SUMMARY

• 10+ years of experience in Unix Systems Administration (Linux, Solaris,Aix).
• Proficient in system integration, implementation, monitoring and administration in local and remote environments for diverse industry clients including financial, Health, Educational, Retail, global TV channels and Media/News feeds, worldwide Airlines and Top food supply chains.
• Planning, documenting and supporting high availability, data replication, business persistence, fail - over, fail-back using Veritas Cluster Server, sun cluster server Red hat cluster.
• Built Servers using Kickstart & PXE for Linux, Jumpstart for Solaris, and NIM for AIX installation.
• Virtualization: Planning, sizing and designing the virtual environment to meet the client needs for HP and Oracle SPARC-VM servers. LDOM and zone administration on Oracle Solaris 10
• Extensive experience in working with ESXi servers - configuration, Installation, management and maintenance.
• Experience in administering VMware and infrastructure vSphere.
• Hardware Installation of Rack mounted Servers, Blade servers/enclosures.
• Installing and configurations of WebLogic servers, and various applications like Apache, Tomcat on all flavors of Unix and Linux Platforms.
• Administration of Storage Arrays and Fabric Switches.
• Experience in LUN management, firmware up gradation, troubleshooting with HP-EVA storage.
• Experience on Veritas Netbackup tape libraries.
• Install and configuration of Web Hosting Administration HTTP, FTP, Telnet, SSH, SSL.
• Experience in Installing, configuring and maintaining apache, samba & send mail, postfix, Web Sphere Application Servers, RHEL 5 and 6 servers
• Managed and supported LDAP environment running on Unix OS.
• Configured Networking Concepts DNS, NIS, NFS and DHCP, troubleshooting network problems such as TCP/IP providing support for users in solving their problems.
• SW upgrade, Patch Management and Firmware Management Installing latest patches & creating software depots for Solaris and Linux machines to maintain the systems up to date and compliant.
• Experienced in writing UNIX Shell Scripts using commands like awk, sed, unix shell bash, and familiarity with Perl to automate system admin jobs.
• Involved in On Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA's.
• Configure the Remote console for the HP DL and Blade servers using ILO and HP OA.
• Having Data Center working Experience, installing and Configuring server & Storage devices in a Data Center including patching the cables in the Patch Panel. Design and implemented infrastructure and configured the devices.
• Hands on experience in configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Veritas Cluster services, Veritas volume management and mission Web/Application Servers, DNS Configuration for various clients.
• Experience with Loadbalancers F5 and Cisco ACE, HP Server Automation and SAN Storage.
• Experience in managing and driving efficiency at IT operations with a team of highly skilled engineers.
• H/W Console Administration, Patch Management, Backup and Recovery, System Health Check, Log file administration, Disk Administration, System Startup troubleshooting, Solaris OS Installation, Linux installation, Solaris/Red Hat Linux OS Upgrades Firmware upgrade, Power path, HBA upgrade, DR, QMW, Kernel Upgrade, NFS, NAS, Jumpstart configuration, IPMP, Zones Configuration, ZFS Configuration, Flar, Snapshot, Storage Migration, LDOM Creation and administration, Linux Package installation usage, Logical volume administration(Linux) .
• Provisioning of Virtual Machines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating system: SunSolaris 9,10,11 & Red Linux 5, 6,7

Protocol: TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, FTP, SOAP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP

Storage: Netapp Filer, DAS, NAS, SAN (EMC Storage), HP-EVA 6400/8400/P6350, EMC clarion, RAID

Cluster: Veritas cluster, Sun cluster, Redhat cluster

Hardware: Handling the High end, Mid-range and Entry level servers like Sun Fire E Series, M series, T series, 12 K, 15K DELL, HP X86 Platform

Ticketing and Monitoring Tool: CA service Desk, Remedy, JIRA, Service now, Vantive, Nagios and Clarify

Software packages: Veritas volume manager4.1/5.0, Veritas Filesystems, Solaris volume manager, RAID

Enterprise Tools: Veritas Netbackup, TSM, Netvault

Scripting Languages: Unix Shell Bash, SNMP

Virtualization: Vmware

Environment: Solaris8/9/10, RedHatLinux4,5.0,6, Sun SPARC servers, Sunfire 890/440/490/245 servers, E 3500/4500/450/420 R, M9000, HP-ProLiantDL380G4/G5, HPRX/6600/8640, HP-860c/870c, DellR620, NIS, NFS, DNS, VXVM, VCS, ESX - 4.5, 5.1, NetApp - DATA ONTAP 8, Veritas Netbackup 7.0.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Linux Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all aspects of systems administration including networks, applications, application servers, and telecommunications. This includes implementation, configuration, coordination, control, maintenance, troubleshooting, security and usage monitoring.
• Assists with installation, configuration and maintenance of servers;
• Monitors and maintains all security and access standards to Linux servers; Monitors and performs patching/upgrades ; Monitors and maintain backup and recovery procedures; Monitors automated backups daily; Participates in disaster recovery testing; Build\deploy tools that report system health and trouble Assists with managing inventory of all corporate infrastructure assets; Assists with capacity monitoring and planning;

Confidential

System Analyst - Linux

Responsibilities:

• Administration/Configuration of RHEL/Solaris which includes installation, testing, managing, monitoring and improving performance tuning, upgrading patches, security, gap analysis troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues, and VMware virtualization systems.
• Automation through scripting.
• Configuration /Management of satellite server.
• Solaris servers patching, LDOM/Zones configuration and trouble shooting.
• Provisioning/Troubleshooting physical servers in datacenter and coordination with network/storage team for cabling configuring network and other stuff with hands & feet support.
• VERITAS Cluster administration and troubleshooting.
• Trouble shooting p1, p2 incidents.
• Manage DNS /Apache Web server/ Load Balancer /Tomcat.
• Working on NAS/NFS.
• Work on daily Prod/QA/Dev environment issues like network, server and performance.
• VXVM/LVM administration and troubleshooting.
• Provided 24/7 on call supports on Linux/UNIX Production Servers in datacenter and Cloud.
• Disaster Recovery planning and execution
• Patch management, Package installation and OS deployments.
• Applied patches for every quarter regularly to meet audit requirements using Red Hat Satellite server, SUSE Manager YUM, RPM tools.
• Installation of Linux Servers using PXE boot or kick start method, Yum repository setup and Automatic system updates.

Confidential

Sr. Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and support Trading applications that involves OS Provisioning, patching, troubleshooting Unix and Linux issues, troubleshooting OS, hardware and network related issues on Redhat Linux 5/6/7, Solaris 10, 11,managing Veritas cluster, Solarflare, Mellanox, Myricom and exablaze cards, Netapp NAS and IBM/Dell hardware.
• Planning, evaluate, performance testing and coordinating in migration of existing NAS(7mode) filesystems to new NAS (CDOT) on large datacenter as a part of storage migrations.
• Kernel Bypass using Solarflare network cards.
• Developing and Establishing global framework for teams to operate within encompassing all business lines, managing vendor relationships for product roadmaps and emerging Linux and Solaris technologies.
• Overarching Management of Linux and Solaris Infrastructure from strategy, design, document, plan, deploy, Implement, operationalize, capacity and lifecycle management of all hardware and software supporting Linux and Solaris Infrastructure across the enterprise for all lines of business
• Collaborating with Hosting, Network, Storage End User Engineering teams, Global Hosting Services teams and Cloud and DevOps on strategy design of the Linux and Solaris Infrastructure across all lines of businesses globally.
• Changing the Bank evangelist for adopting Gen3 technologies related to Linux and Solaris Infrastructure.
• Acting as primary IT liaison with multiple interfacing applications, third party vendors, IT Executives, and/or Project Managers.
• Providing direction, expertise, feedback, coaching and development to build the capability of junior staff.
• Managing detailed design phases for large projects / programs identifying, tracking and resolving technical issues

Confidential

System Analyst - Linux

Responsibilities:

• Administration/Configuration of RHEL/Solaris which includes installation, testing, managing, monitoring and improving performance tuning, upgrading patches, security, gap analysis troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues, and VMware virtualization systems.
• Client meeting, reporting, requirement analysis and implementation.
• Configuration /Management of satellite server.
• Solaris servers patching, LDOM/Zones configuration and trouble shooting.
• Provisioning/Troubleshooting physical servers in datacenter and coordination with network/storage team for cabling configuring network and other stuff with hands & feet support.
• VERITAS Cluster administration and troubleshooting.
• Closely work with Application development team to configure environment/infrastructure and to deploy changes in production as required.
• Trouble shooting p1, p2 incidents.
• Work on daily Prod/QA/Dev environment issues like network, server and performance.
• VXVM/LVM administration and troubleshooting.
• Provided 24/7 on call supports on Linux/UNIX Production Servers in datacenter and Cloud.
• Disaster Recovery and QMW activity planning and execution
• Patch management, Package installation and OS deployments.

Confidential

Lead Systems Engineer - Linux/Unix

Responsibilities:

• Provide Unix Support to North America, Latin America and APAC regions shared Accounts (supporting almost 2000+ global unix servers primarily Linux and AIX)
• Support Incident, problem and change management and coordinating with Release management team including major incidents.
• Typical day-to-day changes include (but not limited to): Patching, Hardware replacement (Disk, Battery, PSU, Motherboard), NFS config, DNS, NIC, NMI Upgrade (ESX) and Bios Upgrade, SAN Migration, Filesystem Extension, VCS, Volume Group, HA, Egenera Patching, Network Bonding/Teaming, VM’s Vmotion etc.
• Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery activities.
• Server provisioning, resource configuration, availability and capacity management
• High availability cluster management.
• Datacentre support tools such as IBM Network Installation Manager (NIM), Redhat Network (RHN) Satellite Server, nmon and BeyondTrust PowerBroker.
• Knowledge Management - Creation of SOPs for regular activities, KEDB.
• Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge transfer as a primary SME from APAC region for the existing services getting outsourced.