SUMMARY

• Experienced in installation, support, configuration, performance tuning, troubleshooting maintenance of Solaris and Linux on Sun servers using Custom Jumpstart Server, Kick start and Interactive installation.
• 11 Years of IT Experience and 9 Years of Unix Admin Experience
• Experience in Back-up and Restore management by using normal back-up tape drives and VERITAS Net Back-up
• Experience in Zones/Containers and LDOMS in Solaris, Creating global and non global zones, modified zone parameters and creating file systems on global and non-global zones
• Proficient with VERITAS Volume Manager VxVM , VERITAS Cluster Services VCS , Solaris Volume Manager SVM , Solstice Disk suite, Sun Cluster, HP service Guard. Creating and managing RAIDs by using, VERITAS Volume Manager and Solaris Volume Manager in Solaris, using LVM in RHEL and HP-UX.
• Experience in Oracle database and Netbackup applications in cluster environment to resolve the production issues.
• Experience on CLsearch Application and the client Feeds and Taleo Implementation on UNIX environment.
• Experience with installation, configuration, upgrade and administration of IBM pSeries and Power5/Powerer6 servers on various levels of AIX operating system utilizing environment
• Worked on high-end Sun enterprise servers like E15ks, E20ks, M5000s, M8000s, T2000's, T5120's and T5140's

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior System Core Engineer/Lead

Responsibilities:

• Managing and assisting a team of 10 members on different location.
• Soalris Installation,Configuration and documentation 24 x 7 Production support experience, SUN Virtualization LDOMS ZONES Veritas Volume Management and Cluster, Problem Determination/Resolution..
• Project coordination, resource allocation, planning, forecasting.
• Pushing client feeds from Solaris landing zone server to different production windows box using Shell script.
• Responsible for Deployment, Maintenance, Patching Live Solaris Servers, Upgrade Linux Servers, and troubleshoot of roughly 4550 Unix/Linux servers.
• Creating and Moving a Solaris zone to a different machine without rebuilding a zone.
• Detach and Attach Veritas Volume manager and Solaris volume manager
• Creating and Assigning Production issue ticket through ITSM change management.
• Creating and Installing Linux/Solaris O/s in Vmsphere Vphere Client.
• Enabling oracle odm from Solaris local zone.
• Designing and Architecture of IBM OPTIM for file archiving.
• Responsible for Deployment, Maintenance, Patching Live Solaris Servers, Upgrade Linux Servers, and troubleshoot of roughly 4550 Unix/Linux servers.
• Vendor Co-ordination. Provide assistance in replacements and upgrade including motherboard, memory, CPU, disk etc.
• Documentation and Architecture of all Key process using Microsoft Visio.
• Working on Change, problem and Incident Management Using BMC Remedy 7 and 6.
• Co-coordinating and Reporting to Top Management on several Critical Issues.
• Setup SPID certificate on UNIX environment in order to have secure FTPs file transfer from the RDH server.
• Uploading and File transferring xml's files and confirming with CTM team on application, job/table naming conventions.
• Creating Linux RPM package script then uploading and executing the package through Bladgelogic ver8 on TEST,UAT and PROD environment.
• Identifying and Filling the unix Monitoring gaps and documenting.
• Working on various Unix Monitoring tools like BMC portal,BPPM,X-Matters,VM turbo,HP-SIM,GMOP,Veritas operation Manager and Atternity.
• Enabling syslog logs via SUMOLogic
• Coordinating with DBA team in creating ORACLE database server/cloning.
• Creating ssh keys and home dir for admin account.
• Creating dynamic config files for linux vms.
• Migrating ESXis 4.x vm's across datacenters.

SAN

• Adding luns to the clone and sancopy process.
• Adding new EMC disk on OEL RAC clusters.
• Removing power path dead paths.

Environment : HP ProLiant 580,380,480 BMC portal,Solaris 10 sparc, RHEL v5,v6, Bladelogic, vsphere client, Hp insight, Sumo logic, VERITAS Vxvm,Vcs ,LVM, Linux, EMC, VmAx,M9000,M5000,Avocent,ILOM,ALOm,Zones,Patching.

Confidential

Unix/AIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Providing Level 3 Production Support
• Experience with installation, configuration, upgrade and administration of IBM pSeries and Power5/Powerer6 servers on various levels of AIX operating system utilizing environment. .
• Creating and configuring standard LPAR assigned physical I/O.
• BLadeLogic
• Managing, Creating working on Remedy Change management ticket.
• Configuring and Installing the Lpar client through the Bladelogic through post provisioning job.
• Setting up the nim client on the nim server using smitty nim and smitty bosinst.
• Installing stack like autosys, avamar, networker, dpa, patrol agent and trendmicro on all the production Lpars through Bladelogic
• Set up and configure virtual recourses virtual scsi, virtual Ethernet, virtual FC
• Coordinating with application teams to schedule AIX 6.1 maintenance on QA/DEV
• Requesting for new lun with tier 1 Replication to the storage team and enabling the path to login to the fabric
• Performed Audit/Compliance to install and maintain security updates and patches through BladeLogic
• Analyzed and resolved hardware and software issues
• Coordinate with vendors, development, business partners and escalation support teams
• Provide 24 7 production support and performed weekend changes during tech window
• Installation and configuration of duel Virtual I/O servers and clients
• Prerequisites, creating procedures and configuration for Bladelogic documentation
• Configuration of Zones on solaris 10
• Performed AIX 5.3 / 6.1 installation using NIM server
• Experience in LVM, which includes creating VG, LV and file system
• Enabling x11 forwarding on etc/ssh/sshd config.

Environment : IBM AIX v5.3, v6.1 , p750 and p740,p-650, p-630, LPAR, DLPAR, Dual Virtual I/O, Multiple HMC WebSM, Webex , NIM, KORN Shells, TSM, SAP, NetApp, BladeLogic and Oracle, DB2, Tivoli Workload Scheduler TWS , Tivoli Management Framework TMF ,Tivoli Storage Manager TSM ,Oracle/DB2.

Confidential

Senior. UNIX/LINUX system Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Providing Level 3 Production Support 24/7 to Chase businesses internally, for 6000 servers, managing and maintaining Solaris 8,9,10 and Redhat Linux responsible for any issues which were hosted on Solaris and Dell servers.
• Managing, Creating working on Remedy Change management ticket.
• Executed several changes to extend the file system using VERITAS Volume Manager and also mirroring the root disk.
• Responsible for implementing ECM's Enterprise Change Management for patching Solaris and Redhat Linux servers
• Rebuilding the server using the Jump start and kick start.
• Configuration of APACHE web server on Solaris 10 and enabling the service.
• Responsible to analyzing and validating the OS of servers built by build team.
• Created Zpools Veritas volumes with on Global and Zpools on Ldom and Zones of Solaris 10
• Backup of files and data using VERITAS netbackup version 6.5
• Deploy scripts to monitor system performance , disk space, memory usage , CPU usage ,network usage ,application servers and application logs with e-mail.
• Involved in severity 1 issues and resolved according to the SLA
• Configuration of Zones on solaris 10
• Configuring logical domains LDoms ,on sparc machines in sun O/S 10
• Applying Solaris 9, 10 OS latest Patch in the cluster environment
• Following things done in the process of post build tasks on Solaris and Linux servers.
• Involved in upgrading VERITAS volume manager from 4.0 to 5.0 in the cluster environment.
• Worked on applying VERITAS 4.1 MP2 Patch for the netbackup servers.
• Creation of specific file systems and user privileges, necessary post installation tuning of kernel parameters for performance improvement.
• Following things done in the process of post build tasks on Solairs and Linux servers.
• Managing disks and disk groups using LVM Linux logical Volume Manger in virtual machines.
• Configuration and administration of Solaris Volume Manager Root Disk Mirroring using SVM
• Performing disk replacement which are under the control of SVM and also VxVM Installing additional software, depot and patch management
• Responsible for working on severity 2 Incident tickets for issues.
• Coordinating with Oracle DBA team in Tuning Disk I/O and setting semaphores /cloning
• Shell Scripting to check the health status for particular Solaris server that will throw a status report at a scheduled time.
• Power path upgrade on Red hat Linux servers.
• Responsible for performing all of the End-User and Group management tasks in SUN platform
• Installed and upgraded OS and new software.
• Created and configured DNS, Setup NFS and NIS in SUN and Linux Environment based Server.

Other Data Center Migration Responsibilities:

• Involved in Migrating data between the servers in the cluster environment from one data center to other by failing the application to the DR site.
• Worked on syncing 6TB of data between the PROD Site and DR Site using Rsync
• Worked with EMC for SAN SRDF Migration Migrating SAN to new symmetric frames

Environment : 15k box, m5000, sun fire, V240, V440, V490, V880, E2900, E25K, T5240, 15k,M5000,,Linux,Ubuntu,Veritas volume manger 4.0, Peregrine, hubeq, brews, ssh, TAMS, ECM, avocent.

Confidential

Unix/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Working in a Real time production environment and R12 infrastructure support engineer
• Creating and updating ticket in HP service management HPSM .
• Responsible for Installing of Oracle 10g and 11g using X-manager in ULTRA sun sparc box
• Implemented Nagios to monitor the Traffic Analysis, process utilization of both server and client and also setting up threshold which sends an alert when it exceeds the threshold.
• Responsible for Installation and Configuration of FreeBSD 7.1
• Deployed packages using yum in Red Hat Linux 5.0
• Created logical file system in the volume group in Linux 5.0
• Setting up of the logical volume in Linux
• Implementation of RAID techniques and the creation of Disk groups and volumes, plex using VERITAS Volume manager 4.1. manager
• Configured and Installed LDOMS on sparc machines in sun O/S 10.
• Configured Hardware level raid mirroring on sun ultra sparc boxes
• Responsible for OS HARDENING, passing through vulnerable assessment from Security Control group
• Worked on VERITAS cluster Installation 5.0. Cluster user management and System Operation command using hasys
• Worked with the DBA team in creating ORACLE database server
• Setting semaphores in /etc/system for ORACLE
• Good working knowledge in VI editor
• Permanent mounting of slices in vfstab with ufs options
• Configuring Network file sharing in /etc/dfs/dfstab for end users.
• Developed shell script for Daily Health report of sun boxes and generated with Crontab.
• Responsible for Configuring and administering multiple whole-root module ZONES with shared capped memory and cpu
• Worked on infrastructure software TIBCO
• Responsible for configuring IP Multi-Pathing on multiple-interface
• Responsible for all OS patching and installing packages, Hardware and software upgrades on all SUN platforms.
• Troubleshoot and analyze potential problems pertaining to hardware and software
• Knowledge on SAN
• Documenting of various steps and procedures of implementations and Issue resolutions.
• Configuration and Administration of Disk, File System File Security on sun ultra sparc t5220 and t5120.
• Jumpstart installation and NFS mounting
• Client co-ordination on various issues

Environment: Sun ultra sparc t5220 and t5120, Sun Fire 6800/4800/480/280/V100,Sun solaris8 10,Linux,Ubuntu,Veritas volume manger4.0,Nagios,HPSM,Oracle database, Oracle 10g and 11g,Hp manager service, SSH,X-manger 3.0,TIBCO,AIX,Unicenter

Confidential

UNIX System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working in a real time production environment and R12 infrastructure support engineer
• Installation of Intel X86, Sun E250, E450, Sun E3000, Sun Fire v440/v480/v490 with Solaris 9. Configuring NFS and NIS Servers.
• Responsible for configuring Raid levels using Solaris Volume manager and VERITAS volume manager.
• Prevented downtime of business critical applications by reaching out to application owners and implementing the monitoring solution for the purpose of being proactive
• Responsible for NIC and Duplex speeding on interfaces
• Responsible for OS hardening to ensure there are vulnerable ports are opened, services and permissions enabled.
• Handling auto mount issues for user's home directories and application directories
• Installed Network/PC hardware and software. Performed PC diagnostic and repair
• Responsible as a team member of Configuring and Installed Nagios on Ubuntu
• Implemented and configured of Disk, File System File Security.
• Key role in deployment, installation and configuration of Sun Servers in production environment.
• Providing day-to-day user administration like adding or deleting users, password aging.
• Systems administration, maintenance, and monitoring various day-to-day operations
• Network backup using ufsdump and tar on Solaris 9
• Creating new file system, mounting, un-mounting
• Backup Restoring File System on a regular schedule.
• Responsible for scheduling jobs using crontab and at jobs.
• Installing and maintaining software packages Patches.
• Syslog Configuration
• Managing various system processes
• Interacting with various International customers on system issues
• Top performer awarded for the Q4 2008

Environment: X86, Sun E250, E450, Sun E3000, Sun Fire v440/v480/v490 with Solaris 9. Solaris Volume Manager, CRM Clarify,IBM director console,IBM blade servers.

Confidential

UNIX System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working in a real time production environment
• Installing and configuring new hardware/software.
• Sun O/S installed and configured in E250 and E450.
• Worked on HP Unix 10.x Operating system
• Adding/deleting/creating/ user account information, resetting password
• SunOS , Solaris 9 installation and setup, File system setup, User account Maintenance, Security
• Configured/Maintained DNS, NFS, NIS SENDMAIL servers Implemented Firewalls routing for connectivity using DHCP, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, HTTP/s, SMTP, SOAP SSH protocols
• Handling Installations and Upgrades of OS and Patches.
• Used VMware for testing various applications on different operating system
• Responsible for Creating, Modifying and Deleting Groups and Users
• Configured and Managed NFS with Auto mount
• Implementation of RAID 1, 5
• Performing OK boot prompt tasks
• Creating new file system, mounting, un-mounting.
• Responsible for Managing HP Proliant DL380, and DL580 Rack Based Servers
• Responsible for Managing Compaq 6400r Rack Based Server
• Maintained and configured Windows 2003 server installation
• Scheduling differential Back-up and Restore using VERITAS v10.1 on windows.
• Responsible for Managing DELL Power edge 110t with VERITAS backup software
• Configuring Hardware and Software RAID
• Preparing and Securing File systems through group policy and applying permissions
• Virus Protection using Norton and Trend in windows box
• Managing D-link, Intel Express 510T and 550T Manageable Switches
• Trained ISO Internal Auditor

Environment: Sun E250, 450, Vmware, Dell Pweredge 110t, Veritas, Intel Express 510T and 550T, Hp Proliant DL380 and DL580, SSH protocols

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Sun Solaris 9 Administration on e250,e450 and Sunx86
• Performed custom jumpstart to install Sun OS on sun servers/workstations
• Implementing file sharing on the network by configuring NFS on the system to share essential resources
• User Management
• Configuration and Administration of Disk, File System File Security.
• Managing process control
• Performing OK boot prompt tasks.
• Backing up Restoring File System using ufs dump
• Installation of OS Windows 9x/Xp/2000 /2003 , Hardware Maintenance
• Troubleshooting, Identifying, Isolating and System hardware problems
• Hardware integration and software requirements for projects and Disaster recovery planning, Implementation and support to system in case of system crash or hardware failures. Work with DBA's for pre-installation planning.

Environment: Sun E250 and E450,Sun x86,Windows 2003 server