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Rahul Kumar

@rahulkumar32

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Senior Storage & Backup Administrator specializing in SAN, NAS and backup solutions.

India

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What I'm looking for

I seek an operationally focused storage/backup role where I can lead capacity planning, improve resilience, manage migrations/upgrades, and collaborate with cross-functional teams in an SLA-driven enterprise environment.

I am a Senior Storage & Backup Administrator with 9+ years of hands-on experience managing SAN, NAS and backup infrastructures across enterprise environments. I have led teams, planned capacity, executed hardware and software upgrades, performed migrations and decommissions, and delivered consistent SLA-driven results while coordinating with stakeholders and vendors.

I have deep operational expertise with HP 3Par, Dell MD/PowerStore, NetApp, Brocade switches, and backup tools such as HP Data Protector, Veeam and DPM. I pride myself on troubleshooting connectivity and zoning issues, producing capacity and health reports, maintaining documentation and driving projects to timely completion.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Senior Technical Support Specialist

Current

OpenText

Feb 2025 - Present (8 months)

Providing senior-level backup and storage support for enterprise environments, leading incident resolution and capacity planning while ensuring SLAs and performing firmware upgrades and health checks.

Capacity Planning Firmware LUN Provisioning Troubleshooting

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Mphasis

Jul 2021 - Feb 2025 (3 years 7 months)

Led backup and storage SME activities including architecture design, team leadership, project planning, capacity management and EOL migrations while coordinating stakeholders and CAB approvals.

Team Leadership NetApp capacity management ITIL

Specialized Senior Infra Administrator

Mphasis

Mar 2018 - Jul 2021 (3 years 4 months)

Managed SAN and backup operations, performed provisioning, zoning, health checks, firmware upgrades and storage decommissioning to maintain availability and meet SLAs.

SAN Administration Zoning Storage Provisioning Backup Firmware Monitoring Troubleshooting

Associate Infra Backup & SAN Admin

Inknowtech

Jul 2016 - Feb 2018 (1 year 7 months)

Executed backup job monitoring, tape library connectivity, LUN reclamation and supported storage provisioning and server installations to sustain backup and storage operations.

LUN Reclamation Storage Provisioning MPIO Backup Tool Administration Troubleshooting

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Birsa Institute of Technology (Trust)

Bachelor of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering

Completed Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering in 2015 from Birsa Institute of Technology (Trust) affiliated to Karnataka State Open University, Mysore.