SUMMARY:

• Confidential, Linux, Unix and Confidential Certified technology IT professional with extensive experience in enterprise systems and Cloud Computing.
• Over 10 years designing high availability (HA) e - commerce solutions.
• Accomplished in developing network synergy, and facilitating cost reductions through enhanced dispatch processing with in house scripting tool to Automate application functionality.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: SM15000 Chassis, Oracle Sun Sparc T & M-Series, Sun Fire T2000. RS6000, S70, Sun Fire F15K/25, Fujitsu 5500, Dot Hill, Celera File Server and Net Backup, Confidential -UX 11i v3, IBM RS6000 & EMC Symmetrix

Software: Windows SharePoint Services, MS Powershell, Confidential SQL Server 2012, F5 ltm virtual appliance, Splunk, Pfsense, Oracle VM Vitualbox, XEN Hypervisor, Linux Ubuntu, Nagios, Linux Red Hat Enterprise 5-6, BMC Patrol, VERITAS cluster server for Unix, VMware Server.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Automation System Engineer/ Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu) managing and configuring launched instances with respect to specific application.
• Created detailed AWS Security Groups which behaved as virtual firewalls that controlled the traffic allowed to reach one or more AWS EC2 instances, troubleshoot development and production problems across multiple environments and operating platform.
• Managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with automation and configuration management tools such as Puppet, testing and tracking.
• Worked with Puppet Enterprise tool for patch updates, stopping and starting various RHEL services.
• Deployed the syslog/rsyslog services to a balabit server for audit purposes via puppet.
• Redesigned major components of puppet infrastructure like puppet server, facter, hiera and puppetDB with in house application .

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Accelerated functionality test in staging to support all aspects of emerging IAAS platform.
• Analyzed and resolved issues and defects in structured and unstructured environments, upgraded process and procedures utilizing Excel, Visio and PowerPoint application.
• Developed template in SDP to standardize naming convention for CIs in Configuration Management Database (CMDB) system.
• Automated portable scripts to correct gaps within processes in physical and virtual devices.
• Managed deploy plans, deployments, and results tracking from UAT to Pre-Prod to Production.

Sr. Sys. Engineer, Comp Ops

Responsibilities:

• Performed patch management and vulnerabilities assessment for mixed and growing environment of Windows, Unix HPUX11i, Solaris v10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Developed and wrote procedure for implementing network solution, while recommending hardware and software integration methodology based on vendor SLA.
• Increased system hardware and software installation to support application upgrade from 5.6% to 10%.
• Managed Verizon Global Network System (FVGNS) Application such as Remedy, Actiview Order Manager (AVOM), Sonus Insight & Bmc Patrol.
• Implemented HTTPS configuration for Apache, Tomcat and Weblogic in both Unix and Intel servers to prevent unauthorized access.
• Migrated over 1500 Production Linux (Redhat 5), INTEL and Unix (Solaris, Confidential, IBM etc.) servers in Arlington data center with hosted VM virtual machine monitor using Oracle Solaris VM, Citix XenApp and Citrix XenDesktop concept and methodology.
• Prepared Virtual machines type1 and type2 deployment concept with open source hypervisor and VMware

Lead System Admin. / Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed BAT projects and performed server certifications. Delivered improved systems/tools for business automation to maximize efficiency and reduce costs.
• Reduced vendor fees 10% and exceeded system availability target from 99.6 to 99.8% by proactively testing, evaluating and installing open source or vendor recommended OS patches.
• Resolved brocade to Cisco SAN Switch Migration Initiative. Net decommissioned 2500 servers out of key data centers (including POD migrations out of data centers).
• Designed and simplified trouble ticket processing system to capture all network traffic problems to mitigate customer impact.
• Synergized solutions based on flow chart analysis and vulnerability assessment for mixed and growing environment of UNIX HPUX 11i, Solaris v10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6.

Linux / Unix / Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supplemented operation team with L2 support for Confidential 9000 (K - series), Red Hat Linux(5,6), Intel servers, Oracle Sun Solaris (7,8,9) and IBM RS/6000 (7026-M80) servers.
• Administered Web Application Servers on Solaris and Linux environments.
• Installed Sun E250, E450, Sun E3000, Sunfire V440/480/490 with Oracle Solaris 8/9.
• Managed WAN/LAN DHCP, DNS and Active Directory setup and configurations.
• Spearheaded patching, backups on multiple environments of IBM, Confidential, Solaris and Linux.

Unix System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Initiated a script to analyze network problem and designed solution for enhancing network application traffic monitoring.
• Tested configurations of different customers using simulators within house device while setting up DNS and ldap after enabling DHCP on system for SSH client.
• Provided guidance and leadership to less experienced system engineers. Installed Confidential Jet admin and patches to enhance printer performance.
• Reconfigured client workstation and managed resources with Tivoli while using Active Directory to enable user domain access.
• Controlled user profiles and changed environmental variables to allow access based on group permission in production box.
• Administered Lawson desktop enterprise server for front end users, provided L2 support from printing, configuration problems to stopping defunct (Zombie) processes, hanging or utilizing OS resources.