SUMMARY

• Experience in working on VOD, ITV, AUPM, CDV projects at Confidential . Experience in Nagios, OpenStack, UC4 & Shell scripting. Owns a linux blog which is
• 7 years of proven experience on Linux RedHat,Middleware,OSB & Datapower Administration.
• Experience in Linux server administration, Weblogic/OSB/Linux server administration, and extensive experience in installing, maintaining, troubleshooting tomcat in Linux/Unix, Weblogic Apache, nagios and security software's.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting capabilities
• Knowledge in OpenStack Control Panel.
• 7 Years of Extensive working knowledge/exposure in Networking, Tomcat, DNS & APACHE
• Experience in installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of Linux (RedHat & SuSE).
• Installed, configured and upgraded Linux (RedHat & SuSE) using Jump Start/Kick start and Weblogic Installation
• Extensively worked on Linux OS Upgradation for patching Linux servers to latest versions and installing RPM packages using Satellite server, Yum and up2date.
• Good knowledge in product deployment in servers, mail servers, monitoring tools & shell scripts, networking, SQL/MySQL.
• Extensive hands on knowledge in Linux command line & bash shell scripting
• Strong knowledge in installing Weblogic, oracle SOA, BPM and OSB. Configuring it and creating clusters.
• Conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost - effective cloud solutions such asAmazon Web Services,GoogleWeb Services.
• Ability to identify operational issues and also good understanding of backups, deployment and load balancing techniques
• Bobcares certified windows/RedHat Linux Administrator
• Able to multi task and interact comfortably across teams; strong inter personal skills.
• Have experience in Weblogic Server 10g and 11g,WebLogic Platform
• Worked as freelance consultant for many clients for managing their dedicated and shared Linux servers, application servers and also created a blog as part of giving back to open community
• Worked as Tomcat Application administrator and Integrating external applications with SOA
• Basic knowledge in Manhattan Warehouse Management Systems at Confidential towards their retail division.
• Extensive knowledge in Tomcat, installation, configuration & domain management.
• Extensive Knowledge in Oracle PLSQL& ORACLE SOA & Oracle service bus
• Extensive knowledge in job scheduling tools like Nagios, UC4 & OBTM
• Experienced in implementing the Workload Management (WLM) using cloning and clustering
• Everyday administration tasks - adding and removing users, file, share permissions, trust management, replication management, server backups and server setups on LINUX (RHEL, SUSE).
• Server health monitoring and system tuning as per vendor recommendations.
• Working in 100% Compliance with client/task specific SOP’s, Ticketing, Monitoring systems.
• Experienced in Disaster recovery solutions, performed Disaster recovery tests.
• Experience in DNS, NIS, NFS, LDAP, Send mail, ftp, SSL, SSH, HTTPS, SFTP, and system troubleshooting skills.
• Well versed with Shell Scripts; KORN and BASH.
• Implementation of TCP/IP & related Services-DHCP/DNS
• Experienced in working on slow servers and increasing performance through performance monitoring tools like vmstat, iostat, SAR.
• Providing 24X7 On-call Production and Customer Support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operation Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (3, 4, 5 6), Centos 6, 5, 4, Linux (Red hat/SUSE

Application Server’s: Weblogic, Tomcat, LDAP

Cloud Platform: AWS, MicrosoftAzureand Rackspace, Openstack.

Databases/ scripting: MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11g, bash Shell scripting, Ksh Scripting, Perl Scripting, HTML, MS Access, MySQL Replication, MySQL High Availability with DRBD, MySQL Disaster Recovery and MySQL Clustered.

Storage/ Networking: TCP/IP, NFS, FTP, DNS, NAT, ifconfig, route, netstat, NAS

Backup/ Monitoring: Windows, Nagios Monitoring System, UC4

Mail Servers: SMTP, POP, IMAP, Exim

Languages: PHP, PL/SQL, UNIX Shell Scripting, Tomcat, Weblogic, OSB, Datapower, C, Java, J2EE

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, California

DevOps Lead

Responsibilities:

• Working as an Application admin for tomcat and java applications
• Troubleshoot application level issues
• Monitoring using NewRelic
• Deployment of releases in production & Staging
• Create shell script
• Working on Jenkins for deployment and build verification
• Monitoring using Splunk
• Collaborate in the automation of AWS infrastructure viaterraformand Jenkins - software and services configuration via chef cookbooks
• Creating NFS mount points.
• Using puppet and Chef for building new servers and pushing configuration properties to all prod servers
• Conducted pre-sales technical support services for directing sales force of windows Azure applications.
• Using app dynamics for monitoring
• Working on CDN technology

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Middleware Devops Lead (Team lead)

Responsibilities:

• Managing a team of 4 at offshore and 2 at Onsite.
• Working on OSB & Datapower applications, administration, Application support & Weblogic.
• OSB & Datapower Administration in Linux Servers.
• Troubleshoot complex application and system performance problems across multiple tiers.
• Receive escalated tickets from tier 1, operations and tier 2 to resolve these tickets and look for root cause.
• Lead technical conference calls in outage situations, drive the overall call, and resources to resolution.
• Deploy applications to production and confirm proper operations.
• Work with development teams to document and automate deployment procedures for handoff to tier 1 team.
• Install and upgrade Apache versions, set up and configure Apache web server, build rewrite rules, install and configure Apache modules.
• Applying operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes.
• Install and configure new java software such as Resin, Tomcat, Weblogic, and Websphere.
• Perform tuning of java applications and JVM health.
• Work with Development teams to onboard new applications, configure monitoring, update and approve documentation and adhere to standards.
• Performed Weblogic Server and Portal administration tasks such as installing, configuring, monitoring and performance tuning in both the UNIX and Windows based platforms.
• Worked extensively on a wide range of projects covering Weblogic Portal, Weblogic Server, Apache, Wily Introscope, Tomcat.
• Monitoring of Live Production servers and database - Tomcat, Apache and MySQL on Linux Platform.
• Tuning Tomcat to get the absolute best performance.
• Worked extensively on Solaris, Linux and Windows platforms for different applications.
• Performed successful upgrades of Weblogic Upgrades to later versions and service packs.
• Performed J2EE application deployment and administration including WAR, and EAR files.
• Developed and maintained Shell scripts that facilitate the Administration of BEA WebLogic Server 6.0/7.x/8.1/9.x/10.x and WebLogic Portal 10.3.0.
• Created Managed Servers in a Cluster with round-robin algorithm for Load Balancing.
• Maintained the applications among WebLogic run-time processes in a cluster of application servers.
• Deployed the applications on multiple WebLogic Servers and maintained Load balancing, high availability and fail over functionality.
• Created user roles and groups for securing the resources.
• Created and managed custom security realms and authenticator providers.
• Involved in Performance tuning of WebLogic server with respect to heap, threads and connection pools.
• Troubleshoot WebLogic Server connection pooling and connection manager with Oracle, DB2; worked with DBAs in resolving issues.
• Installed and configured Sun ONE (iPlanet), Apache and IIS Web Server.
• Configured and administered JDBC, JMS, JNDI, and SNMP.
• Developed run-level scripts for automatic startup and shutdown of Admin Server and Managed Servers.
• Created Crontab scripts for timely running jobs.
• Deploying the various releases in production.
• Deployment of application patches and upgrades etc.
• XML, XSLT & WSDL
• Working on OSB & Datapower control panels.
• Identifying potential problems and determining root causes
• Solutions for application crashes and performance problems
• Performance tuning
• Deploying clustered applications
• Tying together multiple applications in a single environment
• Integrating external applications with SOA

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Technical Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing a team of 10 at offshore and 3 at onsite.
• Linux, Solaris Admin for a High Availability Middleware Cycle Environment.
• OpenStack Administration
• Has expertise in troubleshooting and analyzing complex non-functional production issues due to Application, OS, Data Base, and I/O, and providing solutions/guidance to the implementation team.
• Responsible for Day - to-Day System Administration on Sun Solaris, Linux Servers.
• Responsible for capacity planning, design, install and configuration of new servers.
• Writing script for day to day activity for scheduled task using shell scripting.
• Installed Weblogic.
• Supporting Solaris, Linux servers inproduction/stage/development environment.
• Unix/Linux user's creation, file/dir level permissions, Sudo permissions etc.
• Installation and creation of 9i and 10g databases for Testing, Development and Production.
• Installation of Oracle version 10g on Solaris 10 and HP-UX11.
• Experience in Identifying performance bottlenecks on high volume transaction systems. Analyze SQL statements, reorganize database objects and design indexes to improve response of queries.
• Perform system trouble-shooting, performance tuning and capacity planning.
• Worked closely with database administration staff to ensure optimal performance of databases, and maintain development applications and databases.
• Shell (ksh, bash) scripting for various admin related jobs.
• Design and implement Backup Policies.
• Working on Linux/Unix servers, OSB & Datapower.
• Installing ORCALE SOA and BPM.
• Worked on JVM settings & Domain management.
• Installing Weblogic & OSB.
• Troubleshooting DNS and webserver logs.
• Supporting the applications in Weblogic servers.
• Working on new shell scripts.
• File Management & Folder management.
• Alert Management using Nagios and logs.
• Nagios scripting on various TBMS servers.
• UC4 monitoring and analysis.
• Server performance and issue analysis.
• Performance tuning and process improvement.
• VOD work flow and process log checking.
• SQL Query development, Script development.
• Memory analysis of product servers and monitoring.
• Oracle database analysis and query execution.
• Creating new alarms in nagios using shell script on product servers like AUPM, VOD, and CDV etc.
• Scheduling the alerts on UC4/Crontab.
• Monitoring the mediation, rating and consolidation engines in TBMS servers.
• Analyzing the memory consumption and performance of various servers.
• Deployment of new engines for backlog clearance, rejection issue analysis.
• Installing the nagios in different TBMS servers.
• Worked on Weblogic Server 10g and 11g, WebLogic Platform.
• Have troubleshooted the server issues based System/security/application & DNS logs.
• Worked of backups, taking snapshot, deployments.
• Experience on firewalls, Load balancers, & shell scripting (shell).
• Experience on deployment of application patches and upgrades; etc.
• Experience in Networking issues, ping, traceroute etc.
• Worked on SQL/PL/SQL/MySQL.
• Experience in amazon cloud.
• Support to any issues coming onLinux servers and for applications, which run on them.
• MySQL and Oracle Database installation and Monitoring on Linux using Nagios.
• Troubleshooting all kind of apache, Tomcat and PHP issues.
• Managing volumes in Linux by LVM.
• Experience in setting Linux RedHat Cluster Suite (4 node cluster).
• Configuring and managing Cluster instances for MYSQL and Oracle database.
• High Performance Cluster using the platform computing software using Red Hat operating system.
• Performed connection diagnostics in order to access route specifics and diagnostics from the switching infrastructure.
• Also concerned with every day growth and Inspections to make sure quality and goals were being met.
• Provided operational Documents to make the Environment more convenient.

Confidential

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot, secure and support RedHat, Centos, Fedora and HP UNIX servers and also product servers.
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 3/4/5, SUSE Linux, Installation on HPProliant servers using kickstart and configuration & support for various applications run on Linux environment, configuration, performance tuning, patching and maintenance.
• Designing, Implementation, Configuring, & Managing Puppet server.
• Defining Security policy for Linux Servers, including Apache, Tomcat and Supporting 300+ Linux servers in production/stage/development environment
• Worked on VMware Virtual Center Server
• Day to day duties for Unix/Linux server maintenance and support to developer's team for their issueswith application, tuning, troubleshooting, software running on Unix/Linux Servers.
• Support and troubleshooting of LinuxApache, MySQL, Have knowledge on MySQL, Oracle Database Administration.
• Involved in 24x7 supports for both production and development databases with on-call pager.
• Administration of multi flavor UNIX environment Linuxand Windows with various responsibilities.
• Setup and configured network TCP/IPat all levelsonLinuxservers
• 24x7 Administration and monitoring for the UNIX servers. Rotating on call pager responsibilities for Production environment.
• Basic Knowledge in Windows Active directory
• Deployments, Drive Application Release Task Plans, Handle Application Outage if any Invite all team to bring the application up and running.
• Start Stop Web logic managed servers, admin servers, Find Root cause Of Outage of application and upload it in Knowledge base. Maintain a log book of software problems.
• Implement Root, Child Domain System with Additional Domain Server in the different sites.
• Implement Domain Name Server by Using Primary and Secondary DNS Servers.
• Worked on Ecommerce best practices and online marketing methodologies.
• Configure LINUX Server as a Data Storage Server.
• Configure the Users, Global and Local Groups in the Enterprise Server Environment with types of Permissions.
• DNS, DHCP, NFS, NIS configuration.
• Worked with object oriented software development methodologies and practices across all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Managing with Forms Server and Excel Services.
• Unix/Linux user's creation, file/dir level permissions, Sudo permissions etc.
• Using VM converter converting Physical machines in VMware VMs.
• Updating/patching Linux, Windows Virtual Machine in VMware clusters
• User management, security planning and implementation.
• Setup and configured network TCP/IP at all levels on LINUX servers.
• Administered and maintained Solaris server and OS for production, Internet and intranet services.
• Interacted with the global Solaris Engineering team regularly to understand and design solutions.
• Involved in the installation, monitoring and Administration of Unix based servers, firewalls, Cisco networks, perimeter security technologies, Internet technologies and remote office WAN/ LAN connectivity.
• Worked on Litespeed web technology and Apache webservers and nagios
• Administered user accounts, performed user maintenance on UNIX and PC workstations. Monitored security issues. Administered system mail and internet access. Configured network file systems.
• Worked on different Unix/Linux platforms and mail servers.
• Worked on many domains in shared and dedicated servers.
• Ability to troubleshoot the issues based System/security/application

Confidential

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot, secure and Administration of RedHat, Centos, Fedora and HP Unix servers and also product servers.
• Weblogic & OSB installations and administration
• Installing SOA suite and configurations.
• Experience in amazon cloud.
• Experience in windows administration
• Worked on Litespeed web technology and Apache webservers and nagios
• Experience troubleshooting application servers Tomcat
• Administered user accounts, performed user maintenance on UNIX and PC workstations. Monitored security issues. Administered system mail and internet access. Configured network file systems.
• Experience in working on SQL/PL/SQL/MySQL
• Networking skills like ping, trace route, telnet to a specific port
• Deployment of application patches and upgrades; perform reboots & configuration changes...
• Worked on different Unix/Linux platforms and mail servers.
• Worked on many domains in shared and dedicated servers.
• Worked on Bash Shell scripts.
• Worked on Weblogic Server 10g and 11g,WebLogic Platform,
• Worked on Load balancing in servers
• Memory analysis of servers, clustering and DNS
• Worked on MySql clustering
• Monitored dedicated and shared servers having more than 1000 domains
• Worked on IMAP, POP, SSH Configuration and Hardening.
• Troubleshooting and Addressing issues in a Helpdesk environment.
• Server Security Auditing, Vulnerability Assessment and correction.
• Proficient with Cpanel and WHM management (setting up accounts, remote backups, DNS clusters, Failover solutions etc).
• VPN Technologies (OpenVPN, Poptop etc).
• Monitoring and Managing Network Devices using Cacti, PRTG, etc.
• Experience with VPS Software (Virtuozzo).
• Third party Software Installations and configuration - Software management (Fantastico, RVSkins etc).
• Security Protection (Intrusion Detection with Snort, tripwire and ipfw/iptables etc).
• DNS and RDNS delegation experience (Bind, QDNS).
• Linux Kernel Security, regular maintenance, recompiles and OS reinstalls.
• Exim Administration and Optimization - experience with ClamAV, Sophos AV, ExiScan and SpamAssassin.
• Core System Files Hardening and Optimization (sysctl.conf, resolv.conf etc)
• Monitoring servers and responding to event notifications. (Service outages, High Load Alerts etc) experience with Nagios.
• Working knowledge of Database Technologies (MySQL, PGSQL), performance Optimization and Hardening.