SUMMARY

• 7 plus years of experience as UNIX Administration in SUN - SOLARIS (8,9,10, 11), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (4,5,6) and Windows, knowledge in computer hardware and I/O devices.
• Solution-Oriented, Competent and Committed UNIX Administrator with 7+ years of experience in IT Consulting.
• Skilled in Planning, Configuration, Administration, and Maintenance of UNIX (Solaris/Linux/AIX) and LEGACY Systems.
• Good experience in Scheduling Full Backup and Incremental Backup for daily, weekly and monthly Basis and creating Installation & Configuration Documentations.
• Maintain a working environment that promotes Productivity, Responsiveness, High Team Morale,Motivation and Excellence.
• Effective Communication and Strong Work ethics taking ownership of Duties and Responsibilities.
• Outstanding organizational skills including ability to Multi-Task, Prioritize, manage increasingly Complex Issues, Work independently and organize workload with Minimal Supervision.
• Tied together disparate pieces to build a fully automated bare-metal to production server build system using RequestTracker(RT) with the AssetTracker plugin as the system of record. DNS, DHCP, kickstart, and puppet tied into the system.
• Solid Understanding and Extensive Experience in Installation, Configuration and Administration of VERITAS NetBackup 5.0, 6.0, 6.5, VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.0, 5.0 and Storage Foundation Custer File System.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Solaris 9, 10, 11 & open Solaris, RHEL 3, 4, 5 & 6, CentOS 5, Fedora, Open SUSE 10.x/11.x, AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, Windows XP/2000/2003.

Hardware: Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers (M Series, T Series - M5K, M4K, M3K, T5440, T5240, T5220, T2000), Sun Fire Servers (V880, V490, V480, V245, V240), HP Proliant DL 300/500 series, IBM x3650, HP9000 series, IBM P Series, Sun StorEdge T3/T4 arrays (6120, 2540), Overland REO 8000, Quantum Scalar 50 LTO4, IBM ADIC Scalar 24 LTO3, 8mm SDLT Tape Libraries, NetApp, Dell Power Edge, EMC CLARiiON (CX600, CX700), etc.

Languages: Java Script, puppet, UNIX Shell Scripts & PERL Script

Networks: DNS, DNSSEC, BIND, DHCP, NFS, NIS, LDAP, NAS, and SAN.

Databases: Oracle 10g & 11g, Sybase 12 & 15.

Protocols: TCP/IP, SFTP, SSH, SMTP, HTTP, RIP, IGRP, OSPF

Web & App. Servers: IBMIHS, Apache2, BEA Web Logic 8.1/9.2/10.x, Web Sphere 5.x/6.0.x/6.1.x/6.2.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

Sr Unix Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed configured and built servers using Jumpstart and Flar Images (Servers included v240, V440, V880, E6500, E4500, E450). Provided support to mission critical applications spread over 800 servers.
• Installed and configured Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3,4,5,6 on VMware.
• Installed and configured Solaris 9,10,11. Configured Zones and LDOMs and containers for Solaris 10, 11.
• Designed, implemented & maintained multi node Veritas Cluster.
• Prepared server availability report for the management.
• Planned & Implemented Patch and Packages installations, quarterly patching of servers through BladeLogic.
• Upgraded Solaris OS (Live upgrade from Solaris 10 to Solaris 11).
• Implemented Root Mirroring for systems using VxVm (Veritas Volume Manager) and Solstice Disk Suite.
• Upgraded Veritas Volume Manager from 3.x to 5.x
• Supported databases like Oracle & Web servers like Apache, Tomcat & other proprietary applications.
• Deployed Puppet, Puppet Dashboard, and PuppetDB for configuration
• Installed Configured and Managed NIS, NFS, DNS and Send Mail. Configured DHCP Red Hat Linux server.
• Basic Configuration and VLAN setup on Cisco 1900, 2950, 2960 Switches.
• Production support for mission critical servers in PSoft, Oracle, Web environments
• Performance troubleshooting on day to day basis
• Implementation of PCI security standards for SAS70 and internal IT audits across UNIX shop compromising of AIX (5.3, 6.1), Solaris (9, 10, and 11) and RHEL (5,6).
• Automation of jobs using Perl and Shell scripting for Unix infrastructure.
• Built a Linux kickstart server on x86 machines, deployment of HP Blade server running RHEL 5 using VMware.
• Built M3K, M4K and M5K Servers for replacing old Sun Fire V480 and V490 Servers. Configured XSCF controller for Console Access. Moved all the Applications such as Oracle, NetIQ, Tivoli Client, VERITAS Netbackup Client, etc to the New Server and configured them as Original.

Environment: V490, V880, T2000, T5240, T5220, T3-2, M5000, M9000,Teradata, Exadata, Solstice Disk Suite, Veritas Cluster, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, Redhat Linux 5.x, Shell scripting, puppet,Oracle, Apache, Tomcat.

Confidential, Naperville, IL

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing, upgrading and configuring SUN Solaris 8, 9 and 10 on Sun Servers using jump start and Linux Operating System on Sparc, x86 and HP Blade Chassis servers.
• Plan and implement assigned projects, change management, on-call support, and hotline bridge participation.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance DNS servers, Mail servers, FTP servers, NFS, NIS, NIS+ and Samba Web servers on Sun Solaris, and Linux platforms.
• Involved in setting up accounting systems and performing ongoing system with the administrative tasks. Extensive user and group management through admin tool.
• Used Kickstart and Jumpstart for server builds and net booting.
• Troubleshooting and analysis of hardware and software failures for various Solaris servers (core dump and log file analysis).
• Configuring distributed file systems and administering NFS server and NFS clients and editing auto-mounting mapping as per system / user requirements.
• Installation and monitoring of Sun Volume Manager, Sun Cluster Server in SAN Environment.
• Providing 24 x 7 supports to various application level server level & network level Monitoring and troubleshooting of any datacenter outages.
• Providing Support to networking services and protocols such as TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, and HTTP.
• Involved in development, user acceptance, performance testing, production & disaster recovery servers

Environment: SUN Solaris 8/9, Linux, E250, E10K, E4500, SunfireV880/440, Sun Storage (SAN), Solaris Volume Manager, Web logic 8.1

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed, Patched and Upgraded Latest Solaris 7,8,9 on Various Sun Platforms of Sun Hardware. Applied Security settings based on DNIA standards and made all system settings homogenous across all the servers.
• Upgraded Solaris Patches, Data Encryption Kit, etc on all TEST, DEV and PRODUCTION Servers.
• Installing RHEL 3,4 on VMware platforms.
• Installed New VERITAS Netbackup clients and upgraded the Server and other Clients to VERITAS Netbackup version 6.5.6. Attended training for VERITAS Netbackup 6.5 for Solaris
• Wrote Bash Scripts in Unix infrastructure to gather information from all the servers across the domains and have them monitored for user accounts, file systems and system messages with errors and warnings.
• Performed Server Virtualization on Sun T5240 Server using ZFS, Zones and Solaris Containers. Have configured both Sparse Root as well as Whole Root Zones. Used ZFS Mirror and ZFS Snapshots for redundancy.
• Upgraded the firmware ILOM version from 2.0 to 3.0 on both Sun Enterprise T5220 and T5240 Servers. Configured Hardware RAID configurations on internal drives using raidctl on T5240 server.
• Installation configuration of puppet master and puppet agent to ensure central administration, user creation, package update and maintenance of the infrastructure.
• Upgraded Firmware for Sun 6120 Storage Array and also the firmware for the Disk Drives on it. Replaced Failed Batteries on the Storage array.
• Handled and Maintained Backup, Restoration, and Tape Management. Installed and Configured Netbackup clients and scheduled backup jobs. Also used Backup scripts using UFSDUMP on Tape.
• Restored data from a tape with expired image. Imported the image and then restored it to the original location. Handled changing DLT, SDLT, LTO3/4 tape drives and labeling them accordingly.
• Added SCSI cards for configuring New HP LTO4 Tape Library and external SysKonnect Network Cards for Storage Network. Configured Jumbo Frames on SysKonnect as well as on board NICS for setting fixed MTU.

Environment: Solaris 9, DNSSEC, BIND, ZFS, VxVM, VxFS, Tivoli, VERITAS Netbackup 6.5.6, ORACLE, Web logic.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported an environment that consisted of Solaris 7, 8 on Sun E220, E420, E450, E3500, and E4500 in both development and production.
• Configuring the NIS master, NIS Slave and configuring the NIS clients.
• Installed and Supported Debian, RHEL and SCO Linux.
• Implementing file sharing on the network by configuring NFS on the system to share essential resources
• Maintaining Patches and Packages to keep the servers up to date with latest OS versions.
• Setting Up and Trouble-shooting Sendmail and DNS.
• Performed custom Jumpstart to install Sun OS on Sun Servers/workstations.
• Working on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Working on Migration concepts like Vmotion and cold migration
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of Vms from templates.
• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Web Servers, Application Servers and Database Servers on Sun Solaris.
• Working on VMware clustering like HA and DRS clusters using VC.
• Design & Implement Storage Area Network (SAN) with Brocade switches & McData director.
• Worked on resource management framework like creation resource pools, adding the VMs into resource pools.
• Involved in configuration management, software deployment, change management, performance monitoring & tuning, and application maintenance.
• Created snapshots of clones of LUNs using EMC Snap Views.
• Wrote shell scripts (sh, bash, ksh) to automate day-to-day activities.
• Consulting with clients on Sendmail, DNS, LDAP, POP and IMAP issues.
• Monitoring network performance and implementing security tools on the system.
• Documentation of UNIX environment and configuration details.
• Planning and implementing system upgrades including hardware, operating system and periodical patch upgrades through BladeLogic.
• Configured Solaris Logical Domains and Containers.
• Used Kickstart and Jumpstart for building servers extensively.
• Setting up RAID levels on Sun Storage Equipments using Veritas Volume Manager and Solstice Disksuite on new/existing production/development systems for reliability, fault tolerance, and availability
• Adding/expanding new storage to existing/new systems using Veritas Volume Manager.
• Documenting Maintenance process and change management.

Environment: Solaris 7, 8 with NFS and NIS, Sun Ultra Sparc 60, Sun E220, E250, E450, E3500, E4500, Sun StorEdge L20 Tape Library,, LDOM, VMware,puppet Solstice Disk Suites, Apache 1.2.x, Veritas Volume Manager 3.1.Weblogic 6.2.