SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of IT Professional Experience in Devops, LINUX/UNIX Engineering/Administration, Shell Scripting with expertise in Red - hat Linux 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Solaris 8, 9 and 10, SUSE, AIX and HP-UX 11.i, Windows 2003/2008/2012.
• Working experience in Devops concepts like Continuous Integration, Continuous delivery.
• Experience in building Server using Jumpstart, Kickstart, NIM, and Ignite Process.
• Experienced in Installation of Operating Systems, Packages and Patches, adding peripherals, maintaining user accounts, System Security maintenance, backup/recovery, performance tuning, troubleshooting at various levels etc.
• Excellent experience and knowledge with designing installing and implementing VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS.
• Experience with Bug tracking tool like JIRA, Bugzilla and Remedy.
• Experienced is using Microsoft Azure, Tomcat, JBOSS, Web logic and WebSphere Application servers for deployment.
• Developed Puppet modules to automate deployment, configuration, and lifecycle management of key clusters.
• Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) & configuration management using Puppet.
• Designed Puppet Modules to manage configurations and automate installation process.
• Configured and maintained Jenkins to implement the CI process and integrated the tool with Ant and Maven to schedule the builds.
• Continuous Delivery is being enabled through Deployment into several environments of Test, QA, Stress and Production using Jenkins. Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/GIT Repositories, views, and the access control strategies.
• Experience in installation, configuring, troubleshooting NetApp Storage filers, ONTAP.
• Extensive Knowledge on Aggregates/ Volumes/ Qtrees/ Quotas/ Snapshots.
• Experience in implementing and configuring of high availability and redundancy and RAID using Logical Volume Manager, Sun Volume Manager, VERITAS Volume Manager 3.x, 4.x, 5.x,5.5x.
• Proficient in Networking, configuring TCP/DHCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, NIS+, SAMBA, LDAP, SSH, SSL, SFTP, SMTP, SNMP.
• Experience is using Tomcat, JBOSS, WebLogic and WebSphere Application servers for deployments.
• Strong ability to troubleshoot any issues generated while building, deploying and in production support.
• Excellent knowledge of load balancing and clustering techniques to ensure high availability.
• Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring RedHat Linux using Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Good knowledge on various cloud computing products such as Amazon EC2, Openstack.
• Experience in installation and configuration of a monitoring tool, Nagios and Zabbix.
• Installation and configuration of Solaris Zones and ability to work with ZFS/SMF/POOLS.
• Experience in the configuration of the of the mail servers like Sendmail 8.13, 8.14.x and Postfix 1.x, 2.x.
• Implementation of backup solutions using VERITAS Net Backup 4.5, and HP Data Protector.
• Experience in Shell scripting using sh, ksh, bash and PERL.
• Software package deployment, disaster recovery/contingency of business management.
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Integration, Tuning, Backup, Crash recovery, Upgrades, Patching, Monitoring System Performance(Solarwinds, vcops), System and Network Security and Troubleshooting of Unix Servers
• Migration of Unix servers to Linux servers.
• Experience in implementing and monitoring High Availability environment using Veritas Cluster Server, Sun Cluster, Redhat Cluster, HP Service Guard and HACMP. Configured and used Jumpstart, Kickstart, Ignite and NIM to install OS.
• Build automatic provisioning system with kickstart and Puppet.
• Refined automation components with scripting and configuration management (puppet, chef, ansible).
• Strong experience in VERITAS and Redhat Clusters in supporting high availability mission critical servers.
• Experienced with the installation, configuration and volume/File system management using Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and Solstice Disk Suite (Solaris Volume Manager)
• Experience in VMware Installed and monitored Virtual environments with ESXi 5.5xserversand Virtual Center 5.X.
• Experienced in working with Storage Area Network (SAN), EMC CLARiiON CX, EMC Symmetrix DMX, EMC MirrorView, HP storage and Hitachi data storage.Jenkins is used as a continuous integration tool for automation of daily process.
• Expert in Installation, configuration of Patches and Packages.
• Worked on Puppet, Chef, Aws, HP Opsware, Nagios, Nimbus, Spectrum, Cacti monitoring, configuration management software’s.
• Experience in installation, configuration and administration of WebLogic and WebSphere, WebSphere MQ Servers.
• Proficient in Installation, Configuration, Support & Maintenance of various Sun Sparc Enterprise hardware’s and RedHat5.x Linux Servers located at Remote Locations. Deployment of Application Software.
• Strong in troubleshooting, monitoring using SolarWinds, VCOPS, training and 24/7 production support in mission critical environments.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and templates. Completed Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) migration of Windows 2003, & 2008 servers from VMware. Experience in building out new servers and VMware v2v migrations
• Installing and configuring the windows servers with specific requirements on the VMware.
• VMware activities like disk expansion, CPU and memory addition.
• Experience with building and maintaining high-availability (99%) VMware environments
• Citrix Farming technologies and end user connection points.
• Ability to administer, maintain, and troubleshoot Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) attached to VMware environments Taking snapshots of virtual machines and deploying and exporting VMs from OVF.
• Virtual machines migration from one data store to another data store.
• Working as Windows 2008 server admin. Installing, configuring and troubleshooting on the Windows server 2008 & 2008R2, 2012.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux (RHEL 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x), Windows NT/2012/2012 R2/2003/Vista.

Hardware: IBM/HP/DELL Blade Servers, Cisco UCS, SAN (EMC, Hitachi), NAS(Netapp), EMC Symmetrix 8830, DMX 3, 4 arrays.

Volume and Server Management: SolarisVolume Manager (SVM), Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Veritas Volume Manager, ZFS, VERITAS Cluster Server Management, LDAP, SSH.

Storage and Backup: NetApp, Hitachi Data Systems, VERITAS Net Backup4.x/5.x, Ufsdump, ufsrestore, tar, dd, cpio and HP Data Protector.

Languages and Scripting: C, C++, Perl, Shell.

Data Base Servers: Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g on Solaris and Red Hat Linux and Win NT/ 2000/2002/2008/2008 R2/2012.

Networking Protocols: NetBIOS, NetBUI, TCP/IP, UDP, SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, FTP, TELNET, SFTP, LAN, WAN, WLAN, ARP/RARP, FTP/TFTP & RIP.

Tools: HP-Open View Service Center, Remedy, BMC patrol, Tivoli, Hyper-V.

Internet & WWW: Apache Web Server 2.x, Sendmail, Postfix.

Naming Services: DNS, DHCP, NFS, Automounter, NIS and NIS+.

Web Technologies: Apache 2.x/3.x, IPLANET 4.x/5.x, WEBLOGIC 8, WebSphere 4.0/5.0/6.0.

Cluster: Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Sun Cluster, HP Service Guard, RDBMS, Oracle, MS SQL Server.

Application Level: Chef, Shell Scripts (Linux, PowerShell).

Automation Tools: Ansible, Puppet, chef, and salt stack

Virtualization: VMware, Docker, and vagrant

Source Control: GIT hub, CVS and Subversion(SVN)

Monitoring: Nagios, Solarwinds and Zabbix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Tysons, Virginia

Sr. Linux, Devops, VMware System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and deployment of OS on Testing, Development and Production Servers.
• Installed and configured DHCP Client/Server.
• Expertise in Global File System (GFS), Creating, configuring and managing clusters in Redhat Linux Servers using GFS
• Installed, configured and managed Redhat Cluster Suite in Linux servers
• Performed configuration and troubleshooting of services like NFS, NIS, NIS+, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, Web servers, Samba server, Apache server
• Planned and implemented migrations from lower end to higher end in OS level and Hardware level in Solaris, HP-UX and Linux servers.
• Configured and managed Redhat satellite Network server, performing package management tasks and errata updates
• RPM package administration using RPM Build.
• Configure Linux Redhat servers with Kickstart, LDAP, DNS, and DHCP and connect to Network. Integration of Windows Active Directory with Linux/Unix Servers.
• Provided support to UNIX servers and troubleshooting of day to day problem
• Configured Linux Redhat servers with kickstart, LDAP, DNS, and DHCP to connect to Network
• Experienced with the installation, configuration and volume/File system management using Veritas Volume Manager, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and Solstice Disk Suite (Solaris Volume Manager)
• Configured and troubleshoot the network file systems (NFS), ZFS, zones, and network information service (NIS) environment.
• Configuring SUDO access to users for all servers with Kerberos
• Trouble shooting on tickets related to SUDO, LDAP and active directory
• Failover, clustering and Load balancing using BigIP.
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Cluster with 8 node cluster.
• Performed Data Backup and Recovery using Veritas Net Backup (VNB).
• Update the systems using Redhat Enterprise Network (RHN), Managing and monitoring through RHN).
• Mass Build of Linux/Solaris OS servers using Kickstart /jumpstart automation application.
• Installation of Oracle and Sybase open-client, Apache on Linux environment.
• Configuration management and automation using puppet, chef, Ansible scripts and playbooks.
• Working knowledge with shell scripting using Bourne Again Shell (BASH), Puppet, and Nagios.
• In-depth knowledge of NFS, DHCP, NFS, FTP and network troubleshoot issues and solutions.
• Installed and configured Symantec VERITAS NetBackup master, media and client servers.
• Worked with HACMP, TSM, NIM, LPARS and VIOs.
• Setup VERITAS NetBackup policies, Sun Server 7000 storage.
• Experience using YUM and RPM for package management. Day to day automation using ansible and puppet.
• Regular provisioning of instances using Ansible playbooks.
• Extensive use of Perl, ruby& Bash shell for scripting.
• Performance enhancement and tuning for Tomcat, Apache and JBoss servers on RHEL6 OS virtual instances.
• Writing Build and Build deployment scripts.
• Worked on SAN storages of EMC products like CLARIION CX3, CX4, and Symmetric DMX-4 for storage and backup.Worked with all networking protocols TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, WLAN,switches, routers.
• Used Puppet Master to keep in sync configuration on hosts running agents.
• Upgraded and maintained software packages on servers using RHEL Satellite 5, 6 and Repository servers.
• Build new Virtual machine and physical server.
• Installation, configuration and administration of VMware, Solaris Zones, Containers and Ldoms.
• Monitored Hardware console for any hardware issues. Troubleshoot any operating system issues.
• Created Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for any server outages and server problems.
• Hands on experience in monitoring EC2 instances using Nagios.
• Configured Nagios to monitor EC2 Linux instances with puppet automation.
• Coordinating with various vendors for hardware related issues.
• Managed the software configurations using Enterprise Chef.
• Setup the Chef Workstation, Chef server and chef nodes.
• Experience in Remote deployment of Microsoft Windows 2003/2008/R2/2012 servers using Altiris deployment solution or manual installation of a server using ILO for remote connection to a server.
• Expertise in EC2 Backup methods, ELB (classis and application) security and application logging using Cloud Trail integration with Kibana and elastic search, kinesis, firehose etc
• Expertise to build Jenkins servers and deployment jobs and nexus repo integration.
• Extensive experience in administration of Docker container/ VMware/Redhat/ AWS server’s client VM's and EC2.
• Jenkins CI/CD pipelines build automation experience.
• Good understanding of Docker containers, docker compose, swarm, Cabernets and Amazon ECS deployment.
• Experience in Rolling deployment, blue green deployment and Immutable environment zero downtime deployment methods.
• Experience version control tools GIT Lab and GitHub, good understanding to push Tag/Ref on branches, merge request and things to do on release day like Tagging etc.
• Automation experience using Unix Bash script and python boto3 AWS related module only.
• Good understanding of monitoring tools like Splunk, NewRelic, Sansu, Nagios.
• Terraform and cloud formations experience to build VPC, EC2, IAM, WAF,SG, S3, RDS, Route53 Record, SNS, SQS and Auto scaling, ELB, Cloud Watch etc
• Quick learner, highly motivated team player with excellent organizational and analytical skills.
• Knowledge of Server compliance issue as per industry standards, resolution through automation.
• Experienced on Linux RedHat6.0/7.0 NFS,, RHN satellite setup, DHCP, Kickstart installation, network issues, implementation of Iptables rules, DNS, SAMBA, LDAP, NIS, OpenVPN Certificate based setup for remote users connections, Nagios server.
• Extensive experience in physical to virtual migration and tools to use between vmware to aws migrations etc.
• Good understanding of Agile method, Scrum, Sprint planning etc.
• Always ready to discuss on latest changes in technology and their automation concepts.
• Installed and Configured chef server/workstation and nodes via CLI tools to AWS nodes. Managed and Monitored the instances (chef clients) on AWS EC2.
• Written several cookbooks in Chef to automate the environment provisioning, Middleware Infrastructure Installations.
• Set up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password, resolving permissions issues, user and group quota.Worked on maintenance of the Subversion/GIT Repositories, views, and the access control strategies.
• Patch Management, Package Installation/Upgrades and Kernel upgrades.
• Monitored System Activities like CPU, Memory, Disk and Swap space usage to avoid any performance issues.
• Experienced in Technical and troubleshooting skills with relational databases (Postgres, Mysql
• Configuring multipath, adding SAN and creating physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes.
• Installed/Configured the WebSphere server and JBoss EAP; Managed tuning and performance of high profile applications running on them. Configuration and Administration of Load balancers and F5's, taking servers in/out of rotation.
• Leveraged Docker Engine to run Multiple Tomcat Instances as Containerized App Servers
• Hands on experience with an in-depth level of understanding in the strategy and implementation of AWS cloud-specific technologies like Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Storage Services (S3), Route 53, Cloud Formation, Elastic IPs, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), RDS, Cloud Watch, Dynamo DB, IAM, Bean Stalk, Cloud Front, API.
• Managed users and groups for secured access to AWS services and products with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• Performed DevOps for Linux and Windows platforms and Focused on automation and integration
• Created new load testing tool using Python, BOTO2, BOTO3, DynamoDB, EC2, S3, EFS, Auto Scaling Group, and other AWS internal tools, which tested the load testing performance of Elastic File Systems
• Worked with Ansible in conjunction with Vagrant in a DevOps environment.
• Worked on Python Open stack API's.Used Python scripts to update content in the database and manipulate files.
• Used Python and Django creating graphics, XML processing, data exchange and business logic implementation

Confidential, Attleboro, Massachusetts

Linux/Devops/VMware System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, maintenance, Administration, and support of Solaris/Redhat/HP-UX, SUSE on Dell and HP hardware.
• Launched AWS EC2 instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/Ubuntu/RHEL) for development, test and production environments. Responsible for the development and maintenance of Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancers.
• Worked with continuous integration/continuous delivery using tools such as Jenkins, Git, Ant, and Maven, created workflows in Jenkins and Worked on the CI-CD model setup Using Jenkins.
• Used Ant and Maven as build tools on java projects for the development of build artifacts on the source code.
• Configured kickstart server and updating/applying patches to the servers using Redhat Satellite server 5 and 6.
• Troubleshooting issues related to DNS, NIS, NFS, DHCP, Send mail on Linuxand Solaris Operating Systems.
• Experienced as Red Hat Enterprise Linux administrator and migrated 29 games from physical to virtual (P2V) environment. Worked with NFS, NTFS, Cluster.
• Integrate GIT into Jenkins to automate the code checkout process and trigger builds.
• Decreased footprint and decommission services. Created a mirror copy of bare metal into a virtual environment.
• Worked on Recovery from failed restore, post deployment VM Setup.
• Create, extend, reduce and administration of Logical Volume Manager (LVM) in RHEL.
• Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Puppet, Ant/Maven in Windows/Linux/ubuntu environment.
• Installed and maintained a RHEL satellite server, Apache web server and sftp serve
• Extensive use of Ansible for building software and tools.
• Participated migration cutover meeting’s, Build and deploy Linux hardware Nodes to host several KVM templates.
• System Data and Process Architect for Service-Now Deployment.
• Worked on Puppet extensively for deployment for servers, creating on custom scripts and managing changes through Puppet master server on its clients. Installation and configuration of Apache Webservers, WebLogic in a LAMP stack.
• Experience in Installation, Migration, Configuration and Troubleshooting of HACMP 5.1/5.3.
• Created a FTP web interface to manage and send files to our customer FTP site using PHP.
• Manage user/group and sudo access on the Linux operating system.
• Troubleshoot network issue from the OS stand point using netstat, ping, traceroute, and tcpdump commands.
• Open ports for applications and process that require special ports.
• Backup MySQL database by creating script to run the MySQL dump and package it in a gzip file.
• Created a web page for internal recognition using WordPress on a Linux server with LDAP connection.
• Applied appropriate support packages/patches to maintain system integrity.
• Worked in data center move of all physical devices such as Routers, Switches, hubs, Dell, Cisco UCS, HP, Netapp and EMC. Worked with AWS Cloud, Puppet, ansible.
• Worked with shared point folders for enterprise content management.
• Custom build of Windows 2008/2012 and Windows 2008/2012 servers which includes adding users, SAN, network configuration, installing application related packages, managing services.
• Designing Firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with application, Oracle 10g servers.
• Working on Volume management, Disk Management, software RAID solutions using VERITAS Volume manager & Solaris Volume Manager. File system Tuning and growing using VERITAS File System (VxFS), coordinated with SAN Team for storage allocation and Disk Dynamic Multi path.
• Managing VMware vSphere environments including vSwitches, Distributed Virtual Switches.
• Experience on High Availability, Distributed Resource Scheduler & Resource Pools.
• Solid experience on vMotion, Storage vMotion, VMware Fault Tolerance, Update Manager and SRM.
• Setting up Access and Authentication control, ESXi advanced configurations, Network/Storage IO Control.
• Worked on VMFS Datastore, Host profiles, Storage profiles, Resource Management and Performance Monitoring. Workecd with migration to azure cloud.
• Experienced in performing Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations and taking Snapshots.
• Performed successfully physical to virtual and virtual to virtual conversions of physical/virtual machines using VMware Converter. Strong knowledge and hands on experience in Data Center Migration using PlateSpin.
• Implementation VMware, Cisco and EMC based virtualized infrastructure for enterprise scale Cloud deployments
• Cloud Infrastructure administration with VMware vCenter, Cisco UCS manger, Unisphere and Cisco Nexus CLI.
• Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) platform deployment and management in Vblock environments.
• Worked on resolving production issues and documenting Root Cause Analysis and updating the tickets using BMC Remedy.
• Configured SPLUNK Alerts and created Dashboards for Monitoring and utilized SonarQube for code quality analysis i.e.., to find the list of issues from various components like project, module, file.
• Involved in SCRUM ceremonies (stand-up, grooming, planning, demo/review and retrospective) with the teams to ensure successful project forecasting and realistic commitments.
• Coordinate and assist developers with establishing and applying appropriate branching, naming conventions using GIT source control.
• Involved in Linux/Unix system administration, System builds, installations, upgrades, Patches, Migration, Troubleshooting on CentOS 7. Scheduled CRON jobs using SSH and bash scripts on production servers.
• Connected continuous integration system with GIT version control repository and continually build as the check-in's come from the developer.
• Responsible for design and maintenance of the Subversion/GIT Repositories, views, and the access control strategies.
• Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Puppet, Bamboo in Linux environments.
• Experienced in branching, tagging, and maintaining the version control systems across the environments using SCM tools like GIT Hub, Subversion (SVN), Atlassian, GIT lab and Team Foundation Server (TFS) on Linux and Windows platforms.

Confidential, Jacksonville, Florida

Linux and VMware System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Veritas Volume Manager, LVM, Veritas File System, and Veritas Cluster Server
• Planned, Scheduled, and Implemented Kernal Patches on Red Hat Linux using Red Hat Satellite Server
• Configuration of NIC bonding and IPMP on Linux and Solaris
• Configuration of Global File System (GFS) and SFRAC for oracle RAC cluster configuration
• Supporting and troubleshooting Linux and UNIX servers’ day to day problems
• Creating, cloning Linux Virtual Machines, templates using and migrating servers between ESX hosts.
• Installing Red Hat Linux using kickstart and applying security polices for hardening the server based on the company policies.
• Disaster Recovery in RHEL servers consisting LVM based FS and RedHat Clustering
• Applied appropriate support packages/patches to maintain system integrity.
• Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands. Creating, installing and configuring Zones, LDOMs in Sun Solaris 10.
• Creating Virtual Machines, cloning, creating templates, adding storage, installing Redhat, performing VMotion, adding ESX hosts on vSphere 4.0.
• Creating file system, exporting, importing file systems, tuning, growing, shrinking using Veritas File system 5.x.
• Troubleshooting and administering High Availability using VERITAS Cluster Server on various business critical database & application production servers.
• Implemented a Database enabled Intranet web site using LINUX, Apache, MySQL Database backend, HTML and PHP scripting for Database access via web browsers.
• Patched Solaris 9 and RHEL servers using patch cluster, YUM repositories, and breaking root mirrors
• Used puppet to configure servers manage profiles, push changes, writing manifests.
• Troubleshooting and configuring NAS and NFS mount points. Creating and managing volumes using LVM.
• Configured kick start server and updating/applying patches to the servers using Red hat Satellite server.
• Installing, configuring Veritas NetBackup 6.5 on Solaris, Redhat servers, creating polices, scheduling jobs.
• Installed and verified that all AIX/Linux patches or updates are applied to the servers.
• Preparing servers for Oracle RAC installation which includes tuning the kernel, agent installation, adding NAS storage.
• Designing Firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with application, Oracle 10g servers.
• Monitored server and application performance & tuning via various stat commands (vmstat, nfsstat, iostatetc) and tuned I/O, memory, etc. Coordinated with the Storage, Network and Hardware teams on server provisions HP Proliant servers
• Job includes installation and configuration of VMware ESXi 4.x, installation and configuration of VMware Virtual Center Server and creating Virtual Machines. Assist in building servers and v2v migrations.
• Assist in P2V conversion of Windows 2000, Windows 2003, and Linux based server editions using enterprise VMware converter and also installed the VMware tools on that machines.
• Provided disaster recovery and backup services using the VMware consolidated Backup (VCB, Job also includes creating templates and deploying Virtual Machines through templates, cloning Virtual Machines and managing Virtual Center permissions.
• Creating and Managing VMware cluster with HA and DRS. Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual
• Machines. Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines.
• Using Virtual center server for HA, DRS and VMotion. Working on Migration concepts like VMotion and cold migration. Did documentation for project for organizing and storing data/enterprise content management.
• Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network. Troubleshooting ESX & Virtual Machines.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Provided customer support, help/troubleshoot users to resolve server, network, and other system wide problems.
• Managed Maven project dependencies by creating parent-child relationships between Projects.
• Designed and implemented scalable, secure cloud architecture based on Amazon Web Services.
• Experience with setting up Chef Infra, bootstrapping nodes, creating and uploading recipes, node convergence in Chef SCM.
• Experience in setting up the chef repo, chef work stations and chef nodes.
• Experience in working with data bags, attributes, cookbooks, recipes and templates in Chef.
• Worked with development team to migrate Ant scripts to Maven.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Unix/Linux and VMware System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experienced on LVM and worked with NFS file system.
• Installation and Configuration of Redhat, CentOS, Solaris, SUSE SLES 10,11 servers.
• Patching of RHEL5 and Solaris 10 servers for EMC Power Path Upgrade for VMAX migration.
• Documented the standard procedure for installation and deployment of VMAX Migration and logical volume manager.
• Installation, configuration, support and security implementation on following services: DHCP, SSH, SCP.
• Working with Blade logic environment.
• Generating keys of SUDO and copying to remote servers
• I wrote the ansible playbooks which is the entry point for Ansible provisioning, where the automation is defined through tasks using YAML format. Run Ansible Scripts to provision Dev servers.
• Installation/administration of AIX, Linux and NT/2000 Servers on a LAN, setting up optimal RAID levels (fault tolerance) for protected data storage in NAS environments.
• Extensively managed Active Directory like all the problems related to user accounts, domain accounts, managing permissions etc.
• Involved in operational support of Active Directory, WINS, DNS, and AD enabled applications.
• Installing and updating the windows patches. Creating NTFS shares on Windows Servers and provide permissions to users.
• Setting up perfmon windows servers to analyze performance issues. Built and manage Virtual servers on VMwareESXServer3.0/3.5.
• Experience in creating Clusters in Virtual Center and adding ESX Hosts to Virtual Center Cluster.
• Worked on Migrating Virtual Machines with VMotion.
• Experience in configuring VMware DRS Rules and VMware HA on Clusters in Virtual Center.
• Experience in creating and monitoring Resource Pool for Virtual Machines Resource Reservation and Limits.
• Involved in daily Performance monitoring and Active Directory troubleshooting with the ability to analyze server performance and make recommendations for improvement.
• Planned, scheduled and Implemented OS patches on both Solaris & Linux boxes as a part of proactive maintenance and Secure Shell (SSH) implementation.
• Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging, network logging of servers for maintenance, performance tuning, testing.
• Troubleshooting tickets, which includes storage, network, system related issues and logging RCA using BMC Remedy.
• Worked and performed data-center operations including rack mounting, cabling.
• Worked on creating disk groups, volumes, deporting, importing disk groups using VERITAS volume manager.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and administration of Windows 2000/2003/2008 servers, Active Directory and exchange server.
• Set up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password, resolving.