PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around8+years of in depth technical functional and managerial experience with a will do attitude. I have implemented and managed IT infrastructure solutions to augment business requirements which are scalable, cost effective and secure. I have been a person with a good risk appetite, integrity, accountability, loyalty and commitment.
• Manage deployment, maintenance, support and upgrade of servers, hardware, software, operating systems in server environment.
• Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.
• Worked on Data - Center operation and migration across UNIX and LINUX platforms.
• Experienced in implementing and maintaining an Apache Tomcat/MySQL/PHP, LDAP, LAMP web service environment.
• Strong understanding of LAMP stack and support of web applications and supporting components such as apache/tomcat/memcache.
• Maintenance level upgrades and software administration RPM installation on Linux.
• Installation and up gradation of Packages and Patches configuration mgmt., version control, service pack. & reviewing connectivity issue regarding security problem.
• Experience in configuration of NIS, NIS+, DNS, DHCP, NFS, LDAP, SAMBA, SQUID, postfix, send mail, FTP, remote access, security management and Security trouble shooting skills.
• Developed and deployed services for traffic management (TM shell), load balancing and domain name system (DNS) hosting, using an integrated Microsoft’s public cloud computing platform called Azure.
• Experience with F5 load balancers to provide Land Balancing towards Access layer from core layer and configuring F5 LTM both by GUI and TMSH /CLI and Cisco load balancers.
• Comfortable working with tmsh scripts alongside with GUI along with F5 backups.
• Configuring devices through the CLI (Big Pipe/TMSH) and GUI, upgrading the OS, configuring the appliance, troubleshooting, and configuration updates.
• Applying firewall rules and policies for external Load balancing traffic and coordinated with automation team for F5 in building and supporting configuration, troubleshooting issues related to layer’s traffic.
• Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring SUN Solaris 9 and 10 on Sun Servers Using Jumpstart Servers, Manual installation as when required.
• Installation and configuration of java application serversJBoss, WebSphere 5.1/6.0 Application Server on Solaris and Linux boxes.
• Deploying and configuring JBoss application server, using an updated version of java development kit (JDK), in both source and binary format, for developing java applications, web applications and services.
• Experience in Installation and configuration of Zones and Containers in Solaris 10 environment.
• System installation, database backup and recovery, maintain user accounts, patch installation, network configuration and troubleshooting software, hardware and network problems of the Solaris 10 UNIX.
• Integrate and Test new Software, patches and create Technical Documentation on UNIX and Windows platform.
• Integrated Imagery & Intelligence Systems, responsible for 24/7 operability, Unix/Windows software and system upgrades and the configuration of data flow to and from worldwide customers.
• Experience with Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), Veritas File System (VxFS), Veritas Net Backup, Veritas Clustering with SAN, NAS environment.
• Experience in configuring HP Proliant servers and managing NAS / SAN technology.
• Experience in installing, configuring and implementing the RAID technologies using various tools like VxVM and Solaris Volume Manager.
• Experienced Oracle developer in very large production environments with database implementation on UNIX and Windows.
• Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuringRed Hat Linux 4.x, 5.x, 6.x and 7.x using Kickstart Servers and production support on various applications like Sun Solaris,RedhatEnterprise Linuxand Windows Environment.
• Experience increatingand managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring in Solaris and Red Hat Linux.
• Proficiency in writing automation scripts using Chef, Puppet, Shell and PowerShell to support infrastructure as code and continuous deployment.
• Experience in Installing, configuring and maintaining Samba, WebSphere & WebLogic Application Servers, Nagios and Chef.
• Extensively worked with automation tools like Hudson, Jenkins and Build Forge to implement the End-to-End Automation.
• Installed/Configured/Managed Jenkins Continuous Integrationand Continuous Deployment.
• Strong proficiency in supporting Production CloudEnvironments (AWS, Azure, and VMWare) as well as traditional managed hosted environments.
• Created Python Scripts to Automate AWS services which include web servers, ELB, CloudfrontDistribution, database, EC2 and database security groups, S3 bucket and application.
• Experience using cloud providers and API’s for Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Cloud Sigma (EU).
• Deploying software and infrastructure as a service using Openstack for both public and private services.
• Installation of Python and setting up SSH connection on remote nodes for configuring, managing and deploying software application on the nodes, using a powerful automation software calledAnsible.
• Experience in writing Shell scripts to automate the Administrative tasks and management using cron jobs.
• Experience in implementing disaster recovery plans and participated in Disaster Recovery testing.
• Expertise in scripting for automation, and monitoring using Shell, PHP, Ruby, Python & Perl scripts, along with RegEX for auditing.
• Interpreted scripting of Python in Microsoft active server page technology, in various operating systems.
• Quickly adapt to a fast changing environment and to new priorities based on customer needs.
• Conduct and develop training material in Code Management, SonarQube, Jenkins, ReSharper, and all code management tools for developers.
• Wrote PowerShell scripts to automatically restart the uDeploy agents on LINUX machines.
• Assist in the UAT testing of uDeploy and Jenkins tools also worked on Jenkins to create builds, and pass new builds to IBM Urban code/Udeploy for deployment.
• Maintain and deploy the artifacts uDeploy release build and produce products for testing and use in production.
• Experience in Installing Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning on Unix/Linux systems.
• Designing, Implementing LDAP architecture, replication, and data synchronization etc.
• Good understanding of OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite (IP, ARP, TCP, UDP, SMTP, FTP, and TFTP).
• Central management of all NetBackup enterprise servers using NetBackup operations.
• Install and configure Netbackup Clients on Solaris 10, Redhat 5.2 & on Windows 2008 and setup backups policies for Oracle and SQL databases.
• Coordinated the configuration and management of backups for Enterprise Vaults using NetBackup.
• Provided secure transfer of files, from web browser and web servers using secure socket layer (SSL) .
• Hands on Experience in Linux administration Support, Performance tuning & monitoring, problem analysis & resolution.
• Expertise in automating the software testing environment with open-source tools like Seleniumand WebDriver.
• Experience in setting up network environment using NFS, NIS and LDAP.
• Monitored and maintained Active directory, creation of new user accounts, shared Mailbox and calendar accounts. Create NAS volumes, CIFS shares, Snapshot, NDMP data backupdirect to tape.
• Independent problem solving and a good team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience supporting 24x7 production computing environments. Experience providing on-call and weekendsupport.Experience in manage cloud software deployments, with a focus on continuous integration and deployment using GitHub, Jenkins, Bamboo, SVN and Maven.
• Experience configuring and managing Puppet master server and also experience in updating and creating modules and pushing them to puppet clients.
• Experience in Install and configuration of Web hosting administration HTTP, FTP, SSH, & RSH.
• Experience in Installation of VMware ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS.
• Experience in Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Resolving system errors and crashes, huge file sizes, file system full errors.
• Worked on Firewall implementation &Load balancer between various Windows servers.
• Deploying and adding new machines to a running data base, balancing load and duplicating the data to keep the system up, using Mongo DB, in a multi-server environment.
• Ability to write Shell & Perl scripting and worked onSplunk for generating various metrics
• Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills.
• Implemented set of process and services in active directory.
• Experienced in Trouble shooting and Back and Recovery.
• Ability to multi task, meets deadlines, quickly adapt to different environments and work with different team sizes across geographical locations.
• Self-motivated team player with excellent verbal and writing communication skills.
• Exposed to all aspects of software development life cycle (SDLC) such as Analysis, Planning, Developing, Testing, implementing and Post-production analysis of the projects.
• Experience in using version controller tools like Subversion (SVN), GIT HUB and GIT.
• Expertise in Linux, AIX, UNIX, Solaris, Windows server’s administration and support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: RHEL 3/4/5,Sun Solaris v8,9, 10/11,Ubuntu v 6.10, IBM-AIX 5.X, P850, zVM Windows 2003, 2008, 2012

Scripting Language: Perlscripting, Shellscripting, Bash scripting, Python,Ruby, Power CLI and VB script.

Software: Veritas Volume Manager 3.5/4/5, Veritas File System, Veritas Cluster Server 3.5, Veritas NetBackup 6.0, MS-Office/MS-Project.

Web/ Application Server: Tomcat, Apache DB2, Oracle, WebSphere,WebLogic, MSSQL, MySQL

Database: SQL, NO-SQL, Apache DB, Mongo DB, Oracle9i, Oracle10g.

Tools: ANT, Maven, Hudson/Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, Build Forge

Storage: HDS USP, USPV, VSP, AMS 1000, AMS 2500, 9585, HDS TrueCopy, HDS Shadow Image, SAN Copy, raidcom, EMC Clariion, Symmetrix and DMX.

Network Protocols: DHCP, DIG, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, Ethernet, IOS, net stat, NFS, NIS, nslookup, RIP, OSPF, BGP, TCP/IP, and TCP dump, FTP, TFTP.

Cloud: AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, AMI, SNS, RDS, EBS, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation AWS configuration, S3, Cloud Trail, IAM. VMWare.

Cluster Environment: Sun Cluster Servers 2.2, 3.1, 3.2 and VERITAS Cluster Servers 4.1

Version Control Tools: CVS, SVN, IBM Rational Clear Case, Perforce, RTC, GIT, Source Tree

Terminal Services: Remote Desktop Services, VNC, Putty, Tera Term, Team Viewer, Citrix, Logmein and Terminal Services.

Programming Languages: C, SQL, HTML, PHP, XML, Bash, Perl and Shell Programming, JSP, Python and Ruby.

Backup Management: Veritas Net backup 4.x/5.x/6.x, UFS dump, UFS restore, TAR, Tivoli, Symantec NetBackup 7.x

Other tools: VMware VSphere, ESX/ESXi, VCenter Server,, Splunk, Chef and Nagios, Jenkins.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Folsom, CA

Linux Infrastructure Build Engineer/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of over 4500 servers which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting both physical and virtual servers.
• Used Kick Start Server to initiate installation of Red hat Linux on several machines at once.
• Responsible for creating a Linux servers with OVF template.
• Worked on group/user administration, startup and shutdown scripts, crontabs, file system maintenance and backup scripting and automation.
• Setting up SSH, SCP, SFTP connectivity between Linux hosts.
• Built servers and installed applications as per the company standards and requirement.
• Trouble shooting Issues with the Live Linux and Application servers.
• Managed Linux based Application File system management across the data centers.
• Monitored the Linux servers regularly and performed troubleshooting steps.
• Maintained necessary backups of important files and documented scripts for future reference.
• Documenting the Application Process and Procedures.
• Worked on building Linux and Solaris servers using Kickstart, Jumpstart and experience using VMware templates on ESX servers.
• Participation from scratch for new server’s deployment and installing ESX in the servers and making it configured over Intranet.
• Successful implementation and configuration of the ESX servers to existing NAS devices.
• Built servers and installed applications as per the company standards and requirement.
• Managing System Resources like File System, Disk space, Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and Physical Volumes.
• Created ASM disk on both Linux and AIX machines and also setup a cluster node among different machines.
• Worked on pureapp server’s major responsibility on pureapp servers is to do the hardening of the server and check the server is according to BSC standard.
• Written various bash scripts and ruby scripts to automate different process.
• Responsible for installing the different clients such as Splunk, Tivoli, Netbackup etc
• Performed day to day tasks of Linux System Administrator.
• Experience working with hardware team on racking new hardware and removing old servers from Datacenter.
• Experience working with monitoring team, which includes working on monitoring agent such as Splunk, Tivoli, opnet etc to monitor activities going on in server.
• Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, Ethernet), NIS, DNS, NFS, DHCP and SMTP.
• Applied appropriate support packages and Vulnerability patching on Linux boxes to maintain system Integrity using YUM.
• Troubleshooting Linux network and security related issues.
• Worked on installation and configuration of DevOps Automation Tool Puppet.
• Experienced in AWS Cloud platform and its features which include EC2, AMI, EBS, Cloud watch, Auto-scaling, IAM, ELB and AWS S3.
• Wrote Puppet manifests for deploying, configuring, Install shield and managing collected for metric collection and monitoring.
• Applied OS patching, fixing bugs, by writing shell scripts, create puppet manifest and apply it
• Responsible for automating and improving infrastructure, using Puppet for configuration
• Deployed Puppet, Puppet dashboard for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Deployed and monitored scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management using puppet.
• Used Puppet to manage Web Applications, Config Files, Data Base, Commands, Users Mount Points, and Packages.
• Designed Puppet Modules to manage configurations and automate installation process.
• Handling cloud during maintenance/Website deployment on Prod servers through puppet.

Environment: ESX 5.5, Windows 2012, Windows XP, Red hat 6, NAS, SAN, ISCSI, oracle 8/9i,NAS,SAN,ISCSI, VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters, puppet, python, bash, ruby,Aws.

Confidential, Coraopolis, PA

System Admin/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing approximately 4000 Red Hat Linux, HP-Unix and some handful of Solaris client Server in a fast paced demanding environment.
• Used Kick Start Server to initiate installation of Red hat Linux on several machines at once.
• Handled various storage devices, Disk Management, Logical Volume Management (LVM) and logical partitioning.
• Worked on group/user administration, startup and shutdown scripts, crontabs, file system maintenance and backup scripting and automation.
• Written various Shell scripts using ksh, bash, and perl for process automation of databases, applications, backup and scheduling.
• Setting up SSH, SCP, SFTP connectivity between Linux hosts.
• Performed administrative tasks such as System startup/shutdown, Backup strategy, Printing, Documentation, User Management, Network management, dumb terminals and devices.
• Configured Splunk Searching and Reporting modules, Knowledge Objects, Administration, Regex, Dashboards, Clustering and Forwarder Management.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting production servers with Nagios
• Creating monitoring scripts to be used as Nagios plugins.
• Strong understanding of JAVA project structures.
• Experience in deploying JAVA projects using MAVEN/ANT and JENKINS.
• Conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost-effective cloud solutions such as Amazon Web Services (AWS).
• Responsible for Design of different Release Environments for new projects.
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using Cloud Watch.
• Migrated applications to the AWS cloud.
• Using Jenkins AWS Code Deploy plugin to deploy AWS.
• Defining Release Process & Policy for projects early in SDLC.
• Member of CCM representing changes for Release and environment configuration
• Responsible for Database build, release and configuration
• Responsible for nightly and weekly builds for different modules.
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 Auto scaling groups
• Created multi AZ VPC instances
• Implemented AWS solutions using E2C, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups, Optimized volumes and EC2 instances
• Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Glacier.
• Used IAM to create new accounts, roles and groups
• Work with different team members for automation of Release components.
• Used to write an install script in Ruby using all of the extra helper functions from Chef.
• Using Chef and AWS allowed me to reduce costs for the department and eliminate unwarranted resources.
• Implemented the Chef Software setup and configuration on VM's from the scratch and deployed the run-list into chef-server and bootstrap the chef clients remotely.
• Used existing cookbooks from Chef Marketplace and customizing the recipes with respect to each VM.
• Customized changes in Data Bags, Roles and Recipes.
• Involved in searching node attributes using Knife.
• Deploying the cookbooks, recipes using knife tool from Chef-DK Workstation to Chef-server
• Created user, rpm packages and patch management & configuration implementations.
• Responsible for maintaining the run list on chef-server.
• Involved in writing recipes and cookbooks for configuration management to manage EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances running on "Amazon Web Services" (AWS), part of the project "Deployment Automation Using Chef".
• Imported and managed multiple corporate applications into GitHub code management repo.
• Used Jenkins for Continuous Integration and deployment into Tomcat Application Server.
• Interacting with customer/client on daily basis, gathering their requirement and providing best solution to meet their objective.
• Working on enhancing the old scripts by adding new functionality and bug fixes.
• Automation of daily task.
• Server migration and up gradation as per need of the customer and application.
• Create, manage and troubleshoot LVM.
• Providing Continuous Planning, Configuration, Build, Release, Deployment and Monitoring solution using tools right for the application in question. Helping the development and operations team onboard onto automated solutions up to Production.
• Performed database upgrade of PostgreSQL from version 9.3 to 9.4.
• Responsible for creating original scripts for generating statistics for monitoring production PostgreSQL databases.
• Designed, developed and maintained PostgreSQL database architecture.
• Highly involved in Configuring and monitoring distributed and multi-platform servers using chef.
• Implemented Continuous delivery by using Chef for deploying Docker containers
• Configuring RAID and LVM and extend the space as needed.
• Helping other teammates to configure and troubleshoot system and network issues.

Environment: RHEL 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, Chef, AWS, Shell/Perl Scripts, Ruby, GIT, Jenkins, Tomcat, Jira, Maven, Splunk, Nagios.

Confidential, Houston,TX

Sr System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and managed approx 1500 servers.
• Worked mostly on Redhat Linux environment 5.x and 6.x by installing, configuring and troubleshooting Apache Tomcat 7.x in a clustered environment where the application is build.
• Managed and Configured HDS arrays AMS 1000, AMS 2500, USPV using Storage Navigator and Device Manager.
• Perform patch management on LAMP Stack that is deployed on top of RHEL v6.
• Installed and Configured HDLM software on UNIX and Windows servers.
• Migrating Data at host level using RHEL and VERITAS LVM from USP to USPV arrays.
• Performed installation, configuration and management of JBoss 5.x application server on Linux and Solaris servers.
• Involved in merging java codes to the latest release and deploying it to generate various kinds of reports.
• Creation of Virtual Servers (VMware ESX 5.1) using a process document.
• Adding resources to existing Virtual Servers including Memory, additional hard disk space, NIC card etc.
• Worked on patching Solaris and Linux servers and also experience patching Solaris Zones and LDoM’s and Domains and Linux VM’s running on ESX environment..
• Worked with Microsoft's Account Lockout and Management tools and PowerShell scripting to diagnosis and troubleshoot account lockouts issues.
• RADIUS server help me in managing authentication, authorization and account (AAA) of a user from a centralized location.
• Written a Powershell scripting for Active Directory and Exchange
• Responsible for Data integrity included all aspects of backup/restores for fileservers and exchange servers respectively utilizing Veritas Backup.
• Monitor SIEM traffic for malicious activity.
• Work with Identity Access Management program
• Audit and review user accounts/systems/applications
• Monitor, coordinate and process security-related service requests
• Interface with user community to understand their security access needs and implements procedures to accommodate them.
• Created playbooks for OpenStack deployments and bug fixes with Ansible.
• Responsible for writing Ansible playbooks which is the entry point for Ansible provisioning, where the automation is defined through tasks using YAML format. Run Ansible Scripts to provision Dev servers.
• Experience in creating inventory, job templates and scheduling jobs using Ansible Tower.
• Experience in Writing Python modules for Ansible customizations.
• Managed and maintained back office infrastructure servers DNS, WINS, DHCP.
• Supporting and maintaining antivirus products as well as host based firewalls.
• Installed and configured print servers, local and network printers to workstations.
• Decommission of VMware Virtual Servers using IS best practices.
• Responsible for supporting EMC VNX & VMAX LUN’s connected to Linux and Solaris servers and managed volumes using Linux LVM, Solaris ZFS &VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Accountable for technical issue resolution including diagnosis of problem, workarounds, and providing solution.
• Responsible for administration of network workstations, help desk, hardware inventory, software inventory, network mapping, equipment purchasing, and software purchasing.
• Provided support for Azure Cloud servers environment for project Code Deployments and Oracle DB installations and maintenance.
• Mac OS X Server configuration and support(including training desktop team)
• Assist in ensuring 24x7 availability of key services in the IT infrastructure by participating in an on-call rotation and occasional night/weekend work.
• Various reports are being shared on daily/weekly/monthly basis with management and client as well to have good Visibility of the environment.
• Monthly restart of all servers after patches deployment and ensuring their availability.
• Coordination with hardware vendors for fixing issues related to server hardware.
• Written various Shell scripts (ksh, bash) to automate system administration jobs.

Environment: Solaris 9/10, RHEL 5.x, 6.x, Sun T2000, M4K, M8K, T5140, T5240 Sun Firev890, Sun Firev440, Sun Firev490, HP-ProLiant, Lamp, VERITAS Volume Manager, Ansible, VCS, SVM, VMware ESX, Azure,powershell.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Sr Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing approx 2000 Linux Servers: RHEL 4.x & 5.x, Bash scripting for automation of tasks.
• Worked on Grub, PXE boot, Kick start, Packages, Yum, RPMs, LVM, Boot from SAN, file system configuration.
• Working with version control tools such as Subversion(Tortoise) 1.8.x64bit.
• Configuring LVM as extending Logical Volume and Physical Volume Size.
• Installing and managing different automation and monitoring tools like Nagios and Splunk.
• Involved in building Solaris 10 and migrating Solaris 8 to Solaris 10.
• Coordinated with the UNIX and Windows customers for HDS firmware migration as per vendor recommendation.
• Working with M and T series servers like M4000, M5000 & M8000 servers.
• Installation, Upgrading, Patches, Migration, Configuration and Troubleshooting, deploying SUN Cluster Framework and VERITAS Cluster Server.
• Handling various Solaris container/zone, Knowledge of DTrace.
• Handling the Domain, DHCP & its policies.
• Worked on migration of storage level using EMC Replication Manager.
• Worked on HDS USP, USPV, AMS 1000, AMS 2500, 9585.
• Worked extensively on HDS TrueCopy, ShadowImage for migrations.
• Restricting users from downloading non business applications.
• Handling & fixing all Server related issues, ensuring maximum availability of servers and its services.
• Implemented Nagios alerting tool for Monitoring alerts.
• Windows OS and customization using Blade Logic and MDT deployment tools.
• Install and configure the HP c7000 enclosures, HP standalone servers.
• Supporting Vendor for various application installations.
• Experience with administrating TSM 5.4.3 and 6.2 servers on a variety of hardware and configurations. (IBM AIX, Sun/Oracle Solaris servers, Linux RHEL5 in VCS clustered environment.)
• Install new TSM clients in NT, Linux, and UNIX environments.
• Troubleshoot TSM servers and client issues as necessary and Providing On call TSM support 24x7
• Documented standard operating procedures (SOP) for troubleshooting, configuring, and setting up virtual servers.
• Scan and deploy patches and updates to the systems using Microsoft Windows Updates Services (WSUS) and keeping up-to-date patch-levels.
• Troubleshot and maintain RedHat and SuSE Linux environments for vulnerabilities using automation tools for fixing and updating.
• Handled Qualys vulnerabilities fix on varies UNIX operating systems AIX/RHEL/SUSE/VMware and IBM VIO servers
• Provide support for users, groups and security access to Active Directory objects including organizational units. Managed AD user accounts, access and group permissions in Win 2003 AD.
• Desktop, printers & laptop's troubleshooting analyzing the existing environment suggest & implement the improvements.
• Created various Batch jobs and time based workflows to update the data regularly.
• Provided user support and bug fixing activities as per the SLA.
• Managed Operational requests and troubleshoot issues, working with diverse groups.

Environment: RedHat5.5,CentOS4.0,Windows 2003/2008/2012 server,windowsXp/7/8,VMwareESXi5.1,Vmotion,vcenter server, sphere client, center update manager, Nagios, TSM, vcenter converter, San, NAS, Hp Rack servers.

Confidential

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Setup company’s servers, network and workstations in windows and Ubuntu.
• Performed installation, configuration and management of Linux, Solaris and Windows servers.
• Maintained all computer equipment & peripherals.
• Administered cross-platform Network (Linux and Windows).
• Installation and Configuration of new server hardware.
• Installed and configured windows server 2000.and windows 2003 server.
• Designing, configuring, implementing and managing DHCP, DNS servers.
• Defining and implementing user configurations and policies.
• Automated several administrative tasks.
• Adding/deleting/modifying user account information.
• Creating security policies.
• Collaborated with various application groups on a daily basis to manage access management. Configured and maintained NetIQ/Novell Identity Manager (IAM/IDM) utilizing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server while producing, reviewing functional and design specs.
• Supporting and maintaining antivirus products as well as host based firewalls.
• Designing, implementing and managing disaster recovery and backup process.
• Documenting all the network, server and resources configurations.
• Backup files and tweak the system & network for optimal performance.
• Managed system and network disaster recovery plans.
• Conducted basic computer training to employees.
• Identified issues with the Netbackup product, environment issues including resources, performance, setting up a plan of action and next step with the customer.
• Documenting cases, troubleshooting steps and resolution to case management software
• Provided hardware and software updates.
• Provided system and network security.
• Provided technical support and repairs for Windows / workstations
• Assisted in computerized accounting and auditing.

Environment: Windows NT/2003, Red hat Linux, CentOS, Netbackup,LAN, WAN, Free BSD, Apache.