SUMMARY

• Over 10 Years of experience Linux (Red Hat Linux, CentOS), Windows 2012/2008/2003/2000 Servers & Over 7 Years of experience Virtualization (Oracle OVM and VMware)
• Over 7 years of experience working on NetApp Storage - (7-mode and Cluster Data Ontap).
• Takes pride in providing creative direction and out of the box thinking. Enjoys complex, multifaceted assignments where pulling together a collaborative pool of skills is essential. Fosters a lively and professional work environment and values commitment to excellence, innovation, and customer service.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: 10 years Linux (Red Hat Linux, CentOS, NetApp 7 - mode and Cluster Data ONTAP), Windows 2012/2008/2003/2000 Server, 7 Year Virtualization (Oracle OVM and VMware), Desktop support of Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP/7

Networking: Understanding of TCP/IP, UDP, ICMP, OSI, Network troubleshooting, Server configuration, Physical network maintenance and upgrades, Switch and Router maintenance, Familiar with Intel's PXE net boot protocol, DHCP, SNMP, Load Balancing, custom balancers, BigIP's F5, Nagios

Software: ONTAP, IIS, Active Directory, DNS, Vi, and ViM, NFS, CIFS, iSCSI, NIS/YP,NTP, ntpdate, Window System (configuring servers, desktops, application servers)

Programming/Scripting: Intermediate level, mostly systems automation and maintenance tasks, PHP, Shell Scripting, Limited C debugging, make

Hardware: All forms of x86 hardware (from laptops to quad Xeon CPU servers)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NJ

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Technical hands-on systems administrator responsible for the low-level design, implementation and operations of Confidential ’s Enterprise Content Management systems developed on EMC Documentum
• Ensure all content management systems are fully available and online 24/7.
• Responsible for implementation and day to day operations of Oracle OVM hypervisors for cloud enablement of Content Management Systems
• Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of Linux and Windows operating systems
• Experience in System Administration, System Builds, Server builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches. Migration, Trouble shooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning on Linux Systems
• Managed private Oracle VM Cloud and VMWare. Managed NetApp SAN for all Storage requirements as NFS or iSCSI exports from SAN to Oracle Hypervisors.
• Hands on experience with NetApp OnCommand System Manager for all storage configuration and using command line as needed
• Monitoring of all NetApp storage and switch health status
• Preparation of space utilization on daily basis
• Preparation of CPU utilization and Snap Mirror report
• Documentation of all storage and switch information
• Space expansion of volumes as per Operation Manager and requirement of business
• Monitoring of NAS and SAN environment
• Install, configure, support, and troubleshoot NetApp FAS 2020, FAS 3020, FAS 6000 and 8000 series Storages
• Creation of new CIFS, NFS shares
• Successfully migrated from NetApp 7 Mode to Clustered Data ONTAP
• Monitoring of snap Mirror between Source and DR
• Troubleshooting problems related to CIFS,NFS shares and iSCSI with NetApp Technical Support
• Creation of new aggregates, Volumes and Qtrees as required by management
• Creation and scheduling of snapshots as per requirement
• Configuration of Snap Mirror with DR.
• Successfully implemented Snap Mirror between Production and DR
• LUN and NFS share migration
• Configuration of snapshots for backup
• Configured Deduplication of volumes
• Change request implementation
• Coordination and Managing the Installation and Configure SAN Storage Array with OEM.
• Managing the installation of new Hard Disk or DAE in coordination with OEM.
• Disk capacity decision making
• Storage group/Raid Group Creation
• Provisioning of storage to servers
• Storage group creation
• Setup Volume or Disk Pools / Storage devices
• Creating RAID groups, dynamically LUN Expansion on NetApp and Enterprise class storage.
• Analyze the load on storage, check the storage component status (cache, battery, hard disk etc.), Monitor SIM messages, etc.
• Helping clients in mapping NFS, CIFS volumes to the servers and assigning permissions as required.
• Analyzing the trace logs collected from the storage device and coordinate with senior staff and NetApp technical support to resolve issues.
• Assisting clients with LUN Expansion & volume migration.
• Installation of Red Hat Linux OS using NFS, FTP, HTTP, Kickstart, CD-ROM and Hard drive
• User account management creation, deletion and assigning permission
• Implementing software RAID using Linux
• Disk Space Management using LVM and Configuration of kick start.
• Configured and Maintained System Monitoring tools such as Nagios under Red Hat Operating system
• Configured clients and applied patches to all RHEL servers using Red Hat Satellite patch management system.
• Actively involved in managing, maintaining, troubleshooting issues with related to Linux Apache server.
• Device management and configuration of Linux system.
• Installation and Configuration of SSH, TELNET, FTP, DHCP, DNS.
• Troubleshoot performance issues and perform reboots of Virtual machines using Oracle VM client
• Monitoring Unix applications and Hosts alarms in Nagios
• Assist Network and engineers with system troubleshooting and recovery of down systems
• Assisting Backup and Storage Team in trouble shooting
• Coordinate with Managers and Team Lead and internal staff and worked well with others in a team environment
• Participate in expansion/remediation planning and maintain integrity of Confidential Inc. global data centers, MDF’s, IDF’s

Confidential, NJ

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• PAL Projects & Images systems are first-of-the-kind Content Management Systems in Confidential Education. Responsible for system architecture, installation, configuration and migration of contents from legacy store to the modern content management systems
• Technical hands-on systems administrator responsible for the system architecture, installation of OpenText Livelink, Enterprise Archive Server (IXOS), OpenText Artesia on Sun Solaris servers farm
• Helped in the scaling of the infrastructure via horizontal and vertical scaling of servers and applications.
• Worked in the 24x7 operations support team to support Enterprise Content Management systems developed on Livelink & Artesia
• Installed Digital Asset Management software for Development, QA, and Staging and Production servers using OpenText Artesia 6.5 software. Worked with the product vendor for designing the right system infrastructure, tuning and optimizing the application & servers
• Migration of Digital Asset Management installation from Artesia Teams 5.1 to Artesia 6.5 version, and moving the contents from legacy Jukebox to EMC Centera. 15 TB of high resolution images and low-resolution preview and thumbnail images were migrated to Centera with 100% accuracy
• Installation and configuration of Apache, Tomcat application & web servers on Solaris servers.
• Worked with the Network and Firewall teams for load balancing, DNS setup and security configuration management.
• Configuration of Hardware and Software RAID, Disk replacement and File system recovery.
• Interaction with vendors for Hardware and software supports (Artesia, OpenText, NetApp, EMC)
• Worked on creating user accounts, user administration, local and global groups on Sun Solaris servers.
• Created User Accounts and Network Shares required for system and application storage needs
• Backup management through Veritas NetBackup. Creation of Volumes and pools and scheduling the job.
• Planning and setup of Disaster Recovery Servers.
• Trouble shooting of day to day system and user problems.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Windows NT 4.0 servers and Solaris server builds as well as upgrade and patching
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources using local operating System authentication.
• User security management that involved tasks like managing User Accounts and Groups, managing Disks and Filesystems.
• Taking backup using tar and recovering during the data loss
• Work with vendors IBM for Advanced Storage Management tasks such as backup, restore and routine auditing and reporting
• Troubleshoot various systems problems such as application related issues, network related issues, hardware related issues etc.