TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills/Qualification: System Administration for UNIX (AIX, Linux, Solaris, Suse, HP - UX, VMware) and Windows; System Engineer, Team Lead (Project Manager), Clustering Administration; Netware System Administration; Network Maintenance; Networking Standards; Network Performance Tuning; Process Improvement; Developing Standards; Analyzing Information; Network Troubleshooting; Customer Focus; Technical Documentation; Quality Focus; Verbal Communication; Presenting Technical Information; Reporting Skills; Problem Solving; Phone supports; troubleshoots hardware/software issues

Hardware: Maintained, installed and built, Sun SPARCstation’s, Sun Ultra, SUN Netra T1 servers, Sun Fire, Sun SPARCcenter, Sun Enterprise; HP Servers and Blades, DEC servers, SGI servers, Confidential Netfinity Servers, Confidential BladeCenter, JS23 and 43 blades, Confidential AS/400, RS/6000, Z9, Confidential eServers, Confidential pSeries, Confidential iSeries and Confidential zSeries servers. Confidential Desktops, ThinkPad’s; Confidential Servers and blades, Compaq Servers; SAN, NAS, advance system management adapters, switches, routers, tape drives, and tape drive libraries.

Operating Systems: Maintained, Configured, installed and Administrated Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10; UNIX WARE 7, 8; SCO 5.5, 5.6; LINUX Red Hat (6.2, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 9, 2.1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 AS and ES ); Suse ; Caldera; AIX 4, 5, 6 and 7; z/OS, ZLinux, DEC; SGI; HP- UX 10 and 11; Windos 2003 Enterprise, Data center; Windows 2000 Server, Professional, Enterprise, Data Center; Windows NT 4 Server, Professional, Enterprise; Windows XP; Windows (98, 95); Novell Netware (4.1, 5.0, 5.1, 6.0) and OS/2

Additional Skills: EDirectory, Active Directory, NFS, DFS, GPFS, GFS, ZFS ; Windows NT and 2000 Clustering, Power HA Clustering, HACMP, Solaris Clustering, Linux Red Hat Clustering, Zlinux, SYMplicity Storage Management, Tivoli Storage Management (TSM),Tivoli Work Schedule (TWS), Confidential Storage IManager, CICS, ConsoleOne, Veritas Storage management, Veritas Cluster, Veritas Volume manager, VMware, Solstice DiskSuite, Jump Start, Sun Cluster, Networker (Legato), ESM, EMC, Confidential Total Storage, SAP, DB2, ORACLE, SQL,VPN, Cognos, Samba, Apache, Websphere (WAS), JBOSS, Tomcat, Weblogic., Confidential Http, Apache, Cobol, IIS, Lotus Notes, People Soft, HR For Me, Dirxml, PC Anywhere, SSH, VNC, Citrix MataFrame, PASS (Ariba), Kerberos, DNS, Postfix, LDAP

Language: PHP, C ++, Java, Perl, Shell

EXPERIENCES:

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Technical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide administrative support for AIX 7 and 6, Linux Red Hat ES (Patch installations, software upgrades, PowerHA (HACMP), GPFS Cluster, NIM, Kickstart, NIM, debugging server configurations, trouble-shooting, and security).
• Provided administration support for VIO infrastructure for AIX 6.1 and 7.1 platforms. (Patch, installations, software upgrades, debugging server configurations, trouble-shooting, and security).
• Provide GPFS support for SAP web application.
• Manage VMware Clients hardware resources and templates to deploy secure Red Hat Linux ES image.
• Migrated LPAR’s off of Confidential Power 6 hardware infrastructure to Confidential Power 7 hardware infrastructure through LPM.
• Daily management of operating system environment.
• Manage HACMP infrastructure and application resources configure on AIX 6 and 7
• Created scripts to automate daily administration and security procedures.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Technical Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide administrative support for AIX 7 and 6, Linux Red Hat ES 5 and 6, SuSE Linux 11 and 12, Solaris 11 and 10, (Patch installations, software upgrades, PowerHA (HACMP), GPFS Cluster, NIM, Kickstart, AI, Jumpstart, debugging server configurations, trouble-shooting, and security).
• Implemented and deployed WEB application in Test, Dev, UAT and Prod environment on AIX, RedHat Linux and Solaris
• Deploy, Administrate and Automate AIX and Red Hat Linux install through NIM and kickstart on the Power P platforms.
• Migrated all of AIX infrastructure from Confidential Power 6 hardware to Confidential Power 7.
• Manage VMware Clients hardware resources and templates to deploy secure Red hat Linux 6.5 image.
• Manage HACMP infrastructure and application resources configure on AIX 6 and 7
• Created scripts to automate daily administration and security procedures.
• Implement and configure IEM (BIG FIX) agent for all UNIX platform servers to apply Confidential GSD331 security compliance and patches.
• Implement Confidential GSD331 security setting and maintained compliance on an ongoing basis using periodic server health checks from IEM tool (Big FIX).
• Assessed critical business apps for security risks and compliance (SOX, GSD331 ).
• Create Health Check reports from IEM tool.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Technical Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provide administrative support for AIX 7.1and 6, Linux Red Hat ES 6 and 5, Centos 6, Solaris 11.1and 10, HP-UX 11(Patch installations, software upgrades, debugging server configurations, trouble-shooting, and security).
• Provided Engineer support for Confidential and SUN infrastructure (AS400, pSeries, iSeries and RS6000, SUN T5 and T4 Series)
• Manage HACMP infrastructure and application resources configure on AIX 6 and 7
• Upgraded and design from Confidential infrastructure AS400 to iSeries.
• Write scripts to recognize, analyze and document deficiencies with in the OS level that doesn’ Confidential meet PCI and SOX Compliance standards and articulate those deficiencies to key management personnel to make recommendations for remediation.
• Provide support monitoring and security alert with Omnibus & Netcool (ITNM ) and Tripwire on the UNIX infrastructure and platform.
• Assessed critical business apps for security risks and compliance (SOX, PCI, HIPAA).

Confidential

Lead Sr. UNIX Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement SPARC T5-8 Infrastructure through the ILOM and Ops Center configuring the Control Domain with multiple Service Domains to define redundant network and disk I/O.
• Configure Service Domains to define virtual hardware resources to the Guest LDOM’s
• Implement an AI server and configure a custom secure Solaris 11 image
• Implement and configure a repository server IPS for patching
• Creating snapshots and clones using ZFS and monitoring pools, RAID
• Configure Kerberos, DNS, LDAP and PAM for Red hat 6.5 and Solaris 11.1 to perform authorization and authentication from Windows 2012 Active Directory.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provided administrative support for AIX 7.1 and Linux Red Hat ES 6.3 (Patch installations, software upgrades, NIM, Kickstart, PowerHA (HACMP), debugging server configurations, trouble-shooting, and security).
• Design and Implement Confidential Power 7 infrastructure and assist SAP team with CRM application migration.
• Provide proof of concepts by creating functional development models to meet customer identity & access control requirements in a test / production environment.
• Implemented and deployed WEB application in Test, Dev and UAT environment on AIX 7.1
• Manage HACMP infrastructure and application resources configure on AIX 6 and 7
• Design Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) AssemblyLine and connectors to connects different data repositories to allows data movement between these connected resources for Solaris and Linux and AIX platforms
• Support TIM /TAM for Identity and Access Management on Linux 6.3 infrastructures.
• Administrate Tivoli Access Manager (TAM), Confidential Tivoli Identity Manager (ITIM), Confidential Directory Server, WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Portal Server, Confidential HTTP Server, on LINUX Redhat platform.
• Support web application configure with Tomcat, Weblogic, WebSphere WAS and WPS.

Confidential

Lead Sr. UNIX System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, Implemented and provided administrative support for AIX 6.1 and Linux Red Hat 6.3, on Confidential P770, infrastructure frame (Patch installations (NIM and YUM), VIO, PowerHA (HACMP), GPFS, software upgrades, debugging server configurations, trouble-shooting, and security).
• Administrate and automate AIX and Red Hat Linux install through NIM and kickstart on the Power p770 platform.
• Assessed critical business apps for security risks and compliance (PCI, HIPAA).
• Implemented and providing support for Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business products (LDAP, DB2, TAMeSSO, TAM, TIM, TDS, TFIM, TPC, TDI, WebSphere (WAS), Webseal on AIX 6.1, Linux Redhat 6.3 and Window 2008 platform.
• Design Tivoli Directory Integrator (TDI) AssemblyLine and connectors to connect different data repositories to allow data movement between these connected resources for Solaris and Linux and AIX platforms.
• Implemented and deployed WEB application in Test and Dev environment
• Implementing, tuning and supporting WebSphere Application Servers v8.5 on AIX 6.1 and Red Hat Linux
• Implement and Deploy the Health Care Applications war file in WebSphere Application server
• Implemented and support DB2 database on Linux Redhat and AIX platform
• Implemented and supported Omnibus & Netcool (ITNM ) on AIX 6.1
• Implemented and supported Rational on AIX 6.1
• Design, implemented and support Confidential InfoSphere Guardium Data Encryption and security for the DB2 file system.
• Design and implemented Confidential InfoSphere Guardium Monitoring on Linux for all the UNIX database systems.
• Assist the Vendor with configuring Confidential endpoint Bigfix Security and Compliance checklist and agent installation for the UNIX platforms.
• Providing Application and database support on Linux Red Hat 6.3, Solaris 11 and AIX 6.
• Install and support JBOSS on Linux RedHat 6.3 for Application developers for third party tools.
• Support Cognos reporting application on the back in and front.
• Support and troubleshoot Tomcat for Cognos web applications.
• Implemented, configure and support WebSphere (WAS 8.5) for Health Care Applications on Linux Redhat and AIX.
• Automate scripts to deploy application into WebSphere (WAS 8.5) on AIX and Linux Red Hat platform.

Confidential

Lead Sr. UNIX System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided administrative support for Linux Red Hat ES 6.1, AIX 6 and 7.1 (Patch installations (NIM and YUM), VIO, PowerHA (HACMP), GPFS, software upgrades, debugging server configurations, trouble-shooting, and security).
• Provided administration support for Application, Database and Web servers on various UNIX platforms
• Developed scripts (shell and Perl) to perform daily administration task (create new users, resetting user passwords, lock/unlock user accounts and Monitor server security).

Confidential

Sr. UNIX Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design and manage Confidential AIX Infrastructure Projects. This project involves the design, construction and maintenance of an Enterprise Server Infrastructure that’s hosting the many aspects of the (NRC) Web and client based Applications.
• Design and build-out a new Confidential Power 7 hardware Infrastructure on AIX 6.1, leading the project and worked with necessary teams in implementing the Webserver Application and Database configurations.
• Provided administration support for VIO infrastructure for AIX 6.1 and 7.1 platforms. (Patch, installations, software upgrades, debugging server configurations, trouble-shooting, and security).
• Daily management of operating system environment.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and integrated existing software on Red Hat 6.1 cluster with CFS file system on HP server infrastructure hardware.
• Provided support to application development staff with architecture and developing software
• Wrote automation Shell script.
• Provided administrative, maintenance and testing support on Linux Red Hat ES 6.1 environments. (Patch installations, software upgrades, debugging server configurations, trouble-shooting, and security).

Confidential

Lead Sr. UNIX System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interfaced and attended conference calls with other teams and necessary vendors for progress on current and upcoming projects.
• Provided administrative and maintenance support on AIX, Solaris, and Linux RedHat environments. (Patch installations (NIM, flash, YUM), GPFS Cluster, SAP, software upgrades, debugging server configurations, trouble-shooting, and security).
• Design, developed and integrated existing PeopleSoft application and Oracle database from Power 5 to Power 6 infrastructure on AIX.
• Design, develop and integrated existing Ariba Procurement Application from Solaris 8 to 10 built using Domains and ZONES (ZFS) for the Application servers and VERITAS Clustering vxfs in a multi-tier environment (Oracle Grid, WAS, Ldap).
• Provided administration and support for Sun Solaris 10 Domains and Zones built on a 6900 SUN servers.
• Provided VERITAS Cluster support for PASS (Ariba Procurement) application and database on Solaris 10 platform.
• Provided administration support for PeopleSoft and PASS (Ariba Procurement) applications, Database and Web Servers on Linux Red Hat ES 6.1 and Sun Solaris 10 platform.
• Provide support and management for the Oracle Linux environment that ran on Oracle Grid database environment.
• Support and manage web application configure with Tomcat, Weblogic, WebSphere WAS and WPS
• Provided management and support for UNIX images through Jumpstart (flash), NIM and Kickstart management servers.
• Design, developed, integrated and provided backend Administration support for UC4 Application on AIX for scheduling task on AS400, RS6000 infrastructure.
• Support WEB Applications ran on AIX 6.1 configure with GPFS for Oracle 11 database.
• Troubleshoot fail batch jobs on Mainframe (AS400, RS6000 and z9) servers on AIX, Linux, z/OS environments from the DB2 and Oracle database.
• Managed vSphere ESXi 4.1 infrastructure supporting a large environment with various customers and providing service availability and scalability 24/7 to meet SLAs.
• Migrated Ariba Analyst application from Solaris 8, 9 OS and Sparc hardware to Linux RedHat ES 5.6 on x86 hardware.
• Wrote automation Shell script.
• Provided support to application development staff with architecture, development and migration of WebSphere and MQ Series applications
• Provided SAN support for various UNIX server environments with the Confidential Total storage software utility.
• Proactive in detecting and resolving issues.

Confidential

Lead Sr. UNIX System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with the necessary teams in implementing and designing the plan for a new DR backup facility failover.
• Provided administration and maintenance support on AIX 5.3 and 6.1, Linux (RedHat and SuSE), Solaris 8, 9and 10. (Patch installations, software upgrades, debugging server configurations, troubleshooting, and security).
• Assisted the developers and Application Administrator with migrating and importing application from Solaris (SPARC) to Linux (X86) using Linux Toolkit.
• Managing and administrating Solaris Domains and Zones.
• Install and Configure the SUN Cluster Software.
• Support Solaris 10 cluster resources
• Installation, configuration and administration of Zones and Containers on Solaris 10.
• Wrote scripts for resetting passwords and getting hardware information.
• Provided administration and support for the Linux and AIX infrastructure through the HMC management console for Power 5 Series and VIO servers.
• Migrated, integrated and supported UNIX environments (WebSphere MQ / 6.0.2.5, WBI-MB / 6.1, WebSphere Application Server(WAS) 6.0, 6.1, Java, JDBC, ODBC, EJB, XML, SQL, ESQL, M6 Autopilot EM, DB2, OS/390) on z/OS, AIX and Linux platforms.
• Automated administration task using Shell Scripts (create new users, resetting user passwords, lock/unlock user accounts and Monitor server security).
• Wrote automation Shell script to migrate existing application over to the new infrastructure.
• Provided support for the Application, Database and Web servers on various UNIX platforms.
• Provided Data Direct SAN support for various UNIX server environments.
• Proactively detected and resolved issues.
• Daily management of the operating system environment.
• Assisted in developing procedures/processes for improving and maintaining the DR site environment.
• Performed successful failover test from Production server environment to the backup facility environment.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided administration and maintenance support on AIX, SuSE Linux and Linux Red Hat environments. (Patch installations, software upgrades, debugging server configurations, troubleshooting, and security).
• Designed, developed and configured a three-tier environment GPFS Cluster on AIX 5.3 Power 5Series servers through a HMC management console.
• Designed, integrated and upgraded to AIX 6.1 on Power 5 hardware from Confidential mainframe R6000 and AS400.
• Automated administration task using shell scripts (create new users, resetting user passwords, lock/unlock user accounts and Monitor server security).
• Provided administration and support for AIX VIO servers by managing the resources for the LPAR’s
• Provided HMC management for all attached hardware (Power 4 and Power 5 Series servers) and LPAR partitions for AIX and Linux.
• Managed and supported power 5 servers with NIM AIX management system, creating backups of the operating system file system structure of all AIX environments.
• Wrote scripts for resetting passwords and getting hardware information.
• Provided support for Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business products (LDAP, DB2, FIM, TAM, TIM, WebSphere (WAS and Broker) on AIX platform.
• Performed restores and backup from TSM using sysback on a AIX 5.3 platform.
• Provided support for Application, Database and Web servers on various UNIX platforms.
• Provided SAN support for various UNIX server environments with the Confidential Total storage and EMC Symantec hardware and software utility.
• Provided external and internal administration of daily backups with VERITAS NetBackup and Tivoli TSM.
• Wrote scripts to get security information
• Provided support and upgrades for Oracle 10g, 9i and 8 on UNIX platform.
• Implemented and built new UNIX platform Web Applications and Database server into production, development and test lab environment.
• Tested solutions with software application on hardware before implementing into production.
• Proactive in detecting and resolving issues.
• Implemented, supported and monitored network and software security on various UNIX environments.
• Provided AIX and Oracle training for Windows Administrators.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked with necessary teams in pre-implementation design/planning for new projects and changes in the server environment.
• Provided administration and maintenance support on AIX, Solaris and Linux Red-Hat environments. (Patch installations, software upgrades, debugging server configurations, troubleshooting, and security).
• Designed, developed, configured, maintained and provided support for Tivoli Access Manager for e-Business products (LDAP, DB2, FIM, TAM, WebSEAL, WebSphere (WAS)) on AIX 5.3 platform in a three-tier environment.
• Worked with necessary teams in implementing a new project that consisted of Building a Cognos Reporting System in an AIX 5.3 P5 three-tier platform HACMP cluster environment with e-Business products ( ETL, WebSphere (WAS), MQ). Applying ETL process converted and loaded Confidential Mainframe VSAM/DB2 data files to Oracle 8.1 database.
• Provided support for Application, Database and Web servers on various UNIX platforms.
• Automated administration task using shell scripts (create new users, resetting user passwords, lock/unlock user accounts and Monitor server security).
• Provided SAN support and configuration for disk groups for various server environments with Confidential Total storage.
• Provided external and internal administration of daily backups with NetBackup.
• Implemented and built new Unix Web or application server into production and test lab environment.
• Tested solutions on software/hardware before implementing into production.
• Proactive in detecting and resolving issues.
• Implemented, supported and monitored network and software security on various UNIX environments.
• Wrote scripts for resetting passwords and getting hardware information.
• Daily management of operating system environment.
• Wrote scripts to get security information
• Assisted in developing procedures/processes for improving and maintaining the environment.

Confidential

Lead UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked with necessary teams in pre-implementation design/planning for new projects.
• Performed Systems migration and integration with AIX 4 to 5 from Power 4 platform to power 5 hardware.
• Provided administration, support and maintenance for the HMC management console and the P5 servers Dynamic LPARs resources and partitions
• Provided support for the RS6000 and AS40 mainframe (CICS, File and storage management using FILE- AID and Confidential UTILITIES with JCL)
• Monitored server performance and made adjustments when necessary to keep them in good operating condition.
• Wrote scripts for resetting passwords and getting hardware information.
• Administered Solaris, AIX, Red Hat Linux, and (patch, installations of Apps, software upgrades, debugging server configurations, troubleshooting, and security).
• Installation, tuning and troubleshooting of application on AIX, Solaris, SuSE Linix, and RedHat Linux platforms.
• Wrote automation Shell script.
• Provided SAN support and configuration for disk groups for various server environments with EMC Symantec SANs.
• Provided external and internal administration of daily backups with NetBackup and TSM.
• Designed, maintained and implemented WAN topologies.
• Proactive in detecting and resolving issues.
• Installed /updated operating system environment on various hardware.
• Tested software/hardware solutions and provided feedback.
• Daily management of operating system environment.
• Assisted in developing procedures/processes for improving and maintaining the environment.
• Wrote scripts to get security information
• Interfaced with other teams and necessary vendors to maintain, update, and develop the environment.
• Maintained system physical and logical security.
• Configured and ran Cat 5 and fiber network cables to switches, patch panel and servers.

Confidential

Sr. UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• AIX, Linux, SuSE Linux, Windows and Novell administration (patch installations, software upgrades, debugging server configurations, trouble-shooting, security, etc.)
• Provided administration, support and maintenance for the HMC management console and the P5 servers Dynamic LPARs and partitions.
• Web server (Apache, IIS) performance tuning, configuration, debugging, and maintenance.
• Provided external and internal administration of daily backups with NetBackup.
• Provided SAN support and configured disk groups for various server environments with Confidential Total storage and EMC Symantec SAN’s.
• Monitored customer equipment, including network connections, using HP OpenView.
• Monitored and replaced hardware, applications, drivers and patches.
• Troubleshot network and database issues.
• Configured and ran ISDN, Cat 5, T1 and fiber network cables.

Confidential

System Directory Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed AIX, Solaris and Linux Administration duties.
• Performed Systems migration from Novell platform to Solaris and Linux.
• Troubleshot and maintained Window 2000, 2003 AD (Active Directory), Novell 8.7.1 EDirectory on a Solaris, RedHat platform.
• Designed Novell 8.7.1 EDirectory on a Solaris and Red Hat platform in test lab for various projects before going into production.
• Performed upgrades on application with software and hardware drivers in Solaris, Novell, Red Hat and Windows environment.
• Performed AD (Active Directory), LDAP and Edir (EDirectory) directory administrative duties.
• Provided support for Developers’ and End Users’ issues.
• Ran weekly backups and maintenance on the systems directory.
• Resolved NFS, AD and Edir directory end user’s issues.
• Troubleshot networking issues with SSL, NFS, Samba/Windows domains, DNS, DHCP, and TCP.