SUMMARY

• Dedicated, result oriented software professional wif having 23+ years of experience. Experience in storage/system/security administration, configuring, troubleshooting and performance tuning of storage and UNIX operating systems in 24X7 environments. Amazing ability to manage under pressure and resolve problems.
• Good team player and has excellent communication, interpersonal and problem solving skills.
• Project implementation specializing on EMC Storage, HPUX Servers, Red Hat Linux, Windows/VMware. Experience in Virtual provisioning, data protection, disaster recovery, data migration and data replication using replication technologies like Recover Point & SRDF.
• Installation procedures, configuration, performance tuning and monitoring, troubleshooting of Storage and Unix systems.
• Installation, Configuration of EMC Arrays, EMC Vplex, EMC RecoverPoint, SAN Switches.
• Project Design, implementation and Management of Replication Manager, Data Domain, EMC Networker.
• Administration and management of HP - UX, Red Hat Linux and Sun Solaris.
• Expertise in firewalls and internet security devices administration which includes Checkpoint, Palo Alto, NetScreen/Juniper firewalls, Cisco IronPort Web and Email Security, F5 GTM Load Balancers and LTM Reverse proxy, Away Secure Transport servers.
• Knowledge of Oracle 8i/8/7.3 DBA wif 3+ Years Experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: HP UX 11.x/10.x, Sun Solaris 2.8/2.6, Red Hat Linux 6.x, 5.x.

Hardware: HP Superdome, HP C7000 enclosures wif Blade servers BL870c, BL860c, RX8640, RX7640, RX6600, RP8420s, RP7420, Proliant Intel Blades, K Series and N Series Sun E-6X00, E-5X00, E-4X00, E450.

Storage: Vplex, XtremIO, VNX7500, VMAX, CX4-480, VMAX,DMX3, DMX2000, DMX1000, EMC Unity Array, Symmetrix 8830, EMC Isilon NAS Array, Brocade DS5300B, ED64 Switches.

Backup Solution: EMC Networker, Omniback II, EMC Data Domain, ADIC/HP Libraries.

Languages: Perl Scripts, Shell scripts, awk/gawk, sed, grep utilities, Oracle Forms wif extended support of SQL & PLSQL, C.

Disk Managers: LVM for HP-UX, Mirror U/X, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, Raid Manager, Solstice Disk Suite.

Security: Checkpoint, Palo Alto, NetScreen/Juniper Firewalls, F5 GTM and LTM, Axway Secure Transport, Ironport Web Security and Email

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Technical Lead - System/Storage Administration and Security

Responsibilities:

• Architecture, design, Install, configure and maintain organization's Storage and SAN environment.
• Support/Manage EMC storage arrays, SAN Switches consisting of EMC VPLEX Local and Metro, XtremIO, VNX, DMX, Unity, CX Disk Arrays, Brocade & McData
• Configuring and managing FAST VP and FAST cache, FAST policies.
• Storage Provisioning on VPLEX, XtreamIO, VNX 7500, DMX 3, DMX 2000, CLARiiON CX4-480 using Unisphere.
• Configuring and Managing replication & Disaster Recovery utilizing VPLEX Metro, EMC Recover Point and SRDF/TimeFinder Products.
• Storage array performance tuning, analyze and resolve problems.
• Hands on experience on EMC Unisphere, SANCopy, EMC RecoverPoint.
• Configuration and management of Brocade Fabric environment. Tasks include creation of device alias, zones, adding zones to zoneset and activating zoneset.
• Setup NPV and NPIV on SAN switches for interoperability, easy fabric management.
• Very Good understanding of extending fabrics and ISLs. Managed Virtual SANs.
• Performed zoning, device mapping, and lun masking of storage devices for UNIX and Windows servers using Uninsphere, Solutions enabler.
• Performed storage migrations/Storage Refreshes to newer EMC arrays.
• Storage reporting and forecasting for future purchases and storage needs.
• Managed mixed backup environment wif HPUX, Windows, Linux, Oracle, NAS client backups using EMC Networker, Data Domain and HP, ADIC Tape Library.
• Work wif offsite storage vendors for backup data management.
• Coordinate support from vendors, contact customer service to resolve issues, code upgrades.

System and Security Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Significant experience managing enterprise class UNIX/Linux servers.
• Installed, configured, administered high end servers like HP superdome, rx8640, rx7660, rp7420, N Class, bl870c Server and HP c7000 blade enclosures, Red hat Linux.
• Server installations using ignite golden image and cloning.
• Performance tuning using glance, preview and Operating system utilities, commands.
• Successfully executed and implemented multiple server consolidation/tech refresh projects from individual servers into teh TEMPfewer partitioned servers and blade enclosures wif HP BL870 blades.
• Configured, Managed M/C Service Guard Clusters acros data center for high availability,
• Administered HP Openview & managed Openview templates.
• Volume Group, LVM and File System Management including OnlineJFS.
• Unix Shell Scripting experience. PowerPath and Multipath management.
• Installed and Managed NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, NTP, SMTP Servers.
• Contributed lot in Data Center Migrations and relocation.
• Configured & administered Axway/Tumbleweed Secure Transport providing secure file transfer environment to all teh external business partners and internal server destinations.
• Design and Administered Checkpoint, Palo Alto, NetScreen/Juniper Firewall Clusters.
• Implementing software protections, software blade on Checkpoint and Palo Alto, Ironport Web and Email Security Appliances. AntiVirus, URL filtering, Application Control, IPS, Sand Boxing Solutions from Checkpoint Threat Cloud, Cisco AMP and Palo Alto Wildfire for detecting zero day exploits and threats.
• F5 GTM Load Balancer implementation for DNS load balancing. Bind DNS server management.
• Very efficient Administration of F5 Big-IP LTM providing corporate web sites a secure reverse proxy environment.
• Setup and Administer ironport Web proxy, Email Security Appliances, BackBox, Tufin.Worked wif EMC to setup and configure storage area network for EMC Storage like DMX1000, DMX2000, DMX3, Symmetrix 8830, Clarion Disk array, ED64/ED32 switches.
• Fulfilled storage provisioning (zoning, LUN masking) through EMC control center & ESN Manager, Navisphere.
• Maintained and performed data replication through SRDF, backups using BCV.
• Installed, configured, administered high end servers like HP Superdome rp8420, rp7420, rp7410 and N, L, V Class, Sun servers and workstations.
• Performed filesystem operations like creating VGs, LVs, Extending it wif Online JFS. Used tools like EMC Powerpath and PV link to load balance/failover teh file system me/O.
• Worked on setup, upgrades of Legato Networker for backups and restores. Setup and migrated storagetek, HP SureStore silos to ADIC LTO3 tape library.
• Collected data and configured, test M/C Service Guard clusters wif failover.
• Created and setup vPars and nPars rp8420, rp7420 for better utilization of hardware resources.
• Actively involved in performance monitoring through Glance, Perfview, tripwire etc. tools as needed and took necessary action based on teh findings.
• Involved in on-going troubleshooting and administration of HP OvenView (OVO) Monitoring and telalert as paging/alerting software.
• Played key role in Data Center Migrations. Involve in Network upgrades and migration.
• Very well coordinated and much contributed towards Firmware upgrade on all HPUX Servers to its recommended level. Performed active role in Server consolidation and OS upgrades and bi-annual patching.
• Provided support to applications and application and database admins/developer and users.
• Setup Fiber Cards, network Cards wif Port aggregation, Setup MP, GSP for remote access.
• Administered, maintained, and upgraded internet components to teh latest code and patch level on ironport & Bluecoats proxy SG, F5 load balancer, and ironport email servers
• Worked as DNS and 3DNS admins