Aydın Ulakçı

Cloud System Architect

Istanbul, Türkiye

About

I have been managing the Storage and Backup Squad as a System Architech at ING for about 5 years. Long and Short term Budget planning and management (Capex and Opex). Career and human resource planning People Management, Goal setting and performance management, Organizing basic and advanced technical trainings, I follow the technology, provide the necessary infrastructure needs of the bank and create annual budget plans for them. I represent and present the company at external events. I have 15 years of experience in Data Storage Management and 5 years of experience in Cloud Technologies. We are working on architectural design for operational processes to work faster and less costly with automation ( vRA and vRO, Monitoring Integration ( Icinga), Request and Incident Management, Devops, MicroServices (K8s), CMDB, Change Management for Service Know, CA Automic, VSAN, Virtualiazation, etc..). Storage and SAN Administration ; EMC Storage Family, PMAX Series, VMAX Series, DMX800-1000 Series,, EMC ECS( Elastic Cloud Storage) PowerStore, Clarion Series, Unity, Isilon, Vplex, Recover Point, SRDF Star, IBM Storage Family, DS8000 Series, DS4000 Series, Netapp Storage Systems NAS/FAS Series FAS/NAS 8000 Series, Hitachi Content Platform - Hitachi Unified System. HCP500XL, HUS150 Unified System, Pure Storage; PortWorks for Container Architect Management Switch Administration ; Brocade Directors, DCX8000 Director Series, Department Switch Series. Cisco Switchs , MDS9000 Series, MCData, Database Administration; Sybase - MSSQL, Oracle System Administration ; Sun Solaris,IBM Aix, Linux Specialties: System Architech

Experience

  • Professional Services Specialist at Dell Technologies
    Nov 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 8 mos

  • ING (5 yrs 2 mos)
    • Cloud System Architect
      Nov 2019 - Apr 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos

      - Integrating Storage Systems into Automation and Orchestration applications, - Establishing and maintaining relationships with technology and solution providers, - Forecasting, planning, organizing and scaling storage systems, - Determination of architectural designs of storage systems, - Performing employee performance management, preparing business plans, making process management, - To provide in-company trainings and increase awareness, - Orientation, training and mentoring of team members participating in the team, - Managing data center migrations, hardware installations, firmware upgrades, troubleshooting issues, - Designing and implementing the connection, monitoring and security of Storage Systems for 24/7 uptime requirements, - Determination and implementation of Backup, Snapshot and Disaster Recovery strategy,

    • Product Manager
      Mar 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Emc Consultancy at Vodafone
    Oct 2015 - Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Storage Management - Senior System Manager at ING Bank Turkey at ING
    Jul 2013 - Oct 2015 · 2 yrs 4 mos

  • Storage Administrator at HSBC
    Jun 2007 - Jun 2013 · 6 yrs 1 mo

    HSBC Turkey, Middle and High End series, EMC ,IBM and Netapp storage system setup and configuration, and is responsible for updating, renovation and my experience includes Planning, Designing , Implementation and Administration tasks of SAN , NAS and also Business Continuity and DR solutions.. All data storage systems planning, purchasing and is responsible for implementation of the design. All storage systems with EMC Control Center monitoring and performance management to be done. Installing and configuring Brocade and MC Data SAN Switchs. EMC ECC & SYMCLI and IBM DSCLI such as command line and use administrative tools. Manage and provision storage on multiple Enterprise Storage subsystems. Manage/Maintain and update EMC Connectrix directors and modular switches. Servers, connected to the Storage of the system will install the software necessary to provide definitions and makes.(Emc Master agent and Power Path) Disaster Recovery Architecture: Designed and implemented multi-datacenter disaster recovery strategy for the bank to protect mission critical data using EMC's SRDF/Star, IBM's MGM and Netapp SnapMirror Replication capabilities. Lead engineer in implementation and support of EMC Symmetrix disk arrays in support of OLTP, batch processes, Oracle, MSSQL,DB2 and Internet apps in three data centers (SRDF). Implemented the automation of custom storage capacity, utilization, and performance reporting using EMC Control Center and custom scripting . Designed SAN and managed EMC Connectrix (McData,Brocade) fibre channel directors in support of redundant storage network topology for Sun, AIX, and Windows enterprise servers using EMC ESN tools (ECC, Connectrix Manager) and customized scripting.