OBJECTIVE:

To provide infrastructure and application support expertise to achieve organization goals and objectives.

SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AIX.
• Experience with Redhat Linux v6/7 installation, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Experience in applying security patches and updating Redhat Linux OS version using Red Hat Satellite server.
• Configuration management with Ansible, Chef and Puppet.
• Performance monitoring with Nagio and Splunk.
• Managed software on Red Hat Linux using RPM and YUM.
• RedHat Linux administration: configure modules, kernel updates, network bonding, IPtables and kickstart.
• Configured SELinux to support services and used ACLs, SUID and SGID to secure Linux resources.
• Unix/Linux user account management and sudo access update.
• Good knowledge of VMWare virtualization technology and use with Redhat Linux servers.
• Experience in installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of Confidential AIX.
• Experience with LVM, VIO client/server, HACMP/Power HA 7.1/6.1, SMIT Utility, LPAR/DLPAR Micro Partitioning technology for installing partitions through NIM and Managing partitions through HMC Console.
• Well versed with LAN/WAN, TCP/IP and networking skills.
• WebSphere application server installation and configuration.
• Experience with server and application migration
• Provided production support in an on - call rotation in a 24x7 environment.
• Experience with Incident and change management tools (Remedy/Servicenow, Jira)
• Excellent problem determination, troubleshooting and performance tuning skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux 6/7, AIX 7.1/6.1, VMWare, Windows

Configuration Management and Performance Monitoring Tools: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Nagio and Splunk.

AIX Technology: VIO, LPAR/DLPAR, HMC

Clustering: HACMP.

Database: Oracle, DB2, SQL Server

Applications: Tivoli Storage Manager, WebSphere

Problem/Change Management: Remedy, Service now, Jira

Storage/Backup Technology: EMC, Confidential -DS-Series, XIV, SVC, NAS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Linux Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experience with Red Hat Linux v6/7 installation, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Experience in applying security patches and updating Redhat Linux OS version using Red Hat Satellite server.
• Configuration management with Ansible, Chef and Puppet.
• Performance monitoring with Nagio and Splunk.
• RedHat Linux administration: configure modules, kernel updates, network bonding, IPtables, and Kickstart.
• Managed software on Red Hat Linux using RPM and YUM.
• Configured SELinux to support services and used ACLs, SUID and SGID to secure Linux resources.
• VMware virtual server deployment using templates. CPU/Memory and disk allocation to VMs per requirements.
• Configure volume groups and logical volumes, extend logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.
• Assist storage team in troubleshooting NetBackup issues.
• Diagnosing and resolving systems related incidents in accordance with priorities using Servicenow tool.
• Plan and implement project tasks on Linux servers and new deployment according to scheduled timeline.
• Perform tuning and capacity planning tasks to maintain optimal system performance and availability.
• User account/group management and sudo access update per approved access.
• Managing cron jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.
• Transferring files from one system to other using FTP and SFTP.
• Configured LDAP Client on Linux machines for authorization and authentication.
• Taking snapshots in the VMware environment.
• Experience in using VMware vMotion to move VM’s from one datacenter to another datacenter.
• Provide on-call support for Unix/Linux servers.

Unix/Linux Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and administration of AIX v6.1/7.1 on pSeries servers
• Installation and configuration of LPARs/DLPARs using HMC
• Configure volume groups and logical volumes, extend logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.
• Configure NIM Master servers and NIM client for remote installation.
• Verify and implement Live Partition Mobility (LPM) to move LPARs between frames
• Perform vSCSI to NPIV migration tasks
• Diagnosing and resolving systems related incidents in accordance with priorities setup in dealing with trouble tickets.
• Plan and implement assigned changes on AIX servers as per scheduled timeline
• Adding storage, failover testing, adding new RG, configuring and changing resources, upgrading the AIX on HACMP nodes, changing the policies of RG and troubleshooting.
• Perform tuning and capacity planning tasks to maintain optimal system performance and availability.
• Perform patch management task including applying TL, Service Pack, eFix on AIX servers
• Migrating OS from AIX 5.3 to 6.1 and 6.1 to 7.1.
• Redhat 5/6 Operating System installation and configuration.
• Patch Redhat Linux servers to apply latest updates
• User account/group management and sudo access update per approved access.
• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents on AIX/Linux servers

Radiology Technologist

Confidential, Morristown NJ

Responsibilities:

• Perform high quality of radiographic procedures, identifying anatomical orientation and ensure proper film identification on all required images. Review patient’s requisition either hard copy or in computer system, for consistency of diagnosis.
• Developed familiarity with Confidential using Pickers, Kodak and Confidential instruments