SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience in Sun Solaris/Unix and Linux System Administration in a Distributed and multiserver Environment.
• Responsibilities and experience include installation and configuration, of Sun Solaris 8,9,10 and Redhat 5.x, 4.0.
• Worked on various HP Server such as DL 385, DL 380, DL 580, DL 585, and Sun Entry level servers like Sun Fire V240, V245, V280, V440, Midrange servers like Sun Fire V480, V880, V490 and has also worked on Sun 6800/6900, 15K/25K and T - series systems. Working knowledge on IBM P-series like p570, p550.
• Worked on Veritas Volume manager 3.5, 4.0, 4.1 and 5 Veritas Clustering configurations, installation, troubleshooting and volume management using Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) on Solaris and Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on Linux and experienced in RAID 1, 5, 51, 10, 01 configuration.
• Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration, performance tuning on UNIX and system software & hardware.
• Experience with containers and zones on Solaris 10. Successfully migration of Systems, Application’s, Databases and Web Servers from domain’s to zones.
• Configured Networking Concepts DNS, NIS, NFS and DHCP, troubleshooting network problems such as TCP/IP, providing support for users in solving their problems
• Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Configured Linux on x86 based servers for security and other development projects.
• Achievement oriented with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Proven strength in troubleshooting, problem solving, coordination, analysis and a proven track record of success.
• A good team player with ability to lead a team by example and motivate them to achieve desired objectives. Willing to take on extra responsibilities to get work done.
• Involved in design, implementation and troubleshooting of complex systems and networks, which spans across multiple protocols, topologies and physical media.
• Knowledge of network devices which includes Cisco switches, routers and firewalls.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 8/9/10, Linux Red Hat Enterprise 3/4/5

Hardware: SunT2000 Servers, SunX4200, SunFire 10K/ 15K/ 25K 6900/2900/880/480/440/220 , Sun Enterprise 4500/3500/450/250 servers, Sun Enterprise 4000/5000, Ultra and SPARCstation’s, HP DL 380/385/580/585 (G1/G2/G5)

Special Software: Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, LVM, NFS, Autofs, NIS, Apache Web Server, Clustering, Virtualization, Multipathing

Languages: ksh, bash, perl

Virtualization: VMware, Zones, LPAR, LDOM, Containers

Protocols: TCP/IP, HTTP, UDP, ARP,RARP,SMTP, NTP, IPX/SPX, RIP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Unix/Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Administration of Solaris 8, 9 and 10 using Jump start server including performance monitoring, scaling and capacity planning and hardware maintenance of Sun fire servers.
• Performing patches installation, Patch upgrades and packages installation on Sun Solaris Servers.
• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Web Servers, Application Servers and Database Servers on Sun Solaris.
• Setting up RAID levels on Sun Storage Equipments using Veritas Volume Manager and Solstice Disk suite on new/existing production/development systems for reliability, fault tolerance, and availability.
• Adding/expanding new storage to existing/new systems using Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Storage Foundation and Veritas File system in SAN environment.
• Installation of web logic, upgraded to service pack updates, installed BEA patches, configuring and creation new domain & services starting & stopping.
• Setting up network environments using NIS, NFS.
• Load balancing between computers for resource utilization, response time.
• Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Planning and implementing Backup and Restore procedures using Veritas Net Backup 5.1.
• Installed and configured SAMBA, APACHE, and Web logic server for Solaris and Windows connectivity.
• Plan, document and implement for Disaster Server Recovery and Documenting Maintenance process and change management.
• Provided customer support, help/troubleshoot users to resolve server, network, and other system wide problems.
• Supported, enhanced and maintained a heterogeneous UNIX network of Solaris 24x7 financial environment.
• Installation, Management, Configuration of LAN/WAN systems utilizing switches and routers.
• Configured various services, devices as well as applications of UNIX servers and worked with application team to customize the environment. Worked with Apache and developed several UNIX scripts to automate web tasks
• Managed existing documentation for systems and created new procedures to support new products. Created documentation for disaster recovery project.
• Tasks extensive user and group management through admin tool.

Environment: Solaris 8/9/10, RHEL 3/4/5, Sun Fire 6800/v880, Sun Enterprise E3500, E4500, E450, Sun Ultra Sparc 60, Veritas Volume Manager 4.1, Solaris Volume Manager, Veritas Net backup 5.1, SAMBA .

Confidential, Portland, Maine

Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administering, monitoring and troubleshooting UNIX, Sun Solaris, Red Hat Linux production servers
• Resized volumes using Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
• Installed OS and application patches, packages and scheduled & implemented change controls
• Performed 24x7 monitoring for all application software on high availability UNIX environments
• Administering, troubleshooting and problem determination for mixed UNIX environments of over 400 servers worldwide using BMC Patrol software tools, and native Unix tools
• Veritas Net backup 5.0. Monitoring for various client backup policies, and taking care of restore requests.
• Added new hardware to systems (Disks, Tapes). Created new file systems
• Performed daily maintenance routines on SUN servers, monitoring system access, managing file space and tuning the system for optimum performance.
• Responsible for adding, creating new users, groups and setup their home directories and appropriate access restrictions to software and directories & files using access modes.
• Diagnosing hardware/software problems and provide solutions.
• Performed error analysis and recovery, documentation and procedures required for reference
• Solaris Patch and Security Management.
• Troubleshooting Solaris network problems.
• Administering NFS Mounts.
• Monitored, Controlled and performed all scheduled activities on Data center Systems and remote application servers
• Quick response to the problems to meet the SLA and real time monitoring of servers and troubleshooting day to day issues.
• Involved in development, user acceptance, performance testing, production & disaster recovery servers.

Environment: Sun Enterprise 4500/3500/450/250/420 R/220R servers, Sun Enterprise 4000/5000, Ultra 80/60/10, Sun Solaris 10/9/8/7, Linux Red Hat Enterprise 3/4

Confidential, Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Day to day administration of more than 50 plus Sun Servers/Work Stations which include Sun Ultra Enterprise and Sunfire servers
• Administering and maintaining the latest servers Sun Enterprise 4500/3500 servers
• Performance Tuning, Administering the backups, User management & performance monitoring.
• Administering the Terminal Servers, Installations, Automating the routine tasks thru Scripts.
• User maintenance, Performance tuning of all the servers.
• Creating and maintaining NFS, NIS.
• Adding Packages and Patches Upgrading systems from Solaris 2.7 to Solaris 8. Installation and maintenance of printers.
• Worked with Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Net Backup, Active Directory and SUN Blade 6000 in all Environments and working with RPM to update the servers
• Fine tuning of servers and configuring networks for optimum performance
• Planning and implementing system upgrades including hardware, operating system and periodical patch upgrades.
• Setting up network environments using TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, SNMP agents, DHCP and Proxy
• Writing shell scripts as per requirements
• Evaluation and testing of new Hardware/Software
• Documenting Maintenance process and change management
• Plan, document and implement Disaster Recovery test cases
• Creating, Scheduling and Managing crone jobs.

Environment: Sun Solaris 8/7/2.6, RedHat Linux 3/4.Sun Ultra Enterprise (450/250/420R/220R/80/60/30/10/5).

Confidential

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Administration of Solaris 7 and 8 Operating System on Sun Servers.
• Providing day-to-day user administration like adding or deleting users, password aging, installation, configuration and administration of UNIX and Windows NT Servers.
• Provided support for local and remote users.
• Troubleshooting Backup and Restore problems.
• Constant Monitoring of System Performance. Involved in Day-to-Day trouble shooting for the end users on Solaris based applications.
• Installed and Configured Send mail Utility on UNIX Servers.
• Performed backup/restore operations using tar, ufsdump, ufsrestore.
• Limited time Work experience on Windows OS Administration.
• Resolving Operating Systems related issues of Solaris, making sure that the users get the proper environment for testing. Coordinating and planning for better utilization of resources in Labs and Reporting the management about it.

Environment: Sun Ultra Enterprise 450/250 Sun Solaris 6/7/8, Windows98, 2000 operating systems, and Intel based servers and desktops.