Systems Administrator Profile Menlo Park

Technical Skills

SERVER OS

VMWARE

Web Server

Apache, Tomcat and ISS.

Database

Oracle9i, 10g, 11g and MySQL Server.

Networking Protocols

TCP/IP, DHCP, SNMP, DNS, NFS, NIS, LDAP, SMTP, NIS .

Storage and Backup

SAN, NAS, Hardware, NetBackup Dell, EMC, NetApp and HP .

Content management

Drupal and SVN

Shell Scripting

Web designing and languages

HTML, CSS, C, C , PL/SQL, SQL and Java

Professional Experience:

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Key Contributions:

Installation and Configuration Linux and Window Server.
User Management and Administration.
Installing upgrading packages using RPM and Yum.
Monitoring troubleshooting Network and Linux Windows servers.
Installation and Configuration of MRBS for meeting room.
Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting and Tuning Apache and Tomcat webserver.
Monitoring system performance using tools like SAR, top, iostat, vmstat, mpstat, free, intr, and analyzing system log files.
Monitoring system resource utilization and load on systems.
Day-to-day management of support and demonstration environments including software, OS and hardware upgrades.
Setup FTP, NFS and Samba servers for file sharing.
Troubleshooting activities and helping user request
Manage and troubleshoot network.
Configure and setup servers and virtual machines.
Perform and scheduling system backups and restores.
Prepare change management documentation for peer reviews.
Collaborate with other departments on joint projects.
Provide day-to-day Help Desk support and work with end-users to resolve complex issues.

Confidential

Linux Administrator

Key Contributions:

Installation and administration of Unix Servers RHEL in VMware and physical servers.
Administration of NFS on Sun, Red Hat Linux servers
Created, managed and troubleshoot LVM in Red Hat environment.
Managed system processes and scheduling processes with the Cron utility.
Performed servers updates, patching, upgrade and package installations using RPM and Yum.
Implemented systems Security Administration and User administration using Role Based Access Control and Sudo.
System Configuring/hardening by turning off unnecessary services.
Disk configuration and file systems management in Sun Solaris.
Managed and optimized NetBackup clients, media servers and clients in an enterprise environment.
Administered Zones configuration and management of resources.
Familiarity with Internet Technologies including TCP/IP, HTTP and DNS.
Set up and managed NetBackup storage pools and data policies with a keen eye on requirements of documented Service Level Agreement.
Created and managed and audited system user and application accounts.
Participated in application and server shutdown before during and post datacenter outage.
Coordinating with offshore Unix support teams for planned system administration activities.

Linux Administrator

Contribution:

Installation configuration of RHEL 5, Windows Server 2003 Ubuntu
Design and implementation of system infrastructure for new services.
Installation, Maintain, and configuration of Apache, MySQL Server, PHP, and Subversion.
Testing, scheduling and installation of patches and upgrades.
System monitoring and tuning.
Work closely with developers.
Maintain MySQL database server.
Diagnose, troubleshoot and repair system related problems.
Configuration and design of VPN using CISCO ASA.
Users Management.
Monitor Servers Linux and MySQL using Nagios, and SNORT.
Hardware and open source software installations and management
Installation and configuration of DNS, NFS, Samba, SMTP.

System Administrator

Responsible for administrative tasks installations, configuration, upgrades / migrations and updates on SUSE Linux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Setup, maintenance and configuration of Apache Web Server.
Responsible for Oracle Database administration.
Responsible for daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly reports.
Communicate technical issues with internal and external clients.
Create and maintain complete documentation of all equipment including location, hardware, software and configurations.
FTP server installation and configuration.