SUMMARY

• Over 12+ years of IT industry experience as a System Administrator and Production Support of various applications on Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux and IBM AIX environment.
• Responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining Linux servers including web servers, application servers and database servers.
• Installing Red Hat Virtualization as a standalone manager remote databases and local databases.
• Installing Supporting Components on Client Machines
• Using AI to install the Solaris 11.3 /11/4 operating system and SFHA products on Solaris servers.
• Improve system performance by working with the development team to analyze, identify and resolve issues quickly.
• Experience in installation, configuration and management in Linux based systems and applications via automation and configuration management tool Ansible.
• Worked with Ansible playbooks for virtual and physical instance provisioning, configuration management, patching and software deployment.\
• Working knowledge in Devops, CI/CD and Automation Tools - Git, Jenkins, Dockers, Ansible.
• Install and configure splunkforwarder-7.2.0 on Unix/Linux servers and Exadata servers.
• Experience creating and maintaining Splunk reports, dashboards, forms, visualizations, alerts.
• Install and configure system monitoring tool Tripwire 8.6.0.2 on all Unix and Linux servers
• Splunk Administration and analytics development on Information Security, Infrastructure and network, data security, Splunk Enterprise Security app, Triage events, Incident Analysis .
• Solaris Live Update technology associated with an operating system upgrade or maintenance.
• Upgraded VXVM and VCS from 4.1 to 5.1 on Solaris servers and also Upgraded SAN stack on Solaris and Linux servers.
• Experience working with Storage Area Network (SAN), EMC CLARiiON, EMC Symmetrix DMX.
• Extensively worked on Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Netback up, Solaris Volume manager, and Logical Volume Manager.
• Experienced in increasing the file system, create Mirroring, striping and parity using VERITAS volume manager (VxVM)
• Install and deployment of RVD/RVRD agent in various UNIX servers.
• Supported Oracle, MS SQL and DB2 teams on works related to system administration
• Configuring and Administering NFS, DNS, NIS, NIS+ and LDAP on UNIX server environment. creating & maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, permission, disk space and process monitoring
• Resolving system Hardware and software errors and crashes, huge file sizes, file system full errors.
• Worked on Storage Multipathing, IP multipathing (IPMP), NIC bonding.
• Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) & Access Control List (ACL).
• Plan, document and support high availability, data replication, business persistence, fail-over, fail-back and using VERITAS Cluster Server 3.5 in SAN environment.
• Networking communication skills and protocols such as TCP/IP, Telnet, ftp, SSH, rlogin
• Experience in using VERITAS Net Backup, Proficient in System Backup and Recovery from tapes using ufsdump, ufsrestore, tar and cpio.
• Develop UNIX shell scripts using Korn, C Shell Scripting, SED, and AWK to ease the Developed administration tasks. knowledge on administration of Apache Hadoop, Pig, HIVE, HA YARN using Cloudera Manager for POC. knowledge in installing, configuring Cloudera Apache Hadoop ecosystem components like Flume, HBase, Zookeeper, Oozie, Hive, Sqoop, Impala and Pig.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 9,10 & 11 Red Hat Linux 5.x/6.x/7/x IBM-AIX.

Hardware: Sun Ultra Enterprise Servers (M4000, M5000,T2000,T5120,T5220,T5220,T5240,T5-2 & S7-2)

Sun fire (v880/V480/V240/V210/V440/280R): HP DL385 G6, DL585 G5/G6, Netapp FAS270, FAS940, FAS960

Tools: Sun Cluster 3.2, VERITAS Cluster Server, VERITAS Netbackup 6.0, Tivoli SM, VERITAS Storage Foundation Suite, Solaris Volume Manager, send mail

Tape Hardware: StorageTek tape libraries L40, L80, L180, L700, SL500, SL8500, DAT & DLT, STK 9940B, 9840B, LTOs

Languages: Java, Perl, Shell Scripting and knowledge in C/C++

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Jersey City - NJ

Operating Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing and configuring of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Solaris for BBH requirements.
• Designed, supported, and maintained Oracle Real Application Clusters supporting business critical applications on RHEL 6.x/7.x and Solaris 10/11.x/11.4.
• Strong Technical background in networking, operating system, system administration and performance monitoring.
• Plan, onboard, and migrate of new and existing applications into continuous integration / deployment environments to improve quality and stability of software releases with primary emphasis on Docker applications
• Worked with Ansible playbooks for virtual and physical instance provisioning, configuration management, patching and software deployment.
• Involved in Jira as bug tracking system and configured various workflows, customizations and plug-ins for Jira bug/issue tracker and integration of Jenkins with Jira/GitHub.
• Worked on deployment automation of all the Micro services to pull images from Private Docker registry and deploy to Docker swam cluster.
• Performed patches research, patches installation, Patch upgrades and packages installation on Sun Solaris and RHEL Servers.
• Implemented Ansible to manage servers and automate the build and configuration of new servers.
• Worked with Ansible playbooks for virtual and physical instance provisioning, configuration management, patching and software deployment.
• Configuring, Automating and Deploying Ansible for configuration management to existing Infrastructure.
• Used Ansible as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change.
• Working knowledge in Devops, CI/CD and Automation Tools - Git, Jenkins, Dockers, Ansible.
• Familiarity with Vulnerability Management and Policy Compliance tools such as Qualys to scan Linux, UNIX, and Window servers for security vulnerabilities.
• Perform analysis of the vulnerability scan results.
• Closely working with Cyber Security to resolve Security Vulnerabilities which are in JIRA tickets.
• Work with Information Security team and update Security Standards for all technologies (Databases, Operating Systems & Network devices)
• Perform daily operational monitoring, analysis and reporting of security events from multiple Security Information Monitoring tools and methods for malicious or suspicious activit
• Implementation and troubleshooting of network services like NFS, FTP, NTP, Telnet, SSH.
• Upgrade and configured Tripwire 8.6.0.2 on all Linux and Solaris servers.
• Install and configure splunkforwarder-7.2.0 on Unix/Linux servers and Exadata servers.
• System Administration and performance monitoring Task on Solaris and Linux Servers using PRSTART, VMSTAT, SAR, TOP and IOSTAT
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot Slunk. Use Splunk to collect and index log data. Provides guidance and troubleshooting for complex technical issues.

Environment: Solaris 9,10 & 11 Red hat Linux 6.x & 7.x. T5120, T5220, T5140 and T5240, T4-2, T5-2, S7-2 Veritas Volume Manager 4.1/5.0 and VCS Solaris Volume Manager, Oracle.

Confidential, Charlotte - NC

Operating Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing and configuring of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Solaris for Confidential requirements.
• Configured and administered multiple production RHEL 6.x / 7.x and Solaris 10 / 11 servers across multiple platforms.
• Configured and maintained the volume groups, logical volumes using LVM, VERITAS Volume Manager and Solaris Volume Manager.
• Responsible for day-to-day systems administration tasks in Solaris and Linux. Creating and growing Filesystem by using Veritas Volume Manager and Solaris volume manager and CFS file systems.
• Performed High availability designing using VERITAS Cluster Server 5.0 on Red hat Linux and Solaris Servers.
• Experience creating and maintaining Splunk reports, dashboards, forms, visualizations, alerts.
• Performed patch research, patch installation, Patch upgrades and packages installation on Sun Solaris Servers and Linux Servers.
• Implemented Ansible to manage servers and automate the build and configuration of new servers.
• Worked with Ansible playbooks for virtual and physical instance provisioning, configuration management, patching and software deployment.
• Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups, Optimized volumes and EC2 instances.
• Configuring, Automating and Deploying Ansible for configuration management to existing Infrastructure.
• Used Ansible as Configuration management tool, to automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploys critical applications, and proactively manages change.
• Supported Oracle 11g database server applications and processes on Red hat 6.x / 7.x servers.
• Installed multiple instances of Oracle WebLogic 10, 11g and helped with the deployment of JARs and WARs on development environments.
• Coordination with Oracle team to configure Oracle Rack configuration and OOB Storage Static Routers.
• Reviewing security procedures and implementing & resolving audit issues.
• Implementing and configuring NetBackup on Linux/Solaris Servers using Veritas NetBackup
• Installing, configuring, and managing network switches, load balancers, console servers, and other network devices.
• Installing HBA drivers, firmware and Powerpath software in Production, Development and QA servers.
• Expertise in Performance Monitoring and Performance Tuning using prstat, Top, prstat, SAR, vmstat, ps, iostat etc.
• Monitor status of critical system services reporting performance and server health. Develop mutually beneficial working relationships with customers
• Assisting with analysis, evaluation and preparation of recommendations for system improvements, optimization, development, and/or maintenance efforts.

Environment: Solaris 9,10 & 11 Red hat Linux 6.x & 7.x. M4000, M5000, T5120, T5220, T5140 and T5240, M4000, M5000, Veritas and HP ProLiant DL380/DL360 Volume Manager 4.1/5.0 and VCS Solaris Volume Manager, Oracle 12c and db2 .

Confidential, Weehawken - NJ

Sr Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designing and configuring of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Solaris for Confidential requirements.
• Expertise in Performance Monitoring and Performance Tuning using prstat, Top, prstat, SAR, vmstat, ps, iostat etc.
• Performed patch research, patch installation, Patch upgrades and packages installation on Sun Solaris Servers and Linux Servers.
• Installed and configured Solaris 10 Zones and containers on Solaris Enterprise server like M4000, M5000, T5220, T5240.
• Worked in configuration of Redhat Satellite server and Managed, configured and Maintained customer entitlements including upgrading and patching of Linux servers
• Uploading Redhat certificate, handling activations and deactivations.
• Used RHN Satellite exporter command to channel all the packages and deploying rpm packages.
• Configuring NFS, NIS, NIS+, DNS, Auto Mount & Disk Space Management on SUN Servers.
• Experience in Configuring and Managing SAN Disks, Disk Mirrors&RAID 0, 1 & 5 Levels.
• Created/expand file systems in Linux (volume groups and Logical Volumes) and Solaris using volume managers
• Experience in backup and restore operation on multi Volume Manager, Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) and VERITAS File System.
• Disk and file system management through VERITAS Volume Manager.
• Configured Users & Security administration, backup, recovery and maintenance of various activities.
• Advance level of experience in researching OS Issues, Applying Patches and opening the vendor Tickets
• Maintained and documented all the errors and logs that were new to the environment shared the KT with the team.
• Experience in Disaster Recovery and Planning.
• Server Consolidation and Migration of Applications on Oracle and Java Applications.
• SENDMAIL configurations and administrations, testing the mail servers.
• Experience in adding and configuring devices like hard disks and backup devices etc.
• Monitor daily Net Backup activity and reports to proactively avoid issues.

Environment: Solaris 9,10 & 11 Red hat Linux 6.x & 7.x. M4000, M5000, T5120,T5220, T5140 and T5240,M4000, M5000, Veritas Volume Manager 4.1/5.0 and VCS Solaris Volume Manager, Oracle 12c and db2 .