects. Coordinating planning, installing and maintaining the storage systems in multiple data centers and cloud infrastructure including but not limited to NetApp 7 Mode, Cluster mode, AFF, CVOs, CVS, EMC Power Max, Network & VLAN etc. and Netbackup Appliances including Flex and cisco switches/directors, engaged on multiple SAN and Backup upgrade/tech-refreshes integrations implementation, DR planning/implementation and support (site-to-site, offsite, short- and long-term data retention) with varying level of SLA\'s, RPO, RTO, and level of business continuity requirements. Setting up Cloud connector using different type of AWS cloud storage (S3, S3_IA, Glacier etc.) to enable data replication from on-perm to cloud infrastructure and cloud tiering under GCP using fabric pool. Hands on using tool like - Terraform, CI/CD pipeline, Jenkins, GIT HUB, Cloud tiering, Storage life cycle policy, BlueXP, Kibana, Jira, slack, APIs, Uptrend, ELK, Vault secret.