SUMMARY

• An increasingly responsible position in Enterprise level complicated environment where my knowledge and experience in Server Infrastructure & Data Centre Management would be used to meet high business demands.
• Also work as an excellent team member to achieve the ultimate goal and set an exceptional track record for future reference.
• Solaris Expert, 7+ years of IT experience, all Sun servers (T and V series) up to and including E15K, E25k and E6800.
• Installation, configuration, maintenance and administration of Sun UltraSparc Enterprise and SunFire Servers.
• Performed Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of NFS, AutoFS in Solaris environment.
• Installation and configuration of DNS, NIS and NIS+ in Solaris environment.
• Expert implementation of System Administration and Storage Administration performed using Solaris Disk Suite 4.2 and VERITAS Volume Manager 4.0/5.1.
• Regularly Created file system, volumes and ZFS snapshots.
• Extensively worked on Solaris upgrades and migration: 8 and 9 to 10, AIX 5.3, Redhat Linux 4.0.
• Solaris server consolidation through Solaris 10 containers.
• UNIX Security lockdown and hardening.
• Proficient on installing and configuring VERITAS Foundation suit, Solaris Disk Suite/Solaris Volume Manager.
• Third party Application and Database Server Installation, configuration and Deployment.
• SUN Storage foundation software (SFS) hardware and software configuration, update, EMC - SAN interoperability POWERPATH upgrade, configure and install in highly complicated environment.
• Acquired knowledge on Jumpstart service implementation, Flash archive for rapid recovery.
• Experience in NIS, DNS, Send mail, LDAP and NFS implementation and management.
• Capacity planning, performance monitoring and management.
• 24x7x365 availability and accessibility, working odd hours to help team to overcome issues.
• Very extensive experience in large enterprise environments with stringent security and change management needs.
• Outstanding communication and documentation skills.
• Installation and Configuration of disk storage, Multi pack and Tape Devices.
• Excellent Team Building, Project Management, Analytical, Interpersonal & Communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Sun Solaris 8/9/10, AIX 5.2-5.3,6.1, HP-UX 11.X Linux (RedHat-4.0), Windows 2000/XP/98

Email: IBM Lotus Note, Microsoft Exchange

RDBMS: ORACLE 9i/8.

Tools: VSA, Tivoli Endpoint Mg (Bigfix), WTX 8.0 SANEMC (Symetrix, VMAX), IBM XIV

Protocols: TCP/IP, FTP, SNMP, SCP, TELNET and SMTP.

Naming Services: NIS, DNS, and LDAP.

Languages: PL/SQL, VB.NET, Shell script, PERL

Databases (DBs): Oracle, DB2, MS SQL Server, MS Access

Software: VERITAS Volume Manager, Netbackup, EMC Power-path VERITAS Foundation Suit (Symantec).

Clusters: VERITAS Clusters 4.0/5.1

Special expertise: Solaris ones/Container configuration, LDOM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Solaris Administrator

Confidential, Columbus, OHIO

Responsibilities:

• Migrated Older SAN platform to latest EMC-VMAX and IBM-XIV on around hundreds of servers in complicated environment. Start from pre migration qualification check through well written PERL script and communicate with different vendors like Oracle, Symantec and other Third party
• As part of the upgrade project I have Upgraded OS, VERITAS foundation suit, EMC Power-path and all necessary tools for successful migration.
• Responsibility: 24/7 large company level-2 or level-3 UNIX system administration and technical support, including administrative support on data backup, restore, refresh for BCV( Business Continuance Volumes) and DR(disaster Recovery) to all UNIX server related data.
• Administer various UNIX operating systems, hardware, and peripheral components, and maintain databases. Co-ordinate work with IBM/Essential CE to replace/repair various types of hardware’s in servers.
• Upgraded to VERITAS Foundation suit from 4.0 to 5.1.
• Expert knowledge on Configure types of console access process Like RSC, ALOM(Solaris), HMC(Aix)
• Perform software installation, upgrades/patches, troubleshooting, and maintenance on UNIX servers.
• Create and configure different volumes, file systems, create mksysb image backup on AIX servers, snapshots in UFS/ZFS in Solaris servers.
• Configured and Implemented VERITAS Cluster failover and Network interface Failover (IPMP).
• Write PERL/BASH scripts for all different flavor of UNIX server (Solaris/Aix/HP-ux) and deploy them continuously with Tivoli Endpoint manager (Bigfix) tool to get systematic performance graph.
• Analyze and resolve diagnostic problems on Sun, HP-UX, and AIX systems.
• Create ZFS file system, snapshot and install BigFix/TEM, Netbackup, SRM, Tripwire client on requested file system.
• Responsible for capacity planning, including allocating storage, providing hardware and software redundancy, and planning future expansion requirements.
• Backup administration, i.e. Netbackup troubleshooting, are done via VERITAS Netbackup Java console interconnected to media database, or/and shell (KSH, PERL) scripting.
• User support include all ranges of request, such as account creation and termination, password reset, ftp, printer fix, connectivity, script trouble shooting, software install, CRON job control to new virtual server install. Most the requests are not though ticket system. All user requests including all that by remedy ticket system are resolved quickly and at high user satisfaction.
• Participate in root-cause analysis of recurring issues, system backup, and security setup.
• Maintain Web servers, file servers, firewalls, and directory services, and set up user accounts.
• Write status reports, technical diagrams, and flowcharts.

Solaris Administrator

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Proper Administration and technical support to SUN Solaris servers.
• Configured and monitored Enterprise monitoring tool like Tivoli in the system on Sun servers - running Solaris 8, 9, and 10 (containing zones) with VERITAS LVM, VERITAS Storage Foundation Clusters for Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster)
• HW (i.e. memory Board, Hard Drives) and SW (e.g. patches, packages, application clusters) install, mainly on SPARC servers, i.e. 420R, E550, E220R, v440, v490,V890, E15000, HP servers, e.g. HP /rp5450, rp4440 and replaced periodically.
• SAN (Storage Area Network) disk (power path or without power path) handlings hyper disk creation, mapping, masking, zoning are done with the combination of EMC ECC (EMC Control Center) and command line including KSH and EMC Solutions Enabler Symmetrix TimeFinder CLI (command Line Interface) Version 6.0 on the UNIX hosts connected to the SAN cloud. The platform of hosts includes Solaris, Solaris 8 and 9, and HP-UX, 11.23 with or without POWERPATH for the SAN disks.
• Disk RAID, such as Raid 1 and Raid 5 manipulation and Root disk mirroring are performed on Solaris (8, 9, 10) via VERITAS Volume manager with command lines or scripting.
• Services like NTP, SSHD, mail service, HTTP service, are administered with traditional UNIX way.
• Support customers for critical update - including DBAs of Oracle 9i, 10g, Developers on Financial and web applications, and all other employees.
• Virtualization on Solaris includes install and configure OS (Solaris 10 Enterprise Server, AMD/SPARC 64), Central Domain, and Zone (containers), proper design of CPU, memory and swaps, etc.
• Sun Solaris OS installation and configuration, including SP configuration for HW monitoring, network configure, Java Tomcat web server, apache install configure, security set up, etc.
• Extensively used automation skill scripting with KORN shell, Bourn shell and Perl on day-to-day.
• LVM admin work on both Sun and HP VERITAS LVM (Logical volume management) commands are heavily used.
• Performed System admin Tasks such as, backup operation, system performance, application supplementation, EMC and LVM operations. Shell script include coding, though testing, cross systems and platforms, going through management approval process before implemented onto production servers, for System performance monitor, system maintenance, backup etc.

System Administrator

Confidential, Lansing, MI

Responsibilities:

• Managed over 500 SUN servers over the states Network.
• Provide support as Level3 Unix admin for various troubleshooting and change process such as Disk replacement, Networks troubleshooting, error message decoding, Partition table restructure, recover server from boot FAIL etc.
• Supported large team of web application developers and database administrators providing assistance any and all ways required including performance tuning, resource allocation, software upgrades and any other requirement as needed.
• Migrated hundreds of Solaris 8 servers to Solaris 9 achieve server consolidation and vastly improved resource usage and cost reduction.
• Designed Solaris Volume Manager Disk set configuration to allow for logical separation of storage allocated to containers and to be able to create and grow soft partitions.
• Kernel tuning for IO, network and memory performance to meet needs of DBA’s, developers and business clients.
• Implemented security requirements based on corporate security guidelines to achieve SOX compliance and ensure sensitive data protection.
• Installed and configured UNIX LDAP authentication.
• Performed Firmware upgrades on various HBA adapters.
• Secure console OOB deployment with Avocent serial consoles.
• Automation of routine tasks with shell scripting and CRON implementation.
• Worked closely with SAN engineers for the allocation of disk luns for use indisk sets. More than one 800 terabytes of SAN storage in place over three sites.
• Supported various software applications including Apache, Tomcat, Weblogic, Iplanet, Altiris, Vintela as well as several in-house proprietary applications

Unix System Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Accountable for programming, unit test, user acceptance test, and execution in project comprising re-engineering and development process and maintenance.
• Tasks included:illustration and edition of analyst requirements, code and the user acceptance test, modifications, and concluding application execution.
• Handled the tasks creating innovative and logical solutions to solve complex problems
• Performed Systems performance monitoring and Responsible for drawing specific proposals for modified or replacement systems.
• Responsible for troubleshooting end user and application problems.
• Creating User accounts, Mail account, groups, setting up printers etc.
• Tested applications and resolved complex problems throughout software development life cycle (SDLC), including preparing detailed program specifications.
• Monitoring system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore.
• Worked closely with database administration staff to ensure optimal performance of databases, and maintain development applications and databases.
• Installing Application Software’s and training users to use the program.
• Participated in design analysis and pre- and post-installation reviews.
• Played key role in design and development activities to ensure software requirements were met.
• Responsible for overseeing the implementation of various new systems
• Handled the tasks of analyzing clients' existing systems
• Liaised with clients and vendors to resolve day-to-day problems and make process changes.
• Monitoring of CRON jobs that were scheduled by the development team, remotely logged in through Reflection.
• Prepared program status reports and overviews for each project within the program.