SUMMARY:

• Proficient in Networking, configuring TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, NIS+, SAMBA, LDAP, SSH, SSL, SFTP, SMTP, SNMP.
• 8+ years of Strong Experience in LINUX/UNIX Administration, Shell Scripting with expertise in Red - hat Linux 3, 4 and 5, Solaris 8, 9 and 10. HP-UX 11.i, AIX 5.1, 5.3 and 6.1, Windows 2003, WebLogic, WebSphere JAVA, J2EE Applications and SQL.
• Strong in troubleshooting, monitoring, and 24/7 production support in mission critical environments Worked with systems support team to define, architect and maintain highly available production systems.
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Integration, Tuning, Backup, Crash recovery, Upgrades, Patching, Monitoring System Performance, System and Network Security and Troubleshooting of Unix Servers.
• Experience in implementing and monitoring High Availability environment using Veritas Cluster Server, Sun Cluster, Redhat Cluster, HP Service Guard, HP Insight Manager, Smart Start and HACMP.
• Configured and used Jumpstart, Kickstart, Ignite and NIM to install OS.
• Worked on Solaris 10 Container Technology. Created and maintained local zones.
• Managed resources for zones using Solaris 10 container technology.
• Solaris Live Update Technology associated with an operating system upgrade or maintenance.
• Strong experience in VERITAS Clusters in supporting high availability mission critical servers.
• Experienced with the installation, configuration and volume/File system management using Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and Solstice Disk Suite (Solaris Volume Manager).
• Backup management and recovery policies using VERITAS Net-Backup.
• Experience in creating physical volume, logical volume, volume groups using LVM’s in Linux/AIX, HP-UX (ITANIUM and PA-RISC) and SVM, GFS(global file system) and ZFS in Solaris.
• Experience in VMware Installed and monitored Virtual environments with ESX 3.x servers and Virtual Center 2.X
• Experienced in working with Storage Area Network (SAN), EMC CLARiiON CX, EMC Symmetrix DMX, EMC MirrorView, HP storage and Hitachi data storage.
• Expert in Installation, configuration of Patches and Packages.
• Experience in installation, configuration and administration of WebLogic and Web sphere Servers.
• Proficient in Installation, Configuration, Support & Maintenance of various Sun Sparc Enterprise hardware’s and RedHat5.x Linux Servers located at Remote Locations. Deployment of Application Software ( E-Com/J2EE, B2B, B2C, Oracle, Sql Server, ERP(SAP, Oracle Apps, People soft) )
• Experience in providing day-to-day user administration like adding and deleting users and managing users queries.
• Excellent in System performance tuning Configuration
• Sound understanding of IT Infrastructure Administration with project management skills.
• Providing 24/7 technical support to Production environments
• Experience in configuration and testing Disaster Recovery Site.
• Experience in writing Shell/Perl Scripts.
• Technical professional with management skills, excellent business understanding and strong communication skills.
• Good at Project management & Configuration management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: SUN Enterprise- E 5000/5500/6500 , SUNFIRE 3800/4800/6800 , E10K/15K Series Servers, HP-9000, rx8640, rp7420, rp8420, N-Class, L-Class, D-Class, K-Class, IBM e-Server Regatta P690, P570, RS6000, IBM/HP/DELL Blade Servers, SAN(EMC, Hitachi), NAS (Netapp)

O / S: Solaris 10/9/8, HP-UX (11.00, 11.11, 11.23, 11.31), IBM AIX (5.1, 5.3), Red Hat Linux (RHEL 3/4/5), Windows NT /2003/vista

Naming Services: DNS, NIS, and NIS+

Backup Management: Veritas Netbackup 4.x/5.x/6.x, Ufsdump, ufsrestore, tar, dd, cpio

Script Languages: Shell scripts, PERL

Web Technologies: Apache 2.x/3.x, IPLANET 4.x/5.x, WEBLOGIC 8, Websphere 4.0/5.0

Storage: SAN, EMC Symmetrix / Clarion, iSCSI, SNAP, NAS, DAS

ThirdParty Software: VERITAS Volume Manager, LVM, LDAP, SSH

Cluster: Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Sun Cluster, HP Service Guard, AIX HACMP

RDBMS: Oracle, MS SQL Server

Protocols: NetBIOS, NetBUI, SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, TCP/IP, FTP, TELNET, UDP & RIP, DNS, WINS, DHCP.

Antivirus: Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition, Trend Micro Messaging Suite for Exchange, MacAfee Virus Scan Engine 7.1 / 8i, AVG (Grisoft)

Remote Access Tools: Terminal Services, Net Meeting, Web - Ex, PC Anywhere & VNC for Windows Servers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Memphis TN

Sr. Linux/Unix Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created Zetabyte file system (ZFS) in Solaris 10. Created zpools. Exported ZFS from local zones to local zones.
• Installation, Maintenance, Administration and troubleshooting of Linux, Sun Solaris, AIX, HP-UX systems.
• Performed automated installations of Operating System using Jumpstart for Solaris and kickstart for Linux.
• Installation and configured Solaris 10 with Zones, Containers and Ldoms.
• Extensively worked on hard disk mirroring and stripe with parity using RAID controllers.
• Involved in Server sizing and identifying, recommending optimal server hardware based on User requirements.
• Perform audit, compliance and documentation. Implemented SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) security compliance.
• Installation and configuration of Veritas Storage Foundation Suite::Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, Veritas Cluster Server and Oracle SF RAC.
• Installed the Operating System on Solaris and Linux servers and Blades over the network.
• Built servers according to standards specified as per individual applications
• Built virtualized Linux servers on ESX and Blade servers to host multiple applications on same chassis across different server hosts
• Set up Linux servers for iSCSI LUN boot instead of using local hard disks
• Set up Sun servers for SAN-through-FCP boot as against booting from internal hard disks
• Configured Sun servers M4000 and M5000 for operational readiness upon OS installation
• Set up Linux servers for LAMP implementations and readiness
• Created File systems from local storage as well as NFS partitions for application portability
• Worked on Openstack (Havana), which includes installing configuring virtual machines, creating security groups, adding resources, creating tenants.
• Installed, configured Windows 2003 and 2008 on HP, IBM and VMware servers.
• Installed packages on Windows 2003 and 2008 servers, configured services, added external storage.
• Build LPAR system and Installed AIX 5.3 and 6.1 on LPAR using NIM Power 4, 5 and 6 systems and Upgraded Maintenance level as well.
• Racking, stacking, cabling the servers in the data centers, installing patch plates, swtiches.
• Installed and verified that all AIX/Linux patches or updates are applied to the servers.
• Installed, configured VMs on VMware 5, Vsphere 4.0, configured ESX hosts, adding datastores to ESX hosts, creating vswitches, templates, migrating VMs across ESX hosts.
• Configured HACMP 4.5 to monitor, detect and react to failure events, allowing the system to stay available during random, unexpected software problems and also configured to react to hundreds of system events.
• Installing, administering Redhat using Xen, KVM based hypervisors.
• Installed LPARs, VIOs on AIX p-series and x-series servers.
• Worked on puppet, creating profiles, manifests and pushing new profiles to servers.
• RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management.
• Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging, network logging of servers for maintenance, performance tuning, testing.
• Worked and performed data-center operations including rack mounting, cabling.
• Worked on SQL Developer querying Oracle DB for creating and updating table entries.
• Installed, configured, and maintained WebLogic 10.x and Oracle 10g on Solaris & Redhat Linux.
• Configuring multipath, adding SAN and creating physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes.
• Installing and configuring Apache and supporting them on Linux production servers.
• Troubleshooting Linux network, security related issues, capturing packets using tools such as IPtables, firewall, TCP wrappers, NMAP.
• Preparing servers for Oracle RAC installation which includes tuning the kernel, agent installation, adding NAS storage.
• Installing, configuring Nagios on Linux, Solaris clients.
• Worked on resolving production issues and documenting Root Cause Analysis and updating the tickets using BMC Remedy.
• Designing Firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with application, Oracle 10g servers.
• Monitored server and application performance & tuning via various stat commands (vmstat, nfsstat, iostat etc) and tuned I/O, memory, etc.
• Coordinated with the Storage, Network and Hardware teams on server provisions (HP Proliant DL385/585 G5, G6 servers, and HP BL 465C G5 blade centers).
• Experienced in Troubleshooting critical hardware and software issues and other day-to-day user trouble tickets.
• Adding servers to the domain and monitoring them using spectrum, sitescope, cacti.

Environment: Red-Hat Linux Enterprise servers (HP Proliant DL 585, BL 465/485,ML Series), Solaris 8,9,10, AIX 5.3, 6.1, SAN(Netapp), BladeLogic, Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, Windows 2003 server, Shell programming, Jboss 4.2, JDK 1.5,1.6,, VMware Virtual Client 3.5, VMware Insfrastructure 3.5.

Confidential, Sacramento CA

Sr. Linux/Unix Admin/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and administration of RHEL 4.0/5.0 and SUSE 10.x.
• Configured kickstart server and updating/applying patches to the servers using Redhat Satellite server.
• Remote system administration using tools like SSH, Telnet, and Rlogin.
• Planning and implementing system upgrades including hardware, operating system and periodical patch upgrades.
• Installation, configuration and administration of VMware, Solaris Zones, Containers and Ldoms.
• Installation of packages, patch management, volume managment on Suse servers using YaST.
• Applied appropriate support packages/patches to maintain system integrity.
• Performed capacity analysis, monitored and controlled disk space usage on systems.
• Monitored system activities and fine tuned system parameters and configurations to optimize performance and ensure security of systems.
• Adding servers to domain and managing the groups and user in AD, installing and configuring sendmail.
• Custom build of Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers which includes adding users, SAN, network configuration, installing application related packages, managing services.
• Responsible for maintenance of development tools and utilities and to maintain shell, Perl automation Scripts.
• Worked on HP Smart Start, Insight Manager, SIM, Opsware.
• Expertise in VMware vSphere 3/4/5 version ESXi and vCenter operations Management.
• Worked with project manager and auditing teams to implement PCI compliance.
• Creating volumes on SAN LUNS connected to RH servers through Fiber Channel.
• Build LPAR and DLPAR system and Installed AIX 5.2, 5.3 on LPAR using NIM.
• Installed and configured Virtual I/O Server V1.3.01 with fixpack8.1.
• Integrating Weblogic 10.x and Apache 2.x and deploying EAR, WAR files in Weblogic Application servers.
• Installed, configured, cloned VMs on VMware 5, Vsphere 4.0, configured ESX hosts, adding datastores to ESX hosts, creating vswitches, templates, migrating VMs across ESX hosts.
• Designing Firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with application, Oracle 10g servers.
• Working on Volume management, Disk Management, software RAID solutions using VERITAS Volume manager & Solaris Volume Manager. File system Tuning and growing using VERITAS File System (VxFS), coordinated with SAN Team for storage allocation and Disk Dynamic Multi path.
• Fine tuning of Servers and configuring networks for optimum performance.
• Organized various meetings with teams as mentioned above for tracking their requirements as inputs to get this done and designed the plan/steps involved and took user approvals.
• Installing, configuring Nagios on Linux, Solaris clients.
• Setting up network environments using TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, SNMP agents, DHCP and Proxy.
• Installation, maintenance and administration of Oracle and Db2 Server on Sun Servers.
• Set up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password, resolving permissions issues, user and group quota.
• As a member of the team, monitored the VERITAS Cluster Server 4.1 in SAN Environment.
• Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.
• Created new groups and tested first in development, QA Boxes and then implemented the same in production Boxes.

Environment: Solaris 8,9,10, Red Hat Linux AS/EL 4.0, AIX 5.2, 5.3, Sun E10k, E25K, E4500, SunFire V440/880, DMX 3 & DMX4, Siteminder, SonicMQ 7.0, VxFS 4.1, VxVM 4.1, SVM.

Confidential, Livermore CA

Systems Admin/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and configuring of SUN Solaris and Linux servers.
• Involved in Building and configuring Solaris 8/9/10 using Jump start server and Red Hat Linux Servers using KickStart server as required for the project. Maintained maximum uptime and maximum performance capacity for Enterprise Production, QA, and UAT/Staging.
• Incident management for Unix Servers (Solaris, Linux).
• Installed and configured Solaris 10 servers with Zones and containers with Sun ZFS.
• Primary responsibility includes building and supporting Solaris/ Redhat Linux 3,4 servers.
• Monitoring CPU, memory, iSCSI disks, disk controllers, physical disk, HW and SW RAID, multipath, file systems, network using the tools NAGIOS and BMC Tools.
• Extensive experience in installing, integrating, tuning and troubleshooting Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere and Weblogic application server.
• Implemented SUDO, SSH and other security tools and implemented SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) security compliance.
• Created Zetabyte file system (ZFS) in Solaris 10. Created zpools. Exported ZFS from local zones to local zones.
• Installation and configuration Veritas NetBackup on Sun Severs and performing Backup using Veritas Net Backup.
• Extensive use of Korn shell, Bash for scripting.
• Expertise in Linux backup/restore with tar including disk partitioning and formatting.
• Involved in Planning, building and Administration of various High Availability clusters and heart beat checking on Sun Solaris using VCS in heterogeneous SAN environment.
• Regular disk management like adding / replacing hot swappable drives on existing servers/workstations, partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.
• Planned, scheduled and Implemented OS patches on both Solaris & Linux boxes as a part of proactive maintenance.
• Worked with other IT teams, customers (users), and other managers in helping build and implement systems and standards.
• Involved in migration of projects from one flavor to another one.
• Involved in development, user acceptance, and performance testing, production & disaster recovery server.

Environment: Solaris 8/9/10, Red Hat Linux 4/5, BMC Tools, NAGIOS, Veritas NetBackup, Korn Shell, Bash Scripting, Veritas Volume Manager, web servers, LDAP directory, Active Directory, BEA Web logic servers,SAN Switches, Apache, Tomcat WebSphere, Weblogic application server.

Confidential, Herndon VA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed RHEL 3.0/4.0 using kickstart and custom building the servers per SOW.
• Installed/configured EMC Storagewith 0, 1& 5 RAID configurations.
• Installed and maintained Security issues.
• Installed Veritas Volume Manager, VCS Cluster Server for failover and for mirroring and raid level configurations on EMC storage frames.
• Performed all System Administration tasks like cron jobs, installing packages, and patches.
• Configured Mail relaying, virtual host, POP3 and IMAP4 services and enforced security policies.
• Configured and installed Automount and Jumpstart.
• Oracle Installation 8.1.5 on Solaris 2.6 & Red Hat Linux Enterprise 3.
• Diagnosing hardware/software problems and provide solutions.
• Configured and maintained Samba Server, NFS Server, NIS Server and clients, DNS clients and AutoFs File systems.
• Performing tape backups, archiving and checking data integrity through Shell Scripts and job automation.
• Testing and upgrading production, development and test Linux and Solaris servers.
• Creation & Maintenance of user accounts & passwords & profiles, home directories, initialization of files, groups’ creation and management, setting file permissions, customizing shell environment setup for users.
• Troubleshooting various problems related to VxVM in initializing, replacing, mirroring, encapsulating and removing disk devices on various Production Boxes.
• Maintaining production critical servers running Solaris UNIX, Linux supporting Oracle database and Web services. Providing 24x7 supports.
• Worked efficiently using Veritas NetBackup on development and production servers for backups and restores.
• Writing Shell Scripts for managing day-to-day transactions & for automation of routine tasks.

Environment: SUN Servers (6500, 4500, 420, Ultra 2 Servers), Solaris 2.6/2.7/8, Veritas NetBackup, Veritas Volume Manager, Samba, NFS, NIS, LVM, Linux, Shell Programming.

Confidential

Systems Admin/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, Up gradation and administration of Sun Solaris, RedHat Linux.
• User account management and support.
• Jumpstart & Kick-start OS integration, DDNS, DHCP, SMTP, Samba, NFS, FTP, SSH, LDAP integration.
• Network traffic control, IPSec, Quos, VLAN, Proxy, Radius integration on Cisco Hardware via Red Hat Linux Software.
• Responsible for configuring and managing Squid server in Linux.
• Configuration and Administration of NIS environment.
• Managing file systems and disk management using Solstice Disksuite.
• Involved in Installing and configuring of NFS.
• Worked on Solaris volume manager to create file systems as per user and database requirements.
• Trouble shooting the system and end user issues.
• Responsible for configuring real time backup of web servers.
• Log file was managed for troubleshooting and probable errors.
• Responsible for reviewing all open tickets, resolve and close any existing tickets.
• Document solutions for any issues that have not been discovered previously.

Environment: Sun Solaris 2.6/7, SUN Ultra Enterprise 6000/450, SUN Ultra 10/5/2/1, Windows NT 4.0, RHEL 3.x.