SUMMARY:

• Extensive experience in Unix/Linux System Engineer, Network Administration and Application Support working on RedHat Linux 4.x/5.x/6.x/7 SUSE Linux 10,11, IBM AIX 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x, Sun Solaris … and HP - UX 11.x environments.
• Experience in building Servers using Kickstart in Linux, NIM in AIX, Ignite process in HP-UX, Jumpstart in Solaris, Manual installations.
• Experienced in Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration, performance tuning on UNIX and system software & hardware
• Experience in installation, configuration, backup, disaster recovery, maintenance, and support of Several Unix/Linux Servers.
• Good working experience with Red hat Satellite Server for OS upgrading and patching RedHat Linux and AIX Servers.
• Extensive experience in Windows 2012/2008 R2/2008/2003 R2/2000 Servers at single or multi domain platforms.
• Experience with Configuration Management Tools (PUPPET, CHEF, Ansible).
• Deployed Puppet, Puppet Dashboard, Puppet DB for configuration management as part of architectural
• Experience in development and configuration experience with software provisioning tools like Chef, Puppet, and Docker.
• Responsible for installation and configuration of Chef and creating cookbooks and recipes in order to create the run list and configure them to nodes.
• Design and implemented Ansible for automating system management task.
• Strong scripting experience in either SHELL, PERL, or similar scripting language
• Designed Architectural diagrams based up on the client requirements for their application hosting in the AWS Cloud Environments.
• Created AWS computing instance Services like EC2 and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing in AWS Cloud.
• Proficient in Ruby on Rails implementation in building web applications.
• Experienced in developing Web Services with Python programming language.
• Experienced in WAMP (Windows, Apache, MYSQL and Python/PHP) and LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python/PHP) Architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience in administration of Active Directory, Windows Server 2008 R2, 2003 R2, 2003 R2, and Windows 2,000 Server, IIS 5/6, MS Clustering, TCP/IP,UDP, FTP, DNS, DHCP, WINS, NLB, and DFS.
• Linux-based Virtualization implementations such as VMware, Oracle Virtual Machine, and Xen.
• Expertise in creating VM Templates, cloning and managing Snapshots
• Experience in virtualization concepts like cloning, deploying from OVF templates and VMOTION in VMware.
• Installed and deployed the KVM containers for the Openstack Cloud.
• Installed and deployed the VMware ESX containers for the VM cloud and Vsphere.
• Experience in AIX virtualization such as LPAR's.
• Expertise in configuring and administering NIS, NIS+, NFS, DNS, LDAP, DHCP, Mail Servers and web servers like Apache HTTP & Tomcat in heterogeneous environments.
• Installed and configured ORACLE database on all flavors of UNIX.
• Experience in implementing High Availability Solutions using VERITAS Cluster, HP Service Guard and RedHat Cluster Server.
• Wide experience in maintaining/tuning/upgrading Web logic/Web sphere/JBoss and Web based applications like Java & Tomcat/Apache.
• Experience in Installation of Oracle, MS SQL Server and MYSQL.
• Experience working with production and 24 x 7 on call environments.
• Scripting done in korn, bash, csh and perl for automated tasks.
• Experience working on change tickets via tools like Remedy and Service Now.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux ES & AS, IBM-AIX, HP-UX, Windows, VMware ESX/ESXi

Hardware: SUN Enterprise Sun Fire (280R, V480, 3800, 4800, 6800), T Series, M Series,IBM RS/6000, P Series (520, 550, 570, 575, 590, 595, 630, 650, 670, M80, S80,H70 and H80), IBM P Series,IBM ESS (Enterprise Storage Server), DS8000, IBM 3494, 3583 HP DL (380s and580s), DELL Power Edge

Programming Languages: UNIX Shell Scripting (Ksh/Bash), Perl, Oracle PL/SQLWeb/Application Servers: Apache Server, Tomcat, iPlanet, JBoss, Web Sphere Application Server, IBMHTTP Server, Web Logic Server, HTML, DHTML, XML

Cluster: Veritas Cluster Server, Redhat Cluster Server, HP Service Guard

Applications: Remedy, Service Now, HACMP, Samba, Tivoli (TSM), Nagios, Tripwire, VERITASNetback up, Veritas Volume Manager, LVM, EMC Powerpath

Networking: TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, WAN, SMTP, LAN,FTP/TFTP

RDBMS: IBM UDB2, Oracle 8i/9i/10g, MS-SQL Server 7.0/6.5 and MS-Access 97/95

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, WA

Sr. Linux /VMware/AIX Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and upgrade of Redhat Linux 5/6, AIX 5/6, Cent OS 5.8, Solaris … operating systems.
• Configured and installed AIX, Solaris and Redhat Linux Servers using NIM, Jumpstart, and Kickstart.
• Remote monitoring and management of server hardware.
• Installation and administration of DNS, NIS, NFS, NTP, Samba, SNMP & DHCP servers.
• Perform Enterprise Security Management (ESM) upgrades on Solaris and Linux environment and add the ESM managers to the servers.
• Worked on Installation and configuration of DevOps tool Puppet.
• Created various modules and Manifests in puppet to automate various applications.
• Extensively worked on creating Puppet modules as per the business requirement.
• Defined AWS Security Groups which acted as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances.
• Creating an AWS RDS MySQL DB cluster and connected to the database through an Amazon RDS MySQL DB Instance using the Amazon RDS Console.
• Developed entire frontend and backend modules using Python on Django Web Framework.
• Developed tools using Python, Shell scripting, XML to automate some of the menial tasks.
• Responsibilities included provisioning new customer servers on Windows Server 2008R2 and Windows Server 2012 Standard and Enterprise.
• Created and maintained technical documentation for internal and external facing customers.
• Managed the implementation of multiple projects involving Window server upgrades from server 2003 and 2008 to Windows 2012.
• Package management using RPM, YUM and UP2DATE in Red Hat Linux.
• Installed and administered Tripwire applications in tier 2 and tier 3 environments.
• Installed and deployed the KVM containers for the Open stack Cloud.
• Installed and deployed the VMware ESX containers for the VM cloud and Vsphere
• Worked closely with Cloud teams to build and deploy VM's using Open Stack and VMware.
• Monitored file systems usage, modifications and deletions using tripwire.
• Worked with audit teams and provided them with the File system modifications using tripwire tool on various distributions of UNIX.
• Experience working in VMware ESX (VSphere) 4.x, 5.x hypervisor for virtualization and installed different OS such as Solaris, Linux (RHEL), Windows.
• Performed Vmotion using the VCenter 5.0 on the ESX machines for migrating the VMs online.
• Managed patching for Linux & Windows Servers.
• Worked on SAN, NAS and DAS storages with HBA card configuration and different level of RAID configuration.
• Troubleshooting and configuration of Local and Network based printers.
• User, Group Administration and Advanced File Permissions.
• Maintain security for the networked environment while allowing users to access all data and software remotely.

Environment: RHEL 6.x/5.x, AIX 5/6, Cent OS 5.8, Solaris … VMware, Jboss AS 5/6/7, WAS 5/6/7/8, Logical Volume Manager, IBM/HP blade servers, Veritas netbackup 5.x/6.0, SAN Multipathing (MPIO, HDLM, Powerpath), TCP/IP,UDP, FTP, DNS,VM ESX 3.x/2.x

Sr. Linux/UNIX/VMware/AIX Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and upgrade of Redhat Linux 5/6/7, AIX 6/7, SUSE 11 operating systems.
• Currently working on build activities which involves building RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 and 7servers inboth Physical and Virtual platforms and procedure documentation.
• Configured and installed AIX, and Redhat Linux Servers using NIM, Kickstart.
• Expertise in creating VM Templates, cloning and managing Snapshots
• Remote monitoring and management of server hardware.
• Installation and administration of DNS, NIS, NFS, NTP, Samba, SNMP & DHCP servers.
• Package management using RPM, YUM and UP2DATE in Red Hat Linux.
• Installed and deployed the VMware ESX containers for the VM cloud and Vsphere
• Experience working in VMware ESX (VSphere) 4.x, 5.x hypervisor for virtualization and installed differentOS such as Linux (RHEL), SUSE, Windows.
• Maintaining Active Directory with 7000+ user accounts & Windows servers for one of the internal account.
• Installed, configured, and manage Ansible Automation tool.
• Automated various applications, from scripting till production deployment using Puppet.
• Worked on AWS server provisioning and standardization using Puppet Manifests.
• Evaluated the benefits for upgrading to Puppet 2016.2.1 from 2015.3.1
• Written Chef Recipes to automate our build/deployment process and do an overall processimprovement to any manual processes.
• Written multiple cookbooks in Chef in production environment Work with the IT and businessmanagement teams to define overall technical direction on Prod and DR environment.
• Created and managed a AWS Storage services like S3, EBS and Amazon Cloud Front
• Developed tools using Python, Shell scripting, XML to automate some of the menial tasks.
• Active Directory Migration from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2.
• Performed migration of production windows servers from windows 2008 R2 to windows 2012 R2.
• Performed Vmotion using the VCenter 5.0 on the ESX machines for migrating the VMs online.
• Configured and deployed patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Red Hat Linux serversusing satellite servers
• Worked on Grub, PXE boot, Kickstart, Packages, Yum, RPMs, LVM, Boot from SAN, file systemconfiguration
• Worked on SAN, NAS and DAS storages with HBA card configuration and different level of RAID configuration.
• Troubleshooting and configuration of Local and Network based printers.
• Patch management of servers and maintaining server's environment in Development/QA/Staging/Production
• Maintain security for the networked environment while allowing users to access all data and software remotely.

Environment: RHEL 6.x/5.x, AIX 6/7, SUSE 11, VMware, IBM/HP blade servers, WAS 5/6/7/8, Logical Volume Manager, Veritas net backup, SAN Multipathing (MPIO, HDLM, Powerpath), TCP/IP,UDP, FTP, DNS,VM ESX, VM vSphere

Sr. Linux/UNIX/VMware/AIX Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and upgrade of Solaris 9/10, Red hat Linux 3/4/5, SUSE 10, HP-UX 11i, AIX 5.3 operating systems.
• Configured and installed Solaris, HP-UX and Redhat Linux Servers using jumpstart, Ignite, and Kick start.
• Worked on installing and configuring VMware/ESX Servers for virtualizations.
• Extensive use of Logical Volume Manager (LVM), creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes and disk mirroring in HP-UX, AIX and Linux.
• Extensive experience working on Solaris Volume Manager, creating Metadevices, Soft partitions, Mirroring the devices and Metasets. Space allocation to the Metadevices, detaching and clearing the devices if not in use.
• Create automated Jumpstart environment for Solaris standard builds for WEB, APP and DB servers.
• Supported Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster) Servers running on Linux with GFS and Solaris with SFRAC.
• Experience working in VMware ESX (VSphere) 4.x, 5.x hypervisor for virtualization and installed different OS such as Solaris, Linux (RHEL), Windows.
• Installed and administered Tripwire applications in tier 2 and tier 3 environments.
• Package management using RPM, YUM and UP2DATE in Red Hat Linux.
• Responsible for Daily Backup maintenance through Tivoli Storage Management (TSM).
• Administrative scripting with Perl and Shell.

Environment: RHEL 5.x/4.x, SUSE 10, Solaris 8/9/10, HP … G3, G4, G5, Dell Power Edge, IBM/HP blade servers, Websphere 5.x/6.x, Apache … iPlanet, Oracle … Logical Volume Manager, Veritas net backup 5.x/6.0, SAN Multipathing (MPIO, HDLM, Powerpath), TCP/IP,UDP, DNS, VM ESX 3.x/2.x

Linux/UNIX/VMware Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate, install, test, configure, maintain, tune, and troubleshoot Solaris 9/10, Red Hat Linux AS 4/5, SUSE 10, HP-UX … AIX 6.1/5.3 operating system software and third party commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products with primary responsibility being for the UNIX operating systems.
• Extensive use of Logical Volume Manager (LVM), creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes and disk mirroring in HP-UX, AIX and Linux.
• Worked on migrating data from EVA, XP to 3-PAR Storage on Linux.
• Package management using RPM, YUM and UP2DATE in Red Hat Linux.
• Extensively worked on tools like Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas file System, Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Solaris Volume manger (SVM).
• Experience in building Servers using Jumpstart in Solaris, Kickstart in Linux, Ignite process in HP-UX and Manual installation.
• Configuration and administration of DNS, LDAP, NFS, NIS, NIS+ and Sendmail on RedHat Linux.
• Installed and deployed the KVM containers for the Openstack Cloud.
• Installed and deployed the VMware ESX containers for the VM cloud and Vsphere
• Worked closely with Cloud teams to build and deploy VM's using Open Stack and VMware.
• Good working experience with Redhat Satellite Server for upgrading and patching Linux Servers.
• Experience working in VMware ESX (VSphere) 4.x hypervisor for virtualization and installed different OS such as Solaris, Linux (RHEL), Windows.
• Performed Vmotion using the VCenter on the ESX machines for migrating the VMs online.
• Installed and administered Tripwire applications in tier 2 and tier 3 environments.
• Worked with audit teams and provided them with the File system modifications using tripwire tool on various distributions of UNIX.
• Managed Patching and worked on Firmware Updates for Blades and Enclosures.
• Creating met devices, soft partitions, mirroring the devices and metasets.
• Analyze, troubleshooting, and resolve RedHat Linux and Server HW, Network problems in a Production Server environment.

Environment: RHEL 5.x/4.x, SUSE 10, IBM/HP blade servers, Web sphere 5.x/6.x, Apache … planet, Oracle … Logical Volume Manager, VERITAS netback up 5.x/6.0, SAN Multipathing (MPIO, HDLM, Power path), VM ESX, TCP/IP,UDP, DNS.