OBJECTIVE:

• Devote strong analytical capability and technical skills in a Linux and Storage administration position.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Solaris 10/11, RHEL 4/5/6, SUSE 11 SP2, SP3,HP - UX 7.23, Ubuntu, Centos, Windows 2003/2008/2012 Server.

Virtualization: VMware ESXi 4.1 to 6.0, VSphere, VCenter, and VConverter.

Storage Platforms: NetApp FAS Series, IBM Total Storage DS, EMC VMAX and VNX.

Hardware: HP Proliant, Oracle Blade Servers 6000, 6080, Sun M5000/M4000, T5120, T5140/T2000, V490, V880, Dell R610, R910, Cisco PIX and Ethernet Switches.

Tools: Sun Cluster 3.2, Admin Tool, Ufsdump, Storage Foundation Suite, Solaris Volume Manager, File manager and Sendmail.

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g,SQL Server 2005/2008, MS-Access and MySQL.

Networking Protocols: FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS and DHCP.

Scripting Tools: Bourne, Bash, Korn Shell, Perl and Python.

Backup Applications: Tivoli Storage Manager and VERITAS Net Backup .

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Linux & Storage Administrator

Confidential, Cranbury, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Experience in administering the Linux servers and Windows Servers such as RHEL5/6, ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0, Centos, Ubuntu and Windows 2003/2008/2012 servers.
• Deploying, configuring and troubleshooting of Solaris 10, and 11 versions on Sun hardware.
• Expertise in configuring Server using Jumpstart, NIM, Flash archive, Ignite and Kick start techniques.
• Proficient in Installation, Upgrading, Patches, Migration, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning of Linux systems.
• Implementing and troubleshooting various protocols and applications like SSH, SCP, SFTP DNS, NFS, CIFS, FTP, NIS, Samba Server, LDAP, and Security Management.
• Administration of the Zenoss monitoring tool.
• Hands on Experience with NetApp filers like FAS 60XX and 80XX Series with 7-mode and C-Dot various versions.
• Good experience in transitioning and planning of 7-mode filers to C-Dot.
• Configuring and troubleshooting Aggregates, Volumes, SVMs, CIFS Setup and Shares, Export/Firewall/Dedup Policies, and LUNS on Cluster Data ONTAP.
• Installing and Configuring of Work Flow Automation.
• Design and Implementation of the Disaster Recovery tools like SnapMirror and SnapVault.
• Proficient using business continuity tools like SnapCenter and SnapManager.
• Expertise in using the OnCommand Unified Manager and OnCommand Insight for performance monitoring and alerting.
• Maintaining the troubleshooting and how-to's documentations in event of business continuity requirements.

Linux & Storage Engineer

Confidential, Herndon, VA

Responsibilities:

• Installation and troubleshooting of RedHat EnterpriseLinux, and CentOS on HP and Dell Hardware.
• Administration of utility servers like Apache/Tomcat server, mail server, mysql DB, DHCP and DNS.
• Proficient in performing DR of UNIX (Solaris & Linux, Ubuntu), Oracle databases, and whole infrastructure using the vCenter.
• Experience in creating physical & logical volumes, volume groups using LVM's on Linux Servers.
• Building up the Virtual Machines (Linux and Windows) under vCenter cluster using the VM templates.
• Expertise in writing Shell scripts, bash, Perl, python for process automation of databases, applications, backup and scheduling.
• Expertise in using the tools like Puppet, Wireshark, TightVNC and Nagios.
• Installed designed and configured NetApp C-DOT clusters with 6 nodes and 4 nodes.
• Tuned and Managed the shared storage systems for SAN & NAS Environments.
• Upgraded the FAS filers from 7-mode 7.3.2 to 8.X versions.
• Implemented the SnapMirror relationships between 7-mode and c-Dot systems.
• Managed Brocade Directors and Over Chasis Switches,HBA Adapter Configuration.
• Migrated Data from DAS to NAS using the tools like SCP, rsync, xcp, robocopy etc.
• Configuration and administration of Cisco MDS 9500 such as zoning.
• Experience in using Veritas Netbackup tool for Backup and recovery.

Linux & Storage Systems Engineer

Confidential, Reston, VA

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the complete Administration tasks on UNIX (Solaris, RedHat Linux and Ubuntu) .
• Configured Kick Start Servers and booting the images using PXE in RedHat Linux.
• Implemented the disk and raid controller swaps, RedHat OS/kernel upgrades, and RAID configurations.
• Implemented the setup and configuration of NetApp filers 6020, and 6040 clusters.
• Expertise in creating Solaris and Linux Virtual Machines on VMware Esxi 4.1, and 4.5.
• Monitored Storage Area Network (fabric/storage/hosts), EMC and NetApp Storage products.
• Preformed day to day Administration of NetApp Array like snapshot, maintenance, qtree creation, snapdrive, snap lock, and snapmirror.
• Through management of NAS (NFS and CIFS) and SAN (FC and ISCSI).
• Performed the installation, configuration and deployment of applications on Web logic Application Server 8.x/9.x.
• Troubleshooting of the hardware and software failures for various storage and Linux servers (core dump and log file analysis) by vendor support.

Linux Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installations and configurations of HP-UX, Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Established backup and restoration procedures and schedules for UNIX servers.
• Provided support, and maintain UNIX system and application software on multiple platforms.
• Implementation of SSH between servers to enable password less logins between Servers.
• File System administration and management like monitoring various logs and file systems.
• Writing Shell Scripting for automation of jobs.
• Applied the recommended best practices of application, hardware vendors as per.

Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installations and configuration of Sun Solaris and Window NT servers.
• Performed the Hardware Upgrades of barebone and vendor servers.
• Administered a heterogeneous environment which consisted of Windows and UNIX systems.
• Installed Oracle and Mysql clients on Solaris and Windows servers.
• Maintained messaging systems like qmail, and exchange.
• Felicitated the support, monitoring for whole data center monitoring 24/7/365.
• Deployed the applications and changes to production, QA and development servers as per change management.
• Proven high learning curve progressively with excellent track record of documenting the infrastructure.