Vinayak Pandey

Senior Technology Consultant @ Exa AG

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

About

Challenges are the new constant and I love the cluster of them. > Handle Operation tasks like Monitoring/Alert handling, Incident Management, Change Management, System Installation, Provisioning, Life Cycle Management activities like Hotfixes/Patches and Upgrades for SAP systems, SuSe linux and Windows Servers > Working with product development team to support development landscape PoC and demo landscapes > SAP S/4HANA Deployment, upgrade and administration. > SAP HANA 2.0, 1.0 - SAP HANA System Replication for disaster recovery and system rename/copy, Deployment, upgrade, AFL install & version upgrade,administration, performance monitoring and optimization, XSA cockpit setup, Administration and monitoring using HANA Studio and HANA Cockpit, System refresh using database backup and restore > SAP BASIS– SAP NetWeaver installation, version upgrade,administration. STMS configuration, User and profile management, Kernel upgrades, OSS notes, client copy (local, remote, import/export). > Up-to-date installations via Maintenance planner,SWPM & SUM tools. Update systems using Software Update Manager (SUM) and SPAM, add-on installation using SAINT and lifecycle manager for SAP HANA. > Disaster recovery plan implemented and executed for ISO task: Restoration of ERP on HANA 2.0 in Microsoft Azure > VMware ESXi 6.x and vCenter6.x standalone installation and configuration on bare metal servers for virtualization of SAP systems > Installation, Migration and administration of SAP instances on Microsoft Azure > Storage - NAS configuration for SAP infra backend ie. HANA database data, log and catalog backups, central transport directory path for SAP AS > Network - Configure,Maintain and Troubleshoot Layer 3 network devices for Multiple branch locations, apply access policies, Implemented SSL client-to-site VPN for connection to private cloud, implemented Point-to-site VPN connection with Azure AD authentication on Microsoft Azure > Onsite travel for setup of on-premise infra for datacenter and SAP virtualization

Experience

  • EXA AG (10 yrs 7 mos)
    • Senior Technology Consultant
      Jan 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 6 mos

    • Senior Technology Consultant
      Sep 2019 - Sep 2019 · 1 mo

      Onsite travel for setup of on-premise server and virtualization of SAP servers

    • Technology Consultant
      Nov 2017 - Dec 2017 · 2 mos

      Onsite travel for setup of on-premise infra for private datacenter and virtualization setup for SAP instances of Netweaver 7.5, ERP 6.0 on HANA 2.0 SPS02, S4HANA 1709, HANA 2.0 SPS02

  • SecureXperts (1 yr 6 mos)
    • Support Engineer
      Feb 2015 - Dec 2015 · 11 mos

    • IT and Network Support (OJT)
      Jul 2014 - Jan 2015 · 7 mos

  • Technical Support Trainee at Allianz Telecom LLC
    May 2013 - Jun 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Intern at ONGC
    May 2012 - Jul 2012 · 3 mos