OBJECTIVE:

I am a Systems Architect/ Systems Administrator with 20+ years of experience in Information Technology and certifications in Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( 4, 5 & 7), Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Storage, Red Hat OpenStack Administration, Microsoft certified Systems Administrator, looking for a challenging opportunity in Systems Architecting, System Administration or data center administration, I have worked with a wide range of technologies including Big Data, DevOps, OpenStack, Cloud, Virtualization, automation, orchestration and great motivation to see the job through to completion even if it requires you to get out of the box. I am a detail Oriented self - starter who can work both independently and in a team environment. I have Strong analytical, diagnosing, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, including skills to take on new technologies

SUMMARY:

• Worked in IT, Telecom, Networking, Virtualization, Financial, Health Care, Public Sector domains
• Experienced in Datacenter Virtualization, OpenStack, vCloud, AWS etc.
• Experienced in Automation and Scripting
• Worked on AWS including S3, SNS, Amazon Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling, Elastic Beanstalk with
• Experienced in VMware Products including ESXi Servers, vCenter, vCloud, vSphere, vCenter Orchestrator etc.
• Worked with different flavors of Unix including Red Hat Linux, HP UX, Sun Solaris, IBM AIX etc.
• Worked on Storage technologies including SAN, NAS and Cloud Storages
• Worked on Windows NT, Windows 2013, Windows2016 etc.
• Worked on Dev Ops tools like Puppet, Chef, Jenkins etc.
• Worked on version control software like SVN, Git
• Worked on building Servers and Datacenters from the scratch
• Worked on Cisco UCS, HP Blades, IBM, Dell Servers
• Worked on Cisco Routers, Cisco switches, Brocade and Qlogic SAN switches, Meraki switches
• Worked on Logical Volume Manager (LVM), KVM, DNS LDAP, NFS, DHCP, Autofs, samba
• Worked on Kickstart, Jumpstart installation
• Worked on Hadoop, HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, Pig, Zoo keeper, Sqoop, Oozie, Flume etc.
• Worked on Apache Hadoop, Cloudera and Horton Works
• Worked on Performance Tuning and Trouble Shooting
• Worked on production support and site reliability
• Worked on OS Hardening, Patching, and Monitoring
• Worked on LDAP and Active Directory.
• Worked on Python, Perl, Bash and power shell scripting
• Worked on Databases including Oracle, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Cassandra Daytona etc.
• Worked on Splunk, Strata, Syslog-ng
• Worked on Kubernetes, Docker
• Worked on applications like Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, JBoss, WebSphere etc.
• Worked on WMS systems like Manhattan, Vargo, JESSIE, ASRS etc.
• Worked on Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster, Veritas NetBackup etc.
• Worked on HP Data protector, MC Service Guard, PPM etc.
• Worked on enforcing policies and standards for compliance.
• Worked in GRC and audits
• Worked on evaluation of impacts of new releases, develop test plans and implement into production environment.
• Worked on providing Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans
• Worked on large TCP/IP Networks, switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls
• Worked on the installation and configuration of Exchange server.
• Worked on monitoring tools Zenoss, website pulse, VCOPS, Strata, Hyperic, Splunk, Nagios etc.
• Worked on Thruk, NewRelic, Graphana etc.
• Worked on installation, configuration and administration of Oracle RDBMS (8i, 9i and 10g,11g)
• Worked on Database creation, table space management, Managing Redo Files, managing users and resources, managing user roles and privileges, Oracle exports and imports, oracle data pump, memory management and tuning, managing backups and recovery, RMAN etc.
• Installation and configuration of Name nodes, Secondary Name nodes, Data node, Pig, Hive, Sqoop
• Worked on Big data, Hadoop, MapReduce, Yarn, Hive, Pig, Solr, Sqoop, Ambari, Cloudera manager, ganglia, Nagios, hue, HBase, spark, Oozie, mahout, MongoDB etc.
• Good team player with good Analytical, Interpersonal & Communication Skills
• Ability to plan, organize, prioritize, and complete assigned tasks with minimal supervision despite rapidly changing priorities
• Motivation to see the job through to completion, even if it requires working late occasionally

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fresno, CA

Senior Systems Engineer Architect/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day system administration tasks
• Architecting environments based on the application and database requirements
• Scripting using python, Bash, shell scripts
• Network, DNS
• LDAP and Active Directory Administration.
• Administrative tasks in datacenter environment WMOS, DEMATIC, VARGO, JESSIE, MOSAIC, ASRS
• Supporting Ware House management Applications like
• System administration of Windows and Linux
• Troubleshooting and fixing issues
• Production Support
• Kernel fine tuning for application Performance
• Supporting Kernel level tuning for WMOS applications and Oracle database.
• Run-book preparation for operations.
• Implementing open-source technologies.
• Implementation of new solutions and automate tasks using DevOps tools
• Scripting using python, Bash, power shell scripts
• Worked on DevOps tools such as Puppet, CHEF, Jenkins, Git (version control)
• Worked on Red Hat OpenStack, Mirantis OpenStack, VMware vCloud, AWS etc.
• Worked on Bigdata tools like Pig, Hive, Flume, Ambari, c Sqoop, Oozie, HBase etc.
• Conduct root cause analysis for issues
• Worked on VMware vSphere, VMware ESXi, VCD, VCOPS, ESXI, vRealize and other VMware tools
• Deploying new servers and supporting servers and application in a virtualized environment
• Deploying VMware products and troubleshooting VMware issues.
• Security auditing and inventory management,
• Installation and administration of OpenStack, MariaDB, Oracle etc.
• Installation and configuration through Puppet, Chef, Jenkins.
• Installing ESXi hypervisor and virtual machines.
• Supporting DELL, EMC and Cisco UCS.
• Supporting Windows and Unix Servers including Red Hat Linux, Centos, Ubuntu
• Supporting applications and databases.
• Worked on Monitoring tools such as Nagios, Splunk, Graphana, NewRelic, Thruk etc.

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Senior Systems Architect/Cloud Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day system administration tasks
• Architecting environments based on the application and database, requirement
• Data Center Migration for HP, Confidential separation.
• Scripting using python, Bash, shell scripts
• Network, DNS changes for HP Confidential
• New Data Center Implementation and virtualization
• Administrative tasks in datacenter environment
• System administration of windows and Linux
• Troubleshoot and fixing issues
• LDAP implementation and administration.
• Implementation of new solutions and automate tasks using DevOps tools
• Scripting using python, Bash, power shell scripts
• Worked on DevOps tools including Puppet, CHEF, Jenkins, Git (version control)
• Worked on OpenStack, Red Hat Linux, Centos, AWS
• Worked on Bigdata tools like Pig, Hive, Flume, Cassandra, Ambari, Sqoop, Oozie, HBase etc.
• Conduct root cause analysis for issues
• Experienced in VMware vSphere, VMware ESXi, VCD, VCOPS, ESXI, vRealize and other VMware tools
• Deploying new servers and supporting servers and application in a virtualized environment
• Deploying VMware products and trouble shoot VMware issues.
• Security auditing and inventory management,
• Installation and administration of OpenStack, MongoDB, MariaDB, oracle etc.
• Worked on Docker, MongoDB, OpenStack etc.
• Kernel fine tuning for application Performance
• Worked on Python, Perl, Bash
• Installing ESXi hypervisor and virtual machines.
• Supporting DELL, EMC and Cisco UCS.
• Supporting Windows Servers and Unix Servers including Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu
• Supporting applications and databases.
• Worked on Monitoring tools such as Nagios, Splunk

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Senior Systems Administrator/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Day to day System Administration tasks for development and production environments
• Implementation of new projects within the deadlines.
• Developing processes, standards, and integrating architected solutions into various environments.
• Resolving issues end to end and performing root cause analysis
• Architecting environments based on the application requirement.
• Building Servers and installing applications and databases as per customer requirement.
• Trouble shoot and tune the systems for better performance
• Working with cross-functional teams to enhance performance and bring better solutions.
• Management of heterogeneous system environment in a datacenter.
• Deploying servers on AWS
• LDAP Administration
• Scripting using python, Bash, power shell scripts
• Installation and administration of OpenStack, MongoDB, MariaDB, oracle etc.
• Automation of tasks using Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Vagrant etc.
• Version control using Git
• Installing and Managing Hadoop echo system including HDFS, Flume, Oozie
• Installation configuration and Troubleshooting of OpenStack.
• Worked on Big Data tools like Pig, Hive, Flume, Cassandra, Ambari, Sqoop, Oozie, HBase etc.
• Splunk and strata administration for log management
• Worked on Red Hat Linux etc.
• Worked on VMware vSphere, VMware Esxi, VCD, VCOPS, ESXI, vRealize and other VMware tools
• Deploying new servers and supporting servers and application in a virtualized environment
• Implementation of Disaster Recovery Site
• Scripting using python, shell script, Perl etc.
• Installing ESXi hypervisor and virtual machines.
• Supporting DELL, EMC and Cisco UCS.
• Supporting Windows Servers and Unix Servers including Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu
• Supporting applications and databases.
• Troubleshooting and optimizing of software applications.
• Managing the day to day operations in the datacenter.

Confidential, Palo Alto, CA

Senior Systems Administrator/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Production Support
• Architecting environments based on the application requirement.
• Implementation of new projects within the deadlines.
• Building Servers from the scratch, creating vms, installing applications and databases.
• Managing servers in a datacenter directly and remotely.
• Working with other teams to enhance performance and bring better solutions.
• Management of heterogeneous system environment in a datacenter.
• Primary Linux administrator for any production issues.
• Administrating Splunk servers.
• Building and Virtualizing datacenter.
• Preparing run-book for operations.
• Installing upgrading and rebuilding of servers.
• Installing and Configuring hardware and software.
• Developing processes, standards, and integrating architected solutions into various environments.
• Supporting applications like Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic etc.
• Implement new solutions and automate tasks using python, shell
• Configuring and Troubleshooting of vCloud Director.
• Configuration and Troubleshooting of Open stack.
• Experience with OpenStack components like cinder, glance, horizon,
• Managing Hadoop eco system components
• Installation configuration and Troubleshooting of Open stack.
• Involved in coordination and management of the team for configuration, installation, remote
• Administration, monitoring, and Troubleshooting
• Analysis of problems Confidential a system level and determining the root cause analysis
• Scripting using python, Bash, power shell scripts
• Managing the day to day operations in the datacenter.
• Designing solutions to suit the requirements for new projects...
• Implementation of new projects and supporting the existing projects.
• LDAP and Active Directory
• Successfully completed DNS and security projects.
• Worked on ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, VCOPS, VCD, VCO, Zenoss, Splunk, website pulse, spectrum, strata, oracle, oracle apps, bigdata, Splunk, Linux, portals, DNS, security, vCloud, rabbit mq, apache, UCS servers, Men and Mice etc.

Confidential, Sanjose CA

Senior Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Management of heterogeneous system environment in a datacenter.
• Architecting new environments based on application needs.
• Building Servers from the scratch, creating vms, installing applications and databases.
• Managing servers in a datacenter directly and remotely.
• Implementation of new projects within the deadlines.
• Involved in coordination and management of the team for configuration, installation, remote Administration, and Troubleshooting
• Analysis of problems Confidential a system level and determining the root cause.
• Managing the day to day operations in the server environment in the datacenter.
• Designing and implementing the hardware to suit the requirements for new projects.
• Implementation of new projects and supporting the existing projects.
• Connectivity of SAN devices using FC cabling
• Building and supporting Cisco Enterprise Linux Servers.
• Virtualization of servers.
• Worked on ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, VCOPS, VCD, VCO, Zenoss, Splunk, website pulse, spectrum, strata, oracle, oracle apps, bigdata, Splunk, DNS, security, apache, UCS servers etc.
• Performance Analysis and Performance tuning.
• Application installation, configuration and tuning.
• Database installation and configuration and performance tuning.
• Files systems including ufs, vxfs, zfs
• Virtualization using VMware.
• Veritas tasks including, volume creation, online relay out, online resizing, offline resizing, volume snapshots, Veritas NetBackup, Mirroring, Raid 0, Raid 1, Raid 5, Raid 1+0, raid, vgimport, vgexport, hotspares, performance tuning etc.
• Veritas NetBackup including, creation and administration of storage units, policies, schedules, volume pools and trouble shooting
• User administration, kernel tuning, hardware management, nfs, samba, DNS, autofs,
• Tuning of kernel parameters for optimum system performance
• Monitor stability and performance of all systems
• Experience in applications like Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, JBosss, WebSphere etc.
• Installation and configuration of various third party software for project req.
• Installation of Nagios and other Applications.
• Provide support for application install.
• Provide support for database refresh
• Get the physical server installed and get the storage allocated.
• LDAP and Active Directory
• Networking of Servers
• Administration of Logical Volume Manager.
• Administration of Veritas Volume Manager.
• Administration of Clusters.
• Monitoring of disk usage.
• Monitoring of System Performance and recommending corrective actions when necessary.
• Kernel fine tuning for application and database Performance
• Maintenance of Servers and co-ordination with the vendor for escalations.
• Managing the Backups as per the backup strategy of the organization.
• User Administration
• Worked on UCS and blade servers
• Performing the administration tasks.
• Providing environment for testing and development based on test strategies and test plans.
• Helping the users in resolving issues.

Confidential, Sacramento, CA

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Architecting new environments and making changes to existing infrastructure for better efficiency and robustness.
• Managing Systems in a Trading environment.
• Building Servers from the scratch, creating vms, installing applications and databases.
• Managing servers in a datacenter directly and remotely.
• Management of Unix systems in a datacenter environment.
• Involved in the configuration, installation, Administration, and Troubleshooting of Unix systems.
• Implements storage solutions for Unix/Linux based servers and server software in clustered, highly-available and standalone environments.
• Manages scalability, availability, and performance of numerous SMUD SAN platforms to maximize cost-effective utilization of resources.
• Provides architecture, installation, and configuration of our EMC HP SAN solutions.
• Assists with design, architecture, and management of backup and restore services.
• Installs patches and upgrades to server hardware, firmware, and/or software related to the SAN and/or backup technologies.
• Works with internal customers to manage systems integration testing, load stress testing, and user acceptance testing processes.
• Analysis of problems Confidential a system level and determining the cause.
• Managing the day to day operations in the server environment in the datacenter as per the project requirement.
• Implementation of new servers and supporting the existing servers.
• Administration of UNIX systems (Red Hat Linux)
• Connectivity of SAN devices
• Virtualization of servers.
• Worked on ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, VCOPS, VCD, VCO, Zenoss, Splunk, website pulse, spectrum, strata, oracle, oracle apps, bigdata, Splunk, DNS, security, apache, UCS servers etc.
• Performance Analysis and Performance tuning.
• Application installation, configuration, tuning and support
• Database installation, configuration, database tuning, database upgrade,
• Scripting using shell, Perl
• Files systems including ext3
• LDAP administration
• Virtualization using VMware and KVM technologies.
• User administration, kernel tuning, hardware management, nfs, autofs, and troubleshooting.
• Tuning of kernel parameters for optimum system performance
• Monitor stability and performance of systems
• Installation of applications like apache, syslog-ng, java
• Provide support for application install.
• Provide support for database installation.
• Experience in applications like Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic, JBosss, WebSphere etc.
• Get the physical server installed and get the storage allocated.
• Network administration
• Administration of Logical Volume Manager
• Monitoring of System Performance and recommending corrective actions when necessary.
• Performance Tuning
• Provide support in patch management and HP SA software installation automation scripting.
• Storage and network management.
• EMC and HP Storage management.
• Provide support for HP blade hardware configuration and HP Blade virtual connect
• Configure and provision HP SAN (EVA and XP) on Red Hat Linux and HP-UX
• Provide technical support / installation / configuration in Red Hat Linux and HP-UX
• Provide support for the install, maintenance and customization of HP-UX on Integrity servers
• Provide support for the install, maintenance and customization of Red Hat Linux on HP Blades
• Evaluate impacts of new releases, develop test plans and implement into production environment.
• Provide support for the Red Hat Directory Server (RHDS) and the Lightweight Directory
• Access Protocol (LDAP) configuration, performance, maintenance and operation.
• Provide support in patch management and HP SA software installation automation scripting
• Assist in the development, implementation and execution of internal and industry standards, practices and processes for security, server hardware, operating system configuration and software
• Provide support for HP blade hardware configuration and HP Blade virtual connect.

Confidential, Sanjose CA

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Management of systems in a heterogeneous environment in the datacenter.
• Implementation of new projects within the deadlines.
• Supporting the project as required to ensure maximum uptime.
• Involved in coordination and management of the team for configuration, installation, remote Administration, and Troubleshooting
• Building Servers from the scratch, creating vms, installing applications and databases.
• Managing servers in a datacenter directly and remotely.
• Analysis of problems Confidential a system level and determining the root cause.
• Managing the day to day operations in the server environment in the datacenter.
• Designing and implementing the hardware to suit the requirements for new projects.
• Installing and configuring NetBackup on Unix platforms
• Installing and configuring Tape Libraries.
• Installation and configuration of Splunk.
• Administration of various Flavors of UNIX including Solaris, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, IBM AIX, CentOS
• Administration of SAN, NAS and switches
• Building and supporting Cisco Enterprise Linux Servers.
• Virtualization of servers.
• Worked on ESXi, vCenter, vSphere, VCOPS, VCD, VCO, Zenoss, Splunk, website pulse, spectrum, strata, oracle, oracle apps, bigdata, Splunk, DNS, security, apache, UCS servers etc.
• Performance Analysis and Performance tuning.
• Files systems including ufs, vxfs, zfs
• Veritas tasks including, volume creation, online relay out, online resizing, offline resizing, volume snapshots, Veritas backups, Mirroring, Raid 0, Raid 1, Raid 5, Raid 1+0, raid, vgimport, vgexport, hotspares, performance tuning etc.
• Backup tasks using Veritas NetBackup, including, creation and administration of storage units, policies, schedules, volume pools and trouble shooting
• User administration, kernel tuning, hardware management, nfs, samba, DNS, autofs,
• Tuning of kernel parameters for optimum system performance
• Monitor stability and performance of all systems
• Provide support for application installations
• Provide support for database refresh
• LDAP administration
• Network administration
• Administration of Logical Volume Manager, Veritas Volume Manager, Clusters
• Monitoring of System Performance and recommending corrective actions when necessary.
• Performance Tuning
• Maintenance of Servers and co-ordination with the vendor for escalations.

Confidential, Birmingham, AL

Senior Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing multiple projects.
• Implementation of projects.
• Management of heterogeneous system environment in a datacenter.
• Documentation of the project and upgradation of the existing documents.
• Develop and implement new policies for better efficiency and security .
• Installation and configuration of high end servers like Sun M9000, M5000
• Design, implementation and Administration of SAN
• Design and implementation of backups using Tape Libraries.
• Implementing shell, Perl and python scripts to perform tasks.
• Implementation of new projects within the deadlines.
• Interaction with the Vendors.
• Managing TCP/IP and FC network.
• Involved in coordination and management of the team for configuration, installation, remote Administration, and Troubleshooting
• Reporting bugs on new products and interacting with the vendors for resolution.
• Analysis of problems Confidential a system level and determining the root cause.
• Managing the day to day operations in the server environment in the datacenter.
• Designing and implementing the hardware to suit the requirements for new projects.
• Implementation of new projects and supporting the existing projects.
• Administration of various flavors of UNIX including Solaris, Red Hat Linux, HP-UX etc.
• Designing and implementing SAN environment and its management.
• Installation and configuration of Switches.
• Connectivity of SAN devices using FC cabling
• Zoning and other activities related to the switches.
• Building, and supporting Sun Solaris servers
• Building, and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers
• Build, and support HP Unix servers
• Protocols like TCP/IP, SMTP, IMAP, POP
• Building and supporting application servers
• Virtualization of servers.
• Installation configuration of zones including whole root and sparse root.
• Storage administration.
• Managing High end servers and storages like SUN M5000, M9000, superdomes, HP 5k, 12k, Sun 6540 etc.
• Performance Analysis and Performance tuning.
• Files systems including ufs, vxfs, zfs
• HP UX administration, Vpars, Npars, MC Service Guard
• Solaris administration, virtualization, zones, Domains
• Veritas tasks including, volume creation, online relay out, online resizing, offline resizing, volume snapshots, Veritas backups, Mirroring, Raid 0, Raid 1, Raid 5, Raid 1+0, raid, vgimport, vgexport, hotspares, performance tuning etc.
• Experience in Veritas NetBackup including, creation and administration of storage units, policies, schedules, volume pools and trouble shooting
• User administration, kernel tuning, hardware management, nfs, samba, DNS, autofs,
• Administration of Red Hat Linux 4, Red Hat Linux 5, Solaris 8,9,10, HP-UX 11.11
• Experience in Installation, Configuration of WebSphere servers, Apache, WebLogic etc.
• Installation and configuration of servers
• Upgradation of Solaris 8 and 9
• Upgradation of HP UX 11.11 to 11.23
• Installation and configuration of storages.
• Installation of patches and software packages.
• Tuning of kernel parameters for optimum system performance
• Networking of Servers
• Administration of Logical Volume Manager.
• Administration of Veritas Volume Manager.
• Administration of Clusters.
• Addition, modification and removal of volumes.
• Administration of Storages (EMC, HP, SUN)
• Administration of SAN.
• EMC, HP, Netapps and SUN Storage management.
• Installation of online JFS
• Configuring Crash dumps
• Configuration of Custom Jump start.
• Configuration of zones.
• Configuration of Flash installation.
• Installation and configuration of oracle.
• Configuring NFS and making the data accessible to the users.
• Configuring Automounting
• Managing MC Service guard.
• Monitoring of disk usage.
• Monitoring of System Performance and recommending corrective actions when necessary.
• Performance Tuning
• Maintenance of Servers and co-ordination with the vendor for escalations.
• Managing the Backups as per the backup strategy of the organization.
• User Administration
• Performing the administration tasks.
• Assisting the Daytona team in the management of Daytona database.
• Providing environment for testing and development based on test strategies and test plans.
• Jumpstart, kick start, Flash installations
• Installation and administration of packages including Web Logic, JBoss, Apache webserver, jdk, Tomcat, MySQL etc.
• Installation and administration of databases like Daytona, Oracle, and MySQL.
• Supporting multiple applications as per the project requirement.
• Supporting high end applications like TAS-Traffic Analysis System which is a product of Confidential & T.
• Maintaining the documents for future references.
• Helping the users in resolving issues.