Jagdish Vittal
@jagdishvittal
Senior SAN infrastructure engineer driving resilient, high-performance storage operations.
What I'm looking for
I’m a senior SAN storage and infrastructure expert with 18+ years of experience delivering enterprise-grade storage, backup, and data center operations in high-stakes environments. I’m known for driving operational excellence through strong collaboration and adapting quickly to evolving technical requirements.
Across multiple clients and industries, I’ve designed, implemented, and managed large-scale storage infrastructures—hands-on with PURE, Hitachi, VMAX/PowerMax, Unity, VPLEX, and Cisco/Brocade fabrics. I lead migrations, DR strategies and testing, performance optimization, capacity planning, firmware upgrades, and hardware decommissioning while maintaining stability and uptime.
I also bring deep leadership experience: I’ve led a 14-member team for 24x7 global BAU storage operations, handled Sev1/Sev2 incident response, owned SLA adherence, and led root cause analysis to prevent recurring issues. My background includes end-to-end SAN delivery work, building migration runbooks, and administering Commvault for backup, restores, and replication.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Customized IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd
Jul 2021 - Aug 2025 (4 years 1 month)
Managed and optimized PURE/Hitachi/VNX and Cisco/Brocade SAN infrastructure while administering Commvault backups and coordinating DR drills, snapshot restores, and replication. Planned firmware upgrades, hardware decommissioning, and capacity, and led storage provisioning across Linux, Solaris, Windows, and VMware environments.
Team Lead (Storage Ops)
IBM India Pvt. Ltd
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021 (1 year)
Led a 14-member team delivering BAU storage operations across global data centers, managing PMAX, VMAX3, Unity, VPLEX, XIO, and Isilon storage infrastructure. Owned capacity management, SLA adherence, Sev1/Sev2 incident handling, and executed migrations using Open Replicator, SANCopy, and NDM while managing 24x7 rostering.
Technical Lead - Storage
Broadridge Financial Solutions Pvt Ltd
Oct 2019 - Apr 2020 (6 months)
Handled BAU SAN storage operations across global data centers, managing PMAX, VMAX3, Unity, VPLEX, XIO, and Isilon infrastructure with ownership of capacity management and SLA adherence. Responded to Sev1/Sev2 incidents and executed migrations using Open Replicator, SANCopy, and NDM.
Delivery Specialist - Storage
EMC Data Storage Systems
Aug 2013 - Oct 2019 (6 years 2 months)
Delivered end-to-end SAN solutions to enterprise clients including Boeing, Goldman Sachs, and Synchrony Finance. Led array-level migrations (DMX to VMAX, VNX to Unity, and inter-VMAX transitions), created migration runbooks, and used Elab Navigator to perform RCA that enabled a vendor patch and maintained 99.9% system uptime.
Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Mphasis India Pvt Ltd
May 2010 - Aug 2013 (3 years 3 months)
Enhanced security through regular vulnerability assessments and timely patch management. Collaborated on comprehensive disaster recovery plans for business continuity, mentored junior team members, and balanced workloads across virtualization environments to improve resource utilization and reduce operational expenses.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Madras
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science & Technology
Grade: GPA: 75%
Earned an M.Sc. in Computer Science & Technology (GPA 75%) from the University of Madras in 2006.
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