SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of UNIX System and Network administration in Sun Solaris 9/10 , HP-UX 10.x,11.x , IBM AIX 5.x , Linux RedHat 4/5/6 .
• Server Installations, configurations, upgrades and migrations on Solaris, HP- UX, Linux.
• Configure and manage Middleware and web tools such as Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss.
• Storage Provisioning, Volume and Filesystem Management using Veritas Volume Manager and VeritasFilesystem Veritas Storage Foundation , Configuring ZFS filesystems.
• Customized patching and maintenance of HPUX, Solaris, Linux servers on regular schedule.
• Worked on different platform on SUSE Linux which includes 10.x,11.x
• Regular work involving building new Linux Physical and Virtual servers using kickstart and PXE.
• Experience in building the Solaris servers using wanboot.
• Good working knowledge of network UNIX security procedures.
• Administrating and troubleshooting Red Hat Cluster Suites.
• Participate in installing and configuring of UNIX/Linux based Oracle 10g products
• Strong knowledge of large-scale Linux deployment methodologies, kernel configuration, performance monitoring, and tuning
• Experienced in working with Network Engineers to install, manage, and configure NAS based storage and insure overall system and network security.
• Worked with WebSphere team in order to configure WAS instances for BMC patrol.
• Hitachi, EMC SAN installation and tuning of NetBackup server environment..
• Provide 24x7 on call server support for UNIX environment and Sun Solaris.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Hardware: HP, DELL, IBM, PSeries, SUN Enterprise.
• Servers: Web Sphere Application Server 3.5/4.0, Netscape/iPlanet Server, MQSeries, Web Logic Server, IBM HTTP Server, HTML, DHTML, XML, Java Script, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Apache 2.2, Tomcat 5.5, Active MQ
• Networking: TCP/IP, RPC, UDP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, LAN.
• RDBMS: IBM UDB2, Oracle 7.x/8.0/9i, MS-SQL Server 7.0/6.5 and MS-Access 97/95.
• Languages: UNIX Shell Programming ksh,csh,sh ,Verilog HDL, Matlab with toolboxes, SQL.
• Applications: Samba, Tivoli TSM , VERITAS Volume Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

UNIX - AIX Admin

• Involved in supporting HP Open VMS Systems
• Linux RedHat 3/4/5/6 UNIX System and Network administration in Sun Solaris 9/10 , HP-UX 10.x,11.x , IBM AIX 5.x , Server Installations, configurations, upgrades and migrations on Solaris, HP- UX, Linux and AIX.
• Experienced working with NPIV and EMC SAN configurations within AIX.
• Perform system installs and performance tuning, configure and administer AIX 5.3, 6.1 LPAR's
• Experienced in managing LPAR with virtual memory management and memory optimization and using AIX Virtual Memory Manager VMM .
• Experienced in providing full support to the life cycle of the Project i.e. Development, Testing, Production Phase Experienced in Upgrading HMC from 6.1.3 to 7.3.3 versions.
• Introduced config 2 html scripts as attempt to document the whole AIX server environment in the company, automated the scripts.
• Responsible for building and migrating different versions of RHEL.
• Responsible for migrating and updating RHEL, SUSE, Fedora.
• Responsible for patching and upgrading all SUSE Linux Servers.
• Kernel upgrade on RHEL and SUSE.
• Worked on UNIX Shell Programming ksh, csh, sh, bash, php, perl.
• Create virtual media repository and LPAR dedicated virtual optical drives in the VIO servers to make new installations, cloning and migrations faster and easier.
• Responsible for set up of BMC Patrol Agents V3.6.50.11i and 3.6.60i environment on UNIX Servers.
• Worked with WebSphere team in order to configure WAS instances for BMC patrol.
• Experience in Setup and Configuration of IBM AIX HACMP and GPFS on pseries servers.
• Experience in using VERITAS Volume manager and VERITAS Cluster server products.
• Experienced in leading a team for the built process and represent Change control meeting for the ongoing process.
• Knowledge of ITIL and Business Continuity processes, experience with tape technologies, Information Life Cycle Management and SOL 10.
• Experienced in Performance tuning in the test phase of the Servers.
• Monitor system performance to ensure adequate response times
• Power VM Virtualization SEA, vSCSI, NPIV , Dynamic LPAR DLAPR .
• Experienced in Cleaning Storage and Allocates Luns to servers per standard configurations or recommendations.
• Worked with SOP's related to storage allocation.
• Experience with Integrated Virtualization Manager IVM
• Perform day to day LVM operations and System Admin tasks.
• Experienced in troubleshooting virtual Ethernet adapters, Clusters interconnect, and ether channels.
• Experienced working script in shell, perl.
• Experience in performing tasks like monitoring CPU / RAM / Disk space utilization, port utilization and running processes on applicable OS
• Wrote automated security audit scripts in the environment
• Experience with IBM Power4, Power5, Power6 and Power7 virtualization.
• Administering and troubleshooting of Redhat Clusters.
• Adding and removing nodes from and to the cluster.
• Installed SUSE Linux on Cisco Hardware for SAP HANA deployment.
• Experience with Linux installations, configuration management and patch administration as member of a production support team.
• Strong knowledge of Linux kernel configuration, performance monitoring, and tuning.
• Good Knowledge of LVM, which include creating PVs, VGs, LVs and filesystems and troubleshooting.
• Configuration and maintenance of common applications such as NFS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, DNS, and SNMP.
• Strong knowledge of large-scale Linux deployment methodologies, kernel configuration, performance monitoring, and tuning
• Experience with SAN/Data Center Migration and Consolidation implementations.
• Experienced in Storage Consolidation/Migration in an ENTERPRISE environment EMC/IBM/NetApp .
• Involved in complete Administration tasks on UNIX, Red Hat Linux and Solaris and documentation for the projects executed.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and administration of Sun Solaris 9 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux on x86 architecture.
• Installed required software patches and software.
• Used RPMs to install, update, verify, query and erase packages from Linux Servers.
• Configured Kickstart server to install Red Hat Linux on multiple machines.
• Experience using Kickstart and modified Kickstart based on server profiles and hardware specifications.
• Experienced Installing, Configuring and supporting VMWare ESX 3.4 and 4 versions.
• Installed, monitored and supported Web and Application Servers on AIX and Linux environments.
• Implementation and setup of local Linux disk backups using open Source applications.
• Consolidating multiple Linux servers, into 2 physical virtual servers, using vserver.
• Installation and troubleshooting on VMware running Linux Red Hat and Windows wintel, windows 7, XP, Vista .
• Worked with DBA for Installation of Oracle on Linux and Solaris.
• Worked on installation of Power path on all Linux boxes.
• Participate in installing and configuring of UNIX/Linux based Oracle 10g products
• Providing Version Control with Subversion and Automated Build Deployments
• Leading a small team of Deployment and Build Engineers
• Experienced in SAN Zones and creating LUN for the Servers as requested
• Experienced with working with Systems Engineers to implement storage solutions which provide high performance, data protection and cost effective use of available storage.
• GSD331 troubleshooting, find any incompliant servers are Remediate GSD331.
• Installed WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1 and enabled Web Content management.
• Migrated WAS 5.0 Network Deployment and Base on AIX/Windows platforms to WAS 6.0 ND.
• Responsible for architectural design of all Hitachi San environments and Brocade switches.
• Management of all SAN storage systems, Hitachi, EMC, SUN capacity planning and performance tuning.
• Installation, Configuration and administration of LPARS.
• Installation, administration of VIO Server and VIO client LPARS.
• Upgrading VIO version from 1.4 to 1.5 and 1.4.1.2-FP-9.2 to 2.1.
• Knowledge of ITIL and Business Continuity processes, experience with tape technologies, Information Life Cycle Management.

Environment: UNIX/RedHat Linux, Vi Editor, Shell Scripts.

Confidential

UNIX Administrator

• Provided on-call support by rotation to provide 24x7x365 support.
• Performed build from scratch installation, migration, configuration and maintenance of SUN Boxes 8/9/10, on M5000, T2000, T5000 and E25K etc., via Wanboot Server, LINUX 4.x/5.x/6.x on HP Hardwares and ESX via Kickstart Server and AIX of AIX 5.3/5.2/5.1/6.1 on IBM P series Hardwares through NIM server.
• Installing and Configuring of the Virtual Redhat Linux and Windows Clients on the ESX hosts.
• Vmotion of the Servers on the ESX hosts.
• Configured VLAN's and SAN on Virtual Servers.
• Installed and Configured ESX on IBM X3850 boxes with Kickstart Server.
• Installed and Configured WebSphere Application Server 5.1 and 6.1
• Installed and Configured Veritas Symantec NetBackup and Veritas Cluster Suite on the Unix Servers.
• Installing tools like PowerPath, Power Broker, BMC patrol, VSA, Tivoli , ITM.
• Worked on all types of Hardwares like Dell 2850, 3850, 6850, HP DL 580 G5, 380 G5, M5000, T2000, E25k.
• Installed REHL 3/4/5 on X86 64 bit Intel Processor and on x-series and HP DL Series Hardware's.
• LVM Logical Volume Manager Administration, OEL and VMware Administration.
• Involved in large data center migration planning, designing, moving servers to new data center, coordinating troubleshooting issues with various data center, network, application and storage teams.
• Physical to Virtual Machine Migration P2V and Physical to Physical Server Migration P2P .
• Performed live migrations and consolidated the physical servers to VMware infrastructure virtual machines with shared storage across EMC clariion, Dell and Open filer SANs.
• Creating test plans to test and build Sun servers for Solaris 10.
• Building Sun Solaris Servers from scratch with Jumpstart Flash Archives for upcoming projects.
• Adding Disks and Creating Slices and File System Administration on Solaris 8/9/10.
• Creating/deleting root disks, root mirror, metadevices, metadbs, mirrors using Solaris Volume manager Solstice Disk Suite.
• Configuration of Solaris 10 Wanboot server, zone creation, Role administration.
• Creation and Configuration of the Solaris Zones on the T2000 and T4-1 Hardwares
• Migrating of the Zones from one Hardware to a different Hardware and to other DataCenter.
• Migrating the existing Solaris Servers from SVM to UFS and then to ZFS for Live Upgrades
• Well Experienced in Live Upgrades Projects on the Solaris 10.
• Veritas Installation and Configuration of the Veritas Cluster on the Unix Servers.
• Veritas Volume Manager Configuration.
• Adding EMC LUNs to AIX Servers for ongoing space requirements, Managing EMC master agents on AIX, working with Storage team on EMC Symmetrix
• Troubleshooting HBAs problems.
• Logging calls with Sun Microsystems, Veritas, Symantec, Emulex, EMC, HP Linux for resolution of critical problems.
• Installed and Configured Veritas Symantec NetBackup and Veritas Cluster Suite on the Unix Servers.
• Installing and configuring CentOS6.x on VMware Machines.
• Installing and configuring Apache on the CentOS servers.
• Configuring and monitoring Disk Mirroring and stripping using LVM.
• User Management Administration and File System Management.
• LDAP configuration and Management on the UNIX Servers.
• Swap Space Management.
• Job Scheduling and Automating process using CRON and AT.
• Performance monitoring utilities like IOSTAT, VMSTAT, SAR, TOP and PRSTAT
• Installation of Patches and Packages on the Linux and Solaris Servers.
• Configuring and managing the Network Interfaces.
• Ensure Data recoverability by implementing system and application level backups using NetBackup.
• Configuring and implementing LINUX Kernel re-compilation.

Environment: Unix/RedHat Linux, Vi Editor, Unix/Linux, Shell Scripts, VMWARE.

Confidential

Unix-Linux Administrator

• Responsible for the Administration, Planning, Designing, Configuring, troubleshooting and performance tuning on the AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1, Linux and Solaris servers.
• Experienced in Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Sun Solaris 8 and 9.
• Experienced in Virtualization on VMware ESX Server environments.
• Installation and configuration of VIO servers and updating system firmware by using HMC along with Logical Partition technology LPARs .
• Worked on different version on RHEL from bare metal hardware until turning over to Customer.
• Installation of Solaris 8 , 9 and 10 using wanboot server
• Configured IBM RS 6000, 550,570,575,700,770 and Blade Server machines for production, staging and test environments
• Setup and configured network TCP/IP on AIX including RPC connectivity for NFS. Created mount points for Server directories, and mounted these directories on AIX Servers
• Configured and administrated LPARS.
• Configured and administrated VIO server and Lpar clients.
• Day-to-day operation of various Storage Area Network SAN and Network Attached Storage NAS devices.
• Adept at Monitoring and altering file system usage, hardware and system process failures.
• Experienced in Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Veritas Cluster Server, HP Service Guard and HACMP.
• Proficiency with configuration and maintenance of NFS, DNS, NIS/NIS , DHCP, SMTP, and Networking with TCP/IP.
• Responsibilities include configuring and maintaining routed and switched TCP/IP networks.
• Performed Zoning, LUN Masking and LUN provisioning on Symmetrix and EMC Clariion in SAN environment.
• Expert in NAS NFS, CIFS infrastructure EMC Celerra, NetApp, Unix NFS, Windows CIFS DFS, Samba, Rainfinity architecture, migration, management
• Maintained Raleigh filers and served as point man for all NetApp related issues or queries.
• Installed a PHP based Linux kickstart solution that allows for the building of profiles based on IP address- this system allows for rapid installation of new Linux systems.
• Administration Tasks included User administration, Performance, Sendmail. weekly mksysb
• Worked on Micro Partitioning on P6 machines.
• Configured and Administered HACMP 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 IBM PowerHA.
• Migrating AIX OS from AIX 4.3 to 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3, 5.3 to 6.1 on models of p-series hardware.
• Administering and troubleshooting of AIX HACMP Clusters.
• Expertise in installing, configuring and troubleshooting on JS22 Blades in IBM Blade center.
• Building and configuring AIX V6.1, 5.3 on LPARs using NIM.
• AIX 5.2/ 5.3/6.1 migrations using NIM and local install methods.
• Responsible for mirroring and un-mirroring using logical volume manager LVM .
• Performing Firmware Upgrades.
• Configure File Systems and administer using NFS.
• Responsible for creating SAN LUNS on IBM and EMC san.
• Experienced in Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Sun Solaris 8, 9 and 10.
• Configuration of Solaris Jumpstart archives Kickstart in Linux and RCS/CVS revision control
• Solaris Live Update Technology associated with an operating system upgrade or maintenance.
• Involved working DS8000 and EMC Clariion Storage devices
• Expertise in implementation of OS security as per ITRM standards
• Installed and configured WebSphere Application Server V 6.0,6.1,7.0 Extended Deployment XD
• Administered IBM WebSphere Portal Server 5.1 and 6.0.
• Experience in Administering IBM Lotus Web Content management 2.5/5.0/6.0 versions
• Installed WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1 and enabled Web Content management.
• Experience in Change ticket Co-ordination and Remedy tickets.
• Documenting each and every procedure and uploading the Documents on the Internal Web Portal of the Company for Team Reference.

Environment: Unix/RedHat Linux, Vi Editor, Unix/Linux, Shell Scripts, VMWARE.