SUMMARY

• 15 Years US experience in supporting Data Centers Services, Consolidation/migration of Data Centers, Production Delivery UNIX (Redhat/Solaris/HP - UX/VMWARE) Support and onsite client delivery support.
• Sun Certified Solaris and HP Certified HP-UX Administrator.
• Automation Tools - HP-SA 9.x Implementation and Build Automation, familiar with CFENGINE.
• Extensive Experience in Installation & Configuration of Solaris 2.6/2.7/2.8,Solaris 10, HP-UX 10.X/11.X, Red Hat 3/4/5/6.
• Disk Space Management using LVM on HP-UX 10.x, VERITAS VXVM and Disk Suite 4.x.
• High Availability Solutions - VERITAS Cluster Server with Oracle/Sybase agents, Red hat Clustering.
• Storage Solutions - Brocade Switches 3800/4100/5000/5300 , Clarion CX4/CX500/CX720, HP FC30/60, Sun A5200, EMC Symmetric /Connectrix, Power path, and Volume Logix, Netapps F720/740, EMC CDL-720.
• Virtualization - VMWARE ESX 4.0, ESX4i in Cluster environment, Migrating physical environment to Virtual
• Backup/Recovery Solutions - Net backup 6.5 /HP Data Protector, L80 and SL500 TL/VLS9000/VLS9200.
• Monitoring & Performance Tools - Nagios, HP Site scope.
• Infrastructure Services - DNS, NIS and NFS (auto mount), NTP service. Patch analysis and implementation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Plano

Cloud Computing/UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation/Configuration/Upgrade of HP Data Protector Software on Red hat 6 cell servers and backup clients in UNIX, Windows environment.
• Installation/Configuration B6200 Virtual Tape Library, Create Virtual Tape Libraries, add drives as and when required.
• Assign the drives for SAN and LAN based clients and configure the drives on Red hat 6/7 servers.
• Troubleshoot the fabric related issues on Backup clients and Media servers.
• Installation and configuration of ESL LTO4 and LTO 5 Tape libraries and assign the drives to Copy/Media servers.
• Write the scripts for backup reports, monitoring and alerting the process failures.
• Automate troubleshooting tasks and monitoring backup performances on daily basis.
• Optimization of backups with schedule changes and balancing load on virtual drives, migrating backups to different Cell servers. Troubleshoot the performance issues on cell servers as and when required.
• Configure the Copy lists and monitor the duplication jobs for offsite backups.
• Help L1/L2 Team to troubleshoot the restore process as and when required. Upgrade and maintain the backup clients software version as and when required.
• Part of Disaster Recovery Team which Setup and run the entire Disaster Recovery of Application for major clients once a year. Activities involves setup new Cell environment, Copy Encryption keys to SKM servers and ship the production tapes and recover the application for testing by DBA/Developer/Apps team.
• Complete the Monthly maintenance tasks during the assigned maintenance window. Task involves rebooting the libraries and IDB maintenance.
• Implement the complex L3 Level Change requests through Change Control Process. Work on Problem Tickets which needs support by L1/L2 Team.
• 7x24 support for any escalation by GOC and L2 team related to backup infrastructure and performance issues.
• Work with Service Delivery and Technical Delivery Manager for process improvement and weekly reviews and capacity planning of backup infrastructure.
• Build ESX 3.5 Cluster forms (6 prod +4 DEV+ 3 Stage) with EMC SAN storage. Migrate the client s physical environment to VM environment.
• Build and migrate ESX 4 Cluster form comprises of 4 ESX servers with EMC SAN storage. Migrate the client environment to VM environment. Troubleshoot and break fix of ESX environments incidents as and when required.
• Installation and configuration of VCS4.0 with Oracle agent for new cluster deployment. Troubleshoot and fix the problems as and when required. Work with DBA team while hardware and software upgrades as and when required. Troubleshoot the issues and complete the root cause analysis.

Confidential

Sr UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Emulex, QLOGIC fiber cards in Solaris 9/10, Red hat 4/5 and Windows2003 environment. Perform driver & SAN surfer and firmware upgrades as and when required.
• Installation of Power Path on SAN attached server for multi path and load balancing.
• Fabric Switches tasks - Adding, deleting zones, create new alias, and replace the defective HBA’s. Perform switch upgrades and trouble shoots the fiber issues for Solaris, Red hat and Windows servers.
• Perform Storage tasks - Provisioning of RAID 0/5 and Meta Luns, Creating RAID Group, Storage Groups and allocate LUNS. Configure LUNS/Meta Luns on Solaris, Red hat and Windows (Exchange/File share /Share point SQL Cluster) servers.
• Configure and automate snapshot /cloning for offline backup and disaster recovery on Clarion.
• Configure and Automate the BCV solution for offline backup from different host.
• Installation, configuration of two node Red hat cluster with Quorum drives and storage of 24 * 1 TB Luns for engineering application. Adding additional LUNS to production environment.
• Installation and configuration Net backup Media server in Solaris 10, Red hat and Windows 2003 environment. Tasks includes zoning of physical tape drives, Logical tape drives (EMC CDL), configuring pass through devices on servers. Installation and configuration of Site scope Monitoring tool for Apache, Web sphere, and LDAP application.
• Installation, configuration and upgrade Apache servers for various projects. Adding/changing rewrite rules, performance tuning, virtual host configuration, directory mapping, Certificate installations.
• Supporting and Configuration of Team site and Open Deployment Manager Application.
• Automated Red hat server build process through KICKSTART and Solaris build process through JUMPSTART. Automated POST installation tasks of hardening server security, User replication, patching, important files replication (Sudoers /resolv.conf /nsswitch.conf /hosts), Netback up client, Power Path, Navisphere agent, Dell Open Manager.
• Day to day support to Infrastructure services like DNS (Internal/External) primary and secondary, Mail host (send mail server), Iron port (Messaging gateway) and NTP. Perform configuration changes and upgrades to DNS /Send mail as and when required. Add /Delete new DNS zones, A, MX and CNAME records.
• Installation and configuration of Proftp, SFTP (SCP Only) and WEBDAV solution for Palm Internal and External users and partners. Installation and configuration of Nagios and Open fire Messenger server for corporate use.
• Rotational 7X24 on call Primary/Secondary support and week end onsite support as and when upgrades are performed.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Netback up 3.5 tasks of adding classes, Servers, schedules as and when required, Tape inventory, Troubleshoot the problems of three infrastructure setup consist of VXMASTER, THREE MEDIA Servers with GATOR tape libraries. Tape drive replacement, firmware upgrade, repairs of gator Tape Library.
• Installation and configuration of new NETAPPS F720/F740 filers, creating volumes, Drives replacement. Managing NFS share.
• Configuration of Emulex, Qlogic, and JNI cards in Solaris environments. Binding to EMC FA’s and configuring EMC LUNS and device creation. Upgrade HBA firmware as and when required. Troubleshoot and fix Fiber related issues, Brocade switches, Volume Logix zoning related problems.
• Creating RPMS for Solaris, VERITAS VXVM/VXFS/VCS and other software’s for automating the routine installation and configuration.
• Installation and configuration of VCS3.5 and VCS4.0 with Oracle and Sybase Agents for new cluster deployment. Troubleshoot and fix the problems as and when required.
• Deployed new clients with 30 server’s environment running Oracle, Apache. Responsibility includes architect solution for high availability, storage, backup restore and disaster recovers. Document customer environment, educate team members for specific solutions. Implement the project for targeted dates.
• BCV mirror and split solution for disaster recovery and backup for Team site application. Script and automate the solution.
• Deployed VCS 3.5 and 4. 0 for more than eight new installation and performed the upgrades.
• Rebuild of Netapps for infrastructure support and plan for disaster and recovery.

Confidential

Sr UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day to day UNIX Administration responsibilities of three HP K class servers with HP-UX 10.2 and HP-UX 11i (Oracle Database) with nine FC20 Disk arrays, three E450 servers with Solaris 6/8 (Legato Networker 6.1, NFS Share), E250 Server with Solaris 9 and four SUN Fire V240 servers (Blue Coat ICAP application).
• Part of Network Operating System Group responsible for 15 Unix/Linux Servers and more than 200 Intel servers. Sharing on call support with Teammates on round robin for UNIX and NT Environment.
• Testing of EMULEX, QLOGIC and JNI Fiber card on Solaris 8/9 for connectivity with L700 Tape Library.
• Monitoring system performance, scripting for message log and root access monitoring. Patch analysis and implementation.
• Installation and configuration of HP-UX 11 on B2000 Server for Oracle name server usage.
• Setting up NIS master and slaves with auto mount for HP-UX and SUN Solaris environment.
• Backup solution on SUN E450, Brocade switch 2800 and ATL P3000 hardware environment.
• Backup consolidation on SUN E450, Brocade switch 3900 and ATL L700 hardware environment.
• Backup solution for DMZ on E250, ATL P1000 Library.
• Consolidation of three HP 9000 servers to two J5000 servers with external data storage and NFS shared storage. Installation of old HP3000 servers with five JAMAICA boxes and FC20 Nike Array for legal systems.

Confidential

Sr UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of VERITAS Volume manager on more than ten Enterprise servers with A5200, A5000, and D1000 Disk storage array for redundancy and high availability for Oracle and Sybase environment.
• Troubleshoot Volume Manager in case of disk failures, online replacement of drives. Reconfiguration and resizing Disk Groups and volumes as and when required.
• Design and Implementation of VERITAS Cluster 1.1 for oracle agent (Five Databases) in two 4500 with Sun storage 5200 configuration. Design and Implementation of VERITAS Cluster 1.1 for Sybase and clarify agent in two 4500 with two Sun storage 5200 environment. Freezing, adding agents, clearing faults after Switch over, Support during the database upgrade, Monthly defrag VM upgrade and loading patches bundle to VERITAS cluster production servers.
• Installation and configuration of Disk Suites on more than 15 servers. Troubleshoot in case of disk failures; add space to Meta devices, mirror and stripe as per design.
• Design and implementation of High availability to DNS service for all the network segments and physical locations. Design and Implementation of DNS for Active Directory Support. Up gradation of DNS BIND from 4.9 to 9.1 for Aspect Global DNS Upgrade project. Configured DNS secondary. Cleaning of main hosts file for nine zones and study the impact on existing environment of various applications.
• Installation and configuration of SUDO, TCP WRAPPERS and SSH to improve the security for DNS, NIS Servers. Managing NIS maps (password, group net group and auto master).*
• Configuration of Jump-start servers (Installation and Boot Servers) for network installation for various Network Segments.
• Quick Disaster Recovery Planning and Implementations with Alternate Boot Drive, mirroring, Cluster solutions for various mission critical applications.
• Configuring NIS slaves troubleshoot NIS, NFS auto mount and manage the environment. Creating NIS users and pushing the maps for four NIS Master Servers.
• Design and Implementation of high availability with Hardware array controller on E450 server. EMC layout redesign and implementation for SUN, HP and NT environment.
• Connecting the SUN E 4500 with EMC (Connectrix and Symmatrix) for Essbase application. Configuring LUNS through SDR, Volume Logix, and BCV back up through time finder GUI and scripts.
• Installation of Solaris 2.6, 2.7 and 2.8 on SUN Enterprise 4500, 420R, 220R, 250,450 servers and configuring for NIS, DNS and mail services. Implementations of quota systems and Samba freeware. Loading of current Patches as and when required on Sun Boxes.

Confidential

Sr UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of HP-UX 10.20 on HP D380 and FC60 Disk array.
• Reconfiguration of LVMs on production and development boxes, adding of Jamaica boxes and configuring for LVM.
• Installation and configuration of L 1000 server with HP-UX 11.0.
• Installation and configuration of legato server and clients. Monitor and perform backups and recovery of Production servers and development servers using Legato Networker and ATL 1000 DLT Library. Managing the offsite backups for HP servers through fbackup.
• Performance Monitoring of Production server through HP Perfview and Glance Plus as and when any application goes to Production environment .Fine tuning of kernel parameters.
• Installation and configuration print spooler using HP Jetadmin.
• Installation of Support Tool manager and check the status of hardware components.
• Installation and configuration of N4000 server with HP-UX 11.x. coordinate with HP for any hardware issue with HP servers and FC30/FC60 Disk arrays.
• Scripting for monitoring log messages, free disk space, offsite backup and copying archive log files across the machines.
• Part of the team, responsible for EMC set up and testing for HP and Sun environment. Familiar with Bin file design and changes and EMC management software, Control Center (SDR, Time finder, Work load Analyzer), Volume Logix, Power path and Connectrix manager (Zoning).

Confidential

Sr Customer Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managing the Physical Volumes, Volume groups and Logical Volumes, mirrored Using HP Logical Volume Manager (LVM). Manipulation and alteration of File Systems (HFS /VXFS).
• Installation and Configuration of HP-UX 10.2 on K 420 with HP Disk Array 12H (9.1 GB x 9), D340 and HP NETSTATION ENVIZEX II, Oracle 8 and TIMS ERP package.
• Implemented Switch over UX with two HP 9000 server and Lansterm environment. Up gradation and configuration of HP-UX 9.04 to 10.01 and 10.02.
• Administering printing services using LP, Set up System Security, Accounting, Corn and other peripherals.
• Installation and configuration of Lansterm 16i, supports 16 terminals based on BOOTP and TFTP Protocol. Configuration of Modi Docu and HP LaserJet 4M + network ready Printers
• Configured X terminals to boot from K class server using HP NETSTATION ENIZEX II.
• Installation and configuration of NIS Slave and Master Servers. Creation of AUTOMOUNT maps, configuration of NFS.
• Installed and configured MC/Service Guard High Availability software on HP servers.
• Installed required Y2K patches for operating system and Application software.
• Modified the parameters and rebuild the HP-UX kernel as required for Oracle and application software.
• Installed and upgraded HP hardware parts such as Memory, hard disk (Both internal and external), X25 cards, LAN Card, Fast wide SCSI card on HP K/G/F/E/D class servers. Installation and configuration of HP Omni back II backup software.
• Performance Monitoring through SAR and HP glance plus software. .
• Installation and configuration of HP FTAM for X.25 connectivity with Alcatel Exchange for Online Billing Data Polling. Installed and configured OTS software for CLNS type connections. Installation and configuration of HP Open mail 5.3.
• Installation and configuration of emulation software Exceed, HP reflection to connect Desk tops to HP servers.