SUMMARY

• Expertise in deploying various Red Hat Enterprise Linux/ SUSE/ Windows Server 2003/2008 builds both Physical and Virtual on HP/CISCO/Dell Hardware running ESXi.
• Experience in RHEL Server provisioning, Upgrades, Patching, Configuration and Performance Tuning in Linux, and VMware environments.
• Experience in deploying and creating new VM guests with utilizing Red Hat Satellite Server as well as Customized ISO Images and templates
• Experience in designing build/ configure documentation related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux via Kickstart/ PXE and Red Hat Satellite Server/ Spacewalk.
• Expert in Server Builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration and Performance Tuning in Red Hat Linux and VMware environments.
• Expertise in creation of RHEL and Windows 03/08 servers utilizing templates, custom ISOs.
• Experience providing 24/7 support in a 99.999 environment to maintain maximum uptime and ensure server reliability using monitoring products such as HPOM, Nagios, VCOPS, and Solar Winds.
• Experience in managing and configuring multipath based solution and well experienced in working with Storage Administrators to configure SAN based LUNs in Redhat Enterprise Linux.
• Expertise in configuring new Cisco UCS 6140xp Interconnects, 2104xp Fabric Extenders with Hostnames, IP Address, Virtual Cluster IP Address, server ports, and uplink ports.
• Experience in configuring Flex - 10/Flex Fabric Shared Uplink Sets, SAN Fabrics, and Server Profiles on Virtual Connect Manager for BL460c, BL680c g6/g7 on HP C7000 enclosures.
• Expertise in working on NetApp based storage environments to configure LUNs as Data stores or Expansion of Data stores in VMware vSphere Environment.
• Experience implementing VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment that consisted of ESXi Server, multiple Virtual Center, vMotion, HA, DRS, VCB, Update Manager.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: HP Proliant DL 585 G6/G7, HP C-7000, BL 460 G6/7, Cisco UCS B200’s B250’s M1’s M2’s, Dell R-900, R-710’s

Server OS: Red Hat 4/5/6, SUSE 11.1, AIX 5.3/6.1 Windows Server 03/08

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

SAN Tools: PowerPath, Navisphere, NetApp Filers, OnCommand Manager EMX VMAX, VNX, Net App 6240s

Database: MSSQL, MySQL

File System tools: LVM, Veritas Volume Manager

High Availability: Red Hat Cluster, Veritas Cluster Server

Network Servers: DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Glen Allen, VA

Linux System Reliability Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Incident resolution and supporting production system deployments while ensuring SLAs are met.
• Deliver on Time to Resolve and Time to detect reduction efforts.
• Identify and contribute to long-term solutions and preventative techniques.
• Increasing Self-Healing through closed loop automation.
• Progress, protect, and provide for the applications and sub-systems behind Confidential ’s entire external and internal customer facing services with an ever-watchful eye on their availability, latency, performance, and capacity.
• Collaborating with other tech leads and support teams to ensure integrated end-to-end availability, reliability, and performance
• Support and deliver within Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines
• Influencing resiliency and scalability in production environments in Amazon Web Services? and other cloud platforms
• Equipping systems with automated monitoring and alerting
• Support the team and contribute to designing, writing and delivering technical and process automations to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Confidential ’s services.
• Solve problems relating to mission critical services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence; with the goal of automating response to all non-exceptional service conditions.
• Influence and support new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.
• Identifying and remediating risk to critical and non-critical system KPIs

Confidential, Glen Allen, VA

Red Hat /CentOS Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Training new recruits both locally and offshore
• Experience in working with Agile methodology
• Experience in post provisioning servers, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration and Performance Tuning in Red Hat Linux
• Experience in configuring the backup NIC on the server as well as configuring backups off the server
• Experience in working with web base tools, HPSM, T-RAT Nezumi, Sitescope monitoring, Cyberark and version one
• Experience in creating/implementing change orders for configuring the servers for Backups in finalize build process
• Experience in creating/implementing change orders for decommissioning of Red Hat Linux servers in both (prod &non prod p environment)
• Experience in configuring and installing additional software packages on the server as per the project’s requirements (WebLogic, Simpana, oracle, server migrations, power broker, HPSM management, Opnet installation and configurations, Splunk installation .etc.)
• Experience in creating/extending file systems on the server as per the project’s requirements
• Experience in creating and maintaining process document for Red Hat Linux servers
• Experienced in CommVault configurations, cvpins, Simpana Version, and the overall CommCell Console administration
• Experience in working with AWS, CHEF recipes, and Cloud server build
• Experience in project management and coupled with Agile Methodologies
• Experience in writing shell scrips, bash scripts, automating repeatable tasks, and meeting the SLA requirements.

Confidential, Detroit, MI

VMware/Red Hat Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured several hundred Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/Windows Server 2003/2008 Servers in both Physical Blade and VMware ESXi Virtual Environment.
• Setup and Configured Red Hat Satellite and Kickstart Servers for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6 installs and RHN Push Updates.
• Deploy and Configure Red Hat Satellite Server 5.5 and 6.4, including creating maintaining any customized kick start configuration channels to deploy RHEL.
• Installing and updating packages using YUM (custom YUM Servers/repositories), Red Hat Satellite Server.
• Participating in support of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Middleware JAVA applications, provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.
• Provide level high support for ESXi servers running on HP ProLiant BL460’s, DL360’s and DL380’s
• Configure Linux multipath and Linux device mapper to configure multipathed LUNs from HP 3Par Storage.
• Installation of ESXi 5.1 Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administering VM’sacross multiple datacenter’s.
• Deploying VMware vSphere 5.1 by upgrading VMwareinfrastructure 4.1.2 tovSphere 5.1.
• Create any specific LVM’s for middleware developers as well as Database teams.
• Configuring and Administering NFS, DNS, NIS and NIS+ on RHEL server environment.
• Configure and install VMware tools on the custom built VM’s.
• Upgraded theVMwaretools, VM hardware 8 on all the VM's as a part Upgrade process.

Confidential, Lake Forest, IL

UNIX/Linux/VMWare System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install RHEL directly on HP DL585/385 G5 Rack mount servers using PXE boot and ILO.
• Involve in the installation Windows Server 2003 user environment including on hardware and software.
• Build, Deployed and Configured VMware Guests with Windows 2008 and Windows 2003 Servers.
• Windows OS build, IP Configurations, Domain Builds, Active Directory Site Builds and Support & Administration.
• Establish and implement ongoing monitoring procedures with both Nagios, HPOVSD as indicated well by establishing a baseline and appropriate metrics, generating a security monitoring procedure, implement scripts, and auditing/verifying the system as reported on a periodic basis and participate in security audits.
• Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of Windows/Linux/ESXi servers and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.
• Creation and maintenance of VMware clusters and VUM (VMware Update Manager)
• Assist as part of a team in building and managing lab environments with complex settings, configurations, topologies and equipment including servers and various network elements.
• Responsible for the installation, configuration and support of VMware and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment.
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates
• Performance monitoring and tuning for ESX Servers, Virtual Center Server and Virtual machines
• Install and configure AIX LPAR’s using NIM and custom based installs.
• Utilizing HMC to install, configure and maintain LPAR’s/DLPAR’.
• Migrating, Configuring and installing zone and ldom.
• Package and User management in zone environment.
• Recreate mirror on drives and root using SVM, VXVM.
• Part of VMware migration team in implementing and updating the latest versions of VMware as well as building new VM instances as per the business requirement.
• Managed systems configuration and maintenance, problem troubleshooting, system and program security, applications and program management, planning and directing upgrades, and testing operations to ensure optimum system functionality.
• Using VM converter converting Physical machines in VMware VMs.
• Solve day to day troubleshooting related to Network, Resource Allocation and Resource Availability.
• Maintained user account management, configured servers to register with Red Hat, Network (RHN) Satellite Server, monitored servers - workload assessment, service console monitoring
• Installed Configured and Upgraded Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x to 5.x and configured various patching schedules to meet patching criteria quarterly.
• Analyze, troubleshoot and resolve problems involving operating system issues, application issues, & Web site issues, etc.

Confidential, New York, NY

Red Hat Linux Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and deploy High End applications developed in Java using WebLogic/ Tomcat Application Server.
• Provide support to the Java development team to help develop Java based applications.
• Configure JVM heap configuration and thread pool configuration to performance tune java applications running on WebLogic/ Tomcat.
• Install and configure RICCI agents to deploy RHCS and manage the entire cluster environment utilizing LUCI and cluster.
• Troubleshoot, engage in incident calls, and define RCA’s as part of the tier 2/3 support team.
• Installation, Configuration and Administration ofVMwareESXi 4.1.1/ VirtualCenter 4.1, vCenterServers.
• Assessment, design and Implementation on the vSphere Upgrade, 200+ ESXi hosts upgraded fromVMwareESX 4.0 to ESXi 4.1.1.
• Part of the implementation team that configured and deployed new patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual windows servers.
• Configure and maintain NFS Servers for both media and data sharing between servers and resolved any shared storage server issues.
• Configured and deployed patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Red Hat Linux servers using Satellite Server/Spacewalk.
• Building VM's and new Templates for newProjects and allocating them to appropriate Resource pools.
• Create any custom channels in Red Hat Satellite Server/Spacewalk especially for patching cycles, provision any new RHEL guests (phy and virt) by creating any new kick start profiles
• Create configuration channels on Spacewalk/Red Hat Satellite Server to keep important files such as /etc./ntp.conf, /etc./hosts, /etc./sysconfig/iptables in sync across several hundred machines.
• Review and remediate software distribution failures and toeliminate the problems that causes those failures.
• Design and implementmechanisms for handing on-off technical issues toother technical teams for resolution.
• Create WWID pools, MAC pools and service profiles in Cisco UCS Manager.
• Created various Cisco UCS service profile templates and service profiles based on the requirement for VMware ESXi v4/5, Windows 2008 R2 Deployment.
• Configured various SNMP based configurations to allow Solar Winds Suite to analyze CPU, Memory, Network and I/O usage.
• Built RHN Satellite Server v5.4.0for patching, registration, andbuilds (kick start).
• Implemented, configured and deployed new patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Red Hat Linux servers using satellite server and YUM server.
• Deployed various Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows Server virtual builds using a combination of VMware Templates and PowerCli.
• Also configuring ifcfg files in Linux and NIC’s in Windows servers.
• Installing, patching, management and troubleshooting of RHEL 5.x and CentOS servers.
• Migrating virtual machine configuration files and virtual disks from one Data store to another Data store utilizing SvMotion.