Systems Engineer Resume

SUMMARY:

I am a result driven, solution oriented, competent and committed systems administrator with over 7 years’ experience in Windows, Unix /Linux and storage administration.
Skilled in planning, configuring, administering and maintaining of Unix operating systems with solid understanding and experience of traditional backups and backup solution (TSM) with personal drive for continuous self - improvement.
Responsibilities includes 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.
Understanding of cost benefit analysis of service improvements .
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.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Helpdesk support personnel with problem solving skills.
System Automation skills like s endm ail setup on Unix platforms
Good knowledge of the components within an IT network, including communications network equipment and d datacenter 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
Worked on CentOS, Redhat Linux, Win 95/98, Win 2000 Prof., Win 2000 Server, Lotus Notes
Involved in managing projects within the AWS Cloud
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
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
Controlling user authentication via sudoers
Created and managed documentation on the configuration and support of the Oracle databases
Provide database administration on production, testing and development database servers.
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
Building, patching, and maintaining Linux systems in a highly virtualized (VMware) environment.
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, Linux and 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
Created standard LPAR, performing DLPAR operations to manage resources between machines
Implemented Logical Volume Management (LVM) and Disk Management
Managed c ron 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

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
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

Confidential

Systems and Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities: