System Administrator Tem Administrator Resume Profile
SUMMARY
- Senior Sun Solaris System Administrator with 9 years of experience encompassing system administration of Sun Systems implementing Solaris, Redhat Linux, AIX, HP-UX. And 6 years on Linux and VERITAS VXVM- VCS
- Proficient in installation and configuration setup and upgradation of Solaris /Linux OS.
- Experienced in Disk management, Software Raid and creating file systems using different Veritas Volume manger,Veritas File System VXFS , Solaris Volume manager Solstice Disksuite 4.2.1 Solaris ZFS zpool etc LVM.
- Installation, configuration of high availability products Vertias Cluster VCS and Sun Clustering Software Local Datacenter HA or DR across multiple DC.
- Experience in using Veritas Net Backup VNB , Proficient in System Backup and Recovery from tapes /tape Library using ufsdump, ufsrestore, tar and cpio, File system administration.
- Expertise in troubleshooting servers and OS problems.
- Experience with configuring Solaris containers/zones, resource allocation etc.
- Experienced in installing, configuring and maintaining of Sun/Solaris HW.
- Experience in shell scripting Bash .
- Experience with configuration and administration of external storage SAN/NAS .
- Experience in system support, design, implementation and administration of UNIX/Linux and Windows servers
- Administered, managed, deployed and supported highly available operations by 24/7 for a large number of production and development systems in the datacenter environment.
- Experience in and supporting 2000 plus servers spread across different datacenters.
- Experience in setting up extensive hardware Architecture SUN/ORACLE, IBM, HP, Dell etc
- Experience in setting up user accounts, training users and configuration.
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
Administrator
- Technical Environment: Sun Solaris 8.0/9.0/10, Sun Fire, T M Series Servers,
- VERITAS VXVM and VCS 5.1, Puppet, Shell Scripting
Key Responsibilities:
- Solaris and Linux Server Build for production and Testing environment.
- Solaris Physical to Virtual P2V Server Migration.
- Build / Add / Remove Node VERITAS Cluster.
- VCS service group migration from one to other cluster.
- Solaris and Linux Server quarterly Patching
- Emulex HBA firmware and OBP Upgrade on SPARC Systems.
- Oracle M4000/5000 Server Memory upgrade.
- XSCF configuration for Datacentre move.
- VERITAS Cluster server 5.1 SP1 build and RP4 patch upgrade
- Daily UNIX Server Tickets.
- Network Aggregation on SPARC Servers.
- Performed monitoring / Automation of monitoring using shell script.
- Configure Solaris server for ZFS and SAN Boot.
- Solaris server Virtual to Virtual V2V migration.
- DataCenter Administration.
Confidential
Lead UNIX / Veritas Administrator / SME
- Technical Environment: Sun Solaris 8.0/9.0/10, Sun Fire, T M Series Servers,
- VERITAS VXVM and VCS 4.5, 5.0, 5.1, Remedy, Shell Scripting
Key Responsibilities:
- Handled Critical UNIX Tickets SEV-1, SEV-2
- Worked on Root Cause Analysis for Solaris and Veritas cluster issues.
- Worked on DR Test of critical applications.
- Business as usual BAU support for UNIX environment.
- Solaris and Linux server Patching.
- Configuring Solaris containers/zones, resource allocation etc.
- Performed monitoring / Automation task using script.
- Migration of Legacy Hardware and Software as per application requirement.
- Attained meetings related to Change management.
- Follow up with Vendor Oracle and Symantec for detailed troubleshooting Like dump analysis, system performance issues and provide detailed analysis to client about the issue.
- Co-ordination with Other Teams SAN, Backup, VMWARE for planned activities.
- Worked on Critical servers performance issues. SWAP, CPU, RAM
- Conducted Technical sessions on Technology like SAN, Scripting, EMC BCV Concept and VERITAS Cluster.
- UNIX Team Management.
Confidential
Lead UNIX / Veritas Administrator / SME
- Technical Environment: Sun Solaris 8.0/9.0/10, Sun Fire, T M Series Servers, Veritas, VXVM and
- VCS 5.1, Redhat 4 and Redhat 6, Remedy, Blade Logic, Shell Scripting
- Projects worked:
- Project-I: SAN Migration: Remediation Migration
- Project-II: Oracle Upgrade
- Project-III: Solaris Virtulization
Responsibilities:
- Virtulization Solaris Zones and containers and Linux
- SAN Refresh / SAN Migration on UNIX Platform
- Linux and Solaris Patching
- Server Build Solaris
- Server Build Linux
- Linux physical and virtual server build.
- Solaris and Linux Upgrade
- Veritas Storage foundation Upgrade
- Data centre move project
- Emulex to Qlogic HBA Migration.
- Responsible for preparing the Knowledge Transfer Plan.
- As a lead, was responsible for training hand-holding new team-members to the project.
- Was in-charge of constantly reviewing the current set-up, analyse the risk issues.
- When encountered with risks/issues, was responsible for mitigation plan.
- Remedation Plan and implementation of legacy OS and hardware.
- As a team lead, was responsible for managing team and filling for technical gaps.
- Below are the steps been performed during the EMC DMX to VMAX SAN migration:
- Analysis of current OS and patch level, Veritas Storage Foundation, Server Hardware, HBA, OBP, SAN Multipath.
- As per VMAX support matrix
- Follow the standard patching process on Solaris server OS patching
- Sanity reboot followed by detach the root mirror.
- Upgrade the OBP of server.
- Upgrade the OS from Solaris 8 to 10 or Solaris 9 to 10 as per application compatibility.
- Update the OS patches compatible to VMAX
- Upgrade the Power path as per Veritas Version.
- Upgrade the Veritas storage foundation VXVM and VCS
- Upgradation of the HBA firmware driver for Emulex QLogic.
- Validation of the server after the remedation.
- Request the SAN as per data collected in pvinfo for Server FS, BCVs, Gold Copy.
- Validation of allocated storage VMAX.
- SCAN VMAX luns in Veritas and mirror it with DMX plexes.
- Keep batch job on hold for DMX and activate the VMAX jobs followed by test backups on BCV using VMAX SAN.
- Once the back-up is tested with VMAX, disassociate the DMC plexes and reclaim the DMX SAN.
- Support Oracle team to upgrade Oracle apps and database and ensure availability of the required FS and Storage as per their requirement.
- P2v, v2v and V2p conversion of Solaris servers.
- Physical to Virtual and Vitual to Physical
Confidential
Sr. Solaris System Administrator at Level 3
Technical Environment: Sun Solaris 8.0/9.0/10, Sun Fire, Enterprise Servers, Veritas VCS, VXVM 4.1,
Remedy6, Remedy7
Responsibilities:
- Solaris system administration, user management file system management.
- Create, resize, manage Volumes using VERITAS Volume Manager.
- Diskgroup configuration and management in VERITAS Volume Manager.
- Troubleshooting and replacement of faulty disk under VERITAS control.
- Monitoring System performance using different SA commands and utilities.
- Storage and SAN management at server level as per DB and apps requirements.
- VERITAS Cluster administration.
- Printer setup and management.
- VERITAS Netbackup client level configuration and support.
- Solaris OS Hardening as per company security standards.
- Project wise Decommissioning of servers.
- Shell scripting for the daily activity and account management task.
- Assist Monitoring Team for creating managing Monitoring Tasks.
- Assist Auditors for Various Servers Health Check, loginfail report, Audit processes.
- Installation and use of different Business packages on Solaris Platform like ESM.
- Applying OS and security patches for Solaris Operating Environment.
- Configuring and managing Network interfaces.
- Project Co-ordination and planning for daily business requirement.
- Coordination with Application, Database owners and Change Management for any business requirement and incident/issue reported.
- Attending ON-CALL and RED Alert Meeting Calls.
- Raising REL' for modifications in server for hardware or software.
- Servers Downtime arrangements and facilitating vendors for any activity.
- Interacting with Vendors, Application/ Database owners and Change management.
- Managing OS and Network level security for system.
- Providing the client side support for VERITAS Netback-up.
Confidential
Sr. Sun Solaris System Administrator
Technical Environment: Sun Solaris 9, Sun Fire V440 and Enterprise 450 Servers, Remedy, Domino Lotus Notes databases, DELL Power Edge server, IBM Servers P series.
Responsibilities:
- System performance Monitoring, Troubleshooting, Backup of SUN servers.
- Datacenter servers Management.
- Sun Storage management and VERITAS volume manager administration.
- Preparing monthly volume Report and SAR report, Backup Report.
- Maintaining the updated list of UNIX resources. i.e. Hardware and software
- Co-ordination with storage, backup, basis and DBA teams in day to day business activities.
- DR Process management and documentation.
- EMC SAN installation, implementation and troubleshooting.
- Server remediation to comply standard security guidelines.
- Vendor coordination. Eg. SUN/DELL etc.
- Implementation and support of TATA-AIG standard tools.
- Server patching as per requirement
- Performance monitoring and tuning.
- Commission/decommission servers in account
- Maintaining and monitoring of root file systems
- Creating and managing Users on Solaris System.
- Managing devices installation and configuration.
- Managing Swap space for system.
- Documentation related to Incident, Hardware and software modification on servers.
Confidential
System Administrator
Technical Environment: Tru64 UNIX server, Exchange servers, Windows NT servers
Responsibilities:
- UNIX server support File Share, accounts
- UNIX server performance monitoring and reporting.
- UNIX servers Data Backup as per scheduled.
- UNIX server Share management and audit tracking.
- Microsoft Exchange server L1 Support
- Windows NT server system administration.
- User Share and access management on SCO-UNIX central server.
- Printer configuration on UNIX ans SAP environment.
- Monitoring the netwok performance between the XEROX Datacenter.
- IBM Windows server and work station support.
- Compaq Thin Client user support.
- As per User requirement configuration and build new windows systems.
- Vendor co-ordination for Hardware and Software issues, Part replacement and new system procurement.
- Documentation of critical issues, activities performed on servers, technical procedure and for audit.
- Co-ordination with other datacenter team for daily and planned activities.
Confidential
System Administrator Linux and Windows
Technical Environment: Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Red Hat Linux
Responsibilities:
- Installation and configuration of Red Hat Linux, Windows NT, Windows 2K systems.
- Installation of Java, .NET, Oracle, MS-SQL. Also rational rose and other testing software.
- Network link Management between ISP to Datacenter of Expansion.
- Allocation of additional storage as per individual requirement.
- SAMBA server access configuration and management.
- Backup of Windows and Linux servers Daily and weekly using Tapes
- Windows Exchange server management L1 support. User Accounts and modification
- AD Server access Management.
- Troubleshoot the issue related to the Leased Line and Router connectivity.
- Build and configure UNIX and Windows servers as per project requirement.
- Administration of Microsoft internet security and acceleration IAS server for security and performance
- Automation, Installation and update antivirus on windows servers.
- DataCenter Audit and documentation of process, technical procedures, Part replacement and Major issues.
- Co-ordination with Vendor for procurement /Hire systems for projects.
- Meetings with Project managers to understand the project requirement and implementation of new projects.
- Co-ordination with Development and testing team for planned released / scheduled activity.