SUMMARY

• IT Infrastructure Professional with over all 10 years of experience in the areas of Cloud Administration, Unix/Linux System Administration in Redhat Linux and Sun Solaris servers.
• Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is Amazon s innovative web service that is pioneering cloud computing and utility computing by providing resizable compute capacity in the cloud.
• Experience with AWS CLI (Command line interface) for automating administrative tasks.
• Manage virtual and physical cloud resources as required with an overall objective of improving the scalability, reliability, performance, and availability of the cloud infrastructure.
• Extensive experience in Installation and Administration of Solaris 9, 10 and RHEL 5.x/6.x/7.x.
• Experience in upgrading operating systems from prior versions to the latest versions including updating Solaris 10 from prior versions like Solaris 9 using Live Upgrade and Linux 6.x from 5.x using Yum.
• Experience with the working on virtualization products like Solaris 10 zones, containers and LDom s.
• Hand on experience with installation of patches, Security fixes, packages on Linux and Solaris servers.
• Experience in implementing and configuring of Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Solaris Volume Manager (SVM).
• Experience with User Admin, Hardware setup, support of Storage and managed paging / swap space.
• Experience in Integration of various network related services like TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, DHCP, SAMBA, FTP etc.
• Good Knowledge in writing Shell Scripts using ksh and bash.
• Proficient working in a large, heterogeneous Production environment on UNIX platform Hands on exposure on Application servers like IBM Web Sphere and Web Logic Proficient in Data Centre Management.
• Instrumental in Technical Documentation, ITIL Processes, Change Management Strong communication, collaboration & team building skills with proficiency at grasping new technical concepts quickly.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating systems: Solaris (9 and10), Redhat Linux (5, 6 and 7), Windows (2003 and 2008).

Virtualization: VMware ESXi 5.x, Solaris Zones, Oracle VM (LDom), Docker Container

Cloud Hosting: Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, Route 53, IAM, Elastic Load Balancing)

Hardware: SUN Sparc, SUN Fire, SUN Chassis, Blades, HP Enclosure, Blades

Monitoring Products: CA Spectrum, Netcool, BMC, CloudWatch

Network Services: DNS/Bind, DHCP, LDAP, NIS, FTP, Samba, NFS, SSH.

Tool: RTC, Vantive, AOTS Remedy, WinSCP, Putty, Patrol, Dyson.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - MD

Responsibilities:

• Installing, Upgrading and Configuring RHEL 7 on AWS Cloud Environment.
• Installing and Configuring Puppet, MySQL, LDAP, Tomcat and Docker Container on RHEL 7.
• Deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS.
• Migrate an existing on-premises application to AWS.
• Implement and control the flow of data to and from AWS.
• Select appropriate AWS services based on compute, data, or security requirements.
• Identify appropriate use of AWS operational best practices.
• Experience provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS.
• Ability to identify and gather requirements to define a solution to be built and operated on AWS.
• Experience with application/data migration to AWS.
• Experience scaling an application and/or its hosting environment to support increases in traffic
• Support EC2, S3, Autoscaling, CloudFront, CloudWatch, IAM security services as needed.
• Provide issues/needs analysis and solution recommendation/implementation relative to systems needs.
• Work directly with AWS support engineers to identify and resolve issues if needed.
• Experience with AWS network connectivity configuration and network security.
• Experience with AWS CLI (Command line interface) for automating administrative tasks.
• Experience maintaining AWS network connectivity for standard Internet services such as VPC, VPN,

Sr. Unix System Administrator

Confidential - VA

Responsibilities:

• Assembled, replaced and handled Sun and Linux Hardware problems in Data Center.
• Expertise in installing, upgrading and configuring RHEL 5.x and 6.x
• Provisioning, remediating and implementing hardware which included servers like Sun 480R, E280R, E420R, M10-4, M5000, T2000, T4-1, T5220, V245, V440, V490, V890 and configuration of LDOMs on the T series servers.
• Experience in Solaris Virtualization implementations such as Solaris Zones/Containers & LDoM's.
• Experience working with HW like HP DL380-G5/G6/G7 and Blade/Chassis C7000 to setup Linux environment.
• Hand on experience with installation of patches, Security fixes, packages.
• Created ZFS and VxFS file system in Solaris 10 using Zpool and Veritas.
• Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs - using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and Vertias Volume Manager (VxVM).
• Centralized system configuration management utilizing YUM
• Organizing DR (Disaster Recovery) server tests to make sure the infrastructure is correct and the DR servers are working as expected as in production servers.
• Involved in Disaster recovery exercises for RHEL and Solaris servers and performed Disaster Recovery tests.
• Managed systems using remote consoles ILO
• Experience in implementing and configuring of Volume Management using Solaris Volume Manager
• Experience in Configuration and Administration Patch and Packages management.

Unix System Administrator

Confidential, TX

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Upgrading and deployment of Red Hat Linux Operating system on X-86 based HP BL460, BL685 Hardware.
• Installing and Configuring Solaris in Production Environments using Jumpstart and Live upgrade methods.
• Managing User’s accounts and groups, setting up User environments in Linux and Solaris
• Packages and Patch administration - Installing, Upgrading, query and remove software packages using RPM and YUM
• Installed and configured VERITAS Storage Foundation Suite 5.x version of, VxVM, VCS and VxFS for Solaris 10
• Implementing various security tools like SETUID, SETGID and STICKY BIT on file system for providing secure access
• Creating and administration of Logical Volumes, Physical Volumes using LVM and SVM.
• Installing, Configuring and Administering TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, SAMBA and FTP.
• Managed system process and Monitoring the server performance using ps, top, vmstat, iostat.
• Managing a file system ext3, ext4, tune2fs, fsck, e2fsck, ufs, zfs and vxfs
• Scheduling of batch jobs using Autosys and native cron.
• Activities include user admin, startup and shutdown scripts, crontabs, file system maintenance.
• Created Local zones and Branded zones on global zones and migrated the application on to these zones from the physical serves.
• Performance monitoring and Tuning using top, prstat, sar, vmstat, ps, iostat etc.
• Performing routine checks and Bouncing the servers according to the schedule
• Actively involved during the change requests and all maintenance activities.
• Configured RAID mirroring of Root Disk using SVM on Solaris 10.
• Provided 24x7 on call and remote support for UNIX Production Problems and responding to users' tickets from Remedy.

System Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• User Administration by creating, maintaining User’s accounts and groups, setting up User environments.
• Maintaining file systems: Checking and repairing file systems and monitoring file system usage.
• Performing Patches and Package Administration
• Monitoring Virtual memory, adding additional swap space as needed.
• File System administration and management like monitoring various logs, file system sizes etc.
• Processes administration like monitoring, start/stop/kill various processes/sub process.
• Actively involved during the change requests and all maintenance activities.
• Viewing and controlling the Processes running on the system and automating repetitive tasks.
• Coordination of technical issues involving network, hardware, and operating systems.
• Report Maintenance (Daily report and Monthly Report).

Technical Associate

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in installation, administration and networking in various environments.
• Managing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment.
• Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.
• Installed, configured, and provide troubleshooting for Server 2003.
• Installed and configured an Active Directory Domain Controller.
• Managed user accounts, groups, print queues and controlling access rights using AD.
• Troubleshooting Unix OS Alerts, & Middleware Access Services alerts from all the servers running middleware applications using BMC Patrol, Wily Introscope & Mercury.
• Performing routine checks and Bouncing the services according to the schedule
• Monitoring the server performance and checking the disk spaces of servers.
• Increasing, decreasing, registering and un registering the number of Datagate and EMBus services instances using configure files, scripts and MMT Tool, as required for Load balancing.
• Actively involved during the Change requests and all maintenance activities.

Hardware Support Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Install and upgrade hardware and software components
• Provide technical solutions and troubleshooting services on need basis
• Assisted the clients with technical issues, troubleshooting, installation and configuration
• Installed, changed and removed hardware in various desktop and service hub configurations
• Install and assist service personnel hardware and peripheral components such as monitors, keyboards, printers, and disk drives on user's premises.
• Responds to client inquiries concerning systems operation and diagnoses system hardware, software, and operator problems.
• Maintain accurate records of PC and laptop serial numbers and base configuration.
• Installing computer and printer hardware, configuring computer and printer software.