Prajith PS, Associate Infrastructure Architect

Prajith PS

Associate Infrastructure Architect

DXC

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Information Technology
Experience
16 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 10 Months

Associate Infrastructure Architect at DXC
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since January 2016

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Designing & Driving Transformation of scalable, highly available solutions with DR capability for
global customers around on-premises data centre, converged and hyper converged infra, Hybrid & public cloud platforms
• Analyze and define clients' business strategy and determine system architecture requirements to achieve business goals.
• Formulate strategic plans for component development to sustain future project objectives.
• Gather detailed business requirements and use cases, and translate technical specifications into
product requirements.
• Create team strategies and establish project scopes of work; communicate project deliverable timeframes and benchmarks to clients.
• Suggest architectural improvements, design, and integration solutions, and formulate
methodologies to optimize object-oriented software and database development.
• Create IT Infrastructure HLD/ LLD design documents, Build documents, BOMs for Customer environments.
• Worked as Lead Infrastructure Architect for various transformation build and migration projects.
• Meetings with customer team, Enterprise Architects and Operations Management service owners to assess and plan the design and implementation of infrastructure platforms.
• Coordinating with Client, Vendors and all other required stakeholders during project lifecycle.
• Defining capacity needs and implementation/migration plans for target IT infrastructure
• Design and implementation of virtualization platforms VMWare vSphere
• Implementing hyperconverged and converge solutions
• Automating tasks with Shell and PowerCLI scripting
• Providing Level Three support for virtualization and compute layer.
• Implemented security baseline on all the vblocks in the infrastructure.
• Works on complex assignments where independent action and a high degree of initiative are required in resolving problems and developing recommendations.
• Perform installations, patches, upgrades, capacity planning and performance tuning, through approved change management mechanisms and following ITIL service management standards.
• Taking up Escalations and Performing RCA on Escalated issues.
• Organize end user training and problem analysis for server, desktop, and IT infrastructure work.
• Write and implement new server, DevOps tools and application standards. Key Achievements:
• Automated repeated tasks and achieved 30% reduction tickets/tasks, which intern reduced human eforts and errors
• Successfully migrated one of the large FMCG customer IT infrastructure from in house datacentre to Microsoft Azure cloud platform
• Delivered multiple trainings inside organization and mentored employees
• Handled college graduates on boarding to projects and made sure they are ready
• Rearchitected existing legacy applications to leverage critical services of cloud platforms to eliminate infrastructure operations and costs, leading reduction in data centre footprint and dependency across the enterprise
• Participated in one of largest ransomware attack remediation activity. Restored the server services within stipulated time frame
• Migrated several applications to containerization platforms
• Documented all common issue troubleshooting steps and work/operating procedures

Senior Tech Support Engineer at India Private Limited
  • India
  • November 2008 to June 2016

Roles and Responsibilities:
• Accountable for handling any customer escalations related to Data Protection Suit (Backup and Recovery) product line
• Providing technical support to customers for EMC Backup and Storage products like NetWorker, Avamar and Data Domain, VNX, Isilon
• Implementing backup and storage infrastructure for clients
• Helping customers in disaster recovery and live disaster recovery and DU/DL scenarios
• Working on Data Unavailability and Data Loss issues and making sure customer service is up and running within set SLA
• Working on Disaster Recovery scenarios and Disaster Recovery tests
• Helping customers to set up backup and storage environment with defined RPO, RTO and to meet defined SLA requirements
• Integrating third-party databases and applications like MSSQL, MS Exchange, SAP, Oracle, SharePoint, NDMP and other major modules
• Handling DU/DL situations, performing Disaster Recovery of Backup servers and application servers
• Troubleshooting storage, host and network-related issues. Working with the engineering team and vendor.
• Training clients, users, colleagues, and new joiners.
• Working with Presales whenever required
• Collaborating with third-party vendors and partners to provide custom solutions to customers

Data Center Engineer at Network Solutions Private Limited
  • India
  • June 2006 to May 2007

Deputed at client site HP GDIC, Bangalore
• I was part of the team which provided level 1 technical support and hands and eye coordination for all Data Center and Network operation centers, daily operations.
• Gained very good knowledge on DC management and physical hardware
• Gained good knowledge on vendor management and
• Handled asset inventory and management for HPs DC comprising of various vendor hardware

Education

Master's degree, Information Technology
  • at Himalayan University
  • June 2016

Specialties & Skills

Storage Solutions
Storage Area Networks
Legato Networker
Designing
Implementation
MANAGEMENT
TROUBLESHOOTING (PROBLEM SOLVING)
INFRASTRUCTURE
CONTAINERIZATION
CUSTOMER SERVICE
INTEGRATION
OPERATIONS
BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
Cyber Recovery
Backup and Storage

Languages

Kannada
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Malayalam
Expert
English
Expert
Tamil
Expert

Training and Certifications

DELL EMC Implementation Engineer (EMCIE) – NetWorker, VNX, Data Domain (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2016
Microsoft Azure Infrastructure and Deployment (AZ-104) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2023
EMC Information and Storage Management (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2017
VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (NSX) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2023
VMware Certified Professional - vSAN Specialist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2023
VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 5.1, 6, 7.x (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2022