SUMMARY

• Around 8+ years of in depth technical functional and managerial experience with a will do attitude. I have implemented and managed IT infrastructure solutions to augment business requirements which are scalable, cost effective and secure. I have been a person with a good risk appetite, integrity, accountability, loyalty and commitment.
• Manage deployment, maintenance, support and upgrade of servers, hardware, software, operating systemsin server environment.
• Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
• Worked on Data - Center operation and migration across UNIX and LINUX platforms.
• Experienced in implementing and maintaining an Apache Tomcat/MySQL/PHP, LDAP, LAMP web service environment.
• Strong understanding of LAMP stack and support of web applications and supporting components such as apache/tomcat/memcache.
• Maintenance level upgrades and software administration RPM installation on Linux.
• Installation and up gradation 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, send mail, FTP, remote access, security management and Security trouble shooting skills.
• Developed and deployed services for traffic management (TM shell), load balancing and domain name system (DNS) hosting, using an integrated Microsoft’s public cloud computing platform called Azure.
• Experience with F5 load balancers to provide Land Balancing towards Access layer from core layer and configuring F5 LTM both by GUI andTMSH/CLI and Cisco load balancers.
• Comfortable working withtmshscripts alongside with GUI along with F5 backups.
• Configuring devices through the CLI (Big Pipe/TMSH) and GUI, upgrading the OS, configuring the appliance, troubleshooting, and configuration updates.
• Applyingfirewallrules and policies for external Load balancing traffic and coordinated with automation team forF5in building and supporting configuration, troubleshooting issues related to layer’s traffic.
• Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring SUN Solaris 9 and 10 on Sun Servers Using Jumpstart Servers, Manual installation as when required.
• Installation and configuration of java application servers JBoss, WebSphere 5.1/6.0 Application Server on Solaris and Linux boxes.
• Deploying and configuring JBoss application server, using an updated version of java development kit (JDK), in both source and binary format, for developing java applications, web applications and services.
• Experience in Installation and configuration of Zones and Containers in Solaris10 environment.
• System installation,database backup and recovery, maintain user accounts, patch installation, network configuration and troubleshooting software, hardware and network problems of the Solaris 10 UNIX.
• Integrate and Test new Software, patches and create Technical Documentation on UNIX and Windows platform.
• Integrated Imagery & Intelligence Systems, responsible for 24/7 operability, Unix/Windows software and system upgrades and the configuration of data flow to and from worldwide customers.
• Experience with Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), Veritas File System (VxFS), Veritas Net Backup, Veritas Clustering with SAN, NAS environment.
• Experience in configuring HP Proliant servers and managing NAS / SAN technology.
• Experience in installing, configuring and implementing the RAID technologies using various tools like VxVMand Solaris Volume Manager.
• Experienced Oracle developer in very large production environments with database implementation on UNIX and Windows.
• Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring Red Hat Linux 4.x, 5.x,6.x and 7.x using Kickstart Servers and production support on various applications like Sun Solaris,Redhat Enterprise Linux and Windows Environment.
• Experience increatingand managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring in Solaris and Red Hat Linux.
• Proficiency in writing automation scripts using Chef, Puppet, Shell and PowerShell to support infrastructure as code and continuous deployment.
• Experience in Installing, configuring and maintaining Samba,WebSphere & WebLogic Application Servers, Nagios and Chef.
• Extensively worked with automation tools like Hudson, Jenkins and Build Forge to implement the End-to-End Automation.
• Installed/Configured/Managed Jenkins Continuous Integrationand Continuous Deployment.
• Strong proficiency in supporting Production Cloud Environments (AWS, Azure, and VMWare) as well as traditional managed hosted environments.
• Created Python Scripts to Automate AWS services which include web servers, ELB, CloudfrontDistribution, database, EC2 and database security groups, S3 bucket and application.
• Experience using cloud providers and API’s for Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Cloud Sigma (EU).
• Deploying software and infrastructure as a service using Openstack for both public and private services.
• Installation of Python and setting up SSH connection on remote nodes for configuring, managing and deploying software application on the nodes, using a powerful automation software called Ansible.
• Experience in writing Shell scripts to automate the Administrative tasks and management using cron jobs.
• Experience in implementing disaster recovery plans and participated in Disaster Recovery testing.
• Expertise in scripting for automation, and monitoring using Shell, PHP, Ruby, Python & Perl scripts, along with RegEX for auditing.
• Interpreted scripting of Python in Microsoft active server page technology, in various operating systems.
• Quickly adapt to a fast changing environment and to new priorities based on customer needs.
• Conduct and develop training material in Code Management,SonarQube, Jenkins, ReSharper, and all code management tools for developers.
• Wrote PowerShell scripts to automatically restart the uDeployagents on LINUX machines.
• Assist in the UAT testing of uDeploy and Jenkins tools also worked on Jenkins to create builds, and pass new builds to IBM Urban code/Udeployfor deployment.
• Maintain and deploy the artifactsu Deployrelease build and produce products for testing and use in production.
• Experience in Installing Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning on Unix/Linux systems.
• Designing, Implementing LDAP architecture, replication, and data synchronization etc.
• Good understanding of OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite (IP, ARP, TCP, UDP, SMTP, FTP, and TFTP).
• Central management of all NetBackup enterprise servers using NetBackup operations.
• Install and configure Netbackup Clients on Solaris 10, Redhat 5.2 & on Windows 2008 and setup backups policies for Oracle and SQL databases.
• Coordinated the configuration and management of backups for Enterprise Vaults using NetBackup.
• Provided secure transfer of files, from web browser and web servers using secure socket layer (SSL).
• Hands on Experience in Linux administration Support,Performance tuning & monitoring, problem analysis & resolution.
• Expertise in automating the software testing environment with open-source tools like Selenium and WebDriver.
• Experience in setting up network environment using NFS, NIS and LDAP.
• Monitored and maintained Active directory, creation of new user accounts, shared Mailbox and calendar accounts. Create NAS volumes, CIFS shares, Snapshot, NDMP data backup direct to tape.
• Independent problem solving and a good team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience supporting 24x7 production computing environments. Experience providing on-call and weekendsupport.Experience in manage cloud software deployments, with a focus on continuous integration and deployment using GitHub, Jenkins, Bamboo, SVN and Maven.
• Experience configuring and managing Puppet master server and also experience in updating and creating modules and pushing them to puppet clients.
• Experience in Install and configuration of Web hosting administration HTTP, FTP, SSH, & RSH.
• Experience in Installation of VMware ESX server and creation ofVMs and install different guest OS.
• Experience in Creating and maintaininguser accounts, profiles,security, rights, disk spaceandprocess monitoring.
• Resolving system errors and crashes, huge file sizes, file system full errors.
• Worked on Firewall implementation & Load balancer between various Windows servers.
• Deploying and adding new machines to a running data base, balancing load and duplicating the data to keep the system up, using Mongo DB, in a multi-server environment.
• Ability to write Shell & Perl scripting and worked onSplunk for generating various metrics
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Implemented set of process and services in active directory.
• Experienced in Trouble shooting and Back and Recovery.
• Ability to multi task, meets deadlines, quickly adapt to different environments and work with different team sizes across geographical locations.
• Self-motivated team player with excellent verbal and writing communication skills.
• Exposed to all aspects of software development life cycle (SDLC) such as Analysis, Planning, Developing, Testing, implementing and Post-production analysis of the projects.
• Experience in using version controller tools like Subversion (SVN), GIT HUB and GIT.
• Expertise in Linux, AIX, UNIX, Solaris, Windows server’s administration and support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: RHEL 3/4/5,Sun Solaris v8,9, 10/11,Ubuntu v 6.10, IBM-AIX 5.X, P850, zVMWindows 2003, 2008, 2012

Scripting Language: Perlscripting, Shellscripting, Bash scripting, Python,Ruby, Power CLI and VB script.

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, WebSphere,WebLogic, MSSQL, MySQL

Database: SQL, NO-SQL, Apache DB, Mongo DB, Oracle9i, Oracle10g.

Tools: ANT, Maven, Hudson/Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Build Forge

Storage: HDS USP, USPV, VSP, AMS 1000, AMS 2500, 9585, HDS TrueCopy, HDS Shadow Image, SAN Copy, raidcom, EMC Clariion, Symmetrix and DMX.

Network Protocols: DHCP, DIG, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, Ethernet, IOS, net stat, NFS, NIS, nslookup, RIP, OSPF, BGP, TCP/IP, and TCP dump, FTP, TFTP.

Cloud: AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation AWS configuration, S3, Cloud Trail, IAM. VMWare.

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

Version Control Tools: CVS, SVN, IBM Rational Clear Case, Perforce, RTC, GIT, Source Tree

Terminal Services: Remote Desktop Services, VNC, Putty, Tera Term, Team Viewer, Citrix, Logmein and Terminal Services.

Programming Languages: C, SQL, HTML, PHP, XML, Bash, Perl and Shell Programming, JSP, Pythonand Ruby.

Backup Management: Veritas Net backup 4.x/5.x/6.x, UFS dump, UFS restore, TAR, Tivoli, Symantec NetBackup 7.x

Other tools: VMware VSphere, ESX/ESXi, VCenter Server,, Splunk, Chef and Nagios, Jenkins.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, CA

Linux Infrastructure Build Engineer/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of over 4500 servers which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting both physical and virtual servers.
• Used Kick Start Server to initiate installation of Red hatLinuxon several machines at once.
• Responsible for creating a Linux servers with OVF template.
• Worked on group/user administration, startup and shutdown scripts, crontabs, file system maintenance and backup scripting and automation.
• Setting up SSH, SCP, SFTP connectivity betweenLinuxhosts.
• Built servers and installed applications as per the company standards and requirement.
• Trouble shooting Issues with the Live Linux and Application servers.
• Managed Linux based Application File system management across the data centers.
• Monitored the Linux servers regularly and performed troubleshooting steps.
• Maintained necessary backups of important files and documented scripts for future reference.
• Documenting the Application Process and Procedures.
• Worked on building Linux and Solaris servers using Kickstart, Jumpstart and experience using VMware templates on ESX servers.
• Participation from scratch for new server’s deployment and installing ESX in the servers and making it configured over Intranet.
• Successful implementation and configuration of the ESX servers to existing NAS devices.
• Built servers and installed applications as per the company standards and requirement.
• Managing System Resources like FileSystem, Disk space, Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and Physical Volumes.
• Created ASM disk on both Linux and AIX machines and also setup a cluster node among different machines.
• Worked on pureapp server’s major responsibility on pureapp servers is to do the hardening of the server and check the server is according to BSC standard.
• Written various bash scripts and ruby scripts to automate different process.
• Responsible for installing the different clients such as Splunk, Tivoli, Netbackupetc
• Performed day to day tasks of Linux System Administrator.
• Experience working with hardware team on racking new hardware and removing old servers from Datacenter.
• Experience working with monitoring team, which includes working on monitoring agent such as Splunk, Tivoli, opnetetc to monitor activities going on in server.
• Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, Ethernet), NIS, DNS, NFS, DHCP and SMTP.
• Applied appropriate support packages and Vulnerability patching on Linux boxes to maintain system Integrity using YUM.
• Troubleshooting Linux network and security related issues.
• Worked on installation and configuration of DevOps Automation Tool Puppet.
• Experienced in AWS Cloud platform and its features which include EC2, AMI, EBS, Cloud watch, Auto-scaling, IAM, ELB and AWS S3.
• Wrote Puppetmanifests for deploying, configuring, Install shield and managing collected for metric collection and monitoring.
• Applied OS patching, fixing bugs, by writing shell scripts, createpuppetmanifest and apply it
• Responsible for automating and improving infrastructure, usingPuppetfor configuration
• Deployed Puppet,Puppet dashboard for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Deployed and monitored scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management usingpuppet.
• Used Puppet to manage Web Applications, Config Files, Data Base, Commands, Users Mount Points, and Packages.
• Designed Puppet Modules to manage configurations and automate installation process.
• Handling cloud during maintenance/Website deployment on Prod servers through puppet.

Environment:ESX 5.5, Windows 2012, Windows XP, Red hat 6, NAS, SAN, ISCSI, oracle 8/9i,NAS,SAN,ISCSI, VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters, puppet, python, bash, ruby,Aws.

Confidential, Coraopolis, PA

System Admin/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing approximately 4000 Red Hat Linux, HP-Unix and some handful of Solaris client Server in a fast paced demanding environment.
• Used Kick Start Server to initiate installation of Red hatLinuxon several machines at once.
• Handled various storage devices, Disk Management, Logical Volume Management (LVM) and logical partitioning.
• Worked on group/user administration, startup and shutdown scripts, crontabs, file system maintenance and backup scripting and automation.
• Written various Shell scripts using ksh, bash, and perl for process automation of databases, applications, backup and scheduling.
• Setting up SSH, SCP, SFTP connectivity betweenLinuxhosts.
• Performed administrative tasks such as System startup/shutdown, Backup strategy, Printing, Documentation, User Management, Network management, dumb terminals and devices.
• Configured Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Regex, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting production servers withNagios
• Creating monitoring scripts to be used asNagiosplugins.
• Strong understanding ofJAVAproject structures.
• ExperienceindeployingJAVAprojects using MAVEN/ANT and JENKINS.
• Conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost-effective cloud solutions such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Responsible for Design of different Release Environments for new projects.
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch.
• Migrated applications to the AWS cloud.
• Using Jenkins AWS Code Deploy plugin to deploy AWS.
• Defining Release Process & Policy for projects early in SDLC.
• Member of CCM representing changes for Release and environment configuration
• Responsible for Database build, release and configuration
• Responsible for nightly and weekly builds for different modules.
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto scaling groups
• Created multi AZ VPC instances
• Implemented AWS solutions using E2C, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups, Optimized volumes and EC2 instances
• Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Glacier.
• Used IAM to create new accounts, roles and groups
• Work with different team members for automation of Release components.
• Used to write an install script in Ruby using all of the extra helper functions from Chef.
• Using Chef and AWS allowed me to reduce costs for the department and eliminate unwarranted resources.
• Implemented theChefSoftware setup and configuration on VM's from the scratch and deployed the run-list intochef-server and bootstrap thechefclients remotely.
• Used existing cookbooks fromChefMarketplace and customizing the recipes with respect to each VM.
• Customized changes in Data Bags, Roles and Recipes.
• Involved in searching node attributes using Knife.
• Deploying the cookbooks, recipes using knife tool from Chef-DK Workstation toChef-server
• Created user, rpm packages and patch management & configuration implementations.
• Responsible for maintaining the run list onchef-server.
• Involved in writing recipes and cookbooks for configuration management to manage EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances running on "Amazon Web Services" (AWS), part of the project "Deployment Automation Using Chef".
• Imported and managed multiple corporate applications into GitHub code management repo.
• Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat Application Server.
• Interacting with customer/client on daily basis, gathering their requirement and providing best solution to meet their objective.
• Working on enhancing the old scripts by adding new functionality and bug fixes.
• Automation of daily task.
• Server migration and up gradation as per need of the customer and application.
• Create, manage and troubleshoot LVM.
• Providing Continuous Planning, Configuration, Build, Release, Deployment and Monitoring solution using tools right for the applicationinquestion. Helping the development and operations team onboard onto automated solutions up to Production.
• Performed database upgrade of PostgreSQL from version 9.3 to 9.4.
• Responsible for creating original scripts for generating statistics for monitoring production Postgre SQL databases.
• Designed, developed and maintained PostgreSQL database architecture.
• Highly involvedinConfiguring and monitoring distributed and multi-platform servers using chef.
• Implemented Continuous delivery by usingCheffor deploying Docker containers
• Configuring RAID and LVM and extend the space as needed.
• Helping other teammates to configure and troubleshoot system and network issues.

Environment:RHEL 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, Chef, AWS, Shell/Perl Scripts, Ruby, GIT, Jenkins, Tomcat, Jira, Maven, Splunk, Nagios.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and managed approx 1500 servers.
• Worked mostly on Redhat Linux environment 5.x and 6.x by installing, configuring and troubleshooting Apache Tomcat 7.x in a clustered environment where the application is build.
• Managed and Configured HDS arrays AMS 1000, AMS 2500, USPV using Storage Navigator and Device Manager.
• Perform patch management on LAMP Stack that is deployed on top of RHEL v6.
• Installed and Configured HDLM software on UNIX and Windows servers.
• Migrating Data at host level using RHEL and VERITAS LVM from USP to USPV arrays.
• Performed installation, configuration and management of JBoss 5.x application server on Linux and Solaris servers.
• Involved in merging java codes to the latest release and deploying it to generate various kinds of reports.
• Creation of Virtual Servers (VMware ESX 5.1) using a process document.
• Adding resources to existing Virtual Servers including Memory, additional hard disk space, NIC card etc.
• Worked on patching Solaris and Linux servers and also experience patching Solaris Zones and LDoM’s and Domains and Linux VM’s running on ESX environment..
• Worked with Microsoft's Account Lockout and Management tools and PowerShell scripting to diagnosis and troubleshoot account lockouts issues.
• RADIUS server help me in managing authentication, authorization and account (AAA) of a user from a centralized location.
• Written a Powershell scripting for Active Directory and Exchange
• Responsible for Data integrity included all aspects of backup/restores for fileservers and exchange servers respectively utilizing Veritas Backup.
• Monitor SIEM traffic for malicious activity.
• WorkwithIdentity Access Management program
• Audit and review user accounts/systems/applications
• Monitor, coordinate and process security-related service requests
• Interfacewithuser community to understand their security access needs and implements procedures to accommodate them.
• Created playbooks for OpenStack deployments and bug fixes withAnsible.
• Responsible for writing Ansible playbooks which is the entry point forAnsible provisioning, where the automation is defined through tasks using YAML format.
• Run Ansible Scripts to provision Dev servers.
• Experience in creating inventory, job templates and scheduling jobs usin AnsibleTower.
• Experience in Writing Python modules for Ansible customizations.
• Managed and maintained back office infrastructure servers DNS, WINS, DHCP.
• Supporting and maintaining antivirus products as well as host based firewalls.
• Installed and configured print servers, local and network printers to workstations.
• Decommission of VMware Virtual Servers using IS best practices.
• Responsible for supporting EMC VNX & VMAX LUN’s connected to Linux and Solaris servers and managed volumes using Linux LVM, Solaris ZFS &VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Accountable for technical issue resolution including diagnosis of problem, workarounds, and providing solution.
• Responsible for administration of network workstations, help desk, hardware inventory, software inventory, network mapping, equipment purchasing, and software purchasing.
• Provided support for Azure Cloud servers environment for project Code Deployments and Oracle DB installations and maintenance.
• Mac OS X Server configuration and support(including training desktop team)
• Assist in ensuring 24x7 availability of key services in the IT infrastructure by participating in an on-call rotation and occasional night/weekend work.
• Various reports are being shared on daily/weekly/monthly basis with management and client as well to have goodVisibility of the environment.
• Monthly restart of all servers after patches deployment and ensuring their availability.
• Coordination with hardware vendors for fixing issues related to server hardware.
• Written various Shell scripts (ksh, bash) to automate system administration jobs.

Environment:Solaris 9/10, RHEL 5.x, 6.x, Sun T2000, M4K, M8K, T5140, T5240 Sun Firev890, Sun Firev440, Sun Firev490, HP-ProLiant, Lamp, VERITAS Volume Manager, Ansible, VCS, SVM, VMware ESX, Azure,powershell.

Confidential, San Francisco CA

Sr Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing approx 2000LinuxServers: RHEL 4.x & 5.x, Bash scripting for automation of tasks.
• Worked on Grub, PXE boot, Kick start, Packages, Yum, RPMs, LVM, Boot from SAN, file system configuration.
• Working with version control tools such as Subversion(Tortoise) 1.8.x64bit.
• Configuring LVM as extending Logical Volume and Physical Volume Size.
• Installing and managing different automation and monitoring tools like Nagios and Splunk.
• Involved in building Solaris 10 and migrating Solaris 8 to Solaris 10.
• Coordinated with the UNIX and Windows customers for HDS firmware migration as per vendor recommendation.
• Working with M and T series servers like M4000, M5000 & M8000 servers.
• Installation, Upgrading, Patches, Migration, Configuration and Troubleshooting, deploying SUN Cluster Framework and VERITAS Cluster Server.
• Handling various Solaris container/zone, Knowledge of DTrace.
• Handling the Domain, DHCP & its policies.
• Worked on migration of storage level using EMC Replication Manager.
• Worked on HDS USP, USPV, AMS 1000, AMS 2500, 9585.
• Worked extensively on HDS TrueCopy, ShadowImage for migrations.
• Restricting users from downloading non business applications.
• Handling & fixing all Server related issues,ensuring maximum availability of servers and its services.
• Implemented Nagios alerting toolfor Monitoring alerts.
• Windows OS and customization using Blade Logic and MDT deployment tools.
• Install and configure the HP c7000 enclosures, HP standalone servers.
• Supporting Vendor for various application installations.
• Experience with administrating TSM5.4.3 and 6.2 servers on a variety of hardware and configurations. (IBM AIX, Sun/Oracle Solaris servers, Linux RHEL5 in VCS clustered environment.)
• Install new TS Mclients in NT, Linux, and UNIX environments.
• TroubleshootTSMservers and client issues as necessaryand Providing On call TSM support 24x7
• Documented standard operating procedures (SOP) for troubleshooting, configuring, and setting up virtual servers.
• Scan and deploy patches and updates to the systems using Microsoft Windows Updates Services (WSUS) and keeping up-to-date patch-levels.
• Troubleshot and maintain RedHat and SuS ELinux environments for vulnerabilities using automation tools for fixing and updating.
• Provide support for users, groups and security access to Active Directory objects including organizational units. Managed AD user accounts, access and group permissions in Win 2003 AD.
• Desktop, printers & laptop's troubleshootinganalyzing the existing environment suggest & implement the improvements.
• Created various Batch jobs and time based workflows to update the data regularly.
• Provided user support and bug fixing activities as per the SLA.
• Managed Operational requests and troubleshoot issues, working with diverse groups.

Environment:RedHat5.5,CentOS4.0,Windows2003/2008/2012server,windowsXp/7/8,VMwareESXi5.1,Vmotion,vcenter server, sphere client, center update manager, Nagios, TSM, vcenter converter, San, NAS, Hp Rack servers.

Confidential

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Setup company’s servers, network and workstations in windows and Ubuntu.
• Performed installation, configuration and management of Linux, Solaris and Windows servers.
• Maintained all computer equipment & peripherals.
• Administered cross-platform Network (Linux and Windows).
• Installation and Configuration of new server hardware.
• Installed and configured windows server 2000.and windows 2003 server.
• Designing, configuring, implementing and managing DHCP, DNS servers.
• Defining and implementing user configurations and policies.
• Automated several administrative tasks.
• Adding/deleting/modifying user account information.
• Creating security policies.
• Collaborated with various application groups on a daily basis to manage access management. Configured and maintained NetIQ/NovellIdentity Manager (IAM/IDM) utilizing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server while producing, reviewing functional and design specs.
• Supporting and maintaining antivirus products as well as host based firewalls.
• Designing, implementing and managing disaster recovery and backup process.
• Documenting all the network, server and resources configurations.
• Backup files and tweak the system & network for optimal performance.
• Managed system and network disaster recovery plans.
• Conducted basic computer training to employees.
• Identified issues with the Netbackup product, environment issues including resources, performance, setting up a plan of action and next step with the customer.
• Documenting cases, troubleshooting steps and resolution to case management software
• Provided hardware and software updates.
• Provided system and network security.
• Provided technical support and repairs for Windows / workstations
• Assisted in computerized accounting and auditing.

Environment: Windows NT/2003, Red hat Linux, CentOS, Netbackup,LAN, WAN, Free BSD, Apache.