PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Close to 10 years of experience in Storage, and UNIX System Administration.
• Experience in UNIX system administration on Solaris 10, 11, RedHat Linux 6 and 7.
• Experience with different storage protocols like FCP, ISCSI, NFS, FCOE, CIFS, NDMP and SCSI
• Expertise on ESXi and ESX Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, cloning.
• Hands on experience in Configuring and maintaining NFS, NIS, DHCP, DNS & LDAP.
• Having experience with shell and python scripting for automated framework.
• Expertise in Maintaining and Performing D isaster R ecovery procedures regarding servers, storage, and datacenter applications using VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Worked on Solaris packaging and patching development.
• Hands on experience on setting up Redhat Cluster 6 and 7 using Resilient HA storage .
• Good experience with Solaris Volume Manager and File System (SVM/UFS/ZFS).
• Experience with Installing, managing and troubleshooting zones, containers and Solaris VM's.
• Experience with Linux Kick Start and Solaris Jumpstart installation methods.
• Expertise in VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM 4.0), Disk management, Volume management, software RAID solutions using VERITAS Volume Manager, Solaris Volume Manager (SVM).
• Administered and supported high availability, data replication, business persistence, fail - over, fail-back using VERITAS Cluster Server 4.x/5.x and SUN cluster 3.x/4.x
• Expertise in Installation & configuration of Storage arrays, Storage Provisioning, performance management, SAN maintenance tasks, Replication, storage level data migration
• Hands on experience with active directory
• Having experience on Confidential snapshot, snap mirror, NDMP and SnapDrive configurations.
• Hands on experience of Installation, Configuration ONTAP OS on Confidential storage equipment.
• Well expertise in vendor certifications like VITA and SKATE
• Having experience on block level replication and deduplication.
• Experience installing and managing multipathing software like EMC Power path and Native multipathing device mapper and MPXIO on Linux and Solaris.
• Experience in creating Raid Groups, Storage Groups, LUNs and assigned LUNs to Windows and VMware hosts
• Good exposure on Brocade and Cisco switch configuration.
• Expertise in building Redhat Satellite server and Capsule setup .
• Expertise in creating snapshots, Flex Clones on volumes

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Sun Solaris 9/10/11, Red Hat Linux 6/7, HP-UX, AIX

Hardware: Ultra SPARC Series, SPARC Server 1000, Ultra 2, SUN Enterprise- 450 E4500/E6500, SUNFIRE 440/480/880, SUNT2000/5120/T3/T4/T5 SUNM4000,SUN 10, SUN X 4150/4170/4200

Protocols: ISCSI, FCP, FCOE, NFS, TCP/IP, RLOGIN, SSH, SCP, RCP, FTP, TELNET.

Naming services: NIS,NFS, DNS

Languages: Shell Scripting, python Perl, SQL

RDBMS: Oracle, MangoDB

Third Party SW: VERITAS Cluster Server, LVM, VERITAS VOLUME MANAGER. Remedy, Virtual tech, sun cluster, service center, OVO, Open view service desk, OPSware, virtual rooms, OCM, OCP,OEMBMC Patrol

Switches: Cisco 4948/5020/5010 and brcd 300/5000/5120/6505

Storage: SAN/NAS/DAS, Confidential, EMC

Devops Tools: Chef, Puppet, Cfengine, Opsware, Oracle Ops Center

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

JCPenney, Plano, TX

Sr. System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working with Linux installation, configuration and troubleshooting issues
• Provide Level 3 Unix/Linux technical support as per Tech Lead / Sr Manager direction
• Building the Solaris 10 operating system using manual or jumpstart methods
• Configuring and administering Solaris volume manager using Solastic Disk suite
• Working on incident change and problem management issues raised in BMC remedy
• Maintenance/Administration of M - Series servers. (M5000, M4000 and M3000)
• Responsible for setting up Solaris Lab
• Configured and build the Red Hat Satellite server setup on RHEL 7 OS.
• Setting up the Redhat Capsule on rhel 7 environment.
• Working on Solaris package and patch management
• Assist POC for Foils Application migration from Solaris to Red Hat Linux
• Configuring and troubleshooting the file system related issues
• Working on disk and file system management
• Communicate issues to stakeholders and team members
• Assigning access related roles using rbac and making acl permissions
• Install Linux OS using kick start and jump start methods
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting issues in sun cluster 3.2 environment
• Coordinate with Oracle vendor to submit case for hardware failures and resolve issues on Sun platform
• Install Linux OS using kick start and manual methods
• Testing the components and migrating to production.
• Working with Linux installation, configuration and troubleshooting issues.

Confidential

Unix Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuring and setting up of LSF jobs environment
• Administrating LSF configuration changes based on customer requirement.
• Setting up the NFS server and client on RedHat 7 environment
• Configured and build the new VM s on vCenter ESXi environment.
• Applied the quarterly patches on RedHat 6 and 7 OS
• Testing the components and migrating to production.
• Assist in SAN Zoning, LUN Masking, Volume sizing of Data stores. Assist in Managing Brocade and Cisco SAN Switches.
• Configuring and troubleshooting the file system related issues.
• Worked on incident, change and problem management issues raised in service pro tool
• Involved in P2V server migration for red hat 6 and 7

Confidential

Storage Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Used SVM and Veritas volume manager to create volumes using Confidential LUNs and provided redundancy during failure.
• Support in Administration of RHEL, Centos and Ubuntu which includes installation, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues.
• Supported Veritas cluster server 4.1 & 5.1 for high availability and failover applications.
• Creating, Monitoring and Replication Strategies (Snapshot, SnapMirror, Snap Vault).
• Confidential filers FAS 3070, 3270 and FAS 8040 Installation and support.
• Migrating Storage from 7 - Mode to C-Mode Confidential Arrays using 7 Mode Transition Tool
• Installing, configuring, and administering DNS, NFS, NIS, Mail servers, FTP servers RPM servers on Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux platforms.
• Interop testing on different storage protocols like SCSI, FCP, ISCSI, NFS, NDMP and FCoE for both Solaris and Linux servers.
• Configuring hardware iSCSI SAN, FC SAN, NFS and NAS storage to VMware ESX (i) hosts from vSphere client.
• Controlling the System Logging services, and examining system Log Files of all system events.
• Handled hardware issues dealing with RAID, SCSI controllers & Host Bus Adapters (HBA)
• Utilizing Cloud Watch and Logic Monitor to monitor resources such as EC2
• Installing and Implementation of VMware ESXi 5.0 host servers with vSphere Client, vSphere CLI and also Configured HBAs and iSCSI SAN storage.
• Managing Linux, VMware and AWS/VM's.
• Installing, configuring and administering of Storage arrays, Storage Provisioning, performance management, SAN maintenance tasks, Replication.
• Able to create scripts for system administration and AWS using languages such as BASH and Python
• Built VMware vSphere hosts and added to new/existing VMware Clusters.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Good exposure on Solaris installation using jumpstart or manual
• Good exposures on SAN boot Concept.
• Testing Veritas storage foundation 6.xx Packages on different Solaris versions.
• Worked on Hardware testing like HBA/CNA (Qlogic/Emulex) drivers and firmware
• Good Knowledge on Clustered environment on both Host and Target systems.
• Testing Multipathing solutions(Solaris Native )
• Working Knowledge on Zoning operations in FC switch fabric
• Worked on VITA (Veritas Integrated Test Automation) Certification for customer called Symantec to support Confidential storage.
• Debugging interoperability issues found during test execution and ability to drive those issues to closure with development team or system vendors
• Worked on different cluster products like VCS and OSC
• Worked on UNIX RedHat Linux and virtualization (VMware) operating systems.
• Lun Management like creating, assigning and managing in Confidential storage environment
• Good working experience on triaging on critical issues during test executions.
• Defects Reporting and follow up
• Creation of clusters for (HA) High Availability and (DRS) Distributed Resource Scheduling
• Perform software upgrades on Brocade network devices.
• Management of HP - Open view tools like Service-Desk, HP-OVO and HP-OVPM.
• Servers are monitored using the HP-OpenView Operations (OVO) suite, with HP-Service desk solution providing Help Desk Operations functionally

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Incident Management: Troubleshoot and escalate Software/Hardware Issues as per Service Level Agreement (SLA) and update tickets with documentation
• Change Management: Execute and close Change Controls with proper documentation
• Worked with vendors on hardware replacements to restore the services as per ServiceLevelAgreement(SLA)
• Installation, Configuration, administration of Sun Solaris and RedHat Linux OS
• Worked on Incident, Problem Management & Change Management.
• Created System Administrator role - based Access permissions
• Creating and Managing the User Accounts and Group Accounts
• Working with Solaris Volume Manager for creating volumes and file systems for various applications and databases.
• Configuring and scheduling backups of aggregates and volumes using snapshots; Creating Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, iSCSI & FC LUN.
• Confidential Replication backup and recovery setup Including designing, implementation and administration of Snapmirror, Snapvault, Snapshot.
• Providing SAN storage including raid groups, storage pools, hyper, & LUN creations
• Experience working with Disk Management on Confidential Filers.
• Experience in creation of CIFS server and presentation of CIFS shares to windows servers
• Experience in Creation of NFS server and presentation of NFS shares and filesystem to UNIX servers
• File System configuration using Solstice Disk suite, Veritas Volume Manager.
• Installed Patches on a quarterly basis as well as on-demand.
• Configuration/customization and support of Storage Area Network (SAN) environment
• Support in Administration of RHEL, Centos and Ubuntu which includes installation, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting both physical and virtual server issues.
• Jumpstart and Kickstart server maintenance and client installations.
• Handled hardware issues dealing with RAID, SCSI controllers & Host Bus Adapters (HBA)
• Monitored system activities, log maintenance, and disk space management.