SUMMARY:

• Over 9 years of IT experience in System Administration with extensive experience in Solaris, Red Hat Linux & UNIX Server Administration.
• About three years of experience in installing and managing ESXi 5.5, 6, V center servers and vCSA on windows and Linux.
• Installing, upgrading and configuring SUN Solaris 8, 9, 10, 11 and 11.2 on Sun Servers using Jumpstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Installing, upgrading and configuring Red hat Linux Enterprise 5, 6.5, On HP and Dell Servers.
• Savvy in troubleshooting, creating, managing and maintaining Solaris LDOMS and Solaris Zones.
• Excellent in installing, configuring and managing Pillar Axiom Storage (Oracle SAN), HP SAN and Netapp along with deep understanding of Storage and SAN technologies Virtual disk, LUNs, snapshot, replication, and Thin Provision
• Knowledge of configuring and managing Brocade 300 Switches
• Extensive experience in configuring, managing and troubleshooting IP Table and KVM on Red Hat Linux.
• Strong knowledge and understanding in installing, configuring, managing and maintaining various monitoring tools such as Nmap, Nagios and solariswind.
• Strong knowledge in creating, configuring and maintaining Amazon Web Services EC2. Fair knowledge on Amazon S3.
• Expertise in migrating Netbackup 6.5 to Netbackup 7.5
• Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Installing and configuring of Web hosting administration such as HTTP, FTP, SSH, & RSH.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, LDAP,DNS, NIS, NIS+, NFS, DHCP.
• Extensive experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting various Configuration Management Tools such as Puppet Master and Chef .
• Fair knowledge in managing configuring, and trublshooting Ansible configuration Management Tool.
• Expertise in Veritas Volume manager (VxVM), creating new file systems, mounting and unmounting file systems.
• Strong knowledge and Hands on Experience in installing, managining and maintaining EXSi 5.5, 6 on Dell Servers attached to HP SAN.
• Strong knowledge in installing and managing V center server and vCSA.
• Excellent in installing, configuring and administering Linux Volume Manager (LVM), Solaris Volume Manager (SVM).
• Excellent in installing, configuring and maintaining Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Net Backup, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) & Sun - Cluster server.
• Efficient in installing, configuring and implementing the RAID Technologies using various tools like Veritas Volume Manager, Solaris Volume Manager.
• Expert in installing, configuring and maintaining Apache/Tomcat, Samba & Send Mail and Weblogic Application Servers.
• Experience in using Veritas Net Backup, proficient in System Backup and Recovery from tapes using UFSDUMP, UFSRESTORE, TAR and CPIO, file system administration.
• Hands on experience on various Sun Entry level servers like Sun Fire V240, V245, V280, V440, Midrange servers like Sun Fire V480, V880, V890 and have also worked on Highend Oracle T5120, T4-1, T4-2, T7-2, M4000, M5000 and X4-2, Storages such as Pillar Axiom 600, Netapp, 7310, 6120 and 6140, HP SAN, Dell Power Edge series and HP proliant servers.
• Expert in writing Shell scripting using Ksh//Bash/Awk to ease administration tasks.
• Excellent skills in Analyzing, Designing, Implementing System Integration, knowledge on Switches, Routers, & Firewalls.
• Expert knowledge in Subnet, VLSM, CIDR, and supernetting.
• Proven track recorder in designing and implementing high available, scable, resilient and fault tolerant systems platform.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Solaris 11.2/11/10/9/, RHEL 5, 6 Windows 2000,20 R2 ESXi 5.1, 5.5 Amazon AWS EC2

Hardware: Sun Fire V440/V480/V880/V890, Sun Enterprise ServerT5120, Oracle Ultra Enterprise Servers M4000/M5000/T4-1/T4-2/X4-2, . Dell R751, Dell 2950, Dell R730, Dell R710, HP proliant, Sun Storage 7310/6120/6140 such Oracle SAN Storage Pillar Axiom 600. HP-9000, IBM RS/6000: Brocade 300 switches

Web/Application Servers: Tomcat, Apache, Weblogic

Cluster server: Veritas Cluster, Sun cluster

Scripting Languages: Born, Bash, KSH & Perl, SED, AWK.

Programming Language: Shell Programming, PERL, HTML.

Databases: MSSQL server, Oracle

Tape Hardware: Storage tek Tape libraries L40, L80, L180, L700

Protocols: TCP/IP, FTP, SMTP, SOAP, POP and HTTP,NIS, DNS,DHCP, LDAP

Configuration Management Tool: Puppet, Chef, Ansible

Monitoring Tool: Nmap, Nagios, Solarwind

Virtual Technology: Solaris LDOMS and Zones, RHEL KVM

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Unix Production Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade and migrate Netbackup 6.5 to Netbackup 7.6 along with setting up Backup staging with
• Sun Storage 6140.
• Install, configure and manage monitoring tools such as Solarwind and Nagios.
• Overseen and Manage Pilot Puppet Project.
• Installed and configured new Puppet Master Server and added Client Nodes to Puppet Master Server.
• Build new Solaris environment from scratch to run Solaris 10, 11 and 11.2 beta
• Create and configure new Solaris virtual environment to host Weblogic, OBIEE and critical productions apllications in short period of time..
• Create and configure LDOM (Logical Domains) and Solaris zones to host new testing environment running Solaris 1, 11.2 beta.
• Manage, maintain and create Solaris IPS (Internet Package Services) repository.
• Excellent in configuring and managing Brocade 300 switches.
• Expert in Provising and mapping LUNS from Pillar Axiom 600 (Oracle SAN) to Productions servers.
• Savy in managing, maintaining and configuring Netbackup 7.6, 6.5.
• Manage and Maintain Sun Storage 7310, 6120 that includes Firmware upgrade, Memory expansion and adding new disk array to satisfy data growth.
• Build new server architecture as per requirement and hand over to application team that included mounting servers on racks, cabeling and establish networking and configuring switches.
• Configured Netbackup clients and managed VERITAS Netbackup systems.
• Worked with Veritas Clusters and deployed three-node production cluster on Solaris
• Adding, deleting and configuring different resources in Veritas Clusters on Solaris10.
• Administration and troubleshooting Solaris servers running business critical application & Web Logic (WAS) applications.
• Creating and setting up NFS Mount Points on Solaris.
• Discovering and adding newly added LUNS to the Veritas Volume Manager, Solaris servers.
• Increase and decrease volume and file system in Veritas Volume Manager and File System.
• Veritas File System and Veritas Volume Manager are used to configure the RAID Storage Systems.
• Manage and maintain VXVM, SVM and ZFS.
• Manage and maintain Web Server in DMZ.
• Remove and replace failed hardware on Sun storage and servers.
• Installing, Configuring and Trouble shooting of VMware Esxi5.5, 6, vSphere Client and Virtual Center Server Virtual Environment
• Deploying and Troubleshooting the VM’S & ESX Hosts by using Virtual Center Server
• Create and manages the Virtual Switches, DV-Switches & Port groups in virtual Environment
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and Virtualization using VMware
• Experiences on Hot Migration and Cold Migration for VM’s and VM files using V-Motion and SV-Motion
• Upgrading the Patches and ESX Host Using VUM and ESX-Update utility
• Hands on experience in installing Windows Server 2012R2 on Dell Server. Strong knowledge in creating and promoting server as Domain Controller.
• Experience in installing DNS, DHCP server and creating scope on Windows Server 2012R2

Environment: Solaris 10, 11, 11.1, 11.2 beta. Weblogic, OBIEE, Oracle 10g, Oracle 11g R2, Axiom Path Manager. SunFire V440, V880, V890. Sun ULTRASPARC T5120, T4-1, T4-2. Oracle Enterprise Edition M4000, M5000, X4-2. Sun storage 7310, 6120,6140. Oracle SAN storage Pillar Axiom 600. Brocade 300 Switches. Solaris Volume Manager (SVM), Veritas Volume Manager (VXVM), Zetabite File System (ZFS).Windows Server 2012R2

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Senior Linux, Solaris System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and Operating System upgrade on Sun Solaris 10, and Red Hat Linux 6, Dell Servers.
• Upgrading Solaris 8/9 to Solaris 10 using live upgrade and manual upgrade, File system tuning, growing, and shrinking with VERITAS Filesystem 3.5/4.
• Install and configure Nmap server to monitor and troubleshoot issues to provide 24X7 up time.
• Cinfigure and manage IP table to safeguard Lunix infrastructure.
• Manage, configure and troubleshoot KVM Servers to support Test and Development environment
• Worked with Solaris Clusters and deployed two-node cluster.
• Excellent experience with NetBackup versions 6.
• Build and manage AWS EC2 test environment.
• Configured Netbackup clients and managed VERITAS Netbackup systems.
• Experienced with HP-SAS (Server Automation Software) Administration.
• Excellent in Opsware Administrative and Account Management including adding, modifying and deleting Opsware users and groups.
• Expert in Patching, Auditing and Reporting using HP-SAS.
• Keeping an Issue Classification Matrix file and resolving agent errors and issues using HP-SAS.
• Experience with Installation, Uninstallion and upgrades of Opsware Application using HP-SAS.
• Administration and Troubleshooting Solaris servers running business critical application & Web Logic (WAS) applications.
• Veritas File system and Veritas Volume Manager 2.5 are used to configure the RAID 1 and RAID 5 Storage Systems.
• Installed and Configured Sun availability Suite 3.5 to implement Point-in-time snapshots and remote mirroring.
• Implemented and configured Backup policies and Storage Units.
• Managing disk storage with Veritas Volume Manager 3.5/4.1 and Solaris Volume Manager with Veritas File System (VxFS).
• Installed Web Logic 8.1 with SP5 Server and configured Domains, Admin and managed servers for Applications to be deployed.
• Implemented NIS and NFS for administrative and project requirements.
• Used RPMs to install, update, verify, query and packages from Linux Servers
• Worked closely with database administration staff to ensure optimal performance of databases, and maintain development applications and databases.
• Tuning the kernel parameters based on the application/database requirement.
• Involved in the Implementation of SunFire 4800/6800, in Veritas Cluster Server 3.5/4.0 environment.
• Monitoring system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore.
• Set up Quotas for the user accounts & limiting the disk space usage.
• Configuring SUDO and granting root permission to users for performing certain activities.
• Resolve help desk ticket as it pertains to theUNIXoperating system environment.

Environment: Sun Solaris 8,9,10, Red Hat Linux 6, weblogic 8.1/9.x/10.x Sun Fire 6800, 4800,V890, V880, Dell Poweredge R751, Dell R330, Veritas Volume Manager, Solaris Volume Manager, Solstice Disk Suite, Veritas Cluster Server, Weblogic 8.1, Oracle 9i/10g, Oracle 11gR2

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure and troubleshoot Red Hat Linux 5 and 6.5.
• Support Level1, Level 2 and Level 3 calls for users .
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Storage Foundation Suite, Volume Manager, Cluster Servers & Veritas File systems (Vxfs).
• Net backup and TSM Backup for backup administration.
• Installation of SSH and configuration of key bases authentication.
• Integrating UNIX file systems using packages like SAMBA. Setting up printers on UNIX / NT machines to work seamlessly across platforms.
• Install, configure, manage and troubleshoot new configuration tool Puppet and sync all the Lunux clients to Puppet Master Server.
• Manage and maintain local RHEL Repo up to date.
• Over seen and manage POC for Red Hat Satallite Server infrastructure.
• Fortify Linux infrastructure security using IP Table configuration and alteration.
• Assisting the Development team to provide the information and troubleshooting.
• Manage and maintain RHEL Virtual infrastructure by creating KVMs.
• Network trouble shooting using ‘ndd’, 'traceroute', 'netstat', 'ifconfig' and 'snoop' etc
• Working closely with Vendors on Hardware Problems, software fixes.
• Administration of NFS, NIS, DNS, Samba and Sendmail servers.
• Provided 24X7 support for large number Production, Development and Test systems.
• Coordinating with RHELSupport engineers to resolve high priority issues.
• Setup, maintain and management of user accounts and groups according to the security needs and adding the packages and patches when needed.
• Initiating Backups on a daily basis and monitoring the scheduled backups.
• Clarify Ticket based problem management.

Environment: RHEL 5, 6, Dell Poweredge R730, Dell R710, Dell 2950, HPE Proliant Series servers, Netapp Cluster mode, and, Veritas Foundation Suite, Veritas Volume Manager, Tivoli Storage Manager 5, Veritas Cluster Servers, Veritas Net backup, weblogic, webspear.

Confidential, Moline, IL

Linux, Solaris System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured hardware and OS on servers, workstations and I/O devices on E4500 environment.
• The system builds from the scratch for UNIX and AIX system.
• Used Veritas Net backup tool for Backup and recovery.
• Responsible for DNS and Configured DNS Servers and Clients and troubleshooting system and DNS issues.
• Installed and configured new hard drives and memory.
• Package, Patch management, migration, integration & distribution in development, testing, QA,, the Production environment. (Testing: UAT, SIT, OAT, Performance testing)
• Used Admintool for adding and managing new users, groups, software and printers.
• Created disk groups, volumes, volume groups and RAIDs using Veritas Volume Manager.
• Involved in disk configuration and disk crash recovery using format and fdisk. Bad spots on disk were repaired using repair and analyze. Created new slices, mounted new file systems and unmounted file systems.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of High Availability Veritas Cluster Servers for failover and redundancy purpose.
• Created Korn shell scripts to automate cron jobs and system maintenance. Scheduled cron jobs for job automation.
• Involved in preparation of functional and system specifications. Estimated Storage requirements for applications.
• Installed of all the required Software, patches, documentation, licensing trouble shooting.
• Set up various user profiles, environment variables/security to ensure smooth operation.
• Responsible for fax link and send mail.
• Used smitty (AIX) tool for Printers, Applications, Processes, Services, Software License Management, Software Installation, Users and Security Management.

Environment: Sun Solaris 2. x/5.7,8, AIX 5.3/4.3.2, Windows NT 4.0, Sun Enterprise 4500, Sun Enterprise 250, IBM RS/6000, Motorola Machine, Pentium PCs, Genicom Printers and Laser Jet Printers, Veritas volume manager, VCS, VERITAS Net Backup 4.0.

Confidential

UNIX (Solaris/Linux) Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Administering Solaris Production servers.
• NFS, NIS+ and Automounter Administration.
• Configured Veritas Volume Manager.
• Installing and Patching Solaris 7/8.
• Installing new Sun Hardware.
• Upgrading Sun Servers to Solaris 8.
• User Account management using administration tool.
• Volume Disc Management.
• Disk mirroring and RAID implementation using Solstice Disk Suite and Veritas Volume Manager.
• Used VERITAS Net backup tool for Backup and recovery.
• Set up various user profiles, environment variables/security to ensure smooth operation.
• Documented installation procedures, changes required in the present environment.
• Attended team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress, and for upcoming changes in the environment.
• Installation of OAS (Oracle Application Server) on Solaris 8 and its configuration with oracle database.
• Installed and configured new hard drives and memory.
• Used VERITAS Volume Manager with Storage Administrator.
• Created disk groups, volumes, volume groups and RAID using VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Created, Mounted/Unmounted, Restored, took Backup of File Systems like UFS and NFS.
• Performed maintenance on high availability servers running SUN and VERITAS Cluster. This includes setting up SUDO access for DBA and application account access.
• Modify and used shell scripting to improve monitoring of the servers.
• Did daily checks and disk space cleanup on assigned servers using Disk suite and VERITAS Volume manager.

Environment: Sun Solaris 7/8, Windows NT 4.0, Sun Enterprise 4500, Sun Enterprise 250, Sun Ultra 250 with RAID, IBM RS/6000, Pentium PCs, Oracle 9i, Perl