Sr. Systems Administrator Resume
SUMMARY
- Highly skilled, technically proficient Senior Systems Administrator with an extensive background in the Information Technology field including 15 years of expertise in installation, configuration, management, and troubleshooting of different varieties of Unix systems prominently in AIX and Linux.
- Extensive experience as an Oracle and DB2 Database administrator. Strong experience in a SAN environment with EMC, IBM, and PURE storage arrays.
- Hardware capabilities include fiber switch management for zoning servers to various arrays and devices.
- Extensive experience with Backup and Disaster Recovery planning and implementations.
- Programming and scripting with Korn shell/Bash utilizing functions and tools such as sed & awk.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating Systems and Related: Extensive AIX 6/7, RedHat linux
Subsystems: NIM, HACMP, HADR, HMC, PowerVM (VIO 2.x NPIV and Live Mobility)
Hardware: IBM RS/6000 P5 - P7 Series, IBM series Blade servers, SMP standalone servers, HP Servers, IBM DS series SAN, EMC (All models), Pure Flash Storage, Brocade and Cisco Switches, ADIC tape backup libraries.
Relational Database: DB2, Oracle, Sybase, Mysql, and Maxdb.
Networking: TCP/IP, AD, NFS, NIS, CISF and DNS
Cloud based: Iaas, Paas, and Saas services..
Supported Software: Websphere, MQSeries, Apache, TXSeries, CICS, Proprietary health software..
Backup Software: TSM, CommVault, Netbackup, and Vertias, software.
Programming Languages: Korn, Perl, Sed, Awk, MF Cobol, SQL, and HTML.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential
SR. Systems Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Install and maintain new IBM hardware to replace the older IBM infrastructure of mainly P5 hardware with new Power7 & Power8 hardware and implement PowerVM in place of a non virtualized environment. Creation of VIO LPARs to host AIX LPARs to achieve the goal of a purely virtualized environment.
- Covering day to day AIX/SAN support tasks, field UNIX on-call requests, and participate in assigned projects to include OS upgrades and application migration from older AIX systems to the newer AIX Power 7 and Power 8 servers in a 24x7 environment.
- Collaborate with the SAN and DBA teams to migrate from traditional SAN equipment to a Solid State archetcture.
- Websphere Administration was also one of my responsibilities.
Confidential
Sr. Unix Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Installed and maintaining all hardware P7 series, automating the creation of LPARs installing and configuring AIX operating systems, and utilizing the AIX live partition mobility features.
- Covered day to day UNIX support tasks, fielded UNIX/Linux on-call requests, and participated in assigned projects to include OS upgrades and application migration from older HPUX systems to the newer AIX Power 7 servers in a 24x7 environment.
Confidential
Sr. Unix Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Set guidelines for Solaris administrators to cross-train into a new AIX environment.
- Engineered, tested, and documented HMC, NIM, and AIX scripts ans SOPs to automate LPAR creation and AIX 7.1 installation automation.
- Worked with Project management teams for time management on the project.
Confidential
Sr. Unix Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Configured in a local HACMP failover/global failover environment in a 24x7 environment with on-call..
- Adhered to strict Standard Operational procedures while completing documentation in a timely manner with the use of Remedy system.
- Adhered to strict ITIL procedures for strict compliancy regulators.
- Used IBM p570 and p560 servers with CECS attached to each and partitioned using VIOS servers and HMCs. Utilized every available resource on each server. AIX 6.1 & 7.1 and administered TSM versions 5 & 6.
- Capacity planning and System Architecture experience.
Confidential
Sr. UNIX/AIX Systems Administrator
Responsibilities:
- IBM RS6000-All models including the SMPs, SP, xSeries, running AIX 4.x/5.x
- EMC/DELL CX600s for SAN solution and CX400 for hard disk recovery.
- ADIC Tape Subsystems using CommVault backup and recovery software
- HP9000 Server running HPUX 11.x and Sybase Database software
- AIX, UNIX, and Windows.
- Oracle 9i, 10g Installations, upgrade maintenance, and administration.