SUMMARY

• A CertifiedSolaris/Linux System Administrator with 10 yearsof experience inInformation Technologywhich includes8+ years of focused experience inSystem Administration, System Builds, and ServerProvisioningonLinux (Red Hatand SuSE) and on UNIX(SUN Solaris, IBM AIX),Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration,Performance tuning on UNIX, system software and hardware.
• Involved in complete Administration tasks on UNIX (Solaris and AIX)and Linux (Redhat and SuSE) and documentation for the projects executed.
• Experience in understanding server requirements and design and building infrastructure for projects.
• Managed concurrent initiatives in fast paced and agile environments.
• Successfully managed and implemented enterprise - wide Infrastructure projects across multiple LOBs.
• Installed, monitored and supported Web and Application Servers on Solaris and Linux environments.
• Experience in using VERITAS Volume manager, SVM and LVM.
• Experience working with Storage Area Network (SAN), EMC CLARiiON,EMCSymmetrix DMX.
• Experience in Performance monitoring, usage and load of the system.
• Experience with VMware ESXi 3.5/4/5, and worked in environment containing Solaris zones/containers and AIX frames and LPARs.
• Experience in installing VMWare ESX, patching ESX and involved in upgrades.
• Creating and maintaining users, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Experience in Networking, NFSand TCP/IP.
• Experience in using Veritas Net Backup and backup related policies and procedures.
• Experience working with Perl, shell scripting (ksh, bash) to automate administration tasks.
• Good working knowledge of network & UNIX security procedures.
• Excellent communication and strong interpersonal skills with ability to interact with end-users, managers and technical personnel.
• Working knowledge of Puppet and Splunk.
• Provided production support in an on-call rotation in a 24x7 environment.

TECHNICAL SKILL SET

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux 4.x/5.x/6.x, Suse Linux 9.3/10/11, IBM AIX 5.x, VMware ESXi 3.5, VMware vSphere 4.0/5.0, Sun Solaris 10/9/8

Hardware: UCS Blades, HP- Servers, Dell Servers, IBM Blade Center,Sun Hardware, EMC CLARiiON, Symmetrix, NetApp

Web & Application Servers: Apache,IIS 3.0/4.0, Web Logic Server 8.1, WebSphere Application Server 5.0

Languages: Shell scripting, PERL, C, PL/SQL

Databases: Oracle 10g/9/8, Sybase 11.5.1, POSTGRESSQL, MYSQL

Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, SSH, DHCP, Cisco Routers / Switches and LAN

Tools: Sun Cluster 3.2,VERITAS Cluster Server, VERITAS Netbackup 6.0, Tivoli SM,VERITAS Storage Foundation Suite, Solaris Volume Manager, sendmail

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Houston. TX.

Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary technical stakeholder and entirely responsible for server setup and support for the merger activities with C&J energy and Confidential systems.
• Installation of operating system on Cisco UCS blades and virtual machines, compliance check, provisioning as per application and database needs.
• Setup, day to day maintenance and support of development, test and production servers.
• Added user profiles, application and database profiles, account setup, and sudoers configuration.
• Installation of various tools including for monitoring, security and setup of print server configuration.
• Worked closely with app DBA’s in identifying the system requirements for application and database.
• Responsible for migration of application and database onto new servers for C&J.
• Transitioned the knowledge acquired during the migration and documented efforts and key activities.
• Setup environments for third party vendor for data cleansing and actively assisted internal and external teams from the planning stages to post cut-over and hand-over phases.

Environment:RHEL 6, Cisco vblock, UCS blades, Oracle

Confidential, Lansing, MI

Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary member of Linux team to set up of Integration and Staging operating system environments for all applications as part of enterprise-wide Evolve project.
• Build configured, provisioned servers and installed RHEL 6/5.x on about 400 VM’s on RHEL KVM’s.
• Assisted web, database and various application teams as needed.
• Day to day support for non-prod environments and maintenance and management of virtual servers.
• Set up HA cluster on Linux prod and non-prod servers.
• Installed various tools, packages for security, compliance, performance monitoring, automation etc.,
• Installed jboss, websphere, db2 clients and setup of print servers.
• Performed production readiness checklist review and troubleshoot of issues on server builds prior to server going into production to proactively identify and eliminate production impact outage and issues.
• Planned and implemented migration of applications from old to new servers and VM moves across KVM’s. Performed build checklist verification for RHEL KVM’s.
• Responsible for assessment, design and setup of Linux servers for various Proof of Concept projects.
• Participated in Life Cycle Management, coordinated with application teams in migrating applications to new servers and involved in retirement of both physical and virtual servers.
• Implemented various server change control activities as needed for server maintenance and administration, following standard Change Management processes.
• Took the responsibility of cleaning the assets in CMDB that went off sync with their actual status.
• Installation of oracle client on BMC servers as per application requirements.
• Patching of Linux servers. Created RPM’s for maintaining utilities /package installations.
• Successfully implemented infrastructure projects for multiple projects and various business organizations.

Environment: RHEL 6/5.x, RHEL KVM, Dell, HP hardware, Nagios, Patrol, Bladelogic, Tivoli Storage Manager, TWS, GPFS, RH Satellite, Jboss, WebSphere, Sybase, DB2, Oracle, EMC Clarion.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Linux Engineer - Bladelogic UNIX/Linux

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and provisioned servers with Redhat 6/5.x
• Involved in the Bladelogic upgrade project from version 8.0 to 8.2
• Administered development, test and production Linux servers and worked on Service center incidents and Remedy tasks and Work orders.
• Build servers, installed tools, configured and provisioned servers as per application requirements.
• Experience using kickstart and modified kickstart based on server profiles and hardware specifications.
• Created volume groups, logical volumes, extend volumes etc with Linux LVM.
• Maintained user profiles and access permissions to systems and applications as well using sudoers.
• Performed daily health check, monitored servers and day-to-day system administration tasks.
• Created scripts to automate provisioning of servers and used/modified kickstart to build servers.
• Took part in document review process for the installation procedures, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) documents. Uploaded documents to internal wiki website.
• Supported, and performed primary Responsible and Accountable duties for core infrastructure hosting Bladelogic is hosted and performed core responsibilities.
• Imported thousands of servers into Bladelogic console and troubleshooting agent configuration errors.
• Created patch repositories and defined patching profiles based on customer policies and requirements.
• Troubleshooting patch analysis jobs through staging, remediation and deployment phases.
• Created compliance scripts to incorporate into bladelogic based on Custom compliance requirements.
• Generated daily / weekly reports on transition related tasks for new transition projects.
• Coordinated various day-to-day and project related tasks with DBA’s, web admins, and network and storage administrators. Troubleshooting network and storage components and connectivity.

Environment: RHEL 6/5/4.x, Suse Linux 11/10/9, vSphere 4.0/5.0, Dell Poweredge R410/610/710/905/910, AIX p5, Cisco UCS, Netapp, Bladelogic, Netbackup, Oracle 11g/10g, Web Logic, PHP, Apache.

Confidential, St Louis, MO

Implementation Engineer / UNIX/Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for assessment, design and construction of UNIX and LINUX servers.
• Installed ESX and participated in patching of ESX Servers.
• Created Virtual Machines on VmWare ESX hosts, and maintenance activities at the VM level and host level. Created policies at host and VM level for compliance with license requirements.
• Successfully completed implementing over 150 Infrastructure projects for various business organizations globally and managed Infrastructure projects using IPM process.
• Gathered server infrastructure requirements from project stakeholders and participated in design meetings to provide the optimal solution. Acquired, built and implemented systems according to documented processes. And supported UNIX and Linux servers.
• Build, configured and provisioned servers and installed operating system on about 900 servers involving Suse and Redhat Linux virtual machines, physical servers and AIX LPARs (Logical Partitions).
• Installed various tools/packages for security compliance, performance monitoring and automation etc.,
• Participated in Life Cycle Management of servers and coordinated with application teams in migrating applications to new servers and also in planning for LCM activities.
• Worked on oracle database migrations from HP-UX to IBM AIX and application migrations from Sun Solaris to Linux operating environments.
• Set up new Netbackup environment in DMZ layer and upgraded backup infrastructure at remote site including master/media servers and tape library. Installed netbackup agents on UNIX/Linux servers.
• Built server infrastructure for various Proof of Concept (POC) and Production Pilot projects and coordinated with multiple teams and Vendor to build out a test plan and implementation.
• Worked with internal customers and application teams in bringing their applications to standard supportable hardware platforms.
• Participated in physical to virtual conversion (P to V) of Suseand RedhatLinux servers.
• Created necessary project plans, milestones, defined and documented proposed solutions.
• Worked with various GIS groups to evaluate equipment to purchase for enterprise-wide projects.
• Worked with vendors to get server and software quotes and created cost estimates for projects.
• Co-ordinated various IPM activities closely with procurement, facilities, and multiple infrastructure teams for projects from inception to completion.
• Worked with applications and DBA teams during project construction, readiness and production phases.
• Performed production readiness checklist review and troubleshoot issues on server builds prior to server going into production to proactively identify and eliminate production impact outages and issues.
• Periodically participated in on-call rotation.
• Researched new technologies and hardware and presented recommendation of new hardware.
• Assisted junior members with solution design and implementation.
• Implemented various server change control activities as needed for server maintenance and administration, following standard Change Management procedures.
• Took the responsibility of cleaning the assets in CMDB that went out of sync with their actual status.
• Learned and installed windows 2003 and 2008 server environments.
• Build out and implemented server infrastructure and solutions for various enterprise-wide projects including Compute farm and weblogic expansion projects.

Environment: Suse Linux 11/10/9, Redhat 5.3/4.6, AIX 5.3, vSphere 4.0/5.0, Dell Poweredge R410/610/710/905/910, AIX p5, Cisco UCS, Netapp, Bladelogic, Netbackup, Tiger, ITO, Zabbix, Oracle 11g/10g, Web Logic, PHP, Apache.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Redhat Linux/Suse Linux System Administration

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and provisioned servers with Redhat 5.x and Suse Linux 9.3.
• Involved in R0 project migration of servers from Suse 9.3 to Redhat 5.3 and from Weblogic 8 to Weblogic 10, and build out of environment for JBOSS servers
• Administered Linux development, staging and production middleware gateway servers, development and staging weblogic servers hosting mission critical and business critical applications.
• Build servers for/at Disaster Recovery Site for weblogic and middleware PCI environments.
• Experience using kickstart and modified kickstart based on server profiles and hardware specifications.
• Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 installation and administration. Installed Maintenance Packs (MP) and Rolling Patches (RP) and configured veritas service groups, resources etc.
• Patched servers, connected to RHN, worked as a team to discuss the feasibility of satellite server installation on site to provide/help for patch updates. Used yum repositories for rpm install and updates.
• Installed Veritas Storage Foundation for Cluster File System and created disk groups, volumes using Vertitas Volume Manager, created file systems and set up environment for weblogic/ applications.
• Maintained user profiles and access permissions to systems and applications as well using sudoers.
• Upgraded BIOS, memory on HP proliant servers, ran HP diagnostics tool to identify any hardware issues.
• Installed VMware ESXi 3.5 servers and understanding of ESXi virtualization concepts, attended VMworld 2009, experience in installing and upgrading to VMware vSphere 4.0.
• Opened cases and worked with HP and Veritas vendors on hardware and software cases/issues.
• Created and maintained environment for Proof of Concept (POC) of Oracle MDM and tibco products.Supported Oracle on Red hat Linux as part of POC and worked with Oracle DBA's.
• Installed opsware agents, SIM (System Insight Management) agents and PSP (Proliant Service Pack).
• Took part in VMware ESX 3.5 installation, updates, patches, and gathered information for capacity and performance analysis to identify potential servers for virtualization.
• Wrote perl and shell scripts to automate certain system administration tasks.

Environment:Redhat Linux 5.3/5.4, Suse Linux 9.3, VMwareESXi 3.5, VMware vSphere, VERITAS Volume Manager 5.0, VERITAS Cluster Server 5.0, Opsware, Openview, HP-DL585-G5/G2/G1, IBM Blade Center HS21/22, Weblogic 8/10, Tibco, MQM, Oracle, Perl, VI client, VEA, VCS Manager

Confidential, Columbus, OH

Implementation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured of hardware and OS (Solaris 10 and RHEL 4.6) on servers.
• Build servers, configured, installed tools, applied patches and transitioned servers to production support.
• Responsible for server migrations from closing data center including forklift and technical refresh.
• Build, configuration and deployment of 14 jumpstart servers across various data centers.
• Build a two-node clustered master server using VCS and connected to existing Netbackup environment.
• Build servers for infrastructure support at two strategic data centers.
• Installed KEON on new installs and 300+ production servers during the change management window.
• Installed patchesto latest patch level, applied patch cluster and installed software packages as needed.
• Created disk groups, volumes, volume groups and RAIDs using VERITASVolume Manager.
• Experience working with Solaris Zones/Containers and new features of Solaris 10, zone reconfiguration and file system layout modification of the containers supporting the Sybase database.
• Build out the KEON infrastructure by adding the Tivoli, ESM, Opsware tools etc.,
• Disk mirroring and RAID implementation using VERITAS Volume Manager and Solaris Volume Mgr.
• Installed VERITAS Volume Manager and Powerpath on Red hat Linux servers.
• Installation and configuration of Apache Tomcat server.
• Troubleshooting and analysis of hardware and software failures for various UNIX servers.
• Worked with application team to load app to servers, created test environment for Oracle DBA team.
• Provided server remediation to ensure all vulnerabilities have been addressed.
• Engaged in the Build, Test, Implementation, Application and pre-production checklist.
• Verified the disk layout and packages against the supplied build sheet and took necessary actions.
• Provided support for Opsware Server Automation System (SAS), ESM agent installation and setup and scanned agents for compliance with OS Security Standards and necessary actions to scan green.
• Installed Sun MC 3.6 agent to facilitate quick and easy deployment of Net-SNMP.
• Created a functional account on servers to be used by Tideway system to automatically gather inventory information. Cronconfiguration and sendmail setup.
• Experience in configuration of Tivoli agent and verified and troubleshooting of consoles.
• Created new slices, mounted new file systems and unmounted file systems.
• Documented installation procedures, changes required in present environment.
• Took part in brainstorming sessions to improve and standardize the processes followed by the implementation team globally across the organization.
• Attended team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress, and for upcoming changes in environment.

Environment: Sun Solaris 10/9/8, Redhat Linux 4.6, VERITAS Volume Manager 5.0, VERITAS Net backup 6.5, VERITAS Cluster Server 5.0,Solaris Volume Manager, Enterprise Security Manager, Opsware, Info Vista, Tideway, Tivoli,Powerpath, Sun Management Center 3.6.1, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240/T2000, HP-DL585-G5, Sun Fire v210/v440/v480,Storage Tek SL500, Apache, Pentium PCs, Sybase, Oracle, Perl, KEON

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Sun Solaris / Linux System Administration

Responsibilities:

• Remedy Problem & Change management application for management of problem tickets and production change requests.Provided 24x7support on shift rotation basis.
• Administered servers in heterogeneous environments which include Solaris and Linux operating environments. Delivered services within the defined SLA.
• Experience in analyzing logs, problem determination, and recovery and restart.
• Performed problem determination and restored service using standard procedures.