SUMMARY

• 7 Years of IT experience as Systems/Storage Administrator and DevOps Engineer in various fields of Server, Storage, Automation, Cloud and Virtualization areas.
• Administrated large and complex EC2 Instances associated with various AWS storage buckets.
• Well experienced in provisioning machines/instances in a fly with cloud formation, Auto scaling, VMware templates, clones, AWS snapshots.
• Hands on with configuration management of various multi - tier applications using Puppet, Chef.
• Monitoring of physical and virtual infrastructure using Nagios, Splunk, ELK stack, vCenter Operations Manager, and HP Insight Manager (HP SIM), SCCM.
• Hands on Shell and Python scripting to automate the tasks.
• Experience with Source Control Management SVN, GitHub, Bitbucket, Jenkins.
• Experience with various flavors of servers in UNIX systems such as Linux, CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu and windows 2008/2012 systems as well.
• Excellent experience in administration, configuration, troubleshooting of Amazon EBS, S3, Glacier and various Block level and NAS storage systems such as EMC Symmetrix DMX, VMAX, VNX, HDS VSP, NETAPP, PURE and ISILON series Storage systems.
• Experience in working with migration tools such as SRDF, Open Replicator for VMAX and DMX arrays, SAN Copy and mirror view in VNX and Clarion, SnapMirror for NetApp and HUR for Hitachi systems.
• Installed/Configured Managed ESX hosts, VMware Virtual Center. Extensively worked with vSphere Client, ESX3.5 and ESXi4.1/5.
• Good experience in installation, configuration and administration of AWS VPC, VMware vSwitches, NIC teaming, Brocade, Cisco Switches fabric management, load balancer.
• Migration experience in moving the servers from physical to virtual machine (P2V) conversions and virtual to virtual (V2V) using Plate-spin and VMware vConvertor tools between data centers.
• Deployed/configured/managed Virtual Machines, VLAN’s, VM/Storage/Network VMotion and snapshot Manager.
• Worked with Oracle, HP, and NetApp in data center activities such as part replacements, support cases.
• Involved in Linux and Solaris DR Exercises to recover servers across multiple Sites.
• Active team player, self-motivated individual with good communication, fast learner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cloud Services: AWS, VMware

Configuration Management: Puppet, Chef

Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Splunk

Build Tools: Jenkins

Version Control Systems: SVN, GIT, BITBUCKET

Virtualization Tools: Oracle Virtual Box, VMware

Operating Systems: CentOS, Ubuntu12, RHEL, windows 2008/2012

Scripting Languages: Ruby, Python, Shell

Storage: AWS, EBS, S3, Glacier, EMC, DMX, VMAX, VNX, HDSVSP, NETAPP, PURE, ISILON

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Richmond, VA

DevOps/Cloud operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on build and deployment in the Infrastructure setup for better user and Application experience and integrated various systems and generated reports in the financial services.
• Implemented various architecture plans for the Release and Build Environments.
• Designed the frameworks using Jenkins as the integration/build tool and Integrated GIT with Jenkins to automate and push the codes.
• Implementation of Jenkins and Puppet for a Continuous Delivery framework in Linux environment.
• Design the puppet manifests and modules for the AWS Cloud management and Puppet automation activities.
• Implemented AWS Code-Deploy plugin to deploy to AWS using Jenkins.
• Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), S3, RDS, EBS, Auto scaling groups, Cloud Front and IAM to create new users, roles and groups.
• Implemented various multi VPC (Virtual Private cloud) instances in the cloud and Optimized volumes and EC2 instances.
• Design experience with Snowball in the Data Center and migrated many applications to the AWS cloud.
• Created Stacks using Amazon Cloud Formation templates to launch AWS Infrastructure and resources.
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Nagios and Cloud Watch.
• Hands-on with Version controllers like GIT and Bitbucket.
• Configured and installed various packages on yum and rpm repository servers.
• Configuration and Administration of Apache, Tomcat and deployed the Java application into web application servers.
• Experienced in deployment of applications on Apache Webserver, Nginx and Application Servers such as Tomcat, JBoss.
• Managed and monitored the server and network infrastructure using NAGIOS, App dynamics.
• Using Puppet, resolved TCP/IP network connectivity issues for the clients. Maintain and improved scripts using Shell for the services such as start, stop, restart, recycle, Cron jobs.
• Installation and configuration of SSH (Secure Shell) encryption for the secure access to Centos and Red hat Linux and Performed Disk management using LVM (Logical Volume Manager).
• Installation/configuration/management of software analysis, patching, system maintenance, hardware replacements and upgrades.
• Perform Linux Kernel tuning for web, database and application servers.
• Install/Deploy/Automate on Windows Server 2008, 2012 configuration on the servers.
• In-depth knowledge in Microsoft Windows 2008 & 2012 Active Directory.
• Contributed to defining policies and procedures including domain migration, server consolidation, multi-platform migration, disaster recovery.
• Installed and configured Migrated Exchange, Exchange client configuration using Microsoft Office Outlook.
• Hands-on Scripting in Shell, Python and Ruby.
• Active team player, self-motivated individual with good communication skills, fast learner.

Environment: GIT, BITBUCKET, JENKINS, PUPPET, NAGIOS, AWS, EC2, SHELL, PYTHON, RUBY, APACHE, TOMCAT, WINDOW 2008/2012, RHEL, CENTOS

Confidential, Charlotte, NC

Sr. Systems/ Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administered RHEL, Solaris, SUN/IBM/HP hardware, Weblogic, JBoss, Tomcat, Apache, components and VMware ESXi Environment in Data Center.
• Installed/Configured RedHat Satellite server for RHEL patching.
• Created/maintained child channels in RHEL Satellite server for multiple RHEL clients and also created/managed automated patches delivery schedules monthly.
• Installed/Configured/upgraded/Administered Weblogic 10g/11g/12c, Tomcat, and Apache.
• Implemented and configured Delivery framework methods with puppet and Jenkins in Linux environment.
• Experience with the documentation and implementation of - Chef Basics, Initial setup, Cookbook document, Data bags Coding standards, Testing docs and automate deployment of cookbooks on nodes.
• Provisioned various AWS servers with Chef Recipes.
• Implemented production support scripts to work with chef recipes and testing of cookbooks.
• Configured/Implemented SRDF, HUR and Host based migration of data from VMAX/HITACHI Arrays to VMAX/HITACHI Arrays.
• Responsible for administration of multi-vendor tiered storage environment, performing daily administrative tasks like storage provisioning and troubleshooting SAN related issues including incident escalations and root cause analysis and remediation.
• Performed basic zoning operations on Cisco MDS Director Switches 9513 and 9509, which included configuring multiple VSANs, configuring Port Channels. Both command line and Fabric/Device Manager were used.
• Storage integration to server/host technologies such as VMware, Linux, Windows, Cisco UCS.
• Configured/Managed VM/Storage VMotion & Datastores, defined DRS policies and also deployed Clones, Templates as VM’s using vSphere client in VMware Esx3.5 and ESXi5.1.
• Configured/Administered VM’s in SUN LDOM servers and also managed ZFS, ZPOOL’s, Zone’s in Solaris 10.
• Hands-on with configure/manage the NFS, CIFS and LUN shares from NetApp controllers.
• Extensively worked with VERITAS Volume management (VxVm), VERITAS File system (VxFS), Cluster Management (VCS) and designed HA for DB/Applications.
• Worked closely with NGOSS for OS Monitoring, APM, Wily for Application and ops-manager for NetApp/SAN monitoring, Solaris Winds for Network monitoring.
• Worked Closely with Database, Network, Hardware Team’s within the Data Center to resolve the issues in timely fashion.
• Coordinated with Developers and Deployed Applications onto Weblogic, Apache and Tomcat.
• Participated in on-call rotation to provide 24x7 technical supports.

Environment: RHEL4/5, RHEL Satellite Server, Solaris, CHEF, JENKINS, EMC, Hitachi, VMware ESX, ESXi, IBM L/H Blade Center, HP ProLiant Series, SUN Blade Center, Weblogic, Tomcat, Apache.

Confidential, Long Beach, CA

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for maintaining/resolving issues for SUN/IBM/HP hardware and install/ configure/ maintain the Solaris 9/10 & RHEL 3/4 Operating systems.
• Responsible for hardware, OS related patching/upgrades and involved in capacity planning and also designed Backup, Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Responsible for Deploying Red Hat Satellite server, defining/managing channels, automating the patching by defining schedules, Syncing with RHN server.
• Responsible for configuring RHEL clients to get the patches from RHEL Satellite server and also responsible for coordinating with teams for patching schedule.
• Worked with Build team to build various Middleware environments like Weblogic 9/10, Tomcat 4 and apache, also tuned, clustered the middleware and Application components to get best throughput.
• Worked closely with Application team to deploy the applications in Middleware environment and also responsible for resolving the related issues.
• Responsible for bulk network installation of Solaris & RHEL OS using JumpStart & Kickstart tools
• Worked extensively with VMWare ESX environment and Solaris 10 Zones virtualization environment.
• Designed /configured F5 load balancing for the HA applications and also configured the Weblogic Cluster, Apache load balancing.
• Scheduling backups, creating users, writing scripts for administration tasks.
• Configured DNS, DHCP servers & Installation of Weblogic, troubleshooting etc.
• Worked extensively with VxVM tools, configured VCS for multiple Databases.
• Worked with EMC storage Arrays, NetApp tools, and SAN tools and monitoring tools like Nagios, ops-monitor to monitor server/application/storage.
• Participated in on-call rotation to provide 24x7 technical supports.
• Being a team player, responsible for resolving Team Incident/Changes queue.

Environment: RHEL3/4, RHEL Satellite server, Solaris 9/10, VCS, VxVM, WebLogic, Tomcat, VMware ESX3, NetApp, IBM L/H blade chassis, HP C3000 Chassis, Cisco Catalog Switch.

Confidential

Linux/System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• User administration on Sun Solaris and RHEL systems, management & archiving.
• Installed HP-UX and configured logical volumes using logical volume manager and also configured mirroring
• Installed RHEL 4 using Kickstart and custom building the servers per SOW.
• Installed/configured EMC Storage with 0, 1& 5 RAID configurations.
• Installed and maintained Security issues.
• Installed VERITAS Volume Manager, VCS Cluster Server for failover and for mirroring and raid level
• Configurations on EMC storage frames
• Performed all System Administration tasks like Cron jobs, installing packages, and patches.
• Troubleshooting the network issues and response problems
• Creating new file systems, managing and checking data Consistency of file systems
• Administration and auditing the SUN servers and installation of the patches on production and development systems
• Configuring NFS, NIS, DNS, Auto-mounter and disk Space management on SUN servers
• SENDMAIL configuration and administration, testing the mail server.
• Administration in VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS Cluster Server.
• Creation &Maintenance of user accounts & passwords & profiles, home directories, initialization of files, Groups creation and management, setting file permissions, customizing shell environment setup for users.
• Troubleshooting various problems related to VxVM in initializing, replacing, mirroring, encapsulating and removing disk devices on various Production Boxes.
• Administered the Middleware environments compromise of Oracle Weblog Server 8.1, Tomcat. Closely worked with Application teams to identify and resolve the application level issues.
• Managing technical support team which is responsible for infrastructure services on UNIX environment.
• Experience with adding and configuring devices like Hard disks and Backup devices etc.
• Updating servers with latest service packs and hot fixes.
• Experience with configuring and managing Virtual disks, Disk Mirrors.
• Creating standard process for group policy deployment

Environment: Solaris 8/9, RHEL 3/4, HP-UX, VCS, NetBackup, EMC, Veritas, IBM Blade chassis, HP ProLiant