Objective:

Seeking a position as a Sr.Linux/VMWARE Systems Administrator / Lead.

Summary Of Qualifications:

10 Years experienced and reliable Linux/Unix Systems administrator with the great ability to support the production servers with the full efficiency and dedication. Also great understanding of the issues related to the hardware and software with the profound ability to resolve the issues and problems. Collective work experience of 10 years 6 months including 4 years of onsite hands-on experience as a Linux Systems Project / Team Leader, Sr.Systems Administrator, IT Linux Systems Architect.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS SUMMARY:

• Linux ES/AS, SuSe Linux, Oracle Linux, Sun Solaris HP-UX Systems / Storage Administrator.
• Extensive work experience in migration projects OS migration/ Storage migration/Infra migration
• Extensively worked with various Cisco computing products like UCS B220,240,440 and UCS C-series, Nexus1000V, NX-OS and UCS Fabric Paths.
• IT Infrastructure data center and applications support expert in 24x7 mission-critical environment.
• Multi-Architecture platform UNIX expert Linux, Solaris, HPUX.
• Extensive experience with OCFS RAC file systems administration in Linux environment.
• Expertise in VMWARE virtual OS.
• Extensively worked with release Management Capacity planning environment.
• Extensive experience on Web Application Support with JBOSS Apache.
• Experience in automation of administrative tasks using UNIX shell scripts
• Expertise in installing patches, performing patch analysis, patches evaluation for various UNIX OS.
• Expertise knowledge in various server hardware maintenance / administration.
• Expertise in working with backup tools like, Symantec netbackup creating backup policies and restoring.
• Extensively worked with BASH Shell scripting.
• Hands on experience in NFS, DNS, Samba, Squid with SmartFilter, Sendmail, POP3, IMAP, Tomcat and Jboss.

Hardware/Software and System Administration Skills:

VMware Technologies :ESX 4.X, ESXi 5.x, , vCenter 4.X, 4.1 and 5.0, vCenter Guided Consolidation, vCenter Orchestrator, VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware VDI 4.5, HA,DRS,SDRS,DPM and FT, vMotion and svMotion.

Operating Systems :RHEL4.x, 5.x, 6.x, Suse, Solaris 9, 10 and HPUX.

Third-party Tools : Symantec backup exec, Commvault Systems, vRanger Pro and vFoglight, BMC remedy, TRS, RV Tools.

Database and Storage : MYSQL, SQL server8 / 9, oracle APP 11i, Oracle 11gR1/R2, EMC DMX and Clariion series, Brocade 4100 and 300 SAN Fiber Switches, basics on EMC VNX and VNXe, VMAX 10k.

Hardware Cisco UCS B200,B220,B440 and Cisco C-series UCS blades. Sun Sparc E15K E3.5k, E450, E350 Ultra, , DL-380 DELL , HP BL20p ,Celeron, Intel, Pentium , DELL power Edge 2850, 1850, 6800, IBM x-series,

Professional Experience Details:

Confidential

Job profile : IT Infrastructure Implementation Systems Design

Responsibilities as Team Lead:

• Large system configuration, systems troubleshooting and design, high level problem analysis and tool design.
• Member of integration team and design team to provide enterprise wide solution for both infrastructure and application solutions.
• Developed and deployed the PAAS/IAAS systems for Cisco Enterprise.
• Part of Cisco Unix-Implementation core team to provide design solutions and ideas to improve the current architecture or any new solutions to clients.
• Working as SME to support large business unit within Cisco for any new solutions implement or troubleshooting in existing architecture.
• Having overall domain knowledge of various Cisco Vitural infrastructure products like Nexus1000V, Nexus 7000 and MDS/UCS Fabric paths.
• Extensively working day to day troubleshooting session with various vendors like RedHat/Oracle/Netapp/VMWare/EMC and Cisco internal TAC team for UCS support.
• Having extensive knowledge in Cisco Cloud technologies and CEPH concepts.
• Responsible for various migration projects.
• Working with cross-functional teams to mitigate or design the robust infrastructure for Cisco Clients.
• Supporting ticketing tool within organization and managing team size of 30 SA's.
• Started numerous initiative programs within Cisco Unix-Implementation team to fine tune our infrastructure provisioning and supporting them in affective manner.
• Closely working with Cisco Engineering Team to gear up our infra solutions before Cisco hits Market.
• Responsible for various POC projects to provide solutions for our new initiative by BU's.
• Performing day to day Linux SA tasks and troubleshooting within implementation support groups.
• Supporting overall Cisco release management infrastructure called ERMO Enterprise Release Management Office .
• Working with various configuration management tools like Puppet, Ansible,CITEIS, BigIP, RedHat Satellite server.
• Maintain and develop technical documentation and standard operational procedures
• Work closely with various IT operations teams to support and troubleshoot problems and issues
• Large system configuration, systems troubleshooting and design, high level problem analysis and tool design.
• Develop and maintain the documents, library and procedural documents of the system.
• Co-ordinate and work with netwotk security engineers to build up the new Data Center.
• Developed BASH shell script to automate day to day system admin tasks.
• Worked with storage team to manage application and database migration using EMC clarion migration tools to migrate the Linux systems data.
• Response for root cause analysis and finding the resolution and implementing in various infrastructure level.

VMWare Administration with UCS Servers

• Installed and Configured CISCO UCS B-Series Blades and C-Series servers from scratch.
• Installed and Configured vCenter4.X with Heartbeat, vSphere4.X on CISCO UCS B-Series Blades B200 and B250 and C-Series Servers
• Installed and configured VMware SRM and supporting current environment
• Supporting VMware vCloud1.0 and 1.5 in current IaaS Environment for Prod and Non-Prod.
• Adding VLANs to UCS, ESX Hosts and Citeis Tool
• Updating Firmware on UCS Mananger, IO Modules and Fabric Interconnect without Downtime to the ESX Servers and Virtual Machines.
• Creating Service Profile, vNIC Templates and vSAN on CISCO UCS
• Installed and configured N1K in the environment
• Migrated ESXi Standard Switches to N1k
• Datacenter Migrations from one Site to another Site and DR setup to failover from RCDN to RTP and failback from RTP to RCDN
• Supporting the infrastructure with the ticketing system software such as BMC Remedy 6 and Remedy 7
• Updating documents and Wiki Links for UCS and VMware products
• Worked on CISCO custom application such as CITEIS, EMAN and Address Management applications
• Trouble shooting Network issues on VMs, ESXi, UCS, N1k and Physical Switches
• Generated reports of virtual environment using PowerCli Scripts.
• Conducting meeting with clients and working closely with other Teams to assist in planning, execution and tracking the projects to meet the project delivery dates
• Worked with Operations Team to complete the I-O Transitions and also worked with NW team to upgrade the N1k VSWs.
• Attended Roadmap meetings and building the virtual environment
• Worked with Supply Team on Virtual Capacity issues and resolved the capacity issues in IaaS and Non-IaaS
• Automating ESXi Installs and Configuration
• Involved in Infra testing of the Virtual environment

Production Application Support Team Lead :

• Performing Team Lead position on Datacenter Migration
• Lead team in performance tuning and monitoring on production Application systems.
• Lead the production support team for weekly change release.
• Worked on Capacity planning and application release management planning.
• Extensively worked in capacity planning and designing of Unix Infrastructure.
• Extensively worked on Project Management.
• Worked as a Project Manager for GE Financial Oracle Application systems Migration.

Confidential

Designation : Sr. systems administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities to co-ordinate with migration project stakeholders and perform the RHEL5 migration from existing RHEL3 4 Linux systems.
• Migrating the applications / services from solaris to Linux RHEL5.
• Working with HP Server automation HPSA for creating new software policy / packages to automate the Linux systems migration.
• Responsible for the support of the moderately complex data and also helps in the design and configuration of system landscape.
• Develop and maintain the documents, library and procedural documents of the system.
• Co-ordinate and work with netwotk security engineers to build up the new Data Center.
• Configured and managed RedHat satellite server / proxies.
• Extensive experience with maintaining SLA metrics in production environment.
• Platform designing enhancement
• Responsibilities as Unix systems Administrator include monitor and tune systems to make sure of the optimum level of the performance.
• Keep track of the appropriate software and upgrade the software packages.
• Responsible for the support of the moderately complex data and also helps in the design and configuration of system landscape.
• Develop and maintain the documents, library and procedural documents of the system.
• Interact with hosting providers and clients to talk about the problems and new technologies to improve systems and applications performance and reliability.
• Experience in Oracle online netbackup tool configuration and RMAN script.

Designation : Sr. HP-UX/LINUX Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed Hardware Migrations from rpXXXX to rxXXXX integrity servers rx8640, rx7640, rx6600 and superdomes 32/64 way .
• Planning, Coordinating with application teams and performed OS upgrades from 11.11 to 11.23 and 11.23 to 11.31.
• Installation and configuration of new servers with ignite images. Configuration of MC Service guard and setting up continental Cluster Setup for HA High Availability.
• File system creation and management.
• TCP/IP configuration, network administration
• Application loading, system tuning etc.
• Swap space administration
• Kernel Tuning.
• System resources planning and utility management
• System performance and fine-tuning
• Applying PATCHES and updating Periodically
• Securing Solaris / Linux Systems.
• Performed various system security and file permission management
• Provided day-by-day Production support for Highly Critical servers

Confidential

Designation : HP-UX/LINUX Administrator Level 1 2 support

Responsibilities:

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Remote OS support LVM, IGNITE,PATCHING, Online JFS for HP-UX/ Linux .
• Single point of contact for UNIX infra Structure Team and Data Management Team.
• Create and update Standard Operating Procedures.
• Supporting BMC Control-M job scheduling software using Enterprise Control Station ECS .
• Veritas Netbackup troubleshooting using remote tools and commands.
• Customer Interaction to understand and workout the optimum requirement and providing the technical support on the same.
• Change executor for planned and emergency changes on critical servers.
• Install and update patches for OS.
• Configure and Administer the NFS server and client.
• Creating/Migrating/Increasing/Reducing File systems.
• Performing disk management functions using LVM, Mirror disk/UX.
• Kernel tuning for the requirements of applications.
• Familiar with Auto secure Environment.
• Experience with Performance Tuning in HPUX.
• Experience in VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5/4.1 on Sun Solaris.
• Experience in Installation configuration and Troubleshooting of MC Servicegaurd on HPUX and LINUX Servers.
• Administration and maintenance of BEA Weblogic Server 8.x.

Confidential

Designation : Support Engineer.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Remotely supported more than 200 Unix Servers includes HPUX , Linux Sun Solaris.
• Used Remedy based ticketing tool to attend customer calls as part of Incident Management with a priority of Urgent, High, medium, low where in metrics are predefined to each level of priority.
• Managing User account's Creating new users, setting up user environment, changing passwords, locking and deleting accounts.
• Software package/patch Administration involving adding software packages/patches and deleting software packages in Sun Solaris and HPUX.
• Backup and Recovery using tar, ufsdump, ufsrestore, cpio, fbackup and frestore..
• Troubleshooting NFS server, NFS clients in Auto Mount Environment.
• Exposure of OVO agents troubleshooting.
• Scheduling Jobs using Corn and at.
• System performance, monitoring and troubleshooting user related and server problems.
• Coordinating with on-call support personnel if human intervention is required for problem solving.