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SUMMARY

  • 10+ years of experience in Unix Systems Administration (Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP UNIX).
  • Proficient in system integration, implementation, monitoring and administration in local and remote environments for diverse industry clients including financial, Health, Educational, Retail, global TV channels and Media/News feeds, worldwide Airlines and Top food supply chains.
  • Planning, documenting and supporting high availability, data replication, business persistence, fail - over, fail-back using Veritas Cluster Server, sun cluster server Red hat cluster.
  • Built Servers using Kickstart & PXE for Linux, Jumpstart for Solaris, and NIM forAIXinstallation.
  • Virtualization: Planning, sizing and designing the virtual environment to meet the client needs for HP and Oracle SPARC-VM servers. LDOM and zone administration on Oracle Solaris 10
  • Extensive experience in working with ESXi servers - configuration, Installation, management and maintenance.
  • Experience in administering VMware and infrastructure vSphere.
  • Hardware Installation of Rack mounted Servers, Blade servers/enclosures.
  • Installing and configurations of WebLogic servers, and various applications like Apache, Tomcat on all flavors of Unix and Linux Platforms.
  • Administration of Storage Arrays and Fabric Switches.
  • Experience in LUN management, firmware up gradation, troubleshooting with HP-EVA storage.
  • Experience on Veritas Netbackup tape libraries.
  • Install and configuration of Web Hosting Administration HTTP, FTP, Telnet, SSH, SSL.
  • Experience in Installing, configuring and maintaining apache, samba & send mail, postfix, Web Sphere Application Servers, RHEL 5 and 6 servers
  • Managed and supportedLDAPenvironment running onUnixOS.
  • Configured Networking Concepts DNS, NIS, NFS and DHCP, troubleshooting network problems such as TCP/IP providing support for users in solving their problems.
  • SW upgrade, Patch Management and Firmware Management Installing latest patches & creating software depots for Solaris and Linux machines to maintain the systems up to date and compliant.
  • Experienced in writing UNIX Shell Scripts using commands like awk, sed, unix shell bash, and familiarity with Perl to automate system admin jobs.
  • Involved in On Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA's.
  • Configure the Remote console for the HP DL and Blade servers using ILO and HP OA.
  • HavingDataCenterworking Experience, installing and Configuring server & Storage devices in aDataCenter including patching the cables in the Patch Panel. Design and implemented infrastructure and configured the devices.
  • Hands on experience in configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Veritas Cluster services, Veritas volume management and mission Web/Application Servers, DNS Configuration for various clients.
  • Experience with Loadbalancers F5 and Cisco ACE, HP Server Automation and SAN Storage.
  • Experience in managing and driving efficiency at IT operations with a team of highly skilled engineers.
  • H/W Console Administration, Patch Management, Backup and Recovery, System Health Check, Log file administration, Disk Administration, System Startup troubleshooting, Solaris OS Installation, Linux installation, Solaris/Red Hat Linux OS Upgrades Firmware upgrade, Power path, HBA upgrade, DR, QMW, Kernel Upgrade, NFS, NAS, Jumpstart configuration, IPMP, Zones Configuration, ZFS Configuration, Flar, Snapshot, Storage Migration, LDOM Creation and administration, Linux Package installation usage, Logical volume administration(Linux) .
  • Provisioning of Virtual Machines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating system: SunSolaris 9,10,11 & Red Linux 5, 6, HP-UX, IBM-AIX

Protocol: TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, FTP, SOAP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP

Storage: Netapp Filer, DAS, NAS, SAN (EMC Storage), HP-EVA 6400/8400/P6350, EMC clarion, RAID

Cluster: Veritas cluster, Sun cluster, Redhat cluster

Hardware: Handling the High end, Mid-range and Entry level servers like Sun Fire E Series, M series, T series, 12 K, 15K DELL, HP X86 Platform

Ticketing and Monitoring Tool: CA service Desk, Remedy, JIRA, Service now, Vantive, Nagios and Clarify

Software packages: Veritas volume manager4.1/5.0, Veritas Filesystems, Solaris volume manager, RAID

Enterprise Tools: Veritas Netbackup, TSM, Netvault

Scripting Languages: Unix Shell Bash, SNMP

Virtualization: Vmware ESX

Load balancers: f5, cisco ace

Environment: Solaris8/9/10, RedHatLinux4,5.0,6, Sun SPARC servers, Sunfire 890/440/490/245 servers, E 3500/4500/450/420 R, M9000, HP-ProLiantDL380G4/G5, HPRX/6600/8640, HP-860c/870c, DellR620, NIS, NFS, DNS, Solaris UFS& HP-UX VXFS file System, VXVM, VCS, ESX - 4.5, 5.1, NetApp - DATA ONTAP 8, Veritas Netbackup 7.0.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Weehawken, New Jersey

System Analyst - Linux

Responsibilities:

  • Administration/Configuration of RHEL/Solaris which includes installation, testing, managing, monitoring and improving performance tuning, upgrading patches, security, gap analysis troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues, and VMware virtualization systems.
  • Client meeting, reporting, requirement analysis and implementation.
  • Provisioning, server Migration on cloud.
  • SAN to NAS migration.
  • Automation through scripting.
  • Configuration /Management of satellite server.
  • Solaris servers patching, LDOM/Zones configuration and trouble shooting.
  • Provisioning/Troubleshooting physical servers in datacenter and coordination with network/storage team for cabling configuring network and other stuff with hands & feet support.
  • VERITAS Cluster administration and troubleshooting.
  • Closely work with Application development team to configure environment/infrastructure and to deploy changes in production as required.
  • Trouble shooting p1, p2 incidents.
  • Manage DNS /Apache Web server/ Load Balancer /Tomcat.
  • Working on NAS/NFS.
  • Work on daily Prod/QA/Dev environment issues like network, server and performance.
  • VXVM/LVM administration and troubleshooting.
  • Provided 24/7 on call supports on Linux/UNIX Production Servers in datacenter and Cloud.
  • Disaster Recovery and QMW activity planning and execution.
  • Storage migration.
  • Linux File system management.
  • Patch management, Package installation and OS deployments.
  • Applied patches for every quarter regularly to meet audit requirements using Red Hat Satellite server, SUSE Manager YUM, RPM tools.
  • Installation of Linux Servers using PXE boot or kick start method, Yum repository setup and Automatic system updates.

Confidential, Jersey City, New Jersey

Sr. Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

  • Monitor and support Trading applications dat involves OS Provisioning, patching, troubleshooting Unix and Linux issues, troubleshooting OS, hardware and network related issues onRedhat Linux 5/6/7, Solaris 10, 11,managing Veritas cluster, Solarflare, Mellanox, Myricom and exablaze cards, Netapp NAS and IBM/Dell hardware.
  • Planning, evaluate, performance testing and coordinating in migration of existing NAS(7mode) filesystems to new NAS (CDOT) on large datacenter as a part of storage migrations.
  • Kernel Bypass using Solarflare network cards.
  • Developing and Establishing global framework for teams to operate within encompassing all business lines, managing vendor relationships for product roadmaps and emerging Linux and Solaris technologies.
  • Overarching Management of Linux and Solaris Infrastructure from strategy, design, document, plan, deploy, Implement, operationalize, capacity and lifecycle management of all hardware and software supporting Linux and Solaris Infrastructure across the enterprise for all lines of business
  • Collaborating with Hosting, Network, Storage End User Engineering teams, Global Hosting Services teams and Cloud and DevOps on strategy design of the Linux and Solaris Infrastructure across all lines of businesses globally.
  • Changing the Bank evangelist for adopting Gen3 technologies related to Linux and Solaris Infrastructure.
  • Acting as primary IT liaison with multiple interfacing applications, third party vendors, IT Executives, and/or Project Managers.
  • Providing direction, expertise, feedback, coaching and development to build the capability of junior staff.
  • Managing detailed design phases for large projects / programs identifying, tracking and resolving technical issues

Confidential, Weehawken, New Jersey

System Analyst - Linux

Responsibilities:

  • Administration/Configuration of RHEL/Solaris which includes installation, testing, managing, monitoring and improving performance tuning, upgrading patches, security, gap analysis troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues, and VMware virtualization systems.
  • Client meeting, reporting, requirement analysis and implementation.
  • Provisioning, server Migration on cloud.
  • SAN to NAS migration.
  • Automation through scripting.
  • Configuration /Management of satellite server.
  • Solaris servers patching, LDOM/Zones configuration and trouble shooting.
  • Provisioning/Troubleshooting physical servers in datacenter and coordination with network/storage team for cabling configuring network and other stuff with hands & feet support.
  • VERITAS Cluster administration and troubleshooting.
  • Closely work with Application development team to configure environment/infrastructure and to deploy changes in production as required.
  • Trouble shooting p1, p2 incidents.
  • Manage DNS /Apache Web server/ Load Balancer /Tomcat.
  • Working on NAS/NFS.
  • Work on daily Prod/QA/Dev environment issues like network, server and performance.
  • VXVM/LVM administration and troubleshooting.
  • Provided 24/7 on call supports on Linux/UNIX Production Servers in datacenter and Cloud.
  • Disaster Recovery and QMW activity planning and execution.
  • Storage migration.
  • Linux File system management.
  • Patch management, Package installation and OS deployments.
  • Applied patches for every quarter regularly to meet audit requirements using Red Hat Satellite server, SUSE Manager YUM, RPM tools.
  • Installation of Linux Servers using PXE boot or kick start method, Yum repository setup and Automatic system updates.

Confidential

Lead Systems Engineer - Linux/Unix

Responsibilities:

  • Provide Unix Support to North America, Latin America and APAC regions shared Accounts (supporting almost 2000+ global unix servers primarily Linux and AIX)
  • Support Incident, problem and change management and coordinating with Release management team including major incidents.
  • Typical day-to-day changes include (but not limited to): Patching, Hardware replacement (Disk, Battery, PSU, Motherboard), NFS config, DNS, NIC, NMI Upgrade (ESX) and Bios Upgrade, SAN Migration, Filesystem Extension, VCS, Volume Group, HA, Egenera Patching, Network Bonding/Teaming, VM’s Vmotion etc.
  • Vulnerability and Patch management.
  • Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery activities.
  • Server provisioning, resource configuration, availability and capacity management
  • High availability cluster management.
  • Datacentre support tools such as IBM Network Installation Manager (NIM), Redhat Network (RHN) Satellite Server, nmon and BeyondTrust PowerBroker.
  • Knowledge Management - Creation of SOPs for regular activities, KEDB.
  • Provide tiered support model round the clock across the globe for faster resolution of standard incidents and requests.
  • Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge transfer as a primary SME from APAC region for the existing services getting outsourced.
  • Using unix Shell Bash scripting to automate day to day tasks like deploying application code on multiple servers, installing patches on all the servers under one global unit from jump server, running routine scripts through cron at particular time on daily or weekly basis like starting server backup, removing old log files or taking dumps.

Confidential

Associate Lead, Linux

Responsibilities:

  • Provided mostly Tier 3and Tier 4 (if needed) Unix Support to US and EMEA Shared Accounts. Supported almost 4000 global clients in different sectors dat primarily include: UBS, Thomson Reuters, HBO, Times Warner, Discovery Int, PRNewswire, Adidas, EasyJet, Tim Horton’s, Heinz, P&G, Mindtree, Univision etc.
  • Supported Incidents, Request and Change Management
  • Provided Database and Netbackup Support for EMEA Shared Accounts
  • Provided Vmware 3.5, 4.1 and 5 Esx Support
  • Provided URL support
  • Worked on Unix as well as database changes (i.e.: Database cloning, DB Instance migration etc)
  • Troubleshooting of issues escalated to Tier 3 as they relate to Unix/Linux. Systems include but not limited to:
  • Solaris/Linux OS administration/troubleshooting, Vmware administration/troubleshooting, Veritas Volume Manager/Solstice Disk Suite troubleshooting/administration
  • Followed all documented procedures related to the position. Maintain turnover and ownership of current workload. Participate in mandatory meetings and training sessions. Participate in special projects within and outside of Global Client Services as necessary.
  • Leading a team of 5 members and attending weekly client meetings to make sure clients expectations are being met properly.

Confidential

Systems Analyst and Change Management Team Lead

Responsibilities:

  • Delivering 24x7 OS and Storage support to more than 2000 mission critical servers across 50+ different clients using different Operating Systems. Managing the shift and Participating in weekly client meetings to make sure dat services and operations are in line with their expectations.
  • Vendor liaison on hardware and software issues, including escalations of problems dat pertain to vendor technology
  • Configuration and Management of Netapp Snapshots, Configure NFS and CIFS shares and allocate them to new servers as needed, Use of Filer view and command line to inspect the storage system, restoring files and directories using previous snapshots, assigning storage from NetApp filer to client’s machines and LUN management and maintain reports on disk utilization, availability and growth patterns.
  • Managing Veritas Netbackup describing master, media and EMM servers and clients, Install and verify Netbackup on windows/unix servers, manage the volumes, configure policy attributes and schedules, define files, directories and clients to back up, monitor and troubleshoot backup issues, restore files as and when need arises, verify, duplicate and expire backup images, Backup and recover NBU catalogues, performing Netbackup DR activity.
  • Working on Veritas Cluster 5.0 for windows and Solaris platform, installation of VCS software and create a cluster, adding/removing of new nodes to/from a running cluster, migration of Databases from one cluster to another with minimum of downtime required, switching/Failover testing of database from one node to another as and when the need arises, configure VCS to manage Oracle Database, NFS share and other applications, analyse, troubleshoot and correct cluster related issues.
  • Root cause analysis for issues dat occur
  • User administration and applying company defined policies.
  • Managing disk space, processor utilization, and network utilization related to server and analysis of logs and patch management.
  • Downloading and Installing Apache, configuring DNS for Apache, web hosting, configuration - Multiple sites and IP addresses.
  • Setting up Secure NFS Servers with multiple Clients for File and Disk sharing.

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