PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A Highly adaptable Systems Engineer wif total 9+ years of experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and VMware Administration. Experienced track record dat provides teh client wif well Informative System Administration, Guidance and Technical Support.
• Over 9+ years’ experience in LINUX (Redhat, SuSE, CentOS, Ubuntu) and UNIX Systems Administration.
• Experienced in installing, configuring and upgrading Linux, Citrix client using manual and automated installation.
• Experienced Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware vSphere System Administrator wif Telephony based Technical Support to assist and provide clients wif teh best possible uptime and to reliable and accurate communication to get tasks completed.
• Expertise in deploying various Red Hat Enterprise Linux builds both Physical and Virtual on HP/ Confidential Dell Hardware running ESXi.
• Expertise in designing build/configure documentation related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux via Kickstart/PXE and using teh documentation to assist other members in teh team.
• Expertise in Security hardening (iptables/selinux) major Production Servers and compiling, building and installing web server based Linux tools.
• Proficient in providing support on teh deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers from both Operating System level and Application Level.
• Experience in deploying several sets of Linux guest builds from VMware Templates using PowerCLI as well as Red Hat Satellite Server.
• Experience in configuring, maintaining WebSphere application server clustering, failovers and load balancing.
• Experience supporting applications like Apache, Tomcat, and Weblogic running on RHEL.
• Experience in supporting and implementing security on RHEL/Service now
• Experience in USER MANAGEMENT by giving sudo access to teh users.
• Resolution of technical issues on system integration and support.
• Worked on ServiceNow/Esmart/Remedy Incident Management, Problem Management & Change Management.
• Disk space and File system management using, and LVM
• Experience in upgrading and degrading KERNEL Versions and SAN MULTIPATHING in LINUX.
• Experience in Server migration from AIX and HP - UX to Redhat Linux.
• Experience in migrating servers between Datacentre’s.
• Experience of working in Datacentre’s wif 24X7 Production and On-Call Environment.
• Installing of Oracle (10g & 11g), Weblogic (9.3 & 10), MQSeries on Linux.
• Experience in using various network protocols like HTTP, UDP, POP, FTP, TCP/IP, and SMTP.
• VMware Infrastructure Installation & Configuration. Planning and Designing VMware VI3 (ESX3.x/ ESXi 4.x/ Thin ESX, ESXi 5.x VMware Virtual Center and VMware VSphere).
• Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter).
• Experience in supporting Red Hat Satellite Server, RHN.
• Troubleshooting issues on Application Servers on Linux, Aix Servers.
• Hands-on experience in configuring SSH and FTP server/client systems to transfer files.
• Expertise in Installing and Managing LDAP, NIS, NFS, DHCP and DNS.
• Experience in UNIX wif Korn, Bourne shell scripts, Ability to work in team oriented and problemsolving environments.
• Good Communication skills, ability to lead a work team, working in Team Environment.
• Solution implementation and troubleshooting all network related issues

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: RHEL 3.0, 4.x/ 5.x/6.x, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, 10 and 10 Windows 2003, 2008, AIX 5L

Hardware: HP Proliant DL385 G6, DL 585 G6/G7, HP C 7000, BL460c 05/6/7 Dell PowerEdge Servers R 900

Programming Languages: C, Perl, Python Shell, SQL, xml, html

Unix Services & Tools: DNS, DHCP, NTP, HTTP, LDAP, SSH, SSL, SFTP, GREP, SCP, AWK

Storage Technologies: NetApp NAS, EMC Clariion, VNX, HDS, EMC Power path, Snap Active batch, Mirror, Veritas NetBackup, Volume Manager, oracle zfs 7400

Virtualization Technologies: Solaris Zones, LDoM’s, VMWare ESX Server and Vsphere, VMotion

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, DUBUQUE, IOWA

Team Lead/Linux Administration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Upgrade RHEL 5.x, 6.x, OEL 6.x operating systems.
• Administration of both Redhat Satellite and spacewalk including teh yum configuration.
• Adding memory, new disk/LVM, new users and autantication procedures and agents installations.
• Decommissioning servers per Redhat standards.
• LVM experience wif LINUX.
• Involved in teh annual DR exercise.
• Performance monitoring and tuning of Linux servers.
• Familiar wif teh Vmware esxi operating system and teh guest operating systems.
• Installation of bare metal in teh data center for new linux machines.
• Written Ansible Playbooks to configure, install software and other packages on to teh application.
• Good noledge on scripting languages like Python, Shell, Perl
• Used Ansible Python Script to generate inventory and push teh deployment.
• Written scripts from scratch to create AWS infrastructure using Python, created Lambda functions to upload code and to check changes in S3, DynamoDB table.
• NFS mount points creation using RHEL systems.
• Vm builds and configuration through Chef tool.
• Solved teh network issues in teh linux-oracle database.
• Martian attack removal procedures on teh solaris/linux systems.
• Involved in a challenging cyber security project.
• Worked as red hat satellite 5/6 admin and also spacewalk for teh oracle-linux systems.
• Zabbix a sql based monitoring tool administration familiarity.
• Involved in teh setup/installations of devops tools vagrant, jenkins, zabbix etc.
• Hands on orchestration tool like Vagrant to build 100 redhat servers from scratch for teh git/jenkins environment.
• Added teh LVms in teh MQ series servers through automation wif chef.
• Troubleshooted various L2 L3 issues in RHEL 5/6/7 etc.
• Comfortable working in a fastpaced support/implementation /build team environment.
• Knowledge of best practices for development of Microservices architectures, Docker and Containerization technologies
• Having good Experience in Configuration Management tools like Ansible Chef for Deployment Application servers in multiple environments.
• Developed continuous delivery product release pipelines using Jenkins, and enable release and operations automation using Ansible.
• Experience in IaaS managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure wif automation and configuration management me.e. Ansible.
• Expert level noledge of RHEL 6/7/8
• Source control using tools such as GIT
• UNIX commands and administration
• 2 years of experience in teh following areas: Docker.
• 2 years of consulting experience focused on RHEL.

Confidential, SEATTLE, WASHINGTON

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Unix Analyst for teh Unix to Linux migration effort, which involves a great deal of coordination work between teh different Applications team, Firewall team, SAN team, Testing and user groups for teh successful migration of teh servers.
• Installation, Configuration and Upgrade RHEL 5.x, 6.x, OEL 6.x and Solaris 10, 11 operating systems.
• Worked wif UNIX flavors LINUX administering systems. Patching software/Hardware.
• Installing hardware on X86. 24hr on call support experience. Worked on backup solutions from Net backup to recover or save data other than teh OS.
• Installation and Configuration of Veritas Volume Manager, Logical Volume Manager and Red hat Cluster.
• Implementation of RAID techniques, teh creation of Disk groups and volumes, plex using Veritas Volume manager.
• Backups and recovery of AIX operating systems.
• Decommissioning servers per Confidential standards.
• LVM experience wif LINUX.
• Troubleshooting problems wif hardware and operating systems on multiple platforms working wif multiple vendors to repair.
• Account and file system administration.
• Installation of software on multiple platforms.
• Worked on true DR on Confidential servers. Brought back 4 servers wif 30 LPARS. And recovered all server data and servers (OS, SAP)
• Extensive use of Logical Volume Manager (LVM), creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes and disk mirroring in Linux, HP-UX and AIX.
• Day to day troubleshooting for end users on UNIX/LINUX
• Configured NFS and Open LDAP services in Red Hat Linux and Solaris systems.
• Experience in Setting up and configuring Install Server, Configuration Server and Boot Server for Kickstart process.
• Helped teh Application owners, Server Type Owners to understand what teh different services dat are currently used by their Application in Unix environment.
• Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of teh newly built Red hat Linux 5.x 6.x, and teh existing HPUX, AIX operating systems.
• Worked wif outside vendors to find teh best hardware and software solution.
• Handled teh tasks of preparing agendas and organizing meetings. Worked wif a medical officer for solving critical issues.
• Preventative and proactive system monitoring functions and real-time responses encompassing: Systems Administration, OS Level SAN Administration, Backup and Restore and Security Remediation.
• Configured and maintained servers using VMware ESXi. Experience in working wif adding new Disks to teh VM from teh Host group and
• Extensive use of Logical Volume Manager (LVM), creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes and disk mirroring in HP-UX, AIX and Linux.
• Experience in Setting up and configuring Install Server, Configuration Server and Boot Server for Kickstart process & performed Kickstart to install OS on Several workstations.
• Created users, manage user permissions, maintain User & File System quota on Red hat Linux
• Installation, Upgradation and Management of packages through RPM and also take care of dependencies.
• Performance monitoring and tuning of Linux servers.
• Creating virtual PCs, installing OS and software using VM ware.
• Good understanding of Lab build and Network topology.
• Also familiar wif teh Sap-Unix environment using teh storage platform.
• Updating teh Documents to teh current level for teh Unix team.

Confidential, RICHFIELD, MN

Linux/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Upgrade RHEL 5.x, 6.x, OEL 6.x and Solaris 10, 11 operating systems.
• Decommissioning servers per Red hat standards.
• LVM experience wif LINUX.
• Involved in teh DR exercise twice.
• Performance monitoring and tuning of Linux servers.
• Familiar wif teh VMware ESXi operating system and teh guest operating systems.
• NFS mount points creation using Hitachi systems.
• Vm builds and configuration through Chef Tool.
• Solved teh inode issues in teh Hitachi- Linux- Oracle database.
• Experience in Setting up and configuring Install Server, Configuration Server and Boot Server for Kickstart process & performed Kickstart to install OS on Several workstations.
• Created users, manage user permissions, maintain User & File System quota on Red hat Linux
• Installation, Upgradation and Management of packages through RPM and also pkg dependencies.