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Unix/linux Engineer Resume Profile

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Knoxville, TN

Summary

Seeking a position as Unix/Linux Engineer with strong communication skills, and eagerness to learn. Working extensively with Unix/Linux since 2006 providing all aspects of software, hardware maintenance including patch management and installation, local and SAN disk as well as filesystem configuration, startup and daemon configuration. Experience with multiple Operating Systems in a multi-server network environment. Complex multitasker that leads multiple projects at a time, while providing Unix/Linux support for current equipment and processes.

Professional Experience

Confidential

UNIX/LINUX Engineer

  • Budgets, forecasts, manages and supports the technical infrastructures of over 1800 servers with various Operating Systems. On Unix/Linux System Administration, providing specialist level support for HP, Sun Oracle and IBM systems based on HP-UX, Solaris, Redhat, Suse and IBM AIX. Responsibilities include Design, Installations, Upgrades, Migration, Patching, Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning, Backups, and Storage Management.
  • Successful information technology professional with diverse and extensive experience focusing on the design and implementation for both of the Infrastructure and Software Application areas.
  • Ensures SOX/SLA's Service Level Agreements are kept up on business and second and third parties also monitors deliveries against SLA's
  • High level designs of new data and equipment including Exadata and Red Hat cloud, GPFS IBM .
  • Built, modified, and used high availability cluster configurations for AIX Veritas Cluster Service , and high availability clustering with HP Service Guard , also including GPFS from IBM.
  • Trending, forecasting and analyzing of system response times and determines tuning recommendations to improve performance
  • Hack, bend, and break AWK commands
  • Provides project management oversight to infrastructure implementation of multiple projects at once.
  • Ensures communication of process and procedure changes to key stakeholders including writing SOX controls.
  • Designs effective test plans for any new/changed infrastructure technology and work with many Managers to ensure its implementation before the client takes possession of the system.
  • Manages effective issue identification and resolution processes serves as the focal point for infrastructure-related issues/crisis resolution.
  • Also familiar with various applications including TWS, Cognos, Build Forge, ClearCase/ClearQuest, Remedy, Tomcat, Apache, Weblogic.

UNIX/LINUX Admin Analyst I, II, III

Confidential

  • Expertise in the Software Development Life Cycle SDLC that can also be used to improve the infrastructure building process.
  • Provided 24x7 production infrastructure and application supports to highly sensitive mission critical applications and infrastructures from the IBM Mainframe, IBM AIX, HP-UX, and Linux environments Redhat, Solaris and Suse.
  • Expertise in building servers from scratch on the IBM Blade Center JS20, JS21 and JS22 , IBM RS 6000 9117-MMAs, P570, 9117-MMB's, P770, P550, P520, P55A and P505 HP 9000/Itanium RX-2660, 3600, 7640, 6600 ,8640 RP 3410, 3440, 4440, 5430, 7410, 7420 Redhat and Suse on IBM Blade Centers LS20, LS21 , also building Red Hat VM's using Windows vSphere SUN-now Oracle SUNFIRE-V240, V245, V280, V440, E250, V490, V880, SPARC T5120 .
  • Expertise in working with IBM VIO Servers and their VIO Clients, Logical Partitions LPARs , Network Installation Management NIM , and Hardware Management Console HMC HP-UX Virtual Machine's VM Server and Clients, Virtual Partitions vPAR also Virtual Machine's VM on Suse and Redhat.
  • Extensive experience with the IBM AIX OS versions 5.x 6.x and the IBM VIOS versions 1.x 2.x as well as the HP-UX Operating System versions 11.x Redhat versions 4.x 5.x 32 and 64 bit Solaris versions 8.x, 9.x, 10.x, 11.x Suse versions 10.x, 11.x 32 and 64 bit .
  • Planned, Tested, Implemented and Documented Advanced Replication across many servers to achieve Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, Reporting, Load Balancing, Performance Tuning and Online Backups.
  • Updated Disaster Recovery document and solution. Participated in every annual DR drills.
  • Expertise in Performance Tuning with OS Kernel, I/O, Memory, Processor as well as Database and Application Software.
  • Extensive experience with Upgrade and Patch Management for OS, HMC and Firmware:
  • Upgraded IBM AIX from 5L 5.2, 5.3 to AIX 6.1.
  • Migrated VIOS from 1.5 to 2.2.X
  • Upgraded HP-UX 11.00 to 11.11, 11.23, 11.31
  • Upgraded EMC's ODM software to 5.3.0.3 and PowerPath software to 5.3.1.0.
  • Upgraded HMC from 7.5.3.0.1 to 7.7.1.0.2.
  • Extensive experience with Logical Volume Manager LVM , OS Upgrades and System Administration Tools smitty AIX and smh/sam HP-UX , as well as Veritas Volume Mananger VxVM .
  • Strictly compliance to the Change Control Management procedures and policies as defined by the IT Organization. Wrote Standard Operating Procedure Manuals, Technical Manuals, User Guides and Training Manuals.
  • Considered a high-energy leader with a reputation for integrity and quality. Team oriented with excellent interpersonal communication skills. Lead teams of up to 10 members.

Operator I, II, II, Senior Operator

Confidential

  • Operated and maintained all computer hardware within the data center.
  • Maintained production schedules for all platforms and process all production applications.
  • Maintained on-line availability windows and mange all automated scheduling products.
  • Identified, investigated, and help resolve complex application, systems, network, and related problems.
  • Monitored/Resolved/Reported problems via system management, and problem reporting products such as Patrol/Command Post/Remedy/NDC .
  • Create AWK commands from scratch
  • Implemented escalation procedures for timely problem resolution, including DR procedures. Managed and maintained the tape library systems.
  • Logged vendor field service calls and provide technical support to the vendor field engineers.
  • Administered training documents in the operational procedures within the data center.
  • Administered all data center and corporate policies/procedures.

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