SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of professional experience as a System Administrator with experience in operating systems that include Solaris, Redhat, SUSE, AIX and HP-UX.
• Extensive experience in Installation, Configuration, Maintenance, Design, Administration, Implementation, and Support on Solaris, Linux, AIX and HP-UX Environment.
• Extensive experience in Kickstart/Jumpstart of UNIX and LINUX Servers.
• Experience in installation, configuring, troubleshooting NetApp Storage filers, ONTAP.
• Extensive Knowledge on Aggregates/ Volumes/ Qtrees/ Quotas/ Snapshots.
• Experience in implementing and managing virtualization using VMware ESX 3.5 / vSphere 4.0.
• Experience in the implementation of High Availability using Veritas Cluster Server 4.1 and 5.1
• Experience in implementing and configuring of high availability and redundancy and RAID using Logical Volume Manager,Sun Volume Manager,Veritas Volume Manager 3.x, 4.x, 5.
• Experience working with DNS/DHCP/LDAP/NFS/NIS/NIS services.
• Installation, configuration and management of SAMP Solaris/Apache/MySql/PHP and LAMP LINUX/Apache/MySql/PHP stacks.
• Installation and configuration of Solaris Zones and ability to work with ZFS/SMF/POOLS.
• Experience in the configuration of the of the mail servers like Sendmail 8.13, 8.14.x and Postfix 1.x, 2.x
• Proficient in configuring the Data Communication Devices such as Routers, Switches, Hubs, Terminal servers and Troubleshooting LAN and First Level WAN Related Problems.
• Experience with high-end enterprise serversSun cool thread T2000, T6320,Sun EnterpriseM3000, M5000,Sun Midrange 4500, 6500, V480, V490, V890,E220, E4900, Sun Entry Level x4100, x4200, x4250, x4440, V440 Dell Poweredge Servers 1750, 1850, HP DL 360, 380, 385, 580, 585, c3000, BL600c.
• Implementation of backup solutions using VeritasNetBackup 4.5, 5 and 6.5 and HP Data Protector.
• Experience in Shell scripting using sh, ksh, bash and PERL
• Experience in Performance Monitoring of CPU, Memory, Disks, Network.
• Extensive experience with Troubleshooting of issues with applications, network, user hardware, naming services etc.
• Experience in storage technologies like Net Backup, Hitachi, EMC storage, NetApp, SAN.
• Very good troubleshooting experience with Cisco Networking devices like Routers/Switches.
• Software package deployment, disaster recovery/contingency of business management.
• Expertise in implementation and designing of disaster backup and recovery plan.
• Very good experience with documenting software usage procedures, network diagrams and project documentation.

SKILLS SUMMARY

PROJECT SUMMARY

Confidential

UNIX / Linux / Technical Support Engineer

• Installing Configuration and maintenance of Solaris 8/9/10, Redhat Linux 4/5, SUSE 10.3, 11.1, HP-UX 11.x and IBM AIX operating systems.
• Worked on configurations and installations Solaris and Linux servers using Custom Jumpstart, and Kick start.
• Configured System imager for Linux Servers and used it for Cloning, software distribution and OS updates and performed installations using pxeboot, on hundreds of Linux Servers
• Good working experience with Redhat Satellite Server for upgrading and patching Linux Servers.
• Installed, Configured and maintenance of DNS servers, DHCP Servers, Mail Servers, FTP servers, NIS, Samba and web servers.
• Implementing RAID 0, 1 and 0 1 levels using Veritas Volume Manager.
• Installed and configured VERITAS Volume Manager VxVM , Disk and file system management through Veritas Volume Manager, Solaris Volume Manager and Solstice Disk Suite on Solaris and using Logical Volume Manager LVM for other flavors of UNIX.
• Planning, documenting and supporting high availability, data replication, business persistence, fail-over, fail-back using Veritas Cluster Server in Solaris, Redhat Cluster Server in Linux and HP Service Guard in HP environment.
• Maintained virtual environments using VMware ESX 4.xServer and built various Linux servers on VMware servers.
• Administer, maintain and troubleshoot EMC CLARiiON arrays by creating volumes, LUNs and implementing different RAID levels. Configured and created snapshots of clones of LUNs using EMC Snap View.
• Involved in large data center migration planning, designing, moving servers to new data center, coordinating and troubleshooting issues with various data center, network, application and storage teams
• Installation, Configuration and Administration of Web Logic, WebSphere and Apache Servers in Linux and Solaris Servers.
• Maintaining Remedy environments used for the ticketing system and Sales Force CSone Ticketing System.
• Scheduling of automatic repetitive Jobs, and Shell Scripts with Crontab.
• Monitoring Virtual memory, Swap management, and Disk and CPU utilization by using various monitoring tools.
• Involved in mass migration of data form old EMC Storage subsystems to new Subsystems.
• Working Knowledge on Tivoli Storage manager.

Environment: Linux RHEL4/5,SUSE 10/11, Solaris 8/9/10, HP-UX 11/11i, AIX 5.3L, Sun Enterprise Server, SunFire 6800/ E6500/ E4500 E3500, SunSparc1000, Sun V440, V490, TSeries, MSeries, HP-9000, rx8640, K, L, N Class Server, HP DL380,580,IBM RS/6000, pSeries Server, Veritas Volume Manager , LVM, Veritas File System, Veritas Cluster Server , Shell Scripting Korne Bourne , Sendmail Protocol, Apache Weblogic Server , DLT 7000 tape drive, Superdome blade servers, Windows 2000 / 2003, SAN / EMC.

Confidential

UNIX / Linux / Storage System Administrator

• Installation, configuration, maintenance, Administration, and support of Solaris/Redhat/SUSE on Dell and HP hardware.
• Kickstart/Jumpstart multiple servers with hands-off installation using Synopsys standard images.
• Troubleshooting issues related to DNS, NIS, NFS, DHCP, Sendmailon Linux and Solaris Operating Systems.
• Working knowledge on the TCP/IP protocols RSH, SSH, RCP, SCP.
• Worked extensively on Corp-Unix, Data Center, Storage and INTEL Frontline queue's almost every day in one of those and these Frontline Queues have enough challenges ranging from customer tasks, user requests to trouble shooting system issues within a timeframe.
• Worked in building of the new ESSM Storage Team SharePoint site right from the scratch and I have worked in the design, organization and documentation part of the site.
• Installing the Clustered Filers and Single head filers right from labeling the filer to installing, configuring and pushing the filer into production.
• Assisted on the Storage Partition Allocations, Modifications to the existing partitions, volumes, and aggregates on the filers according to the requests from the Business unit storage mangers
• Working Knowledge on NDMP, RSYNC data transfer applications.
• Involved in the storage Inventory collection, fixing the storage related partition issues which helped in FY13 planning tasks.
• Acquired good knowledge on Storage Monitoring tools GSR, FSMON and MOTD.
• Dealt efficiently in Data loss scenarios, presenting a plan and different options to the customer and recovering data from their backups and configuring their partitions by adding the security to the data in avoiding the data deletions.
• Played a critical role during the downtime owning the tasks related to ONTAPUpgrade, Bios Upgrade and RE-IP of the filers.
• Acquired good working knowledge on Retirement of the NetApp filers and replacing the NetApp Faulty Filer Drives.
• Working on partition backups/ snapshots related tasks.
• Maintenance of Magma tape backups and troubleshooting magma system issues.
• Extensively used RCS Protocols in checking out and checking in the code changes to the RCS revisions.
• Monitoring of Network and Systems using NAGIOS.
• Administration of Network and Serial Consoles using Cisco Hardware switches and routers.
• Perl and Shell scripting in bash to automate the repetitive administrative tasks.
• Documenting processes and troubleshooting scenarios on runbooks.
• Provided 24x7 on call and remote support for production issues and responding to user's tickets

Environment: Solaris 8/9/10, Redhat Linux 4/5, SUSE 10/11, Sun Enterprise Servers, SUNFIRE X4150, DELL POWEREDGE 1850, Dell POWEREDGE R710, R715, R810, R815, R910, HP PROLIANT DL360 G1, G2, HP PROLIANT DL145 , IBM E326M, X3550, LDAP, DNS, NIS, NIS , NFS, SNMP, Cisco Routers/Switches, Shell scripting Bash, Perl, NetApp FAS 22xx, 32xx, 62xx, ONTAP 7.x.x/8.x.x, RSYNC, NDMP, Sun Tape Library, Hitachi Data Systems.

Confidential

Solaris/Linux/ System Administrator

• Installation, configuration, maintenance, Administration, and support on Solaris / Redhat Linux/ SUSE Linux.
• Responsible for maintaining the integrity and security of the enterprise UNIX Linux /Solaris servers and systems.
• Image machines using Jumpstart / Kickstart to install Solaris 10 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Installation and configuration of Solaris Zones.
• Maintains a disaster recovery plan. Creates backup capabilities adequate for the recovery of data and understands concepts and processes of replication for disaster recovery.
• Maintains DNS, NFS, DHCP, printing, mail, web, and FTP services for the enterprise.
• Manages UNIX account maintenance including additions, changes, and removals.
• User administration for all the NIS users.
• Supporting NetApp filers by closely working with the NetApp storage team.
• Name Service design, best-practices, configuration maintenance NIS, LDAP, DNS
• Installation, configuration and management of SAMP Solaris/Apache/MySQL/PHP and LAMP LINUX/Apache/MySQL/PHP stacks.
• Provide off shift on call support for system support. Make system hardware and software recommendations as required.
• Configure and Manage Sun / Dell and HP hardware.
• Installation configuration and management of VeritasNetbackup VXVM, VCS, ZFS, LVM, Virtualization Xen, SolarisZones/Containers, LDOMS, Oracle VM .
• Working knowledge on Sun Directory ldap , Solaris Volume Manager, Jumpstart/Wanboot, Kickstart, iscdhcp, Sendmail, Apache, NIS, NFS, Subversion/CVS, Compiling and Package creation.
• Assist application owner in application troubleshooting, software package installation creation.
• Perform backup / restore and monitorNetbackup HP Data Protector backup tools.
• Perform Tape handling for all the filled tapes coming out of the MSL Tape libraries.
• Configuration, administration and management of external storage SAN/NAS .
• Writing shell Perl scripts to automate redundant jobs.
• Installation and configuration of HA environment using Sun or Veritas Cluster.
• Setup NIC bonding for servers with critical information.
• Recommends and implements security policies and standards and ensures adherence to procedures.
• Provided 24x7 on call and remote support for UNIX Production Problems and responding to user's tickets from HP-OVSC.

Environment: Solaris 8/9/10, Redhat Linux 4/5/5.2/5.4/5.6, Netboot Gentoo, SUSE, Sun Enterprise Servers, SUN FIRE 6800/E6500/E4500, Sun Sparc1000, Dell Poweredge, Acma, Mazda with Storage Array, IBM RS/6000, Disk Suite, Veritas Volume Manager 3.x/4.x, LDAP, DNS, NIS, NIS , NFS, SNMP, Cisco Routers/Switches, Shell scripting Korn, Bourne, Perl , Oracle, SENDMAIL, Apache, Tomcat ,WebSphere, Sun and Veritas Clusters, SAMP and LAMP stack.

Confidential

System Administrator Solaris/Linux Administrator

• Installationof Red Hat EL 4.x, 5.x using Kickstart and PXE on HP Blade Servers.
• Member of UNIX Administration team with responsibilities that included planning migrations, troubleshooting VCS, working closely with Oracle team to fix problems.
• Jumpstart and Flash Installation of Solaris10 on Sun SPARC T2000 and M5000Servers for testing, production and disaster recovery setup as required.
• Administration of Services using SMF and converting legacy services to be managed by SMF. Error detection and Observation of services
• Implementation of non global zones for Oracle. Patching of zones and migration of zones from Sun v440 to Sun M5000
• Performed volume management using VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1, 5.0 which included the encapsulation, initialization, root disk mirroring, export / import of disk groups etc. Created file systems using ZFS and setup quotas in zpools.
• Mirroring of root disks using Sun Volume Manager and configuration of RAID 5 soft partitions, detaching of mirrors in SVM, added root disk in SVM.
• Implemented VERITAS Cluster 5.0 for Oracle 10g and Sun JES Web Server 6.1Installation and support of applications like Apache 2.2, Sun JES Web Server 6.1, Oracle 10g and Sybase 12.5 on Solaris 10.
• Creation and administration of software packages and checking the integrity of installed packages using native rpm on Redhat servers and pkg commands on Solaris.
• Planning, migration of applications and testing during data center move. Solaris 10 migration from E220, V440, V890 to M5000.
• Extensive troubleshooting of issues related to network, hardware, Operating System, applications, users, and resource failovers on VCS 5.0 etc.
• Automated repetitive administrative tasks like parsing of files, creating users, backing up file systems, transfer of files for ftp and sftp etc. using bash, korn shell

Environment: Solaris 10, Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, Veritas Storage Foundation 5, VeritasNetbackup 6.5, Oracle 10g and Powerpath, Microsoft Windows 2003, Sun servers E220, V440, V890, M5000, T2000, Dell PowerEdge 1850, 2850, HP BL600, c3000, Sun Storage 7110, EMC DMX 3.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

• Creating and Authenticating Windows user accounts on Citrix server.
• Maintaining DNS Server using BIND.
• Configured and administered backups of UNIX systems.
• System accounting and disk space usage monitoring.
• Installing and configuring Windows Active directory server 2000 and Citrix Servers.
• Installing, configuring and updating Solaris 7, 8, Red Hat 7.x, 8, 9, Windows NT/2000 Systems using media and Jumpstart and Kickstart.
• Creating System Disk Partition, mirroring root disk drive, configuring device groups in UNIX and Linux environment.
• Working with Veritas Volume Manager 3.5 and Logical Volume Manager for file system management, data backup and recovery.
• User administration which included creating backup account for new users and deleting account for the retired or deleted users.
• Managing Tape Drives and recycling it after specific period of time as per the firm's policies.
• Installing and configuring Oracle 8i database server on Solaris after creating the file systems, users and tuning the kernel.
• Installed and Configured SSH Gate for Remote and Secured Connection.
• Setting up labs from scratch, testing hardware, installing and configuring various hardware devices like printers, scanners, modems, network and communication devices.
• Configuration of DHCP, DNS, NFS and automounter.
• Creating, troubleshooting and mounting NFS Filesystems on different OS platforms.
• Troubleshooting and solving problems related to users, applications, hardware etc.
• Working 24/7on call for application and system support.

Environment: Solaris 7, 8,Redhat Linux 7.x, 8, 9, Windows 2000/NT, Veritas Volume Manager, Oracle 8i, SSH Gate, Cisco router, Brocade switches, DHCP, DNS, NFS, Automounter