SUMMARY

• Senior System Administrator, System Engineer, UNIX, LINUX Engineer with extensive experience worked for major telecommunication organizations in the IT industry.
• Possess over 12 years professional expertise as an Oracle Solaris UNIX System administration and engineer in Solaris 10, and 3 years plus in Solaris 11 operating systems. Certified in Oracle Solaris 10 system administration and CompTIA Security + CE Certification.
• Particularly interested in a position with the opportunity to further my growth, experience and expertise with Solaris 11, Oracle VM Sever on SPARC platforms and Red Hat Linux 6 and 7, VMWARE standalone and clustered environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Systems: Solaris UNIX OS (8 - 10,11), RedHat Linux 5.11, 6.0-7.0.

Hardware: Oracle SPARC T5-4, T4-4, T4-2, T4-1, Sun Enterprise T5220, T5240, T5440; SPARC M5000, M8000; Sun Fire E15K, V490, V445, V890, E5500, E6900; Sun Fire X4600, X4270; Sun Blade 6000 chassis, T6230; Sun Netra X4200; IBM blade center H, NETAPP, NFS/NAS, Hitachi 9980 SAN storage disk array, StorageTEK 6180, 2540, 2501 expansion, NAS 7110, StorageTEK SL500 Streamline tape library unit, Quantum DXi 7500, 8500, Quantum Scalar i500 library, Sun Virtual Tape Library VTL disk storage, SAN storage (IBM XIV, SVC), IBM 3584 tape units, EMC Data Domain, EMC Symmetrix 2335, EMC Clarion, EMC DMX 2000.

Software: Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, Sun Storage STK Common Array Manager (CAM), Sun Storage SAN 4.4.10, VERITAS File System VFS, 5.0, 5.1, 4.1 VERITAS Volume Manager VVM 5.0, 5.1, 4.1, VERITAS Cluster Server VCS 5.0, 4.0, Sun Cluster 2.2, 3.1, 3.0, VERITAS NetBackup 6.5, 7.0.1; EMC Power path 4.5.

Applications Liaised: Oracle Grid Control, Oracle RAC 11g, Oracle 9i, Oracle 9, Apache HTTP server, IBM WebSphere application server, TOMCAT, iplanet/Sun One, Web server 6.1, BEA Weblogic 8, SAP Business Objects 4.1, Siebel, Avaya, Connect Direct, TIBCO EMS, BMC Patrol, CAM, NetCool, Sysedge, CA Unicenter TNG, Puppet enterprise, Tripwire 8.7

Languages: Practical experience with sh, ksh, csh, bash shell scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Oracle Solaris System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported UNIX servers and resources involving enterprise system administration of Solaris 10, Solaris 11, ZFS, GDOM/CDOM and local zones.
• Team participation with installation and configuration of new hardware, upgrade and maintenance of freeware and vendor application support. Coordinated closely with system DBA's to insure proper implementation of programs and system specifications.
• Conducted OPS centers' quarterly and bi-monthly site patch requirements for development and production servers.
• Conducted weekly review of Cyber security monitoring applications, CentrifyDC, Cyber-Ark security, Tripwire, tenable, and Splunk logs and reports for unauthorized access attempts. Determined security problems to identify and remediated CIS Benchmark security vulnerabilities.

Confidential, Washington, DC

UNIX Oracle Solaris Administrator/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed to sites across the continental United States to rack, stack, configure cable networks and router connections, ILOM and firmware upgrades in accordance with Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), (DOD) standards and requirements.
• Imaged Solaris 11 servers with jumpstart automatic installation (AI), to install global zones and configure network and local zones, ZFS file systems, mount storage, OS patching and Puppet enterprise registration.
• Ordered Remedy provisioning requests for network VLAN configuration, enabling LACP, active directory, DNS, LDAP group request for primary, storage IP and FQDN’s, iSCSI, SCSI NFS, NAS, NETAPP GB and TB storage LUN’s.
• Implemented DISA remediation benchmarks for Security Technical Installation guide (STIG) and Assured compliance Assessment Solution (ACAS), Information Assurance (IA) scans.

Confidential

UNIX Oracle Solaris/Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Built, installed, configured, tuned system performance, allocated mass storage space, and secure to deploy Solaris 10, Red Hat Linux standalone and virtual machines and VM's for the cloud.
• Performed remediation tasks to correct server vulnerabilities for Solaris and Linux environments in compliance with benchmark check lists. Reached 100 percent compliance on Linux platforms.
• Implemented approved ServiceNow change management processes; PROD, QA and DEV. Administered content for and managed an enterprise automation system to installs system-wide software. (Big Fix Satellite, etc.)

Confidential

Senior Oracle Solaris System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Tasked with jumpstart execution for SPARC and x86 servers, to perform initial installations and ZFS flash archives of Solaris 10, U1-U11, and RedHat LINUX OS 6.x installations in support for organizational staged events.
• Participated in 36-hour event tests for system recovery and was credited with its success for the first time.
• Received certificate of excellence from Confidential for outstanding performance and lasting contribution in supporting IBM and numerous clients on December 10, 2014.