SUMMARY

• Overall 10+ years plus experience in Information Technology and Professional experience in UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator and Application servers and tools.
• Strong experience in VMware Hypervisor environment and RedHat (8,7,6 &5)/SuSE(12,11 & 10) Enterprise Linux .
• Expérience in Bare metal Installation and configuration of Red Hat/SuSE on diffèrent hardware like Dell/HP Standalone & Balades servers.
• Working Experience in AWS Cloud computing and involved to creating AWS instances and deployed Linux Servers on AWS environment.
• Hands on experience in AWS provisioning and good knowledge of AWS services like EC2, S3, Route 53, CloudFormation, VPC, EBS etc., Knowledge of application deployment and data migration on AWS.
• Experience using automation tools (Ansible, Chef & Blade logic) to deploy and configure environments.
• Working with Automation experience, creating ansible playbooks and run ad - hoc jobs.
• Implemented multiple CI/CD pipeline as part of DevOps role for on-premises and cloud-based software using Jenkins, Ansible and GitHub.
• Working experience with GitHub for central repository and control version.
• Installed Configured ESX hosts and added into VMware Cluster environment for additional capacity and resource.
• Configured volume groups and logical volumes extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) in Unix/Linux.
• Installed and configured Red Hat Satellite/SuSE Manager Servers for Linux patching and managing environment.
• Experience in installation, configuration on Tomcat application server 6.0/7.0.
• Exclusively worked on clustering, perfo rmance tuning, load balancing, JDBC connection pools, JMS, MQ Series integration and Monitoring
• Installed, configured, and supported JBoss/Web Sphere Application Server, IBM HTTP/ Apache Web Servers in AIX and Linux environments. Good knowledge of Samba server.
• Knowledge of shell scripting to perform administration and automation tasks.
• Proficient in archiving and backups using tar, cpio, restore, and backup commands, mksysb for root volume group backup and savevg for user created volume groups backup. Proficient in creating, configuring, and administering LPAR/DLPAR and HMC.
• Extensive hands-on experience in setting up network environment using NFS, NIS, DFS, LDAP server and Samba server.
• Excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management and the client community.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Red Hat Linux 8, 7.x, 6.x, 5.x, AIX 7.x, 6.x, 5.x, SuSE Linux 10, 11, 12.
• IBM P-Series E850, E870, P750+,p750, P770, P615, P630, P650, P690, P520, p550, P570, p590, p595, M300, M5000, DELL Power Edge 630, 730, HP DL380.
• Dell EMC, IBM SAN, NetApp and Infinidat.
• Jenkins, DevOps like ansible, chef, GitHub, VMware Virtualization for Linux, Oracle, Veritas volume Manager, Veritas Cluster, Tivoli monitoring, BMC Petrol, WebSphere, Weblogic, Tomcat, Red hat Satellite Server, OpenStack and Shell Scrip Programming.
• TCP/IP, Internet and Intranet Services, NIS, NFS, DHCP, DNS, WEB, NIM and mail servers.
• AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, S3, RDS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Linux Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuration and upgrading Red Hat Linux 5.x/6.x/7.x/8 and SuSE 10.x/11/12 on VMware infrastructure environment using kickstart/VM templates.
• Installed and configured Red Hat Satellite server 5.7 for RHEL OS patching, Provision & manage RHEL environment.
• Configured and Managing SuSE Manager for SuSE Linux Patching and Provisioning servers.
• VM’s moved old datastore to new datastores using vMotion & VMware storage migrations.
• Resource management for VMs increasing CPU, Memory and DISK expansion etc.
• Adding Hosts to VC, Creating and managing VM's under the Hosts.
• Fine Tuning performance setting for better performance and optimum utilization.
• Extensively working on AWS Cloud computing and involved in creating AWS EC2 instances and deployed RHEL Linux on AWS environment.
• Involved in development of AWS that include creating VPC, IAM users, EC2 instances, EBS, S3 resources.
• Working experience in terraform to manage AWS cloud form.
• Taking snapshots and restore when is required in AWS & VMware.
• Experience in installation, configuration on Tomcat application server 6.0/7.0.
• Installed and Configured RabbitMQ on multiple applications on different platform.
• Supporting SAP HANA based environments.
• OS patches using satellite and custom scripts in AWS environment.
• Working with AIX migrations from 7.1 to 7.2 using nimadm utility and VIOS migration wherever need to support operational.
• Working with Security team to create golden image for hardening and latest OS.
• Working with Storage team and migrate SAN from one VNX to VMAX.
• Deployed and Configured Automation tools like Ansible and Shell scripts.
• Upgraded AIX and Redhat OS Versions.
• Worked on patch management tools like Yum Repository and RHEL Satellite server and Nim Server for AIX.
• Working with Network & multiple team for Serv1/2 issue fixes.

Confidential, Fortworth, TX

Cloud/Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installing, configuration and upgrading Red Hat Linux 5.x/6.x/7.x and SuSE 10.x/11.x on VMware infrastructure environment using kickstart/VM templates.
• Installed and configured Red Hat Satellite server 5.7 for RHEL OS patching, Provision & manage RHEL environment.
• Installed & Setup multiple pacemaker cluster in RedHat Physical Servers.
• Installed and configured private cloud using OPEN STACK with some automation using packstack/Red hat director tool on Red hat environment for POC/Prod.
• Working with Build Fat image and install RHEL/SuSE Linux Servers installation on VM guests and installed ESXi(5.0 and 5.5) servers installed as per standard.
• Installed and configured VMware vSphere client, Virtual vCenter Server, Virtual Networking (Virtual Switches, VM Kernel Ports), Virtual Storage (Access Control and VMFS Datastores), HA and DRS.
• Deployed and Configured Automation tools like Ansible, BladeLogic and Chef.
• Installed, configured and administrated Red hat cluster services and enable GFS2 file systems.
• Installed, configured and administrated security utility Splunk/Tripwire on Linux systems
• Worked with VERITAS Foundation Suite 5 and performed tasks like creating disk groups, volumes, initializing disks, replacing failed disks etc.
• Experience with YAST and SUSE manager.
• Worked on patch management tools like Yum Repository and RHEL Satellite server and Nim Server for AIX.
• All day to day/project work support-based requirement.
• Follow Change/Problem management ticket process and document the technical procedure.