OBJECTIVE:

To obtain a responsible and growth oriented position in the AWS cloud systems engineering & architecture which will both utilize and strengthen my skills. As a professional I am creative, innovative and looking ahead to work in a challenging environment and strive for the excellence.

SUMMARY:

• AWS cloud experience and currently working for Confidential as AWS cloud engineer and has 4 AWS certifications and working on AWS Devops certified engineer certification
• Experience with Public, private clouds, virtualization, AWS Devops,Bigdata(AWS EMR Hadoop managed as service)
• Worked for AWS in Linux, Deployment (Devops) & Bigdata teams.
• Experience with datacenter migration into AWS Cloud
• Experience working with customers for migrating the Linux and windows se rvers into AWS cloud & Govcloud
• Experience working with various flavors of Linux systems administration
• 15 years of IT experience in systems engineer and cloud providing solutions.
• Experience with Data center migration and Disaster Recover activities
• Possess 4 years of SAN experience in assigning LUNS, masking and mapping operations on the SAN, Performance analysis on the SAN & NAS
• Experience of migrating from Confidential to Redhat Linux

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating system: AIX7.1,AIX6.1,AIX5.3,AIX5.1,5.2,4.3.3,SunSolaris2.6,2.8,2.9,Windows9x//NT/2000,XP, HP - UX 11.X,10.X, Red-hat Linux(EL3.0,EL4.0,EL5.0,AS2.1),SUSE Enterprise 9, Solaris 9, Solaris 10,RHEL 7, RHEL 6.x, CentOS, Ubuntu,Amazon Linux

Administration skills: AWS cloud, Confidential systems administration, HP-UX systems administration, Sun Solaris system administration, Linux administration, oracle database administration, Sybase database administration, NIM Server, Vmware VSphere administration,Hadoop,Dynamodb,NOSQL,Chef,Xen,Dockers,Ec2container service

Networking: TCP/IP,LAN,WAN,DNS,NFS,NIS,NIS+, FTP, PPP,DHCP,LDAP,ISDN

RDBMS: Oracle 8i, 9i, SQL, ASE12.0,12.5,Oracle RAC

Software: HACMP4.4.1,HACMP4.5,HACMP5.1,PowerHA,VeritasVolumeManager,Veritas File systems, Tivoli storage manager,, Online Diagnostics, Glance, Tivoli Monitoring, PAN,Powerpath, IBM SDD, Veritas Cluster Server,EMC control center, BMC patrol, Site scope monitoring, MPIO,VMWARE,IBM Director, Hadoop,Jenkins,GIT

Hardware: P780, P770,P570,IBM Blades(8406-71Y), Power6(8204-EA),P655,7038-6M2),P561,P520,P570,P550,P590,Regatta,P670,P690,P630,RS6000,P660,P510,P550,P590 Sun Netra servers, Sun Enterprise class machines 4x00/6x00/3x00, E250, Ultra-30, Ultra-10, Sparc20, Sparc10, V240,V440,HP(N4000,K580),(K class, N class Machines),IBM JS20/HS20,IBM X345,IBM X445,IBM X346,HP BL495c,HP BL460c,HP BL385,HP DL580,Fujistu M4000,Fujitsu PP450

Programming skills: Java, HTML, Shell Scripting, SQL, pl/sql

Web servers: Apache, Tomcat, Web Sphere

SAN: DMX4,XP1024

Backups: TSM,Sun StorageTek SL500, ADIC i2000

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

AWS cloud engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support 1 million AWS customers across the globe in 9 AWS regions and provide guidance on the AWS architecture, designing solutions, best practices, resolving customer issues in the AWS cloud and as well as performance tuning in the AWS cloud environment.
• Conducting interviews for AWS cloud positions, mentoring other AWS engineers, supporting escalations and as well as supporting enterprise customers.
• Experience with datacenter migrations into AWS
• Experience with image conversions of Linux and Windows for importing into AWS
• Experience with writing cloud formation Templates
• Helped customers with Linux(Redhat Linux, Amazon Linux, Ubuntu) issues in AWS cloud such as deploying, performance tuning,autoscaling,dhcpissues,instances stuck,,unable to login,lost keypair,unable to boot, account compromised issues, Identifying root cause after checking customer cloudtrail logs,reservedinstances,EBS snapshots,AMIs,latency issues in cloud with their application,DDOS attacks,cloudwatch alerts,ssl certs deployments for apache,ELB certs deployment and as well as architecting applications for fault tolerance and for disaster recovery.
• Helped customers deploying their applications in AWS cloud using opsworks(managed Chef),Codedeploy,Elasticbeanstalk,troubleshoooting customer's cloud formation stacks,
• Helped customers with Bigdata using AWSEMR(managed Hadoop solution) for troubleshooting the issues in AWS cloud.
• Job Type: Full time
• Worked on the import of the Linux and windows vms from customer datacenter into the AWS and then launched the ec2 instances from the import images into the respective as part of the datacenter migration into AWS cloud
• Converted the imagesinto vmdk format using Symantec & veeam softwware sothat they could be imported into the AWS as AMI images.
• Creating AMIs,snapshots,Instance upgrade from one size to another
• Wrote cloudformation templates for automatically launching the internal ELB, external ELB, autoscaling
• Worked on the cloudformation templates using userdata scripts to install the Trendmicro agents on the servers.
• Worked on deploying the certificates on the IIS for windows.
• Upgraded the windows servers to 2008 supported version for the older windows environments since they are not supported in AWS cloud after migrating to the AWS cloud
• Worked on bringing up applications in both Linux and Windows.
• Assisted with day to day troubleshooting of critical issues.

Confidential, Plano, Texas

Sr. Unix Engineer/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• UNIX engineering and architecture support to UNIX servers of Confidential .
• Providing Unix engineering solutions to the company
• Building servers, setting up Oracle RAC clusters, Confidential clusters,Upgrading the firmware of the P7 hardware, VIO upgrades, root cause analysis and as well building Redhat Servers
• Led the various critical Unix engineering efforts
• Building Redhat Linux servers on VCE Vblock
• Setting up and administering Redhat Linux servers
• Setup the oracle RAC clusters on Confidential 6.1 on the Power 7 hardware.
• Built and administered Redhat Linux servers
• Vmotion of the Linux virtual machines
• Migration of Confidential servers to Linux onto the VCE VBlock platform.
• Architected and Set up the Confidential cluster on Redhat Linux and as well as on Confidential .
• Oracle RAC servers migration to new Switches.
• Set up the Confidential machines on the Blade hardware.
• Live partition mobility from P780 servers to Blade hardware.
• VIO upgrades to the latest level.
• Confidential servers patching to the latest level.
• Architected and implemented the ILMT 7.5 tool roll out and led the ILMT agent roll out on all the servers ( Confidential, Solaris, Linux, Windows)
• Led the SAN migration efforts to new switches for Unix engineering and completed the migration to new switches by working with SAN engineering team
• Led the Unix engineering efforts for SOASTA testing(load testing) to get ready for the peak holiday season

Confidential, West Lake, Texas

System Admin Sr.Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Unix & Architecture support to 2000 servers running Confidential, Redhat, Confidential, SUSE Linux, RedHat Linux and supporting day to day Corelogic Servers.
• Confidential, VIO,NIM,TSM,HACMP, HMC, Power5,Power 6, Power7 architecture and administration support as well as building and supporting servers on Redhat Linux and SuSeLinux.
• Training new resources and providing level 3 support for critical issues.

Confidential, West Lake, Texas

Senior Unix systems administrator

Responsibilities:

• System Engineering support to 2000 servers running Confidential, SUSE Linux, RedHat Linux.
• Planning, designing and building PSeries (Power5, Power6, Power7) servers, Linux servers, updating the patches, reviewing the security vulnerabilities and providing day to day administration support, mentoring new team members and providing guidance to junior members of the team.
• Participating in design meetings on the new servers and coming with architecture plan for the new installs, building the servers, setup HACMP clusters, setup VIO servers and VIO clients as per the project needs and supporting RedHat, SUSE Linux server build,recommend & implement the best practices for tuning.
• Building Redhat and suse linux servers on Vmware ESX
• Building Redhat Linux servers using kickstart
• Vmware template creation for linux servers
• Updating the firmware on PSeries servers, upgrading the HMC software, installing the HBA cards, installing the network cards
• Participating in 24x7 Oncall rotation with the team and working during the maintenance window.
• Training new resources and conducting technical interviews.
• Setup Oracle RAC on Redhat Linux 5.7 running on HP Blade460C.
• Setup Redhat Linux Servers on physical(HP blades) as well as SuSe Linux servers in cloud environment as part of Datacenter migration from Maryland to Westlake for one of our clients who have migrated from Confidential to Linux as part of the datacenter migration.
• Sox audit work

Confidential, San Diego

Responsibilities:

• Unix Engineering support of Confidential & Linux servers, Performance tuning, architecture and planning for new projects and server builds.
• SAN & NAS administration and TSM backup administration
• Training new resources and conducting technical interviews
• Completed the migration of Confidential to Linux(RedHat and SuSe) as part of datacenter migration from Maryland to Westlake, Texas.
• Set up Oracle RAC on HP Blades in Linux environment and as well on Confidential, P570, P770 hardware.
• Administering and building Redhat and SuSe Linux machines in VMware environment.
• Set up the VIO Servers in Poway on the P570 servers as part of the Server virtualization.
• Completed the firmware upgrades on the Power5,Power6,Power7 machines during the maintenance window
• Upgraded the VIO Servers to the latest level.
• Configured the NIM Server
• Completed HMC upgrades and installed the Service packs on HMCs.
• Configured the Call Home feature on P770 servers using Electronic Service Agent.
• Completed the performance tuning on the TSM server and fixed the backups of the TSM clients
• Completed the TL updates on Confidential servers
• Automated the mksysb backups on Confidential Servers and restored the machines from mksysb as per the need.
• Sox audits and fixing the security vulnerabilities for SOX compliance
• Worked on EI3PA audit on Confidential severs in scope of Auditing.
• Completed the O.S upgrades on Confidential servers from Confidential 5.2 to Confidential 6.1
• Installed memory,NIC,HBA cards on IBM hardware.
• Set up the networks for oracle RAC cluster,created the public,private and VIP networks for Oracle RAC and worked with DBAS in the setting up the Oracle RAC cluster.
• Completed the migration of Unix hosts from Unix DNS to Windows DNS(active directory)
• Assigned SAN storage to Confidential Servers did the mapping and masking
• Provided support to the DMX4 and EMC Celerra NAS microcode upgrade
• Migration of SAN from XP1024 to DMX4
• Installing EMC ODM filesets, installing and configuring powerpath software,setting up MPIO failover
• Migration of SAN switch from Brocade3900,4200 to Brocade 48000
• Support DR drill which occurs every 6 months
• Support SNA(CS/ Confidential ) platform on Confidential in production, beta and DR site. Setup the SNA environment in Poway and Dallas and completed SNA migration from Confidential 4.3.3 to Confidential 5.2 and then later migrated from Confidential 5.1 to Confidential 6.1
• Providing 24x7 On call Support and working during the maintenance window
• Providing the application support for Confidential applications such as Web sphere,

Confidential

UNIX systems administrator

Responsibilities:

• Part of the Disaster recovery team, migrated the Confidential servers in the shark &SSA environment to the DMX so that highly available applications such as peoplesoft, SAP, TSM, Remedy, ESM are replicated to Dubuque Data center using Confidential .
• Building Red hat Linux servers
• Installed and configured Power paths, replaced/added new disks, installed device drivers for the shark and DMX, added Fiber channel cards 6228,6239,6227 to the Pseries servers, updated the firmware of the Pseries machines &HBA cards, installed and configured the openssh, configured/troubleshooted the print queues,
• Part of failover stabilization project, performed quarterly failover testings in the HA environment and fixed problems with the HACMP clusters.
• Configured the P670 and P690 and set up partitions on them.
• Administering HACMP clusters connected to the shared storage including the shark, DMX, SSA storage as well as supporting HACMP clusters on the P670 and P690.
• Building and supporting Redhat Linux servers
• Migrated the HACMP clusters running 4.4.1 classic/ES to the HACMP 5.1,HACMP 5.2.
• Updated the firmware of the P670 and P690,RS6000
• Administered HP Unix servers
• Upgraded the O.S from Confidential 4.3.3 to Confidential 5.1, 5.2 & Confidential 5.3
• Set up etherchannel in HACMP 5.2, disk heart beating, concurrent resource groups, Active/ Passive and Active/Active configurations,Rotating, cascading resource groups
• Set up NIM server in the P690 environment.
• On call rotation for all the production servers (650+).
• Peoplesoft hardware upgrade- Migrated the environment consisting of 21 servers onto the P570 servers, and later upgraded the corresponding disaster recovery servers to the Confidential 5.2 running on P690.
• Performance tuning on production servers.
• Worked on SOX compliance

Confidential, Columbia

Graduate Assistant

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining Unix accounts, performing the general system administration activities, File systems administration, user accounts administration, applying patches, troubleshooting any hardware related issues ®ular maintenance work.