SUMMARY:

• Experienced Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) System Administrator, Technical Lead, and Manager in a diverse scope of advanced server architectures (RedHat Enterprise and SUSE Linux, HP - UX, AIX, and familiarity with SUN Microsystems).
• Designed and built Web Hosting and Database Servers, and Platforms
• RedHat Linux Environment (RHEL 5.10-6.8) design and installation
• Utilized ‘ILO’ management facilities to configure HP Proliant servers (500 series)
• Configured environments for software development purposes
• Has knowledge to Configure, troubleshoot, and upgraded Checkpoint Firewalls for Manage clients, which included network and/or resource access, software, or hardware problems.
• Experienced SAN Management for RedHat Enterprise Linux/HPUX/AIX operating systems
• Innovative and resourceful, with a strong work ethic, attention to detail and analytical problem-solving skills and positive attitude. Willingness to learn and to support new technologies - “Has a get-it-done, do whatever it takes attitude.

SKILL:

• Redhat Linux (v4.2—7.2)
• HP-UX (v10x/11x OS)
• Confidential AIX (v4.5—5.3)
• Install and configure platform OS
• Installed Apache Tomcat and configured
• JBoss installation and configuration
• Apache/Tomcat installation and configuration
• Patch management and system upgrades (firmware, maintenance packages, and application patches)
• Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6.x thru 7.1 installs and pre-setup
• Symantec Netbackup 3.4.x thru 7.6. Installation, configuration, tuned, managed and monitored backups
• OmniBack II 3.5 thru 5.0 /Data Protector 5.1 and 7.0. Install, deploy, tune and managed backup systems.
• Serviceguard Installation and Maintenance on various Unix platforms
• Performance Analysis/Monitoring/Tuning and Unix/Linux tools and amenities
• HP-UX Device Installation, Configuration Management
• TCP/IP service configuration, problem analysis, Resolution
• Measure Ware, PerfMon, Glance, GlancePlus, Top and SAR, etc.
• Assist with various network management tasks and troubleshooting of server-to-server communication (TCP/IP daemons, network service daemons, etc).
• Re-platforming and migration to and from other hardware platforms.
• Knowledgeable and experienced in HP-UX Serviceguard Clustering, Veritas Clustering Service (VCS) and VMware HA and DRS services
• Disaster Recovery Analysis, planning, implementation, and testing for HA systems
• Capacity planning and hardware sizing
• LVM, File System Configuration/Troubleshooting/Repair (Use LVM to manage physical/logical volumes and groups. Manage disk/data partitions, mirroring; RAID, SCSI, and other storage technologies, etc.)
• Documentation of current and future systems
• OS Kernel, Driver, Application Crash Analysis (Monitor and manage CPU, memory, I/O, and network configs)
• Employ scripts to accomplish routine tasks, proactively monitor system security, monitor servers and applications for errors and performance problems.
• Script Languages: ksh, bsh, AWK and Sed
• V-Pars (Creation, changing, etc.)
• EMC 3630/3930 Symmetrix management/EMC Control Center for UNIX (ECC 4.2 and 5.1) for space allocation and management
• Install, configure SCSI, network, and TTY devices. Set IP address, Subnet mask, DNS, Net/Host routing tables, Configure NFS Import/Export File system, etc.
• Virtual system design, implementation and administration.

SKILL MATRIX:

• Experienced SAN Management for Sun Solaris/HPUX/AIX/Windows operating systems. Maintenance & Troubleshooting of complete SAN component firmware’s and software’s.
• Shell Scripting, Ubuntu 16.04
• Expertise in Shell Scripting and Perl Scripting for Environment Builds and Automating Deployment on Application Servers like WebLogic,Has strong experience as a LINUX administrator with strong expertise in SAN, VMware and Ubuntu servers, has also worked on deployment of applications and has strong experience with shell scripting and firewall administration
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server
• Maintained a farm (50 vm servers) of RHEL 6.6/7.2 operating system computers used as web, file, and database servers in the Development, Quality Assurance (QA) and Production environments.Provided installation and configuration of specialized software (Manhattan&Associates - 2016 RHEL / JBOSS / ORACLE) to store and organize data.
• General Linux installation and maintenance
• Thorough understanding of advanced RHEL Linux capabilities (clustering, load balancing, etc.)Know advanced and enterprise levels of Linux administration, including installation, management, security, troubleshooting and maintenance.
• File system configuration
• Maintained a farm (50 vm servers) of RHEL 6.6/7.2 operating system computers used as web, file, and database servers in the Development, Quality Assurance (QA) and Production environments.
• Application deployment
• Installed and configured RedHat Satellite management application for patching, updates, etc., making it available to users and developers under a free and open source software license.
• System process and resource monitoring
• Knowledgeable of virtual system design, administration and implementation as well as general systems and storage.Managed VMWare ESXi 5.5 and VMWare vSphere 5.5.Performed vSphere administration integrating technical judgment, design, tested and deployed hardware platforms that support real-time, high- consequence ground station systems for processing and dissemination of information.
• Has knowledge to configure troubleshoot, and upgraded Checkpoint Firewalls for Manage clients, which included network and/or resource access, software, or hardware problems.
• Provided support for EMC storage, specializing in EMC Control Center, Workload Analyzer / Performance Manager and Storage Scope.
• Managed Virtualization Environment using VMWare ESXi 5.5 and VMWare vSphere 5.5.Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between Virtual Machines.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sys Admin & VMware Engineer

Confidential, Norcross, GA

Responsibilities:

• Designed and built Web Hosting and Database Servers, and Platforms
• RedHat Linux Environment (RHEL 5.10-6.8) design and installation
• Utilized ‘ILO’ management facilities to configure HP Proliant servers (500 series)
• Configured environments for software development purposes
• Has knowledge to Configure, troubleshoot, and upgraded Checkpoint Firewalls for Manage clients, which included network and/or resource access, software, or hardware problems.
• Experienced SAN Management for Sun Solaris/HPUX/AIX/Windows operating systems
• Performed DNS/DHCP server administration and troubleshooting
• Implemented VMware virtualization administration and builds
• Scripted in languages in Bash when needed
• Developed shell scripts for automation of the build and release process.
• Carried out other tasks as required
• Traveled between GA, SC and other markets as needed

Disaster Recovery Administrator

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Knowledgeable of virtual system design, administration and implementation as well as general systems and storage.
• Managed VMWare ESXi 5.5 and VMWare vSphere 5.5.
• Performed vSphere administration integrating technical judgment, design, tested and deployed hardware platforms that support real-time, high- consequence ground station systems for processing and dissemination of information.
• Specified performance tuning strategies and their implementation in the design and management for the virtual environment.
• Expertise in Shell Scripting and Perl Scripting for Environment Builds and Automating Deployment on Application Servers like WebLogic
• Opened, resolved, or updated Tier II Support tickets for Manage Firewall clients.
• Maintained policies, procedures, and programs for ensuring the security and integrity of company data, databases, information systems, and technology.
• Designed and implemented SAN disaster recovery solutions for Tier-1 storage
• Monitoring of physical, virtual & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for Security.
• Proficient with building and decommissioning virtual servers.
• Installed and configured EMC VMAX storage arrays and implemented different replication technologies
• Installed and configured RedHat Satellite management application for patching, updates, etc., making it available to users and developers under a free and open source software license.
• Developed and maintained user and end user accounts and their permissions.

Linux SME & Administrator

Confidential, Smryna, GA

Responsibilities:

• Maintained a farm (50 vm servers) of RHEL 6.6/7.2 operating system computers used as web, file, and database servers in the Development, Quality Assurance (QA) and Production environments.
• Provided installation and configuration of specialized software (Manhattan&Associates - 2016 RHEL / JBOSS / ORACLE) to store and organize data.
• Installed and configured SPLUNK to interact with data sources.
• Penned capacity planning, configuration, migration, performance monitoring, security, and troubleshooting guidelines.
• Streamlined and documented firewall build process, along with creating standardized dynamic
• Streamlined backup and data recovery utility "Veeam 10.5".
• Supported software development on these systems.
• Involved in computer build up, network administration, as well as installation, and maintenance of computing equipment.
• Involved in troubleshooting shell scripts
• Created and maintained system user and end user accounts and permissions.
• Reported directly to Database manager.

Disaster Recovery Administrator

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Thorough knowledge of virtual system design, implementation and administration as well as general systems and storage.
• Managed Virtualization Environment using VMWare ESXi 5.5 and VMWare vSphere 5.5.
• Performed vSphere administration being able to apply integrated technical judgment using methods to research, design, develop, test and deploy widely distributed hardware platforms that support real-time, high- consequence ground station systems for the acquisition, processing and dissemination of information.
• Created and Managed Virtual Machines and Templates
• Maintained and created new clusters (vSphere Cluster HA and DRS) as prescribed by managers.
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter)
• Provided support for EMC storage, specializing in EMC Control Center, Workload Analyzer / Performance Manager and Storage Scope.
• Proficient in developing business solutions using SQL, PSQL, Unix Shell scripting.
• Creating Templates from VM’s, deploy VM’s from templates and allocate resources
• Monitoring of Virtual Machine’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for Security.
• Creating duplicate Virtual Machine’s using cloning technology (hot & cold).
• Migration of Virtual Machines using V-Motion.
• Maintenance & Troubleshooting of complete SAN component firmware’s and software’s.
• Performed system administration and management for all virtual infrastructure systems and the physical systems they reside on.
• Deployed and managed highly available virtual desktop solutions.
• Troubleshooting issues relating to V-Motion such as compatibility issues with help of event log.
• Performance tuning of VMware servers, Virtual sessions and management of server resources between Virtual Machines.
• Implemented and configured VMware technologies to include: vSphere, View, SRM, NSX and vCloud.
• Responsible for storage management of datastores and pools.
• Provide performance tuning strategies and their implementation Disaster Recovery design and management for the virtual environment.
• Maintained policies, procedures, and programs for ensuring the security and integrity of company data, databases, information systems, and technology.
• Resolves database performance issues, database capacity issues, database replication and other distributed data issues.
• Oversees all aspects of the organization's resumption plan.
• Familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the disaster recovery field.
• Relied on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish company goals.
• Worked under limited supervision.
• Reported to Database manager.
• Performs a variety of administrative tasks.
• Performed Root Cause & System Log Analysis and reporting.
• Work with team members to complete operational projects and tasks not specific to virtualization.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Infrastructure Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Set up plan, procure equipment, build and manage installation of all production systems and maintain the software environments for various products. Provided internal and external ongoing troubleshooting support to different units. Preventive and learning mode support of existing and new software releases as per project directives; product and account versatility.
• Conduct research, test, and install patches and firmware upgrades as warranted by the manufacturer.
• Identify and solve problems and known errors before incidents occur (Problem Management).
• Identify, control, maintain and verify the configuration of infrastructure or services (Configuration Management).
• Ensure that capacity always exists and is matched to the current and future identified needs of the Customers (Capacity Management)
• Responsible for maintaining Linux servers, including firewall configurations and server upgrades.
• Coordinate all internal and external resources necessary to complete Professional Services that we are contracted to perform.
• Written multiple shell scripts for deployment automation, log rotation, data sync, etc..
• Work with various Security and Compliance organizations ensuring the servers met the required standards regardless whether it was HIPAA, FFIEC, ITAR, SOX or PCI.
• Develop and support overall Business Continuity Management and Disaster Recovery processes.
• Interface with Vendors, Partners, and Customers.
• Upgraded firmware of Storage hardware to newest release by EMC.
• Work with limited direct supervision.
• Work with cross-functional groups.
• Experienced working script in shell.
• In support of the Information Protection Services organization in Confidential Business Continuity and Resiliency Services possess good verbal and written communication skills.
• Basic knowledge of Confidential X series server hardware ( Confidential System Storage DS3500, 8000, Storwize V3, 5, and 7000), networking technologies, and Symantec NetBackup (versions 6.5, 7.1, & 7.6), Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 6.X thru 7.1, storage device configuration for disk and tape storage pools.
• Build team knowledge capabilities and professional development, focusing on innovations and saving opportunities.
• Knowledge of the following operating systems: Linux, AIX, Solaris.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Infrastructure Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Thorough understanding of advanced RHEL Linux capabilities (clustering, load balancing, etc.)
• Know advanced and enterprise levels of Linux administration, including installation, management, security, troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Experience using system diagnostic tools to monitor/understand system performance (process, storage space, CPU utilization, memory utilization)
• Experience upgrading systems and associated system tools, applying patches to systems and deploying/upgrading firmware
• Advanced hardware and software troubleshooting skills
• Provided support in EMC applications
• Knowledge of RHEL Linux internals (e.g. Kernel)
• Understanding of networking concepts and Linux capabilities
• Knowledge/Awareness of popular applications/middleware that can execute within the RHEL Linux environment (e.g Oracle, MQ series, Websphere, etc)
• Experience administrating virtual systems
• Be able to use open-source tools to measure capacity planning and to troubleshoot resource problems
• Ability to Analyze system log files
• Ability to Analyze application log files
• Familiarity and experience with storage systems (RAID, SAN, NAS)
• Knowledge and experience in RHEL Linux High-Performance computing including parallel environments, and batch schedulers.
• RHEL installation and modifications, account creation and maintenance, environment configuration, OS patches, etc.
• Experienced with physical and virtualized RHEL Linux systems including LPARs
• Created HP-UX Serviceguard Clusters and Veritas Clusters (VCS) as prompted by demand
• Maintained app clusters SLA’s
• Responsible for achieving assigned service level performance measures - Development and Production Server Availability goals.
• Highly proficient Soft Skills - Communication, English Language, etc.
• Provide technical support for the Level 2 Help Desk. This includes analysis to determine which problems and requests are client IT problems outside Accenture’s scope.
• Respond to system errors and failures - HW diagnosis and replacement as required.
• Testing and troubleshooting technical architecture.
• Create and implement system monitoring to ensure proper system and PeopleSoft Application performance levels.
• Configure, maintain and monitor PeopleSoft Application Server.
• Responsible for providing technical support and expertise to Application teams.
• Interface with the client infrastructure organization and third party vendors/subcontractors to resolve issues and facilitate communications.
• Manage and facilitate Disaster Recovery planning and rehearsals.
• Identify and implement initiatives as part of the unit’s continuous improvement program.
• Linux and UNIX System Administration
• PeopleTools (Process Scheduler, Application Server, etc.)
• Technical Architecture design experience
• Oracle database experience
• Experience with development and execution toolsets (batch scheduling software, system and application monitoring software, compilers, shell scripts, etc.)
• Utilized GACDW, SEA Tools and other tool sets in the environment.
• Ensured proper Change Management procedures and methodologies were documented, implemented and followed prior to any work being performed as a matter of record should follow-up be required.
• Performed Symantec Netbackup v7.5 and Data Protector v7.0 configurations and backups as prescribed by clients.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Initiated and managed dispatch of various server parts and delivery to VA locations as assigned by the open ticket.
• Opened tickets to start network replacement equipment at various New York City school locations. Acted as System Administrators for field technicians who replaced the parts (AP’s, routers, switches, octal cables, content engines, PIX, and GBit card checks) and as Quality Assurance once the jobs were completed.
• Acting as a liaison between Symantec Messagelabs (SM) and their customer-base for first-level tickets. Opened tickets to accept problems and issues, utilizing SM as second-level support, found those problems and issues to their conclusions.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

HP-UX Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed day-to-day administration and maintenance on a farm (#635) of HP-UX (11.11, 11.23 and 11.31) 24/7/365 coverage mode servers and peripherals with 99% system uptime SLA.
• Maintained patching, firmware upgrades and fixes to servers as mandated by manufactures and customers.
• Performed Operating System (OS) upgrades on HP-UX 11.11 and 11.23 servers.
• Prepared engineering documentation and specifications for project proposals.
• Made use of my solid senior technical skill level with clustering technologies (Serviceguard and Veritas Cluster Service) on various UNIX platforms (Superdome, N and L-class).
• Maintained constant dialog and communication with customer base. Utilizing strong oral and written communication abilities to provide technical input to customer strategies, accounts and deliverables on projects.
• Working in a team environment, answered calls from customers, doing initial code/process investigation, and proactively inform customers of statuses/problems to ensure system reliability and accessibility.
• Conducted routine performance analysis and tuning, and other problem diagnosis maintaining optimal performance levels at all times.
• Ensured PCI/SOX, PRM (Product Resource Management), SNARE (S ystem i N trusion A nalysis and Reporting Environment), ISS Appliance (Improvement Support Systems), LikeWise (authentication software) compliancy for responsible systems. Ensured system data Integrity by evaluating, implementing and managing appropriate software and hardware solutions.
• Configured Data Protector v6.1 and scheduled backups for servers as requested by customers.
• Strong general knowledge base with external storage and SANs.
• Utilize strong knowledge and experience in problem and change control practices.
• Authored shell scripts to maintain existing and assist in new automation.
• Employed general knowledge of superdomes, databases, networking and web development as related to a UNIX server environment.
• Exercised effective teaming with peers, customers and management to bring together the best possible end results as possible.