SUMMARY:

• Confidential a System strategist, a strong experienced dependable UNIX system engineer with extensive experience in administering, deploying and managing enterprise environment.
• My experience spanned multiple platforms such as Sun OS, Oracle Sun Solaris System, HP - UX and Information Assurance.
• As an experienced UNIX systems administrator within the Confidential, my professional activities crosses both the NIPRNET and SIPRNET to support system builds through the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process, not limited to that but also infrastructure sustainment, virtualization, system rebuilds, migration, and vulnerability evaluation and mitigation.
• I develop supporting documentation including requirements, design, and technical manuals.
• I have excellent oral and written communication and an admirable interpersonal skills, including mentoring of peer in skills and technical development.
• I have strong analytical and problem solving skills and willingness to take responsibility for ensuring customer satisfaction, and support daily operational activities in an enterprise environment.
• I am willing to work outside of normal business hours to provide 24X7 supports for mission critical systems in production environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Oracle Sun SPARC T5-2, T5-4, and SPARC T5-1B, Sun SPARC Enterprise (T 00, T5220, T5240, T5440, T3, T4), Sun Ultra Enterprise Servers x20/x50 (models 150, 220R, 250, 420R, 450), Sun Fire (3800, 4800, 280R, V20z,V40, V120, V210, V240, V420, V440, V480, V880, V890, V1280 - Netra), Sun Blade 2000, SUN Ultra 2/5/10, SUN SPARC 20/10/5, Hewlett Packard 9000 Series 300, Hewlett Packard 9000 Series 700.

Operating System: Sun Solaris 2.5/2.5.1/2.6/2.7/2.8/2.9/2.10 , Oracle Sun Solaris 11/11.1/11.2 SPARC and x86, HP-UX 9.X/10.X, HP Open View, NNM, and MS Windows

Applications/Utilities: Sun iPlanet Enterprise, Sun Java Webserver, Sun ONE Web Server, Oracle iPlanet Web Server, Adobe ColdFusion 9 and 10, Sun Cluster, Oracle Fusion Middleware (WebLogic, FORMS and REPORTS), Sun Solaris Volume Manager (SVM), NIS, DNS, NFS, ZFS, Solaris LDAP, TCP/IP, HP-Software Depot, Network Node Manager, Sendmail, Vulnerability Management System (VMS), Virtualization on both Oracle Sun Solaris 11/11.1/11.2 SPARC and X86.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Snr Oracle Sun Solaris systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I joined Confidential Inc in June 2018 and maintaining the same platform, upgraded from Solaris 11.3 to Solaris 11.4.

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Snr Oracle Sun Solaris systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planning and designing of both virtual and physical servers to sustain the enterprise infrastructure, Installing and configuring Solaris 11.3 on SPARC T and M server to conform to the Confidential security policies, and generate baseline images, templates and documents for Confidential .
• Design Solaris 11.3 operating environment in support of applications, and enterprise virtualized infrastructure by providing full virtual machines (logical domains) that run an independent operating system instances.
• Creating Solaris Zones and installing applications to isolate processes from the rest of the system that enhance security and reliability.
• Logically partitioning SPARC T5 series servers, creating primary domain and guest domains, assigning resources and services to the domains to provide very fine-grained division of multiple resources-from processing to virtualized networking and I/O
• Securing the Connection from Fusion Middleware Control to Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console
• Install and configure Oracle Fusion Middleware, WebLogic Server, OHS, FORMS and REPORTS, configure the development environment to support HTTPS, Configure Forms and Reports when Starting Up WLS FORMS

Confidential

Snr Oracle Sun Solaris systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing and configuring Solaris 11.2 on SPARC T5-2, T5-4, and SPARC T5-1B server to conform to the Confidential security policies, and generate baseline images, templates and documents for Confidential .
• Design Solaris 11.2 operating environment in support of applications, and enterprise virtualized infrastructure by providing full virtual machines (logical domains) that run an independent operating system instance.
• Creating Solaris Zones and installing applications to isolate processes from the rest of the system that enhance security and reliability.
• Installation and configurations of Puppet package for configuration management in the Enterprise infrastructure.
• Logically partitioning SPARC T5 series servers, creating primary domain and guest domains, assigning resources and services to the domains to provide very fine-grained division of multiple resources-from processing to virtualized networking and I/O

Confidential

Snr Oracle Sun Solaris systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, installed, configured, and administered Oracle Sun servers in both NIPRNET and SIPRNET infrastructure, including the delivery of environment design and system architecture documents.
• Reviewed and enhanced default security configuration of Solaris 11 by removing default execution privileges for certain programs, and read permissions from sensitive files in a virtualized environment.
• Removed files and services not explicitly needed for specific purpose in Solaris 11 environment by deleting web server software on systems that will not provide Web services.
• Patching and updating Solaris OS to minimizing the risks of inactive software that may have vulnerabilities and could be used to compromise a system.
• Applied mandatory security updates to Webservers and applications in production and UAT environments running on Solaris 11 virtual platforms.
• Wrote shell scripts to include security policies that must be enforced from the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) checklists and Security Readiness Review (SRR) scripts for Solaris 10.
• Wrote shell scripts with Confidential security policies to have Solaris Security Toolkit (SST), also known as the JumpStart Architecture and Security Scripts (JASS) to harden and minimize Solaris 10 installations.
• Assigned and registered IP’s in DNS servers for Webservers hosting applications, Oracle Sun servers, and other network peripherals.
• Installed and configured iPlanet Webservers and ColdFusion server to host customer applications, secured and administered the websites implementing the white-list.
• Configured Role Based Access Control (RBAC), and assigned privileges to individual users or a group of users, to ensure security in the Solaris environment Implemented the Basic Audit Reporting Tool (BART) feature and the audit service in Solaris environment to generate security logs and track down changes on the system.
• Applied strong qualitative analyses and render solutions to resolve security vulnerabilities on systems to comply with the Confidential security standards (Information Assurance Vulnerability Management - IAVM, Plan of Action and Milestones - POA&M, Vulnerability Management System -VMS, Command Cyber Readiness Inspection -CCRI)

Confidential, Falls Church, VA

Snr Solaris systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing, installing, configuring, and administering lower platform BioArch infrastructure components, including from Sun, Veritas, and delivering environment design documents and system architecture documents.
• On the BioArch project, installed and configured Solaris 10 on V1280, V880, V480, V440, 280R, and V210.
• Documented all installation and configurations in a qualified manner using Mecury’s TestDirector 8.0 utilities.
• Utilized JumpStart technology to install and configure multiple servers simultaneously.
• Racked Sun Servers V1280, V880, V480, V440, 280R, and V210.

Confidential, Alexandria, VA

Snr Sun Solaris systems administrator

Responsibilities:

• Consulting through Northrop Grumman outsourced to SEC (Security and Exchange Commission), my responsibilities include racking servers in data centers, Sun server environments analysis and design, implementation, Solaris System Administration, deployment within the Enterprise infrastructure. Infrastructure virtualization and consolidation of hardware (servers) to minimize larger footprints and achieve cost savings; including server and Operating Systems End-Of-Life and retirements, optimization of new environment.
• Migration of applications to new Solaris with zones environments, resolving Operating System requirements issues and performance.
• Attending meetings and status call with stakeholders and managers.
• Ensure fulfillment of service level agreement (SLA) standards and on-time project delivery.

Confidential, Reston, VA

Snr Sun Solaris systems administrator

Responsibilities:

• Consultant outsourced to Confidential Enterprise Engineering, designing, implementing, deploying, and configuring Sun servers, Solaris 10 Operating Systems using JumpStart technology. Installing other hardware peripherals required by project specifications to eliminate Single-Point-Of-Failure on Sun SPARC servers, and updating configuration parameters in system files. Logically partitioning SPARC servers using LDOM to virtualize system resources; and creating zones to use multiple software partitions with in a global Solaris instance to eliminate Single-Point-Of-Failure.
• Responsibilities include the security of midframe Sun servers using JumpStart Architecture and Security Scripts (JASS) toolkit.

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

Snr Sun Solaris Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Solaris system administrator I was responsible for production, development, and testing environments on SPARC platforms in an enterprise infrastructure.
• A technical lead working closely with application developers as well as Oracle DBA’s to provide system support to various applications and resources to databases.
• Working closely with network engineers in support to resolve network issues.
• Mitigating security issues, and applying patches to resolve system and applications vulnerabilities.

Confidential

Snr Sun Solaris System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• While assigned to a two years project in South Africa, my project entailed the designing, installations, deployment, and support of the Telcordia UNIX Enterprise infrastructure.
• Not limited to Installation and configurations of Solaris, but also included negotiations with the customer to resolve systems security issues, installation, and deployment phases.
• Provided support for applications running in the development, the test and production environment on SPARC System.