SUMMARY

• Over eight years of experience specialized in System Administration working on Redhat Linux, Solaris, Suse Linux, AIX, Cent OS, OEL and Windows environments.
• Video Asset Management, Transcoding, Quality Control, HD Encoding, Metadata transformation, and other related technologies used to produce Video On Demand, Online Media, Mobile Media and Envivio Elemental and Cisco DCM Transcoders, Unix, Vmware and scripting etc
• Knowledge of software configuration management systems, continuous integration / continuous delivery, and release management tools
• Experience in administering Solaris & Linux. Experience in Installation, Configuration, Backup, Recovery, Maintenance, Support of Sun Solaris & Linux.
• Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring RedHat Linux 3.x, 4.x, 5.x using Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring SUN Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 on Sun Servers using Jumpstart Servers, Flash Archives and Interactive Installation.
• Worked with Database administrators to tune kernel for Oracle installations.
• Experience with Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), Veritas File System (VxFS), Veritas Net Backup, Veritas Clustering with SAN, NAS environment.
• Experience in installing, configuring and implementing the RAID technologies using various tools like VxVM and Solaris volume manager.
• Experience in Creation and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring in Solaris and Redhat Linux.
• Installation and upgradation of Packages and Patches configuration mgmt, version control, service pack. & reviewing connectivity issue regarding security problem.
• Experience in configuration of NIS, NIS+, DNS, DHCP, NFS, LDAP, SAMBA, SQUID, postfix, sendmail, ftp, remote access, security management and Security trouble shooting skills.
• Experience on Webservers such as iPlanet Webserver 6.0 /Sun one web server 6.3, 6.5, Tomcat 3.x, 4.x, 5.x & Apache Server 1.x,2.x and integrating them with Weblogic 10.x servers.
• Experience in administering VMware Infrastructure Client 3.5 and Vsphere 4.0.
• Experience in Installation of Oracle and MYSQL.
• Experience in writing shell scripts to automate the administrative tasks and management using cron and at.
• Expertise in scripting for automation, and monitoring using Shell, PHP, Python & Perl scripts.
• Team player with good management, analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in Installing Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning on Unix/Linux systems.
• Experience in Sun Solaris 10(Creation of Zones, Service Management Facilities, Virtualization, Container based).
• Experience working in SAN environment like EMC Symmetrix DMX3, DMX4 and Clariion CX3 series arrays.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: RHEL 3/4/5/6, Solaris Release 2.10/2.9/2.8/2.7 , *BSD, Solaris, WindowsNT+IBM - AIX 5.X, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and NT.

Databases: Oracle v6- 11g, MS SQLserver, MySQL

Hardware: HP Proliant, Blade servers, Sun Servers E450, E3500, E4500, E5000, E6500, E10k, E15k, E25k, Sun Ultra’s, V210, V280, V490, V880, V6800 SUN Ray (1g Ultra Thin Client) SUN Desktops (SPARC 10, 5), DMX3 and DMX4 Storage Arrays, F5.

Storage: EMC DMX/CLARiiON/Celerra, NetApp, IBM 8300+SVC, Equallogic, Linux IET/SCST, Brocade/McDATA switches. virtualization: VMware, Xen, KVM

Directories: Redhat/iPlanet, Novell (NDS), OpenLDAP

App Servers: Tomcat/JBOSS, WebSphere, Ruby Mongrel, Netdynamics

Software: Veritas Volume Manager 3.5/4/5, Veritas File System, Veritas Cluster Server 3.5, Veritas Netbackup 6.0, MS-Office/MS-Project.

Web/ Application Server: Tomcat, Apache DB2, Oracle.splunk,Op5 monitoring

Network Protocols: DHCP, DIG, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, Ethernet, IOS, netstat, NFS, NIS, nslookup, RIP, OSPF, BGP, TCP/IP, and tcpdump..

Cluster Environment: Sun Cluster Servers 2.2, 3.1, 3.2 and VERITAS Cluster Servers 4.1.

Programming Languages: C, SQL, HTML, PHP, XML, Perl and Shell Programming, JSP, Python

Firewalls: Juniper/NetScreen, Checkpoint, Vyatta, IPFilter

Switches: Dell, Cisco, HP, Extreme, F5 3DNS/BigIP, Cisco ACE/5000, SSL- VPN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, administration of RHEL 6, Solaris 9, 10 on SPARC based servers using Kickstart and Jumpstart.
• Worked on Video Asset Management, Transcoding, Quality Control, HD Encoding, Metadata transformation, and other related technologies used to produce Video On Demand, Online Media, Mobile Media and Envivio, Elemental and Cisco DCM Transcoders, Unix, VMware and scripting etc.
• DRM delivery over HLS and other technologies for all major customer rollouts in the US Also manage testing across over 100 devices for Android and iOS.
• Expert in video and networking technologies for over the top and home streaming of content. Mainly focused on SecureMedia DRM but also involved in Widewinde and PlayReady solutions.
• Excellent experience of working with Chef and Puppet frameworks and methodologies (Git, Maven, Ant, Git Flow, TeamCity, Buildbot, etc).
• Op5 server monitoring to control over production media linear and CDVR operations and deliver more effective IT services for better business.
• 24X7 Production Support Team and Incident Analysts who are instrumental in providing oncall triage support and resolution of major outages.
• Installing RedHat Linux using kickstart and applying security polices for hardening the server based on the company policies.
• Worked on Openstack (Havana) which includes installation, configuration, administration of virtual machines, creating security groups, adding resources.
• Administration, package installation, configuration of Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4.
• RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management.
• Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging, network logging of servers for maintenance, performance tuning, testing.
• Installation of Solaris 9, 10 on Sun Fire and Enterprise server using Jumpstart, custom configuration like installing packages, configuring services.
• Tech and non-tech refresh of Linux servers, which includes new hardware, OS, upgrade, application installation, testing.
• Installing, configuring Redhat servers via Cobbler, automating scripts, tasks using Cobbler.
• Installation, configuration of MySQL 5.1 which includes creating database tables, updating table entries.
• Installing, configuring Jboss 4.3 on Linux, Unix servers, integrating it with Apache server.
• Worked on E-commerce based application products related to internet marketing, credit card transactions, Inventory management.
• Designing Firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with application, Oracle 10g servers.
• Monitored server and application performance & tuning via various stat commands (vmstat, nfsstat, iostat etc) and tuned I/O, memory, etc. Installing, configuring Weblogic 10.3, Apache and integrating them.
• Experienced in Troubleshooting critical hardware and software issues and other day-to-day user trouble tickets.
• Adding servers to the domain and monitoring them using spectrum, sitescope, cacti.
• Developed automated processes that run daily to check disk usage and perform cleanup of file systems on UNIX environments using shell scripting and CRON.

Environment: Red-Hat Linux Enterprise servers (HP Proliant DL 585, BL 465/485,ML Series, SAN(Netapp), BladeLogic, Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, Windows 2003 server, Shell programming, Jboss 4.2, JDK 1.5,1.6,, VMware Virtual Client 3.5, VMware Insfrastructure 3.5.

Confidential, Dearborn, Michigan

Sr. Linux/Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and administration of RHEL 4, 5., 6.2 and Cent OS 5.
• Installation, configuration, administration of Solaris 9,10 on SPARC based servers using Jumpstart, worked on T. M series servers.
• Configured kickstart server and updating/applying patches to the servers using Redhat Satellite server.
• Remote system administration using tools like SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin.
• Planning and implementing system upgrades including hardware, operating system and periodical patch upgrades.
• Applied appropriate support packages/patches to maintain system integrity.
• Performed capacity analysis, monitored and controlled disk space usage on systems.
• Monitored system activities and fine tuned system parameters and configurations to optimize performance and ensure security of systems.
• Pushing files, updates using CFEngine.
• Adding servers to domain and managing the groups and user in AD, installing and configuring sendmail.
• Custom build of Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers which includes adding users, SAN, network configuration, installing application related packages, managing services.
• Creating profiles, manifests for new servers, and pushing them to servers using puppet.
• Responsible for maintenance of development tools and utilities and to maintain shell, Perl automation scripts.
• Installed, configured AIX 5.3, 6.1 on IBM p,x series servers using NIM, creating LPARs using HMC on p series servers.
• Creating virtual machines using Xen and deploying OS, managing hardware.
• Creating, installing, Weblogic Application servers, deploying WAR, JAR files on them installed on both Linux, Solaris servers.
• Installing, configuring Jboss 4.3 on Linux, Unix servers, integrating it with Apache server.
• Worked with project manager and auditing teams to implement PCI, SOX compliance.
• Jumpstarting Solaris 9, 10 on Sun servers, configuring servers. Configured/Maintained Zones, LDOMs, ZFS filesystem Sun Solaris 10 Servers.
• Management and monitoring of various services using Service Management Facility and Service Administration.
• Installing, configuring Veritas Netbackup 6.5 on linux, solaris servers, creating backup polices.
• Designing Firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with application, Oracle 10g servers.
• Working on Volume management, Disk Management, software RAID solutions using VERITAS Volume manager & Solaris Volume Manager. File system Tuning and growing using VERITAS File System (VxFS), coordinated with SAN Team for storage allocation and Disk Dynamic Multi path.
• Worked on resolving production issues and documenting Root Cause Analysis and updating the tickets using BMC Remedy.
• Fine tuning of Servers and configuring networks for optimum performance.
• Organized various meetings with teams as mentioned above for tracking their requirements as inputs to get this done and designed the plan/steps involved and took user approvals.
• Setting up network environments using TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, SNMP agents, DHCP and Proxy.
• Installation, maintenance and administration of Oracle and Db2 Server on Sun Servers.
• Set up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password, resolving permissions issues, user and group quota.
• As a member of the team, monitored the VERITAS Cluster Server 4.1 in SAN Environment.
• Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Created new groups and tested first in development, QA Boxes and then implemented the same in production Boxes.

Environment: Solaris 2.9 / 2.10, Red Hat Linux AS/EL 4.0, AIX 5.2, 5.3, Sun E10k, E25K, E4500, SunFire V440/880, DMX 3 & DMX4, Siteminder, SonicMQ 7.0, VxFS 4.1, VxVM 4.1, SVM.

Confidential, NYC, NY

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuring of SUN Solaris and Linux servers.
• Involved in Building and configuring Solaris 8/9/10 using Jump start server and Red Hat Linux Servers using KickStart server as required for the project. Maintained maximum uptime and maximum performance capacity for Enterprise Production, QA, and UAT/Staging.
• Incident management for Unix Servers (Solaris, Linux).
• Installed and configured Solaris 10 servers with Zones and containers with Sun ZFS.
• Primary responsibility includes building and supporting Solaris/ Redhat Linux 3,4 servers.
• Monitoring CPU, memory, iSCSI disks, disk controllers, physical disk, HW and SW RAID, multipath, file systems, network using the tools NAGIOS and BMC Tools.
• Extensive experience in installing, integrating, tuning and troubleshooting Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere and Weblogic application server.
• Implemented SUDO, SSH and other security tools and implemented SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) security compliance.
• Assisted in configuring the application servers with other components such as database, web servers, LDAP directory, Active Directory, BEA Web logic etc.
• Extensive use of Veritas Volume Manager for Disk management, file system management on Sun Solaris environment.
• Created Zetabyte file system (ZFS) in Solaris 10. Created zpools. Exported ZFS from local zones to local zones.
• Installation and configuration Veritas NetBackup on Sun Severs and performing Backup using Veritas Net Backup.
• Extensive use of Korn shell, Bash for scripting.
• Expertise in Linux backup/restore with tar including disk partitioning and formatting.
• Involved in Planning, building and Administration of various High Availability clusters and heart beat checking on Sun Solaris using VCS in heterogeneous SAN environment.
• Regular disk management like adding / replacing hot swappable drives on existing servers/workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.
• Planned, scheduled and Implemented OS patches on both Solaris & Linux boxes as a part of proactive maintenance.
• Worked with other IT teams, customers (users), and other managers in helping build and implement systems and standards.
• Involved in migration of projects from one flavor to another one.
• Involved in development, user acceptance, and performance testing, production & disaster recovery server.

Environment: Solaris 8/9/10, Red Hat Linux 4/5, BMC Tools, NAGIOS, Veritas NetBackup, Korn Shell, Bash Scripting, Veritas Volume Manager, web servers, LDAP directory, Active Directory, BEA Web logic servers,SAN Switches, Apache, Tomcat WebSphere, Weblogic application server.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and administration of RHEL 4.0/5.0 and SUSE 10.x.
• Configured kickstart server and updating/applying patches to the servers using Redhat Satellite server.
• Remote system administration using tools like SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin.
• Planning and implementing system upgrades including hardware, operating system and periodical patch upgrades.
• Installation, configuration and administration of VMware, Solaris Zones, Containers and Ldoms.
• Automation of jobs through crontab and autosys.
• Installation of packages, patch management, volume managment on Suse servers using YaST.
• Applied appropriate support packages/patches to maintain system integrity.
• Performed capacity analysis, monitored and controlled disk space usage on systems.
• Monitored system activities and fine tuned system parameters and configurations to optimize performance and ensure security of systems.
• Adding servers to domain and managing the groups and user in AD, installing and configuring sendmail.
• Custom build of Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers which includes adding users, SAN, network configuration, installing application related packages, managing services.
• Responsible for maintenance of development tools and utilities and to maintain shell, Perl automation Scripts.
• Expertise in VMware vSphere 3/4/5 version ESXi and vCenter operations Management.
• Worked with project manager and auditing teams to implement PCI compliance.
• Build LPAR and DLPAR system and Installed AIX 5.2, 5.3 on LPAR using NIM.
• Installed and configured Virtual I/O Server V1.3.01 with fixpack8.1.
• Integrating Weblogic 10.x and Apache 2.x and deploying EAR, WAR files in Weblogic Application servers.
• Installed, configured, cloned VMs on VMware 5, Vsphere 4.0, configured ESX hosts, adding datastores to ESX hosts, creating vswitches, templates, migrating VMs across ESX hosts.
• Designing Firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with application, Oracle 10g servers.
• Working on Volume management, Disk Management, software RAID solutions using VERITAS Volume manager & Solaris Volume Manager. File system Tuning and growing using VERITAS File System (VxFS), coordinated with SAN Team for storage allocation and Disk Dynamic Multi path.
• Fine tuning of Servers and configuring networks for optimum performance.
• Organized various meetings with teams as mentioned above for tracking their requirements as inputs to get this done and designed the plan/steps involved and took user approvals.
• Installing, configuring Nagios on Linux, Solaris clients.
• Setting up network environments using TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, SNMP agents, DHCP and Proxy.
• Installation, maintenance and administration of Oracle and Db2 Server on Sun Servers.
• Set up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password, resolving permissions issues, user and group quota.
• As a member of the team, monitored the VERITAS Cluster Server 4.1 in SAN Environment.
• Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Created new groups and tested first in development, QA Boxes and then implemented the same in production Boxes.

Environment: SUN Servers (6500, 4500, 420, Ultra 2 Servers), Solaris 2.6/2.7/8, Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Volume Manager, Samba, NFS, NIS, LVM, Linux, Shell Programming.

Confidential

Unix/Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, Up gradation and administration of Sun Solaris, RedHat Linux.
• User account management and support.
• Jumpstart & Kick-start OS integration, DDNS, DHCP, SMTP, Samba, NFS, FTP, SSH, LDAP integration.
• Network traffic control, IPSec, Quos, VLAN, Proxy, Radius integration on Cisco Hardware via Red Hat Linux Software.
• Responsible for configuring and managing Squid server in Linux.
• Configuration and Administration of NIS environment.
• Managing file systems and disk management using Solstice Disksuite.
• Involved in Installing and configuring of NFS.
• Package and patch management on Sun servers.
• Kernel tuning, Writing Shell scripts for system maintenance and file management.
• Worked on Solaris volume manager to create file systems as per user and database requirements.
• Trouble shooting the system and end user issues.
• Responsible for configuring real time backup of web servers.
• Log file was managed for troubleshooting and probable errors.
• Responsible for reviewing all open tickets, resolve and close any existing tickets.
• Document solutions for any issues that have not been discovered previously.

Environment: Sun Solaris 2.6/7, SUN Ultra Enterprise 6000/450, SUN Ultra 10/5/2/1, Windows NT 4.0, RHEL 3.x.