Lucian ŞENDROIU
Bucharest,Romania
Summary
Certified Storage & Backup engineer with more than 9 years of expertise in managing and optimising storage and data protection solutions, including Netapp FAS, Solidfire, Dell VNX/Unity/Powerscale/Isilon, HP3Par, Pure Flash Array, Hitachi G/HNAS, and Veeam/Avamar/DataDomain/Rubrik.
I am offering technical operations and delivery consultancy for mission critical multi-vendor environments (Healthcare, Media Broadcasting, Banking & Finance, International Organizations).
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
4022
4022
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
Core Infrastructure Consultant
United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC)
Remote, Switzerland
07.2024 - 12.2025
- Provided comprehensive technical support to ICC and various United Nations agencies including ICAO, UNDP, WIPO, WFP, IFAD, and WHO as well as other international bases;
- Assisted in the deployment of reliable enterprise-level solutions across a broad technology stack with deep expertise in storage backup, SAN, and computing infrastructure;
- Maintained the lifecycle for data protection and backup tools such as Avamar, Data Domain (DD), ECS, Veeam, and AvePoint;
- Delivered customer service during the new integrations;
- Designed and bootstrapped new storage equipment (Dell Powerstore), planned and executed non-disruptive storage level data migrations.
Sr. Storage & SAN Infrastructure Engineer
Atos IT Solutions and Services
Bucharest, Romania
08.2022 - 07.2024
- Facilitated management of 30 PB of unstructured data stored across 100+ scale-out Dell/EMC Isilon/Powerscale Gen6 nodes for 24x7 healthcare operations in multiprotocol and multitenant environment;
- Developed effective disaster recovery plans, minimising business disruption during unforeseen events;
- Collaborated on IT projects, delivering within timeframes and budget constraints;
- Conducted regular testing to ensure optimal system performance, identifying areas for improvement when necessary;
- Supported management of multiple all-flash arrays in active-active configurations over FC SAN networks;
- Assisted in leveraging SnapIQ, SyncIQ, Superna Eyeglass, InsightIQ, and CloudIQ for data management processes.
Storage & Backup Infrastructure Engineer
Ericsson Telecommunications Romania
Bucharest, Romania
06.2019 - 08.2022
- Managed SAN and storage infrastructure for major broadcasting provider in United Kingdom and global sites including Spain, France, Netherlands, UAE and Australia;
- Supported technical operations involving Hitachi storage systems and Dell/EMC Isilon;
- Managed data protection and backup solutions using Oracle DIV Archive, Rubrik, and Veeam;
- Conducted and supervised hardware procurement, set-up, and configuration to meet project requirements;
- Reduced operational costs through efficient utilisation of cloud services and virtualisation technologies;
- Directed cross-functional teams to accomplish technical aspects of projects.
Enterprise Storage Engineer
Atos IT Solutions and Services
Timis County, Romania
06.2016 - 06.2019
- Assisted in storage administration for Dell/EMC products, including Unity and VNX arrays;
- Supported local and remote replication solutions for disaster recovery using MirrorView, snapshots, and IP Replicator;
- Facilitated storage efficiency technologies like RAID, thin provisioning, and compression;
- Executed storage provisioning and decommissioning tasks across various hosts including Linux, Windows, AIX, and ESX;
- Conducted performance and capacity monitoring alongside reporting activities;
- Performed day-to-day administration and troubleshooting of Brocade SAN infrastructure;
- Managed events, incidents, and change management processes.
Education
Bachelor's degree - Information Technology
Ioan Slavici University of Timisoara
Timișoara, TimisHigh School Diploma - Informatics
High School 'Ecaterina Teodoroiu' Targu-Jiu
Skills
- Netapp FAS, Solidfire, VNX/Unity/Powerscale/Isilon, HP3Par, Pure Flash Array, Hitachi G/HNAS, IBM TSM/Oracle DIVArchive/Rubrik, vmware
- Microsoft Visio
- Strategic planning
- IT infrastructure troubleshooting
- ITIL
- Inventory management
- Problem-solving
- IT architecture
Certification
- Specialist - Implementation Engineer, Unity Solutions Version 1.0
- AWS Partner: Accreditation (Technical)
- VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization 2021
- AWS Partner: Generative AI Essentials (Business)
- Specialist - Systems Administrator, - Isilon Solutions Version 2.0 - Credential ID NQJHKVZR1EF4Q5K6
- Specialist - Implementation Engineer, Unity Solutions Version 1.0 - Credential ID 0K7JRY3Z1MBE1RKL
Languages
English (Professional Working)
Fluent
Timeline
Core Infrastructure Consultant
United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC)
07.2024 - 12.2025
Sr. Storage & SAN Infrastructure Engineer
Atos IT Solutions and Services
08.2022 - 07.2024
Storage & Backup Infrastructure Engineer
Ericsson Telecommunications Romania
06.2019 - 08.2022
Enterprise Storage Engineer
Atos IT Solutions and Services
06.2016 - 06.2019
Bachelor's degree - Information Technology
Ioan Slavici University of Timisoara
High School Diploma - Informatics
High School 'Ecaterina Teodoroiu' Targu-Jiu