SUMMARY

• 8 years of Design, Implementation, Configuration and Maintenance of AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1, VIO, LPAR, NIM Server, RedHat Enterprise Linux 5, RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 and Cent OS 6
• Experience in Installing and recovering the IBM AIX Machines Using the MKSYSB.
• Identifying and resolving the Operating System (OS) problems, hardware problems and applications problems on IBM AIX and Linux Machines.
• Experience in Managing the Logical Volume manager in IBM AIX Servers and Linux Servers.
• Experience in User Management and Sudo Access in IBM AIX and Linux Servers.
• Experience in Performance Tuning based on Application Requirements on the AIX and Linux
• Experience in Managing VIO, LPAR, HMC and SAN technology.
• Experience in Installing & Configuring the dual VIO in different POWER hardware with different version like 2.x.
• Configuring SEA in dual VIO environment for providing continuous availability communication to the LPAR’s.
• Sharing physical FC adapters to different LPAR’s through VIO server using NPIV and to ensure the LUNs are allocated successfully on the client LPAR’s.
• Managing the hardware using the HMC and IVM & Upgrading of Hardware management console (HMC).
• LPM administration and performing the operational acceptance test in between the managed system to avoid any point of failures.
• Experienced in configuring and supporting Logical Partitions/Micro Partitions (LPAR/DLPAR), via HMC (Hardware Management Console).
• Extensively worked on advanced areas of IBM AIX such as Power VM, LPAR.
• Hands on working experience in managing the various storage systems such as EMC, IBM XIV on the IBM AIX Machines.
• Implementation of Storage migrations from EMC Clariion to IBM XIV Storage.
• Experience in Server Migrations from IBM AIX 5.3 to IBM AIX 6.1.
• Performing TL / ML, SP upgrade on the AIX servers and installing E Fix’s.
• Capacity upgrade to the existing systems dynamically through HMC for physical adapters, memory, CPU using DLPAR Operations.
• Managing the NFS, CIFS share in the AIX/Linux environment.
• Good experience in Disaster Recovery Management.
• Performing Kick start to build out Linux environments to automate Linux installations with Kick start to avoid manual intervention.
• Experience building the Physical Servers in Cisco UCS environment.
• Experience in Configuring, Managing and Administering the RedHat / CentOS /Ubuntu servers in VMWare Environment.
• Performing Kick start to build out Linux environments to automate Linux installations with Kickstart to avoid manual intervention.
• Experience in Package Management using RPM/YUM/apt - get and Red Hat Satellite server.
• Experience managing the EPEL’s for the opensource Linux Platforms.
• Experience in Upgrading and degrading the KERNEL in Red Hat Linux and CentOS servers.
• Experience NIC bounding configuration in Linux and UNIX systems to increase the bandwidth or redundancy based on requirement by the application.
• Experience in writingShell scriptsusingksh, bash, perl,for process automation.
• Experience in Managing VMware ESXi 5.1 and ESXi 5.5.
• Managing VMware infrastructure/ Vsphere clusters on production and UAT/Deployment environments.
• Extensive knowledge on Vsphere / Vcenter / Vmotion operations in VMWare environments.
• Experience in VMWare ESX Server 4.0/5.0/5.5, VMWare Virtual Center, P2V Migration.
• Hands on Experience on managing the Cisco UCS infrastructure.
• Hands on Experience on Configuring the Various Virtual Pools like MAC Pool, WWNN and WWPN Pool.
• Experience in managing the Service Profiles and Mapping the Blades to the Service Profiles.
• Experience in Configuring the Boot from SAN on CISCO Blades and installing the Redhat Linux and VMWare ESXi.
• Firmware Upgrades (Infrastructure and Blades/Chasis FW) on CISCO UCS.
• Proven ability to define System requirements, recommended solutions, analyze capacity and make appropriate modifications.
• Decommissioning of the old legacy servers.
• Rebuilding the server completely to use it for other projects in Environment.
• Assisted in company’s Disaster Recovery planning and testing and audit processes
• Understanding the utilization of the resources on a server.
• Experience on Windows Active Directory (AD) Environment, DNS, DHCP and Remote Desktop Services.
• User Administration using the LDAP on Linux/AIX Servers.
• Good experience on managing the SAN and NAS Technologies in IBM AIX/LINUX/VMWare environments.
• Good Knowledge on OpenStack, configured the instances in Proof of Concept (POC) environments.
• Infrastructure Management, Incident/Change Management, ITIL, System Documentation, Inventory, SOP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: AIX 7.1, 6.1, 5.x, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x, 6.x, 5.x, CentOS 7.x, 6.x, SUSE 11, 10 Windows 2008 R2, 10, 8.1, 8, 7

Virtualization/Hypervisor: PowerVM, VMWare ESXi, CISCO UCS

Cluster: IBM PowerHA 5.x and 6.x

Storage: EMC, Netapp, IBM XIV, Tegile and Oracle ZFS

Multipathing Devices: SDDPCM, MPIO

Scripting: Shell - Bash, Perl and Ksh

Integration: Active Directory, LDAP, HMC, IVM

Backup Tools: VERITAS Netbackup 7.6, 6.5 and 6.0

Other Tools: BigFix, IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager, IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager, Solarwinds, BMC Remedy, Clarify and Sales force.

Hardware: IBM Power series P5, P6, P7, CISCO UCS servers, HP Prolient DL 560, Dell Power Edge Servers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Columbus, OH

Tech Lead

Responsibilities:

• Taking care of the Hardware Failure issues and Call Home requests
• Working with IBM by opening the PMR’s to resolve the issues.
• Configuring the Power Machines to get them into the productions
• Installing VIO Servers, configuring SEA Adapters.
• Installing and Configuring the LPAR’s using the MKSYSB.
• Sharing physical FC adapters to different LPAR’s through VIO server using NPIV and to ensure the LUNs are allocated successfully on the client LPAR’s.
• Managing the hardware using the HMC and IVM & Upgrading of Hardware management console (HMC) and Live Partition Mobility for migrating the LPAR’s between the Physical Machines
• Extensively worked on advanced areas of IBM AIX such as Power VM, LPAR etc.
• Implementation of Storage migrations from Clariion to Vplex.
• Performance Tuning on AIX Servers like IO, Memory.
• Working on TL/ML Upgrades and OS Migration
• Configured LPAR2RRD on all AIX Machines

Environment: IBM AIX (VIO, LPAR, HMC), IBM Power E870, 770 and 750 Hardware, LPAR2RRD, Shell Scripting.

Confidential - Santa Monica, CA

Sr. UNIX / Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing and recovering the AIX Machines Using the MKSYSB.
• Identifying and resolving the Operating System (OS) problems, hardware problems and applications problems.
• Experience in Managing the Logical Volume manager in IBM AIX Servers and Redhat Linux Servers.
• Experience in Performance Tuning based on Application Requirements.
• Experience in Managing VIO, LPAR, HMC and SAN technology.
• Sharing physical FC adapters to different LPAR’s through VIO server using NPIV and to ensure the LUNs are allocated successfully on the client LPAR’s.
• Managing the hardware using the HMC and IVM & Upgrading of Hardware management console (HMC) and Live Partition Mobility for migrating the LPAR’s between the Physical Machines
• Extensively worked on advanced areas of IBM AIX such as Power VM, LPAR, HACMP etc.
• Implementation of Storage migrations from Clariion to XIV.
• Server Migrations from IBM AIX 5.3 to IBM AIX 6.1.
• Performing TL, SP upgrade on the servers and installing E Fix’s.
• Building Linux servers in VMWare Environment using ISO’s, Templates and TPM.
• Installing packages using RPM and YUM.
• Performance tuning and enable security restrictions based on the application requirements.
• Migrating the Linux Servers from one cluster to another in VMware.
• Subscribing the Linux servers with REDHAT Satellite Network.
• Configuring Various Virtual Pools like MAC Pool, WWNN and WWPN Pool on CISCO UCS.
• Creating the Service Profiles and Mapping the Blades to the Service Profiles in UCS environment.
• Installing the Redhat Linux OS on UCS Blades and configuring the boot from SAN.
• Firmware Upgrades (Infrastructure and Blades/Chasis FW) on CISCO UCS.
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations on VMWare.
• Moving VM's from one data store to another data store using Storage VMotion.
• Physical to Virtual (P2V) / Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migration usingVMwareConverter.
• Reconfiguring Virtual Machines as per customer requirements, Extend Hard disk, increasing the RAM, adding CPU, add new Hard disk and adding NIC card.
• Assisted in Disaster Recovery planning, testing and audit processes
• Created Projects, Shares in Oracle ZFS and Tegile environment, shared them using NFS to various UNIX servers.
• Creating SNAPSHOTs and restoring them based on Application Team requirements.
• Installing Veritas Netbackup client on Servers.
• Taking care of the failed backup’s using the Veritas Netbackup.
• Creating Backup Policies.
• WritingShell scriptsusingksh, bash, perl,for process automations.
• Timely acknowledging and Resolving the Incidents.
• Participating in Change Acceptance Board (CAB) meetings for implementing changes.
• Co-ordinating with different stake-holders and off shore team for timely completing the tasks.

Environment: IBM AIX (VIO, LPAR, HMC), Redhat Linux, Oracle Linux, CentOS, AWS, Openstack, Puppet, Shell Scripting, Active Directory, VMWare, EMC, NETApp, Oracle ZFS and Tegile. Salesforce, Solarwinds, IBM TEM (Bigfix), Veritas Netbackup 7.6, Oracle 12c /11g/10g/9i, Websphere, weblogic, Tomcat, Tibco.

Confidential - Morgantown, WV

Sr. UNIX / LINUX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Administration of AIX/Linux Servers.
• Building LPAR’s on dual VIO environment.
• IBM AIX migration, TL/ML updates, installing the Efix’s
• Storage Migrations from one storage to another in LVM Level.
• DLPAR operations for adding resources dynamically to LPAR are in AIX environment.
• Creation and sharing of resources using NFS.
• Performing MKSYSB backups on the client machine from the NIM server.
• Assigning Disks, Ethernet adapters and SCSI / NPIV adapters through VIO servers.
• Migrating the LPARs from one managed system to another by using LPAR Mobility.
• Security updates, software installs, basic TCP/IP functionality and system trouble shooting.
• Building Linux servers in VMware Environment.
• Managing and administering NFS, autofs, LVM.
• Configuring the RAW storage devices, creation of ASM disks and configures them to use for the DBA.
• Linux multi path configuration on physical servers.
• User administration and package management.
• Migrating the Linux Servers from one cluster to another in VMware.
• Subscribing the Linux servers with REDHAT Satellite Network.
• Configuring the Various Virtual Pools like MAC Pool, WWNN and WWPN Pool and Service Profiles.
• Installing the Red hat Linux OS on Blades in the CISCO UCS environment.
• Firm Upgrades on cisco ucs (Infrastructure and Blades/Chassis FW).
• Performing Snapshots, Cloning, Cold Migrations and Hot Migrations.
• Moving VM's from one data store to another data store using Storage VMotion.
• Physical to Virtual (P2V) / Virtual to Virtual (V2V) migration usingVMwareConverter.
• Managing the Virtual Machines using Virtual center and web access.
• Reconfiguring Virtual Machines as per application requirements, Extend Hard disk, increasing the RAM, adding CPU, add New Hard disk and Adding NIC card.

Environment: AIX (HACMP,PowerVM, VIO, LPAR and HMC), Active Directory, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Redhat Linux, CentOS, VMWare, CISCO UCS, IBM TEM, IBM TPM, BMC Remedy

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. UNIX / Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured hardware and OS onServers, Workstations and I/O devicesonIBM Hardware.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and administer of SUNServers, Linux and IBM AIX and PowerVM
• Installed VMWare and lead a team migrating physical servers to virtual machines and configuring the resources to be shared between different virtual machines.
• Manage VMware licenses and create virtual machines for developers whenever required.
• Used Vmotion to migrate virtual servers between different physical machines.
• Installation and configuration of Windows servers runningDHCP, DNS, & Active Directories.
• Having complete UNIX power user toolkit, expertise in using VI, sed, awk, perl and basic SQL.
• Worked in a fast-paced 24x7 production environment comprising Sun,IBM, and PowerHA.
• Writing shell and Perl scripts for System administration and updating them in the Scheduler / Cron.
• Installed the packages using Enterprise Installation Standards (EIS).
• Performedpatching,backupson multiple environments ofUnix,LinuxandVMware.
• Installed and configured packages, patches onWindows (2k &2003)environments.
• Configured backup/archive policies usingTivoli Storage Managerbackup utility, andmksysbimages of root volume group to meet data archiving requirements, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Responsible forDNSand Configured DNS Servers and Clients, troubleshooting system and DNS issues.
• Troubleshooting and analysis of hardware and software failures for variousUNIXservers(core dump and log file analysis).
• Involved in maintaining high availability clustering environment usingHACMPCluster software.
• Configured and administeredTCP/IP, LPAR/DLPAR,NFSand VIO servers
• Developed scripts for automating administration tasks like customizing user environment, and performance monitoring and tuning withnfsstat, netstat, iostat, vmstat.

Environment: Sun Solaris 10/9, IBM AIX, PowerVM, IBM Tivoli, RedHat Linux, CentOS, Shell Scripting, Perl Scripts, Windows NT 4.0 / 2003 / 2008 R2, VERITAS Net backup 6.0, CCNA Networking, BigBrother, BMC Remedy.

Confidential - Detroit, MI

Sr. UNIX / LINUX Administrator (System Support)

Responsibilities:

• Patching of RHEL5 and Solaris 8, 9, 10 servers for EMC Powerpath Upgrade for VMAX migration.
• Configuration of LVM (Logical Volume Manager) to manage volume group, logical and physical partitions and importing new physical volumes.
• Documented the standard procedure for installation and deployment of VMAX Migration and logical volume manager.
• Installation, configuration, support and security implementation on following services: DHCP, SSH, SCP.
• Configuration and administration of NFS and Samba in Linux and Solaris.
• User administration on Sun Solaris and RHEL systems, HP-UX machines, management & archiving.
• Installations of HP Open view, monitoring tool, in more than 300 servers.
• Attended calls related to customer queries and complaints, offered solutions to them.
• Worked with monitoring tools such as Nagios and HP Openview.
• Creation of VMs, cloning and migrations of the VMs on VMware vSphere 4.0.
• Managed and upgraded UNIX's server services such as Bind DNS.
• Configuration and administration of Web (Apache), DHCP and FTP Servers in Linux and Solaris servers.
• Supported the backup environments running VERITAS Net Backup 6.5.
• Responsible for setting cron jobs on the servers.
• Decommissioning of the old servers and keeping track or decommissioned and new servers using inventory list.
• Handling problems or requirements as per the ticket (Request Tracker) created.
• Participated in on-call rotation to provide 24X7 technical supports.
• Configuration and troubleshooting - LAN and TCP/IP issues.

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x, 5.x, Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10, VERITAS Volume Manager, Oracle 11g, Samba, DELL PowerEdge 6650, HP Proliant DL 385, 585, 580, Sun Fire v440, SUN BLADE X6250, X6270

Confidential

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• System installation and Configuration of AIX 5.3 operating system and Redhat 3.x, 4.x & 5.x servers.
• User Administration, adding and removing user accounts, changing user attributes.
• Working with paging spaces, creating, increasing and decreasing paging spaces as per requirement.
• Configured VG’s and LV’s and extended LV’s for file system growth needs using LVM commands.
• Patch Management. Problem determination in File systems and Logical Volumes.
• Creating and managing the default and User defined Paging Spaces.
• Creating and updating the Crontab files.
• NFS Administration. System Resource Controller Administration.
• Corporate client support for mission critical environments.
• Responsible for 200 Linux Servers: RHEL 3.0, 4.0 & 5.x, Bash scripting for automation of tasks.
• Installation and configuration of many OpenSource Packages.

Environment: IBM AIX, Redhat Linux, VMWare, Solarwinds, BMC Remedy