TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Platforms: Oracle Solaris 10, Solaris 11, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, Fedora,X86/X64 platforms, Windows 2003, 2008, 2011 Server, Win XP

Hardware: Sun SPARC (Sun Netra Servers, Sunfire V240, V440, V490, V880, V890, Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000, M3000), IBM (e - Server), HP (9000, ProLiant)

Languages: UNIX Shells (sh, csh, ksh, bash), Perl, PHPDatabases: Oracle, MySQLVirtualization: Zones, KVM, LDOM, VMWare, Cloud computing

Applications: QAS (Quest Authentication Services), TPAM (Total Privilege AccessManagement). Identity and Access Manager (IAM) Ping federation(FSSO)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Security Engineer

Confidential, Hagerstown, MD

Responsibilities:

• Manage Large physical and virtual servers of over 5,000 Unix distributed servers using QAS with Solaris, Linux and AIX Servers.
• Migrate AIX, Linux, and Solaris servers including LDAP servers with telechek applications.
• Troubleshoot and manage users account, and active directory removing users from the password file, adding and assigning users with various locals and active directory groups in the Unix/Linux system.
• Troubleshooting network connectivity and firewall issues.
• Resolve Incident management request and ad create Change Records before any changes are to be done on a server.
• Managed and troubleshoot user account login issues; also setup access controls.
• Identifying expiring certs and renewing them as needed
• Configure SAML connection between identity provider and service provider.
• Set PingFederate to use LDAP login
• Create new SP connection, Setting up new SAML connection
• Adaptive authentication, OAuth Implementation, configure cluster,
• Token authorization, configure data store
• VPN
• Cordinate CR (Change request) for upcoming changes
• VDS
• Testing, troubleshooting and implementing new technologies
• Working knowledge of Cloud computing
• Virtualization
• Working knowledge in access and identity management
• Troubleshooting users access, in both TPAM and QAS technologies
• Managing access vulnerability and mitigating risk by remediating servers to allow access to current employees only
• TPAM- creating and troubleshooting high level access accounts for users to use temporarily.
• Experience with OpsWare HP Automation Client to push installs and upgrades on servers,
• Troubleshooting network connectivity and firewall issues.
• Resolve Incident management request and ad create Change Records before any changes are to be done on a servers.
• Enable the unification of identities and directories for simplified identity and access management

Info Security Analyst

Confidential, Hagerstown, MD

Responsibilities:

• Managing large physical and virtual servers of over 5,000 UNIX distributed servers using QAS with Solaris, Linux and AIX servers.
• Mitigate risk using QAS application in analyzing and remediating
• Plan and carry out security measures to protect the company’s network and system
• Creating CR’s and I-Plans for scheduling migrations, installations and high risk report.
• Upgrading software on Solaris, Linux and AIX servers including LDAP servers with Telecheck applications.
• Trouble shooting and managing user accounts, log in issues, servers issue, removing users from password file, adding, and assigning users to various local and Active Directory groups in the UNIX/Linux environment.
• Migrating AIX, LINUX, and SOLARIS servers using QAS for Access control for integrity and confidentiality purpose.
• Software installation and upgrade.
• Explain the importance of risk related concept, e.g false positive, negative, importance of policies in reducing risk
• Risk calculation
• Analyze and selecting the appropriate type of mitigation and deterrent techniques.
• Compare and contrast physical security and environmental controls
• Implementation of risk mitigation strategies, implement basic forensic strategies.
• Aware of the common incident respond procedures
• TPAM- creating and troubleshooting high level access accounts for users to use temporarily.
• Experience with OpsWare HP Automation Client to push installs and upgrades on servers,
• Troubleshooting network connectivity and firewall issues.
• Resolve Incident management request and ad create Change Records before any changes are to be done on a servers.
• Managed and troubleshoot user account login issues; also setup access controls.
• VPN

Sr, Unix Systems Administrator (Sys Admin)

Confidential, Hyattsville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration of Solaris and Linux servers using jumpstart and interactive methods.
• Disk configuration & Managing File Systems.
• Introduced new servers to the network. Maintaining and troubleshooting network connectivity.
• Experience with Solaris Zones. Configuring, Migration and resource management of Zones.
• Managing of Red Hat Linux servers in a virtualized environment.
• Performed Security Administration on UNIX systems
• Virtualization and working knowledge in Cloud Computing working Knowledge of VMWare, Zones, LDOMS, KVM
• Installed multiple sparse and whole root zones within one physical instance of Solaris 10.
• Systems Security Administration, Role Based Access Control and Sudoers file.
• Rudimentary Bash shell Scripting.
• Setup ZFS quotas, reservation and automatic NFS-share of directories
• Installation and configuration of Apache webserver and building of LAMP stack and Apache virtual hosts.
• Password configurations, process monitoring, Boot up and Shutdown procedures.
• Monitoring System Performance of Virtual memory, Managing Swap Space, Disk utilization and CPU utilization.
• Recommended Sun OS kernel/OBP patch upgrade for production/development servers.
• Maintaining the regular backups using tar, UFS dump, UFS restore, Snap shot backup etc.
• Managing system processes and scheduling processes with the crontab utility.
• Configuring the services for sharing the resources from Unix such as remote login through TELNET, FTP,NFS, SAMBA
• Checking alert logs, trace files and file System maintenance.
• Day-to-day functional administration tasks, as well as application-specific technical support
• Used vi EDITOR to edit configuration files.
• User management, Creating and managing user account, groups and access levels.
• Creating, Mount & Un-mount the File Systems.
• Controlling the System Logging services, and examining system Log Files of all system events.
• Implementing RAID levels using SVM and creating and managing LVM in Redhat Systems.
• Creating Meta Devices (mirroring, Concatenating and Raid5) in Solaris environment using Solaris volume manager.
• Managing system services using SMF
• Experience with remedy ticketing system.

Systems Administrator (Sys Admin)

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Responsibilities:

• Resolving software and hardware issues
• Maintaining Local area networks.
• Document customer and software configurations and develop and/or update standard operating procedures and training materials
• Assist in the research, evaluation, testing, selection, procurement, implementation and maintenance of new software/hardware/systems.
• Provide basic first level telephone support to end-user community on hardware, software and network related problems, questions, and/or issues.
• Troubleshoot problems with operating systems, applications, remote access, email, telephone, and wireless issues.
• Use Active Directory (Windows Server 2003) to create, modify, reset and delete user account, reset and modify user password
• Setup computers and printers on the network
• Monitoring TCP/IP network environment
• Experience with Internet technologies including TCP/IP and HTTP
• Hardware and software inventory.
• Scheduling backup of files.
• Performed Operating System upgrades
• Configuration and troubleshooting of mobile devices
• Familiarity with network systems such as servers, switches, firewalls and routers.
• Knowledge of Internet and networking infrastructure design.
• Troubleshoot desktop applications issues while maintaining excellent customer service.
• Updated and documented Help desk tickets with Remedy ticket system.
• Performed Computer Systems Repairs and services.
• Performed telephone systems repairs and servicing
• Virus Protection Software Installation.
• Troubleshoot network connectivity, hardware, CPU, memory, I/O, boot, DNS and other application issues. Knowledge of TCP/IP protocols to include knowledge of firewalls, load-balancers and switches.