OBJECTIVE:

• Seeking a challenging assignment in the IT Infrastructure domain as a OpenShift and System Administrator.

SUMMARY

• 13+ years of UNIX Administration experience in the IT Infrastructure management support projects from Finance/Banking ( Confidential, FDC,Fivsr), Consumer ( Confidential ) and Transport (CMA - CGM & Alstom) sector clients.
• UNIX System Administration involved AIX, HACMP, GPFS, VCS Cluster, LPAR, DLPAR, NIM, VIO, SAN, LINUX and LPM experience with proven success in delivering medium to large Infrastructure Projects’ Service delivery support.
• On-Site Transition experience in France to facilitate the UNIX offshore support to the Full-service delivery model. Involved and catered the transition processes like Initiate & analyze the scope of Off-Shoring activity, Due-diligence & Knowledge capture, Service migration (Dual run), Planning and designing for upcoming project activity, Service Optimization (Steady state).
• Having exposure in Data Center Migration / Consolidation projects.
• Has good migration experience in AIX, PowerHA, VIO (OS migration 5.3,6.1,7.1,7.2, PowerHA 5.4,6.1,7.1,7.2)
• Has adequate people management skills.
• Enhance SDLC cycle by using Docker containers delivered with OpenShift for web application deployment.
• Experience in Automation tool (Ansible) deployment in UNIX environment.
• Proficient in ITIL Service Delivery Life Cycle (Incident, Change and Problem management).
• Worked in container-based technologies like Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• IBM AIX 4.X 5.x 6.x 7.x 7.2
• Hardware: P5 P6 P7 P8
• Netapp
• Hitach
• IBM DSXXX
• Flash
• EMC VIO vscsi
• NPIV
• SEA and LPM
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Ansible
• AWS
• RHEL
• Ansible Tower
• TFS
• GIT
• Jenkins
• Jfrog
• Splunk
• Redhat Satellite
• Kibana
• NIM Implementation & Support
• Performance Analysis
• Adequate knowledge on scripting with KSH
• PERL and generic UNIX utilities (awk sed etc)
• PowerHA
• GPFS and VCS
• Java
• Tivoli Endpoint
• Perl
• Perl Modules
• C-Compiler

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Addison TX

Sr Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administer Openshift Enterprise V2 and V3 for Cloud Operational Services
• Design, Installation, Configuration and administration of Linux 5.6 and 7 Servers and support of OpenShift Enterprise and non-OpenShift support
• The operation and support of OpenShift Enterprise and Docker cloud Services.
• Managed Red hat Satellite Server, implementation of patch management and system configuration.
• Configuring NFS v3.4 ssh, DNS, Fiber and NFS attached storge, Postfiz and sendmail.
• Point Team player on Openshift for creating new Projects services for load Balancing and adding them to Routes to be accessible from outside, troubleshooting pods through ssh and logs, modification of Buildcofigs. templates, Imagestreams etc
• Managing the OpenShift cluster that includes scaing up and down the AWS app nodes had very strong exposure using ansible automation in replacing the different components of OpenShift like ECTD, Master, APP, INFRA, Gluser.
• Devops mind-set and try to introduce DevOps culture within the organization. As a DevOps professional with over a decade of expertise in Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and Automation for Enterprise Applications in Cloud (Majorly on AWS CI/CD, Git, Github, Jenkin, Maven, Terraform, Docker containerization, Kubernetes etc,
• Created and deployed Kubernetes pod definitions, tags, labels, multi-pod container replication. Managed multiple Kubernetes pod containers scaling, and auto-scaling.
• Deployed pods using Replication Controllers by interacting with Kubernetes API server defining through declarative YAML files.

Environment: Docker, Kubernets, Openshift, Ansible, AWS, RHEL, Ansible Tower, TFS, GIT, Jenkins, Jfrog, Splunk,Redhat Satellite,Kibana

Confidential

Senior Unix/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and support of Physical and virtual Linux servers using Confidential hardware and Imm for remote installation and management.
• Managed Red hat Satellite Server, implementation of patch management and in corporation CIRATS, Implementation of syslog-ng for HPPA compliance, implementation of SRM, IEM tools for monitoring, AIX in a large environment that included various hardware.
• Providing UNIX support for around 1500+ AIX servers which consist of mission critical, production and development server with cluster environment. Currently working on a complex data center migration. dis project involves planning for the movement of number legacy applications to new Power 8 hardware. Responsible for building p7 and p8 frames, installing VIOS, creating LPAR profile, performing all the powerVM operations, Installing OS, building NIM server, Security remediation and OS hardening, system firmware and VIOS. Migrate the AIX version 7.1 to 7.2.
• Migrated the PowerHA 7.1 to 7.2,
• Migrated the VIO server 2.2.3.4 to 2.2.5.10
• Migrate the server using virtual repos disk. 7.1 to 7.2
• Migrated the large database and critical application to new SAN from OS end.
• Disaster Recovery planning, support, and coordination with application teams for all Business-critical applications,
• Linux L2 level administrator and troubleshooting the issue, (LVM, patching and configuration)

Confidential

Senior IT Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Providing UNIX support for around 2000+ AIX servers which consist of mission critical, production and development server with clusters,
• Day to day administration of the production environment Development and Pre-Production servers. 24x7 on-call support,
• Working for all the Major Incidents SLA tickets like Server down/ Hardware Problem/ Network issues etc.
• Installation, configuration and upgrade of GPFS (General Parallel File system)
• Application server and troubleshooting.
• Worked as an AIX RFS focal for all critical project Responsible for all phases of coordination and implementation of AIX Server infrastructure, Planning, installation, configuration and support for Power VM/VIOS on all Power hardware platforms, HA component hardware and software. Support of all critical business applications, OS and hardware monitoring, on call coverage for out of office hours AIX / Confidential Power environment. Hardware troubleshooting, upgrades and maintenance for Power5/Power6/Power7/Poer8 series Confidential servers.
• Disaster Recovery planning, support and coordination with application teams for all Business critical and non-critical AIX lpar’s.
• Responsible for building p7 and p8 frames from the level scratch, installing VIOS, creating LPAR profile, performing all the powerVM operations, Installing OS, building NIM server, Security remediation and OS hardening, Upgrading HMC, system firmware and VIOS.
• Migration for servers for P5/P6 to new created LPARS on p770 frames. Moving the servers from old Hardware to new hardware.
• Decommissioned and coordinated with Confidential for removal of Confidential P5/P6 Hardware.
• Independently built, configured and upgraded VIO servers to implement virtual HBA (NPIV) shared SCSI, shared Ethernet adapters, VLANS, allocating disks via VIO servers to client LPARs. Installed and upgraded HMC, upgraded system firmware.
• Multiple NIM servers for managing hundreds of client LPARs. NIM OS upgrade, mksysb of the client LPARs, different types of NIM resources, client definitions, Migration of OS using NIMADM, Restoring the mksysb (operating system) from NIM server (Network boot)
• Has worked on GPFS installation, maintained, upgrade, and troubleshooting
• Supported Confidential pSeries p5, p6, p7 and p8 Servers and AIX Hardware Setup and configuration.
• Moving LPAR between Managed Systems to different Managed Systems using LPM Tool.
• Experience on storage pool file systems
• Planned/Created/Installed/Configured two Dual Virtual I/servers with SEA failover MPIO and link aggregation.
• Physical to virtual Logical Partition migration (P2V).
• Microcode/ Firmware upgrade.
• Logical Volume Management - VG, LV, Mirror and Migration. Installations of Fixes/APARs/ML/TL.