Linux Systems Administrator III Resume profile

SUMMARY

Broad experience with an emphasis on server infrastructure, planning, deployment, installation, configuration, and server upgrades on Red Hat Linux, CentOS, and Solaris platforms, with excellent trouble shooting skills and problem solving abilities.
Solely installed and maintained a Market Data Ticker Plant consisting of over 350 production, QA, and development servers in a grid environment running Gigaspaces and Wombat software.
Projects include deployment of mission critical online transaction processing systems.
Planned, managed and implemented large scale operating system migrations, system installations, and reconfigurations.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux, CentOS, Sun Solaris

Software: VMware, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, Remedy, Splunk, Cacti, Symphony, Jira, Nexus, Bladelogic, Legato Networker

Hardware: HP Blades, Dell PowerEdge, HP Proliant, Sun MicroSystems, HP NonStop Servers

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Linux Systems Administrator III

Supported a large environment consisting of thousands of virtual and physical Red Hat Linux and Solaris servers. Also supported numerous Solaris and Red Hat clusters.
Analyze, coordinate, and resolve server and application issues.
Perform server maintenance, troubleshooting, capacity and performance tuning.
Develop and improve standards, guidelines and procedures.
Analyze and troubleshoot operating system, hardware, software, and problems.
Assist database and application teams with installations and configurations.
Assist with the design and development of server solutions to meet business needs.

Confidential

Unix Senior Systems Administrator

Supported a wide range of environments including the Dow Jones Industrial Averages, Dow Jones Global Indexes, The Wall Street Journal Print, Market Data Ticker Plant, Dow Jones Corporate, and Factiva business news and information platforms.
Performed regular application software installs and updates.
Supported Factiva based on a FAST and Mark Logic search platform consisting of over 2000 servers with more than 36,000 news sources from almost 200 countries in 28 languages, including more than 600 real time newswires.
Implemented and/or supported Veritas Clustered and Replicated solutions on Red Hat Linux and Sun Solaris platforms for a Digital Ad Management platform, Graphical Ad Management platform, The Wall Street Journal, Barrons, and ATEX Avertising systems.
Performed system administration tasks for a very large network of production mission critical servers which included performance tuning, operating system installs and upgrades, file management, user account management, security, backups, restores.
Participated in project planning meetings to analyze requirements and design for large scale Linux and Unix server solutions.
Deployed large scale production Linux, Unix, and Veritas server platforms.
Developed system management procedures for Operations staff to perform for routine and emergency tasks such as server switchovers, reboots, and server maintenance procedures.
Troubleshoot production server hardware, operating system, and application problems and failures.

Confidential

Senior Analyst

Dow Jones Newswires delivers more than 19,000 daily time sensitive business news items, commentary and is built on a global reporting network of 2,100 journalists, including content from The Wall Street Journal, Barron's and SmartMoney
Participated in the planning and implementation of a large scale migration of time sensitive Dow Jones' Newswires Information Distribution System from a Tandem NonStop Server platform to a distributed Sun Solaris platform.
Configured and deployed the development, quality assurance, and production Sun Solaris servers to replace the Tandem NonStop server platform.

Confidential

Senior Support Engineer

Provided on site billable Professional Services for major Tandem Computer's customers such as Dow Jones Co., AT T, Valley National Bank, and New Jersey Transit, among many others.
These billable services included large scale system migrations, operating system installations and upgrades, system administration training, server performance and tuning expertise, and on site system administration.
Participated in customer planning meetings to analyze and suggest solutions.

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