SUMMARY:

• 7+ years of experience in Systems Administration and Support Experience in installing and maintaining the operating systems and configuring networks in Red Hat. SUSE, HP - UX, IBM AIX based environments.
• Experience working on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, Solaris 8, 9, 10, AIX 5.3. 6.1, 7.x and VMware ESXi 4.x/5.x/6.x.
• Experience with the automating the provision of OS by using Jumpstart (WAN Boot, PXE Boot) for Solaris and Kickstart using (cobbler, PXE), Auto install for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Good knowledge in scripting for automating tasks using Perl. Bash shell. Korn and PowerCLl for VMware ESXi.
• Experience in virtualization on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Solaris 9110/11 with x86 architecture and using Zones, Containers, Domains and LDom's on SUN Sparcs.
• Experience in configuring Raid-0, Raid-1. Raid-5, iSCSI, IDE. SATA, and creating Logical Volumes, Logical Volume Groups and manipulating them as required.
• Expertise in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5/6.0/6.5/6.7 , vCenter Server 4/5/6/6.5/6.7 and VCSA 6.0/6.5/6.5U1/6.7.
• Expertise in designing build/configure documentation related to Red Hat Enterprise/CentOS Linux via Spacewalk/Satellite/Kickstart/Puppet/Cobbler servers.
• Worked on more than 3000+ server's data migrations from old tech refresh EMC arrays to New technology EMC connected to various platforms including Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x/6.x/7.x, AIX 5.x/6.x/7.x and VMware ESXi 4.x/5.x/6.x.
• Experience in administering and maintaining EMC VMAX, VMAX3, VMAX All Flash, DMXSeries, Symmetrix Series, and Unified VNX/VNX2 series, Clariion CX300, CX600, CX700, CX3/4 series and Isilon systems.
• Experience in installing and setting up Jumpstart Servers for provisioning of Solaris 8, 9, 10, 11 servers and Kickstart servers for provisioning of RHEL 5.x/6.x/7.x.
• Administered performance analysis using tools like Big Brother, Nagios, Hobbit. prstat, mpstat, iostat, sar, vmstat, truss, Dtrace.
• Good Experience in file systems management with NTFS, HFS, XFS, ZFS, EXT2, EXT3, EXT4.
• Experienced in monitoring and troubleshooting NFS stets, IOSTAT, Netstat, Virtual memory.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x/5x/6.x/7.x, Solaris 9.x/10.x/11.x SUSE 10 3/11.1, AIX 5.3/6.1/7.x

VMware Products: Design and implement Virtual Infrastructure 4/5/6/6.5/6.5U1/6.7 with Virtual Center, ESX 3.x/4.x, ESXi 4.x/5.x/6.x, vMotion, HA, DRS, Managing Resource pools, ESXi, VMware Workstation, VMware Converter, Virtual Center/VCSA, ESXI Patch management.

Storage: Net App 6240, 6040 FAS Solutions (OnCornmand Manager), EMC VMAX, VNX (UNISPHERE)

Microsoft: Windows Server (2003/2008/2012 R2/2016), Windows Vista, Windows 7/10, Windows XP

Hardware: HP BL460C, BL620's, BL680's C - 7000, DL580's. Cisco UCS B200's B250's.

Racks and Cabling: Installation of Hardware HP. UCS Enclosures, Cable Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bridgeton, MO

UNIX/Linux/VMWare/Storage Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for capacity planning, design, install and configuration of newly provisioned servers and decommission legacy servers as part new refresh projects.
• Installed and configured several hundred Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 x/6.x/5.x in both Physical Blade and VMware ESXi 6.5/6.0/5.5/5.0 Virtual Environment.
• Installing and updating packages using YUM (custom YUM Servers/repositories) and Spacewalk, and Red Hat Satellite Server.
• Installed and configured several hundred Red Hat Enterprise/Oracle Enterprise Linux Senders in both Physical Blade and VMware ESXi Virtual Environment.
• Applies policies that control the configuration of endpoints used in a PCl/PHI environment
• Works with the Business Partner to ensure that any issues with endpoint performance is addressed
• Installation Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.7 , Virtual Center 5.0/5.5/6.0/6.7 and VCSA 6.0/6.7 vCenter Senders as well as upgrading to ESXi 5.5/6 0 and Virtual Center 5.5/6.0.
• Architected. installed, configured and performed troubleshooting of VMware products vCAC, vCloud Director, Infrastructure Navigator, vCOPS, vSphere, vCenter, vCNS, SRM and vCloud Orchestrator.
• Administration of EMC arrays VMAX, VMAX3, XtremI0, RecoverPoint DMX3, DMX4, VNX7500, CX4-960, CX3-40F with CISCO/Brocade fabrics switches to 2000+ Windows/Linux and UNIX servers using Solutions Enabler. SMC, Unisphere Manager. Webtools, EMC Connectrix Manager and SYMCLI scripting.
• Created Open Replicator Sessions using SMC to perform migration from Clariion CX 3-80 to VMAX to consolidate the entire Oracle ASM filesystems from CX to VMAX solution.
• Performance Analysis of resources like CPU, Memory, Disk and Swap from command line using commands like prstat. vmstat, sar, iostat, swap etc. and tuning of the kernel parameters for the better performance of the operating System and TCP.
• Build and managed webservers and Java based Application Servers on RHEL 6.5.
• Installing and maintaining WEBLOGIC Servers and Tomcat Servers.
• Creating resource pools, zones and containers on Solaris 10 and v490s, v890s to optimize and consolidate the use of the hardware.
• Install new OS using systems image of using a combination of NIM, VIOS to deploy all new AIX servers as part of a new implementation project.
• Installation Packages and Patches using Red Hat Satellite Server. YUM Servers, NIM Servers. Oracle Solaris live upgrade as part of refresh project to consolidate all legacy servers.
• Rescan the storages on newly installed servers.
• Work with application team to start applications and resolve the issue.
• Migration and troubleshooting of VERITAS Cluster.
• Installing Veritas Volume Manager 4.1, Implementing RAID and creating Disk Groups, Volume and Logical volumes using VxVM on Solaris to manage the storage resources and creating, resizing and managing volumes and used LVM on Linux to create Volumes on the Volume Groups, Volumes and file Systems.
• Mirroring the root disks using Sun Volume Manager
• Installed and Configured High Availability, Disaster Recovery Systems using Ventas Cluster Server 4.1 on a two-node cluster for NFS and MQSeries.
• Configuring, administering and troubleshooting of NFS, NIS (master, slave and client) and DNS (Bind 8.2.x and 8.3.x) in multi-platform networks that included Solaris, AIX and Linux.
• Install and troubleshoot JBoss 6 and JBoss 7 as part of major middleware implementation project.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

UNIX/Linux/VMware Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• 24x7 support for the UNIX servers. Rotating on call pager responsibilities for Production environment.
• Responsible for the development of long and short term capacity plans as it relates to the UNIX engineering and support team environments.
• Conduct market research to include, but not limited to, Six Sigma companies and scope of process improvement efforts by location and industry maintain an index of companies that practice Six Sigma Confidential various levels
• Installing, configuring and updating Solaris 7, 8, 9, 10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x using media Jumpstart and Kickstart, Puppet.
• Creating system Disk Partition. mirroring root disk drive, configuring device groups in UNIX and Linux environment.

Confidential, Boise, ID

UNIX/Linux/VMware Implementation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Knowledge and experience of Hardening Linux.
• Creating volumes using storage for VMAX Array on Red Hat and Solaris servers.
• Creating UNIX and PERL scripts for automated data backup, status of the storage.
• Experience running EMC grab reports and upload to powerlink for analysis.
• Monitor and analyze systems and processes throughout the enterprise for security vulnerabilities
• Network administration. Troubleshooting Hardware failures and Software packages
• Creating User accounts on the mail server and on the different Linux based servers.
• Configuration of virtual machines using VMware ESX Server.
• Configuration & support for various applications run on Linux environment, configuration, performance tuning, patching and maintenance.
• Supporting 600+ RHEL and Solaris servers in production/stage/development environment