PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Linux/DevOps Engineer with multiple certifications (MCSA, SCSA, Confidential Certified Systems Adminstrator - AIX 7) and ten+ years of progressive IT experience.
• Expertise includes: Installation, Configuration and Administration of Various Enterprise servers from Sun, Confidential, SAN Administration, Symantec Cluster Configuration, Volume, Disk & File System Management,
• Infrastructure Administration, Storage and Datacenter Support.
• A team player with a high-energy work ethic, skilled in communication with all levels of management, problem solving and conflict resolution

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Shell Scripting(Korn, Bourne), C, C++, Java, Pascal, HTML, JavaScript

Software/Databases: Oracle, MS Access, VMWARE, MS Exchange, LDAP, Veritas Volume Manager 5.1/6.0, Symantec NetBackup Datacenter 5.0, Solstice Disk Suite, AIX LVM 7, VCS 6.0

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 8/9/10, Confidential AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1, RedHat Enterprise Linux 5/6, SunOS 3.5/4.1.4, Windows NT 4.0/9x/2000/XP/2003, HP-UX 11i

Hardware: Sun Fire 25K/15K/E2900/V490, T2000/5200,M8000/9000, Sun Enterprise 4500/450/250/1280/480/280/2900/490/420/220, HP Proliant DL 380 G7/ 580 G7, Netra 240/440/1280, Brocade Switch 12k, Hitachi 9980/9990, IBMp-SeriesP550/P575, EMC Symmetrix DMX-800, DMX-1000.

Networking: NIS, NIS +, NFS, DHCP, DNS, NTP, LAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, Frame Relay, ATM

Web Applications: Apache Webserver

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Linux/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Automate infrastructure using chef to manage and deploy private cloud instances
• Setup and Install Chef workstation, Chef Server and bootstrapping the Chef Clients using knife
• Configure Knife to manage chef-server, spin-up new instances, package installs, config changes on client nodes
• Developing Cookbooks, Recipes, Resources and Run lists, Managing the Chef client nodes, and upload the cookbooks to chef-server from Workstation
• Resource management like installing packages, manage services needed to run, user management, cron job setup etc
• Deploy Apache/Tomcat applications using chef.
• Manage Chef server in pushing the config changes to client nodes, monitoring the logs and security
• Work with Rackspace Cloud computing systems.
• Manage Openstack components like Nova/Glance/Swift/Keystone/Neutron in creating/building private/public cloud instances, networks, users, and storage volumes.
• Network configuration, troubleshooting using the ethtool,system-config-network and sysconfig files.
• Migration of rootvg/datavg disks from old xiv storage disks to new storage.
• Adding/Removing the service-groups/resources, change/troubleshoot/setupVeritas Cluster server.
• Redhat Kernel OS Patching.
• Hardware Checks using redhat dmidecode / hpasmcli commands and Setup/modify of the RAID array disks using hpacucli command on HP ProLiant servers.
• Migration of Raid disks in between servers.
• Redhat kernel upgrades, storage provisioning/config and fix the boot issues using rescue mode.
• Add/Remove Vmware disks using the Vmware datastores, scan/provision them to Redhat Servers.
• Use Veritas CLI operations in creating Disk Groups, Volumes, Plex and Subdisks.

Technologies: Solaris 9/10,Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,6,7AIX 6.1/7.1,Sun FireE2900/V490,SPARC M4000,Veritas VM 6.0, Logical VM, VCS 6.0, HP Proliant 580 G7,Rackspace Cloud, Openstack Juno, Opscode Chef 11.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Sr. Linux/Aix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administration of Solaris10 Globalzones and their localzones in a clustered environment.
• Redhat 6.1 system builds and maintaining the servers.
• Managing storage using Redhat LVM in creating Physical Vol,Volume groups,Logical Vol,Filesytems.
• Unix Shell Scripting in automating hardware checks, performance and file system monitoing.
• Assigning EMC SRDF R1/R2 luns to Solaris servers, used in veritas cluster disk group setups.
• Rootvg and uservg disk replacements using the disk management procedures and altrootvg creations
• System initialization troubleshooting the boot issues, by booting thru NIM/cd/tape or from sms mode and fixing the corrupted BLV or corrupted filesystem logs.
• Identifying the NIM server for the client, booting,maintaining and installing the clients OS from NIM, creating the backups mksysb of lpar clients and Performance monitoring. Working with the VIOS.

Technologies: Solaris 9/10,Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,, AIX 6.1,Sun Enterprise v880/480/15K, Confidential P-Series,Veritas VM 5.1, Logical VM, VCS 5.1, HP Proliant DL 380 G7

Confidential, Irving, TX

Sr. Aix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Migrating AIX lpar from p5 to p7 hardware. Lpar creation from CLI and also from Confidential .
• Dump device creation, savecore, snap,and sending it for Confidential analysis in a system crash situation.
• Installation/Upgrade of packages and check package dependencies on Linux Servers using RPM
• DNS Configurations, Ethernet speed checks/Duplex Settings, ports, security (ssh) setup on RH Linux
• Support Oracle database upgrades and maintenance.
• Redhat 6.1 system builds and maintaining the servers.using the TPM, installation/upgrade of softwares using the yum/rpm.
• Applying patches, controlling services, troubleshooting the boot issues using linux rescue mode.

Technologies: Solaris 9/10,Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,6, AIX 6.1/7.1, Sun Enterprise v880/480/15K, Confidential P-Series P575,p720 Veritas VM 5.1, Logical VM, VCS 5.1, HP Proliant DL 380 G7/ 580 G7

Confidential, Plano, TX

Sr. UNIX/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Disaster Recovery Testing Projects. Backup Images of each server SAN Luns in production are replicated to the DR servers.
• Within the DR Site, multiple copies are being replicated. In case of Disaster, the sync is split within the DR Site and the main copy is connected to the respective server to recover the data.
• Implemented the Veritas cluster failover test from active to passive node and patching the active node
• Creating flash archives using the flarcreate.
• Install, Upgrade and Licensing Veritas Volume manager.
• Exporting and Importing DiskGroups from one server to other.
• Installing and configuring Tivoli storage manager in Solaris Environment.
• Configuringand enabling multi-pathing and volume management software such as Veritas Confidential

Technologies: Solaris 9/10,Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Sun Enterprise v880/480/12K, Confidential P-Series P520/P570, Veritas VM 4.0, Logical VM, VCS 4.1, Symmetrix DMX-800, DMX-1000

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Solaris10 OS Installation and configuration
• Managing Static Routes in network with routeadd
• Mirror/Concat/Stripe Disks creation using Sun DiskSuite/Solaris Volume Manager
• Link Aggregations/Trunk Network EtherAdaptors, for Increased bandwidth/failback/Load balancing

Technologies: Solaris 9/10,Sun T2000/5200,M8000 Sun Enterprise 880/480/12K, Confidential P-Series P520/P570, Veritas VM 4.0, Logical VM, VCS 4.1