SUMMARY:

• Over 20+ years of IT experience. Having 15+ years of Unix, Linux, SunOS Sun Solaris and Solaris 11. Experience in System Administration Having SUN Solaris, Red Hat, Network Appliance Filer Administration. Extensively worked on administering NIS+, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Jumpstart, Kickstart, CIFS, NFS, Block level SAN, NAS RAID, Raid - DP, Deduplication, Shadow migration, Zpool, Netbackup, LDAP, SUN Cluster, EMC Vmax, Netapp FAS8020/FAS8040 and Oracle unified storage 7000 Series.
• Planed and executed successful completion of Systems availability to live from concept, Requirements gathering, Systems design, Metrics Development, Tools/Platform Evaluation and Testing, Building POC Environment, Performance and Availability analysis, Managing initial deployments, documenting processes.
• Extensive experience in Providing Functional and technical analysis related to design and development, user support, Production Support and implementing Projects.
• Apply in-depth understanding of Business and IT requirements to streamline internal processes resulting in enhanced operations.
• Created and implemented project specification plans for projects with significant inter-dependency with other systems and projects.
• Diverse experience in performing datacenter, Infrastructure, Application Migrations and Performing Pre and Post Migration audits.
• Worked to plan and coordinate with Change Management Process to Roll out new releases, hot fixes, Validation Process for test Cycle for system functionality after release rollouts, hotfixes.
• Adaptive Confidential building strong working relationship with end users, and co-workers. worked though Complex Troubleshooting Production support trouble tickets/Cases reported by user..
• Extensively worked as lead on Managing and Supporting Test, Development and Production Environments 24/7 having infrastructure with Redhat enterprise Linux, Solaris 10, Oracle hardware, Oracle Appliance 7000 series, Netapp FAS8040-dual controller and Oracle DB across multiple datacenters supporting application with Apache, Weblogic, Tomcat, hosted on Virtual Servers with OVM / Vmware and solaris zones.
• Worked extensively as team lead/player on planning and working with multiple teams like QA, SCM, ASE, infrastructure Architects, Networking and DBA Teams for successfully executing the completion of Environment Upgrades and Migration between datacenters
• Strengths include Project Management, adaptive to change, client support, troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
• Experienced in working with business partners, customers and cross-functional teams.

CORE STRENGTH:

• Experience in building, configuring and administration of domains and Virtual Zones on Hardware 10K, 12K/15 K Mid Range Servers Sun Fire 6800,4810 and T5140, T5240, M4000M5000, Unified Storage 7000 Series, Netapp FAS8040 / FAS8020.
• Experience in planning and executing datacenter Migration with cost effective, minimal down time and increased Productivity.
• Effectively Planed, executed, coordinated cross Teams communications and executive reporting for complex Storage Migration for Environment with apache as Web tier, BEA/weblogic / Tomcat as middle tier / Oracle 10g as Database.
• Successfully Planed, executed and Performed Data / Storage Migration from Oracle Unified Storage 7000 to Netapp FAS8020/FAS8040 for 21 Environments of Test & Prod.
• Effectively Supporting web tier Apache, middle tier Weblogic / Tomcat, Exadata - database Servers and successfully worked through analyze, Build and Configure Netapp NAS /SAN Storage Solution
• Experience in installation, configuration and Migration Process of CIFS / NFS / Block level SAN / NAS creating Zpool, ZFS shares, Shadow Migration, Data Links, Vservers (SVM), Aggregate, LUN, FlexVolumes implementing snapshots, snapmirror for Data Protection and DR Sync, FlexClones.
• Experience in setting up and Supporting HA Clusters for SAN / NAS with Dual Controller ZFS 7420 /7410 and Clustered data ONTAP with 4 nodes cluster.
• Experience in Build, Configuration, build release mgt. and Support of Solaris based Zones / OVM / VMware virtualization /RedHat servers for Upgrade, Patching, optimizing, file system and LVM management.
• Experience in UNIX and LINUX process management and monitoring with native O/S tools Managed engine, Centrify, Opscenter, Aspera, icinga.
• Experience in tasks like Unix kernel optimization, Linux Kernal Proc and sysctl.conf, Storage Optimization monitoring system activity, CPU utility, and virtual memory statistic with Akamai / BMCSoftware / Dynatrace / Managed Engine / Oracle Enterprise Manager (Opscenter).
• Performed Solution and System Design functions and Created network diagrams for OVM / VMware SAN/NAS Connectivity’s.
• Ability to be a team leader in a highly technical real-time environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROTOCOLS: TCP/IP, ICMP, SNMP, POP3/SMTP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, SSL, DNS, FC, FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, SMB.

HARDWARE: PC-486/386/286, Dell PowerEdge 6300, Compaq Proliant, Sun Ultra 30/10/5/2/1, Sun Sparc Station 20/10/5/2/1, Sun Blade Servers X4140 T6320 X6220 X6240 Storage array Sun A1000, Sun D1000/A5200 Sun Storage 9980V, Netapp 940C FAS8020/FAS8040, Oracle Unified Storage 7000 series, Storage Tek L700, Sun Enterprise -420R, 250, 220R,5500,6500, Oracle Fire Server Range 3800/4800/6800 V480 V890 T1000 T2000 X4140, 12K/15K. Sun M9000, Sun M5000, Sun 54420,T5240, T5440 IBM x3850 M5.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Raleigh

Environment: Tomcat, Citrix, Netapp, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Oracle 12c, Solaris. Service Manager, Service Now, agile, CICD- IBM UrbanCode Deploy, web server apache, IIS/.NET, AWS, Virtual Environments (ESX)

DevOps Operations Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working with delivery leads Integrating best practices for continues process Improvement Optimizing Key Performance indicators and automating release reporting by capturing metrics into Dash Board
• Engaged with multi-project Release Plaining, Governance for potential collision, Risk management, orchestration & control for Key Business deliverable like Production stability, enhancing Agility and flexibility
• Centralized Work Intake and release management discipline into more cohesive and efficient operational model defining measurable Key Performance indicators.
• Worked extensively Automating deployment process monitoring of existing infrastructure and Troubleshoot operational infrastructure issues
• Work across multiple Engineering teams to determine long-term vision and design architecture
• Integrating emerging technologies Define and improve new and existing infrastructure for performance monitoring and anomaly detection
• Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills across the full stack to identify and resolve production issues in a timely manner
• Hands on building shell scripting for Automation for deploying hot fixes, patches & code on Unix and Linux.

Confidential, Charlotte

Environment: RedHat Enterprise Linux, Solaris, AIX, Oracle 12c, Weblogic9/10/11/12c, Apache, SunOne, Tomcat, Citrix, EMC Vmax SAN, NetApp FAS 3250, NetApp FAS 8000 Series, NetApp FAS 6240 Series, Data-ONTAP Cluster Mode, Sun M9000, Sun M5000, Sun 54420, T5240, T5440 IBM x3850 M5.

Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work closely across Applications architects, DBA, Network, Monitoring and Change control teams for collecting the requirements for creating NFR.
• Analyzing NFR and translating the information to TRD with defined Scope and intends of the initiative.
• Expand on information from TRD to design and plan strategic Infrastructure Solution for delivering high availability / resilient, manageable scalable & cost effective Infrastructure Solution.
• Drive Infrastructure Monitoring requirement for Monitoring Requirement Definitions (MRD) f and put together definition of hardware standards and best practices for Implementation.
• Plan, coordinate and Schedule time line, execution plan, resource requirements, Needed Checkpoints with clear expectations having prototype & test Plan in Place.
• Work through Build Process and configuration for Server Build, Storage needs and network requirements

Confidential, New York

Environment: Oracle Sun chassis 6000, Blades 6270 and Servers, Exadata, Solaris 10, Red Hat 6.5 Oracle 10G,BEA/Weblogic 9.*/10,Tomcat, X series T series T3/T4 M series, Chasis 6000 /6048, ZFS Oracle Unified Storage 7410/7420/7320/7210 , NetApp FAS8040 / FAS8020,Nexus 5548, CN1610, DS2246, Brocade 6505 24pt, Sun One, Apache, Netscaler, SiteScope / Managed engine / Icinga Monitoring tools, Aspera, Oracle VM 3.2.x,Centrify.

Team Lead Operations

Responsibilities:

• Worked through Stages of Storage requirement, design and analysis for possible solution based on Standard requirements of Availability of 5 ‘nines’, Scalability for incremental requirement, Cloning flexibility for test Environment’s, Replication requirements across the Sites with flexibility of changing direction, Capacity requirements for File Level / Block Level Storage.
• Coordinated Information exchange. Cross Team communications for groups and the Vender (EMC/Oracle/Netapp) for Product (Symmetrix / Centra /FAS62000 series /ZFS 7420 /ZS3-*) assessments.
• Lead through application’s requirements for SAN / NAS / Space / Mount, Documenting the implementation plan for migrating data of the size of 400 TB from Prod / DR /Pre Prod ZFS 7420 ZFS 7410 to Netapp 4 node Cluster FAS8020/DS4246
• Developed and designed the Migration Plan. Tested data migration Scripts with Aspera / Rsync for Migration Speed, Monitoring Progress, network bandwidth, Sync Migration Server requirements.
• Coordinated balanced cross teams communications between Dev, SCM, ASE, DBA Teams and Mgt. for Data Migration requirements with minimal impact to application availability
• Configured 4 node clusters Storage With SVM’s, Mgt. IP for Node/cluster, Data LIF’s and Intercluster LIF’s as defined in Workbook for Netapp Implementation for Prod UK, USA and for Dev Environments.
• Created required SVM’s (2 IP’s & 1 Vsrv mgt IP) / Flexvol / LUN using Raid-DP. Used DEDUP to reorganize data by removing duplicate data.
• Successfully Configured CIFS / NFS for SVM’s presented to windows / Unix Clients.
• Successfully completed the data migration from ZFS Appliance to Netapp Syncing data for Prod, DR & Test Env’s using Rsync, Aspera.
• Implemented network connectivity to enable peering relation between clusters. Configured snapshot, SVM Peering and snapmirror relation as required for Prod sync to DR.
• Migrated the Legacy Workflow from virtual server to Physical Server creating required NIC grouping. Automated Tested and improvised the Legacy Sync Process between Prod ZFS 7410 and DR ZFS 7410 for required Shares and data.
• Designed, Planed and coordinated the implementation for configuration of Block Level SAN Storage for search Engine Attivio
• Created iSCSI- attached LUN. Enabled native multipathing Discovered iSCSI LUN to create Logical Volume on Linux Application Servers
• Lead through the Project initiative of expanding Legacy PROD / DR ZFS 7410 for improving the capacity, performance of data link and Backup link. Performed addition of 2 SAS-2 Disk shelf’s and network reconfiguration creating LACP aggregate Link for better bandwidth and performance.
• Performed as team lead/player for successful completion of Environment’s Migration to SunGard in wooddale / Carlstadt coordinating migration effort between multiple Teams like QA, Infrastructure Architects, Networking, Performance Engineering, SCM and DBA Team.
• Coordinated effort between internal and external teams. Worked hands on building Staging / Production / DR and Validation Environment’s with Apache 2.2.22 Web Sever, Weblogic 9.2 cluster / Tomcat 6.0.43 Application Server, Database implementation of Exadata, Storage ZFS appliance 7000 Series.
• Designed and set the Automated Process for Deployment / Failover / Patch Management / Package mgmt. / firmware Upgrade / System Builds-Jumpstart. Standardized creating documentation and procedures templates for maintaining new servers and application builds.
• Created, Managed and performed domain Administration for clustered environments within WebLogic application server
• Coordinated efforts between cross Teams (Dev / SCM / QA / DBA) and Performed code deployments, deployed change control tickets for JDBCPool / XML/ applications / JMS / Java to Apache / Weblogic / Tomcat / Attivio.
• Troubleshoot Middleware issues with Weblogic 9.x, Apache Tomcat, related to Search, performance, code, configuration, Storage, hardware, network.
• Coordinating cross Teams Planed, documented and define Processes for Failover steps of pre-failover / failover / post Failover requirements related to monitoring, Configuration change, posting Maintenance page, shutting Down weblogic / Tomcat / Search engine /database, deploying Application Code, Pointing network, Servers IP to live Site, Brining Application and Database UP pointing to live Site, refreshing Akamai, Sanity test, removing maintence page, coordinate QA testing effort, troubleshoot issue.
• Implemented Ticket system for Build Process, Release management, Asset Management (addition /repurposing /decommissioning) / Monitoring / Logs and Backup management
• Extensively worked through Plan, Build, configure and Roll out of Migrating to search Engine Attivio Having 6 indexer 2 Text extractors and 6 Search servers.
• Closely Worked with Vender management Processes for datacenter Operation, offshore team, Oracle, Hardware Procurements, Setting up the SLA & Process for information exchange, communication delivery coordination’s.
• Successfully and efficiently Managed infrastructure related operations (Total 1000+ Assets) of 4 data center Locations ( Wooddale / New Jersey / UK /Boston) having Total of 21 Environments Having Test, QA & Production Environments with Mix of physical, OVM (Solaris, Red Hat) Servers
• Provides strategic influence across groups, projects and products to implement cost-effective technology solutions to solve complex business problems.
• Serve in transverse project management capacity, following logical project management procedures to ensure timely, effective, and efficient delivery of new products and services.

Confidential, New Jersey, NJ

Environment: Sun E5500/6500, Sun Fire 3800/4800/6800 , Sun Fire 12K / 15 K, Sun Ultra 30/10/5/2/ 1, NetApp 940 C, Storage Array D1000/A1000/A5200 Hitachi 9980V, SAN, Sun Solaris 8/9, Solstice Adminsuite and Disksuite, VERITAS Volume Manager Ver 3.5, VERITAS Netbackup, Oracle, Sun Cluster. Solaris, AIX

Lead System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• System Administrator for e-Business servers in Alpharetta / Kansas City, Secaucus / Lisle Datacenters supporting 450 servers for different applications.
• Installation & configuration of Sun Fire 12K/15K platforms and domains in each platform used as database servers
• Installation and configuration of domains and Enterprise servers with SC for failover & failback of database and file systems used for handling large databases.
• Worked in various projects in Installation & configuration of Enterprise servers of various configurations with Hitachi 9980V connections.
• Test and Configure resource management Using Dynamic reconfiguration
• Upgraded VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS File system for about 80 Enterprise servers ranging from E10K, E6500, E4500, E3500, E450 and E420R servers
• Installation, configuration and Implementation of Sun Cluster Software (High Availability) on two Servers working as Database servers with Operating System as Sun Solaris 8.
• Performed Systems Migration from Middle Town to Secaucus datacenter
• Installing configuring and updating WebLogic, Web Sphere application Servers on Solaris.
• Package management, scripting with UNIX shell scripts and standard UNIX utilities for automation of administrative tasks