SUMMARY:

Senior Systems Engineer with more than 10 years of experience working on RedHat Enterprise Linux (5, 6 & 7), Solaris (8, 10 & 11), Ubuntu Linux (10.04 & 12.04), SuSE Linux (9 & 10), AIX, and HPUX.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Featured Skills: LVM, Oracle ZFS, Veritas Volume Manager, Sun Logical and Physical Domains, Zones, Confidential Web Services (AWS), EC2, VMware vCenter and ESXi, SALT, Puppet, Jenkins, GIT, RedHat Satellite, Oracle OpsCenter, Documentation, vRealize Automation, Citrix XenCenter, AIX Logical Partitions (LPAR), Kickstart, JumpStart, Automated Installer (AI), Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Oracle RAC, Oracle Convergence (e - mail), Cisco Ironport (e-mail security), JSCAPE SFTP, Isilon NFS, Veritas Netbackup, LDAP, Nagios, SNMP, Check MK, AppDynamics, Rubrik, Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, WebSphere, Oracle DB, Informix, MySQL, Infoblox, HPSA, Remedy, MyService, PCI/SOX, Qualys, Tripwire, Oracle/SUN, Dell, HP, and IBM.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Systems Engineer Sr, UNIX

Responsibilities:

• Senior member of the UNIX team in the Infrastructure Services department. Lead several projects to upgrade or migrate OS and applications.
• Based on my research and analysis, migrated most of the applications running on Solaris physical servers to Linux virtual machines, in turn reduced infrastructure support costs for the company.
• I am called onto to diffuse stressful situations, unexpected outages of tier 1 critical applications, and run interference for other team members if they are experiencing road blocks to their intended work. Automated several day-to-day tasks using scripts. Helped with ChoiceEdge project as needed to migrate CRS to AWS infrastructure.
• Provided support for 300 Solaris and 3200 RedHat Linux physical and virtual machines.
• Worked with Information Security team to ensure compliance with patches using Satellite server and remediate vulnerabilities reported through tripwire and Qualys automated scans.
• Redesigned failover process for the critical applications to reduce downtime for failovers and/or maintenance work.
• Researched and recommended to implement modern technologies, processes, and methods. Designed server decommission process for the company.
• Recognized as the point of contact on the UNIX team and the informal Linux/Solaris lead.
• Automated Solaris 11 installs using Automated Installer (AI) and made sure all the new builds are identical in the configuration and meet security standards.
• Lead storage migration project and live migrated 100 Solaris and 200 Linux physicals from the EMC VMAX to PURE to help reduce expensive EMC support and maintenance costs for the company.
• Migrated EMCpowerpath to native multipath and reduced EMC support costs for the company. Implemented disaster recovery strategies for tier 1 applications.
• Owned JSCAPE SFTP, Oracle Convergence E-mail, and IronPort email security applications.
• Provided 24x7 on-call support on rotation and as-needed basis.

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

Linux Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Team member of Infrastructure Services department responsible for managing servers, storage, virtualization, monitoring, and network.
• Lead data center migration project.
• Consolidated four old small data centers into one large data center in the new building, which saved energy costs for the company and improved network performance between applications and data bases.
• Improved remote management capabilities for servers by installing DRAC cards in the existing servers, which resulted in reduced visits to the data center for troubleshooting the issues.
• Lead several build projects and helped application owners to build new applications on Ubuntu LTS 12.04 servers by coordinating between multiple teams.
• Improved monitoring for the entire server platform using Nagios and Check MK to help identify the issues in advance and reduce down times for applications.
• Migrated existing NetApp storage to Dell Compellent, which reduced support and maintenance costs for storage and Citrix XenCenter virtualization.
• Improved success rate for VERITAS netbackups by tweaking settings based on the size of the data. Contractor under RGA.

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Operating Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Senior member in the production support team of the Distributed Systems Support group.
• Primary tasks were to provide mission critical server support for financial applications that generate money for the bank.
• Helped the organization to achieve 99.999% uptime for the tier 1 applications.
• Interacted and supported one of the largest and most stable process-oriented infrastructure comprising of 10,000+ servers with all UNIX Linux physical and virtual machines and high-performance hardware hosted in the sophisticated data centers.
• It was an everyday challenge to troubleshoot systems issues where I have excelled.
• My managers have all turned to me for advice or assistance with challenging situations involving other teams.
• Contractor under RGA.

Confidential

UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Senior team member of the Systems Engineering team at offshore location. In the role of subject matter expert for Linux and Solaris, responsible for all aspects of system support and upgrades consisting of 6000 Linux and Solaris virtual and physical servers.
• Automated jobs using HP Server Automation tool and scripts, so that team members get more time to work on other projects and get more development work done with current staffing levels.
• Improved server monitoring and automated ticketing using IPAutomata developed by Confidential .
• Closely worked with Oracle Database team to tune and upgrade the databases.
• Mentored junior team members and documented standard operating procedures for the team.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

UNIX/Linux Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured Nagios monitoring for the entire Linux physical and virtual machines managed by the team to improve problem recognition and recovery time.
• Built and configured WordPress blog on the LAMP stack to maintain documentation and share SOP between teams of the IT department.
• Helped company to get rid of the remaining legacy Solaris 8 servers and migrate applications to Oracle Linux virtual machines running on Oracle VM (server virtualization).

Confidential, Tempe, AZ

Operating Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Team member in the Systems Team of the Retail Services division.
• Worked on several projects simultaneously, including security patching, production support, build, and special projects.
• Provided structure around OS patching practices as to how and when to apply patch sets and delegated work over to offshore team to be done during the night time to reduce the impact to the business.
• Built and configured several UNIX and Linux servers using internal ABT (Automated Build Tool).
• Lead audit remediation project for the team designed by Confidential internal engineering team to remediate and secure more than 3000 servers using scripts and HP Server Automation (HPSA/Opsware) tool.
• Lead intrusion detection software migration project to migrate from IBM HIDS to Symantec CSP on 6000 UNIX Linux servers.
• Tested and documented firmware upgrade procedures for SUN/Dell/IBM/HP servers.

Confidential, Morrisville, PA

Solaris/Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Team member of the Infrastructure Services, responsible for build and support of Solaris and Linux servers.
• Worked on few projects like monitoring setup and hardware upgrades.
• Automated Solaris 10 builds using JumpStart server.
• Optimized performance for application and database servers.

Confidential, Las Vegas, NM

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to maintain Windows and Linux machines in the two computer labs.
• Assisted members of the library, undergrad, and grad students with their computer needs.
• Made sure to have most of the systems available for patrons by resolving the issues with printers and computers.