SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years in Unix Systems Administration, Server builds and Application Support of UNIX Oracle Solaris, Red Hat Linux..
• Installing, upgrading and configuring SUN Solaris 8, 9, 10, 11 Red Hat 5.x, 6.x using various technologies like Wanboot, Jumpstart and Kick start Installation.
• Monitoring and administration of Sun Solaris and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers includes operating systems, patches and hardware maintenance.
• Extensive experience working with Solaris Zones, Oracle VM servers (ldoms).
• Installing and upgrading Veritas Storage foundation including VCS, Oracle RAC, CFS, etc.
• Experience with Storage area network/enterprise storage systems such as EMC Symmetrix storage arrays, Clariion/VNX and VMAX storage arrays.
• Provisioned basic storage on VNX, VMAX for ESX and SPARC servers.
• Experience with OPS center for provisioning OS on Oracle VM (control domains, guest ldoms).
• Experience working with Oracle virtual networking (Xsigo) for cloud based storage and networking
• Configuring and performing backup and restore operations from TSM and Avamar and also using utilities like tar, cpio, ufsdump, ufsrestore.
• Extensive experience with Zpools, ZFS, SVM, VXVM, VCS, CFS.
• Performance tuning of Oracle Sparc, Red Hat Linux6 servers using tools like vmstat, iostat, sar, prtconf, iostat, netstat etc.
• Administration and production support of IBM WebSphere application server, Web Logic 8.1 HTTP server, apache Tomcat and middleware Software.
• Used Logical Volume Manager for the management of Volumes including creation of physical and logical volumes on Linux.
• Extensive experience working with Redhat linux cluster, GFS deployment and provided recommendations for multiple projects.
• Experience in virtual infrastructure and Enterprise Cloud technologies.
• Experienced in working in Data centers with 24X7 Production and On - Call Environments.
• Worked and has experience in DHCP, ZFS.
• Involved in a major P2V migration project
• Plan, document and support high availability, data replication, business persistence, fail-over, fail-back using Veritas Cluster Server in SAN environment.
• Experience in Installation, Administration, Configuration, Monitoring, Troubleshooting of Websphere Application Server 6.1, WebLogic 8.1, IBM HTTP Server, Apache, Open Source technologies on Linux, Solaris and Windows.
• Possess strong leadership, communication (both verbal and written), and exchange information with others clearly and concisely.
• Assisted application and database teams for system related activities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: T5s, T4s, T3s, M5000, M4000, T5140, T5240, T5440, T6340, T2000, E10K, E15K Sun Ultra's servers, V210, V240, V280, V480, V490, V880, V890, Sun Blade Server Modules & other Sun hardware, Fugitsu, Dell Hardware modules

Operating Systems: Solaris 8, 9& 10,Red Hat Linux 5.x/6.x, Windows NT/2000/2003

Application/web Servers: WebLogic 8.1, WebSphere 7.0/6.1.x, IBM HTTP Server 6.x/7.0, Apache Tomcat

Scripting Language: Unix shell scripting (Korn, C Shell ),Perl Scripting, JACL, Jython

Database: Oracle 11g,10g,/9i/8.1.7/, SqlServer 2000/7.0/6.5/6.0, DB2 UDB 8.2/8.1 /7.2, and MS-Access 2000

Networking: LDAP, NIS, NIS+, DNS, NFS, Send mail, AUTOFS, LAN, WAN, Firewalls protocols like DHCP, SMTP, SNMP, IPVP4, FTP.

Tools: and Utilities: Veritas Cluster Server 3.x/4.x/5.x, Sun Cluster, Veritas Volume Manager 3.5/4.x/5.0, Veritas File Systems, Solstice Disk Suite, EMC avamar backup, DTrace Toolkit

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hershey, PA

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Key member for providing Onsite support (24*7) for Unix Infrastructure Server as part of Managed Services program.
• SLA platinum category application with SLA timelines from 2 hours (Severity 1) to 1 day (Sev3 and above).
• Extensively worked with ZFS
• Worked on SAP CRM and Service Now incident management/monitoring tool.
• Maintained VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS File System on various Production servers.
• Worked on Preparing Root Cause Analysis Documents for Critical issue and providing a long term fix for the same
• Maintaining VCS for failover of all the DB servers in all environments.
• Monitored the production environment and responded to event alerts generated by Solar winds/Tivoli for UNIX production servers.
• Installing the Kernel Cluster Patches and Upgrading the Open Boot Prom/ILOM/ALOM Firmware for sun servers
• Daily Coordination and communication with clients, responsible IT engineers, Client Services Managers, and IT managers until resolution of the event..
• Works and communicates directly with clients for any production events.
• Follows and supports IT business processes including change management, configuration management.

Confidential, MA

Systems Admin

Responsibilities:

• Worked onAmazon CloudBased technologies in auto scale, highly resilient, fault tolerant environment in bothLinuxand Windowsenvironment.
• Experience withmigrating applicationsfrom customer on-premisesdatacenter to the cloudAmazon Web Services.
• Experience withAmazon Web ServicesCloud formationandlaunch configurationsto Automate repeatable provisioning of Amazon Web Services resources for applications.
• Involved in migrating from UFS and VXFS for boot device to ZFS on all our control domains and ldoms.
• Using Oracle virtual networking (Xsigo) to virtualize Solaris networking and storage capabilities.
• Configure profiles, templates, clouds in Xsigo.
• Experience working with Solaris zones and LDOMs in a clustered environment.
• Installing and configuring VCS, CFS and Oracle RAC.
• Upgrading Solaris 10 to Solaris 11 using live upgrade.
• Working closely with SAN Engineers in configuring storage from SAN and also involved in a major data migration project between arrays.
• Installed and configured Oracle VM for SPARC (Ldoms) and Solaris containers.
• Provisioned basic storage on VNX, VMAX for ESX and SPARC servers.
• Experience working with Oracle OPS center for provisioning OS on control domains and guest ldoms.
• Day to day resolution onLinuxbased issued though SMS ticketing system in compliance to SLA cycles.
• Troubleshooting networkadministration, DNS setup and modifications.
• Upgrading Emulex, QLogic HBA drivers.
• Installing, configuring and maintaining Solaris volume manager, Storage foundation.
• Monitor System Performance Parameters using iostat, vmstat.
• Written scripts for user administration, automation, system maintenance, security management, information gathering using Perl, shell (korn, sh, Bash).
• Involved in various critical data recovery, off-site disaster recovery tests and document procedures.
• System Administration - Tuning Kernel Parameters, Kernel debugging, process scheduling, Performance Monitoring, Security, Firewall, System Configuration, Kernel internals, Kerberos, TCP/IP communications.
• Disk mirroring and RAID (0/1/5) implementation using Solaris volume Manager.
• Worked closely with Web, App and DB teams in resolving Application issues and tuning the OS.

Environment: SUN Solaris 8,9,10, T3-2, T4-x, T5240, T5140, T1000, T5220, M3000, M4000, M5000, E15K, E10K, Sun Fire V280, V440, V880, Fujitsu 450, Red-Hat Linux Enterprise servers 5.x/6.x, VERITAS Volume manager, SVM, SUN cluster 3.1/3.2, EMC SAN.

Confidential, MA

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Administration of Solaris 8, 9 and 10 using Wanboot, Jumpstart, performance monitoring, scaling, capacity planning and hardware maintenance of servers.
• Creation of VMs for SUSE, Solaris x86 and RedhatLinux on VMWare ESX 3.5 and administering them with VI Client.
• Used Logical Volume Manager for the management of Volumes including creation of physical and logical volumes onLinux
• Performed volume management using SVM and LVM and the creation of zfs, VxFS, UFS and ext3 file systems.
• Performance tuning and troubleshooting of the applications and resolution of issues arising out of the ticketing systems in Remedy.
• Installation and configured SLES 9, 10 &11, Red hat 4.x, 5 on Dell Power Edge Blade servers using Kickstart with PXE for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP) installations.
• Experience with various third party tools to troubleshoot user applications, system problems, network troubles and other Hardware issues.
• Implemented ZFS on newer hardware.
• Performed storage provisioning in mutli-vendored, tiered network storage through EMC Navisphere.
• Experience working with Zones/Containers, Resource pools.
• Written scripts for user administration, automation, system maintenance, security management, information gathering using Perl, shell (korn, sh, Bash).
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Mail server, FTP server, NFS, NIS, LDAP and Samba servers on Sun Solaris, and Linux platforms.
• Migrating environment to Red Hat LINUX and worked with Linux server Administration.
• Installed and configured Red Hat Cluster.
• Worked with EMC - SAN, Navisphere Manager, Q-Logic drivers installation.
• Maintain file servers and directory services including Installation, Configuration of WebLogic 8.1, ApacheTomcat on various Development and Production Boxes.
• Involved in WebLogic clustering for High availability.

Environment: SUN Solaris 8,9,10, Red Hat Linux 5.x, 6.x, T5240, T5140, T1000, T2000, M3000, M4000, M5000, E15K, E10K, Sun Fire V280, V440, V880, V1280, Fujitsu 450, Netra T105, Red-Hat Linux Enterprise servers, ZFS, VERITAS Volume manager. Weblogic 8.1, Apachi Tomcat

Confidential, Pontiac, MI

Server Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and OS upgrade of Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10 and Red hat Linux.
• Tuning the kernel parameters based on the application/database requirement.
• Installation of OS on large scale using PXE and Kickstart.
• Experience working with installation of Zones & Containers.
• Upgrading Solaris OS by applying kernel patches and upgrading the firmwares from flash image.
• Written Shell Scripts to collect the System performance Information, account information on a daily basis.
• Managing disk storage with Veritas Volume Manager 4.1/5.0 and Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) with Veritas File System (VxFS).
• Installed, Configured and supported Oracle HA environment.
• Implemented and configured Backup policies and Storage Units.
• Implemented NIS and NFS for administrative and project requirements.
• Upgraded firmware patches in FCAL disk, storage controllers and Sun Fire Server system boards.
• Upgrading Solaris 8/9 using live upgrade and manual upgrade.
• Involved in the Implementation of the SunFire 4800/6800 in SUN Cluster 3.x environment.
• Experience in Installation, Administration, Configuration, Monitoring, Troubleshooting of Websphere Application Server 6.1/7.0 and IBM HTTP Server, and Plugin.
• Applied fix packs and involved in websphere application server migration from 6.1 to 7.0.
• Closely worked with Application groups in monitoringJVM, troubleshooting and fine-tuning the applications.

Environment: Sun Solaris 8,9,10, Red hat Linux 5.x, Sun 15K, 25K, Sun Fire 6800, 4800,V890, V880, V490,V480 and V210, VXFS, Veritas Volume Manager, Solstice Disk Suite, DNS, NIS, NFS, Sendmail, LDAP, Websphere 6.1/7.0, HTTP Server 6.1/7.0.