Infrastructure Engineer Lead and UNIX/LINUX Systems Administrator Resume College Park, MD - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Engineering professional with extensive experience in systems implementation, integration and security within the IT industry.
Proven abilities in server, network and storage configuration, virtualization and disaster recovery resulting in optimized performance.
Expertise in technology refreshes migrating from diverse platforms, OS levels, hardware and software from Mainframe to virtualized infrastructure.
Adept at leading multi - disciplinary teams, technical training, mentoring and team building by creating collaboration with application owners, vendors and customers.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Operating Systems: Confidential 5.1- 7.1, Red Hat 7, CentOS 7, Windows NT - 2008, SUSE

Hardware: IBM Power4 - 7 Server, Dell server platforms, IBM Tape and EMC Virtual Tape Library

Languages: Shell Scripting: Bash and Korn

Applications: PowerVM, VMWare, KVM, Confidential, PowerHA System Mirror, HMC, NIM, TSM, IBMIHS (HTTP), BIND, Apache, Tomcat, MQ, Connect:Direct

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, College Park, MD

Infrastructure Engineer Lead and UNIX/LINUX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Engineered, maintained, and secured all hardware and software operating within the supporting IT infrastructure by taking lead on technical decisions and offering solutions on new system builds and application designs through experience, research, testing and utilizing best IT industry and security practices.
Examined, weighed and resolved security vulnerabilities and hardware/software enhancements via package/technology level updates improving availability, reliability and security of company and client data.
Installed, configured, upgraded and patched Confidential and Red Hat operating systems, PowerVM and VMWare virtualization software, PowerHA System Mirror ( Confidential ) and General Parallel File System ( Confidential ) high availability software, HMC, server and device firmware.
Provided technical support and managed problems/issues impacting our customers and critical business operations. Monitored and gauged server performance utilizing OS utilities, shell scripts, scheduling and creation of reports.
Drafted procedures and supporting documentation and shell scripts for the team to use, assisting them in installation, configuration and problem determination. Monitored, managed and tested backup and restore of system, application and data file backups from our TSM backup infrastructure and software installation repositories.
Participated in yearly disaster recovery exercises, created, maintained and tested procedures and HMC scripts used during the exercise.
Engineered, tested, and lead the consolidation of 39 standalone Confidential servers and 30 I/O drawers onto six Power6 host servers utilizing IBM’s PowerVM virtualized technology, and the upgrade of 69 Confidential 5.3 servers to 6.1, eliminating extended maintenance cost.
Provided technical support and capacity planning in the design, build, and refresh of Business Objects 4.1, Confidential and Tomcat hosted on virtualized Confidential clients.
Collaborated in developing and setting up a new development region hosted by Amazon and utilizing Confidential in the deployment of Red Hat systems creating a pilot project, testing if migrating from Confidential to Red Hat was feasible.
Established policies/procedures governing our software distribution patch and life cycle between application owners, technical infrastructure and business support personnel. Managed quarterly infrastructure patch cycles, coordinating patch efforts with change, quality and project management.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Server Infrastructure Supervisor and UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

Led and directed a server team comprising of 6 Window and 2 UNIX technicians. Resolved and oversaw support calls, maintenances, upgrades, refreshes and departmental projects.
Interviewed and hired permanent and contractual staff, coordinated vendors /subcontractors on special departmental projects.
Submitted and managed operational, vendor and project budgets involving server infrastructure. providing system planning, consultation, hardware/software installations/upgrades and technical support for 56 Confidential servers configured on standalone and virtualized systems running PowerVM.

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