PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Around 8 years of in IT field as Systems Administrator, Systems Engineer including DevOps experience in Compute, Network, Storage, Automation, Cloud and Virtualization areas of IT.
• Good experience with compute nodes on Linux/UNIX platforms such as RedHat Linux, CentOS, SUSE, Ubuntu, Solaris, AIX, HP - UX and Windows in automated operating system installations using Kickstart, Jumpstart, AWS console and manual methodologies.
• Identity and Access management to all types of resources with LDAP Directory Server, IAM roles, policies and local user databases too.
• Well experienced in configuration management of various multi-tier applications using Puppet, Chef, AWS User data.
• Scripting experience - Bash, Perl, Python to automate the tasks and used cron scheduling.
• Experience with Source Control Management - SVN, Github, Bitbucket in adds, commits, deletes of codes.
• Continuous Integration and Deployment tools - Jenkins, Bamboo, Maven, Ant, Nexus.
• Virtualization experience - VMware ESX, ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V, Solaris Zones on different HW like HP Proliant, Dell Power Edge, Oracle hardwares and managing them using vSphere Client and vCenter server.
• Well experienced in provisioning machines/instances in a fly with Cloudformaton, Autoscaling, VMware templates, clones, AWS snapshots.
• Networking experience in configuration of physical and virtual components such as AWS VPC, ethernet bonding, VMware vSwitches, VMkernel ports, VM ports, traffic shaping, NIC teaming, load balancing & failover detection.
• Traditional and cloud storage experience with Amazon EBS, S3, iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, multipathing technologies on Netapp, EMC Celerra, Isilion storages.
• Good patch management experience on *nix distros and also patching virtualizsed environments like Solaris zones, Linux VMs. ESX, ESXi.
• Good hardware experience with HP Proliant, Dell, IBM, Oracle T series servers in asset management, RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 configurations, firmware upgradations, remote management of servers using Oracle ILOM, HP ILO, IBM IMM, Dell DRAC.
• Good working knowledge with the vCenter server features like vMotion, Storage vMotion, High Availability (HA), Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), Fault Tolerance (FT) and other products of VMware.
• Hands-on experience in physical to virtual machine (P2V) conversions and virtual to virtual machine (V2V) conversions as well as conversions between different virtual machine formats using VMware Converter and vCenter Guided Consolidation.
• Worked with Oracle, HP, NetApp in data center activities such as part replacements, support cases.
• Monitoring of physical and virtual infrastructure using Nagios, Splunk, ELK stack, vCenter Operations Manager, and HP Insight Manager (HP SIM), SCCM.
• Involved in Linux and Solaris DR exercises to recover servers across multiple Sites.
• Active team player, self-motivated individual with good communication, interpersonal skills, fast learner and a good listener.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: HP ProLiant DL/BL series, Dell Power Edge, IBM x series, Sun/Oracle T4-1, T4-2, T3-2, M-series.

Operating Systems: RHEL 5.x, 6.1, 6.3, 7. CentOS 5.5, 5.8, 6. SUSE 10, 11. Solaris 9, 10, 11. HP - UX 10.2, 11.31, 11i v3. Windows 2003/2008/2008 R2, Windows client OS XP/Vista/Windows 7.

Networking & Protocols: AWS VPC, R53, LAN/WAN, SNMP, TCP/IP, FTP, Telnet, RAS, RIP, SMTP, DHCP, LDAP, POP3, VPN and VLAN, ARP/RARP.

Storage: Amazon EBS, S3, Netapp using FC, iSCSI SAN’s and Celerra NAS, EMC CLARiiON, DDN.

Applications and Virtualization: Apache Tomcat, Nginx, JBoss, Oracle Messaging Server, VMware vSphere 4.0, 4.1, 5.0 (ESX/ESXi, vCenter server, VMware converter, VMware Update manager), VMware Infrastructure (VI) 3.0 and 3.5 and Citrix Xenserver.

Database servers: Oracle, MySQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, MS SQL server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

DevOps/Cloud engineer

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Management - Managed physical and cloud infrastructure running Redhat/CentOS/Solaris on AWS cloud and x86, SPARC hardwares.
• Configured/Integrated Jenkins with Git to poll codes and Maven to push artifacts to AWS S3.
• Source code management with Github, Gitlabs to add, commit, push codes to various branches and setup Jenkins for auto polling.
• Scripting experience - Bash and Perl scripting to extract, modify, update directory server(Sun) data
• Experience with Configuration Management - Built Puppet environment inside AWS custom VPC and working with EC2 instances, ELB’s, Autoscaling.
• Worked on creating, modifying manifests, files, templates for various multi tier applications on Puppet as well as Chef.
• Database experience - Installed and configured Apache and MySQL database via Chef as per the requirements.
• Access Management - via AWS IAM and LDAP to add, modify, delete user accounts, group accounts, netgroups and service accounts across the regions globally.
• Day to day management/monitoring/troubleshooting of multi-tier applications using Puppet and Nagios in Dev, Test, QA, Prod environments.
• Developed proof of concept (POC) for linux users home directory migration between data centers.
• Involved in development of AWS POC that includes creating VPC, IAM users, EC2 instances, EBS, S3 resources for internal project.
• Created Cloudformation templates to deploy resources in HA, FT, Autoscaling environments in labs.
• Actively involved in the design document of Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment project.
• Extensively used native unix commands like awk, sed, find, grep, cut, paste in bash scripting as per the requirement.
• Documenting project related, operational related procedures.

Environment: Linux, Solaris, Puppet, AWS, Github, Windows, Sun Directory Server, VMware, EMC VMAX, ISILION.

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

DevOps/Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for operating systems such as Linux, Solaris, CentOS which ran on hardware such as HP DL380, 360, 160, Oracle T4-1, T4-2, T3-2 series (x86 and SPARC ISA’s).
• Experience in Package management - includes installing, updating, removing system and non-system packages such as kernel patches, bug fix patches, IDR patches.
• Configuration management - Worked on daily basis to commit, add, delete application related code into and out of SVN and Puppet apply of those to the hosts.
• Worked on version controller - SVN, to add, commit codes as per application needs.
• Automation experience - automated NIC bonding, loop operations on lists using scripting languages such as bash and perl.
• Worked on datacenter automation tool - Oracle Ops Center, that includes installation, configuration and upgradation.
• Worked on load balancer - Citrix, which includes VIP configuration, HA pair setup, firmware upgrade.
• Experience with monitoring tool - Nagios, to check modifications and reporting alerts to concerned teams.
• Experience with log aggregation software - Splunk, that includes querying, analyzing logs and troubleshooting.
• Experience working with cisco network switches to check, configure, troubleshoot VLANs, MAC address issues.
• Experience working with storage teams for capacity related tasks.
• Experience in service requests management for hardware and software related cases with Oracle, HP, Citrix, and Cisco vendors.
• Hardware asset management that includes ordering, tracking and auditing hardware in datacenter.
• Troubleshooting skills - issues related to host, network and storage.
• Involved in datacenter activities such as hardware replacements, troubleshooting connectivity issues, assisting field engineers in DC.
• Worked on updating, testing SSL certs for application domains.
• Worked as on-site coordinator to pass the requirements to offshore teams.
• Good in technical documentation, also used tools such as Microsoft Visio, OmniGraffle, Word, Excel, PowerPoint.

Environment: HP ProLiant DL 380, DL 360, DL 160, IBM dx360 M4, Dell, Oracle T4-1, 4-2, 3-2, Puppet, SVN, Nagios, Splunk, Verdad, Oracle Ops Center, Citrix Netscaler, Cisco switches, Disaster Recovery, SAN/NAS

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

VMware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuration of VMware ESX 4.1, ESXi 5.0 on HP ProLiant DL 380, DL 385, DL 580 Rackmount servers which include Windows server 2003/2008 and RHEL 4.0, 5.0. 5.5 connecting through iLO.
• RAID configuration.
• Managing them using VMware vCenter server and VMware vSphere Client.
• Monitored the HP servers using the HP Insight Manager and provided the maintenance in case of power failures, and performed the device mapping.
• Designed the infrastructure and administered the environment running over 30 ESX/ESXi Hosts and 600 Virtual Machines. Also, designed the performance monitoring processes and improved Disaster Recovery processes to utilize virtualization benefits.
• Resource Management - Configuring VMware HA, VMware DRS Clusters for vMotion- migrations between ESX Servers.
• Worked closely with Storage and networking teams to ensure allocated SAN (EMC CLARiiON CX 700, Netapp E2600), fiber and networking infrastructure reflected specifications laid out in initial VMware firm design to ensure successful deployment.
• Creation and management of virtual machines, installing VMware tools, creating Templates, Cloning, deploy Virtual Machines from Templates.
• Back-ups and remote administration of Windows Server Through Terminal Services.
• Created Snapshot and test rollback, configured vMotion, Cluster and Failover.
• Analyzed existing infrastructure using VMware Capacity Planner.
• Configure VCB, which dumps the backup to Veritas Netbackup Server and Seagate Backup- Backup Proxy Server.
• Day to day support and maintenance of Operating Systems like Windows, RHEL.
• Disk management, Data management, Security management (applying patches).
• Worked on Symantec Antivirus and Symantec Endpoint protection for administering updates and cleanup of a community of more than 600 workstations.
• Participated in development and maintenance of Disaster Recovery & Backup.
• Updated the Patches for ESX Servers using VMware Update Manager in vCenter server.

Environment: HP ProLiant DL 380, DL 385, DL 580, RAID configuration, VMware vSphere 4.1, 5.0, vConverter, vCenter server, vMotion, vReplicator, Clustering, SAN/NAS, VCB, vCenter Capacity Planner, Disaster Recovery & Backup, VMware HA & DRS, Windows Server 2000/2003/2008, Veritas Netbackup, Seagate Backup.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Solaris/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Solaris 8/9 installation on SPARC servers and performed disk mirroring activities using SVM and Veritas Volume Manager.
• Responsible for daily activities which included administration and maintenance of Enterprise and Advanced Servers (ES/AS) running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Provided Administration support for server running on RHEL, HP-UX and Solaris at other facilities and also involved in migration activities like p2p & p2v
• Production server migrations, implementation of virtual environment across IBM 3850 servers, Dell Power Edge 2850, 2950.
• Performed data migration from CX 600 to of CX 700 array with the help of Navisphere.
• Handled Performance Monitoring in File system CPU, Memory and Process in all the UNIX Servers
• Veritas Netback up installation and maintenance Backup/restore & Disk/Volume management with Veritas Volume Manager on Sun SPARC Storage Arrays & Multi-Packs
• Handled Performance Monitoring in File system CPU, Memory and Process in all the UNIX Servers
• Configured and managed standard vSwitches and distributed vSwitches.
• Configured and managed VMware View 4 (VMware connections server, composer. view agent and client).
• Provisioned, allocated, zoned, mapped and masked storage disk space for Solaris & Linux.
• Design, implementation and regular maintenance of MC/Service guard Packages, load balancing.
• Implementation, administration of ODS, VVM, Veritas Cluster and VXFS.
• Installed & configured Sun Fire 210, V240, V440, V490, V880, 1280 & HP Proliant DL- 320/360/380/560/580 L Servers.
• Prepared Backup Schedule for Incremental and Cumulative Backups. Configured and maintained Legato Networker to take backups across the network to tape library. Used nwadmin, nwbackup and nwrecover for backing up and restoring file
• Installation of weblogic, upgraded to service pack updates, installed BEA patches, configuring and creation new domain & services starting & stopping
• Scheduling backups, creating users, writing scripts for administration tasks.
• Configured DNS, DHCP servers & Installation of Weblogic, troubleshooting etc.
• Uploading and Down loading files between Remote & Local servers using secure shell.
• Supporting on all Network, Hardware & Software issues with proper problem solving techniques.

Environment: Sun Fire 12K, 6800, 880, 220, E10K, E5500, E450, Sun E220R, E420R, SPARCstation 20, Solaris 7, 8, Linux serversEMC, Pentasafe, HP Multiplexers, SUN and HP DLT Libraries, Brocade Switches, Glance, PerfView, MC/Serviceguard, Veritas Volume Manager 3.1, Veritas Net backup 3.4 and Omni backup.

Confidential, Hershey, PA

VMware/Middleware Administrator

Responsibilities:

• The project included the upgrade of multiple mission critical windows 2000/2003 member servers using VMware ESX 3.0 Server and P2V conversions using vConverter to prevent downtime and production outage.
• Installed and administered VMware ESX Servers on a HP Blade Servers, which includes over 10 VMware ESX Servers, which are SAN/NAS connected in Production and Non-Production environments that host over 50 Servers running Windows 2000 and 2003 variations.
• Participated in on and off hours support roles for Windows Servers, to help maintain and troubleshoot both software and hardware.
• Lead all development, engineering and support for management of the Virtual Center Environment and Virtual Infrastructure Client.
• Administered more than 50 Windows Servers across the company on a 24/7-basis support.
• Server Virus Management (weekly scans and real time monitoring, signature updates).
• Provided Support for DNS/DHCP/WINS services under instruction from Network Management System.
• Maintained VMware Machines (Hosted on VMware ESX 3.0 and with XP installed).
• Configured the Microsoft Virtual Server and Virtual PC for testing and development.
• Provided Hardware support, troubleshooting and diagnosis.
• Respond to and address any tickets/ work requests in the Remedy Queue.
• Access Servers using Terminal Servers or other approved method.
• Perform system health checks as required.

Environment: VMware ESX 3.0, VM Converter, Virtual Center, Virtual Infrastructure Client, vMotion, SAN/NAS, iSCSI, VCB, VMware HA & DRS, Windows Server 2000/2003, DNS, DHCP, Veritas Netbackup, Windows NT Backup, IIS (HTTP & FTP).

Confidential

Windows Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed the Windows 2000/2003 Server in the organization with over 200 clients.
• Created the user accounts and profiles, assigned permissions using Active Directory, a directory service which contains information of all user accounts and which optimizes the network traffic. It provides the user logon and authentication services using Kerberos.
• Administered the Group Policy, a collection of permissions, security and rights, which can be applied on sites domains and OU’s. Also used group policy to automatically upgrade, repair software installation online.
• Installation and support of desktops with Windows 2000 and Windows XP Operating system.
• Provide Remote support and administration on network for internal and external clients using tools like Microsoft remote desktop connection.
• Provide day-to-day support (troubleshooting & installing) for more than 200 users for hardware, network & software’s including Microsoft Office applications, Mail clients and network related issues.
• Installation and configuration of network Printers.
• Managed the member server, a server which hosts services like IIS, DNS, and DHCP.
• Protected the organization’s network from unwanted traffic coming from the internet using ISA Server which is a proxy server and a web caching server.
• Provided the backup and recovery of the files and data, worked on Windows Firewall, Terminal server, and trouble shooting the computer related problems.
• Attending regular calls of the users related to computers & network problems.

Environment: Windows 2000/2003 Server, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Backup and Recovery, IIS (HTTP & FTP), Managing the Domain and the Domain Controller, ISA, Terminal Services, Disk Management, File Sharing.