OBJECTIVE:

To secure a position as Senior Systems Engineer, Systems Administrator (UNIX/LINUX) where I can contribute in reducing IT costs while providing engineering and technical advice to clients according to the requirements of systems.

SUMMARY:

• Experience in configuring and supporting server systems and storage systems
• Involve in System Architecture and Design
• Strong knowledge of broad data management, and technical background
• Expert in configuration management and deploying UNIX/LINUX systems
• Comprehensive knowledge of VMware and Confidential LPAR virtualization
• Manage multiple projects across locations
• Adaptable to changing technical needs and high analytical skills
• Using Ansible for configuration management of thousands of servers and building VMs on Confidential hosts, P2V and V2V experience
• Management of MySQL databases using PHP scripts
• Experience in Red Hat, AIX and CentOS hardening (Security and Vulnerabilities)
• Red Hat and CentOS for Oracle Stand alone and RAC installations and configuration
• Experience with Confidential Power Technologies
• Experience with VMware and Products
• Knoweldge of Weblogic and Tomcat
• Unix/Linux engineering (AIX, Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, and Solaris )
• Red Hat Cluster Suite (RHCS), Red Hat Satellite and Capsule server management
• Manhattan Warehouse Management - Open Systems
• Basic skill Chef Configuration Management
• Amazon Web Services
• Installing, configuring and administering Apache Tomcat server (Various versions) and Weblogic

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Senior Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Using Red Hat Satellite in building, managing and administering hosts
• Builing out Red Hat Capsule Servers used in building servers in the different locations
• Creating Chef cookbooks in the configuration management of the chef clients running Red Hat Linux
• Working with VMware Engineers in managing and administering the vCenter
• Working closing with the Applications Engineers installing, upgrades, and deploying applications and making sure the Red Hat Linux is optimal for the applications
• Managing, administering and Supportin the Manhattan Warehouse management Open Systems (WMOS) for the company warehouses across the country
• Managing Oracle database table data fixes for the functional group of WMOS with table data fixes using SQL
• Managing and administering the different flavors of Linux (Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, Suse, CentOS)
• Experience with Solarwinds in administering, managing and monitoring servers and devices
• Installing, configuring and administering Apache Tomcat (Various versions)

Confidential, Austin, Texas

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide system engineering and administrative support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x, 6.x and 7.2 versions for standalone servers and Guest Red Hat and CentOS operating systems in VMware virtualized environment
• Involve in System Architecture and Design
• Deploying AWS EC2(S3,EBS) instances, configuring guest OS and administration
• Using Git (GitLab) in-house for version control and Code collaborations
• Perform tuning work on VMware Red Hat Guest OS (Ethernet adapters) to improve I/O using generic receive offload ( Confidential ) and Ethernet bonding to enhanced reliability
• Build out virtual machines running RHEL 6.5 while fine tuning kernel to optimally house Oracle 12c and other applications that access Oracle databases and create ASM disks that are used by Oracle (RAC) and Oracle related applications.
• Migrate hundreds of virtual machines running (LAMP Stack) from the vendor’s Cloud, reducing cost in house of VMs maintained and managed in the Cloud
• Assist the VMware Senior System Engineer in daily administration and maintenance of Confidential Hosts infrastructure for four data centers in the US
• GitLab for maintaining in house repository and Ansible playbooks used for configuration management of servers

Confidential, Austin, Texas

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in the buildout of the Austin Data centers of the Americas
• Involved in System Architecture and Design
• Managed, Built and Maintained thousands of servers across USA and Europe in a VMware (vCenter) Confidential hosts environment
• Managed standalone AIX Operating system servers running of AIX (5.x and 6.x), Red Hat servers versions (3.8 to 7.x) in standalone and virtualized environment
• Supported hundreds of servers in the Austin datacenter in addition to ten state lotteries data centers across the U.S. and Europe
• Patch management (Operating system and security patches)
• ManagedIBM DS Total Storage Family includingexternal storage, controller, NVSRAM, disk firmware (microcode) upgrades and patching
• Introduced centralized backup and restoration of the Austin datacenter infrastructure using (Symantec NetBackup)
• Configured and setup the monitoring of servers and applications running at the Austin data center using BMC Patrol monitoring tool
• Worked with ITIL managers to upgrade the existing program

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Consultant AIX System Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provided systems engineering administration support for AIX System Administrators for Confidential
• Troubleshooter for problem solving of Confidential customers server issues
• Performed kernel dump and system crash analysis
• Provided technical support on mksysb backups and restoring data and system microcode (firmware upgrades)
• Conducted system performance tuning
• Operated system rootvg mirroring for high availability and redundancy