Unix Sme/engineer Resume
Somerset, NJ
SUMMARY:
Proactive Information Technology Specialist with in - depth expertise in multi-platform environments. Proven ability to diagnose and resolve system problems quickly, secure all aspects of server operations, minimized facility downtime. Assessed user requirements and provided cost-effective solutions. Known for delivering projects with aggressive timelines, at negotiated budget with high customer satisfaction. Well-developed ability to communicate effectively with users and colleagues across the organization.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Operating Systems: Solaris 11, 10, 9, 8, Redhat Advanced Server 6,5,4, HP-UX 11.31, 11.23, 11.11, 11.0, 10.20, SuSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11,10,9, SCO, NetBSD, WINDOWS 2008 / XP
Hardware: Oracle SUN T5 and T4 Series, T5140, M5000, X4150, X4200, X4600, Fire Enterprise Servers 6800 / V890 / V480 / V240 server, HP RP 4440/RP 5470 / RP 7420 / RP 8420 / RX 2640 / RX 4640 / RX 8620/ RX 8640 / SuperDome, Dell 1950
High Availability: Veritas Cluster Server, MC / ServiceGuard, Sun ClusterVirtualization: Oracle VM/LDOM, Zones, vCloud Director 5.0, 5.1, ESXi 5.1, 5.5, nPar / vPar, Xen
Programming/Scripting Languages: Bash, Korn, C, C++, Java, Python, FORTRAN, Pascal, LISP
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential , Somerset, NJ
UNIX SME/Engineer
- Implemented server security policies such as trusted systems, RBAC, authentication policy.
- Installed and configured security and compliance tools: ITM, Fusion, Parity, SRM, Sudo, ssh under contractual agreement. The tools are for UNIX security checks, compliance requirements, performance, capacity management, that is tailored to each client.
- Verified OS and application security configurations flagged by vulnerability reports from QualysGuard.
- Developed scripts to check patch levels, security levels, tools prerequisites and hardware requirements before taking control of client server. This resulted in 30% time savings and ensured project completion on time.
- Built Solaris, AIX, HPUX, Linux servers according to specifications.
- Built high availability 4 nodes Oracle VM clusters on T5-2s with Live Migration.
- Designed highly available cluster system. Configured VCS, VxVM, SVM.
- Implemented Oracle RAC running on four node VCS cluster.
- Designed and Built Solaris, Linux, HPUX, servers according to business requirements.
- Architected and Configured vSphere infrastructure consists of 20 ESXi 5.1 servers and one vCenter server. Enabled virtualized linux servers to perform vMotion.
- Built Jumpstart/Kickstart service for fast system deployment tailored to different hardwares.
- Decreased system deployment time. Duplicated operating systems on SUN hardware used Raid-1. Built Jumpstart/Kickstart service for fast system deployment tailored to different hardware.
- Implemented server security policies such as trusted systems, RBAC, authentication policy.
- Redhat Linux Performance Tuning using vmstat, iostat, sar, top and etc.
- Installed Linux patches for kernel, security updates.
- Utilized Solaris system performance tools such as DTrace and MDB.
- Troubleshot network performance issues using netstat, snoop, traceroute, tcpdump and etc.
- Increased system utilization. Designed and configured Solaris Zones for application isolation and efficient resources allocation.
- Developed scripts to check patch levels, security levels, tools prerequisites and hardware requirements before taking control of client server. This resulted in 30% time savings and ensured project completion on time.
- Installed and configured security and compliance tools: ITM, Fusion, Parity, SRM, Sudo, ssh under contractual agreement. The tools are for UNIX security checks, compliance requirements, performance, capacity management, that is tailored to each client.
- Verified OS and application security configurations flagged by vulnerability reports from QualysGuard.
- Evaluated Puppet for configuration management and server deployment tool.
Confidential , South Plainfield, NJ
Oracle Database Administrator Trainee
- Installation of Oracle 10gR2, creating databases, database objects, users, roles etc.
- Physical Database Design and Creation
- Created new databases, involving importing and exporting: installing and configured database software for Oracle Application development environment.
Confidential , Piscataway, NJ
UNIX Project Engineer
- Designed highly available system. Built Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), VxVM, CFS. Troubleshot VCS, VxVM errors.
- Configured / troubleshot multiple network services in conjunction with 186 system migrations (Solaris, Linux, HP-UX and SCO)/ upgrades delivered on-time, accurately and with user satisfaction.
- Saved money. Upgraded UNIX server infrastructure to Solaris 10 update 6 and Redhat Enterprise 5.2, 2 hours downtime.
- Increased customer satisfaction. Resolved problems quickly, correctly the first time.
- Cut troubleshooting process time from 2 days to 2.5 hours. Communicated directly with customers, eliminated network routing and firewall problem. Isolated application / system performance issues..
- Ensured system integrity. Upgraded FIX TAGG infrastructure in Market Data RealTime environment to SCO 6 and Linux operating environment.
- Doubled SAN bandwidth and stability using Powerpath.
Confidential, Carlstadt, NJ
Senior UNIX System Engineer/Architect
- Implemented Product Lifecycle Management system and integrated it in corporate LDAP environment.
- Doubled application performance. Tweaked systems/application performance with glance, OVPA, gpm and standard UNIX tools; sar, vmstat and etc. Analyzed kernel parameters for system and application performance tuning.
- Increased system, database / application performance/stability and saved money. Mentored 2 engineers and brought troubleshooting in-house.
- Increased productivity by 34%, reduced time to market from 18 mos. to 12 mos. Implemented Product Lifecycle Management system.
- Increased system operation time. Utilized HP Online Addition and Replacement feature, replaced I / O cards online in vPars or nPars.
- Delivered project 2 months ahead of schedule, increased Confidential efficiency. Early production rollout.
Confidential, Raritan, NJ
Senior UNIX System Engineer
- Increased system uptime to 99.99%. Designed, setup, maintained HP high availability cluster servers used MC / ServiceGuard Online JFS and MirroredDisk / UX.
- Increased hardware utilization 50%. Allocated system resources efficiently, used Virtualization; vPars, nPars, ICOD.
- Certified FDA servers. Validated FDA on UNIX production servers.
- Conformed 100% to ITIL stabilized environment. Analyzed problem root cause/initiated system change.
- Expanded network bandwidth and stability. Used HP Auto-Port Aggregation for multi-NIC load balancing.
- Increased connection speed. Employed HP SecurePath for load balancing fibre channels to SAN.
- Avoided fines. SOX remediation. Deployed patch bundles and scripts to 55 servers.
Confidential , Whitehouse Stations, NJ
Senior UNIX System Analyst
- Managed 80 HP / Sun UNIX servers which include LDAP, PKI, Firewall Monitoring, EzExpense, DMZ servers.
- Managed corporate LDAP servers.
- Cut system deployment time from 4 hrs to 45 min. Configured Ignite / Jumpstart Server for server deployment and disaster recovery.
- Increased web speed / uptime. Managed Linux (SuSE) server farm for web serving functions.
- Improved system uptime. Modified kernel parameters in real time used mdb / kmtune for Solaris / HP-UX.
- Ensured system security. Setup trusted systems and implemented various security policies, used ssh.
Confidential , Piscataway, NJ
Senior UNIX System Administrator
- Kept system available to 170 users, on 255 HP / Sun servers. Setup clients' business-to-business connections for project demonstrations and delivery.
- Setup and troubleshot NFS, NIS, NIS+, automount for network sharing of 250 system resources.
- Improved work efficiency 30%. Automated system administration tasks using shell scripts.
Confidential, Holmdel, NJ
Windows/Unix System Administrator
- Sustained system operation for170 people and 330 servers/workstations in a production environment. Led 2 system administrators
- 99.9% system uptime. Setup, maintained aggressive production, QA and development environment.
- Integrated Windows NT and UNIX environments used CIFS / Samba.
- Worked with developers and testers for SONICs fiber optic network management product.