SUMMARY

• Overall 6 years of Linux System administration along with 1 year of VMware experience.
• Expertise in Server Builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration and Performance Tuning in Linux and VMware environments.
• Experience in managing total site responsibility and monitoring IT projects for the entire life cycle.
• Experience in develop monitoring scripts to track I/O, RAM, and CPU performance.
• Expertise in Red hat Enterprise Server (4/5/6).
• Experience in developing kernel modules in Linux/Unix platforms.
• Strong in LVM Performance monitoring, Error logging, Diagnostics, Fine - tuning and Backup management
• Expertise in configuring Apache using Red Hat Cluster Suite.
• Remarkable Experience in implementing security standards on Linux Servers.
• Experience in Linux installation using custom scripts.
• Solid Experience in Configuration/administration of Red Hat Kickstart.
• Expertise in VMware plan build, maintain and performance tuning the Virtual environment.
• Experience in creating of VMware Lab setup as per Internal QA team’s requirement using VMware ESX servers.
• Experience in Solaris 9, 10 builds, installs and upgrades.
• Experience in remote installation of Linux using PXE boot.
• Experience in installation, configuration of Linux virtual server using VMWare Infrastructure.
• Experience in UNIX shell scripting. (Perl, Bash).
• Experience in implementing application servers like apache, MySQL.
• Experience in troubleshooting and resolving network issues related to the servers.
• Hands on experience with EMC DMX, Symmetrix and Clariion series.
• Experience working in native multipath and EMC Powerpath.
• Excellent Communication and Inter-personal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: RHEL(4/5/6), CentOS, Windows 2003/08, Solaris

Software Tools: VMware (4/5), Nagios, BMC & Zabbix Monitoring SystemHardware: Dell Power Edge Series, HP BL460, C7000. ILO Cisco 6500, Brocade SAN Switches

Languages: Shell Scripting.

Storage: EMC SAN, NetApp, Hitachi, Dell Equalogic & RAID Manager

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Linux/VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, Integration, Problem Resolution, Root Cause Analysis, Quality Assurance, Disaster Recovery, Audits, Hardware/Software OS.
• Application Maintenance, Performance Tuning, Upgrades, OS Backups, Migrations, User Account Maintenance, Storage Management, Patch Management and all other daily system administration functions.
• Installation and configuration of Jboss eap6 servers.
• Supporting 500+ VMs in stage/development environment.
• Configuring Virtual Machine under VMware ESX servers to install Linux guests.
• Using VM converter converting physical machines to VMs.
• Managing the LDAP server in authenticating the users.
• Working with IPtables, LANs, Load balancer, TCP wrappers, DNS and TCP/IP protocol

Confidential, Irving, TX

Linux/Windows System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Data Collection, parsing, processing and rating the data from the different source systems.
• Configured and scheduled the data for Fios applications.
• Involved in Incident Record (IR) creation for the leakage and fallouts and routing to the appropriate teams.
• Supporting IBM Connect Direct, TIBCO MFT and CA Workload automation severs.
• Network based installation on huge number of machines using KickStart and Jump Start.
• RHEL 6/5/4, Enterprises configuration and management.
• Configuration & Installation of Red hat Linux 5/6 by using Kick Start, Jump Start and customized scripts.
• Provide level 1, 2, 3 supports for both the physical servers and virtual guests.
• Writing script for day to day activity for scheduled task using shell scripting.
• Involved in Updating and Patching of Linux Guests.
• Installation configuration and maintain windows 2003 & 2008 server
• 24x7 support for the Linux servers.
• Configuration of IPtables.
• Work daily with developer and DBA teams to maintain and develop a production environment.
• Rotating on call responsibilities for Production environment.
• Patching, User Administration, Security on RHEL 5/6.x.
• Planning and Deployment of Local Area Network administration.
• Scheduling cron jobs for job automation.
• Storage provisioning of hosts from NetApp, Hitachi & Dell Equalogic
• Installing and updating packages using YUM.
• Configured Samba, NFS, NAS, Apache services in Linux Servers.
• NTP administration.
• Hardware troubleshooting.
• Configuring and implementing Linux kernel recompilation.
• Disk configuration using format and fdisk.

Confidential, Irving, TX

Unix/linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planning of OS upgrades for existing infrastructure.
• Planning and Implementation of Kernel patches on Solaris and Linux Servers.
• On-call support using the Remedy Ticket System for routine system administration issues.
• Using VM converter converting Physical machines in VMware VMs.
• Updating/patching Linux, Windows Virtual Machine in VMware clusters
• Creating VMware Lab setup as per Internal QA team’s requirement using VMware ESXi servers.
• Tuning of the TCP/IP stack for troubleshooting application and OS issues.
• Used NetBackup for backing up & restoration of file systems.
• Maintained, updated and audited system documentation.
• Installation and Implementation of Apache Tomcat Application Server.
• Responsible for adding and maintaining users on the network.
• Supported and implemented system standards, processes and security to maintain corporate IT standards.

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked with File System includes UNIX file System, and Network file system.
• Planning, scheduling and implementing OS patches on both Solaris & Linux boxes as a part of proactive maintenance.
• Performed and maintained the corrupted file system.
• Responsible for and adding Swap space at run time
• Responsible for scheduling jobs using crontab and at.
• Administering Disks and File systems using LVM.
• Developed various Korn, Perl, bash and shell scripts to automate tasks.
• Worked with Net stat, Prostat, Iostat monitoring commands
• Worked with Logical volume Manager (LVM).
• Worked with Configuring and troubleshooting NIS.
• Help and troubleshoot user accessibility problems.
• Responsible for Monitoring network statistics of various network related data structures.
• Involved in Documentation of UNIX environment and configuration details.
• Efficiently able to multitask in order to maximize number of computers fixed
• Installed necessary software and applications for office.
• Developed repair procedures to reduce the customers down time.
• Fixed to increase productivity of employees and customer satisfaction.
• Created step-by-step instructions involving everyday office operations