Experience Summary

• 7 years of operational experience in Linux Red Hat and VMware environment.
• Install, upgrade, maintaining Linux Red hat/VMware server ESX 4.1, 5.0 and 5.1 on HP Blades / Cisco UCS rack mount servers.
• Experience in working with ticketing tools such as JIRA Remedy to perform daily tasks and duties.
• Network Troubleshooting: Ping, tracert, route print, nslookup, netstat, telnet, Packet Tracer, OSI Model best practices.
• Experience in working on Heavy Operations based environment and delivering 24/7 support as required by the client.
• Provide system consultancy, performance tuning, bug tracking, fixing, QA, and software installation, licensing and distribution.
• Extensive experience in setup, configuration, upgrade, maintenance, performance monitoring and troubleshooting on different platforms like Linux, VMware, Windows system software.
• Performed diagnostics on system operations to identify' problems and trends, verify network performance and identify potential user requirements. Tracked and resolved problems which impact continuing system operations
• Experience in Maintaining Name servers Application and third party tools installations, automating tasks using cron for backing up and restoring data in Linux and patch installations in Linux using NFS, Automating tasks through cron.
• Possess great communication skills, proven to work independently and as team member with detail attention to documentation.
• Install, upgrade, maintaining Linux Red hat/VMware server ESX 4.1, 5.0 and 5.1 on HP Blades / Cisco UCS rack mount servers.Confidential
• Decommissioning of Servers and building new for upcoming projects.
• Experience in working with ticketing tools such as HP SIM to perform daily tasks and duties.
• Network Troubleshooting: Ping, tracert, route print, nslookup, netstat, telnet, Packet Tracer, OSI Model best practices.
• Experience in working on Heavy Operations based environment and delivering 24/7 support as required by the client.
• Provide system consultancy, performance tuning, bug tracking, fixing, and software installation, licensing and distribution.
• Extensive experience in setup, configuration, upgrade, maintenance, performance monitoring and troubleshooting on different platforms like Linux, VMware, Windows system software.
• Performed diagnostics on system operations to identify' problems and trends, verify network performance and identify potential user requirements. Tracked and resolved problems which impact continuing system operations
• Experience in Maintaining Name servers Application and third party tools installations, automating tasks using cron for backing up and restoring data in Linux and patch installations in Linux using NFS, Automating tasks through cron.
• Possess great communication skills, proven to work independently and as team member with detail attention to documentation.

Project Experience

Confidential

Linux/Data Center Administrator

• Install, upgrade, maintain VMware server ESX 4/4.1/5 on Cisco UCS/IBM/HP machines.
• Installing and configuring EXSI 4/5 using custom based ISO's and virtual media based installs on several hundred CISCO UCS B200', B250'S and B470'S as required for UAT/Production deployments of Windows 2003/2008/RHEL/SUZE deployments.
• Cisco UCS servers configuration, support, and upgrades. Configure RAID on servers, NIC cards, Mezzanine/MegaRAID cards, and other hardware.
• VMware virtualization for multiple server operating system and vendor applications. Manage backups and troubleshoot virtual machines on a regular basis. Take snapshots, clone, migrate VMs. vSwitch configurations, Device Pass Through configurations on servers.
• Installation and support for Cisco servers, routers, switches, ASAs, WLCs and Access Points.
• Racking/Stacking UCS Servers and installing VMware Esxi / Red Hat.
• Work with RAID configuration-RAID 0,1,5, 0 1.
• Supporting Cisco Unified Access, SEVT and Cisco LIVE on site and remotely.
• Password Recovery on Cisco Switches and Routers.
• Updating/patching VMware Esxi installed server.
• Installing routers and switches with updated Images and Configurations
• Cabling testing the connectivity of Term Server, Routers, Switches, Program Gateway, Nexus7K
• Create system documentation with VLAN Mapping, APC connections, IP and Subnets.
• Supported and implemented system standards, processes and security to maintain corporate IT standards.
• Possess great communication skills which include proper grammar, English etiquette excellent with the ability to work independently and as team member with the ability to connect with coworkers, passionate about my work, detailed in documenting and recording

Confidential

Linux/System Administrator

• Installed and configured several hundred Red Hat Linux in both Physical Blade utilizing Kickstart/PXE/Red Hat Satellite and VMware EXSI 4.1/5.0 Virtual Environment.
• Installation of ESXi 5.0 Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administrating VM's across 4 Datacenters running 2000 VM's.
• Deploying VMware vSphere 5 by upgrading VMware infrastructure 4.1.2 to vSphere 5 and also Upgrade Experience from VMware vSphere 4.0 to update 1.

• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware EXSi 4.1 On-call support using the JIRA Ticket System for routine system administration issues.
• Racking/Stacking Servers and installing VMware Esxi / Red Hat.
• Create VMs, Clone VMs, Snapshot VMs, Create Host profiles, Replicate VM Networking via Host profiles, Install Licenses for ESX, create vCenter server, add hosts to the vCenter.
• Converting Physical machines to VMware VMs.
• Password Recovery on Cisco Switches and Routers
• Updating/patching Linux, Windows Virtual Machine in VMware clusters
• Securing services using TCP wrapper and SE Linux.
• Worked with LDAP implementations and Firewalls using IP Tables.
• Open SSH configuration, Sudo Configuration.
• Repairing the corrupted file system using FSCK.
• Created Logical Volumes LVM for Linux operating system.
• Responsible for managing the OS test, release and push process.
• Maintained, updated and audited system documentation.
• Installation and Implementation of Apache Tomcat Application Server.
• Responsible for adding and maintaining users on the network.
• Supported and implemented system standards, processes and security to maintain corporate IT standards.

Confidential

Linux/VMware/Lab System Administrator:

• Installation and configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers using kick start unattended installation in addition to PXE Boot, configuring of new servers and workstations using kick start and auto start.
• Build development Linux/LAMP servers on VMware vSphere ESXi environment including webservers, MySQL and based solution to assist developers.
• Responsible for the installation, configurations and support of VMware vSphere and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment.
• Application Migration form physical to virtual/virtual to virtual platform.
• Windows OS build, IP configurations, Domain Builds, Active Directory Site Builds and Support Administration.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and Templates and cloning VMs and application data.
• Maintained user account management, configured servers to register with Red Hat Network RHN Satellite Server, monitored servers- workload assessment, service console monitoring.
• Disaster Recovery operation setup and checkup at contracting facility.
• Using VM converter converting Physical machines to VMware VMs.
• Racking Cisco UCS servers and configuring CIMC, Configuring RAID on servers, NIC cards, and Installing ESXi
• Troubleshoot network issues and hardware issues with the server. Update on Switches/Router,
• Created user logins, administering the system performance and monitoring user activities.
• Experience monitoring ticket queue's using Remedy and updating bug fix and ticket solution documentation using lotus domino application and linking the ticket with the resolution.
• Configuring and maintaining Apache and MySQL clusters. Deploying apache and Weblogic application servers pertaining to the client's needs.
• Monitoring night-time and weekend batch scripts, initiating fixes and restarting jobs that aborted, responsible for informing management and respective teams of any unexpected outages/problems
• Configured Deployed ESX/ESXi servers in Corporate production environment.
• Use VMware VSphere vCenter Update Manager to apply patches to virtual machines and also Virtual Private Networking VPN tools and techniques to maintain these VM's.
• Provided 24/7 on call support for over 100 Red Hat Ubuntu Linux guests.
• Consulted with support teams to jointly provide the best possible services and solutions through effective requirements gathering, expectations and management.
• Document all technical inquiries, develop and review content for knowledge base
• Maintained Name Servers DNS , Application Servers and third party tools installations, automating tasks using cron for backing up and restoring data in Linux and patch installations in Linux NFS, Automating tasks through cron.
• Configuring network interface cards for bonding assignments.
• Install configured and implemented a network with Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers to support web and data-mining operations. This included an Oracle 10g server, load-balanced web servers, mail and DNS services, Checkpoint firewall, a DLT library, and Cisco switches/router
• Implemented and enhanced UNIX shell scripts using Korn, Bash and Perl Scripting.
• Monitor performance of systems for assigned functional area. Performs diagnostics on system operations to identify' problems and trends, verify network performance and identify potential user requirements. Tracks and resolves problems which impact continuing system operations.
• Racking/Configuring/Patching Terminal/Console Server.
• Installation and configuration of RPM packages for upgrades.
• Upgraded older linux distributions from RHEL3/4 to RHEL5

Confidential

System Administrator

• Mounted/un-mounted new file systems, mounted file systems on remote servers using NFS Server client configurations, performed disk configurations and crash recovery.
• Installation and configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers using kickstart unattended installation in addition to PXE Boot, configuring of new servers and workstations using kickstart and autostart
• Troubleshooting any and all problems with performance, upgrades and file transfers
• Mounted/un-mounted new file systems, mounted file systems on remote servers using NFS Server client configurations, performed disk configurations and crash recovery
• Maintained user account management, configured servers to register with Red Hat Network RHN Satellite Server, monitored servers workload assessment, service console monitoring
• Troubleshooting, networking, services, reporting, monitoring, database-backed management, capacity planning, strategic planning, documentation
• Assisting with the software integration and turning software builds into RPM packages
• Resolve technical issues through diligent research, reproduction, and troubleshooting
• Work directly with other technical support staff, quality assurance, engineering, sales, marketing, operations, and administration to resolve problems
• Documented, performed and validated test cases based on client requirements
• Developed training documentation for leveraged support teams