Objective

• With 14 years of experience in the IT industry & venture into a profile that would flex my diverse systems and storage administrator’s background with broad experience in diagnosing and resolving technical problems in a multi - user environment.

SUMMARY

• Overall 10 years of dedicated configuration and systems administration experience under different flavors of UNIX system (Sun Solaris, Linux & SCO UNIX). Supported fortune 100 clients such as Confidential, Confidential in North America and supported their business critical application servers 24*7 hours with great ability and efficiency.
• Extensive knowledge in EMC- Confidential backup management and DPA reporting tool. Implemented the backup solutions across the 2500 branches of Confidential in USA, Canada & Puerto Rico.
• Working as a Senior Storage Consultant for EMC since Nov’ 2011. Worked various Confidential Installations, Upgrades, DD to Confidential Integration and various backup administrative task for one of the major telecommunication client.
• Installation and Configuration of Citrix Application Server, Exchange Server, RAID configuration, DHCP, DNS, Cisco PIX, Fortigate, Sonic Fire Wall, NFS and NIS. Interconnecting Solaris systems using TCP/IP over LAN, Cron jobs, installation of VMWARE ESX Server 3.0 and Microsoft Virtual Server.
• Excellent understanding of issues related to system administration. A team player with good interpersonal skills, commitment, zeal to learn new technologies and result oriented.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Intel systems, IBM, Compaq & Dell systems

Network OS: Solaris 8.0, RHEL 3, Microsoft Windows 2000, SCO UNIX 7.1.3

Backup Management: EMC - Confidential, Data Domain & Data Protection Advisor, Symantec Netbackup 7.5 ( Install, configure and Deploy)

Tools: UNIX scripting

Database: Oracle and SQL server installation

Virtualization: VMWARE ESX Server 5.0 and MS Virtual Server

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior backup & recovery support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed new Confidential Servers on site
• Migrated Confidential grids from older version to newer version
• Implemented LDAP integration for Confidential Application
• Writing scripts for daily task automation and also based on customer request
• Other regular maintenance and monitoring of Avmar grids
• Worked on coordinating the upgrade of Confidential Servers
• Worked on Confidential and Data Domain Integration.
• Installation and upgrade of DPA servers
• Created various custom DPA reports based on customer request

Confidential, Stamford, CT

Senior Production Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring the production applications, this monitoring includes application event logs, suspended /Cancel messages, verifying all the application connectivity, web services availability
• Participating in Daily operations meetings to discuss about production outages, and postmortem issues on the last 24 hours
• Worked on low latency and high volume trading systems.
• Worked on different components of trading system to support it.
• Resolve and providing solution on performance issues.
• Migrating servers to Virtual Environments.

Environment: Linux RHEL 3 & 5 Apache Web Server, SVN, FIX protocol.4.2, Oracle, SQL Server, Unix Scripts

Confidential, MD

Senior System & Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• We configured and installed more than 250 UNIX servers physically and remotely. We configured the RAID in couple of servers.
• Created the server images for new branches installation and responsible for regularly updating our server images quarterly for the new hardware. We have used Norton Ghost utility to save / load the server images.
• We have replaced the tape backup of Confidential using the new efficient backup solution using EMC- Confidential . This was a very fast and efficient backup solution and appreciated by Confidential management. This backup solution uses de-dup technology which is a part of disaster recovery.
• Installation and Configuration of VMWARE ESX Server 3.0 and Microsoft Virtual Server, also created the Virtual Servers for cost efficiency and better management.
• Developed automation scripts for automation script to perform installations and other activities using shell programming
• Analyze and resolved numerous diagnostic problems such as unexpected behavior of servers and applications. Participated in daily update calls, emergency maintenance calls.
• Installed and configured DPA reporting tool for EMC Confidential . Created and automated various backup reports / analysis for the business using DPA report tool.

Environment: SCO UNIX 7.1.3, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, Apache Server, UNIX Scripting, SCO UNIX 7.1.3 and 7.1.4, CDS ( Confidential Customized database), VMWARE

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior System & Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Solaris 7/8, Linux RHEL 3.
• Monitoring the performance of Extranet and Intranet portals. UNIX File System space management. Performance monitoring, tuning and troubleshooting Weblogic, Jboss, Tomcat and VAP Server instances.
• Monitoring of alerts sent by BMC patrol and troubleshooting applications based on alerts.
• Web logic, JBOSS application deployment. System upgrades, System patches and hot fixes deployment. Deployment of new applications on Production, staging and QA Servers. Web Logic License Management and SSL certificate generation.
• Apache reverse proxy configuration, reverse proxy Server Administration. Providing First level support for GE Wind Energy SCADA Application. Providing First level support on Appworx, a scheduling application.

Environment: Sun Solaris 7/8, Red Hat Linux 7.X, and Oracle 8.1.7, Web logic 6.x, Apache Server, Site Minder 4.51, Jboss, Tomcat, BMC Patrol, Application Health Portal (AHP) and Digital cockpit.

Confidential

System & Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and trouble shooting of Solaris Servers.
• Monitoring the alerts on usage of license. Installing new Licenses on the Servers. Maintenance and performance monitoring of License Servers. Monitoring of alerts of file system. System upgrades, System patches and hot fixes deployment.
• Troubleshooting and fixing the problem of licenses in case if the user faces problems in getting licenses. Preparing the report of license usage by running SQL query.

Environment: Sun Solaris 8, Remedy, Hummingbird, SQL Analyzer, Oracle 8.1.7.

Confidential

Senior Security & Systems Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installed Linux, Solaris on X86 machines. Installed Windows-NT/2000 Servers, configured network and implementing ADS (Active Directory Service). Estimated storage requirements for application.
• Developed backup plans and formulated recovery strategies. Installation and Configuration of Firewalls like Cisco PIX, Fortigate and Sonic Wall. Installation and Configuration of Citrix Application Server. Installation and Configuration of Linux and Send mail on Linux.
• Installation and Configuration of Exchange Server 2003. Administration, Maintenance, Configuration and Trouble shooting of Windows NT, Windows 2000.
• Maintenance of Windows NT/2000 involved Local Area Networks.

Environment: Sun Solaris 7/8, Red Hat Linux 6.2/7.X, Win NT/2000, Checkpoint, Fortigate Firewalls.

Confidential

Desktop Support and Systems Admin

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility involves desktop & network support. Primary responsibility involves OS Installation & System Administration tasks. Administration, Maintenance, Configuration and Trouble shooting of Windows NT, Windows 2000.
• System & Network Troubleshooting and updating virus scanners. Troubleshooting LAN Connectivity problems with Switches and Machines. Installation and Patch updating of Windows NT/2000 Servers and workstations.

Environment: IBM, Dell, HCL and HP desktop’s, Sun Solaris, Red hat Linux 6.X, Windows NT/2000.