SUMMARY:

• Over 7 years of experience in the administration of RHEL 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, Sun/Oracle Solaris 9, 10 with Sun, Fujitsu SPARC, x86 servers, and Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016 on IBM, Dell and HP servers.
• Experience deploying and managing physical and virtual Windows and Red Hat servers on Microsoft Azure and on private cloud like NCS, NCD, etc.
• Experience testing and performing Azure Site Recovery on VMs replicating between Azure regions.
• Experience in Solaris 10 containers, zones and the service management facility and virtualization using VMware ESXi 4.x, 5.x, 6.x.
• Expert knowledge in native volume management tools like Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on Linux and file systems including ZFS, ext3, ext4 and xfs and Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) on Solaris.
• Implementation experience with TCP/IP protocols like NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, FTP, SSH etc.
• Experience working with storage arrays like HP EVA, IBM XIV, Infinidat and populating the LUNs created to the Solaris and Linux Servers.
• Experience performing user account management using Centrify.
• Experience performing backup and recovery using Veritas Netbackup, Actifio and Commvault.
• Experience with other third party tools: BMC Service Desk Express (Ticketing System), Remedy / Peregrine ticket tracking system, HP OpenView Service Center (Ticketing System), Issue Tracker, MS Visio and Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2007/2010/2013/2016.
• Hands on experience with Sun, Dell, and HP hardware maintenance which included Hard Drive, CPU, Memory, NIC, RSC and Emulex, QLogic HBA cards and ecc drivers for storage.
• Knowledge of ITIL v2, v3 Service Management Process.
• Involved in the design of Disaster Recovery plans for cold backup site.
• Very good experience with documenting software usage procedures, network diagrams and project documentation.
• Excellent team building, project implementation, analytical, interpersonal and communication Skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Andover, MA

Sr. Systems Engineer

• Installed, configured and upgraded Sun Solaris 9, 10, RedHat Linux EL 5.x, 6.x, 7.x and Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 and 2016.
• Implemented Centrify for users to login with single sign - on SSO authentication.
• Install and configure BMC Patrol on Database Servers for effective monitoring of DB instances.
• Provisioned Linux servers using Kick start Server.
• Responsible for escalation support of Server, Operating System and Storage related issues for Cloud and non-Cloud platforms.
• Build the new Oracle RAC cluster environment with the raw devices managed with Automatic Storage Management (ASM) on Solaris 10 and RHEL 5.x, 6.x, 7.x
• Responsible for helping Self-managed Cloud customers to implement their environment using Cloud App Centre.
• Create custom OVF templates for use in VMWare vCenter deployment
• Installation, administration and upgradation of VMWare ESXi 4.x, 5.x and 6.x, VCenter 4.x, 5.x and 6.x.
• Installed and configured virtual machines and administered them using vCenter Server 5.x, 6.x.
• Zoning the servers/hosts on the SAN switches, assigning the LUNs from SAN, creating the file systems and datastores.
• Supported the Actifio based backup solution for Cloud platform including backup and restore of the snapshots as per the customer requirement.
• Manage and maintain customer specific Disaster Recovery procedures, business continuity and ongoing support of DR technologies.
• Managed storage with Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) and Logical Volume Manager with in SAN environment. Performed tasks like File system tuning, resizing with SVM on Solaris and LVM’s on RedHat.
• Proactively maintained / remediated Solaris and Linux OS in a timely manner by upgrading patches and helped with security audits as well.
• Installation and administration of software packages and checking the integrity of installed packages using native rpm on RedHat servers and pkg commands on Solaris.
• Worked on the implementation of Rudder - an audit and configuration management tool to help automate the system configuration across the infrastructure.
• Tuning the kernel parameters based on the application/database requirement.
• Created shell scripting in ksh and bash to automate the repetitive administrative tasks.
• Documenting processes and troubleshooting scenarios.
• Provided 24x7 on call and remote support for UNIX Production Problems and responding to users’ tickets from Remedy.

Environment: Sun Solaris 9,10, RedHat Linux EL 5.x, 6.x and 7.x, Sun Volume Manager, Logical Volume Manager, Sun Fire v240, v440, Sun E2900, T2000, T5220, M4000, x4100, x4200, HP Proliant DL 380, 580, Remedy.

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

• Automated the complete project management system in the Structural Engineering Research Center, Chennai, India.
• Designed an online form based system to completely eliminate the use of paper-work.
• Used Oracle IDS as the front-end and PL/SQL as the back-end.
• Upgraded the OS, application & initiated system level automatic backup scripts.
• Resolved problems associated with new application installation.
• Responsible for diagnosing and solving system configuration and deployment issues.