Exadata, ZDLRA & Oracle EM - IT Architect Specialist
https://arunbavera.wordpress.com, Ex-Oracle, Oracle Enthusiastic.
**WORK EXPERIENCE**
IT Architect Specialist, Infrastructure Cloud Services
FIS Global www.fisglobal.com | Nov 2016 to till date
I spearheaded a comprehensive approach to infrastructure lifecycle management, performance monitoring and data protection, ensuring high availability, efficiency and scalability for highly critical Oracle environments. Achieved 30% infrastructure costs reduction through optimized resource utilization and strategic adoption.
**Infrastructure Lifecycle Management & Monitoring:**
• Owned the architecture and lifecycle management of diverse Oracle assets including Engineered Exadata, Oracle RAC, ZDLRA, ODA, ZFS, and AWS, Azure-based systems.
• Designed & Managed Oracle RAC and ASM Configurations on 107 Exadata Systems, 12 ZDLRA Systems, 20 ODAs, 15 ZFS, ensuring high availability and optimal performance.
• Led the automation of key tasks using tools like Ansible, Resolve, and SNOW.
• Proactively planned and monitored resource utilization with Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, optimizing costs and preventing outages.
• Analyzed different vendors value proposition and cost-effectively procured compute/storage resources, aligning with business growth and saving $1.7M annually.
• Managed and automated installations, patching, monitoring, reporting, drift management, auditing, and security baseline maintenance.
• Developed custom automations using EM monitoring extensions, and BI/OAS reports to optimize operations, gain deeper data insights and improved decision-making.
• Maintained a comprehensive internal Wiki and mentored team members, fostering their technical skills and professional development.
**Data Protection:**
• Implemented Oracle Data Guard and RMAN multi site backups, integrating ZDLRA for 3.5 PB protection.
• Designed a hybrid storage solution with ZDLRA (short-term) and IBM TS4500 Tape Library/ZFS Object Storage (long-term) for 700 Terabytes, streamlining data lifecycle management and reducing costs by 50%.
• Automated data protection tasks and reporting, improving operational efficiency by 60%.
Expertises
Exadata Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance (ZDLRA) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (EMCC) Database