SUMMARY:

• I am a resultdriven, solution oriented, competentand committed systemsadministratorwith over 7years’ experience in Windows, Unix/Linuxand storage administration.
• Skilled in planning, configuring,administering and maintaining of Unixoperating systems with solid understanding and experience of traditional backups andbackup solution (TSM)with personal drive for continuous self - improvement.
• Responsibilities include performing systems installations, configuration, maintenance, systems backup and protection.
• Ability to work with multiple teams to develop practical solutions to resolve technical problems.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills across organizational boundaries.
• Strong awareness and ability to manage relationships with both internal and external customers.
• Ability to work under pressure and respond positively to changing priorities.
• High personal integrity, and able to relate to and create trust in all.
• Dependable and reliable in supporting and enabling team effort to achieve results.
• System Automation skills like sendmail setup on Unix platforms
• Good knowledge of the components within an IT network, including communications network equipment and ddatacenter management.
• Good knowledge of SAN management using Zoning.
• Implementing SNMP on devices to allow for network management
• Implemented workflow on Solar wind for Server monitoring and reporting
• Working Knowledge of python programming
• Automating day to day process through scripting for alert monitoring
• Worked on CentOS, Redhat Linux, Win 95/98, Win 2000 Prof., Win 2000 Server, Lotus Notes
• Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, ELB, Auto-scaling, AMI, IAM and Cloud formation
• Implemented and managed AWS services like such as SNS, SQS, VPC, Elastic IP, Security groups, Route53, NACL
• Involved in managing projects within the AWS Cloud
• Used Remedy as a ticket system for timely and accurate response with clients
• Automated the process of creating infrastructure using AWS Cloudformation call management system and associated software
• Develop and implement policies and procedures for better communication

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on experience in system design, deployment, administration and support of Unix/Linux servers.
• Provide day-to-day System administration support
• Creation and management of approved, user accounts and groups
• Created and managed documentation on the configuration and support of the Oracle databases
• Manage file systems utilization using script scheduled as cron job
• Planning, installation, configuration, management and troubleshooting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,6 and 7
• Setup git repositories, SSH keys in bitbucket for agile teams, setting up Jenkins, plugins (Maven, SonarQube, slack and Nexus) Jenkin master and adding slaves.
• Building, patching, and maintaining Linux systems in a highly virtualized (VMware) environment.
• Automating infrastructure provisioning on AWS using terraform and Ansible
• Monitor System Performance (Virtual memory, Disk and CPU utilization)

Confidential, Bowie

Systems Support (Graduate Assistant)

Responsibilities:

• Setting up, installation and administering Printers, desktop and Laptop
• Experience working with VMware, Virtual Box and Proxmox.
• Splunk installation and setup on both windows and Linux platform
• RPM and YUM package installation, patching and server management
• Migrated from on premise to the cloud using Amazon services with consideration for security, redundancy and most importantly using cloud formation
• Administering various AWS Services using AWS Console, AWS CLI and using Amazon API
• Installed and configured Redhat, Centos on different platform that contained Lamp stack
• Knowledge and usage of automation tools like Ansible and Jenkins
• Experience implementing Security using NACL, Security groups, Private-subnets.
• Experience working on Migrations from On-premise to AWS Cloud.
• Implementation of various AWS Services including EC2, VPC, IAM, Lambda, S3RDS, DynamoDB, Route53, Cloud watch, CloudTrail, SNS, SQS.

Confidential

Unix, Linuxand Storage Administration

Responsibilities:

• Worked as AIX Administrator in IT infrastructure environment providing server administration, application administration and automation solutions to support business objectives
• Experience with NIM installation, setting up NIM Configured
• Administration and troubleshooting of HACMP clusters
• Working knowledge of bash scripting and python
• Created standard LPAR, performing DLPAR operations to manage resources between machines
• Implemented Logical Volume Management(LVM) and Disk Management
• Managed cron jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.
• System and backup management using mksysb and daily restore and backup operations
• Created soft and hard link on RHEL5&6 and implemented OS security patches
• Log Setup for ArcSight application monitoring.
• Working knowledge of LAMP architecture

Confidential

Unix and Storage Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Disk space and File System Management on IBM Servers
• Unix (AIX) System Administration of IBM Servers
• Perform all periodic maintenance activities on IBM AIX servers
• Managing HACMP server environment
• Manage and secure servers Linux and Windows including NFS, Apache, FTP & VMware ESXi
• Identifying and resolution of system issues in a timely manner
• Planning and coordinating installation, testing and maintenance of AIX systems
• Analyzing software, hardware components and user operation procedures
• Develop data backups and retrieval techniques in case of failure.

Confidential

AIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Periodic tuning and optimization of Unix servers and related components
• Netapp Storage Server Management and IBM Storage Management (NAS & SAN)
• Configuring the AIX operating system environment
• Ensure optimal uptime for IBM P595 Servers,Ubuntu Linux and Red hat servers
• Knowledgeable in Logical volume management and in setting up HTTP, HTTPs, FTP, SFTP
• Provide support to maintain in-house and third party hardware upgrades and patches.
• Initiating periodic backups for EOD, EOM and EOY using EMC Technology
• Tape library management

Confidential

Unix Administrator and Datacenter Management.

Responsibilities:

• Installation, upgrade, configuration, fail over/fail back testing for HACMP 5.4
• Installation and maintenance of AIX 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1 on pSeries systems through NIM
• Worked with the Application and Network teams to analyze and solve performance related issues
• Remotely access of the File Systems on the NFS Client through NFS Server
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of NFS (Network File System)
• Improved development and implementation of the procedures by analyzing and execution of the test plans and developing the system documentation
• Manage the TSM Backup solution for effective backup