SUMMARY

Ten years of solid experience in Infrastructure services including planning, implementing and maintenance of networks, storage, systems on large scale projects in 24/7 mission critical environments.
Systems Engineering on variety of platforms Solaris 8/9/10/11, Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3/4/5/6, AIX 5L/6/7, VMWare ESX/ESXi/vSphere, SuSe Linux 9/10/11 and Windows 2000/2003/2008
Storage Administration (SAN, NAS, iScsi, NFS, CIFS, FCP, FCoE) including planning, provisioning, deployment, data protection, clustering and multi-pathing, switch and fiber administration for NetApp FAS3200/6200, EMC Symmetrix DMX, VMAX, VNX and Isilon, Sun Disk Arrays 6100, 5200, 3500 and A/D1000, HP StorageWorks P9500/XP20000, 3Par T400/T800, Hitachi VSP systems.
Automated hybrid cloud services for storage (Amazon S3, PanoLogic, xythos, hyland) and systems (Amazon EC2, GoGrid, Eucalyptus)
Systems customization, deployment and standardization tools such as Solaris Jumpstart, AIX NIM, Red Hat Kickstart, HP Opsware, Platespin, RIS for Windows Server 2003 and WDS for Windows Server 2008.
System Automation Tools Configuration and Deployment such as Chef and Puppet.
Directory Services (LDAP) configuration on Open LDAP, Sun Direcory Server, IBM Tivoli Access Manager, Active Directory (AD) on Windows Server 2008.
Implemented System Security Measures such as HIDS (IBM ISS RealSecure, Osiris), NIDS (Snort), Security Configuration Compliance and Compromise Discovery Scanning (Nessus, Qualys).
Expertise in configuring virtual environments with Windows Hyper-V, VMWare, Solaris Containers, AIX Lpars and Citrix XenServer.
Database Administration for MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle (10g, 11c) Databases.
Scripting experience in bash, ksh, perl and php.
Expert in Installation and configuration of Web servers and portals like Weblogic 9.x, Websphere WAS 5.x/6.x, IIS Tomcat and Apache 2.x, Luminis.
Expert is deployment and management of front-end load balancing devices with reverse proxy and SSL acceration (F5, Radware, Amazon Elastic load balancing)
Backup Systems Configuration/Restoration with Veritas NetBackup 6.x/7.x, Backup Exec, CA BrightStor, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, DataDomain, CommVault.
Email implementation and Administration of IBM Lotus/Domino Notes 7.x/8.x and Microsoft Exchange 2003/2010.
Performed Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Preperation (flar, mksysb and amanda) as well as Back-to-Life Scenarios to demonstrate Recovery.
Proficient in Logical volume creation, mirroring, RAID and crash recovery of volumes and file systems with Veritas Volume Manager 4.x (VxVM), Veritas File System 4.x (VxFS), Linux LVM and Sun VM (Solstice DiskSuite).
Expertise in configuration and support of Sun Cluster 5.0, Red Hat Cluster Suite, Veritas Cluster Server 4.x, VMWARE vSphere
Performance Tuning and Capacity planning in heterogeneous environments (Win/Linux/Unix/Cloud)
Installed and configured monitoring programs such as HP OpenView Operations, Whats UP Gold, IBM NetCool, NetWorker (Legato), HP Systems Insight Manager, IPsentry, Intermapper, and Nagios.
Expert in Documentation of Standard Operating Procedures, test plans and best practices.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential,Rose Hill, NY March 2008 to Present
Senior Systems Engineer/Architect

• Deployed and configured Solaris 9/10/11 and RHEL 4/5/6 servers across the multitudes of networks.
• Provided application integration and automation support for enterprise applications.
• Coded front ends for system automation and integration tools for the use of junior staff and operations team using php/perl
• Deployed and performance tuned complex web applications in manageable LAMP stacks.
• Maintained php code for multiple sites and applications to apply changes via subversion.
• Deployed and configured system automation tools Chef and Puppet.
• Designed and Implemented hot DR sites for business critical applications.
• Migrated backend block level storage for multiple application and environments.
• Complex systems design and architecture services for application lifecycles and scalability.
• Created systems security framework for web applications as well as for hardening UNIX/Linux systems.
• Implemented vulnerability management and intrusion detection paradigm.
• Lead File storage migration of more than 35K user base and associated departments.
• Implemented ID Management to serve as a gateway for single sign on through portal.
• Configured Web Portal for unified application access to all University’s resources.
• Configured Enterprise Content Management System.
• Design and Implemented VMware ESX clusters and migrated in-house Development, QA, Prod and UAT environments to it. Upgraded 4.0 to ESXi 4.1 and vSphere.
• Designed and implemented a highly complex Microsoft AD environment with sites and services, services catalogues, group policies, user roles, roaming profiles, WINS, MAC and UNIX Systems authenticatioin, security, multiple domains and trusts.
• Assisted in configuration of Oracle DataGuard and RAC to provide data site redundancy.
• Assisted in configuration of Enterprise Data Warehouse for Data Mining and Data intelligence reporting.
• Configured Lotus Domino Server 7.x on Solaris 10 containers.
• Configured load-balanced systems in Amazon EC2 cloud in hybrid scenario to off-scale the load from in house servers using Eucalyptus hybrid cloud products.
• Planned and Implemented patch management methodology across environments with scalable maintenance cycles passed on to Operations.
• Automated system builds for standardization and homogeneity of systems passed on to Operations.
• Drafted business cases for ROI along with business practices automation, system build documents, capital and operational expense budgeting, and infrastructure design for higher management presentations.
• Provides 2nd and 3rd level support for all production environment which includes hardware, systems software upgrade, patch management

Confidential, New York, NY November 2007 to March 2008
Senior Systems Engineer

• Supported Solaris 9 implementation for upgrading NetCool Monitoring environment.
• Configured Storage for multiple platforms across multiple systems.
• Prepared and participated in 56-hour exercise to perform Back-to-Life scenario and verified testing to provide proof of concept.
• Configured host based intrusion detection system across the environment (2000 + servers and devices)

Confidential,White Plains, NY September 2007 to November 2007
Senior Systems Consultant

• Installed and configured SuSe 10 on x86 architect.
• Installed/configured Apache 2.2 in multiple virtual hosts environment particularly with mod_rewrite and mod_authnz_ldap.
• Converted database to MySQL and PostgresSQL (upto 30 TB).
• Converted php code from windows to be executed in Linux as well as recompiled C binaries to Linux standards
• Eliminated complex dependencies in the architecture to be a standalone LAMP stack with failover capabilities.
• Configured LDAP across the environment with multiple master and replication schemes to support the standalone structure.
• Configured different group settings for internal and external users (customers) in Open LDAP for authentication as well as authorization.
• Configured Nagios for monitoring across the environment with SNMP services and event handling.
• Extensive use of VMWare to free up resources as well as to eliminate hardware dependencies.

Confidential,New York, NY February 2007 to August 2007
Senior Systems Consultant

• Planned scalable new environment hierarchy according to Network Design Specifications in the new data center with several DMZ’s and landing zones.
• Hands-on in building new systems from scratch (Solaris 8/9/10, Red Hat Linux ES3, SuSe Linux 9) and using DHCP client.
• Installed and Configured IBM Webseal, Tivoli Access Manager, Websphere WAS server 5.1, IBM MQ Manager (for Mainframe).
• Online replication of Oracle Database.
• Installed and Configured HP OpenView Operations across all environment and regions according to design and utility specifications.
• Implemented Sun Cluster in all regions of the new environment.
• Successfully provided cutover from old production to new production environment.
• Using old environment to create Development and QA segments for the applications.
• Implementing long term and short term backup strategy and solution.

Confidential, Chicago, IL November 2006 to February 2007
Systems Engineer – Consultant

• Administered Solaris Systems for multiple web applications.
• Supported migration from E15K and several mini and standalone regions to E25K for system consolidation.
• Played key role for SAN design.
• Configured and supported VCS in two node environment for six domains.
• Exposure to Veritas Volume Manager Volume Snaps using Netbackup 5.0 flash snap option.
• Installed and Configured Veritas Volume Manager on enterprise storage for Database.
• Installed and configured Weblogic 9.0 for the new environment.
• Supported applications such as Business Objects XIR2 and Informatica.
• Designed and implemented scripts for preventative maintenance.
• Deployed data snaps to synch data on backup from the original source using rsync.
• Developed design specifications, testing plans, scenarios and project deliverables.

Confidential, Maspeth, NY January 2005 to October 2006
Linux/Solaris Engineer

• Installed and administered Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES3 (Oracle), SquirrelMail 1.4.6 Enterprise 100,000+ email server and Microsoft Windows Server 2003.
• SF10k to E15k migration and server consolidation.
• Administered Domain name servers applying hierarchal sub domains using master, slave and split server.
• Remotely administered multiple Linux servers using Red Hat Linux Administration.
• Proficient use of LIDS (Linux Intrusion Detection System) to secure embedded systems, development servers as well as workstations.
• Configured and provided technical support for Samba to be used for windows connectivity.
• Installation and troubleshoot support for SAN – EMC, IBM Shark and Hitachi.
• Administrated NFS, NIS, DHCP and DNS Samba services running on Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux.
• Performed upgrades from Solaris 2.6 to 8 to 10 using Live Upgrade.

Confidential,Bayshore, NY July 2001 to November 2004
Systems Administrator

Systems Administrator role was to analyze and create feasibility and scalability reports to facilitate company’s critical expansion, to manage/administer backend and front end servers and applications as well as to procure technology that would support/sustain company’s projected growth within budget.

• Administration of Sun Solaris 8.0 and Linux AS2.1.
• Used Kickstart for auto installing of OS.
• Administered migration from Linux AS2.1 platform to Windows 2003 server for the Customer Service Department.
• Administration of backups using Veritas Backup Exec.
• Disaster recovery planning and risk assessment in heterogeneous environment.

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Computer Information Systems

CERTIFICATIONS
Windows Server 2008 Active Direcotry (MCITP)
Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCSA, In Progress)
NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator (NCDA)
Oracle Certified Professional (OCP, In Progress)