SUMMARY

• Around 4 Years of experience in Red hat Linux, SUSE Linux, UNIX Administration, VMware on Cisco UCS, SME and HP1Servers, SUSE Manager for Mission Critical and Enterprise applications.
• Experience in installation and implementation of Red hat Linux and SUSE Linux.
• Experience supporting Red hat servers in Production and Development environments
• Experienced in system administration, System planning, co - ordination and group level and user level management.
• Expertise in creating and managing Logical Volume Manager in Red hat Linux.
• Good experience on managing the SAN and NAS Technologies in LINUX/VMware environments.
• Experience in Disaster Recovery and Planning.
• Experience on backup and recovery software like Net backup 5.0 and 6.0 on Linux environment.
• Experience with Solar winds.
• Experience working in SAN environment like EMC Symmetric DMX3, DMX4 and Clarion CX3 series arrays.
• Experience with load balancing.
• Build Servers across multiple platforms including AIX, Windows, Unix, and Linux, and SME, VMware ESX 4.x
• Installation, administration, implementation, testing and maintenance of complex and heterogeneous networks consisting of Linux (Red Hat)
• Performed standard system administration tasks, such as patching, software and hardware upgrades, troubleshooting and problem resolution.
• Recovering Linux with rescued booting mode
• Installed and configured Red hat Linux Kick start and booting from SAN and managing multipathing at Boot level and OS level using EMC Power path
• Experience in writing scripts to automate jobs and debugging scripts.
• Experience in using protocols like NIS, NFS, and SFTP & DNS.
• Conduct incident management trend analysis within the supported production environment
• Administered Volume groups and volumes using Logical volume manager
• Installed/Configured Web sphere 5.x/6.x and other Application Servers and Administration of Web sphere Application Server 6.X with Network Deployment and Extension Deployment
• Configured File Systems, users and group for Oracle and Web sphere
• Installation and up gradation of Packages and Patches configuration mgmt, version control, service pack and reviewing connectivity issue regarding security problem.
• Handling and generating tickets via the Remedy ticketing tool.
• Configured ILOs and Console connections for HP and SUN servers.
• Knowledge of Routers, Switches, Hubs, Firewalls, LAN, WAN Intranet, Internet and Load balancers.
• Maintained high availability of data using Oracle Real Application cluster Server
• Hardware configuration, installation and management on Cisco UCS, HP servers and Workstations.
• Experience with Samba, autos, Kerberos, LDAP, SSL carts, Apache HTTPD experiences a plus.
• Experience withAzureConfigurations.
• Experience with Shell scripting, bash scripting, Perl, Python languages.
• Experience with automation tools like Chef/Puppet.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating System: Red Hat Linux (3/4/5/6),Unix, Windows 98 Windows 2000 and NT, Solaris 10,11

Hardware: Cisco UCS C240 M3 and C240 M4, HP Gen 8 Blade and Rack mount Servers, Sun Fire 280R/V 480/4800/3800/12 K/15K, Tseries, Mseries Server, Sun Enterprise 6500/5000/450/420 R,, HP 9000 K,L,N class server, rp8xxx/7xxx, IBM RS/6000, Pseries, Xseries, HP/IBM/Blade Servers, IBM Blade Center Platform.

Virtualization: VMware Vsphere 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1/4.0 , VcenterServer 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0 /4.1/4.0 , ESXi 6.0/5.5/5.1/5.0/4.1/4.0 , ESX4.0,VMware Update

Storage: Netback up, SAN EMC Symmetric 800/ DMX1000, 2000 & 3000, EMC Clarion 500 600, 700, NetApp, NAS 2000/ 3000 series

Cluster: Oracle Real Application Cluster, MapR, Hadoop Cluster.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Virginia

Linux Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Install and configure RHEL 5.x and 6.x on virtual machines as well as physical server.
• Worked on building new SUSE &Red hat Linux servers, support lease replacements and implementing system patches using the HP Server Automation tool.
• Experience with VMware Virtualization using ESX hypervisor of Vsphere 4.1.
• Created Virtual Machines, Cloning virtual machines, converting P2V(used standard VMware converter tool), VM
• Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
• Configuring VMware on clustered environment implemented Migration of Virtual Machines using Vmotion Storage Vmotion.
• Creating VM Session on ESX servers through Virtual infrastructure Client.
• Experience in installation and implementation of SLES 10, SLES 11 and Red hat Operating Systems.
• Configuration, implementation and administration of Clustered servers on SUSE Linux environment.
• Experienced in system administration, System planning, co-ordination and group level and user level management.
• Proficient in using UNIX performance tools such as sar, top, neon, vmstat, iostat, etc
• Experience in configuration of NIS, NIS+, DNS, DHCP, NFS, LDAP, SAMBA, SQUID, and postfix, send mail, ftp, remote access, security management and Security trouble shooting skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of Red Hat Satellite and BMC Blade logic UNIX/Linux management tools
• Expertise in Certify Authentication services.
• Expertise in creating and managing Logical Volumes in SLES Linux.
• Performed automated installations of Operating systems SUSE Linux using automats.
• Possesses an expert level knowledge of UNIX Operating Systems and tools
• System administration experience in a UNIX production business environment with substantial knowledge of the UNIX, SME operating system
• Experience on backup and recovery software like Net backup on Linux environment.
• Systems and network Planning and Administration.
• Supported production systems 24 x 7 on a rotational basis.
• Worked on resolving production issues and documenting Root Cause Analysis and updating the tickets using BMC Remedy.
• Experience in working with high performance production environment
• Troubleshoot various systems problems such as application related issues, network related issues, hardware related issues etc.
• Installation, Configuration and upgrade of Red hat Linux (2,3,4,5,6), Centos, Oracle Linux, SUSE, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX & Windows 2000 / 2003/2008 Operating System

Confidential, Texas

Linux Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and upgrade of Red hat Linux (2,3,4,5,6), Centos, Oracle Linux, SUSE, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX & Windows 2000 / 2003/2008 Operating System
• User Administration, management and archiving.
• Install and configure RHEL 5.x and 6.x on virtual machines as well as physical server.
• Configuring NFS, NIS, NIS+, DNS, Auto Mount & Disk Space Management on SUN Servers.
• Experience in Configuring and Managing Virtual Disks, Disk Mirrors RAID Levels.
• Data Center Migration support for CX, DMX attached hosts.
• Worked with OVF "Open Virtual Machine Format" supported tools Virtual Box, Red hat Virtualization (XEN), and VMware Workstation.
• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Samba, Apache Tomcat, Web Sphere, Web logic and Jboss servers in Sun Solaris and Linux environment.
• Experience with Puppet and Chef Configuration management tool.
• Wrote Python scripts to parse XML documents and load the data in database.
• Cleansing data generated from weblogs with automated scripts in Python
• Experience with VMware Virtualization using ESX hypervisor of Vsphere 4.0.
• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Samba, Apache Tomcat, Web Sphere and Jboss servers in AIX, Sun Solaris and Linux environment.
• Experience in Active directory configurations and support.
• Experience with setting up Linux servers for Oracle Real Application Clusters and configuring SAN based mount points.
• Experience with Samba, autos, Kerberos, LDAP, SSL carts, SME.
• , Apache HTTPD experiences a plus.
• Preparing servers for Oracle RAC installation which includes tuning the kernel, agent, installation, adding NAS storage on 2,3, 4 node clusters.
• Experience working in SAN environment like EMC Symmetric DMX3, DMX4 and Clarion CX3 series arrays.
• Experience with Shell scripting, bash scripting, Perl, Python languages.
• Experience in configuration of NIS, NIS+, DNS, DHCP, NFS, LDAP, SAMBA, SQUID, and postfix, send mail, ftp, remote access, security management and Security trouble shooting skills.
• Configuring and maintaining network services such as LDAP, DNS, NIS, NFS, Web, Mail, FTP

Confidential

Linux Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of Linux, Solaris, AIX, Oracle Linux, HP-UX, Linux operating systems
• Installation of patches and packages
• Upgraded Solaris 8 to Solaris 9 and 10. Configuring SAN Sun Storage. Through Brocade Silkworm Switches. Fiber Optics Switch for redundancy with multi-path.
• Experience with VMware Virtualization using ESX hypervisor of Vsphere 4.0.
• Configured Solaris Jumpstart Server. Maintained Server 6.0. Backup data of Servers using Net Backup. Maintained Security of the Solaris Servers.
• Worked on Solaris 10 container technology, configured separate zones for various applications.
• Involved in Implementing and Administrating enterprise level data backup and recovery.
• Designed and Implemented Backup solution for the Network.
• Installed and configured Lucene/Solr on Linux servers for Oracle database and Middleware applications.
• Installed and configured file and Application servers running on Sun servers
• Configuring and maintaining network services such as LDAP, DNS, NIS, NFS, Web, Mail, FTP
• Managed Network troubleshooting applications TCP/IP including Ethernet, IP addressing & Sub netting, routing
• Worked on creating user accounts, user administration, local and global groups on Solaris platform.
• Experience with Samba, autofs, Kerberos, LDAP, SSL certs, Apache HTTPD experiences a plus.
• Preparing servers for Oracle RAC installation which includes tuning the kernel, agent, installation, adding NAS storage on 2,3, 4 node clusters.
• Maintained high availability of data using Oracle Real Application cluster Server.
• Experience with Shell scripting, bash scripting, Perl, Python languages.
• Created User Accounts and Network Shares. Configured SUN Workstations as Domain Clients.
• Administrated NFS, NIS, DHCP and DNS Samba services running on AIX, Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux and SME.
• Experience with VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM), VERITAS File System (VxFS), VERITAS Net Backup, VERITAS Clustering with SAN, NAS environment.
• Worked with Storage team to configure EMC SAN, NAS and iSCSI configuration.
• Managed Users for AIX, Solaris, HP-UNIX and Linux Servers and assigned rights to access network resources.