SUMMARY:

• Highly skilled and result oriented profile in ‘Unix Administration & Datacenter Operations’, having total 9+ years of experience with heterogeneous, mission critical, state of the art Unix Infrastructure and peripheral technologies in production datacenters. Main areas of skills are
• Linux and AIX Systems
• Cloud based Virtual Private Data Centers
• VMWare ESX - Server virtualization and consolidation
• Symantec NetBackup
• IBM P Series Frames
• Cisco UCS, HP / Dell Chassis & Blades
• Information Security Standards & Compliance
• Datacenter Operations
• Legacy systems based on Solaris 10 (sparc), HP-UX 11 (PA-RISC) and Wintel servers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Associate Manager

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure requirement gathering
• Design & delivery of solutions based on state of the art, high-end Unix Systems and enterprise class Storage
• Providing solutions for Server Consolidation & Virtualization
• Work with Information Security teams for strict adherence with Payment Industry Standards
• L2 Prod Support to 1000+ Linux & AIX Systems
• Operating Systems: Redhat Ent Linux 6 / 5, SuSE Ent Linux 11 / 10, AIX 7.1 / 6.1 / 5.3, Oracle Ent Linux 6, Linux systems in cloud based virtual private data centers
• Clustering: Oracle ASM, OCFS2 Cluster
• Communication: FC HBA, Multipathing I/O, Bonded network interfaces, Etherchannels
• Virtual Servers: LPARs / VIO, Virtual Machines
• VMWare ESX 5 / 4
• IBM P Series Frame Management / HMC / vtmenu
• HP Chassis & Blades management
• Cisco UCS Chassis & Blades management
• Symantec Netbackup - Backup, Archive & Restore
• Remote administration HP ILO / Dell DRAC
• Server Performance Tuning & Monitoring
• Logs generation & analysis
• Troubleshooting OS and network Issues
• Vendor co-ordination & management
• Inventory & Documentation

Confidential

Team lead - ITS

Responsibilities:

• Center in Pune and Production Data Center in Mumbai. Leading the End User Desktop Support Team.
• Administration of 50+ Server class systems with heterogeneous OS platforms, iSCSI storage, 400 desktopsCisco L2 Switches & Routers, Cisco & Fortinet Firewalls and other peripheral devices. Administration of
• Oracle Databases, Domino Mail Server, File Servers, Antivirus Server. Management of Internet Proxy
• Server, Corporate Web Sites, Source-Code Repositories.
• Server Operating Systems - AIX 5.1, 5.3 on IBM P Series Server / Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10 on Sparc Servers /
• HP-UX 11.11 on HP R9000 Series Server / HP-UX 11iV2 on HP rx2600 (Itanium) server /
• Win / NT4 Server, RedHat Ent Linux ES 2.1, 3 on Wintel serversDesktop Operating Systems - Win Vista / WinXP, Redhat Linux, etc.
• Installation and administration of standalone servers & VMs.
• Creation of users, groups and managing privileges and sudo access
• Troubleshoot performance issues, Kernel fine tuning
• OS Patch management
• Managing NFS, SendMail, FTP Servers, NTP
• File system recovery and disk / hardware replacement in servers.
• Managing backups & restores
• LAN & WAN Administration
• Inventory of servers and documentation
• Co-ordination with vendors & sub-contractors
• Unix Operating Systems:
• Remote Installation of servers, Kernel tuning, Security and Monitoring
• Redhat Ent Linux 6.x / 5.x, SuSE Ent Linux 11.x / 10.x / 9.x, Oracle Ent Linux 6,
• AIX 7.1 / 6.1 / 5.3
• OS Technologies:
• Linux installation via HP ILO, Dell DRAC, Cisco UCS Manager
• Redhat Cobbler Server, Redhat Kickstart, SuSE AutoYast
• Logical Volumes Management, Multipathing I/O devices, Soft RAID file systems,
• Vast experience in handling OS Crashes, network issues
• Accounts management & Sudo accesses, Two factor authentication using RSA Tokens
• NIC Bonding & AIX Etherchannels
• Oracle ASM FS for Oracle clusters, Linux clusters using OCFS2
• Symantec NetBackup Software Agents
• OS Performance monitoring using vmstat, iostat, top/topas, historic data using SAR
• NTP Servers, SendMail & Postfix smart hosts, Cronjobs, Proxy Servers, FTP Servers
• Log Management (Splunk, Syslog & tail2sys log forwarding)
• Server Monitoring (HP Sitescope, Cacti)
• Hardware Inventory
• Cloud based Virtual Private Data Centers:
• SAVVIS Hosting Service and management using SAVVIS Station
• Enterprise Hardware:
• IBM P Series Frames & standalone Servers: P570, P790, P520, P550, P570, P720 & P750 Express
• LPARs management in HMC v 7.x, Shared resources using VIO Server
• Cisco UCS: UCSC-C240-M3S
• HP Chassis & Blades: DL1000, SL230
• HP Standalone Servers: Proliant DL580, DL380 & DL360
• Dell Chassis & Blades: PowerEdge C5220, C6100
• Dell Standalone Servers: PowerEdge 2900 series, R710,
• Avocent Mergepoint 2400 series & Raritan KVMs
• Server Virtualization / Consolidation:
• VMWare ESX 5 / 4 / 3.1 Server
• VM management in Virtual Infrastructure Client, VMWare Tools
• VMs creation & cloning
• VM clusters & migrations
• Server Networking:
• Monitor TCP / UDP packets using TCPDUMP, Wireshark
• Monitoring network bandwidth iPerf
• SSH Tunneling
• Managing static routes
• Key-based password-less SSH Authentication
• Server Backup:
• Symantec NetBackup Media & Master Server 7.1 / 6.3
• Backups on Tape libraries, DataDomain, etc.
• Deploying backup agent software
• Implementing Backup, Archive policies & perform restores
• Backup jobs alerts using Blat

Confidential

Sr. Technical Associate

Responsibilities:

• Support for more than 40 Servers, 200 desktops
• Win / NT4 Servers, MS SQL Servers
• Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10 on Sun servers / IBM-AIX 5.1, 5.3 on IBM P Series Server /
• HP-UX 11.11 on HP R9000 Series Server / HP-UX 11iV2 on HP rx2600 (Itanium) server /
• RedHat Ent. Linux ES 2.1, 3 on x86 servers,
• Oracle Database 8i, 9i, 10g Installation & Support, Oracle Developer 2000 / 6i
• Corporate Web Sites, Internet Proxy Server, Internal web sites
• Desktop Support Win Vista / WinXP, Symantec Endpoint Protection Antivirus
• Corporate Tools like Starteam Server, Whizible server

Confidential

Sr. Executive

Responsibilities:

• Support for 50+ Wintel Servers & 100+ Desktops
• Win / NT4 Servers, MS SQL Servers
• Support in LAN administration & maintenance
• MS Exchange Server, MDaemon Mail Server & Postmaster
• Desktop Support WinXP / Win 98, McAfee Antivirus
• Inventory & Documentation

Confidential

Visiting System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consultancy Business in Supply, implementations of Computer hardware & peripherals, server systems and build local area networks