SUMMARY

• Over 16 years of experience in Information technology with strong track record of success in delivering, highly integrated projects, delivering strategic IT service solutions that offer reliable infrastructure, security, high availability, responsive technical support, business process improvement, and adaptability to business changes.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Linux, Unix Engineer, Cloud Engineer, VMware, CISCO UCS storage, SAN, NAS, and Windows infrastructure
• Expertise in administration, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, capacity and performance planning, security planning, Cloud Architect, CISCO UCS LINUX (Susue, Redhat, Fedora, CentOS) and Unix (IBM AIX, Solaris, HP - UX, Open Server)
• Supported Fortune 500 companies including SCE, Confidential, EDS, Confidential, IBM GS, Confidential .

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: SUSE, REDHAT, VMWARE IBM AIX Solaris, HP-UX, Z os, Windows

Hardware: CISCO BLADES,FLEXPPOD,IBM p7, p6,p5 Series, HMC, HP C7000,HP Blades, Oracle/SUN Enterprise, HP 9000.

Storage: IBM SHARK, ESS, EMC, Net App.

Software/Tools: Veritas Volume Manager, Power HA, BigIp F5,HMC, UCS,VIO, NIM, Mksysb, TSM, SAP BOE, SAP DATA services, SAP BWA,HANA,HP services, Puppet, Chef, Microsoft projects, Visio, Execl, word

RDBMS: Oracle 11, 10, 8, 9, Sybase, DB2, HANA

CI/CD Tools: GIT, SVN, Maven, ANT, Jenkins, Hudson, Chef, Puppet

Cloud Techonogies: Open Stack, AWS (EC2, S3, EBS, ELB, RDS, SNS,SQS, IAM, VPC, Cloud Formation, Cloud Watch),MS Azure.

Application Servers: IBM WAS, Weblogic, TOMCAT,JBoss

Webserservers: IBM IHS, Sun ONE, Apache

Monitoring: HP OVO, BMC Remedy,Nagios,AWS Cloudwatch,Splunk

Networking: NIS/NIS+, NFS. GFS

Programming skill: Korn, Born, Bash, Python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

IT Engineer

Confidential

Environment: SUSE, REDHAT Linux, CLOUD, CICSO UCS, VMWARE ESXI, IBM AIX, Solaris HP, IBM Power HA, Pureflex, HMC, LPARs, SAN, McData Directors, IBM SHARK, IBM SVC, Wndows,Weblogic,Websphere and Tomcat.

Responsibilities:

• Expertise in performing Installation, configuration, maintaining, and upgrading on SUSE,REDHAT Linux, Vmware ESX, CISCO UCS,CLOUD, IBM AIX P-series servers, PowerVM, Sun Solaris and HP-UNIX.
• Responsible for providing operational support to SUSE, REDHAT LINUX, VMware, AIX, SUN Solaris, HP-UNIX,IBM HACMP/XD, perform data migrations
• Installed, configured REDHAT, IBM Power HA (High Availability) on LINUX, AIX and supporting multiple clusters
• Expertise in Installation, configuration, and administration of SAP BOE, SAP DATA SEVICE, SAP BWA,SAP Explorer, SAP HANA, Integration of SAP,IBM Websphere, Oracle Weblogic, Sun One, Oracle 9/10/11G, Big IP F5.
• Installed and configured SPLUNK on Linux and AIX servers.
• Installed SSL certificates on Tomcat and other application servers.
• Provided support for LINUX/UNIX based applications such as, SAP BOE, BWA, Hana, Data Services, IBM DataStage, Ldap, Tpm, TSM, WebSphere, Oracle, Sybase, and DB2
• Applied and verified service packs,efix and technology levels (TLs) on AIX and Solaris servers patches.
• Responsible for highly visible projects such as SCE.COM, SAP, Smart Connect, Hadoop
• Responsible for highly visible ADC,IOC,GO2 data center projects in the following areas: building and providing operational support on VMWARE ESX hosts infrastructure, Linux build, Unix build, Windows build, migrating servers,Vmotion,V2V migrations,P2V Migrations, VMware snapshots, and host based migrations.
• Planning, Scheduling and creating migration plans for over 4000 plus servers under SCE
• Extensive experience in cloud computing services such as cloud architecture, Public cloud, Private cloud, Hybrid cloud, infrastructure as a service IAAS, PAAS,SAAS,NAAS
• Created VIO servers, VIO client partitions (Virtual SCSI, Ethernet), NPIV.
• Responsible for Infrastructure installation and support servers like SOX, NERC compliance.
• Extensive experience in scripting languages such as Bash, Born, Korn and C shell
• Hands on experience in HP Proliant blade administration and Service manager (HPSM)
• Experience in server hardening, assessing the security patches and their vulnerabilities.
• Implemented JASS Security patches on all Telecom servers and audit reports on the OS.
• Travelled to different locations to install patches on Linux and windows servers.
• Implemented Cyber security projects and providing operational support.
• Experience in Strategic planningactivities such as analyzing Infrastructuremarket trendsand making recommendations to Enterprise Architecture team
• Ability to work independently and effectively collaborate with clients and senior management.
• Expert in effective decision making, delivery sequel, team building and the aptitude to stay with the relevant technology and innovations.
• Have strong interpersonal and stress management skills; Ethical compliance with safety protocols and work practices.
• Providing 24x7 supports and worked with vendors to troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure production issues.
• Actively involved and Assisted resource manager in project management activities such as project plan review, resource allocation, effort estimation, identify risks, create mitigation plans, and communicate project status to the team members, stakeholders, and senior management.
• Providing collaborative-consultation as subject matter expert for cross functional business and technical teams on supported products, technologies, process improvements and services.
• Lead configuration/change management, technical analysis, process improvement and documentation in compliance with ITIL processes.

UNIX System Administrator

Confidential

Environment: IBM AIX, 4.3/5.1/5.2,5.3, Sun Solaris 2.x, Sun OS, HP, Linux and Windows

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in AIX/Solaris System installation, configuration, problem determination, solution design and implementation, maintenance, performance tuning, disk mirroring using LVM, backup, disaster recovery, trouble shooting and user management.
• Involved in server Hardening, user security and servers behind firewall, blocking the ports
• Installed new IBM AIX servers (eServer p4 & p5,micro-partition) with the required level of OS (AIX 4.x/5.x) and customized them to meet DaimlerChrysler standards
• Upgraded AIX OS levels from 4.x to 5.x thru NIM or DVD-ROMs. Applied AIX OS level Maintenance Level (ML) patches or APARs to keep the servers at current level
• Installed, upgraded and maintained IBM SP nodes and Control Work Station (CWS). Hands on experience in SP Switches cards, PSSP software and CWS
• Lead 10 members to migrate AIX servers from one EMC disk frames to the other. Used Symmetric Remote Data Facility (SRDF) and Host-Based migration procedures as needed
• Installed and configured HACMP (High Availability) from the scratch on AIX. Configured multiple nodes for rotating/cascading the cluster environments
• Installed and configured Hardware Management Console (HMC). Hands on experience in using HMC, Ether Channel network interfaces and its commands
• Provided week-end and late-night support for server OS/data migrations
• Experienced in Data Migration from One EMC to other EMC Frame for IBM AIX servers and Solaris Servers. And upgrading the Emulex drivers, firmware and fcode for HBA’s
• Installed and configured third party software like Veritas Volume Manager( Clustering), MQ Series, UDB/Sybase, IBM WAS 5.0, IBM IHS 2.0, C++ compilers, SAN drivers’ network printers
• Managed different projects such as Dealer connect, Peoplesoft, SAP, WAS, SRDF, using AIX, and SUN Solaris, Microsoft Windows servers.

System Administrator

Confidential

Environment: IBM AIX, Sun Solaris 2.x, Sun OS, HP, Linux, and Windows NT.

Responsibilities:

• Provided end-user support for the campus of 400 users and 800 nodes, dealing with issues such as UNIX administration, system upgrade and implementation, networking, Printers, DT mail, etc.
• Performed maintenance, hardware and administration of NetraT1 SUN-Blades1000/100, StoreEdge1000, SUN-ES 6500/ 4500/450/250 , SUN Ultra 80/60/30/10/5/2/1 and SUN Sparc workstations.
• Configured and troubleshoot NIS server and NIS slave for different Departmental groups.
• Performed day-to-day maintenance of hardware, software and application problems for the support, which includes Disk usage, scheduling backups and restore with legato software and user management
• Designed, installed and configured the Network appliance F800 and F700 series as NFS file server, which are two Tera-byte each, performing basic project management
• Responsible for day-to-day maintenance of network resource servers such as NIS server, NFS/home directory servers, DNS and other development servers
• Installed third party software like Samba Server, Sun Gridware, Ansoft, Ansys, Cadence, Ansys, Flexlm, Sun Grid, FrameMaker, Veritas Volume Manager, Legato Networker,
• Installed license, Maintained license file and checking status license through Flexlm
• Installed AIX including the Base Operating System, Licensed Program Products and device drivers required to interface attached peripherals

IT System Administrator

Confidential

Environment: Sun Solaris2.x, HP, AIX, SunOS and Windows NT

Responsibilities:

• Involved in setting up Sun servers ES 4500/450/250 and Ultra machines
• Maintained, Monitored and Supported large E-Class (ES6500, E4500, E3500, E450)
• Maintained and troubleshooted NFS, NIS, Automounter and Mail problems
• Installed Solaris 6/7/8 on Ultra Sparc (SUN4u) and Sparc (SUNm) based machines
• Implemented and documented system administration procedures for operation, coverage and end users
• Responsible for daily tasks such as user setup, group setup, printer setup, modem setup, terminal server setup, install and upgrade new machines, and system health checks