SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of experience in the administration of Sun Solaris 7, 8, 9, 10 with Sun SPARC, x86 servers, Redhat Linux 6.x, 7.x, 8, 9, AS 2.1, 3, 4.x, 5, HP-UX 11iv2, v3 on HP 9000 PA-RISC and Itanium and Windows NT/2000/ 2003 on 32 bit and 64 bit architecture.
• Experience in Solaris 10 containers, zones, resource management and the service management facility.
• Expert knowledge in VERITAS Volume Manager and VERITAS File system 3.x, 4.x, 5. VERITAS Foundation Suite and native volume management tools like Solaris Volume Manager SVM on Solaris and Logical Volume Manager LVM on Linux and HP-UX and file systems including ZFS, ext3.
• Experience in implementing High Availability Clusters using VERITAS Cluster Server 4.1, 5.0 and Sun Cluster Server 3.2
• Experience with Virtualization products like VMware ESX 3.5, 4.0 and Xen 3.x.
• Design and implementation of backup and restore strategies using Veritas Net Backup 3.x, 4.5 and 6.5.
• Implementation experience with TCP/ IP protocols like NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, LDAP, FTP, SSH etc.
• Experience in installation and configuration of web servers like iPlanet 6.0 / Apache 1.3.x, 2.2.x and support of Web Logic 8.1, 9, 10, JBoss 3.x, 4.2 application servers.
• Experience in the configuration of storage arrays like A5x00, D1000, T3, 3510, 3511, Dell/EMC CX4-120, StorageTek 9970, EMX Symmetrix DMX 8830, 3930 and populating the LUNs created to the Solaris and Linux Servers.
• Experience in installation of OracleRAC 11g on Linux servers.
• Worked with Storage Area Networks SAN which consisted of McData Sphereon, HDS and EMC devices.
• Experience in installation of DBMS including Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g on Solaris and Red Hat Linux, SQL Server 6.5 and 7 on Windows NT/2000 Server and MySQL on Linux.
• Extensive experience in the implementation of mail servers like Sendmail 8.12.x, Postfix 1, 2.
• Expertise in managing / monitoring tools like Sun Management Center 3.6, 4.0, HP Open View 7.x and Nagios 3.x, BMC patrol KM, CA Unicenter 10.x, 11.x NSM .
• Proficient in configuring the Data Communication Devices such as Cisco Routers, Switches, Digi Terminal servers and Troubleshooting LAN and First Level WAN Related Problems.
• Shell sh, bash, ksh scripting and Perl scripting to automate tasks of day to day administrative tasks
• Experienced with other third party tools: Clarify CRM, Lotus notes, Remedy / Wonderdesk ticket tracking system, Issue Tracker, Star Office 8.x, MS Visio and Microsoft Office 2000/2003.
• Hands on experience with Sun, Dell, 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.
• Shell scripting in Korn, Bash, Bourne and PERL to automate day to day administration tasks and batch processing.
• 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

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Hardware

Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000, M8000, Sun Fire T2000, T5120, T5240, x4100, x4150, x4250, x4450, 440, 880, 2900, 4800, 6800, 12K, 15K servers, Sun E220, 250, 420, 450, 4500, 6500, A1000, D1000, A5x00, 3310/3900, StorageTek 9970, HP PA-RISC/HP 9000 rp2430, rp2470, K580, HP Integrity rx6600, rx3600 Itanium , HP Proliant DL 385, 585, 580 Servers, Dell Power Edge Series 1250, 1300, 2400, 2450, 6400, 6800 Servers, HP Blade Center c3000, c7000, rx6600, rx3600, Emulex, QLogic HBAs and NICs.

• Operating Systems:

Solaris 2.6, 7, 8, 9, 10 Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, Redhat Linux 6.x, 7, 8, 9, AS 2.1, 3.x, 4, 5, HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11iv2, v3.

• Software/Tools:

Solstice Disk Suite/Admin suite 4.2.1, Solaris Volume Manager, Veritas Tools Volume Manager 3.x, 4.x, 5, Veritas File System 3.x, 4.x, 5, Net Backup 3.x, 4.5, 5, 6.5, Veritas Cluster Server 4.0, 5, Samba 2.2.2, Humming Bird's Exceed 5.0, BMC Patrol, Big Brother, Nagios 3.0.1, HP Openview etc.

• Languages:

Scripting ksh, sh and csh, Perl, C, Java, XML, PHP, PL/SQL

• Web Technologies:

Apache 1.3.2, 2.x, Sun One Web Server 6.x iPlanet 6.0 , 7, IIS 5.0, 6.0.

• Application Servers:

WebLogic 8,9,10, 12C, JBoss 3.x, 4.x

• RDBMS:

Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g and SQL Server 7, 2000, 2005

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Unix/Linux Administrator Permanent

Solaris Administrator

• Member of Unix Administrator team with responsibilities that included migration from one data center to another datacenter, troubleshooting VCS and working closely with Sybase and Oracle team, and Weblogic administrator.
• Rack the Servers in Format and put memory and Disk which is allocated for all these Servers.
• Recently work on Migration of servers, upgrading patch P4, MP4, and veritas and VCS upgrade from 5XX to 6.0.
• Jumpstart the Server according to OPCO Engineering Standard.
• Configuring ALOM, ILO through Serial Console.
• Login and Verify the server before start work
• Plumb the production IP and back up IP.
• Encapsulation and mirroring to all the servers.
• Destroying the disk group.
• NIC aggregation
• Creating multiple users and make their password inexpiable.
• Changing console Password.
• Install power path for vmax and clarion.
• Install VVM VCS 5.0
• Install autosys 4.5
• Install Tivoli V06
• Create dg, volume, mount point and mount it.
• Give it to Sybase and Oracle admin.
• Put that Oracle and Sybase in Cluster, which are 4 or 5 nodes
• Certify the cluster do every kind of checking mention by Symantec
• Troubleshooting the crash system and open a case with Symantec.
• Documentation
• Daily troubleshooting crons, memory allocation to oracle and Sybase.
• Working with Radiant and Symantec about crash server.
• VERITAS VOLUME MIRRORING FOR MIGRATION
• Upgrading VERITAS From 5.X to 6.X

Environment: Solaris 10, VERITAS Cluster Server 5.0, VERITAS Storage Foundation 5, VERITAS Netback up 6.5,

Oracle 10g and Power path, Microsoft Windows 2003, Sun Server: T4- series server X4140 x4150 M4000 M5000 T2000 T5120 T5220

Confidential

Unix/Linux Administrator Consultant

• As a part of UNIX team, I was responsible for installation of ORACLE RAC 11g on Linux servers in data center.
• Daily troubleshoot of various issues including the smooth operation of ORACLE RAC.
• Kick starting servers via kicks tart configuration through PXE Oracle enterprise Linux 5.4
• Servers Hardening
• Bonding the Nics.
• Configuring kernel parameters limits and users.
• Upgrading kernel.
• Working closely with Database Team for oracle installation and database upgrading.

Environment: DL 180 G6 Series, Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.4, 5.5, NetApp ,Solaris 10, VERITAS Cluster Server 5.0, VERITAS Storage Foundation 5, VERITAS Netback up 6.5,

Oracle 11g and Power path, Microsoft Windows 2003, Sun servers E220, E440, V420, V440, V890, M5000, T2000, Dell Power Edge 1900, Dell Power Edge 2850, Sun Storage 7110

Confidential

Solaris Administrator Consultant

• Jumpstarting Sun M and T series servers according to OPCO Engineering Standard.
• Installed and configured VMware vSphere 4.0 on HP DL Series servers.
• Installed and Configured VERITAS Volume Manager 5.1 and VERITAS Cluster Server 5.0 and certified the clusters after installation of the Sybase and Oracle agents. Performed tasks like adding nodes to the cluster, defining resources, service groups, modifying resources, defining resource dependencies etc.
• Mirrored the root drives using SVM and manage the LUNs provisioned from EMC storage using VxVM. As a process created disk groups, volumes and file systems and export/import disk groups, resize file systems and troubleshoot issues with the file systems.
• Work with Sybase and Oracle administrators in the installation of the DBMS and performance tuning of the OS for the installation of the DBMS.
• Installed EMC Power path for configuring and managing the multipathing of LUNs provisioned for the servers.
• Install applications like Autosys 6.0, Tivoli v06 and Sybase ASE 15.x
• Configuring ALOM, ILO through Serial Console and managed the servers remotely during change requests using ALOMs / ILOs.
• Performed hardware tasks like racking the servers as planned, adding memory and configuring SAN based LUNs allocated to the servers.
• Creating multiple users, assigned users to different roles using role based access control RBAC and sudo.
• Worked on troubleshooting of the server of crashed servers and working with OEMs like Symantec, Radiant to determine the root cause analysis.
• Documented the procedures followed.

Environment: Solaris 8, 10, Oracle 10g, Sybase 15.x, Apache 2.2.x, Tivoli v06, Autosys 6.0, Sun x4140, x4150, M4000, M5000, T2000 T5120, T5220, v245, v120, HP DL 580, 585 G5, EMC VMAX, 8830, Clariion CX3.

Confidential

Solaris Engineer / Administrator

• Was member of Unix Administration team with responsibilities that included planning migrations, troubleshooting VCS, working closely with Oracle team to fix problems and provisioning for SAP applications
• Installation of Solaris 10 on SPARC T2000 and M5000 Servers. Creation of ZFS file system using zpools, set up quotas in zpools.
• Responsible for planning the migration of applications among environments.
• Configuration and maintenance of Solaris 10 for various applications. Administration of Services using SMF and creation of file systems using ZFS and zpools
• Performed volume management which included the encapsulation, initialization, root disk mirroring, export / import of disk groups etc. using Veritas Storage Foundation 4.1, 5.0
• Implementation of non global zones for Oracle and SAP. Patching of zones and migration of zones from
• Mirroring of root disks using Sun Volume Manager and configuration of RAID 5 soft partitions, detaching of mirrors in SVM, added root disk in SVM.
• Implemented Veritas Cluster 5.0 for Oracle 10g, Sun JES Web Server and SAP agents.
• Performed application installation and management of applications like Apache 2.2, Sun JES Web Server 6.1, Oracle 10g and Sybase 12.5 on Solaris 10.
• Extensive troubleshooting of issues related to network, hardware, applications, users, resource failovers on VCS 5.0 etc.
• Automated repetitive administrative tasks like parsing of files, creating users, backing up file systems, transfer of files for ftp and sftp etc. using bash, korn shell
• Solaris10 migration from E220, E250, V890 to M5000.

Environment: Solaris 10, Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, Veritas Storage Foundation 5, Veritas Netbackup 6.5,

Oracle 10g and Powerpath, Microsoft Windows 2003, Sun servers E220, E440, V420, V440, V890, M5000, T2000, Dell PowerEdge 1900, Dell PowerEdge 2850, Sun Storage 7110

Confidential

Solaris/Linux/VMware Engineer

Consultant

• Provisioned x86 and SPARC based cool thread servers using Jumpstart and upgraded from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 using live upgrade and provisioned RHEL 4.x and 5 servers using Kickstart.
• Implemented sparse root and whole root zones based on the application requirements and migration of services to SMF. Created ZFS file systems using zpools and performed tasks as creation of zpool with mirrored layout, cloning of zpools, performing snapshots etc.
• Installed and configured VMware ESX Server 4.0 on remote HP-Proliant DL 360G5 Servers using ILO and installed Windows 2003 server and RHEL 4.x, 5 as the guest operating systems.
• Configured virtual machines and administered them using vSphere 4.0, vConverter and vCenter Server 4.0
• Performed physical machine to virtual machine P2V using VMware infrastructure client.
• Administering Network File System using Automounter and administering user and OS data files in NIS, and NFS environment on both Redhat Linux and Solaris environments.
• Maintained Volumes and File systems using Veritas Storage Foundation 5, SVM on Solaris and LVM on Linux.
• Installation and support of the of Oracle 10g RAC on Solaris 10 and RHEL 5.x
• Installed and configured High Availability using Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 for SAP and WebLogic agents on storage service groups configured from LUNs on SAN consisting of EMC Symmetrix DMX-3.
• Configured ILO, upgraded Firmware and racking of HP-Proliant DL360G2, DL360G5 DL 585G2 Servers.
• Provided 24x7 on call and remote support for UNIX Production Problems and responding to users' tickets from Remedy.
• Proactive maintenance / remediation in a timely manner by upgrading patches to the systems and applications
• Shell scripting in ksh and bash to automate the repetitive administrative tasks.
• Documenting processes and troubleshooting scenarios on runbooks.

Environment: Solaris 9, 10, RHEL 4.x, 5, Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, Veritas Storage Foundation 5, Veritas Netbackup 6.5, ECC and Powerpath, Microsoft Windows 2003, VMware ESX 4.0, vSphere 4.0, VMware Converter 4.0, vCenter Server 4.0, Sun servers x4100, x4200, x4170, x4440, T2000, T6320, M3000, M5000, HP Proliant, DL360G2, DL360G5 and DL 585G2, EMC Symmetrix DMX-3.

Confidential

Solaris Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Built servers from the scratch with Solaris 8 environment and configured applications, storage and other peripherals. Also supported existing servers on Solaris 7 environments.
• Configured Jumpstart server with install server, boot server, and installed Solaris 8 environment on Sun Enterprise, SunFire servers and updated the patches as the enterprise procedures.
• Installed Veritas Volume Manager 3.5 on E220/250/450/5500 servers and managed file systems and volumes using Veritas Volume Manager.
• Implemented NIS environments, added NIS slaves, clients, recreating the NIS database after changes in both Solaris and Redhat environments.
• Installed and configured BEA WebLogic 7.1 for the environment and configured to run in development mode.
• Installed and configured Apache 1.3.x with name based virtual hosts and WebLogic plug-in.
• Installed and applied the patches to the Solaris 8, Oracle 9i and WebLogic running on Solaris 8 environment to keep the applications updated.
• Configured the Samba server to operate the file and print services for the windows client machines in the environment.
• Configured SMTP gateway to use PGP for signing of the messages.
• Configured NFS server and clients with in the environment to easily share the resources across the boxes
• Implemented backup solution using Veritas Netbackup 3.5 and StorageTek 700e and was involved in the configuration of master, media and client servers.
• Maintained backup tapes and recycled them per company's policies.
• Performed user, group and security management.
• Shell Scripts using sh, ksh, csh and Perl.

Environment: SunFire E220/E250/E450/5500 servers, Solaris 8, 7, Veritas Volume Manager 3.5, BEA WebLogic 7.1, StorageTek 700e, Oracle 9i, WebLogic 7.1, Microsoft Windows 2000 servers/professional, PGP, Windows XP, C, Shell Scripts, Perl