SUMMARY:

• 15 years of experience in IT with UNIX/Linux, Storage and Enterprise Backup & Disaster Recovery (DR) using Confidential Netbackup 7.5/6.5/5.1/4.5/3.4 , CommVault 10, Tivoli Storeage Manager 6.x, AVAMAR 6.x,
• Storage using SUN Storage, HP Storage,Data Domain, IBM VTL, EMC Storage VNX, VMAX, Brocade & McData SAN switches,
• UNIX administration using Solaris /Linux OS and Volume manger using Confidential SUITE ( Confidential VxCS, VxVM, VxFS) and Solaris, Linux LVM.
• Implemented the ITIL Best Practice based on service delivery process for Confidential clients.
• Build Enterprise backup infrastructure in different Backup enterprise products such as Symantec Netbackup, CommVault, TSM and AVAMAR on UNIX/LINUX environments.
• Backup application software (Netback up/AVAMAR/TSM) upgrades on SUN Solaris/Linux OS with proper approvals.
• Code upgrades on FC switches and Storage devices (VNX and VMAX, HP 3 PAR and SUN Storage) with the help of Oracle.
• Good knowledge of Shell scripting using bash and shell, to automate the System administration tasks.
• Good at System auditing and Capacity planning.
• 15 Years of Unix/Linux (Solaris, Red Hat).
• 12+ Years of Confidential suite (VxFS, VxVM and VxCS) and SUN Storage.
• 10+ Years of Confidential /Symantec Netbackup enterprise backup application..
• 8+ Years of IBM TSM enterprise backup application.
• 7+ years of SAN FC switch, web servers.
• 3+ Years of VMAX and VNX, HP 3 PAR.
• 3 + Years of EMC DPA reporting tool.
• 1+ years of NetApp.
• 2 Years of EMC AVAMAR Backup.
• 2 +Years of CommVault Simpana Backup.
• 1+ years of VMware, vCenter.
• Knowledge on Cloudera Hadoop Administration.
• Knowledge on AWS and Puppet.
• ITIL V3

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Solaris 11/10/9/8/7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x/6.x/5.0/4.0/3.0, Cent OSSUSE Linux, Windows 2012/2008/2003 /2000 , AIX, HP - UX.

Enterprise Backup, &: Confidential Netbackup7.x/ 6.X /5.1/4.5/3.4, CommVault 10, AVAMAR 6.X and Tivoli Storage Manager 6.X.

Disaster Recovery Applications Raid/Volume Mgmt: Confidential Volume Mgr., Disk Suite, LVM

Storage: Sun storage, Data Domain,IBM XIV, EMC VMAX, HP 3 PAR, VNX, FC, FCoE And NetApp.

SAN Manager.: Brocade Silkworm 24000/12000/4100 , McData 4700/4400, SAN Health, Fabric

Databases: DB2, Oracle and MySQL.

Tape Libraries: IBM 3584/3582, Storage Tek SL3000/L700/180/L40/L20, ADIC Scalar 1000/10k, IBM ProtecTier VTL, Datadomain VTL.

Hardware : SUNT5220/T5120/6800/V890/V880/V440/480R/280R/220, SPARC20/5, Ultra Enterprise5/2, E450/250, Dell PowerEdge1600.

Tools: Management Heat Ticketing system, HP Openview (Incident Management, Change

Cluster software: Confidential cluster and Linux Cluster.

Networking: TCP/IP. DNS, DHCP, IPAM, VLAN/VXLAN, Bonding,Virtual switch/NIC configuration

Security : SFTP, SSH and Kerberos, LDAP.

Backup Reporting tools: EMC DPA, Symantec Ops Center.

File system: UFS,ext3,ext4 and VxFS.

Scripting : bash/Perl.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NYC, NY

Sr. SE (Solaris/LINUX/NAS/ SAN/Backups

Responsibilities:

• Serving as the primary Confidential contact for any storage support team (Solaris/Linux/ Backup/ Storage products) escalations.
• Responsible for all Sun Solaris, Oracle Linux and Red Hat Linux servers related to backup infrastructure within Confidential ’s Confidential datacenters in Confidential ’s and Confidential region.
• Responsible for the installation, maintenance and upkeep of Netbackup 7.x, CommVault, AVAMAR and Tivoli Storage manager 6.x. within Confidential ’s Confidential datacenters in Confidential ’s and Confidential region.
• Responsible for maintenance and upkeep of FC Switches, SUN Storage, HP Storage, VNX and VMAX within Confidential ’s Confidential datacenters in Confidential ’s region.
• Responsible for maintenance and upkeep of NetApp devices within Confidential ’s Confidential datacenters in Confidential ’s region.
• Resolving the connectivity issues between Enterprise Backup servers and their respected backup clients.
• Worked on Storage Tek SL3000, L700, L180, L40 and L20 tape libraries.
• Identified and resolved backup issues with Oracle, EMC and IBM hardware vendors.
• Creating capacity reports and works with D & E teams and raise request according to hardware requirements.
• Provided Support and administered Confidential Volume Manager, Confidential File System and Confidential Cluster Server.
• Perform switch-level Zoning, firmware upgrades, port configuration and general maintenance.
• Work closely with technical and business work groups (such as project managers, Network and system engineers).
• Co-ordinate and work on changes with change management process using HP service manager (SM9) tool.
• Monitor incidents and resolve issues within prescribed SLA’s and adhere to incident management process.
• Resolve performance related issue working with different business units.
• Implement and manage different data encryption options on the Backup infrastructure.
• Working with D & E team on capacity issues and put requests with respected teams on new hardware procurements.
• Investigate system bottlenecks and resolve issues working with TR D&E Team and respected vendors.
• Saved almost half million dollars on backup infrastructure upgrade projects by upgrading without vendor support (30 Netbackup servers upgraded without vendor support) and revisiting DB tape backup storage by reducing retentions as per the compliance and SIC Government requirements.
• Involve in initial project plan discussions with D & E team on the infrastructure improvements from support engineering side and provide suggestions by gathering day to day challenges from colleagues.

Environment: Sun Solaris 10/9/8,HP Unix 11.11/10.10 , RedHat Linux 5.0/4.X and Windows 2012/2008/2003 , Confidential volume manager, Confidential Netbackup 7.x/6.5/5.1,CommVault 10, Tivoli Storage Manager, AVAMAR, Confidential volume manager, Confidential Cluster, DPA, HP open view ticketing system, TCP/IP, UNIX shell scripting, NetApp, EMC SAN,VNX,VMAX, Fabric, SUN storage, Data Domain, IBM XIV, HP Storage, Storage Tek SL3000, L700, L180,L40, L20 IBM ProTec tier virtual Libraries.

Confidential, NYC, NY

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Working in an UNIX environment which hosted RHEL, SuSe, CentOS and Solaris Operating Systems
• Installation & Configuration of servers with RHEL,SuSe,CentOS & Solaris
• Installation & Configuration of various applications such as JIRA, OSB, SPLUNK, JBOSS, Apache, etc. on RHEL servers
• Troubleshooting & performance tuning of the servers for CPU, Memory, Network and Disk performance issues.
• Migration of servers from legacy Datacenter to a new Datacenter
• Maintenance of servers in Cloud Infrastructure with Vendors like Amazon web services and Tier3
• Installation, Configuration of third-party tools such as Centrify, Zenoss, Monitis, NewRelic, Appdynamics, etc.
• Monitoring the servers (both Server level & Application) using different tools such as Zenoss, NewRelic, Appdynamics and Monitis
• An effective communicator with exceptional relationship management and client co-ordination skills which includes gathering business requirements with respect to IT infrastructure and making sure their requirements are achieved.
• Coordinate with other teams like Network, Storage and Windows for smooth operation of the projects.
• Research and propose new technologies and procedures to further streamline and automate processes.
• Involved & Documented the Disaster Recovery(DR) Process and Business Continuity Process(BCP)
• Usage of BMC Remedy force & JIRA ticketing systems
• User administration - providing access & managing the users
• Installation, configuration of Splunk across the Linux servers to collect & analyze both the server and application logs.
• Supporting applications such as JBoss, Weblogic, OSB (Oracle Service Bus), JIRA, Wordpress running on Linux and Solaris Servers.
• Installation, Configuration and Managing of JBoss application across Solaris & Redhat Linux environments.
• Involved in the migration of JBoss application from Solaris to RHEL.
• Installation & Configuration of Weblogic and OSB (Oracle Service Bus) application on the Linux environment.
• Creating Pools, pool members in F5 - good knowledge on load balancing
• Working as on-call Production Support 24x7

Environment: Sun Solaris 10/9/8, RHEL 5.x, 6.x, SLES 11.x, Ubuntu, CentOS, JBoss 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, Weblogic 10.x, 11.x, OSB, Apache, MySql, Wordpress, Windows, NetApp, F5, Confidential volume manager.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the installation, configuration, rollout and maintenance of all Solaris and
• Netbackup Master Server environments. Responsible as part of a team for the successful rendering of 24/7, support, for a 50+ Netbackup Master Server environment.
• Complete re-architecture and design specs for updated Confidential Netbackup /DR system.
• Managing the Oracle database Servers on UNIX Environment.
• Responsible for the installation, maintenance and upkeep of Netbackup on UNIX servers.
• Performance tuning of Solaris, VVM, VXFS and Netbackup.
• Maintain clustered systems using Confidential Cluster (VCS).
• Served as primary point of contact for all aspects of Solaris system administration. Thoroughly familiar with NFS, NIS.
• Developed performance monitoring tools and web site to send automate reports.
• Responsible for testing and patching of the Netbackup software (6.0, 5.1 and 4.5) on the servers and clients.
• Responsible for configuration and troubleshooting of SAN tape drives.
• Provide support for UNIX related problems.
• Responsible for configuration and troubleshooting of TCP/IP networking.
• Responsible to create backup reports according to Confidential requirement and troubleshooting issues on Confidential command central.
• Troubleshooting of SAN components errors.
• LUN creations and Host Removal according to work group requirement on SAN environment.

Environment: Sun Solaris 9/8/7, HP-UX 10.X /Red hat Linux4.0/3.0/Win2003, Confidential Volume Manager 3.5, Confidential Netbackup 6.0/5.1/4.5, Confidential Cluster, Confidential command central, ECC console, VxFS, Connectrix Manager, SAN, Fabric, HP Open View, UNIX shell scripting, TCP/IP, Oracle9i, ADIC scalar i2000, i10k and Storage Tek L700, L180 libraries.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing or up gradation of Sun Solaris/Linux servers.
• Install applicable patches and third party software on Sun Solaris Servers and RHEL servers.
• Creating, mounting, and maintenance of LVM (ext2, ext3) on all Layout methods on RHEL servers.
• Creating, mounting, and maintenance of Confidential Volume manager (UFS and VxFS) on all Layout methods on Sun Solaris Servers.
• Responsible for the installation, maintenance and upkeep of Netbackup on UNIX servers.
• Complete re-architecture and design specs for updated Confidential Netbackup and Solaris systems.
• Create and upload/send explorer output to Sun Engineer for diagnostics and troubleshooting.
• Troubleshooting of Confidential Netbackup server.
• Configure and maintain clustered systems using Confidential Cluster (VCS).
• Controlling the Sun Solaris System Logging services, and examining system Log Files of all system events.
• Responsible to create backup reports according to Confidential requirement and troubleshooting issues on Confidential command central.
• Scheduling of automatic repetitive Jobs using commands, and Shell Scripts with crontab.
• Configuration and creation of Netbackup policies, schedules for our requirement on target file systems.
• Troubleshooting NFS servers, NFS Clients with Cache Fs, in Auto Mount Environment.
• Troubleshooting and performance tuning of Linux servers.
• Managing the Oracle Portal Servers on Linux Environment.
• Managing the Citrix Servers on Windows Environment.
• Responsible for configuration and troubleshooting of TCP/IP networking
• Managing oracle portal servers and Citrix servers.
• Troubleshooting of SAN /Fabric components errors.
• Perform tape library responsibilities including diagnostics, troubleshooting, labeling, storing, changing tapes, and offsite preparation.
• Plan and implement the migration of Confidential servers to DR site (Solaris 8, Oracle 8i).

Environment: Sun Solaris 9/8/7, HP-UX, Red-Hat Linux, Win2003, Confidential Volume Manager, VxFS, Confidential Cluster, Confidential Netbackup 4.5 /5.1, Confidential command central, UNIX shell scripting, Connectrix Manager, Disk suite, LVM, SAN, Fabric, Net Vault Backup, Oracle 8i, TCP/IP, BMC patrol, Storage Tek L180, L40 libraries.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing, upgrading operating systems (Sun Solaris /Red hat Linux / Windows) and application packages.
• Applying patches for the Operating system and also for the applications.
• Setup, Maintain and Manage the User Accounts and Groups.
• Administering (Creating, Mount/Unmount, File System Integrity, Backup/Restore) the File Systems.
• Troubleshooting of Confidential Netbackup 3.4/ 4.5 server and clients and Storage Tek L40 Tape Library.
• Responsible for the installation, maintenance and upkeep of Netbackup on UNIX servers.
• Performance monitoring of Enterprise servers using scripts, TOP, vmstat, iostat, sar etc.
• Responsible to create backup reports according to Confidential requirement and troubleshooting issues on Confidential command central.
• Network monitoring with Whatsup tool.
• Installed and deployed systems for production, testing and development.
• Provided Support for Apache and Tomcat Web Server’s.
• Involved in installing, configuring & Supporting RHEL Enterprise Server.
• Involved in System support for various 24X7 Production, Development & Testing environments.
• Responsible for configuration and troubleshooting of TCP/IP networking
• Installed, configured and administered third party software.
• Troubleshooting of SAN /fabric components errors
• Provided extensive level performance tuning and maintenance Support and administered
• Confidential Volume Manager, Confidential File System and Confidential Cluster Server.
• Supported and administered Solaris 8 /7 on Sun Enterprise Servers 450, Sun Fire Servers 280R, V480 and V880, RHEL on HP and IBM servers.

Environment: Sun Solaris 8/7,HP-UX, Red-Hat Linux Win NT/2000, Confidential Volume Manager, VxFS, Confidential Cluster, Disk suite, LVM, Confidential command central, TCP/IP, Connectrix Manager, UNIX shell scripting, SAN, Fabric.