Linux Engineer/Infrastructure Engineer Resume CA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Highly effective Linux engineer with solid experience in all aspects of virtualized infrastructure and system automation to come up with reliable, programmatic solutions using enterprise tools like Ansible, Python, VMWare, Docker.
Over 10 years in systems administration Unix/Linux distributions: Red Hat (7.x), CentOS(7), Ubuntu, OS utilities DNS, AD, SSSD, Docker. Hardware build, OS install, patch maintenance, performance tuning and troubleshooting.
Automated VM server build, rolled out applications like MongoDB clusters and configuration with scripts in Ansible, Jinja, Puppet and other languages/tools like Infoblox, Python and Satellite.
Configured server virtualization using VMWare and other hypervisors.
Provided application support, Apache/HTTP, MySQL, Oracle, Git.
Wrote automated scripts in Perl, Bash for SAN Storage admin Netapp filers, VMware Data Stores.
Utilized Windows Server 12 services and AD/SSS stools for SSO authentication.
Earned Bachelor of Science in Computer Science with Software concentration.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

Linux Engineer/Infrastructure Engineer

Automated VM provisioning and other application, DBs plus configuration tasks by writing Ansible playbooks and Puppet codes. Wrote custom Python API to automate Infoblox IPAM provisioning of IPs.
Provided solutions to implement and automate complete roll - out of over 70 Linux VMs for Mongodb clusters and other similar applications like Splunk, MySQL including Netapp SAN (iSCSI).
Wrote Ansible playbooks to automate Storage provisioning involving Netapp Storage and VMWare modules.
Grew Linux servers from around 20 to more than 1000 and migrate applications from Windows platform to Linux.
Provided 24/7 L2 and L3 Linux on-call rotation to ensure business continuity

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Linux/Unix Systems Administrator/Engineer

Built, config, supported hundreds of Unix servers (VMWare/ESXi(5,6) Linux (RHEL 5, 6, 7)VMs, IBM AIX(6.1, 7.1) VMs) running Oracle DB, PeopleSoft.
Managed security patches and package updates for Redhat.
Provided extensive SAN admin for provisioning Oracle DBs.
Wrote Nagios plug-ins and evaluated Puppet as configuration management.
Participated in various projects including Puppet, SSSD.

Confidential

Unix Systems Administrator (Consultant)

Confidential. Sunnyvale, CA

Unix Systems Administrator Lead

Led Operations team and projects to improve support environment such as providing data protection by mirroring boot disks and backups.
Provided production 24x7 support for 1800 Unix servers (Linux, Solaris, AIX).
Wrote automation scripts in Perl, Korn and Bash shells, MySQL support.
Ensured compliance for 50 SOX servers.