SUMMARY

• IT experience in System Administration/Engineering in different Linux flavors me.e. Centos, Solaris and Red Hat.
• Software configuration management and DevOps methodology.
• Hands on experience in automating build process using JENKIN CI tool.
• Extensive hands on experience in Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
• Functional noledge of SWAP, Disk Partitioning and provisioning.
• Excellent noledge of Installing, upgrading and configuring RedHat Linux 5.x, 6.x, 7 using Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Took initiative to automate some of teh daily task by writing bash script.
• Experience in installation and management of network related services like DNS, SAMBA, VSFTP, NFS, FTP and SMTP.
• Experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting Apache web server on Red hat Linux.
• Extensive noledge of configuring and managing yum repositories.
• Expertise in TCP/IP Configuration like assigning IP addresses, configuring network interfaces, assigning static routes, host names etc.
• Network troubleshooting with tcpdump and trace route.
• Hands on experience of updating metadata using SQL queries.
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Integration, Backup, Crash recovery, Patching, Monitoring System Performance, Network Security and Troubleshooting of 2000+ Red hat Linux Servers.
• Created Linux Virtual Machines using VMware Virtual Center, creating VM Templates, HA clusters and troubleshooting all Virtualization related issues.
• Hands on experience of patching ESXI guest and Host.
• Provide support for physical, virtual and cloud - based Linux systems.
• Contributed towards teh configuration of NIS.
• Managed, monitored and tested individual and group user access privileges and security.
• Expertise in DevOps, Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure and Automation. It includes Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible and Bash.
• Scheduling CRON jobs, batch processing and job scheduling.
• Installed, Configured and Manage Ansible for automated tasks.
• Practical working noledge of Ansible playbook and roles.
• Analyzing server/system logs to identify health concerns.
• Expertise in writing Shell scripts using bash to ease administration tasks.
• Hands on experience with version control tool GIT.
• Strong hands on experience with AWS in services like EC2, S3 and EBS.
• Worked on maintaining and creating IAM user roles and policies.
• Launching and configuring of Amazon EC2 Cloud Servers using AMI's (Linux/Ubuntu)
• Hands on experience of creating custom AMI’s and templates.
• Knowledge of LAN technologies, Switches and Cables
• Ability to work independently and respond to multiple requests in a dynamic work environment.
• Proactive, assertive and open-minded with high problem-solving capabilities.
• Motivated self-learner and Attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills and teh ability to work as a team player.

Technical Skills:

OS: Linux (RHEAL 5.x, 6.x and 7), CentOS (6,7), VMware (ESXI 5,6), Windows 7, 8 and 10.

Volume Management: RedHat LVM.

Languages: Bash, C++, MySQL and Basic Python.

Monitoring Tools: Nagios, AppDynamics.

DevOps: Ansible, AWS, OBIEE, HPOO, GIT, JENKINS

Network Protocols/Services: SMTP, TCP/IP, UDP, FTP/TFTP, DHCP, DNS, NIS, NFS, SSH, TELNET, NMAP, HTTP, Automounter.

Virtualization: VMware infrastructure client and workstation, ESXI hypervisor.

Hardware: Dell and HP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, North Brunswick, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Supported multiple applications in environment.
• Identify root cause and resolve problems.
• Took initiative to automate repetitive tasks using Bash scripts.
• Closely monitored and managed HPOO based application for automated patching.
• Managed SSH routes for orchestration tools like Ansible and HPOO.
• Provisioned an Ansible control node with a custom inventory file to manage Ansible managed servers.
• Deployed services across managed nodes using Ansible playbooks.
• Troubleshoot connectivity issues.
• User management which includes creating, modifying and troubleshooting user accounts
• Used SQL queries to perform scheduled and ad-hoc metadata changes.
• Assist and administer teh deployment process of Unix, OBIEE and repository codes in development.
• Coordinate with Developer team to establish standard process/protocols for moving code from development to QA and Production.
• Responsible for OBIEE RPD migration from lower environments to Production.
• Configured and managed GitHub repositories.
• Performed all necessary day to day GIT support.
• Experience in setting up continuous integration process with Jenkins.
• Worked on Jenkins tool to configure nightly builds to check sanity of code.
• Established Monitoring procedures on Server Utilization, Report over usage and Memory issues.
• Monitored trouble ticket queue to attend user and system calls.
• Installed patches to provide an updated, secure and compliant environment as per industry standard.

Confidential,Jersey City, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Managing, provisioning, and deploying servers in a hybrid environment using VMware and AWS.
• Use ILO/IDRAC to remotely manage teh infrastructure within VMware environment
• Implemented virtualization from Dell hardware to VMware machines with RHEL 6.10 as guest OS.
• Created clusters in ESXI for High Availability.
• Migrated VMs across hosts within a HA cluster to perform maintenance tasks on ESXi hosts.
• Used VMware vMotion to eliminate application downtime from planned server maintenance by migrating running virtual machines between hosts.
• Created clones from existing VMs.
• Deployed several VMs from Templates and customized their configurations as-needed.
• Work with build team to deploy YUM Repository
• Management of DNS servers and records.
• Supported and troubleshoot Network Services like HTTP, FTP, SSH and SMTP.
• Extensive use of LVM by creating logical volumes and extending them as needed.
• Monitored and managed performance, system capacity and processes using standard Linux tools (iostat, top, vmstat and nagios).
• Scheduled Jobs and automated processes using Cron.
• Maintained file systems and performed RAID configuration on physical hosts.
• Developed scripts using Bash to automate administration tasks and builds.
• Configuration and management of cloud infrastructure in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Hands on experience of provisioning EC2 instances using AMI’s and configuring groups, roles and policies.
• Worked on simple storage service S3 and IAM roles and policies.
• Deploy servers using PXE boot/Kickstart.
• Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging.
• Used Ansible to manage web applications, configuration files, users and packages.
• Monitor servers and network infrastructure using Nagios.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed installation administration and troubleshooting on Linux operating systems.
• Experience in Configuration of NIS, NIS+, NFS, DNS, DHCP, YUM repository servers.
• Install new/rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.
• Provided infrastructure and services support to business units.
• Implement NFS shares using both static mount points and automount.
• Provide timely solution to users on issues of network NFS, NIS & software problems.
• Disk configuration, filesystem and logical volume provisioning and configuration using LVM.
• Responsible for setting up PXE/Kickstart configuration for Linux environments.
• Network troubleshooting using netstat, traceroute, ifconfig and ethtool.
• Configuration of ILO/IDRAC for remote troubleshooting support.
• Respond to alert tickets (High CPU, RAM or Disk utilization).
• Experience in configuring yum repositories for package management.
• Provided user administration for in house employee’s by adding/deleting accounts and assisting with user quires.
• Provisioned drives from scratch from raid up to filesystems.
• Responsible for configuration and management of apache webserver
• Writing shell scripts and used cronjob to execute tasks.
• Managed system processes and scheduled processes with teh Cron utility.
• To ensure dat systems are implemented, maintained and operated to meet technical architecture and configuration standards.