SUMMARY:

• Over 14 years of experience in IT with UNIX/Linux, Storage and Enterprise Backup & Disaster Recovery (DR) using VERITAS Netbackup 7.5/6.5/5.1/4.5/3.4, Tivoli Storage Manager 6.x, AVAMAR 6.x, Storage using SUN Storage, HP Storage, EMC Storage VNX, VMAX, Brocade & McData SAN switches, UNIX administration using Solaris /Linux OS and Volume manger using VERITAS SUITE (VERITAS VxCS, VxVM, VxFS) and Solaris, Linux LVM. Web servers, Host migrations, Oracle DB/Portal servers, implemented the ITIL Best Practice based on service delivery process for Global clients.

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 OS, SUSE Linux, Windows 2012/20, AIX, HP - UX.

Enterprise Backup,: & Disaster Recovery Applications: VERITAS Netbackup7.x/ 6.X /5.1/4.5/3.4, AVAMAR 6.X and Tivoli Storage Manager 6.X.

Raid/Volume Mgmt:: VERITAS Volume Mgr., Disk Suite, LVM

Storage: Sun storage, EMC VMAX, HP 3 PAR, VNX, FC, FCoE and NetApp.

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

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: Heat Ticketing system, HP Openview (Incident Management,Change Management).

Cluster software: VERITAS cluster and Linux Cluster.

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

Security: SFTP, SSH and Kerberos.

Backup Reporting tools: EMC DPA, Symantec Ops Center.

File system: UFS,ext3,ext4 and VxFS.

Scripting: bash/Perl.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr.Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Serving as the primary AMERICAS contact for any storage support team (Solaris/Linux/ Backup/ Storage products) escalations and host migrations from Solaris to Linux.
• Responsible for all Sun Solaris, Oracle Linux and Red Hat Linux servers related to backup infrastructure within Thomson’s Global datacenters in AMERIACA’s and EMEA region.
• Responsible for the installation, maintenance and upkeep of Netbackup 7.x, AVAMAR and Tivoli Storage manager 6.x. within Thomson’s Global datacenters in AMERIACA’s and EMEA region.
• Responsible for maintenance and upkeep of FC Switches, SUN Storage, HP Storage, VNX and VMAX within Thomson’s Global datacenters in AMERIACA’s region.
• Responsible for maintenance and upkeep of NetApp devices within Thomson’s Global datacenters in AMERIACA’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, NetApp and IBM hardware vendors.
• Creating capacity reports and works with D & E teams and raise request according to hardware requirements.
• Provided Support and administered VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File System and VERITAS 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, VERITAS volume manager, VERITAS Netbackup 7.x/6.5/5.1, Tivoli Storage Manager, AVAMAR, VERITAS volume manager, VERITAS Cluster, DPA, HP open view ticketing system, TCP/IP, UNIX shell scripting, NetApp, EMC SAN,VNX,VMAX, Fabric, SUN storage, HP Storage, Storage Tek SL3000, L700, L180,L40, L20 IBM ProTec tier virtual Libraries

Confidential

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, VERITAS 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 VERITAS 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 VERITAS 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 BU requirement and troubleshooting issues on VERITAS command central.
• Troubleshooting of SAN components errors.
• LUN creations and Host Removal according to work group requirement on SAN

Environment: Sun Solaris 9/8/7, HP-UX 10.X /Red hat Linux4.0/3.0/Win2003, VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5, VERITAS Netbackup 6.0/5.1/4.5, VERITAS Cluster, VERITAS 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 VERITAS 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 VERITAS Netbackup and Solaris systems.
• Create and upload/send explorer output to Sun Engineer for diagnostics and troubleshooting.
• Troubleshooting of VERITAS Netbackup server.
• Configure and maintain clustered systems using VERITAS 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 BU requirement and troubleshooting issues on VERITAS 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 GEMS servers to DR site (Solaris 8, Oracle 8i).

Environment: Sun Solaris 9/8/7, HP-UX, Red-Hat Linux, Win2003, VERITAS Volume Manager, VxFS, VERITAS Cluster, VERITAS Netbackup 4.5 /5.1, VERITAS 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 VERITAS 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 BU requirement and troubleshooting issues on VERITAS 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
• VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File System and VERITAS 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, VERITAS Volume Manager, VxFS, VERITAS Cluster, Disk suite, LVM, VERITAS command central, TCP/IP, Connectrix Manager, UNIX shell scripting, SAN, Fabric.