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Lalith Toram

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Storage and Backup Administrator specializing in enterprise storage, backups, and recovery readiness.

India

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a role where I can own enterprise storage and backup operations end to end—monitoring, upgrades, onboarding, and recovery validation—while improving automation, documentation (SOPs), and audit readiness in a collaborative IT team.

I’m a Storage and Backup Administrator with around 1.7 years of hands-on experience at Accenture, supporting a Fortune 500 client (GAP Inc.) across global operations. I administer enterprise storage arrays—NetApp ONTAP, Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage, and Dell EMC XtremIO—handling volume and LUN provisioning, health checks, and performance validation for production and non-production systems on Windows and Linux.

I’m also deeply involved in backup operations and recovery validation, working with Cohesity and Rubrik to run protection policies, SLAs, monitoring, and restore checks. I’ve onboarded over 1,000 servers onto Rubrik across Azure and OCI and completed rollout work within a 3-day timeline by standardizing configurations and confirming first and recurring backups ran cleanly. I keep services online during software/firmware upgrades through careful pre-upgrade health checks, configuration backups, and change-window execution.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Storage & Backup Admin

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Accenture

Nov 2024 - Present (1 year 7 months)

Administered NetApp ONTAP, Dell PowerStore, Pure Storage, and Dell EMC XtremIO storage arrays, performing volume/LUN provisioning, health/performance validation, and software/firmware upgrades while keeping production online with no data loss. Onboarded 1,000+ servers to Rubrik within a 3-day rollout, managed Cohesity/Rubrik protection policies and monitoring with integrity/restore checks, and inv

NetApp PowerStore Pure Storage EMC XtremIO Cohesity Rubrik Grafana Nagios

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Kalasalingam University

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Business Analytics & Supply Chain Management

2024 -

Activities and societies: AWS-based BI project recognized by the Head of Department.

Pursuing an MBA with focus on business analytics, operations management, and business strategy. Led an AWS-based BI project recognized by the Head of Department.

Aditya Degree College

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2020 - 2023

Activities and societies: Built full-stack web app “Terra,” selected to represent 300+ students at the college symposium.

Completed a B.Sc. in Computer Science covering programming, databases, networking, and operating systems. Built a full-stack web app (“Terra”) selected to represent 300+ students at the college symposium.