Praful Premadas has over 10 years of experience as a storage consultant and 3 years as a DevOps Engineer. He has extensive skills in AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and monitoring tools like Grafana. Praful has worked as a Storage Administrator for several large companies, managing complex storage environments from vendors like EMC, IBM, and HPE. He developed CI/CD pipelines and containerized applications using Docker.
Praful Premadas has over 10 years of experience as a storage consultant and 3 years as a DevOps Engineer. He has extensive skills in AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and monitoring tools like Grafana. Praful has worked as a Storage Administrator for several large companies, managing complex storage environments from vendors like EMC, IBM, and HPE. He developed CI/CD pipelines and containerized applications using Docker.
Praful Premadas has over 10 years of experience as a storage consultant and 3 years as a DevOps Engineer. He has extensive skills in AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and monitoring tools like Grafana. Praful has worked as a Storage Administrator for several large companies, managing complex storage environments from vendors like EMC, IBM, and HPE. He developed CI/CD pipelines and containerized applications using Docker.
Praful Premadas has over 10 years of experience as a storage consultant and 3 years as a DevOps Engineer. He has extensive skills in AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, and monitoring tools like Grafana. Praful has worked as a Storage Administrator for several large companies, managing complex storage environments from vendors like EMC, IBM, and HPE. He developed CI/CD pipelines and containerized applications using Docker.
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Praful Premadas
Email Id: praful.premadas627@gmail.com
Ph: +1-938-444-4249
Professional Summary:
Over 10 years of experience as a storage consultant in enterprise level infrastructure management
3 Years of experience in the field of DevOps Engineer in application configurations, code compilation, packaging, building, automating, managing & releasing code to the production environment Experienced in creating various dash boards, metrics, alarms & notifications for using GCP stack logger, AWS cloud watch & Grafana Hands-on Knowledge on AWS &GCP (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, CLI) compute engine, autoscaling, ELB & EFS Provisioning & maintaining AWS S3/ Google cloud storage buckets using policy management Implemented automation of enterprise class array configuration using ANSIBLE Test solution enabler software versioning using docker containerisation & deployment of embedded solution enablers images in lab environment Implemented a CI/CD pipeline involving Jenkins, Ansible, and Docker, for complete automation from commit to deployment. Extensive knowledge of networking and operating system to carry out assigned administrative tasks Knowledgeable on common SCM practices such as branching & code merge in GIT & GITLAB Hands-on experience on build tools (Maven), Build repository (Nexus) & code quality tools (SonarQube) Provisioned and managed virtual machines, containers & serverless functions using compute engine, APP engine & cloud RUN Monitor ApiGee hybrid using Apigee API monitoring Experienced in bug/Issue tracking tools like JIRA & confluence On-call support along with weekend change planning & implementations.
Developed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for software deployment using tools such as Jenkins Containerised storage software applications using Docker Maintained GIT workflows of array configuration files for version control Managing the complete AWS/GCP life cycle, along with best practices, security, provisioning, and automation Installing new storage frames, performing the initial configuration & publishing it to production environment via ANSIBLE playbooks with roles, group variables & inventory files Managed docker containerisation & deployment of embedded solution enablers images in lab environment Leveraging data from Cost Usage Reports to recommend cost optimization strategies, such as Amazon S3 storage tiers, Amazon EC2 instances, and AWS Lambda resources. Provision, install & configure low to mid-tier lab servers in GCP for testing out the solution enabler functionalities by leveraging compute, autoscaling & VPC to build a secure & scalable lab system Learn the metrics and also monitor the overall usage of several AWS resources with the help of Amazon CloudWatch Provisioning & maintaining Amazon S3/Google cloud storage buckets using policy management Managed / monitored containers using Google cloud run as well as Kubernetes.
Client: IBM India Pvt Ltd (March 2019 – December 2019)
Role: Storage Administrator
SAN/NAS Administration of a VBLOCK converged computing storage environment consists of EMC
Symmetrix VMAX/VMAX3, VNX, HP 3PAR & EMC Isilon array. Provision storage, expand storage to meet the new demand in the capacity as requested by the server team from VMAX, VMAX3, HPE 3PAR Create SMB shares, assign user permissions, set replication in EMC ISILON Perform Disaster recovery per application from the EMC VMAX end and provide the technical specifications like RPO & RTO to the business. Actively perform the performance analysis on devices in case of performance degradation & engage vendor if needed
Client: HCL Technologies (October 2016 – February 2019)
Role: Storage Administrator
SAN Administration of a complex multi-Peta byte storage environment consists of EMC Symmetrix VMAX/VMAX3, VNX, HP 3PAR, HP HANA converged solutions Storage allocation to newly build and existing UNIX, Windows servers/clusters and VMWare ESX environment on VMAX using SYMCLI. Tasks include creation of tdevs, binding tdevs to thin pools, creation of initiator/storage/port groups and creating masking view and enabling bit settings to initiators. Responsible for solving and analysing the break/fix issues in the SAN switches as well as in storage arrays. Implementing Zoning in highly available SAN environment involving configuration and management of Cisco Fabric environment/DCNM. Tasks include creation of device alias, zones, adding zones to zone set and activating zone set. Perform DR testing, analysis and trend of mission critical applications using SRDF technologies on monthly basis and layout the challenges to the business unit of the management. Prepare the feasibility of codes in terms of the adoption rate in CISCO MDS directors and non- disruptively upgrade them to comply the security as well as the functionality challenges in the environment Troubleshooting routine critical issues including performance issue on LUNS, ports availability, meeting zoning requirements, host not seeing storage and storage management problems.
Client: EY (Formerly Ernst & Young): (August 2013 – October 2016)
Role: IT Support Engineer
Provisioning of block storage for Middle East windows servers during the w2k3 to w2k8 hardware refresh project and provide monthly reports of array utilisation. Monitoring the SAN & NAS environment and served as the first point of contact for Storage and Backup issues Perform Volume resize, disk add and LUN resize depending upon the Request from internal customers on VMAX and VNX storage frames Troubleshoot and retaliate the events in the form of incidents, service requests and restore the affected service components by providing a convenient work around.
Certification:
Specialist - Implementation Engineer, PowerMax and VMAX Family Solutions
Specialist -, Symmetrix Solutions VMAX Systems Administrator Version 7.0 Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer Redhat certified system administrator Information Storage Associate Version 3 (EMCISA) CompTIA Storage+ (Powered by SNIA) ITIL foundation 2011
Education:
Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics and Technology - 2013: Anna University, India
