SUMMARY:

• Seeking a challenging and innovative position in a heterogeneous UNIX/Linux operating environment in which I will be responsible for the Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Administration of AWS, Operating Systems, Servers, Storage devices, SAN/NAS and Enterprise - Class LAN/WAN environments, interconnecting system devices & Storage sub-systems and infrastructural engineering, in a progressive organization that offers exceptional career growth, professional advancement and technical challenges.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PLATFORM: SUN Solaris 10 & 11, Linux (RHEL) Enterprise 5.8 & 6.0, SESU Linux 10, Ubuntu 16, HP-UX 10.x, Windows 2000/2003/NT server, VMware ESX 4.0 Version Control CVS, MKS Toolkit

PHYSICAL & VIRTUAL: VMAX, VMware ESX Server, Oracle Virtual Mgr 3.3, Virtual Infrastructure Client 2.6, Solaris Containers/Local Zones/LDOM, KVM, & LIBVIRT, Elastic Cloud Computing EC2

DATABASE: Oracle 9i/10g/11g, Sybase, MySQL, 3 rd -Party JOB Scheduler MVP JAMS

APPLICATION: Sun ONE/Apache, WebSphere, Web/eCommerce, ERP, CRM, & SAS

SECURITY: CA-eTrust eAC, CheckPoint, BMC Patrol, TCP Wrapper, Trip Wire, Policy Checker

MONITORING: NetCool, SysEdge, HP OpenView, Big Brother 1.9e, Remedy Ticket, NAGIOS

High Availability: HP Service Guard/Diskless Cluster Server, SUN Cluster, Oracle RAC

MULTIPATHING: Emulex, Qlogic, MPXIO, DMP

Backup/Restore: VERITAS Netbackup vCLOUD AWS

HARDWARE: SUN Fire v240, v440, v490, v890, E2900, 4900, 6800, 6900SUN Cool Thread - T2000, T5240 & T4 SUN M-Series Servers - M-4000, M-5000 & M-9000

Storage: Clarion CX 4-120/480/960, VMAX Engine, T3+, StorageTek 6540, L180/L500DELL/HP/IBM Servers: DL85G2, IBM p500, p561, DELL/Compaq R710

EMC Migration Solution: Open Replicator, Federated Live Migrator (FLM), SRDF

SAN Switches: Brocade FC & Cisco Switches EMC Symmetrix DMX 2/3000SUN PRODUCTS: Solaris Volume Manager, Solaris Live Upgrade, SUN Cluster 3.2/3.1, Solstice HA, JET, RAID Manager 6, IP Multipathing, MPXIO Traffic Manager, Griffon, LDAP

Storage Array, Storage Management Software and Network PRODUCTS: VMAX, EMC Control Center(ECC 5.x), Connectrix SAN Directors & Switches, 3PAR Thin Provisioning, PowerPath 5.0.2, SANavigator 4.x, SANPilot, Navisphere Manager, NetApps, EMC TimeFinder-BCV/Symsnap/Synclone, SRDF A/S, EFCM (Enterprise Fabric Conf. Mgr), SANCenter, VPLEX, VNX

VERITAS PRODUCTS: NetBackup, Volume Manager (VxVM), FileSystem (VxFS), Cluster Server (VCS)

PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: Bash, C, KSH, Puppet & ANSIBLE

PROTOCOLS: NFS, DNS, TCP/IP, SFTP, HTTP, SMTP & SSH

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington DC, Maryland

Senior Solaris/Linux AWS Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for system configurations within Enterprise Solaris 10/11 Production (critical-mission) & Non-Prod environment with virtual servers (local-zones) running within the Solaris 10 global-zones
• Performed Project Infrastructural design, systems build, management and migration of Virtual Machines running Solaris /Linux/Windows using VMware tool from VMware Infrastructure Client
• Implement and worked on continuous delivery systems and methodology on AWS as IaaS
• Seamlessly transitioned AWS infrastructure from EC2-Classic to VPC and overhauled AWS accounts to follow latest security best practices
• Responsible for maintaining the integrity & security of systems by creating & managing SECURITY Groups and Network ACLs to ensure controlled access to Instances & Subnets respectively
• Setup, Configured and Maintained Linux Virtualization environment using KVM & LIBVIRT utilities to deploy and VMs
• Responsible for the Installation and Configuration of LAMP, Java, Tomcat, MySQL & Apache through ANSIBLE & Puppet and environment security hardening
• Tasks Automation experience using ANSIBLE, Puppet and SHELL scripting to automate process
• Configuration and Maintenance of VxVM, VxFS & ZFS file systems within Oracle SUN environments
• Setup, Configured and Maintained RHEL satellite server and brings updates as required
• Performed and applied OS Patch updates to Oracle SUN Solaris and Linux RHEL & SuSE servers within the infrastructure using RHEL Satellite & Oracle MOSS to obtain PATCH Updates
• Performed system checks on Oracle SUN Solaris and Linux RHEL & SuSE servers within the infrastructure and recommend patch cluster levels
• Performed Datacenter Migration/Consolidation which comprises of SUN Solaris & Linux RHEL servers through P2V/P2P/V2V and building CDOMs & LDOMs
• Performed Hardware Refresh from old SUN Servers into new ones such as T5-2 & M6 and Built, Installed, Configured and Rolled them into Enterprise Solaris 10/11 Production (critical-mission) Environment with virtual servers (local-zones) running within the Solaris 10 global-zones & LDOMs
• Implemented DR exercise & configuration by replicating data from (PROD & Non-Prod environment) to a remote data center and maintaining consistence data across the data centers
• Responsible for certifying Oracle Solaris 11 for use as the Operational STANDARD OS within Oracle SUN Solaris environment and lead the effort to upgrade Solaris 10 DB & APP servers

UNIX Solaris/Linux Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed infrastructural & environmental design, implement OS platform engineering and interface with different project managers to maintain existing systems & build out new Solaris 10 & 11 systems
• Engineered and performed POC for testing new next-generation Hardware & Software to be certified as Operational STANDARD within Oracle SUN Solaris/Linux and Linux Redhat environment
• Performed Installation, Setup and Configuration with Amazon Cloud (AWS) Web & App Servers
• Configured Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) within Public & Private Subnets, NAT Instances and Elastic Load Balancers.
• Performed configuration management through ANSIBLE & Puppet
• Implement VPC peering to ensure communication between Instances in separate VPCs
• Responsible for certifying Oracle Solaris 11 for use as the Operational STANDARD OS within Oracle SUN Solaris environment and lead the effort to upgrade Solaris 10 DB & APP servers
• Performed Datacenter Migration/Consolidation which comprises of SUN Solaris & Linux RHEL servers through P2V/P2P/V2V and building CDOMs & LDOMs
• Performed Hardware Refresh from old SUN Servers into new ones such as T5-2 & M6 and Built, Installed, Configured and Rolled them into Enterprise Solaris 10/11 Production (critical-mission) Environment with virtual servers (local-zones) running within the Solaris 10 global-zones & LDOMs
• Responsible for the implementation of Oracle Ops Center infrastructural setup to automate & maintain Oracle SUN Solaris environment and lead the effort to upgrade Oracle Ops Center to latest 12cR3
• Developed Engineering drawings to show infrastructural layout of the Oracle SUN Solaris & Ops Center environment for all servers
• Worked effectively with the SECURITY Engineering & Operation team to certified all existing and newly built Oracle SUN Solaris/Linux RHEL/AIX servers according to infrastructural security policies
• Worked extensively on remediating security deviations and fixing any security alerts to hardened the Solaris & Linux RHEL servers
• Performed extensive UNIX servers & network setup, configuration, tuning and maintenance
• Implemented DR exercise & configuration by replicating data from (PROD & Non-Prod environment) to a remote data center and maintaining consistence data across the data centers
• Configured, Maintained and Secured enterprise-class servers by hardening and implementing checkers-rules for system auditing against environment intrusion & system monitoring
• Coordinated and applied OS Patches on Solaris & RHEL servers

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed extensive UNIX servers & network configuration, tuning and maintenance
• Performed Project Infrastructural design, systems build, management and migration of Virtual Machines running Solaris /Linux/Windows using VMware tool from VMware Infrastructure Client
• Responsible for Racks/Servers/Devices Physical layout & setup within datacenter, running of Ethernet & fiber cables, devices power-up process and networked servers/devices along with network engineers
• Installed, Configured, troubleshoot and Maintained maximum availability for all hosting UNIX Solaris/Linux/Windows environment OS and COTS software to current versions and security levels
• Configuration and Maintenance of VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS Netbackup
• Setup, Configure and Maintained EMC Clariion Storage devices & SAN Switches, Administer LUNs allocations, pool-group zoning and entire optimum storage performance tuning
• Performed Backup & Recovery with VERITAS Netbackup on SUN Solaris/Linux RHEL/AIX servers and maintained the tape library/Sylo.
• Setup, Configured and Maintained SAN Switches and Upgraded the SAN Switches to higher-end for better data-transfer
• Created Remote Point-in-Time copies of local production volumes & Performed data pull and push from a Clariion CX4 Array to existing storage over SAN/WAN environment with Open Replicator
• Setup, Configured and Maintained SAN Switches and Upgraded the SAN Switches to higher-end for better data-transfer
• Responsible for cleaning up un-needed source devices after EMC CX4 & DMX Arrays migration
• Supported advance business- research Oracle clustered & Sybase database environment with SAS
• Setup & Configured Backup Sylo/Tape Library and Performed & Maintained scheduled Systems & Database Backups using VERITAS Netbackup/TSM and Restore filesystem as required
• Configured, Maintained and Secured enterprise-class servers by hardening and implementing checkers-rules for system auditing against environment intrusion & system monitoring with Hobbit
• Coordinated and applied OS Patches on Solaris & RHEL servers

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed hardware refresh of servers to SPARC T 5 series hardware and implemented Oracle SUN Solaris 11 OPS center setup & configuration
• Performed extensive system support, maintenance, configuration, patching and troubleshooting of SUN Solaris versions 9/10/11 & Linux RHEL 5/6 in a 24x7 enterprise-class production environment
• Analyzed, installed and troubleshoot hardware and performed package administration
• Performed systems architectural designs, infrastructure engineering producing engineering build specs & solutions and developed Phase 0, Phase 1 and Phase 2 engineering assessments for various projects
• Build, Install & Configure hardware running SUN Solaris 10 in a large scale clustered 24/7 workshop using virtualization technologies such as global/ local-zones & LDOMs onto M & T-Series servers
• Extensive experienced in disk management with VERITAS Volume Manager & Oracle SUN Solaris Zpool /ZFS technology performing the implementation & configuration in virtualized environment
• Significantly involved in the consolidation efforts to migrate the current Oracle SUN Solaris environment from physical-to-virtual (P2V) - lower-level SUN hardware to T-series hardware
• Performed HOST-based & ARRAY-based data migration from DMX/CX-4 to VMAX/VPLEX/VNX storage frames within Oracle SUN Solaris & Linux RHEL environments
• Performed Backup & Recovery with VERITAS Netbackup on SUN Solaris/Linux RHEL/AIX servers and maintained the tape library/Sylo.
• Experience working with LDAP to support users central access to servers
• Extensive use of cron to schedule system jobs, database jobs & application report jobs through crontab
• Extensive knowledge in configuration and maintenance of SAN/NAS automount mouters on Solaris/Linux Servers and setup & configuration of storage disks into UFS or ASM disk layout
• Upgraded VERITAS Volume Manager, Netbackup and PowerPath into latest versions
• Extensively involved in Application environment setup, maintenance & deployment such as SMS, DataPower, MQ broker, RMS, IMS, TWIC for screening gateway, applicants vetting and secure flight
• Performed servers hardening and applying essential security on Solaris/Linux servers

Senior Systems/Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed systems architectural designs, infrastructure engineering producing engineering build specs & solutions and developed Phase 0, Phase 1 and Phase 2 engineering assessments for various projects
• Build, Installed and Maintained Linux RHEL OS clustered servers & Linux VM running and managed through from a VMware VSphere (VCenter) Infrastructure, ESM configuration, Network & Security setup, Storage SAN/NAS setup, RAID & HA configuration and general hardware upgrade
• Build, Install and Configure hardware running SUN Solaris 10 in a large scale clustered 24/7 production environment in global/ local-zones & LDOMs onto M & T-Series hardware and migrated Solaris environment to Linux (RHEL) VM due to hardware refresh & consolidation efforts
• Coordinated and Responsible for a project to perform data migration from DMX/CX-4 to VMAX/VPLEX/VNX storage frames in SUN Solaris & Linux RHEL environment
• Heavily Supported COT & Middleware Application capacity planning within the infrastructure
• Performed extensive disks & file system setup & configuration which are controlled & managed by VERITAS Volume Manager and ZFS technologies
• Performed servers hardening and applying essential security on Solaris/Linux servers
• Installed, Configured, troubleshoot and Maintained maximum availability for UNIX Solaris/Linux/VMware environment OS, COTS & Web Application support and maintenance
• Support Oracle database clustered servers within Solaris 10 & Linux RHEL 5&6 environment
• Experience setting up & configuriing SAN/NAS automount mout-points on Solaris/Linux Servers
• Configured & Maintained enterprise class (24x7) Solaris 10 & Linux RHEL 5.x production environments and extensive performance tuning & troubleshoot in resolving issues
• Used Vintella VAS for central users access and management
• Heavily Supported COT & Middleware Application capacity planning within the infrastructure

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated, responsible and performed Datacenter Migration/Consolidation which comprises of SUN Servers/Storage Sub-Systems/Tape Libraries/Network Switches & Routers from Washington DC to West-Virginia (MCC) and successfully installed, connected and stood-up all devices at new location
• Performed Hardware Refresh from old SUN Servers into new ones such as M-4000, M-5000 & T5240 and Built, Installed, Configured and Rolled them into Enterprise Solaris 10 Production (critical-mission) Environment with virtual servers (local-zones) running within the Solaris 10 global-zones
• Performed extensive UNIX servers & network configuration, tuning and maintenance
• Performed data migration of ASM & regular storage disks from old storage frame to newer ones on Linux servers in OracleRAC environment
• Worked with host of Application Engineers and Developers in maintaining highly available & multi-tier web-based environment using WebLogic, Apache and Tomcat
• Created Remote Point-in-Time copies of local production volumes & Performed data pull and push from a Clariion CX4 Array to existing storage over SAN/WAN environment with Open Replicator
• Setup, Configured and Maintained SAN Switches and Upgraded the SAN Switches to higher-end for better data-transfer
• Responsible for cleaning up un-needed source devices after EMC CX4 & DMX Arrays migration
• Supported advance business- research Oracle clustered & Sybase database environment with SAS
• Setup & Configured Backup Sylo/Tape Library and Performed & Maintained scheduled Systems & Database Backups using VERITAS Netbackup/TSM and Restore filesystem as required
• Configured, Maintained and Secured enterprise-class servers by hardening and implementing checkers-rules for system auditing against environment intrusion & system monitoring with Hobbit

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed Project Infrastructural design, systems build, management and migration of Virtual Machines running Solaris /Linux/Windows using VMware tool from VMware Infrastructure Client
• Responsible for Racks/Servers/Devices Physical layout & setup within datacenter, running of Ethernet & fiber cables, devices power-up process and networked servers/devices along with network engineers
• Installed, Configured, troubleshoot and Maintained maximum availability for all hosting UNIX Solaris/Linux/Windows environment OS and COTS software to current versions and security levels
• Configuration and Maintenance of VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS Netbackup
• Setup, Configure and Maintained EMC Clariion Storage devices & SAN Switches, Administer LUNs allocations, pool-group zoning and entire optimum storage performance tuning
• Used Open Replicator Management host for preparing, executing and monitoring Storage Data Migration Sessions of thousands of terabyte of data from hundreds of servers
• Setup & Maintained organizational storage availability, data recovery, security, data integrity, system monitoring tool such as Netcool, Multicast/Unicast transfer such as Soup and Application Support
• Supported Oracle DBAs with the Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Oracle environment including Oracle WebLogic & its Oracle App servers deployment
• Provided support in Installing, Configuring & Maintenance of VERITAS Netbackup 5.1 (server & client) versions and involved in enterprise data backup in a production environment
• Extensive enterprise disk management using VERITAS Volume Manager & File System
• Execute Disaster Recovery Operations and Enterprise System Backups

UNIX Systems/Storage Administrators

Responsibilities:

• Build, Install, Migrate and Manage high-end SUN hardware running SUN Solaris in a large scale clustered 24/7 production environment from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 onto M-Series & T-Series servers and implementing server consolidation using LDOMS and Solaris 10 virtualization technologies
• Performed Installation, Configuration & Maintenance of CA-eTrust in UNIX environment and maintain Access & Policy Control - (eAC/ePC), audit logs, users & groups admin (access & privilege) and set rules in accordance with environment
• SAN Configuration, Management & Monitoring, and allocating DASD & zoning of switches & Storage disk from EMC Subsystems and proficient using CLI/API
• Performed Backup & Recovery, Archive and Copy Files & Data using technologies such as VERITAS Netbackup and EMC BCVs
• Optimal performance & kernel tuning as related to systems & databases
• Installation, Configuration, Setup and Maintenance of SUN Cluster 3.2 on all Oracle database Severs
• Support in building new SAN servers & deployment, SAN monitoring, data backups and migration
• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS Netbackup
• Configured & Maintained systems and Data backups using VERITAS Netback for entire environment
• Setup & Manage several Agents such as Oracle on SUN Cluster servers, Configure & Maintained SC resources/devices groups and support UDLM Packages and CRS Services Upgrade for Oracle RAC
• Worked with host of Application Engineers and Developers in maintaining highly available & multi-tier web-based environment using WebLogic, Apache and SUN One Directory Server products
• Performed & Conducted Disaster Recovery of entire SUN Enterprise Workshop from remote location

UNIX Systems/Storage Administrators

Responsibilities:

• Build, Install, Migrate and Managed hundreds of SUN Enterprise class servers such as E15/25k, 4900, 6900 on SUN Solaris in a large scale clustered 24/7 production environment from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 and extensive implementation of ZFS and local-zones (virtualization) technology
• Zoning on Brocade/Mcdata Spherion 4700 & all disk space & arrays management for the environment
• Responsible for all aspect of UNIX/Windows server management and production software from hardware turn over to customer facing service in a revenue generating & business critical production environment and tickets resolution through CRS/Remedy ticketing
• Responsible for LUN provisioning and de-provisioning on Hitachi 9985, StorageTek 6540 for standalone and clustered nodes
• Extensive use of VERITAS Volume Manager & File System in a high availability with SAN configuration running thousands of terabytes of data
• Setup, Installed, Configured and Maintained Oracle database servers in a SUN Cluster 3.2 environment
• Performed in-depth system analysis and kept mission-critical warehouse applications & database servers running and maintained highly available & multi-tier web-based environment
• Storage provisioning from Hitachi devices using CLI Storage Navigator and configured HBAs
• Worked with Network & Application Engineers/DBAs to maintain & enhance existing data-center
• Planned, Created & effectively follow standard procedure to accomplish Projects on-time and clearly document procedures and results

UNIX Systems

Responsibilities:

• Build, Installed, Configure and Maintained Solaris 9/10 OS on SUN Fire/Enterprise level boxes
• Installation, configuration and test validation of COTS application in a Solaris 10 global zones and within a non-global zone
• Provided RAID environment, RAID 0/1/5/1+0
• Responsible for BCV backup and SRDF remote replication support in a production environment
• Performed effective system performance tuning and monitoring
• Monitor, Repair and Maintained servers to protect revenue and maintain a quality user experience
• Troubleshoot & Fix issues through CRS/Remedy ticketing against disk failure and disk reconstruction for RAID volumes on SUN 3910 SAN storage arrays
• Documented and wrote test plans for COTS Application such as SUN One Directory Server, SAS, Tomcat and performed successfully installed and tested them on Solaris 10 machines

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Build, installed and configured multiple SUN machines.
• Setup, installed, configured and maintained Veritas Cluster on Oracle database servers
• Systems and Application related issues troubleshooting in a UNIX environment
• JumpStart Installation and Configuration
• SAN support and management of 3PAR environment
• Disk Management with Veritas Volume Manager and Solstice DiskSuite
• Setup dual-node NFS & Oracle HA cluster with fiber-attached RAID on Solaris
• Support & Maintained existing LDAP environment

UNIX System Administrators

Responsibilities:

• Design, Install, Configure and maintain multiple UNIX servers in an enterprise Solaris environment.
• Support a large, highly available, multi-tiered system architecture
• Installation, Setup and configuration of Big Brother 1.9 to monitor the network & system connectivity, disk utilization and processes
• Support enterprise level RPC compliant DNS design and implementation
• SUN servers hardware installation, configuration and network troubleshoot and maintenance
• Researched on adequate SUN systems, hardware compatibility with the systems and appropriate 3rd-party applications in conjunction with requirements
• Disk Management with Veritas Volume Manager
• Resolved escalated ITSC RightNow trouble-tickets from the technical support team for users
• Shell Scripting

UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Build, installed and configured SUN Solaris/Linux servers in a datacenter environment
• Implement advance environment configuration such as hard disk RAID using Solstice DiskSuite
• Installed, configured and troubleshoot Custom Off-The Shelf (COTS) software products
• Performed Solaris FLAR Archive & Recovery in building lots of Midrange SUN Solaris boxes
• Performed Security lockdown on all the SUN Solaris servers
• Jumpstart installation & configuration, disk imaging and extensive use of UFS dumps
• Configured, troubleshoot and integrate network servers in a datacenter environment
• Monitoring of web servers, portal servers, application and network with Big Brother
• Worked with developers to install, setup, configure and maintain Web & App servers
• Implementation of Veritas Netbackup, Volume Manager and File System
• Investigated and audit all newly built servers and documented Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)

UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Solaris 2.7, 2.8 and 2.9
• Installed, configured and maintained Veritas Netbackup and backup Exec
• Hardening of all Solaris servers based on SUN recommended standard and security tools
• Installation and configuration of Oracle 8i/9i/10g AS and Oracle Report Server 8.0
• Installation, configuration and monitoring of several application servers on Solaris platform
• Used VERITAS Netbackup in performing Backup and Recovery for terabytes of data
• Extensive disk management using Veritas Volume Manager
• Systems & Network monitoring using HP Openview in a multi-server (UNIX/Windows) environment
• Administer local & remote daily and weekly backups and also provided up-time status reports
• Support data management through on-site & off-site storage and retrieval services

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, upgrade and maintenance of different UNIX servers
• Analyzed, installed and troubleshoot hardware and performed package administration
• Managed, configured, install and trouble shoot all network servers
• Experience in managing Internet applications (Sendmail)
• Disk management, and implementation of RAID levels using Solstice DiskSuite
• Support nightly backup and server-side database & file systems using Veritas NetBackup.
• Performed heavy lifting, unpacking and moving of hardware and also building of racks
• Experienced with internetworking using TCP/IP and maintaining network security.
• Documented software licenses, installed &configured procedures, and hardware maintenance