PROFICIENCY

• A highly adaptable System Administrator with 5 years of experience in IT Support and Linux and VMware administration.
• Over 4 years of experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, VMware vSphere as a SystemAdministrator in Production Support environment.
• Expertise in deploying various Red Hat Enterprise Linux builds both Physical utilizing boot from SAN and Virtual on HP/Cisco Hardware running ESXi.
• Expertise in designing built/configure documentation related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux via Kickstart/PXE, and Red Hat Satellite Server 5.4.
• Experience configuring, maintaining NFS, LDAP as per the environment's requirements.
• Expertise in binding any new LUN's and configuring storage groups using NetApp On Command Manager.
• Expertise in deploying several sets of Linux guest built from VMware Templates, using Power CLI as well as Red Hat Satellite Server.
• Experience in upgrading ILO Integrated Lights Out .
• Expertise in configuring Management pools for any current or future Cisco UCS blades that are added to the Cisco UCS Environment.
• Experience in configuring and managing MSSQL and Oracle in Red Hat Linux.
• Upgraded the VMware tools, VM hardware 7 on all the VM's as a part of Upgrade process.
• ESXi installation on HP Proliant servers using customized ISO's.
• Configured NIC Teaming for load balancing and failover.
• Automating processes through Cron Jobs.Administration of user accounts and groups and providing appropriate rights to user accounts according to their requirements.
• Configuring NAS, SAN and iSCSi storages to the VMware ESX servers and installed the iSCSi Software and Hardware Adapters to the ESX servers.
• Cloning, deploying VM's to Template, Templates to VM's, vMotion, Storage vMotion etc.
• Configured the NTP server in ESX server for the time Synchronization between ESX and VM's.
• Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of Linux and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.
• Installing and updating packages using YUM custom YUM Servers/repositories and Red Hat Satellite Server.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Hardware: HP Proliant DL385-G6, DL 585 G6/G7, HP C-7000, UCS, BL 460 G5/617, Cisco 6500 Series, F5 Big IP 6900 Series
• Server OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5, CentOS, Windows Server 03/08
• Virtualization: VMware 4 5 ESX, ESXi1vSphere Configuring DRS, HA, vMotion, P2V
• SAN Tools: Power Path, NetApp Filers, Data On Tap
• Database Tools: MS SQL, Micro Strategy
• File System tools: LVM
• High Availability: Red Hat Cluster Suite
• Network Servers: DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS
• Web Server: Apache IIS
• Backup: Backup Exec Linux backup scripts

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Role:Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planning, Scheduling and implementing OS patches on Linux boxes.
• Involved in proactive maintenance.
• Worked and troubleshoot Cisco Show and Share.
• Installed and Upgraded Show and Share and DMM on the physical servers.
• Involved in fixing users having issues with uploading or viewing the videos on show and share.
• Documented all the steps for future reference.
• Responsible for scheduling weekly rsync backup.
• Administering Disks File System using LVM.
• Help and troubleshoot Clients Issues through Remedy 7 Incident Management.
• Worked on SSH and Sudo Configuration.
• Responsible for adding and maintaining users on the network.
• Created logical Volumes LVM for Linux operating system.

Environment: Red Hat Linux, rsync, LVM, Cisco Show and Share, SSH, Sudo

Confidential

Role:Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuring NFS.
• Involved in scheduling jobs using crontab.
• Help and troubleshoot user accessibility issues.
• Worked with BI tool Micro Strategy, generating reports
• Involved in proactive maintenance.
• Managed and maintained the Servers, PC's, Routers and Switches.
• Responsible for Backup Management.

Environment: Red Hat Linux, NFS, LVM,

Confidential

Role:Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured several Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Physical Server.
• Hands on working with Cisco NDS and DirecTV interfaces DRMS, DRMS-LG, DCCS, SGW, CARM etc.
• Installed Service monitoring 'NDS watchdog' on Linux.
• Worked on the DRM Data Flows between different servers.
• Provided Application and Software Support.
• Installed and upgraded NDS services on the various servers and provided documentation for future training purposes.
• Helped to build the whole new environment for the VOD and Live Streaming testing.
• Assisted various testing groups and documenting procedures for testing and utilizing any open source tools such as Apache.
• Installed the packages onto the Server delivered from NDS team as per the requirements.
• Implemented Cron Jobs for the automation of various processes.
• Creating all the new Users added to the team giving them appropriate permissions.
• Monitoring SSIP for errors on the NDS Stream management.

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, DRMS, DRMS-LG, DCCS, SGW, CARM, NDS watchdog, DRM Data Flows, NDS Services, Cron Jobs, SSIP.

Confidential

Role:Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured several Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Physical Server.
• Hands on working with Cisco NDS and DirecTV interfaces DRMS, DRMS-LG, DCCS, SGW, CARM etc.
• Installed Service monitoring 'NDS watchdog' on Linux.
• Worked on the DRM Data Flows between different servers.
• Provided Application and Software Support.
• Installed and updated NDS services on the various servers and provided documentation for future training purposes.
• Helped to build the whole new environment for the VOD and Live Streaming testing.
• Assisted various testing groups and documenting procedures for testing and utilizing any open source tools such as Apache.
• Installed the packages onto the Server delivered from NDS team as per the requirements.
• Implemented Cron Jobs for the automation of various processes.
• Creating all the new Users added to the team giving them appropriate permissions.
• Monitoring SSIP for errors on the NDS Stream management.

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, DRMS, DRMS-LG, DCCS, SGW, CARM, NDS watchdog, DRM Data Flows, NDS Services, Cron Jobs, SSIP.

Confidential

Role:Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Install RHEL directly on HP Rack mount servers using PXE boot and ILO.
• Experience in solving day to day troubleshooting related to Network, Resource Allocation and Resource Availability.
• Installed, configured and upgraded Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x to 5.x and configured various patching schedules to meet quarterly patching criteria.
• Migration of high priority process to different hosts using vMotion and converted/consolidated various physical servers to virtual by using various performance metrics.
• Adding new development user accounts, removing users, resetting user accounts in Red Hat Enterprise Linux to allow new developer access to Red Hat Servers.
• Building VM's and new Templates for new projects and allocating them to appropriate resource pools.
• Deployed various Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Windows 2003/2008 virtual builds using a combination of VMware Templates and PowerCli.
• Responsible for binding any new LUN and configuring storage groups using OnCommand Manager.
• Assessment, design and Implementation on the vSphere Upgrade, 400 ESX hosts upgraded from VMware ESX 4.0 to ESXi 4.1.1.
• Expertise in the area of Virtualization with installation, configuration and administrationof VMware ESX 4.0, VMware esxi 4.1.1, vSphere 5 servers, and vCenter Server 5.
• Experience in managing and configuring multipath based solution and well experienced in working with Storage Administrators to configure SAN based LUNs in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Understanding of various VMware features like VMware HA, VMware DRS etc.Extensive experience in installing and configuring storage technology such as SAN, NAS, iSCSi and RAID.
• Expertise in P2V Migration using VMware Converter.Expertise configuring Aggregates, Volumes, LUNs and Initiator's groups to create and modify LUN's using OnCommand Manager.

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x/5.x, HP Rack Mount Servers, PXE boot, ILO, vMotion, Windows 2003/2008, VMwareESX 4.0/ESXi4.1.1, PowerCli, OnCommand Manager, vSphere 5m vCenter Server 5, SAN, NAS, iSCSi, RAID, VMware Converter.

Confidential

Role:IT Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Preparing monthly work status report.
• repairing problems or calling upon appropriate vendors to resolve the issue.
• Respond to emergency calls relating to server performance, diagnosis of problems,
• activities including running start/stop scripts in development environment.
• Setup environment based sudo permissions to allow developers to perform routine
• Creation of templates from VMs and Creation of VMs from templates.
• Ensure all Servers are up to date with critical Microsoft patches
• Backups.
• Checking backups based on client requests and some regular daily and incremental
• OnCommand Manager on FAS Platform
• Responsible for binding any new LUN and configuring storage groups using
• Create WWID pools, MAC pools and service profiles in Cisco UCS Manager.
• environment.
• NetApp. Assisted in physically installing, racking and cabling new Cisco UCS
• Updating technology specific documents.

Environment: Cisco UCS Manager, OnCommand Manager, Sudo, MS Word/Excel.