SUMMARY:

• Solaris,Aix & Linux Systems Administrator with over 6+ years of experience in the IT industry.
• Managed and administered AIX 5.3, 6.1, RHEL 5.x, Solaris 8, 9 and 10 servers.
• Experience in, Confidential, Confidential .
• OS hardening, Security, Access Control.
• LVM, SVM,VXVM UNIX Production Environment.
• Networking Principles,
• Knowledge in Veritas Netbackup,
• SAN, RAID, NFS, DNS,
• Incident, change and problem management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS Platforms: Sun Solaris 8 - 10, IBM AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 & Linux RHEL 5.x.

Cluster: SUN CLUSTER, VCS.

Volume Manager: SVM, AIX LVM, Linux LVM, VXVM.

Backup Software: Netbackup, TSM, Netvolt & EMC Networker.

SAN: Sun Storage, Hitachi & EMC.

IBM Servers: IBM RS/, pSeries 6H1, 615, 650.

SUN Servers: All Products.

Hitachi Storage: AMS 2000, USP-V & VSP-V Storages

EMC Storage: VNX Series.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Unix Admin

Environment: ALL SUN Servers running Solaris 8,9 & 10, SUN X Series running RHEL5.

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Solaris, Redhat Linux servers.
• Worked extensively on Solaris, Linux using SAN LUN.
• Monitoring incident queues (USD) and taking actions on time.
• Handling of various user requests
• Migration of volume groups between servers in coordination with SAN team
• Handled root file system corruption issues using maintenance mode boot
• Management of clusters like Sun Cluster on Solaris & VCS on Solaris servers.
• Working closely with Storage team to fix issues related to SAN LUNs.
• Responsible for system backups on Solaris, Linux servers.

Confidential

Environment: RHEL 4 & 5, Solaris 9 & 10.

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of Solaris& Redhat Linux servers.
• Management of Unix patch policy and driving patch deployment in all the unix servers across RMG
• Worked extensively in SVM and Linux LVM
• Monitoring incident queues (service request) and taking actions on time.
• Management of NIM servers and its objects
• Management of NFS across Solaris and Linux servers
• Performance tuning in Solaris and Linux systems
• Participated in the DR exercise at Jaipur, India.
• Decommissioning of servers
• Management of clusters SUN Cluster, VCS in Linux and Solaris Servers.
• Management of services in Solaris and Linux servers.
• Management of kickstart Linux server.
• Patched several Solaris servers using alt-disk-install
• Management of Linux Virtual Machines using VMware
• Responsible for managing calls with SCC in case of any hardware issues with the server

Confidential

Environment: Solaris 8,910, SUSE Linux Enterprise 9 / 10

Responsibilities:

• I was part of the UNIX Team responsible for implementing PCI Compliance in Solaris, Linux servers
• Implementation of LDAP in Solaris servers.
• Installed, configured and maintained several SUN servers and SUN clusters
• Managed NFS, NIS, DNS and DHCP servers.
• User/group management in Solaris, Linux and Active Directory.
• Handled Package and Patch Administration, Software Installations
• Backed up and restored data from tape in backup, ufsdump, tar, cpio, and dd format
• Automated weekly and daily backup on Unix systems using shell scripts
• Patching of Solaris 8,9,10 servers.
• Upgradation of Solairs from version 9 to 10
• Backup of the root disk in UFSDUMP Native software
• Hardening of Solaris and Linux servers
• Maintenance of Data Center

Confidential

Environment: AIX 5.2/5.3, Solaris10, RHEL 5, Sun Cluster, EMC VNX Storage, TSM

Responsibilities:

• Support of 50+ Solaris, AIX, and Redhat servers.
• Involved in AIX OS installation/Migration/Cloning
• Managed several SUN clusters and performed their testing before the application go live.
• Coordinated in customer setup and maintenance, research, analysis and fix production problems on UNIX platforms.
• Installation, configuration and patching on Virtual I/O servers
• Created and configured several Virtual partitions in Sun servers.
• Patching of Solaris, AIX and Linux servers on quarterly basis
• Coordinated with infrastructure group and various consulting teams for new server builds.
• Management of change and problem tickets in peregrine service center for scheduled activities and unscheduled hardware failures
• Used Alt Disk install for the AIX migrations from 5.2 to 5.3
• Patched several Redhat and SuSE Linux servers to the approved quarterly levels using ZLM and rpm
• Created several etherchannel devices for network redundancy in standalone servers
• Maintenance of NFS shares in AIX and Linux servers
• Coordinated with SAN team for the allocation, de-allocation, troubleshooting of EMC Symmetrix LUNs
• Participated in SAN Fabric migration using Powerpath
• Participated in the SAN SRDF Split/establishment happened during dry and actual disaster recovery tests
• Management of resources and resource groups in HACMP & SUN clusters.
• Coordinated with IBM technical support for the creation of software PMR and hardware cases
• Worked on TSM backup failure issues with TSM team.
• Handled break fix issues during the on-call period.
• Worked on several requests like file system increase, backup/restoration of active/inactive objects from TSM

Confidential

Environment: Solaris9,10, AIX 5.1 / 5.2 / 5.3, Tivoli Storage Manager.

Responsibilities:

• I was working as part of UNIX team under TIS division, supporting more than 500 Sun & AIX servers.
• Was responsible for conducting technical interviews for the team
• Coordinated with infrastructure group and various consulting teams for new server builds.
• Installed, configured and maintained several SUN & AIX servers and SUN clusters
• Installation, configuration and patching of VIO servers.
• Involved in migration of Solaris, AIX.
• Updating maintenance and technology levels as per Customer standard.
• Package administration and cluster patching in Solaris
• Management of packages in Red hat Linux using rpm.
• Migration of volume groups between servers in coordination with SAN team
• Created and added paging space at run time.
• Management of system security.
• Management of ECM VG using C-SPOC.
• Handled root file system corruption issues using maintenance mode boot.
• Restoration/retrieval of backup/archives using TSM.
• Management of incident, change and problem tickets thru service center application
• Decommissioned several servers as per Customer procedure
• Provided 24*7 on call support.

Confidential

System Administrator

Environment: Linux, Windows & Networking

Responsibilities:

• Provided day to day system administration support for account administration, file systems management, application install assistance and troubleshooting all Linux, windows servers
• Provided support for the installation, management and testing of several Servers.
• Security and Account management in Linux
• Package, Patch management in Linux servers
• Disk management in Linux using LVM
• Provided 24*7 on call support.
• Configuring ether channel on servers for network card redundancy
• Installing maintenance levels and fixes on servers
• Monitored error logs, resolved problems and tuned parameters in Linux OS.
• Provided primary support for operating systems including Linux and Windows servers
• Implemented changes on production servers as per change management process
• Established and documented procedures to insure data integrity including system fail-over and backup/recovery
• Monitored system performance on a daily basis to ensure adequate response times on production systems
• Coordinated with various teams like backup, network and storage while troubleshooting the problems
• Coordinated hardware repairs with vendors
• Provided support for teams in activities such as Load testing, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Installation of windows 2000 professional and servers.
• Configuration of Print services in Linux.
• Replacing hardware components like cpu, memory, motherboard, hard disk on Intel and sun servers
• Good Understanding of ISO/OSI and TCP/IP Network models and protocols
• Automated weekly and daily backup on unix systems using shell scripts