Summary

• 8 years of experience as a System Administrator.
• Strong aptitude to learn quickly with enough flexibility to work on various technologies.
• Adaptability to work individually or in a group.

Areas of Expertise

• Eight years of experience in Solaris Administration, Linux Administration Redhat, OEL , Symantec NetBackup, Oracle Database, Oracle Weblogic, Oracle Secure Backup, Netapp Storage, Oracle Sun ZFS Storage, VMware ESXi and Oracle VM Server dom0 /Client domU
• System Builds, Installs, Maintain, Upgrades, Patches, Migration, Trouble shooting, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring, Auditing and Fine-tuning the kernel on UNIX SUN Solaris Red Hat Linux Systems on SUN SPARC, DELL DRAC, HP Blade servers.
• Experience on Network Support, Application Support, Production Support experience on various OS platforms including Red Hat ENT Linux, Sun Solaris
• Involved in migration and consolidation of Unix/Linux Servers in Production data center.
• Good knowledge on configuration management with Puppet.
• Worked on Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 upgrades projects and have expertise with SMF utilities Zone Configuration and ZFS file systems.
• Installing and Configuring Solaris 10 by using Jumpstart server Jet server and also installed and configured Red hat Linux 5/6/7 by using Kickstart server, Satellite server.
• Experience with installation and administration of various web application servers like Oracle Weblogic, Redhat JBOSS, and Apache Tomcat.
• Creating monitoring of members, pools, virtual Server.
• Experience in installing administering of VMware vSphere ESXi hypervisors, creating Virtual machines as requirement on hypervisors monitoring with vCenter Server.
• Well versed in configuring Volume Groups and Logical Volumes, extending logical volumes for the system growth need using Logical Volume Manager LVM , Solaris Volume Manager SVM , Veritas Volume Manager VxVm .
• Experience in configuring and administration of Zones, LDoms.
• Managing security with Iptables, Netfilter, and Firewalld.
• Configuring tape drives with multipathing, sharing tape drives across multiple severs.
• Troubleshooting Tape drives on HBA end connectivity issues on Servers and Tape Library.
• Installed, configured and implemented the RAID 0/1/5
• Symantec Netbackup7.1, 7.5.0.6,7.6.0.3.
• Symantec BESR 7.0,8.5, SSR 2011.
• Oracle Secure Backup OSB .
• Solaris 10, Red Hat Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux
• Experience in installing, configuring, supporting and troubleshooting Unix/Linux Networking services and protocols like TCP/IP, NIS, LDAP, DNS, NFS, DHCP, NAS, SFTP, SSH, SCP.
• Sun ILOM Dell DRAC Consoles
• Working on sun-storage, Netapp storage administration.
• Working on Storage LUN's from NAS, SAN Filers to Unix/Linux Boxes as per requirement.
• Working with network team for zoning on switch to the Storage filers opening the required ports from firewall blocking.
• Working knowledge on Oracle Database, Oracle Weblogic and RMAN.
• Writing shell scripts to automate the daily tasks modifying the scripts as per requirement.
• Working on resolving the tickets as per ITIL process Service Level Agreement SLA .
• Good understanding of ITIL standard practices.
• Working on various Ticketing tool for Incident, Problem Change management.
• Working on NAS snapshot backups, restores of Netapp Sun ZFS Filers.
• Troubleshooting Libraries, Drive, Media related issues.
• Working on Oracle Integrated Exadata, Exalogic Machines.
• Working on LTO Tape Drive's Media's
• Working on NDMP Backups from NAS Filer Storage.
• Working on ACSLS 8.1 8.2, SL Console.
• Working on SUN StorageTek libraries SL8500, SL3000
• Working on creating updating Runbook for documenting general procedures, system procedures and standard practices.
• Experience on working with software and hardware vendors to resolve problems that come up.
• Experience supporting 24x7 production computing environments. Experience providing on-call and weekend support.
• Good Knowledge on IBM AIX/HP-UX

Professional Experience

Confidential

Senior system administrator

Roles responsibilities:

• Working on shell scripts to automate possible daily activates like automatic daily for various services status logs with errors.
• Monitoring the load balance assigning new members to pools.
• Working with WAS Team for installation and maintenance of various web application servers like Oracle Weblogic, Apache Tomcat.
• Worked on Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 upgrades projects and have expertise with SMF utilities Zone Configuration and ZFS file systems.
• Maintaining Service Management Facility SMF in Solaris 10.
• Installing and Configuring Solaris 10 by using Jumpstart server Jet server and also installed and configured Linux by using Kickstart server.
• Experience in installing administering of VMware ESXi hypervisors, creating Virtual machines as requirement on hypervisors monitoring with vCenter Server/vSphere Client.
• Testing the Kernel parameters and fine-tuning to get the performance with various applications and services.
• Working on Ticketing queue for fixing Incident, Problem Change management related issues.
• Installation and Administration of Oracle Enterprise Linux 5,6 using Kick start including performance monitoring, scaling and capacity planning and hardware maintenance of Sun SPARC servers.
• Troubleshooting and fixing day-to-day issues related to the servers hardware, Kernel, Services, Configurations.
• Creating, Mounting and Troubleshooting NFS File systems on different OS platforms.
• Managing security with Iptables, Netfilter, Firewalld.
• Creating a baseline for Servers and monitoring the unauthorized changes to the files and directories.
• Managing UNIX Infrastructure and Netapp, EMC storage involving maintenance of the servers and troubleshooting problems in the environment.
• Working on resolving the tickets as per ITIL process Service Level Agreement SLA.
• Working with Database/Application support teams to fix space/Log issues.
• Working on disk replacement when disk fails under a RAID Group.
• Symantec Netbackup Installation and configuration of Master/Media and clients for Windows/Unix boxes.
• Updating Master/Media NBU versions as well as clients.
• Working with Netback up GUI and Command line interface.
• Configuration of Volume Pools, Storage Units, Policies, Tape drives and Robot.
• PC backup solution for Mail File Backups Restores.
• Working with Symantec technical support as well as tape library vendors.
• Working on Symantec VERITAS cluster services to failover/Switchover master servers.
• Troubleshooting backup Restores failures in netbackup.
• Configuring media families, datasets, tape drive and robot configuration.
• Working on command line interface of netbackup.
• Troubleshooting the backup issues by analyzing the NetBackup logs.
• Creating backup policies for Flat File, Oracle Database, Microsoft Sql Server, IBM Lotus Notes
• Backup/Restore across data centers located in different sites for DR.
• Symantec Netbackup Installation and configuration of Master/Media and clients for Windows/Unix boxes.
• Updating Master/Media NBU versions as well as clients.
• Working with Netback up GUI and Command line interface.
• Configuration of Volume Pools, Storage Units, Policies, Tape drives and Robot.
• Troubleshooting the backup issues by analyzing the NetBackup logs.
• Creating RMAN policies for Oracle Databases, snap backups.
• Working on creating updating Runbook for documenting general procedures, system procedures and standard practices.
• Experience on working with software and hardware vendors to resolve problems that come up.
• Experience in working 24/7 providing on-call and weekend support for production support environments.

Environment: Redhat Linux, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle Solaris, Symantec Netbackup7.6.0.3, Symantec Netbackup7.5.0.6, Netapp storage, Sun ZFS Storage, Oracle Database, Oracle ST SL8500.

Confidential

Senior system administrator

Roles responsibilities:

• Managing UNIX Infrastructure and Netapp, EMC storage involving maintenance of the servers and troubleshooting problems in the environment.
• Installing operating systems Solaris, Linux according to business requirements.
• Planning and implementing the configuration changes to the servers adhering with ITIL change management process.
• Trouble shooting the issues ranging from Solaris, Linux and SAN environments.
• Created and Maintained Solaris 10 zones/containers.
• As part of security remediation creating a baseline for Servers and monitoring the unauthorized creation, modifications to the files and directories.
• Experience in creation and maintenance of ZFS file systems in Solaris.
• Regularly applying patches both for SUN and Linux systems.

• Installed and Configured Jumpstart and Kickstart Server.
• Working with VERITAS Volume Manager for creating volumes and file systems for various applications and databases.
• Experience with Java Enterprise Application Servers such as Oracle Weblogic, and Apache Tomcat.
• Creating and maintenance of Virtual machines in VMware ESX.
• Worked on different VMware products like VMware workstation, GSX/VMware server and ESX server 4.X.
• Configured, Installed LDAP Solaris and Linux server.
• Connecting to ESX server by using VNC, putty and Web access.
• Installed and configured Send mail on Solaris Linux servers.
• Migrated central send mail server to Postfix and Installed and Migrated SAP from Linux to Sun servers.
• Involved in NAS migration project to migrate the data across the storage arrays.
• Implemented security policy and managed firewalls/IDS. Managed DNS, send mail, IP space, and co-location facility transition.
• Developed Korn and Bash shell-scripts to automate routine activities.
• Working on creating updating Runbook for documenting general procedures, system procedures and standard practices.
• Experience on working with software and hardware vendors to resolve problems that come up.
• Providing 24/7 on-call supports on rotation basis.

Environment: SUN E10K, M4000/M500, E4500/5000, E35000, Solaris 9/10, RHEL 5,Jboss, Veritas Volume Manager VxVm , VMware, Veritas Cluster Server VCS .

Confidential

System administrator

Roles responsibilities:

• Using Crontab for automating various Administrative tasks.
• Configuring Network File Sharing using standard method NFS exporting of volumes/shares based upon the DB instance requirements to instances running boxes.
• As on regular basis working on Service Requests SR and Request for changes RFC created by customer and various support teams and troubleshooting issues related with operating system, backup, refresh Database, Application Instances as per priority and as per SLA.
• Formatted raw disks partitioned them using the fdisk utility. Creating file system and mounting it.
• Experience in configuring and administering Zones, LDoms.
• Configuring tape drives with multipathing, sharing tape drives across multiple severs.
• Troubleshooting Tape drives on HBA end connectivity issues on Servers and Tape Library.
• Working on Crontab to schedule backups reporting scripts Disabling as per Database/Application Team Requests.
• Working on Archive/Compress utilities for shipping logs.
• Patching the Linux/Unix Boxes as per life cycle Requirement. On the fly Patching Upgrading OS.
• Working FSTAB, VFSTAB to mount Unmounts NFS Local file system.
• Working on route issues across different zones in a data center.
• Backup/Restore across data centers located in different sites for DR.
• Symantec Netbackup Installation and configuration of Master/Media and clients for Windows/Unix boxes.
• Updating Master/Media NBU versions as well as clients.
• Working with Netback up GUI and Command line interface.
• Configuration of Volume Pools, Storage Units, Policies, Tape drives and Robot.
• Working on Rman backup configuration and troubleshooting rman backup issues.
• Collecting the issues from Ops teams and taking them to dev team to resolution.
• Working closely with OSB/ACSLS product development them.
• Working with Symantec technical support as well as tape library vendors..
• Working on logical libraries issue
• Configuring logical libraries and assigning them to multiple backups servers.
• Configuring schedules in OSB.
• Troubleshooting backup Restores failures in OSB.
• Working Knowledge on Sun-storage, Netapp filers.
• Configuration of Rman backup using OSB Oracle Secure Backup .
• Configuring media families, datasets, tape drive and robot configuration.
• Working on command line interface of netbackup.
• Troubleshooting the backup issues by analyzing the NetBackup logs.
• Creating RMAN policies for Oracle Databases, snap backups
• Working knowledge on Oracle Database, Oracle Weblogic.
• Creating projects and shares in sun storage and exporting them to hosts.
• Create volume and aggregates in netapp and exporting them on hosts.
• Working netapp sun storage snapshot issues and troubleshooting.
• Attend team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress and upcoming changes in environment.
• Working on creating updating Runbook for documenting general procedures, system procedures and standard practices.
• Experience on working with software and hardware vendors to resolve problems that come up.
• Supported 24/7-production support Rotational Shifts for mission critical applications and servers.

Environment: Oracle Enterprise Linux, Oracle Solaris, Symantec Netbackup, Oracle Secure Backup, Symantec BESR 8.5, Sun storage, Netapp storage, Oracle Database, RMAN Backups, Oracle ST SL8500, SL3000, ADIC iScalar 2000.

Confidential

System Administrator

Roles responsibilities:

• Managing UNIX Infrastructure and Netapp, EMC storage involving maintenance of the servers and troubleshooting problems in the environment.
• Installing operating systems Solaris, Linux according to business requirements.
• Planning and implementing the configuration changes to the servers adhering with ITIL change management process.
• Trouble shooting the issues ranging from Solaris, Linux and SAN environments.
• Created and Maintained Solaris 10 zones/containers.
• Experience in creation and maintenance of ZFS file systems.
• Regularly applying patches both for SUN and Linux systems.

• Installed and Configured Jumpstart and Kickstart Server.
• Working with VERITAS Volume Manager for creating volumes and file systems for various applications and databases.
• Experience with Java Enterprise Application Servers such as Oracle Weblogic, Oracle Application Server OC4J , Redhat JBOSS, and Apache Tomcat.
• Creating and maintenance of Virtual machines in VMware ESX.
• Worked on different VMware products like VMware workstation, GSX/VMware server and ESX server 4.X.
• Configured, Installed LDAP Solaris and Linux server.
• Connecting to ESX server by using VNC, putty and Web access.
• Installed and configured Send mail on Solaris Linux servers.
• Migrated central send mail server to Postfix and Installed and Migrated SAP from Linux to Sun servers.
• Involved in NAS migration project to migrate the data across the storage arrays.
• Implemented security policy and managed firewalls/IDS. Managed DNS, send mail, IP space, and co-location facility transition.
• Providing 24/7 on-call supports on rotation basis.
• Developed Korn and Bash shell-scripts to automate routine activities

Environment: SUN E10K, M4000/M500, E4500/5000, E35000, Solaris 9/10, RHEL 5, Veritas Volume Manager VxVm ,VMware, Veritas Cluster server VCS .

Confidential

System administrator

Roles responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting the backup issues by analyzing the NetBackup logs
• Managing Disk File Systems, Server Performance, Users Creation and Granting File Access Permissions
• Configuring and Troubleshooting of various services like NFS, SSH, Telnet, FTP on UNIX platform.
• As on regular basis working on Service Requests SR and Request for changes RFC created by customer and various support teams and troubleshooting issues related with operating system, backup, refresh Database, Application Instances as per priority and as per SLA.
• Configuring Network File Sharing using standard method NFS exporting of volumes/shares based upon the DB instance requirements to instances running boxes.
• Scheduling Cron jobs for automating various Administrative tasks.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling multiple Unix/Solaris Servers directly through Operating System and utilizing various system Utilities.
• Configuring distributed file systems and administering NFS server and NFS clients and editing auto-mounting mapping as per system / user requirements.
• Monitoring Disk, CPU and Memory Performance of servers.
• Managing File systems and troubleshooting file systems issue.
• Configuring LVM's.
• Working with DBA, Application team to clear the logs, file system space issues
• Managing the permissions moving files with SCP, FTP.
• User administration tasks, Permission issues.
• Monitoring the logs for Issues.
• Working on Daily reporting tasks to management about the file system, Space, Swap, CPU Usage.
• Working on Daily backup status rescheduling the backups for failed backups.
• Working with senior team members to fix the issues.
• Rebooting the Unix/Linux Boxes after patching.
• Configuring Daily, Weekly Monthly Backups. Reporting to onsite team about completed backups Media Id's for safe keeping.

Environment: SUN Solaris, Red hat Enterprise Linux-5, Intel Xeon, Oracle Sun SPARC, NFS, LVM, FTP, SSH.