SUMMARY

• About 11 years of experience as Linux, Solaris, VMware System Administrator and Scheduling expert.
• Certified Linux Systems Administrator (RHCSA 7)
• Very familiar with AWS and pursuing AWS certification.
• Expertise in working on various NetApp/EMC based storage environments to configure LUNs as Datastores or Expansion of Datastores in VMware vSphere Environment.
• Worked on a wide range of projects from datacenter move projects to lifecycle project.
• Expertise in deploying and managing various RHEL/SUSE builds both Physical and Virtual on HP/CISCO/Dell Hardware running VMware ESXi.
• Maintained and Obtained production web environment availability and systems security.
• Executed and performed server system operations and support consisting of Windows 2003/2008R2, 2012R2,2016.
• Executed and performed Web Applications Installation and configuration on RHEL and Windows systems.
• Experience in Systems/Network administration running Windows Servers with IIS.
• Experience in installing, configuring, hardening and creating run - books of Solaris 9/10/11 and Linux server builds with Jumpstart/ Kickstart,
• Patch management, backup/restore, NIS and DNS support.
• Storage management - NFS, CIFS, ISCSI/SAN in a NAS/SAN environment consisting NetApp/EMC.
• Experience replacing the disks (mirror) under VxVM (Veritas), LVM and ZFS, and attaching the mirrors back.
• Experience managing Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster Server for disk partitioning and HA needs.
• Built Solaris Zones to consolidate Older SUN Hardware.
• Server builds using Kickstart/PXE and Red Hat Satellite Server/Spacewalk.
• Expertise in implementing, configuring, managing and deploying patches, upgrades, bug fixes using Red Hat Satellite Server/Spacewalk, yum repo Servers.
• Administered NFS, LDAP (PAM), Kerberos, Samba Servers.
• Experience in managing LDAP to autanticate with AD for autantication.
• Shell scripting and good written and verbal communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL 585 G6/G7/G8, HP C-7000, BL 460c G6/G7/G8, Cisco UCS B200,B250, M2, Oracle T2, T3, Dell R-900, R-710

Server OS: Red Hat 4/5/6/7, Solaris 9/10/11 AIX 5.3/6.1 Windows Server 03/08/2012/2016, Suse11.1, Oracle Linux.

Virtualization: VMware 3.5/4/5 to 5.5ESXi / vSphere& Configuring DRS, HA, P2V, VMware Convertor.

SAN Tools: PowerPath, Navisphere, NetApp Filers, OnCommand Manager, DMX VMAX, VNX, NetApp 6240s, 3270 HA, PowerPath, Unisphere.

Database: MySQL, Oracle

File System tools: LVM, Veritas Volume Manager.

Network Servers: DNS, DHCP, NIS, IIS, NFS.

Scripting: Shell, Perl (learning)

Racks and Cabling: Installation of Hardware HP, UCS Enclosures, EMC VNX, EMC VMAX, EMC Clarion,,NetApp Filers

Monitoring Tools: Nimsoft, Nagiox and Netcool, Autosys, UC4 (ONE Automation). Control-M

Config Management: Puppet,Active Directory, go-live, go live, AD, AIX 5.3, Apache, Architect, Automation, Backup, bash, C, Cabling, Cisco, Clarion, Client /Server, clustering, Cognos, Com, CA, Hardware, Config Management, config, clients, client support, Database, Dell, DHCP, documentation, DNS, engineer, Event management, flash, focus, FTP, HP, IBM, IIS, IP, LAN, team lead me, Linux 5.8, Linux, Linux 4, Linux 5, logging, managing, mapper, McAfee, access, exchange, Windows, 2000, Windows NT, Migration, MySQL, Netcool, Enterprise, network management, NFS, Network Servers, Network, NIS, OS, Oracle, DB, OSS, performance management, Perl, processes, ProLiant, proxy, Red Hat 4, Red Hat Linux, Red Hat, RedHat, requirement, SAN, scanning, Scheduling, Servers, Shell, scripts, Shell scripting, Scripting, Siebel, SNMP, Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris, sun, SUN Sparc, Sparc, system administration, TCP/IP, user support, triage, troubleshoot, troubleshooting, TSM, type, Unix, Upgrades, upgrading, upgrade, Veritas, NetBackup, Veritas Volume Manager, Visio, VM, Windows Server, Written,Powerful negotiator,Debugging proficiency,Report writing,Data management,Hardware evaluation,Pricing tool development,User interface understanding,Team leadership

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Lead Systems Engineer

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• As a team lead me lead a team of 8 people worldwide including team members in US, Canada, Europe, Asia Pacific working in a seamless FTS (follow the sun model).
• Provided multiple enterprises scheduling tools support including but not limited to UC4 and Autosys The Scheduling team manages all aspects of these tools and supported the OS its running on.
• Involved in the selection of product, the Installation of the tool and tan provided day to day management including troubleshooting and application of break fix code.
• Including all region we supported about 350,000 jobs on our platform.
• Lead multiple projects from start to end including one of the biggest project the migration of UC4 application from NEWEDGE domain to Confidential domain without having a single production job failure.
• Upgraded UC4 to V12 and 300+ agents to V12 Windows Server and Desktop (2012/2016) Support.
• Heavy focus on Active Directory/GPOs, PowerShell, DNS, and TCP/IP Lead Exadata upgrade project for UC4 and Autosys.
• Designed external FTP and SFTP job between multiple domains to meet exchange needs and avoid heavy penalty and saved time on the on going projects.
• Build new servers for SG UAT and PROD environment from AWS cloud and migrated the Application and Data.
• Day-to-Day Responsibilities:.
• Executes all necessary UC4 and Autosys function including but not limited to starting and stopping the system and starting and stopping agents.
• Execute change request to promote new jobs using export/import and transport cases.
• Update and maintain system variable.
• Integrated AD based autantication for Groups to enhance user security and audit purpose.
• Written multiple scripts to send SNMP traps and halp configure SNMP in UC4.
• Install agents via puppet and create agent groups.
• Open an incident ticket with the vendors Automic and CA to troubleshoot problems.
• Responsible for delivering assignments within specified timeframes, adhering to all established standards and guidelines.
• Evaluate new technologies to solve business requirements.
• Single handedly Installed and Configured UC4 WEB AWI and secured it vis TLS CERT in DEV, UAT and PROD
• Trained the entire staff on the new WEB GUI so dat we can move away from JAVA GUI.
• Single handedly Installed and Configured UC4 Analytics for better assessment of jobs and workflows.

Sr. OSS/Linux Engineer

Confidential | Schaumburg, IL

Responsibilities:

• Worked on many projects (small and big) as an individual and a team member Worked on full length of the projects from inception to go-live including creating Visio Arch diagrams.
• Prepared run-books, procedure documents for the projects Updated intranet WiKi documentation.
• Experience working with Application, Database, Storage, Network, Business teams, PMs and Management The general system administration tasks including on-call and 24x7 support.
• Projects:.
• Decommissioned the Cognos environment for the EGP refresh to go live and Exadata Decom:.
• Part of the planning and implementation team.
• Work with related application and Database teams and PM to migrate or retire Application and Data.
• Wrote the procedures documentation for the decommissioning project.
• Ensured the applications were migrated or decom'ed, reclaimed storage, IP and other resources.
• Volte and Hadoop server build projects:.
• Built about 40 RHEL Servers using Kickstart for the Volte and Hadoop implementation projects.
• Installed and configured ALU Com 1360 on Volte servers.
• Worked with Hadoop team to configure the servers per their requirements including Kerberos config.
• Worked with storage, Applications, windows AD teams to configure storage, Filesystems, autantication for Admin and user level autantication for Hadoop servers.
• SIEM (Security Information and Event management) - Log Consolidation project:.
• Configured syslog and syslog-ng to forward all system logs to a central log host.
• All logs are collected by the McAfee appliance box and processed by the splunk application and event triggers and setup.
• Worked with Vendors engineers, applications, DB, security teams to set the appropriate level of logging and which alerts should be notified to which team.
• Upgraded NetAct from 15.3 to 15.5 to fix the IOMS and eNodeb's issues.
• Supported Nexus 7k upgrade for both systems and OSS.

Sr. Linux/Solaris/Storage Eng

Confidential | Lake Forest, IL

Responsibilities:

• Supported the whole Unix/Linux servers system including - server builds, upgrades, patches, backup and administer the servers.
• System and user support including sudo, system and user security, ACL, NFS, NIS, DNS.
• Projects: Datacenter Migration Project & Server Upgrades:.
• Analysis and prep work brought all the server to the minimum required level to Migrate data from old Clarions to the new VNX's 5200 & VNX's 5700 and from old VMAX's to the new VPLEX's across multiple datacenter.
• Upgraded Solaris and RHEL to EMC recommended patch level to be ready for migrations.
• Also upgraded Redhat from 5.5 to 5.9 and 6.3.
• to 6.4.
• Performed Storage Migration from Wipro owned SAN to Hospira SAN with multiple physical location, including a physical to virtual migration, utilization of Solaris Containers /Zones, Veritas Volume Manager / Cluster.
• Worked closely with Backup team in setting up and testing out NetBackup Client /Server and NetBackup Media server on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.8/6.3.
• Root Cause, triage analysis and problem management of migration process and failures.
• Shell scripting: automation of Solaris Zone / container configuration, Veritas Cluster / Veritas Volume Manager Configuration, migration of groups and resources.
• Administration of servers in the new data center, and subsequent handoff to client support staff.
• Managed and upgraded HBA Firmware, HBA f-code upgrade and upgraded ALOM on most of the Sparc T2000's, T3000's, M3's,M5's,V440, V240, V100 and Dl380 Servers to meet the minimum requirement for the Migration to new SAN Array's.
• Worked closely with Oracle, Veritas, EMC and other vendors to plan system and software evaluations as well as infrastructure design.
• Upgraded and managed Vxdmp and PowerPath on all the servers before the migrations.
• Upgraded Veritas Volume Manager from 5.1 rp1 to 5.1 rp3 on all the Servers.
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Volume Manager and scanning the disks and bring the LUNs into Veritas Volume Manager Control.
• Root disk Mirroring and replacing failed disk by using Veritas Volume Manager and troubleshoot on different type of plex issues and recovers the plexes.
• Configured and maintained High availability clustering using VCS on RHEL.
• Configure Linux/Solaris multipath and Linux device mapper to configure multipath LUN's from EMC VNX/VMAX/Clarion FAS Solutions.
• Configure NFS server on both media and data sharing between servers and resolved any shared storage servers issues.
• Configured and deployed patch, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Red Hat Server and Solaris 8/9/10.
• Completed the Migration Project 3 weeks prior to deadline.

Linux/Solaris/Vmware Administrator

Confidential | Skokie, IL

Responsibilities:

• Setup and Configured Red Hat Satellite, Kickstart Servers, New Builds and Migration:.
• Installed and configured several hundred Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/SUSE 10/11 Servers in both Physical Blade and VMware ESXi Virtual Environment.
• Architect, engineer and consolidate the entire MDS Environment from a Solaris 9/10 environment to a commodity based VMware ESXi based environment running RHEL 5.x/6.x and SUSE 10/11 on HP Blades.
• Performed server system operations and support consisting of Windows 2003/2008R2, IIS.
• Performed Data Center Migrations from MDS Site with multiple physical location, including a physical to virtual migration, utilization of Solaris Containers / Zones, Veritas Volume Manager / Cluster.
• Root cause, triage analysis and problem management of migration processes and failures.
• Analysis and prep work for Solaris servers in the old environment for migration.
• Administration of servers in the new data center, and subsequent handoff to client support staff.
• Installed and configured Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a VMware ESX and ESXi Virtual Environment.
• Installing and configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6 on ESXi 4.1.1/5.0 based environment residing on HP Blades as required for UAT/Production.
• Deploy and Configure Red Hat Satellite Server 5.4/Spacewalk, including creating maintaining any customized KickStart configuration channels to deploy RHEL.
• Installing and updating packages using YUM (custom YUM Servers/repositories), Red Hat Satellite Server.
• Installing and configuring TSM clients, verifying TSM backup logs.
• Servers, upgrading HP, IBM pSeries and SUN Sparc server firmware.
• Created system backups using flash archive and restored with SVM mirroring using Jumpstart server.
• Worked closely with HP, Oracle, Siebel, Veritas, EMC, and other vendors to plan system and software evaluations as well as infrastructure design.
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Volume Manager and scanning the disks and bring the LUNS into Veritas Volume Manager Control.
• Root disk Mirroring and replacing failed disk by using Veritas Volume Manager and troubleshoot on different type of plex issues and recovers the plexes.
• Configured and maintained High availability clustering using VCS on RHEL.
• Created cron job and scripted a process to create flash archives on monthly basis.
• Disk management using SVM, NFS, user management, network management and performance management of Solaris 8, 9, 10 servers.
• Configured and deployed patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Red Hat Linux servers using Satellite Server/Spacewalk.
• Configured and maintained NFS Servers for both media and data sharing between servers and resolved any shared storage server issues.
• Created and maintained ACL's to allow only specific LAN computers to use squid, as well as utilizing access.log to test squid proxy.
• Reviewed and remediated software distribution failures and to eliminate the problems dat causes failures.
• Designed and implemented mechanisms for handing on-off technical issues to other technical teams for resolution.
• Configure Linux multipath and Linux device mapper to configure multipath LUNs from EMC VNX/NetApp FAS Solutions 6240.
• Created and Setup monitoring bash shell/Perl scripts to monitor system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked with and Assisted various senior level Linux architects in planning, installing, configuring and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.
• Resolved and completed various maintenance tasks on UAT/Production servers and Apache software issues.
• Build VM guests using templates and add more resources as needed.
• Setup environment based Sudo permissions to allow developers to perform day to day activities including running start/stop scripts in development environment.
• Server monitoring and experience in NOC procedures.
• Installed and maintained Windows NT, 2000-2003, server solutions for both production and development environment.