PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 6 years of experience in Linux, windows System’s management and Network administration, VMware Configuration & Administration, System Design, Data center migration, Implementation & maintenance of highly scalable 24x7 availability solutions and support.
• Enthusiastic, eager to meet challenges and quick to learn.
• Hands on experience in Dell EqualLogic, Netapp FAS and Hitachi storage and System Administration.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in VMware virtualization technologies.
• Experience in implementing Cloud technologies that extends from Private, Public and Hybrid environments utilizing AWS.
• Experience in Managing/Monitoring VMware ESX 4.0, ESXi 5.5/5.1/4.1/4.0, and vSphere infrastructure.
• Experienced in migrating the on - premises to virtual environment using the tools VMware converter etc.
• Experience in Installation, Configuration and system Administration of Red Hat Linux 6.X/5.X, CentOS 5.x/6.x and Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.x/6.x
• Expert in performing hardware analysis, installation, network and security audits.
• Experience in recommending, scheduling and performing software and hardware improvements, upgrades, patches, reconfigurations and purchases.
• Strong technical knowledge of current network protocols and standards, including SAN, NAS LAN, WAN, VPN, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, FC, FCOE, iSCSI.
• Extensive knowledge of computer server architectures, including peripheral interfaces (SCSI, RAID, Ethernet).
• Experienced in managing the server cluster environment including configuration, shares and permissions.
• Having hands on experience in writing puppet modules and automation using shell scripts.
• Hands on expertise on Symantec NetBackup, Evault Backup and NetApp, Quantum and Dell Tape libraries, Dell power edge and blade servers and HP ProLiant servers.
• Having hands on experience in deploying code through Jenkins and doing automation.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills combined with high commitment to achieve corporate goals and ability to work collaboratively in a team.
• Hands on experience on Remote installations via DRAC, HP ILO and their firmware upgrades.
• Having hands on experience in deploying code through Jenkins and doing automation.
• Having hands on experience in configuring applications and users using puppet.
• Having Experience in git repository usage and stash usage.
• Having knowledge about Ansible automation tool.
• Proficiency in using ticketing tools like JIRA and some internal tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

System Administration: Unix (RHEL, OEL, CentOS and Solaris), Windows and Amazon Web Services

Virtualization: VMWare(VSphere) planning, implementation, Administration and troubleshooting. VSphere 5.5/5.1/4.1 / 4.0, ESX server 4.0, VSphere Client, VCenter, VMotion, Storage VMotion, VMware Update Manager, VMware Tools, VMware Converter, DRS, SRM, HA and FT.

Backup Environment: Symantec Backup/Net Backup, Evault backup

Cloud: Sound Knowledge on Amazon Web Services

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL 580, Dell PowerEdge R710, R610, R620, Fujitsu BX400, Fujitsu BX 920, Fujitsu BX924, Fujitsu RX500, CISCO UCS

Data Center Operations: Remote Infrastructure support, System Administration of various Operating Systems and Datacenter migration.

Application Servers: Apache, Apache with JBOSS Cluster, LAMP and Grid Director

Storage: Good Amount of knowledge on SAN and NAS administration (Dell EqualLogic, NetApp and Hitachi)

File Servers: FTP, NFS and SAMBA

Tools: Trend Micro Deep Security, Cloudberry, Cloud Checker, Skeddly, Cloud Endure, Nagios, Groundworks, CFG2HTML, xymon and Dell OpenManage and puppet

Scripting: Bash and Perl

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Staff Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Install and configured vSphere 5.5.
• Install and configure vCenter Server components
• Configure and manage ESXi networking and storage using vCenter Server.
• Deployed virtual machines.
• Installed centos 6.5 on 25+ VMS.
• Perform post OS configurations like OS hardening etc.
• Install & configure require packages through YUM.
• Configure NIC bonding, administer the NIC settings.
• File system management. LVM configuration & management.
• Actively engaged in troubleshooting efforts for OS, network, and/or applications, fine tune system for optimal performance.
• Configure and manage NFS/Samba file system and mounting at the client side by permanent mount
• Cron job Scheduling & management.
• User administration. Creating users, and groups, and assigning permissions. SUDO access management.
• Installed GridDirector tool on clustered environment.
• Configured ElasticSearch in clustered environment.
• Upgraded ElasticSearch version1.4 to 1.7 in clustered Environment.
• Developed Bash script to take backup and to restore Indexes of ElasticSearch database.
• Worked on analyzing, troubleshooting and administration of ElasticSearch cluster performance.
• ptimized performance by modifying Java heap of tomcat7 containers.

Environment: Dell PE 2950, CentOS 6.5, GridDirector, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch-1.7 (NoSQL database) and tomcat7

Sr. Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Install and configured ESXi 4.0 on PowerEdge servers. VMware Infrastructure 4.0 vSphere Installation & Configuration
• Virtual Networking (Virtual Switches, VM Kernel Ports).
• Deploy OEL 6.5 on Virtual Machines.
• Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates
• Customizing guest operating system on Virtual Machines.
• Created DRS and Custom roles for users and Administrators.
• High availability, Clustering, VMotion,
• Snapshot manager and restoring a snapshot.
• Managing Tasks, Events and Alarms
• Perform post OS configurations like OS hardening etc., Install & configure require tools through YUM.
• Configure NIC bonding, administer the NIC settings.
• Configured different RAID (RAID0, RAID1, RAID5 with hot spare etc…) levels based on requirement.
• File system management. LVM configuration & management.
• Security configurations, Logs auditing and OS patching via YUM.
• Actively engaged in troubleshooting efforts for OS, network, and/or applications, fine tune system for optimal performance.
• Configure and manage NFS/Samba file system and mounting at the client side by permanent mount
• Cron job Scheduling & management.
• User administration. Creating users, and groups, and assigning permissions. SUDO access management.
• Install and configuring all prerequisites as per DBA & Applications team.
• Configure and manage ESX/ESXi networking and storage using vCenter Server
• Deployed virtual machines
• Manage user access to the VMware infrastructure
• Use vCenter Server to monitor resource usage
• Use vCenter Server to manage higher availability and data protection
• Installed and configured the ESXi cluster with HA and DRS
• Implemented vMotion & svMotion
• Installed and configured the Dell Equal Logic storage, Assigned LUN’s to LINUX hosts and ESXi
• Monitoring Linux Servers on daily basis

Environment: Dell Power Edge R610, R620, R710, R720, VMware ESXi 4.1, OEL 5.6, Windows 2008R2 and Dell EqualLogic.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• VMware Infrastructure vSphere 5.1 Installation & Configuration.
• Installation, Configuration and maintenance of Hosted VMware products.
• Design, Implementation, Testing and Deployment of VMware Infrastructure.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware VSphere5, VMware View.
• VMware vSphere client, Virtual vCenter Server.
• Virtual Networking (Virtual Switches, VM Kernel Ports)
• And Virtual Storage (Access Control and VMFS Datastores).
• Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates.
• Customizing guest operating system on Virtual Machines.
• Created DRS and Custom roles for users and Administrators
• High availability, Clustering, VMotion, Storage Vmotion.
• Server Consolidation with VMware Converter (P2P and P2V Conversions)
• Snapshot manager and restoring a snapshot.
• System Administration-Managing Users, Groups, Roles and Access Permissions.
• Setting up and monitoring performance monitoring and capacity planning.
• Hands on experience on SRM configuration.
• Managing Tasks, Events and Alarms
• Installed OEL 6.3 on VMs.
• Configuring the private repository for accessing the packages with YUM.
• Creation of new users, groups, user passwords, changing passwords, managing user accounts and locking users and managing password aging policies.
• Setup SSH password less login in OpenSSH.
• Configuring the LVMs and adding the additional disk space as and when required.
• Prerequisites verification before go live like rpm's, creation of users, compilations, oracle pre requisites, tuning kernel parameters, setting users limits.
• Performing on system backups, file replications, script management for server and Media usage.

Environment: Dell PE servers, OEL 6.3, Hitachi HUS 130, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure design and setup on AWS Virtual Private Cloud
• Linux and Windows Virtual Machine Setup on AWS.
• Instance setup and storage allocation, snapshots etc.
• Secure VPN Tunnel creation between AWS to In-house Data Center.
• Creating Cloud Formation scripts to launch AWS resources in a single click.
• Launching new instances using Amazon Machine Images (AMI’s) includes RHEL, OEL, and Windows Servers.
• Assigning EBS volumes to the instances to create mount points on the servers.
• Selecting the appropriate Instance types while launching the servers.
• Launching the Instances in both public and private subnets and assigning EIP’s to the Instances if required.
• Creating the VPC’s (Virtual Private Cloud) which includes private and public subnets and adding routes to the route tables.
• Creating security groups.
• Providing access to the servers by adding specific ip’s to the security groups.
• Taking AMI’s for Instances both hot and cold.
• Taking Snapshots of the EBS volumes.
• Working with AWS support team for Network related issues and VPN related issues.
• Worked on major other products like S3, IAM, RDS.
• Installation on AWS CLI tools on the servers.
• Creating IAM users and attaching the users to specific policies.
• Creating the S3 buckets, objects and providing the permissions to access the buckets.
• Installation of Openvpn server and then providing access to the users to connect to servers.
• Launching the RDS instances and providing the access to the RDS instances.
• Migrating the VM’s from In-house environment to AWS.
• Creating File system, partitions for EBS volumes and mounting them on mount points.
• Creating LVM’s for partitions.
• Extending the EBS volumes and LVM’s as well.

Environment: AWS, CentOS 6.5, PostgreSQL, Apache and Memcache