Sr. Systems Administrator Resume Profile
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OBJECTIVE
To achieve meaningful employment with a company as a Sr. System/UNIX/SAN Administrator, which will allow me to address and solve your company's technical needs, by applying my experience, training, and teaming abilities to aid in the positive and profitable development of my employer and career.
OVERVIEW OF QUALIFICATIONS
- 18 yrs of Systems/UNIX Administration
- 8 yrs of SAN/NAS experience
- Accustomed to being on call 24/7/365
- Detail orientated
- Efficient at multi - tasking
- Operational Leadership
- Excellent communication and teaming abilities
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Confidential
Sr. Systems Administrator
- Manage a team of 7 HP-UX, Solaris, and RHEL UNIX Admins, including off-shore resources, supporting 1300 UNIX servers for Unix Operations. Also recently asked to lead the BUR Team on interim basis.
- Handle highest level escalations for all UNIX issues for Ally hosted outages, both internal to Ally and external with vendor managers.
- Delegate and track progress on all daily and project work from normal UNIX administration, to open Audit issue closure, and new solution implementation in to Ally environment.
Confidential
- Established a standardized process for incoming builds migrated from previously IBM and HP managed data centers.
- Created a standard where Ally's Hosting UNIX Operations team was an ally to internal customers in resolving issues rather than a roadblock.
- Have maintained a 97.5 Operational Availability since becoming team lead and subsequently Infrastructure Manager.
Sr. Systems Engineer
- OS administration and sustain support of 500 Solaris 8-11, HP-UX v, and RHEL 3-4 servers in clustered Sun and ServiceGuard and virtual zones and virtual machine configuration.
- Create, admin, and maintain PERL scripts executed via NetBackup to facilitate snap, clone, BCV, and SRDF backups.
- Work on level 3 and 4 help ticket and work request issues including: new LUN configuration growing LVM, SVM, and ZFS file systems management and configuration of shared system resources virtual server migration from ever greened servers and OS patching.
Confidential
- Made the Lead on the SOX System Compliance Unix Solaris project, to decrease the number of vulnerabilities on 300 Solaris systems leveraging both manual and Live Upgrade patch install methods.
- Made IMS OS: Solaris Lead during project Dodge to migrate/split/build new servers for ResCap and Ally environment separation after ResCap bankruptcy.
- I was asked to mentor and train the Jr. Admins across the Solaris, HP-UX and RHEL platforms.
Confidential
Sr. Systems Administrator
- Perform hardware, software, and OS hardening of HP-UX servers, including HP Virtual Machines, 11i v3.1/2.3 running on PA-RISC rx8640, and Integrity Superdome and BL860 architectures. As well, support/administration of Redhat Linux servers running on stand-alone Dell or VMWare ESX clustered HP BL460 servers.
- Admin and provision fiber channel attached SAN storage HP EVA4000 .
- Administration of day-to-day disk to tape backup solution using HP Data Protector.
- Support apache and weblogic /tomcat servers in a clustered configuration including F5 ASM/LTM configurations/modifications.
- Stood up HP's Remote Support Advanced with Systems Insight Manager for automatic service response on warrantied or supported equipment. Including researching and consolidating all contract support information into one central and accessible document.
- Developed a PERL script to automate content promotion to clustered web servers including: file comparison for pre-push file backups RSA keyed authentication during file transfers member disablement and enablement for specified pools via F5 and httpd service stop, test, and starts.
- Created a detailed Visio diagram with hardware information, application flow, and current volume or hosted statistics for all equipment at our remote Data Center.
- Created and implemented a solution to clone Virtual Machine servers attached to a SAN using LVM disk mirroring, including detailed documentation of step by step process.
Confidential
Sr. Unix/Linux Administrator contract
- Investigate, document, and remediate Linux vulnerabilities to achieve PCI Compliance in a 100 server environment.
- Help support physical and virtual Redhat 5.3 servers running Apache, JBoss/Weblogic, and NFS services.
- Further developed, documented, and implemented Linux patching procedure for all Freeman environments, leveraging Redhat's Satellite server technology. As well as, standardized new physical and virtual OS builds via Kickstart capability of the Satellite server.
- Tested, documented, and implemented multipathing LUNs for critical DB servers running on RHEL 5.3-5.5 using Compellent SAN storage.
Confidential
Sr. UNIX and SAN Administrator
- Perform hardware setup/installation/replacement, OS installs Jumpstart, maintenance patch installs/upgrades, monitoring, etc., security syslog, SMF and tuning IPMP, MPxIO, /etc/system for HA Oracle 10g/11i DBs RAC on Solaris 10 running on Enterprise Sun hardware V890, V490, T1000/2000 and X4200/X4500 and RHEL 4/5 on HP and Dell servers.
- Provision and present Enterprise class SAN/NAS storage HDS, HP, Sun/STK and EMC to UNIX, Windows, and VMWare servers including configuration of fiber switches Brocade 48K and 4100s while using Veritas Volume Manager and Oracle Real Application Cluster.
- Create and maintain production PERL scripts that involve daily, weekly, and monthly file transfers via FTP, SMB, and SFTP for insertion in Oracle DB
- Authored and maintained 'Brierley Partners Standard Solaris Install and Hardening Guide' document for UNIX environment for PCI compliance.
- Sr. Lead member of team which evaluated designed and implemented changes to an existing production environment to pass PCI requirements and standards.
- Implementation of PERL scripts to automate file transfers to and from clients.
- Complete migration of Backup solution from NetBackup to tape to Legato to disk 6540 to tape SL500 .
- Migration from old SAN EVA3000 to new SAN StorEdge 9985 and in corporation of DR SAN StorEdge 9985VM .
- Worked with executives and vendors in new client purchase and planning for servers and storage.
- Built and maintained public facing SMTP server via sendmail.
- Sr. Lead on a 9 month successful Co-Location migration utilizing VMWare and storage virtualization to reduce from 21 to 7 racks for our production environment.
Confidential
UNIX System Engineer
- Performed hardware and OS maintenance, administration and upgrades for 40 remote Solaris 7 and 8 servers running on Sun hardware Netra 1120/1400 and RHEL 4.
- Maintained and configured central component to VoIP infrastructure running NetCool inside Solaris 9 OS on Sun E450.
- Created and maintained PERL scripts to automatically telnet and pull system information to patch or software upgrades.
Milestones
- Completed a 40 remote node OS upgrade via Sun's jumpstart technology and PERL scripts.
- Built and maintained a Big Brother server to monitor and alert on UNIX server software and hardware issues. As well as, created customized test for Sonus VoIP error and warnings.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Certified Administrator.
Confidential
UNIX System Administrator contract
- Maintained and troubleshot NIS/NIS issue on a network supporting over 3000 users.
- Daily responsibilities included: creation/modification/deletion of user accounts and group associations disk space allocation on filers NetApp modification of access control lists/ownership/permissions on public and private directories solely responsible for 50 workstations running various AUTOCAD apps and troubleshooting printing, hardware, and network connectivity issue.
- Created Korn shell scripts to aid in day to day operations.
- Part of successful 10MB to 100MB fast Ethernet convergence on over 1000 nodes.
- Became lead on third party software installs and backup to lead for Clearcase client issues.
Confidential
Computer Systems Engineer
- Worked on a team that supported 3000 NT and 500 Solaris workstations.
- Daily responsibilities included: troubleshooting software, hardware PC, and network issues.