SUMMARY

• 6+ Years of experience in System Administration working on Linux (Redhat, SuSe, OEL), Sun Solaris, AIX, HP - UX, Cent OS and Windows NT/2000 environments.
• Installing, upgrading and configuring SUN Solaris Using Jumpstart Servers, Red hat Using Kickstart Server, AIX using NIM, Ignite using HP-UX and Interactive Installation.
• Expert in Data center operations including hardware, software setup monitoring, troubleshooting on a 24x7 basis with BMC patrol & Smart trouble ticketing Systems/remedy tickets/kintana tickets etc.
• Expertise in writing scripts for automation, and monitoring using Shell (bash, C and Ksh), Python and Perl scripts.
• Experience in writing shell scripts to automate the administrative tasks and management using cron.
• Used VBC (Video Bridge controller) for monitoring the IP’s of certain channel streams.
• Configured NIC Bonding on the servers, created File systems, extended the Logical Volume space as per the business requirements.
• Specialized in system administration and technical support on UNIX, Solaris, Linux platforms
• Strong skills in LVM Linux
• System build experience for Red Hat Linux Solid experience in networking and administration (NFS, NIS, FTP, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP and NTP
• Ability to work under pressure and do after-hours work for Projects and meet deadlines. Communicate project status and provide timely escalation of issues to ensure project objectives are met
• Enjoys learning new methods and ideas and putting them into daily practice
• Excellent problem solver, team player, communicator with good client facing skills
• Complete idea of the SDLC process.
• Experience in ConfigurationManagement.
• Increasing the Volumes and File system size.
• Encapsulating and mirroring the root disk.
• Proficient in Networking, configuring DNS, SSH, SSL, SFTP, SMTP, FTP.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Web Servers: Web Logic8.x, 9.x, 10.x and iplanet, Apache, WebSphere

UNIX Programming: Korn, C, Bourn Shell Scripting

Cluster: VERITAS Cluster Server, Sun Cluster Server, Redhat Clusters and Service Guard

Incident/Problem Management: HP-Open view, Applix, Remedy, BMC Portal, BMC Remedy

Operating system: Sun Solaris 10, 9, 8, Red Hat Linux ES, Windows

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Alexandria VA

Unix Engineer/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Performed data management using native Linux utilities for archiving and compression.
• Used VI editor to edit necessary files.
• Preventive maintenance (OS Patching) of red hat enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Administering user accounts.
• Virtual machines migrations.
• Server built by cloning within virtual centers.
• Volume and file system management in Linux and HP-UX environments (LVM).
• Configuring local firewall and managing iptables.
• Administered NFS on Sun, Solaris and Linux servers.
• Troubleshooting of network connectivity issues.
• Performed patch administration.
• Installed and configured Apache web server.
• Administered Apache web server.
• Troubleshooting server error messages.
• Monitored system uptime.
• Tracked disk space on servers when appropriate escalated system issues arose.
• Tracked and fixed problems using system logs
• Cleanly performed system startup and shutdown procedures

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Sr. Linux/Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing Patches and Packages on Sun Solaris Servers and Zone servers, Redhat Linux servers.
• Built and configured Servers with Unix based on client specification
• Performed automated installations of Operating System using kick start for Linux
• Installed and implemented Samba/DNS / NIS / Automount / NFS/ sendmail on the Linux servers
• Installed and configured Apache and supporting them on Linux production servers
• Performed RPM and YUM package installations
• Have good experience in shell/bash and worked aggressively to make the manual works simplified using these scripting languages
• Monitoring System Performance of Virtual Memory, Managing Swap space, Disk utilization.
• Managing Password security and resource, user’s privileges and roles.
• Generation of daily, weekly and monthly reports and the same would be communicated to the management. Attended weekly change management meeting and suggested various changes. Implemented all changes by following change management rules.

Confidential

UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installing Patches and Packages on Sun Solaris Servers and Zone servers, Redhat Linux servers
• Monitoring System Performance of Virtual Memory, Managing Swap space, Disk utilization.
• Applying cluster bundle patches on Sun Servers and Global zone servers.
• Managing Password security and resource, user’s privileges and roles.
• Zones creations, adding file system and cloning a Solaris zone.
• Managed and good knowledge on Redhat Linux LVM
• Installed and configured Apache and supporting them on Linux production servers
• Installed and configured MYSQL
• Monitoring the servers by using NAGIOS, SAR, Iostat, Vmstat, Mpstat and Other Tools.
• Solaris Volume Manager (SVM), Implementing RAID -0, RAID-1 and RAID-5 volumes.
• Installation of VERITAS Volume Manager 5.0 in Sun Servers environment.
• VERITAS File System creations.
• Online resizing using vxresize and vxassist commands, online relayout.
• Mirroring and Unmirroring.
• Encapsulation

Confidential, Lincolnshire,IL

Senior Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Volume and file system management in Linux environments (LVM).
• Installing, configuring and hardening Solaris and Linux servers.
• Preventive maintenance (OS Patching) of red hat enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Cloning of new severs within Red hat virtual centers.
• Volume and file system management in Solaris environments.
• Performed data management using native Solaris utilities for archiving and compression.
• Used VI editor to edit necessary files.
• Administering user accounts.
• NFS/CIFS file system mounting and support.
• Experience supporting Jboss, JVM and Apache within redhat environment.
• Troubleshooting user logins using various remote login utilities.
• Proficient in troubleshooting system problems.
• Performed administration and monitored job processes using associated commands.
• Monitored client disk quotas and general disk space usage. System performance monitoring and tuning.
• File space investigation and management.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting network connectivity.
• Set up mount points on Red hat and Solaris servers for Oracle database.
• Customized user environment for users.
• Monitored system logs.
• Performance Monitoring and capacity planning in anticipation of system resource usage and needs.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, configuration of Linux servers using Kickstart methods.
• Volume and file system management in Linux environments (LVM).
• Installed, configured and hardened Solaris and Linux servers, evaluated needs and installed appropriate recommended patches as needed.
• Configured and maintained Solaris virtual environments. Installed multiple sparse and whole root zones within one physical instance of Solaris 10.
• Performed data management using native Solaris utilities for archiving and compression.
• Used VI editor to edit necessary files.
• Experience with LDAP authentication.
• Preventive maintenance (OS Patching) of red hat enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Performed data management using native Linux utilities for archiving and compression
• Administered user accounts
• Troubleshooting user logins using various remote login utilities.
• Proficient in troubleshooting system problems.
• Performed administration and monitored job processes using associated commands.
• Monitored client disk quotas and general disk space usage. System performance monitoring and tuning.
• Maintaining and troubleshooting network connectivity.
• Set up mount points on Solaris servers for Oracle database.
• Customized user environment for users.
• Monitored system logs.
• NFS/CIFS file system mounting and support.

Confidential, Piscataway, NJ

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems.
• Introducing and integrating new technologies into existing data center environment.
• Responsible for performing backups.
• Responsible for applying operating system updates, patches and configuration changes.
• Installed and configured new software and hardware.
• Adding, removing and updating users account information and resetting passwords, etc.
• Responsible for system and data security.
• Troubleshooting any reported problems.
• Ensured that network infrastructure was up and running.
• Answered technical queries and dealt with often frustrated users.