SUMMARY:

• 8 years of IT experience dat includes over six years of specialized experience in AIX/Linux Administration
• Experienced in installing, configuring, administrating, troubleshooting, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of IBM AIX/5.3/6.1/7.1 Linux (Red Hat & SuSE)
• Expertise in IBM AIX hardware components (RS/6000, pSeries), trouble - shooting and maintenance.
• Hands On Experience changing Hardware on HP Blade, IBM P. Series.
• Expertise in installing Red Hat Linux on HP Proliant DL380
• Strong shell and Perl scripting skills on Unix systems
• Experience migrating, maintaining and supporting large national systems using Linux
• Configuration Management including the building of LPARs and configuring the hardware devices dat support them
• Very confident wif Apache, sendmail, MySQL, DNS, DHCP, and samba on Linux
• Installed and build from scratch complete NIM Setup. Added different clients to NIM server and their Backup.
• Expert in administering Linux VM on ESX servers
• Disaster Recovery Planning
• Adept at Monitoring and Altering file system usage, hardware and system process failures
• Experienced in Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Veritas Cluster on AIX /5.3. /6.1/ Red hat Linux 4/5/6.
• Configured file systems using JFS2 file system technologies
• Proficiency wif configuration and maintenance of NFS, DNS, NIS/NIS+, DHCP, SMTP, and Networking wif TCP/IP
• IBM-AIX kernel Tuning, Performance Analysis and Load Balancing
• Experienced wif support 24/7 on AIX Administration
• Implementing and maintenance of DNS, DHCP servers in Solaris sub-network

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NC

Unix Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support of IBM p-Series Hardware setup and configured, AIX, Linux (Red Hat), installation/Migration/Cloning of Linux and AIX systems. System backups and restore daily security checks third party software installation and upgrades. HACMP and GPFS clustering,
• Maintaining and monitoring the file systems and performance tuning on AIX 5.3/6.1
• Expertise in doing NIM installations on AIX /5.3/6.1/7.1
• Responsible for LPAR and DLPAR system administration
• Expertise in VIO server Advanced POWER Virtualization on IBM P7 System
• Expertise in installation configuration and administration of VIOS.
• Responsible in configuring of virtual Ethernet, virtual SCSI and virtual memory
• Manage and maintain RHN Satellite server (create profiles, snippet ... ).
• Use RHN API to automate RHN satellite tasks.
• Experienced wif DMZ system design and implementation.
• Experienced in installing, configuring, administrating, troubleshooting, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of IBM AIX/5.3/6.1
• Build high end and complicated highly available Linux servers and implement them and document the environment design.
• Configuration Management including the building of LPARs and configuring the hardware devices dat support them.
• Implement automation solution for RedHat on zVM using zPXE and kickstart.
• Experienced wif Bash and Python scripting languages.
• Experienced wif HPSA (reporting, global shell ... ).
• Experienced wif Linux advanced networking ( Vlan tagging, advanced routing using iproute2 ...)
• Work wif different teams on multiple projects to build new environment or upgrade/extend existing ones.
• Automate third party software deployment through RHN satellite ( Monitoring agent, backup agent ...)
• Deploy RHEL on standalone and virtual servers using kickstart.
• Work wif security team to ensure the compliance wif different benchmarks ( SOX, PCI DSS).
• Planning and implementing patching solution for RHEL servers.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues related to different resources ( Network, Memory, CPU, Storage )

Confidential, NY

VMware / Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Planning and Implementation experience in a large scale Oracle EBS project.
• Experienced in implementation and build outs of various OS as per the clients requirement.
• Experience in building Oracle Enterprise Linux guests and creating OEL 5.5 templates on Oracle Requirement to match Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle EBS requirements.
• Experience in build outs and administrating AIX LPAR’s for Oracle Enterprise DB.
• Experience in configuring AIX LPAR’s as per the customer’s build request and installing and patching AIX 6.1 up to the Oracle DB requirements.
• Onsite Oracle VM Consultant and VMware for Implementation, Providing Guidance, Documentation, training and support services.
• Installed and Configured HP System Insight Manager (HPSIM) to improve the infrastructure approach.
• Championed successful, large (2400+) server hardware monitoring using HP Systems Insight Manager (HPSIM), resulting in substantially improved up time, and problem management.
• Configured sudo permissions for OPS and Infrastructure groups and iptables to meet strict firewall policies and Security Hardening on over 800 RHEL VM’s
• Experience in configuring SAN Zones on Brocade Switches and configuring LUN’s based on EMC Clariion CX4 (Navisphere) and Compellent Disk System.
• Performing day-to-day monitoring tasks and administration implementations while monitoring HP Service Center, and performing RHEL LVM changes, adding Users in Active Directory and Exchange Server.
• Expertise in IBM AIX hardware components (RS/6000, pSeries), trouble-shooting and maintenance
• Strong shell and Perl scripting skills on Unix systems
• Experience migrating, maintaining and supporting large national systems using Linux
• Configuration Management including the building of LPARs and configuring the hardware devices dat support them
• System Network configuration,PAM, tcp wrappers implementation,SELinux policies, FTP server setup,OpenSSH configuration, DigitalCertificates, Define Firewall andsecurity requirements and policies.Coordinating wif application developersand users.
• Maintained the HPVCEM for HP Blade server Hardware virtualization.
• Installed and maintained the C7000 series of HP Blade enclosures wif Flex10 transceivers.
• Was responsible for designing and maintaining the Avcoent KVM infrastructure.
• Experience in Deploying and Creating New VM guests wif Oracle Enterprise Linux as VM guests using a customized OEL Gloden Image Template on Oracle VM Servers.
• Experience in Designing, Installing and Configuring Oracle VM Server (v 2.1.2, 2.2.x) and Oracle VM Manager (v 2.1.2, 2.2.x) on a HP C7000/BL460C G6 based Environment wif Several Servers configured as Oracle VM Nodes (Server Pool Master, Utility Server and VM Servers).
• Experience in integrating monitoring tools (Nagios and Oracle Grid Control/Enterprise Manager) and configuring monitoring schedule as well as installing agents on Enterprise Linux/AIX/Solaris/Windows.
• Experience in configuring/tuning OCFS2 (Oracle Clustered File System) for Shared Disk Subsystem for Oracle EBS and Oracle Fusion Middleware.
• Installation of Windows 2003 and 2008 Cluster environment for application and print servers.
• Performed Clustering tasks wif High Availability and Fault Tolerance for VM’s on multiple clusters located in Northfield and Washington DC site.
• Migrated data centers and performed P2V’s, V2V’s and V2P’s using VMware, resulting in decreased downtime during maintenance and upgrades, and improved management and monitoring tools.
• Created, tested and maintained the quarterly patching cycles for the linux environment using the Red hat Satellite Server.
• Managing day-to-day operation by monitoring Enterprise Data Centers and applications.
• Shell scripting, job automationand performance monitoring andmaintenance.
• Bash, Perl scripting for regularsystem automation tasks, resourcemonitoring and system performancemonitoring.
• Experience on End to End process including ordering hardware, installation, configuration and decommissioning of the servers.
• Backup and Restore of production servers using Tivoli Backup.
• Creating and managing Change Management tickets
• Experience of working on high priority incident ticket (P2, P3) wif high critical deadline. Interacting directly wif the client, continuously involved in meetings.

Confidential, CO

VMware/Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Designing/Architect/Planning/Documenting the entire infrastructure along wif hardware/software infrastructure to meet the Pfizer Global Manufacturing requirements.
• Maintenance and support ofOracle VM and VMwareenvironment for Pfizer Global Manufacturing application consisting of more TEMPthan 1000 servers running on various platforms.
• Infrastructure implementation, management support and operational support to a multitude of applications running on different platforms.
• Experience on End to End process including Estimate Calculations, creating project plans, ordering hardware, installation, configuration and decommissioning of servers. Interacting directly wif the client, continuously involved in meetings.
• Experience in Designing, Installing and Configuring VMware vSphere 4.0 in DELL PowerEdge (2200/2950/6950/M-series/R-series), and IBM (Blade center HS-series/x-series) servers.
• Perform upgrades and migration of VMware ESX 3.0 to 4.0. Including the upgrading of ESX servers and vCenter to most current edition of vSphere.
• Migration of Virtual Servers from one data center to other data center. Performed VMware P2V (physical to virtual), V2V (virtual to virtual) machine conversions. Managing virtual servers using vCenter, creating clones for virtual machines.
• Configuring and maintaining different HA Cluster environments, Fault Tolerance settings in multiple cluster environments.
• Expertise in the creation of VMware Command Line scripts for performing recurring system tasks.
• Experience in maintaining, building, installing and troubleshooting Redhat Enterprise Linux Server V4 and V5.
• Manage and deploy appropriate packages for the Red Hat clients via channel setup configured in Red hat Satellite server.
• Installation of Hot Fixes and Service packs on production VM’s running on multiple cluster environments.
• Create and Modify file systems, Logical Volume, Physical Volumes, Volume Group. Migration of Logical volumes across PVs in same VG, Copy LV’s between VG’s.
• Performed TCP/IP troubleshooting on Unix/NT/Linux network.
• Shell scripting, job automationand performance monitoring andmaintenance.
• Bash, Perl scripting for regularsystem automation tasks, resourcemonitoring and system performancemonitoring.
• Backup and Restore of production servers using Tivoli backup. Creating and managing Change Management tickets. Experience of working on high priority incident ticket (P2, P3) wif high critical deadline.
• Expertise in following ITIL Service Management guidelines during ticketing and documentation.
• Logging Change Control Requests using software such as HP Service Center.
• Key member of team dat designed, established, tested, and updated Disaster Recovery Procedures. Responsible for security functions, including Internal/Internet accessible servers, Server Disaster Recovery, Log File Scanning.