SUMMARY

• 8+ years of UNIX System and Network administration in, IBM AIX (5.x), Linux (RedHat 4/5/6), Sun Solaris (9/10), HP - UX (10.x,11.x).
• Server Installations, configurations, upgrades and migrations on Solaris, HP- UX, Linux.
• Configure and manage Middleware and web tools such as Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss.
• Storage Provisioning, Volume and Filesystem Management using Veritas Volume Manager and VeritasFilesystem (Veritas Storage Foundation), Configuring ZFS filesystems.
• Customized patching and maintenance of HPUX, Solaris, Linux servers on regular schedule.
• Worked on different platform on SUSE Linux which includes 10.x,11.x
• Regular work involving building new Linux Physical and Virtual servers using kickstart and PXE.
• Experience in building the Solaris servers using wanboot.
• Good working knowledge of network & UNIX security procedures.
• Administrating and troubleshooting Red Hat Cluster Suites.
• Participate in installing and configuring of UNIX/Linux based Oracle 10g products
• Strong knowledge of large-scale Linux deployment methodologies, kernel configuration, performance monitoring, and tuning
• Experienced in working with Network Engineers to install, manage, and configure NAS based storage and insure overall system and network security.
• Worked with WebSphere team in order to configure WAS instances for BMC patrol.
• Hitachi, EMC SAN installation and tuning of NetBackup server environment..
• Provide 24x7 on call server support for UNIX environment and Sun Solaris.
• Setup and Configuration of Puppet Configuration Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

O/S: Sun Solaris 2.x, 8, 9, 10 Linux (RHEL4/5/6) HP - UX 9.x, 10.x, 11.x IBM AIX 3.2.x, 4.x, 5.x

Hardware: HP, DELL, IBM, PSeries, SUN Enterprise.

Servers: Web Sphere Application Server 3.5/4.0, Netscape/iPlanet Server, MQSeries, Web Logic Server, IBM HTTP Server, HTML, DHTML, XML, Java Script, JSP, Servlets, EJB, Apache 2.2, Tomcat 5.5, Active MQ

Networking: TCP/IP, RPC, UDP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, LAN.

RDBMS: IBM UDB2, Oracle 7.x/8.0/9i, MS-SQL Server 7.0/6.5 and MS-Access 97/95.

Languages: UNIX Shell Programming (ksh,csh,sh),Verilog HDL, Matlab with toolboxes, SQL.

Applications: Samba, Tivoli (TSM), VERITAS Volume Manager.Puppet.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Boston MA

UNIX / AIX Admin

Responsibilities:

• UNIX System and Network administration in Sun Solaris (9/10), HP-UX (10.x,11.x), IBM AIX (5.x), Server Installations, configurations, upgrades and migrations on Solaris, Linux (RedHat 3/4/5/6) HP- UX, Linux and AIX.
• Troubleshooting all kinds of UNIX problems and assisting users.
• Day to day review Remedy tickets and resolved them. Involve in change management and Incident reporting.
• Involved in installing infrastructure and maintaining the performance of server, availability. Storage system software and functionality and interface components.
• Responsible for Installation, Configuration Management, Maintenance and Systems Development of AIX Systems.
• Handful of experience in Solaris 10 (SPARC and x86)
• Experience in Web and Application Servers Web logic 10.3.x or 9.x and iPlanet.
• Experience in Redhat and SUSE Linux Operation system and Vormetric Encryption.
• Responsible for patching and upgrading all SUSE Linux Servers.
• Kernel upgrade on RHEL and SUSE.
• Installation of RHEL, SUSE Linux, Centos and Fedora on physical server and virtual server.
• Configuring kickstart server on SUSE Linux.
• Responsible for set up of BMC Patrol Agents V3.6.50.11i and 3.6.60i environment on UNIX Servers.
• Experienced working with scripting like shell and Perl.
• Involved in troubleshooting shell scripts.
• Working knowledge of Windows 2003/2008 OS.
• Wrote & automated security audit scripts in the environment.
• Configuring and maintaining virtual server environment using VMWARE ESX/ GSX, VSphere 4.x, Xen, HP-UX nPars/vPars, Solaris 10 Zones.
• Involved in installing the Solaris Operating system from DVD and from a JumpStart/AI server
• Knowledge of Kickstart and PXE administration
• Experience with IBM Power4, Power5, Power6 and Power7 virtualization.
• Administering and troubleshooting of Redhat Clustering.
• Hands on experience using the VI editor.
• Knowledge of HP blades and service manager.
• Experience with storage networking, with vendors/technologies such as iSCSI, SAN/NAS, data center storage consolidation, EMC,EVA, NetApp, HDS, HP, or Supported and Good Knowledge of designing IT architectures for storage and backup in the enterprise.
• Created RAID volumes using RAID Controllers and LSI Hardware
• Deployed Puppet, Puppet Dashboard, and PuppetDB for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
• Planned for, tested, and then managed the upgrade of our puppet infrastructure from 0.25.4 to 2.6.6. After the upgrade was complete, refactored many of our existing manifests to take advantage of parameterized classes to simply the management of our configurations. Implemented a custom run-stage to ensure all yum repository configuration was done before proceeding with any application installation or configuration.
• Solving problems with Puppet for companies of all sizes and industries.

Environment: UNIX/RedHat Linux, AIX 6.1/5.3, SUSE Linux OS, Solaris, Vi Editor, Oracle11G, Shell Scripts, SAN/NAS.

Confidential, Irving TX

UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Perform system installs and performance tuning, configure and administer AIX 5.3, 6.1 LPAR’s
• Perform day to day LVM operations and System Admin tasks
• Create virtual media repository and LPAR dedicated virtual optical drives in the VIO servers to make new installations, cloning and migrations faster and easier
• Set up and troubleshoot issues with Secure Shell in the environment to accommodate script automation and password changes.
• Installed and automated config 2 html scripts on client LPAR’s and documented the RGA AIX environment by designing a webpage to access the cfg2html and ganglia output
• Installed and automated config 2 html scripts on client LPAR’s and documented the RGA AIX environment by designing a webpage to access the cfg2html and ganglia output
• GSD331 troubleshooting, find any incompliant servers are Remediate GSD331.
• Installed WebSphere Portal Server 5.1/6.0/6.1 and enabled Web Content management.
• Migrated WAS 5.0 Network Deployment and Base on AIX/Windows platforms to WAS 6.0 ND.
• Experience in NetApp storage devices, setup, configuration, operations and connecting to pSeries hardware.
• Solid understanding of Keon theory, being able to make directory architectural recommendations such as additions to DIT, schema extensions and indexing, Analyze and implements ACLs
• Experience with Integrated Virtualization Manager (IVM)
• Responsible for installation and maintenance of VFSX in a clustered environment
• Experience in installing configuring and administering MQ 5.3/6.0 on AIX, Linux and Windows environments.

Environment: Unix/RedHat Linux, Vi Editor, Unix/Linux, Shell Scripts, VMWARE & Oracle11G

Confidential, Orlando, FL

UNIX Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Server Installations, configurations, upgrades and migrations on Solaris, HP- UX, Linux and AIX.
• Configuring and Maintaining virtual server environment using VMWARE ESX/ GSX, VSphere 4.x, Xen, HP-UX nPars/vPars, Solaris 10 Zones.
• Experienced in working with Network Engineers to install, manage, and configure NAS based storage and insure overall system and network security.
• Experience with storage networking, with vendors/technologies such as iSCSI, SAN/NAS, data center storage consolidation, EMC, NetApp, HDS, HP, or Supported and Good Knowledge of designing IT architectures for storage and backup in the enterprise.
• Storage Provisioning, Volume and Filesystem Management using Veritas Volume Manager and VeritasFilesystem (Veritas Storage Foundation), Configuring ZFS filesystems.
• Configuring UNIX environments for Oracle Databases such as kernel configurations, filesystem layouts, ora file configurations.
• Oracle database support on UNIX/Linux. Tuning kernel and memory parameters for optimum database performance.
• Perform auditing on UNIX/Linux Servers for security compliance and monitoring.
• Plan, design, install, configure, troubleshoot, administer and performance tune AIX 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 and 6.1, Solaris 10, Red Hat Linux Version, HP-UX, and SLES Linux.
• Setup and configured network TCP/IP on AIX including RPC connectivity for NFS. Created mount points for Server directories, and mounted these directories on AIX Servers
• Configured and administrated LPARs.
• Responsible for installation and maintenance of VFSX in a clustered environment.
• Administration and maintenance of WAS ND clusters (vertical, horizontal) and deployment of applications in highly available, load balanced production environments.
• Developed web service integration layer for Web Sphere Portal. Install and configure Web Sphere Portal 5.1/6.0 on AIX, UNIX and Windows.
• 24x7 on call server support for UNIX environment.

Environment: Unix/RedHat Linux, Vi Editor, Unix/Linux, HP-UX, AIX, Shell Scripts, VMWARE & Oracle11G

Confidential

AIX/UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Expertise working in a huge environment that consists of almost 700 Servers including RS/6000, p-series and IBM Blade Center.
• Installing, configuring, maintaining and enhancing operating system and system support software/hardware (AIX 5.1 - 5.3, TSM, HACMP4.5, LPAR, DLPAR, VCM, VVM, SSA Disks, IBM DS8100, IBM PSeries 550, 570,590, RS/6000)
• Diagnosing and resolving systems related tasks in accordance with priorities setup in dealing with trouble tickets.
• System performance monitoring (tuning as necessary).
• Responsible for troubleshooting all the applications like marimba, Bmc patrol etc.
• Worked in Distributed Storage Management Team in supporting the Distributed Disk Frames and Storage Area Networks in all TI supported North American Data Centers.
• Configuring and implementing LINUX Kernel re-compilation.
• Designed, configured, and implemented an enterprise Red Hat Linux Kickstart DVD installation to automate installation of RHEL workstation servers.
• Responsible for migration of Microsoft Virtual Servers and VMware GSX servers to ESX platform.
• Responsible for activities such as problem support, presenting/decommissioning storage to distributed servers and supporting contingency of business roles
• Involved in Installation, configuration and maintenance of storage and SAN hardware and software.
• Responsible for monitoring, management and performance analysis of storage and SAN fabric using EMC ECC.
• User and Group administration in Linux and Solaris environment.
• Setup DHCP, NFS and DNS services on Solaris server and configure them.
• Administration of Sun Solaris application and database servers.
• Responsible for configuration of Solaris servers, for maximum performance in a production environment, including kernel tuning and compiling, configuring systems with various raid, strip and mirroring configurations.
• Responsible for managing local and remote data replication.
• Responsible for maintaining standard operation procedures for storage environment
• Involved in documentation of current SAN footprint
• Involved in assisting with code upgrades on SAN switches
• Participating in a vendor evaluation
• Assisting with ongoing stability issues as they arise
• Participating in the re-architecture of SAN environment
• Responsible for performing administration tasks on DLPAR such as adding, deleting and moving system resources from one partition to another partition.
• Expertise in installation configuration and administration VIOS.

Environment: Unix/RedHat Linux, Vi Editor, Unix/Linux, Shell Scripts, VMWARE & Oracle11G