Senior Systems Administrator Resume
Summary:
- Over 9+ years of IT Industry experience in Unix System Administration and Production Support of various applications on Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux, IBM AIX, HP-UX and Windows and environment.
- Installing, configuring and administering SUN Solaris 8, 9 and 10 on Sun Servers, and working knowledge on Red Hat Linux AS 3.0 /4.0, IBM AIX 5.3, Windows 2000/2003,SLES 10.
- Proficiency in supporting varies sun hardware like (E25k,E20k,E15k,E1290 ,E6800/6900,E4800 V890,V880,V490,V480.) for Solaris , Dell hardware (Powder edge 2850 ,2950) andSunstorEdge 6920.
- In Depth knowledge and experience with LDOMs, Server Domains and xen virtualization.
- Extensive experience in installing, integrating, tuning, and troubleshooting Apache, Tomcat and WebSphere application server and webserver, webfocus IHS Also involved in troubleshooting.
- Monitoring the hosts and networks using NAGIOS and BMC.
- Expertise in Volume management, Disk Management , software RAID solutions using Veritas Volume manager 3.5/,4.1 .File system Tuning and growing using Veritas File System (VxFS) , planed , documented and supported high availability, data replication, business persistent, fail-over, fall-back Solutions using Veritas Cluster Server 4.0 in SAN environment.
- Coordinated with SAN Team for storage allocation and Disk Dynamic Multi pathing.worked on Various SAN Products like EMC Symmetrix, Hitachi data systems.
- Implemented and Enhanced the Existing Scripts which are developed in Shell, Perl, and SQL.
- Worked with Backup Team to Configure the Master and Client Backup servers Using Veritas Net Back up 4.5/5.0
- Having good knowledge on Oopsware Operation and managing scripts for automating troubleshooting procedures.
- Upgradation of veritas netback up infrastructure and client base from 5.1 to 6.5 and up gradation of Linux 3.0 to 5.1
- Configured Alcatel devices like (6626 AMS, 5620 SAM, 7330, 7340, G6, 7x50 devices), knowledge of Lucent CVoiP devices.
- Experienced in TDM Telephony and Protocol Analysis.
- Working Knowledge on Veritas Storage foundation (VSF) and Veritas Volume Replicator (VVR).
- Worked on Sun Volume Manager (SVM) and Sun Cluster (SC) to manage the File systems In Effectively.
- Designed and administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware Virtual Center and having good knowledge on Zhardware.
- Worked As an Oracle DBA for Oracle Installation and Oracle Performance Tuning.
- Extensively worked on performance tuning, customization, and maintenance of J2EE applications and Application Server components and JBOSS.
- Worked on Oracle forms and reports and Oracle warehouse builder.
- Worked with application folks for web sphere, web logic installation and connection trouble shooting.
- Experience in Managing various Network related tasks such as TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, DHCP and SMTP.
- Experience with Dataware House tools Like Informatica, Teradata, Data Stage, UDB/DB2, Sybase and Micro strategy and people soft and Oracle data base.
- Expertise in Linux backup/restore with tar including disk partitioning and formatting, tarball creation and extraction, initrd creation and bootloader installation.
- Experience with tools like Novell, IBM TAM,Bindview and Bladelogic and Switch Experience like McData i10K Switches
- Expertise in SIP, RTP, TTP Protocols and Ip Networks
- Configuring and Administering NIS, LDAP and FTP on Sun Solaris server environment.
- Experience in Troubleshooting Hardware, Storage, Application Bottlenecks. System Recovery, Crash dump analysis and performance tuning.
- Managing user accounts, system security, change management, Linux deployment, documenting and following Company Standards.
- Having good knowledge on Autosys Job Scheduler and Experienced in MS Exchange 2007.
- Extensive experience writing Shell Scripts using Korn / KSH, BASH.
- Experience in working large Data Centers spanning 3000 + servers on 24/7 and on-call Production environment
- Excellent skills in analyzing, designing, implementing and system integration, Knowledge on Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Intranet.
- Documenting technical processes and procedures and good communication skills across all levels.
TECHNICAL SKILL SET:
- Operator System: Sun Solaris 2.6/7/8/9,10 HP-UX 10.x/11.x, IBM AIX 4.3, 5.x, Red Hat Linux, Windows NT 4.0/2000/2003/XP.
- Cluster: Veritas Cluster, Sun cluster
- Volume Manager: Veritas Volume Manager, Sun Solstice Volume Manager
- Backup: Veritas Net Backup, Tivoli
- Web/Application server: Tomcat, Apache, Weblogic, Squid, Websphere application server, Webserver HIS.
- Scripting Languages: Born, Bash, KSH Python & Perl
- Databases: MS-SQL Server, Oracle.
- Hardware: Sun Fire 280R/V480/4800/3800/12K/15K Servers, Sun Enterprise 6800/480/420R/290 Servers, Ultra Enterprise 2/1 Servers, SPARC server 1000,SPARC server 1000/20, Sun Sparc Ultra 1,5,10, HP-9000 K, L, N series, IBM RS/6000, DEC DS2.
Senior Systems Administrator (Unix/Linux Admin)
United Parcel Service Inc commonly referred to as UPS, is the world\'s largest package delivery company. UPS delivers more than 15 million packages a day to 6.1 million customers in more than 200 countries and territories around the world.
Responsibilities:
- Primary responsibility includes building and supporting Solaris/ Red hat Linux 3, 4/AIX/HP-UX, Windows servers for Enterprise Preference Management System project.
- Monitoring CPU, memory, iSCSI disks, disk controllers, physical disk, HW and SW RAID, multipath, file systems, network using the tools NAGIOS and BMC Tools.
- Worked in the environment of Citrix authenticated servers. Having good knowledge on Citrix Metaframe presentation servers.
- Supported Applications which is hosted on Special software like Ontu and Lawson environment LSF9.0.
- Experienced in TDM Telephony and Protocol Analysis
- Involved in Building and configuring Solaris 8, 9 and 10 Red hat Linux, SLES 10 using Jump start server and Red Hat Linux Servers Using Kick Start server as required for the project. Maintained maximum uptime and maximum performance capacity for Enterprise Production, QA, UAT/Staging and Dev servers.
- Extensive experience in installing, integrating, tuning, and troubleshooting Apache, Tomcat and WebSphere application server and web server HIS and webfocus. Also involved in troubleshooting.
- Monitoring the hosts and networks using NAGIOS and BMC.
- Used NDM, FTP/s, SFTP, HTTP/s for running and configuring, mainframe TSO and JCL.
- Assisted in configuring the application servers with other components such as database, web servers, LDAP directory, Active Directory, BEA Web logic, JBOSS, EAI, Business Objects etc.
- Production experience supporting and deploying to web application servers such as BEA WebLogic Server, Red Hat JBoss Server
- Created a jumpstart server for an unattended install.
- Extensive use of Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 for Disk management, file system management on Sun Solaris environment.
- Installation and configuration Veritas Net Backup5.1 on Sun Severs and performing Backup using VNB.
- Expertise in SIP, RTP, TTP Protocols and IP Networks.
- Upgradation of veritas netback up infrastructure and client base from 5.1 to 6.5 and upgradation of Linux 3.0 to 5.1
- Extensive use of Korn shell, Bash, for scripting.
- Strong trouble shooting skills on webfocus tools likes Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic and WebSphere.
- Expertise in Linux backup/restore with tar including disk partitioning and formatting, tarball creation and extraction, initrd creation and bootloader installation.
- Configuration of Zones,Zvm's and DMZ's and Maintaining Zlinux servers and Zhardware.
- Involved in Planning, building and Administration of various High Availability clusters and heart beat checking on Sun Solaris using VCS 4.1 in heterogeneous SAN environment.
- Regular disk management like adding / replacing hot swappable drives on existing servers /workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.
- Installing and Starting the Oracle Real-Time Decisions Application on JBoss
- Participated in load testing and performance tuning & application optimization for Oracle, Websphere, Weblogic, Informatica, Data Stage and Micro strategy.
- Planned, scheduled and Implemented OS patches on both Solaris & Linux boxes as a part of proactive maintenance.
- Responded to server monitoring alerts and investigated the problems and developed solutions for related issues.
- Expertise in Xen and Vmvare Virtualization and RHEL Linux 4/5 .
- Widely used Web and Middleware technologies like SOA, Web 2.0, REST, J2EE and PHP.
- Performed routine and preventative maintenance on servers and timely apply security patches as mandated by the security team.
- Involved in data center migration and verifying server inventory for the Omega and 55w Data Centers.
- Designed and administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware VirtualCenter.
- Reacted to any given technical situation that requires immediate attention to ensure maximum system availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Worked on Remedy projects and resolved Remedy tickets as assigned to the individual or team
- Followed all established IT Department processes and procedures including release requests, minor/major change requests, change management and Linux deployment etc.
- Participated in projects as directed including planning and the implementation of new applications and projects infrastructure.
- Worked with other IT teams, customers (users), and other managers in helping build and implement systems and standards.
- Involved in migration of projects from one flavor to another one.
- Involved in development, user acceptance, and performance testing, production & disaster recovery server.
Environment:- Solaris 2.8 / 2.9, Sun E2900,Sun E4500,4800,6800,6900 Sunfire V440/880,V 890,15k,12k IBM F-Series and P-Series, Windows NT.4, Windows 2000 / 2003, Solstice Disk Suite 4.2.1, Jumpstart Server,Veritas Volume Manager 3.1.1, EMC Centera; EMC Connetrix, SAN Switches, Emulex / JNI Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters, Tape Libraries StorageTek L700, Tape Drives LTO Ultrium 2, EMC Powerpath 4.0,JBOSS, Jumpstart/Flasharchive,EMC Solution Enabler 5.3, EMC Control Center 5.1,Sun StorEdge 6920,Oracle, Sun M4000, T2000, X4600 servers.
Confidential, Ocean Port, NJ Oct 07 to MarchConfidential is the State\'s largest Private Hospital Network in New Jersey.
Senior Systems Administrator (Unix/Linux Admin):
Responsibilities:- Primary responsibility includes building and supporting Solaris/Linux/AIX/HP-UX Windows Servers for Enterprise Preference Management System project.
- Involved in Building and configuring Solaris 8, 9 and 10 and SLES 10 using Jump start server and Red Hat Linux Servers Using Kick Start server as required for the project. Maintained maximum uptime and maximum performance capacity for Enterprise Production, QA, UAT/Staging and Dev servers.
- Monitoring the hosts and networks using NAGIOS and BMC.
- Extensive experience in installing, integrating, tuning, and troubleshooting Apache, Tomcat and WebSphere application server and webser IHS Also involved in troubleshooting.
- Assisted in configuring the application servers with other components such as database, web servers, LDAP directory, BEA Web logic, EAI, Business Objects etc.
- Strong trouble shooting skills on webfocus tools likes Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic and WebSphere.
- Expertise in Linux backup/restore with tar including disk partitioning and formatting, tarball creation and extraction, initrd creation and bootloader installation.
- Extensive use of Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 for Disk management, file system management on Sun Solaris environment.
- Installation and configuration Veritas Net Backup5.1 on Sun Severs and performing Backup using VNB.
- Installation and configuration of HACMP for AIX 5L V5.5 Administration
- Involved in Livelink Administration for Enterprise content management.
- Expertise in hubs, repeaters, bridges, routers and switches.
- Monitoring CPU, memory, iSCSI disks, disk controllers, physical disk, HW and SW RAID, multipath, filesystems, network using the tools NAGIOS and BMC Tools.
- Expertise in Xen Virtualization and RHEL5.
- Administrating the file systems ,mounts ,disk partitions, quotas, security and domain structures.
- Involved in Planning, building and Administration of various High Availability clusters on Sun Solaris using VCS 4.1 in heterogeneous SAN environment.
- Expertise in SIP, RTP, TTP Protocols and Ip Networks
- Upgradation of veritas netback up infrastructure and client base from 5.1 to 6.5 and upgradation of linux 3.0 to 5.1
- Regular disk management like adding / replacing hot swappable drives on existing servers /workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.
- Participated in load testing and performance tuning & application optimization for Oracle, Websphere, Weblogic, Change management and Linux deployment.
- Experienced in TDM Telephony and Protocol Analysis
- Configured the Novell SUSE Linux service network upgrades
- Monitoring and maintain the network tasks like DNS, NIS daemons, IP, Ethernet and network technology.
- Planned, scheduled and Implemented OS patches on both Solaris & Linux boxes as a part of proactive maintenance.
- Expertise in Win2k, Win2k3 and NT .Having good knowledge on Berkeley and Data ONTAP Fundamentals.
- Designed and administrated server consolidation program through use of VMware ESX server and VMware VirtualCenter.
- Worked on network security tasks like NTFS, DNS, NFS, NIS, NIS+ daemons.
- Responded to server monitoring alerts and investigated the problems and developed solutions for related issues.
- Congiguration of Zones, Zvm's and DMZ's and Maintaining Zlinux servers and Zhardware.
- Performed routine and preventative maintenance on servers and timely apply security patches as mandated by the security team.
- Written Scripts using Born, Bash, Ksh Python and Perl.
- Reacted to any given technical situation that requires immediate attention to ensure maximum system availability 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
- Participated in projects as directed including planning and the implementation of new applications and projects infrastructure.
- Worked with other IT teams, customers (users), and other managers in helping build and implement systems and standards.
- Involved in migration of projects from one flavor to another one.
Environment: Solaris 2.8 / 2.9, Sun E2900,Sun E4500,4800,6800 ,Sun E 6900,Sunfire V440/880,V890,15k,12k IBM F-Series and P-Series, Windows NT.4, Windows 2000 / 2003, Solstice Disk Suite 4.2.1, HACMP AIX 5L V5.5 Sun M4000, T2000, X4600 servers ,Veritas Volume Manager 3.1.1, EMC Centera; EMC Connetrix, SAN Switches, Emulex / JNI Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters, Oracle,Tape Libraries StorageTek L700, JBOSS,Novell SUSE Tape Drives LTO Ultrium 2, EMC Powerpath 4.0, EMC Solution Enabler 5.3, EMC Control Center 5.1,Sun StorEdge 6920.
Confidential, Atlanta, GA Aug 06 -Sep 07
UNIX (Solaris Administrator)
Confidential is one of the largest global manufacturers of transportation-based RFID technology.
Responsibilities:
- Installation and Administration of Solaris 8, 9 and 10 and Windows using Jump start server including performance monitoring, scaling and capacity planning and hardware maintenance of Sun fire servers.
- Key roll in deployment, installation and configuration of Sun Servers in production environment.
- Planning, installing and configuration of operating system on new Sun Servers.
- Installation, configuration and maintenance of DNS, LDAP and NIS+ on Sun Solaris and IBM AIX environment.
- Assisted customers with setting proper Priority/Severity of problems, work problems to resolution, recorded/documented actions in databases as well as utilized tools and resources.
- Expertise in Linux backup/restore with tar including disk partitioning and formatting, tarball creation and extraction, initrd creation and bootloader installation.
- Extensive experience in installing, integrating, tuning, and troubleshooting Apache, Tomcat and WebSphere application server and webser IHS Also involved in troubleshooting.
- Installation, configuration and maintenance DNS servers, Mail servers, FTP servers, NFS, NIS, NIS+ and Samba servers on Sun Solaris, servers.
- BMC block out periods for Production server o/s restart, Application services restart and web services restart.
- Strong trouble shooting skills on webfocus tools likes Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic and WebSphere.
- Installation and monitoring of Sun Volume Manager, Sun Cluster Server in SAN Environment
- Involved in creation and configuration of Non Global Zones on different Sun Servers
- Involved in setting up accounting systems and performing ongoing system with the administrative tasks.
- Monitoring the hosts and networks using NAGIOS and BMC.
- Restarted the failed applications when notifications from NAGIOS and BMC.
- Configured the block out for NAGIOS and BMC when schedule downtime for host, service and for network upgrades.
- Troubleshooting and analysis of hardware and software failures for various Solaris servers (core dump and log file analysis).
- Provided customer support, help/troubleshoot users to resolve server, network, and other system wide problems.
- Tasks extensive user and group management through admin tool.
- Extensive user and group management through admin tool.
- Up gradation of VERITAS netback up infrastructure and client base from 5.1 to 6.5and up gradation of Linux 3.0 to 5.1
- Configuring distributed file systems and administering NFS server and NFS clients and editing auto-mounting mapping as per system / user requirements...
Environment: SUN Solaris, E250, E10K, E4500, SunfireV880/440, IBM F-Series and P-Series, Windows NT.4, Windows 2000 / 2003, Solstice Disk Suite 4.2.1, , EMC Centera; EMC Connetrix, SAN Switches, Emulex / JNI Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters, Tape Libraries StorageTek L700, Sun M4000, T2000, X4600 servers ,Tape Drives LTO Ultrium 2, EMC Powerpath 4.0, EMC Solution Enabler 5.3, EMC Control Center 5.1.Sun Storage Array NAS and SAN, Sun Disk Suit and Oracle.
Confidential, Framingham, MAJan 06- July 06
UNIX (Solaris System Administrator)
Confidential is the world\'s largest Office Supply Retail Store Chain with over 2,000 Stores Worldwide in 27 Countries.
Responsibilities:
- Administration of Sun Solaris, IBM AIX and Red Hat Linux and Windows including performance monitoring, scaling.
- Group/User administration and providing privileges and security implementation.
- Installing and partitioning disk drives, creating, mounting and maintaining file systems to ensure access to system, application and user data.
- Expertise in Linux backup/restore with tar including disk partitioning and formatting, tarball creation and extraction, initrd creation and bootloader installation.
- Monitoring CPU, memory, iSCSI disks, disk controllers, physical disk, HW and SW RAID, multipath, filesystems, network using the tools NAGIOS and BMC Tools.
- Involved various critical data recovery, off-site disaster recovery tests and document procedures.
- Configuring a system to function in a networked client / server environment and extensively used network bonding.
- Configuration of Zones, Zvm's and DMZ's and Maintaining Zlinux servers.
- Configuring distributed file systems and administering NFS server and NFS clients and editing auto-mounting mapping as per system / user requirements.
- Experience on performance tuning, adding volumes for automation of tasks, data movement, Software Configurations.
- Strong trouble shooting skills on webfocus tools likes Apache, Tomcat, WebLogic and WebSphere.
- Installation, configuration and maintenance of File system Using VERITAS Volume Manager 4.x on Sun Solaris Environment.
- Installation and monitoring of Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Net Backup and Veritas Cluster Server in SAN Environment.
- Configuring distributed file systems and administering NFS server and NFS clients and editing auto-mounting mapping as per system / user requirements.
- Involved in creation and configuration of Non Global Zones on different Sun Servers
- Providing 24 x 7 supports to various application level server level & network level Monitoring and troubleshooting of any datacenter outages.
- Involved in development, user acceptance, and performance testing, production & disaster recovery server.
Environment: Solaris 5.8,9 and 10, IBM-AIX 5.3, and Red hat Linux AS 3.0, Sun Fire 6800/v880, Sun Enterprise E3500, E4500, E450, Sun Ultra Sparc 60, Veritas Volume Manager 3.1, Sun M4000, T2000, X4600 servers Solaris Volume Manager, Web logic 8.1, Oracle 8i/9i, SAMBA,Windows.
Confidential, Wheeling, IL July 05 - Dec 05
UNIX Admin
Confidential is an international Manufacturer of Paint and Coatings. It is the Sixth largest Paint and Coating Corporation in the world
Responsibilities:
- Installing, configuring and upgrading SUN Solaris 8 and 9 on Sun Servers using jump start platform.
- Regular disk management like adding/replacing hard drives on existing servers/workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.
- Maintaining appropriate file and system security, monitoring and controlling system access, changing permission, ownership of files and directories, maintaining passwords, assigning special privileges to selected users and controlling file access, monitoring status of process in order to increase the system efficiency, scheduling system related and cron jobs.
- Installing and partitioning disk drives. Creating, mounting and maintaining file systems to ensure access to system, application and user data.
- Installing, configuring and administering NIS master server and NIS slave server.
- Data consistency of file system using fsck and other utility.
- Responding to the system generated action items and resolves them depending on the contract level of the customer.
- Co-coordinating with the customers vendors for any system up gradation and giving the exact procedure to follow up.
- Providing the monthly Management reports/statistics.
- Scheduling the daily/weekly/monthly backups.
- Patching up the system to the latest version as per the recommendations.
- Monitor the health of the servers, Operating system, database and the network.
- Maintenance of Hard disks (Formatting and Setup, Repair from crashes)
- Create and maintain user accounts administering file systems and recognizing file access problems.
- Performing patches research, patches installation and packages installation on Sun Solaris
- Planning and implementing system upgrades including hardware, operating system and periodical patch upgrades
Environment: SUN Solaris, Linux, Sun Enterprise servers E4500, E3500 and E250 SunFire V480, Sun Ultra Sparc 5/10, Sun Blade servers, Oracle 8i/9i, NFS , BMC patrol and HP OpenView Servers, Intel based Servers, LAN and WAN.
Confidential, Bangalore, India Jan 99- June 05Technical Support Engineer
Confidential is a multinational technology corporation that develops, manufactures, sells, and supports personal computers and other computer-related products. Based in Round Rock, Texas, USA.
Responsibilities:
- Installation and Administration of Solaris 7 and 8 Operating System on Sun Servers.
- Planning, configuring new Sun Servers and X86 Boxes.
- Providing day-to-day user administration like adding or deleting users, password aging, installation, configuration and administration of UNIX and Windows NT Servers.
- Provided support for local and remote users.
- Troubleshooting Backup and Restore problems.
- Constant Monitoring of System Performance. Involved in Day-to-Day trouble shooting for the end users on Solaris based applications.
- Performed backup/restore operations using tar, ufsdump, ufsrestore.
- Limited time Work experience on Windows OS Administration.
Environment: Solaris 2.7 and2.8. SunFire200, SunUltra 25 sun workstations SUN Sparc Ultra-2 workstations, E3000, Windows98, 2000 operating systems, and Intel based servers and desktops.
Master of Computer Applications