SUMMARY

• Certified System Engineer having 8 years of working experience in Red Hat Linux, Solaris, VMware and AIX Engineering and Administration. Also involved in architecture team role which includes planning, designing, installation, configuration, troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Working knowledge of Installation, configuration, automating and administration of Red Hat Linux 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x and 7.0 on HP/Dell Rack, blade servers and on IBM X86, Power hardware. Also worked on Solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11 on Sun Servers and IBM AIX 6.x and 7.x.
• Installation of Red Hat and Oracle Enterprise Linux Operating system utilizing Kickstart PXE boot method on physical server(s) and via templates on Virtual environment.
• Worked on deploying Linux OS via VMware vCAC on physical and virtual environment.
• Installation of Solaris Operating system via Jumpstart/Wanboot methods.
• Working knowledge on vSphere cluster and ESXi host Architecture. Guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, cloning and snapshots.
• Proficiency in advanced features of ESX/ESXi, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler), VM Lab Manager, Update Manager.
• Working knowledge and experience with AIX 6.1 and 7.1 server, HACMP, VIO, LPAR, DLPAR, WPAR and HMC.
• Managed licenses and applied patches for Red Hat Linux server via Red Hat Satellite server.
• Experience in Shell and Python scripting to automate system administration jobs. Also implemented and enhanced existing scripts developed in Shell and Ruby.
• Worked on Solaris migration from one data center to another data center, utilizing FLAR image.
• Implemented seamless 200+ conversions from Physical to Virtual and Virtual to Virtual environment using VMware converter.
• Trained team on Chef by building Chef QA environment
• Worked on creating Chef Recipes for Cookbooks during training session with team. On Examples like post install tools and OS configuration setting by creating Chef Recipes.
• Having working knowledge on OVF/OVA file deployment in virtual environment for various flavor of UNIX related to X86 architecture in VMware environment
• Extensive experience in installing, integrating, tuning, and troubleshooting Apache, Tomcat and WebSphere application server and webserver, webfocus IHS Also involved in troubleshooting.
• Worked with team on AIX 5x, 6x and 7.x during the installation, up - gradation, migration and troubleshooting process.
• Having good working knowledge on QIP networking tool. Registering, modifying and removing VLAN and IP Address from QIP.
• Experience in installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of Red Hat Linux and Solaris.
• Expertise in Volume management, Disk Management, software RAID solutions using Veritas Volume manager 3.5/,4.1 .File system Tuning and growing using Veritas File System (VxFS), planed, documented and supported high availability, data replication, business persistent, fail-over, fall-back Solutions using Veritas Cluster Server 4.0 in SAN environment.
• Worked with Backup Team to Configure the Master and Client Backup servers Using VERITAS Net Back up 4.5/5.0
• Performed Servers consolidation and virtualization using VMware virtual infrastructure, VMware ESX, Virtual Center, VM tools.
• Experience in installation and configuration of SAMBA.
• Having good understanding of SAN (SAN arrays; HITACHI, EMC, XIV) technology including zoning, disk creation on various systems, maintaining and configuring various fiber switches and storages.
• Experience in network administration, deploying and troubleshooting of DNS, LDAP, NIS, NFS and DHCP etc.
• Expertise in System performance tuning, capacity planning and Disaster Recovery planning.
• Experience with patching of Linux, Solaris servers. Hardening of servers using native and third party tools like HPSA, bigfix and BMC BladeLogic.
• Good working Knowledge in virtualization using zones, domains and Ldoms for Solaris SPARC environment.
• Proficient in Installation, configuration, maintenance of open LDAP server and applications integrated with Apache Web server and Postfix mail server for user authentication.
• Strong technical background in Storage, Disk Management, Logical Volume Management (LVM) and logical partitioning.
• Worked on CA Access Control. PAM install, configure and troubleshooting for various flavors of Unix.
• Worked on Installation and configuration of ACX, nCipher and Cryptovault.
• Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, Ethernet), NIS, DNS, NFS, DHCP, SMTP and RAID.
• Knowledge of Routers and Switches, Subnet, VLAN, TCP/IP, VPN, OSI model, Firewall (checkpoint), VOIP, and Sarbanes Oxley compliance (SOX).
• Extensive experience in UNIX performance monitoring and kernel tuning and Load balancing to ensure stable performance.
• Quick learner and team player with strong analytical, trouble-shooting and communication skills.
• Worked on 24X7 on call support rotation basis.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Linux (Red Hat, Oracle & SuSE), Solaris 11/10/9/8, IBM AIX (5.x, 6.x & 7.x).

Storage: IBM XIV, EMC, Tivoli storage manager 5.4/5.3 and Netbackup.

Hardware: HP DL380, DL580, BL460c, BL660c, P6, P7, M5000, M8000, T5220, T5240, T2000, T4, T, Sun Fire 6800, Sun Fire 4900, Sun Fire 3800, Sun Fire 490, v280, v880, v890, Sun Enterprise Servers E6500, E4500, E3500, P5, P6, P7, HP Chassis c7000, Cisco UCS 5108 Blade Server Chassis, 220m Rack server

Networking: TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, WAN, SMTP, LAN, FTP/TFTP.

WEB Technologies: Tomcat, APACHE 2.x, Web Logic (8/9/10) & Web Sphere 4.0/5.0

Programming Language: Shell scripting, Python and Ruby

Backup Management: Veritas Netbackup 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x, Ufsdump, Ufsrestore, tar, cpio, dd, Tivoli

Third Party Software: VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Cluster Service(VCS), Sun Cluster, EMC Storage, RAID Technologies, SSL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irving TX

Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working on Unix server migration from AIX, Solaris to Red Hat Linux 6.x and 7.x version.
• Installation of Red Hat Linux Operating system utilizing kickstart for physical and via template and ova file for virtual server(s).
• Working closely with project team on Linux project and provides solution with reference to their requirement.
• Working on server support for server(s) which had gone through migration phase till project window timeframe.
• Worked with networking team for live migration of network switches and supported Linux server(s).
• Working on V2V and P2V server migration by utilizing VMware Converter for Red Hat Linux.
• Managed licenses and applied patches for Red Hat Linux server via Red Hat Satellite server.
• Worked on automating tools installation via shell script.

Environment: RHEL 5.x, 6.x, 7.x; Solaris 10, 11; AIX 5.x, 6.x, 7.x; vSphere 4.1, 5.0, 5.5

Confidential, Dallas TX

Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Red Hat Linux Operating system utilizing VMware vCAC for both physical and virtual server(s).
• Worked closely with SAP and Oracle database team(s) for server migration, starting with server build till server migration completion/cutover phase.
• Worked with SAP team for migrating server(s) from Solaris SPAR to Red Hat Linux environment.
• Worked on V2V server migration by using VMware Converter for various Linux distributions. And for P2V server migration used PlateSpin.
• Managed licenses and applied patches for Red Hat Linux server via Red Hat Satellite server.
• Worked on automating tools installation via shell script.

Environment: RHEL 5.x, 6.x; Solaris 10; SUSE 11.x; vSphere 4.1, 5.0, 5.5

Confidential, Orlando FL

UNIX Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Red Hat and Oracle Enterprise Linux Operating system utilizing Kickstart PXE boot method on physical server(s) and via templates on Virtual environment.
• Worked on Solaris for data center migration, utilizing FLAR image. And new builds via jumpstart and few via wanboot server.
• Created kickstart environment for new data centers.
• Worked on P2V and V2V migration by using VMware Converter.
• Worked on OVF/OVA file deployment in virtual environment for various flavor of UNIX related to X86 architecture in VMware environment
• Worked on ESX/ESXi, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA with reference to X86 architecture server(s).
• Experience with patching of Linux, Solaris server(s) and hardening using native and third party tools like HPSA and bigfix.
• Worked with Backup Team to Configure the Master and Client Backup servers Using VERITAS Net Back up 4.5/5.0.
• Trained team on Chef by building Chef QA environment
• Worked on creating Chef Recipes for Cookbooks during training session with team. On Examples like post install tools and OS configuration setting by creating Chef Recipes.
• Experience in Shell, Python and Ruby scripting to automate system administration jobs
• Worked on documentation and process update
• Worked in on-call rotational basis tech support for priority Solaris and Linux tickets.

Environment: RHEL 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x; OEL 5.x, 6.x; ESXi 4.1 and ESXi 5.0/5.1; vSpeher 5.x; Solaris 10; HMC 6.x; AIX 6.1 and 7.1

Confidential, Fort Worth TX

Solaris/Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked in virtualization using zones, domains and Ldoms for Solaris SPARC environment.
• Involved in migrating architectural work flow process for Solaris and Linux server(s).
• Migrated Solaris 10 operating system utilizing FLAR image.
• Worked on creating Shell and Python scripting to automate system administration and installation jobs for migration.
• Worked on P2V conversions for Linux Operating system by using VMware Converter.
• Worked on ESX/ESXi, vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler), VM Lab Manager, Update Manager with reference to Linux Virtual environment and Solaris virtual on X86 architecture.
• Worked on BMC BladeLogic automation tool for server hardening
• Worked on 24X7 on call support rotation basis

Environment: Solaris 10, 11; RHEL 4.x, 5.x; ESXi 4.x; vSphere 5.x

Confidential, Irving TX

Linux/VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Red Hat and Oracle Enterprise Linux Operating system utilizing Kickstart PXE boot method on physical server(s) and via templates on Virtual environment
• Installation of Solaris utilizing Jumpstart FLAR image.
• Created kickstart environment for server migration.
• Worked on HMC upgrades from 5.x to 6.x.
• Worked on P2V and V2V conversions by using VMware Converter.
• Implemented and enhanced existing scripts developed in Shell and Ruby.

Environment: RHEL 5.x, 6.x; OEL 5.x; Solaris 10; ESX 3.5, ESXi 4.1; HMC 5.x, 6.x

Confidential, O’Fallon MO

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked as UNIX system administrator
• Responsibilities of installation and configuration of ACX, nCipher and Cryptovault security software(s)
• Responsibilities of user and group creation along with CA PAM installation and configuration.
• Responsible to maintain and work on day to day tickets.
• Worked on CA Access Control, PAM install, configure and troubleshooting for various flavors of UNIX.
• Managed day to day System Security administration responsibilities.
• Worked on 24X7 on call support in rotation basis.

Environment: RHEL 4.x, 5.x; Solaris 8, 9 and 10; AIX 5.x and 6.x

Confidential, Dallas TX

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked as UNIX system administrator
• Responsibilities of user and group creation and management, disk management, printer and security management, File sharing Permissions.
• Managed day to day System administration responsibilities and worked on assigned tickets.
• Worked on network administration and desktop support for UNIX environment.
• Worked on QC validation for the new server build release.

Environment: RHEL 3.x, 4.x; Solaris 8, 9