PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated technical professional with over 8+years of experience in UNIX and Scripting Experience in monitoring/troubleshooting application servers like Tomcat. Bash, shell Bash, shell Proficient enough to automate day - today work, installation of Servers, deployment of applications of Linux boxes etc. through Bash, shell and PHP scripting, configuring and troubleshooting services like NIS,NFS,SAMBA,SENDMAIL,HTTP,
• Proficient enough to automate day-today work, installation of Servers, deployment of applications of Linux boxes etc. through Bash, shell and PHP scripting.
• Experience in monitoring/troubleshooting application servers likeTomcat.
• Experience in administration such as ache servers and setting up Apache load balancing across servers.
• Highly Skilled in Performance Management such as CPU utilization, Memory Utilization, Load average, Disk Utilization, Net dump and Kdump.
• Well versed with OS installation and Configuration, Upgrading Packages, Kickstart, PXEBoot, Logical Volume Manager, OS Patching, Firmware upgrades.
• ProficientinVeritasVolumeManager,VERITASandRedhatClustering,VMware,VCSandVxVmwhichincludesConfiguringVeritasFile system,ConfiguringClusterSoftware(VCS)forapplications,I/Ofencing,TroubleshootingdailyVCSproblems.
• Experience in working with Cross Functional Teams and interacting with all levels of management for requirements,resources,and project status and Providing proper resolution for issues in timely manner
• Good understanding of IT process like incident management, change management, problem management etc. Understanding of Service delivery lifecycle, ITIL process.
• Strong experienceinVERITASClustersinsupportinghighavailabilitymissioncriticalservers.
• Experienced with the installation, configuration and volume/File system management using VeritasVolumeManager (VxVm), Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and Solstice Disk Suite (SolarisVolumeManager).
• Backup management and recovery policiesusing VERITAS Net-Backup.
• Experience in creating physical volume, logical volume, volume group susingLVM’sinLinux/AIX,HP-UX(ITANIUMandPA-RISC)andSVM,GFS(globalfilesystem)andZFSinSolaris.
• Proficient in Networking,configuringTCP/IP,DNS,NFS,NIS,NIS+,SAMBA,LDAP,SSH,SSL,SFTP,SMTP, SNMP.
• Experienced in working with Storage Area Network (SAN).
• Expert in Installation, configuration of Patches and Packages.
• Experience ininstallation, configuration and administration of Web Logic and Websphere Servers.
• Experience in design, development and debugging ABAP programs.
• ProficientinInstallation, Configuration, Support&MaintenanceofvariousSunSparcEnterprisehardware’sandRedHat5.xLinuxServerslocatedatRemoteLocations.
• Experience in providing day-to-day user administration like adding and deleting users and managing users queries.
• Excellent in System performance tuning Configuration
• SoundunderstandingofITInfrastructureAdministrationwithprojectmanagementskills.
• Providing24/7technicalsupporttoProductionenvironments
• Experience in configuration and testing Disaster RecoverySite.
• Experience in writing Shell/Perl Scripts.
• Technical professional with management skills, excellent business understanding and strong communication skills.
• Good at Projectmanagement & Configurationmanagement

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Linux,Solaris,Unix,Windows9x/NT/XP/Vista/7

Platforms: (RedhatRHEL3,4,5),Sun Solaris (6,8,9,10),AIX

Utilities: NFS,(autos),NIS,NIS+,DNS,TCP,IP,SSH,FTPD,SFTPD,HTTP,LVM(VERITAS)Sendmail(SMTP),VMwareServer,VPN,SCCS,MirrorDisk,Iptables,svcadm,svcs,LDAP, VCS,VxVm,Crontabs,sed,awk,and performance management.

Hardware: SunSPARC,Hewlett -Packard(HP),Dell.

Languages: UNIX Shells (sh,csh,ksh,bash),PHP

Storage: Storage Area Networks(SAN),Network Attached Storage (NAS),RAID,Fiber Channel(FC),Logical Volume Manager(LVM), Disk Arrays,Samba.

Tools: VNC,DRAC,WINSCP,Putty,Xshell,Sametime,RemedyActionRequestSystem,Apropos,SharePoint, Dell Console Switches,LotusNotes,Titan,HPOV MonitoringTool.

OfficeTools: Microsoft (MS)Windows,MSWord,MSExcel,MSPowerPoint,MSOutlook,Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Manchester, NH

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the design and review of new server systems, applications, and hardware. Conduct capacity planning as needed.
• Virtualization of Solarissystems (creating and cloning zones).
• WorkingonVMwareforcreatingnewLinuxserverinstances(creatingnewservers or deployment of new machines with template)
• Played an important role in movement of environment Solaris/Linux/HP servers to an ew datacenter.
• Conduct research on server hardware, software, and protocols in support of procurement and development efforts.
• Recommend and execute modifications to server environment in order to improve efficiency, reliability, and performance.
• Develop strategies of UNIX client/server implementations; architect the infrastructure required to support those strategies.
• Coordinate and participate in key process improvements as they relate to the UNIX install base.
• Coordinate and collaborate with network engineering, business application, and database administration function to ensure availability, reliability, and scalability of corporate servers to meet business demands.
• Plan and implement server upgrades, maintenance fixes, and vendor-supplied patches.
• Monitor and test system performance and provide performance statistics and reports.
• Establish and implement policies, procedures, and technologies to ensure server security.
• Define and implement strategies for integrating disparate operating environments.
• Worked as a technical resource for Application developers/support during deployments and out ages.
• Prioritize and respond to helpdesk tickets as appropriate. Participate in rotating on-call.
• Responsible for escalating server issues; provide timely response to customer escalations.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Redhat Linux and Sun Solaris OS in production environment
• Coordinating with client and internal teams for operational issues, project work, following process like change process, problem management process, Access management etc. and updating requisite document like CMDB, DR plan, process document, run book etc.
• ManagingDNS,FTP,Sendmail,Distributionlist(Sympa,majordomoandmailman),NIS,HTTP, Account management,Samba,NFS,Automount,VNC,Diskmanagement,NTP,Samba,NFScron,package update,data replication through rsync, OS installation and taking its image,PerformanceManagementsuchasCPUutilization,MemoryUtilization,Loadaverage,DiskUtilization,NetdumpandKdump.
• Deploy third party software packages, monitoring and management tools.
• Patching of Linux and Solaris servers after the build.
• Coordinating with vendors like Red hat, HP, SunGard etc. and taking proper follow up.
• Creating and modifying scripts to meet present business need in shell, bash and PHP. Created FTP and NIS account management web interface in PHP with bash and shell scripts running in background.
• Using DRAC,cyclade,DELL Remote console to manage server
• Handling server down issues and analyzing the root cause for the issue by checking system logs.
• DRAC Commands and Configuring DRAC on Servers
• Using System Imager for Configuring new LSF machines with PXE boot.
• Providing On Call Support (24*7).

Confidential, SanRafael, CA

Solaris & Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administering the bootprom-Use the OpenBootPROM commands to identify system configuration, change the boot device and perform basic hardware testing.
• Managing packages-Investigate software packages on the system, Add new software packages, Remove software packages.
• Managing Patches-Patch information, Patches installed on the system, adding and removing updates and patches.
• Work station booting-System bootcycle, Runlevels, Run Control scripts, the in it process, Commands to bring the system down, Modifying the boot process.
• System Security-Access security, limiting root login, custom system files to investigate and control the access to system.
• Process Control-Administering processes, Process scheduling.
• Understanding file types and the directory hierarchy-Identify filetypes, Links, purpose of the main directories.
• LP print service-Setup a printer, Configure for remote and local printing, print commands to print and monitor the print requests.
• Linux (RHEL4,5)installation and customization as per user requirement using remote console (RaritanorILOM).
• CUPS(Common UNIX Printing Server) server maintenance and configuration.
• Worked on LVM and RAID in RedhatLinux.
• Working on SUNClusters3.2 like adding databases under resource groups, bouncing databases in the resourcegroup, modifying properties of the resources under the resource groups using CLI.
• Working on VM(VMWare)like creating clones and templates to deploy a new virtual machine from the exist
• Worked on Jump start installation onS olaris servers.
• Experienced in initial setup of open SSH and Sudo.
• Experienced in configuring Sudo.
• Providing Sudo access to the users/groups.
• Experienced in administering file system using Solaris volume manager.
• Installing, upgrading and configuring SUNSolaris9 and 10 on Sunservers using custom jump start servers and interactive Installation.
• Creating and maintaining user accounts, security, disk space and Process monitoring.
• Installs, upgrades, patches, configuration on UNIX and system Software and hardware.
• Knowledge of Setting up RAID levels (0, 1, 5) Using Solaris Volume manager.
• Providing SAR (System Activity Report) reports to the users based on the requested timelines.
• Troubleshooting Auto mount, NFS issues.
• Troubleshooting SMF (Service Management Facility) related issues in Solaris10 by restoring the service repository.
• Installing&ConfiguringZonesinSolaris10.
• Working on a job automation tool (AUTOSYS) to schedule backups.
• Working on OPSWARE application where we use it for password management of NIS users.
• Experience in live upgradation of OS on Solaris10 platform.
• Administer the SolarisVolumeManager software by using command-line programs and also replacing meta disks when they go into maintenance mode.
• Administer the Solaris Volume Manager software state databases
• Create and administer simple, striped concatenated, and mirrored volumes
• Create volume structures using soft partitions
• Verify the status of the Solaris Volume Manager Software volumes and state databases.
• Implementation and Managing of RAID levelslike0,1,5usingVeritasVolumeManager
• Creating,Resizing,Restarting,Recovering and RemovingVolumes
• Creating,Mounting and maintenance of Veritas File System(VxFS)on all layout methods
• Online Backing up of Volumes using mirrors and Snapshots.

Confidential

SoftwareEngineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing and Administering Solaris Production servers in 24x7environments.
• Hands on experience on administering LVM and JFS/JFS2file systems.
• Hand-on knowledge on various RAID technologies (RAID0, RAID1andRAID5).
• Good understanding of capacity planning, performance monitoring and tuning.
• Good knowledge on Package install, patch management, server builds, Server upgrades.
• User management, Creating and managing user account, groups and access levels.
• Good exposure toSMITand SMITTY.
• Good knowledge on network administration and Printer and print queue management
• Backups of AIX and other utilities like Ufs dump, dd, tar, and cpio.
• Good knowledge on recovering the server crash using mksysb using NIMserver.
• Worked on VIO servers & HMC.
• Worked with client for troubleshooting.
• Experienced in JOB Scheduling.
• Adding, deleting jobs to Zeke including JCL override.
• JCL creation according touser’s request.
• Modifying JCL according to user’s request.
• Experience in resolving incident tickets as per the request.