SUMMARY

• Over 5 years experience of IT industry in Storage/Server Administrator, supporting multiple platforms and applications.
• Worked as a Field Service engineer over 2+ years supporting SUN SPARC/X86 machines, HP blade/Itanium/ESL tape library.
• In - depth knowledge of SCCM client installation, software distribution, remote control, and other SCCM issues.
• Worked in data centers and managed 1500+ sever and storage systems in each data center.
• Experience as a data center operator and performed tasks such as monitoring servers and storage systems through NOC(Network Operations Center).
• Strong background in storage area networks (SAN), Network Attached Storage (NAS) and on different UNIX platforms with backup and recovery.
• Knowledge and proficiency with administration, configuration, troubleshooting of NetApp and EMC storage systems
• Good Experience with HP-Open View tools.
• Expertise in installation of SUN Solaris OS and upgrdations of firmware, patches.
• Experience in Installing, Configuring and administering Virtualization technologies like VMware ESX/ESXi, vCenter server and CISCO UCS.
• Experience as Sun Hardwar Support Engineer for (SPARC, M series, T series & X86) machines for more than 2 Years.
• Experience in EMC Administration such as LUN provisioning, storage allocation and zoning.
• Good experience in using EMC VNX/VMAX deployment and Implementation.
• Experience with SAN and NAS replication technologies including Snap view, Mirror view, SAN COPY, Celerra Replicator.
• Experience on Brocade 48k, DCX Director switches and Cisco MDS Director switches and departmental switches.
• Knowledge on Windows Server 2008, 2003, UNIX, SUN Solaris, HP-UX, Linux & VMware platforms as it relates to disk allocation, managing LUN's, Host Side and HBA configuration.
• Experience in system monitoring, performance analysis, log analysis and performance tuning in SharePoint Server 2007, 2010,2013 and post-production support
• Proficient in shell, PERL and powershell scripting.
• Self-starter, motivated to learn, takes initiative and has experience working on complex projects and strict deadlines.
• Experience with Agile methodology, SCRUM.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Solaris 8/9/10/11, HP-UX 10.x/11.x, Windows 2000/2003/2008/ XP, VMware ESXi 5.0, RHEL Linux 5.x/4.x

Hardware: Oracle SUN systems: Sun Fire (SF V440, SF V890, SF E2900, SF T5200, SF T2000, Sun M3k, 4k), Sun X86, Sun storage (SUN StorEdge 3210, StorEdge 5400).HP blade and Itanium rx1/rx2/rx3, Superdome, HP ESL tape library, Dell Blades, IBM Series.

Storage Arrays: EMC VNX (5500, 5700, 7500), Clariion(CX600,CX700,CX 4- 120/240/480/960 , CX3-40/CX3-80), Celerra NS-120, NS -480, EMC isilon, VPLEX, NetApp FAS6000, FAS3000, FAS2000 series,HP 3PAR, EVA.

System/Storage/ SAN Management Software: HP Open View Operations,, HP Open View Data Protector, HP Open View Service desk, EMC Unishpere, Navisphere Manager 6.x/5.x, EMC control center 6.x/5.x, Open Replicator, EMC PowerPath 5.x/4.x, Timefinder, Snap View, Mirror View, SAN Copy, SRDF S/A, Fabric /Device Manager.

SAN Switches: Cisco MDS- 9513/09/06/9216 , Brocade 48000/24000/3800/ DCX-B.

Scripting: Shell, Pearl, PowerShell, Python

PROJECT DETAILS

Confidential, TX

Windows/Storage/Unix Administrator

Environment: Windows 7 32, 64, SCCM 2007, Citrix XenApp5.5, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS 3.0), Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007, EMC Clariion, ORACLE Sun Solaris 10&11, Linux Red Hat 6.x, HP-UX 11.i, VMware ESXi.

Responsibilities:

• Installed & administrated all UNIX/LINUX servers, including the design and selection of relevant hardware to support the installation/upgrades of Red Hat Linux (5.x/6.x) & Solaris 10 Servers.
• Part of production support team responsible for solving tickets and monitoring jobs in 24 X 7 Support for both RHEL & Solaris servers.
• Responsible for installing, configuring upgrading and troubleshooting of SUN Solaris, Windows 2003/2000/98 operating systems.
• Server patching and bug fixes via PatchManager and Windows Update Services.
• File system maintenance and SAN management on EMC Clariion CX-600.
• Raid groups configuration, LUN creation, LUN binding, Storage group configuration in EMC Clariion storage using Navisphere and Navicli.
• Allocated storage to Windows and Solaris server from Clariion using EMC Navisphere and Navicli.
• Maintained and Implemented NetApp storages FAS 3000 and 200 Series in NAS environment.
• Administration of NetApp filers which includes creating quotas and sharing them to CIFS and NFS clients
• Experience in administration of Cisco MDS SAN switches
• Supported a large scale Data Center projects including server installation, hardware maintenance, and break/fix activities
• Supported, maintained, and patched Solaris 11 on hardware platforms including the Oracle T5240, T5440, M5000, M8000, T1000, T3, T4, V440.
• Supported VMware ESXi infrastructure by working with the windows administration team.
• Handling UFS filesystems that included creating, mounting and unmounting a filesystem, managing files and directories (setting up permissions and ownerships).
• Installed/ upgraded patches, firmware (OBP), and security (Kernel) patches for all applications in installed infrastructure.
• Administer for windows server 2003-2008R2 and all related server services including FTP, AD, DNS, DHCP and VPN.
• Respond to any SCCM infrastructure alarms/incidents and resolve issues
• Created SCCM collection using business criteria, package and advertisements
• Perform daily monitoring of Exchange software through native tools and SCOM
• Also work with Lync 2013 adding users
• Patching Exchange 2010 using Altiris - Patching Lync 2013 servers
• Created user and computer accounts on the Active directory users and computers.
• Resolved the user issues related to Active Directory Users and Groups .

Designation: SAN/Unix system Administrator, Field Service engineer

Responsibilities:

• Attend and Close the tickets and changes as per SLA in large scale telecom projects like Confidential.
• Performing OS installation and troubleshooting.
• Major hardware issues like replacing HDD’s, Fan modules, motherboard, system board, power supplies, memory modules etc.
• Installing Patches, Packages and upgrading of firmware.
• Restoration of backup from disk and magnetic tapes.
• Co-ordination with Vender for any hardware related issues.
• Configuring of disk in SVM(Solaris Volume Manager)
• Performing network driver configuration.
• Proactive Health check of SUN and HP servers and Performance Monitoring.
• Spare management and auditing of Telecom Sites.
• Maintaining patch update reports and raising CR.
• Administered and managed EMC VNX/VMAX SAN storage.
• Migrated data from NetApp filer to VNX5700 using Robocopy, EMCopy and RSYNC.
• Configuring and managing Cisco UCS Service Profiles, NIC/HBA interfaces, MAC/UUID/WWPN/WWNN identity pools, various Servers, Network and Storage related policies.
• Implemented and configured multiple CLARiiON Storage environments from initial setup to binding LUNs, creating RAID group, installing CLARiiON storage array.
• Performed Data migration using SAN Copy software for Clariion storage systems.
• Maintain reports on disk utilization, availability and growth patterns.
• Raid groups configuration, LUN creation, LUN binding, Storage group configuration in EMC Clariion storage using Navisphere.
• Installed/ upgraded patches, firmware (OBP), and security (Kernel) patches for all applications in installed infrastructure.
• Experience in writing bash & Korn shell scripting to ease administration tasks like servers look up, monitoring disk space, repetitive jobs and other proactive monitoring to minimize outages.
• Maintaining service levels with customers through servicing Remedy trouble tickets, writing and maintaining documentation.
• Experience in Shell scripting (Bash, korn) to automate system administration jobs as per the customer request and applying the changes.

Designation: Data Center Operator

Responsibilities:

• Monitor the file systems.
• Backup of servers using Data Protector Software on ESL712e Tape Library. Addition of clients, Adding drives, creating templates and backup specifications to Data Protector Client PC.
• Copying backup from one media to another media.
• Experience in managing and configuring the SUN/HP servers.
• Administering large scale data center.
• Maintaining HP-UX servers in a HA cluster configuration, along with Wintel Servers under Win 2003 OS.
• Supporting XP-12K and EVA 8K SAN array and supported by the HP Data Protector Enterprise Backup Solution.
• Servers are monitored using the HP-Open View Operations (OVO) suite, with HP-Service desk solution providing Help Desk Operations functionally.
• Backup of servers using Data Protector Software on ESL712e Tape Library.
• Restoration of data using Data Protector
• Management of HP-Open view tools like Service-Desk, HP-OVO and HP-OVPM.
• Involved in customizing and making the connectivity to other server for monitoring using Shell scripting.
• Knowledge of working on Business Copy like splitting of database on backup server, synchronizing, pairing & resyncing for cold backup of database.