TECHNICAL SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of experience as a System administrator in the areas of RedHat Linux, VMware environment.
• Expert in Server Builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration and Performance Tuning in RHEL, Windows and VMware environments.
• Experience in installation, administration, patches, upgrading, configuration, performance tuning and troubleshooting of RedHat Linux 4/5/6..
• . Expertise in the area of Virtualization with Installation, Configuration and Administration of VMware ESX4.0, VMware ESXI 4.1/5.0/5.1/5.5, and vCenter Server 4/5.
• Expertise in the designing, implementing Active Directory roles, features and Windows Sever 2008.
• Experience in Administering and supporting Windows 2003/2008/2012 R2 Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, WINS,Sharepoint.
• Experience in web server Administration, installing and managing IIS 6.0/7.0/7.5 web serves and hosted internal web applications.
• Experienced in Linux/Unix networking and firewall/iptables configuration.
• Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Experince in RPM and making YUM repositories.
• Good Ability to use linux shell commands and system utilities e.g. grep, awk, sed, ssh, syslog, ln, sort, uniq, diff
• Experience and good knowledge in file system concepts like LVM. Creating new file systems, increasing and decreasing file systems, mounting file systems, un mounting file systems and troubleshooting disk space issues.
• Experience in Performance Monitoring of CPU, Memory, Disks, and Network using various monitoring tools like Zabax.
• . Configured domain name services on production and UAT servers using named services and bind packages.
• Knowledge in the installation, configuration and troubleshooting of various HTTP and HTTPS web and application servers like Apache Lighttpd, Apache Tomcat.
• Configured Networking Concepts DNS, NIS, NFS and DHCP, troubleshooting network problems such as TCP/IP, providing support for users in solving their problems.
• Was part of Providing 24/7 technical support to Production and development environments.
• Analytical, diagnostics, troubleshooting skills to consistently deliver productive technological solutions.
• Excellent client relation skills and the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and the client community.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Operating Systems: RHEL 4/5/6,UNIX, Windows Server 2012, 20028 and 2003 ,Windows 7, Windows XP.
• VMware Products: Design and implement Virtual Infrastructure 4/5 wth Virtual Center, ESXi 4.x,ESXi 5.x, vMotion, HA, DRS, Managing Resource pools, ESXi, VMware WEorkstation,VMware Converter, Virtual Center,ESXi Patch Management, vCOPS, VDI's.
• Hardware: IBM Blade center HS-series/X-Series HS22/HS23, Cisco UCS B200's B250's M1's M2's HP BL460C, C-7000,DL580's
• RDBMS: MysQL, DB2, Oracle, MSSQL
• Storage: iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NAS, EMC CLARiion, VMAX, VNX, Netapp 6240,6040 FAS Solutions.

PROJECTS ROLES/RESPONSIBILITIES

Linux Administrator

• Deployment and administration of Apache web server and Tomcat application server on Linux platforms.
• Experience in configuring volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager LVM commands.
• Familiar with Disk Management Utility. Used daily for file system creation and file system management.
• Familiar with remote consoles like ILO for HP Hardware and Implementation of SSH for secure transfers and implementation of PKI between servers to enable password less logins between servers.
• Troubleshooting and performance tuning of various systems problems such as application, network and hardware related issues.
• Worked on DNS, NIS Master Slave Servers along with required clients.
• Worked with various hardware vendors to troubleshoot hardware and firmware problems.
• Installation of ESXi 4.1/5 Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administering VM's across 6 Datacenters running 8000 VM's.
• Installation,Configuration and Administration of VMware ESXi 4.1.1 /Virtaul Center 4.1,
• Center Servers as well as upgrading to ESXi 5.0/ Virtual Center 5.
• Experience in VMware performance monitoring through vCOPS.
• Built, configured and troubleshot MSSQL servers containing vCenter and VMware Update Manager Databases
• Installation, Upgrading and deployment of Linux Operating system on X-86 based HP BL460 G5, G6 and G7 Hardware servers.
• Built and maintained several Microsoft Windows 2008/2012 servers including DNS, Active Directory, WSUS, KMS and Remote Desktop Jumpbox Servers
• Worked on P2V conversions using VMware Converter Tool and Platespin
• Responsible for Building and supporting VMware Environments containing VDIs
• Played a major role in testing applications, application deployment, and software in a major Windows XP to Windows 7 and Windows 7 to Windows 8 refresh project.
• Intalling and configurating firewall/iptables.
• Monitored Several hundred servers using Monitoring Tools such as Nagios WebMon
• Experience with Backup and Restoration of Servers using Acronis
• Used RPMs to install, update, verify, query and erase packages from Linux Servers.
• Set up and maintained NFS, DNS, NIS, and TCP/IP network and knowledge in LDAP Server.

Confidential

Linux/VMware Administrator

• Installation and configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux severs using kick start unattended installation in addition to PXE Boot, configuring of new severs and workstations using kick start and auto start.
• Assisting with the software integration and tuning software build into RPM packages.
• Configure and maintain NFS Servers for both media and data sharing between servers and resolved any shared server issues.
• Responsible for the installation, configurations and support of VMware vSphere and the daily management/monitoring of the virtual environment.
• Application Migration from physical to virtual/virtual to virtual platform.
• Windows OS build, IP configurations, Domain Builds, Active Directory Site Builds and Support Administration.
• Build, configure and deploy VMs and Templates and cloning VMs and application data.
• Maintained user account management, configured servers to register with Red Hat Network RHN Satellite Server, monitored servers- workload assessment, service console monitoring.
• Disaster Recovery operation setup and checkup at contracting facility.
• Used VM converter for converting Physical machines in VMware VMs.
• Updating /patching Linux, Windows Virtual Machine in VMware clusters.
• Creating VMware Lab setup as per Internal QA team's requirements using VMware ESXi servers.

Confidential

Linux Engineer

• Worked with File System includes UNIX file System, and Network file system.
• Mounted/un-mounted new file systems, mounted file systems on remote servers using NFS Server client configurations, performed disk configurations and crash recovery.
• Established network security using Linux Firewall and troubleshoot problems relating to boot loaders GRUB,LILO .
• Administering Disks and file systems using LVM.
• Configure and maintain NFS Servers for both media and data sharing between servers and resolved any shared server issues.
• Familiar with OS installation, Device configuration and Driver Installation.
• Strong storage / Network knowledge and Hands-on I.e.FC /SCSI
• Good at system level troubleshooting and Network/ Storage debugging skills.
• Good communication skills as essential for the job.