SUMMARY:

Confidential offers 16+ years of Professional IT experience as a Systems/Network/Cloud Automation Engineer in heterogeneous UNIX and WINTEL Platform specialized in Systems Architecture, Systems Administration, Data center Automation and Operations. Automating the processes related to Data center operations often as part of Cloud solutions has given me a profound knowledge of the many technologies that make up the infrastructure of customer IT operations. As the infrastructure is very complex, it requires excellent overview and deep technical knowledge to create End - to-End solutions that can coexist with other infrastructure heavy systems and at the same time solve the customer’s challenges.

SPECIALTIES:

• Data Center Automation (OPSWARE/HPSA, HPCSA, HPOO, HPDMA, HPSE, Puppet)
• Cloud Computing (Converged Infrastructure, VBlock)
• HP-UX/Solaris/Linux/WINTEL System Administration
• Monitoring Tools (HP OMI, BMC Patrol, Netcool, VCE Vision)
• Process and Business Automation
• Infrastructure Automation
• Functional and Technical Specification
• High Availability and Disaster Recovery
• Financial and Banking ( Confidential ) interface products

HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE SKILLS:

Programming: Perl, Shell scripting, CML

DBMS: SQL 2008/2012, Sybase (ASE 12.0/12.5), Oracle 11g and RAC

Operating Systems: HP-UX 11i/11.23, Solaris 10/11, RH6.x/7.x, Windows 2008/2012

Hardware: VBlock, SUN/HP/IBM Servers, CISCO Devices, NetApp, EMC (SAN Storage)

Networking: TCP/IP, NIS, NIS+, DNS, NFS, SOAP/REST, Basic CISCO Routing, CSS

Tools: HPSA 9.x/10.x, HPOO 9.x/10.x, HPCSA 3.x/4.x, HPSE 9.4, HP-Openview, Puppet VMWare tools, Netcool, Omniback, Veritas Netbackup

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, AZ

Cloud Automation Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Pre-sales activities, technical architecture and solution design of Confidential Cloud Automation tool sets for Confidential key clients.
• Installed, and configured HPOO 10.61 for Kaiser non-prod and Prod environments
• Created basic heal-check workflows in HPOO and integrated with HP OMI for Runbook automation
• Installed and configured HPNA 10.21 for managing network devices
• Currently working with Oracle on pre-sales activities, writing technical proposals for the initial engagement.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Cloud Automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, build and maintaining Cloud Automation solution (PAAS, IAAS) for Confidential Retail Cloud infrastructure using HP BSA suites (HP CSA, HP OO, HP SA and HP DMA)
• Solution Architect, design and development of E2E IaaS provisioning Blueprints to provision Windows, RedHat, and SuSe on both Virtual and Physical platforms
• Managed and maintained PaaS Service Designs/Blueprints and workflows to provision and manage Database offerings (SQLServer and Oracle)
• Build and Support Service Designs/Blueprints for the middleware offerings like MQ, Weblogic, and Websphere along with other packaged offerings
• Developed simple to complex workflows to automate routine Datacenter operation tasks like (Server reboots, Application recycles, Firmware, patch upgrades, server maintenance, agent installs, password resets
• Built Custom and Standard Integration of HPOO with HPSA, HPNA, AD, ServiceNow, BMC Patrol, Men and Mice (DNS), HPCMDB, V-center etc.
• Built workflows to automate Data Center migration project. Operations used the workflows and successfully migrated ~1500 VMs to the new Datacenter. This saved ~12,000 labor hours.
• Developed a Realtime ROI dashboard for management to track the automation usage and labor hours saved through automation.
• Engaged in a Project to build Greenfield IT infrastructure for backstage using VCE V-Block Converged Infrastructure cloud stack.
• Responsible for managing and maintaining Puppet Enterprise and Git repo for internal developer community
• Developed puppet modules to install infrastructure agents (Patrol, Networker, OEM) on RHEL and Windows servers

Confidential, Fairfax, VA

Datacenter Automation Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for delivering automated solution to increase efficiencies across the technologies and applications.
• Delivered HPOO workflows to perform Auditing/HouseKeeping/Reporting/monitoring across the server platforms (2000+ WINTEL hosts, 400+ Solaris,Linux hosts)
• Design/develop and deliver integrations with Enterprise Applications like Remedy, Netcool, and V- center to automate E2E ticketing, Monitoring and provisioning of systems
• Orchestrated Storage Management tasks for automated DR Replication, BCV management, Media and Backup management and Reporting.
• Provide Data feed for Application Overview, KPI Reporting, CPL Reporting, Auditing through App Dashboard
• Built and support ~100+ workflows for Datacenter operations, Business and Process Automations.
• Delivered automated workflows to migrate Confidential DR Legacy Datacenter to fully virtualized cloud based Co-lo site.

Confidential, VA

Lead Systems and Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead in a team of 12 people spread across 3 time zones
• Lead, organize and control Systems Administration/Management activities to support Financial HUB applications like FIX, Euro-Clear, FIN, EBA, and TSU. Provide 24 X 7 on call Data Center Support
• Lead and perform problem management, change management and deployment of various Financial applications running on Unix/WINTEL Platforms (web servers, DB servers and the Application Servers)
• Lead and perform DB Administration tasks for Oracle and Sybase
• Implemented OPSWARE/HPSA Server Automation to automate the installation and configuration of 800+ Unix hosts across the multiple environments
• Written numerous CML templates to push standard OS and Application configuration files using Opsware APPCONFIG feature
• Designed and Configured High Availability Services using Service Guard, APA, IPMP

Confidential, NY

System/Network Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for System Administration and Deployment of Systems and Network Architecture for Global Financial Markets (TIBCO, Financial Fusion, FIX, EASDAQ etc.).
• Developed shell scripts to monitor Network / System Performance, and integration with HAWK Monitoring tool