SUMMARY

• 8+years of specialized experience in Unix/Linux System Administration, Network Administration and Application Support working on RedHat Linux 4.x/5.x/6.x SUSE Linux 10,11, IBM AIX 4.x/5.x/6.x/7.x, Sun Solaris … and HP - UX 11.x environments.
• Experience in building Servers using Kickstart in Linux, NIM in AIX, Ignite process in HP-UX, Jumpstart in Solaris, Manual installations.
• Experienced in Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration, performance tuning on UNIX and system software & hardware
• Experience in installation, configuration, backup, disaster recovery, maintenance, and support of Several Unix/Linux Servers.
• Extensively worked on Hudson,.Net,Jenkins and AnthillPro for continuous integration (CI) and for End-to-End automation for all build and deployments
• Good working experience with Redhat Satellite Server for OS upgrading and patching RedHat Linux and AIX Servers.
• Linux-based Virtualization implementations such as VMware, Oracle Virtual Machine, and Xen.
• Implemented day-to-day tasks in RedHat Linux, AIX and Solaris include upgrading packages, kernel, and drivers.
• Experience in Creation and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring in RedHat Linux and Solaris and AIX.
• Installed and configured ORACLE database on all flavors of UNIX.
• Having good working experience in various flavors of Linux such as Redhat, Cent OS, Ubuntu and SLES Linux, Solaris, Windows 2003/2000/NT, HP-UX 11.x HP-UX 10.x, HP-UX 9.x
• Experience with REDHAT 6 6.5 6.6 and 7
• Hardware: HP Superdome, HP EVA 6000, HP RX servers.
• Puppet Having exposure in Installing and managing RISC as well as CISC based Systems with Comprehensive background in the installation, upgrade, configuration, rollout and support of hardware, software, peripheral and network devices and infrastructure in UNIX and Linux.
• Experience as a VMware Administrator in Data Center Environment using ESX server …
• Database: MongoDb, MySQL, Postgre, SQLite, DB2
• Web and Middle Services: Mojolicious, Apache, Tomcat, Wordpress, Jboss, Websphere
• Network Services: SUSE 9.x 10.x and 11.x, Tru64 Unix v4.0& 5.x, Redhat Linux 9, Fedora Core 2 & 4, Solaris 2.6, 2.7 & 2.8, BSD & FreeBSD Unix.
• Implement HP Business Service Management (BSM) v9.2 to troubleshoot production issues.
• Expertise in Infrastructure Monitoring Tools - VuGen, HP BSM, HP RUM and HP Sitescope
• HP Open View Suite (monitoring, Server Management, Help Desk)
• Increasing customer satisfaction, substantially reduce customer attrition, and enable expansion of the HP Software footprint by identifying cross-sell/up-sell opportunities of product and services, working in coordination with appropriate Sales Executives.
• Responsible for the day to day management of Cyberark. (reconciling accounts, detecting accounts, making sure that backups completed, report generation, the uploading accounts)
• Strong Remedy Development and Administration skills with Remedy ARS 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x including ITSM suite and Mid-Tier.
• In-depth knowledge of C, C++, C objective, VB, VB.NET.
• Wide experience in analyzing, designing and developing applications using C, C++, Unix/Linux, Shell Scripting, SQL, PL/SQL and Murex.
• Highly skilled in development of applications utilizing PHP, MySQL, XML, Javascript, AJAX, and HTML.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: SOLARIS 2.x/7/8/9,10, Redhat Linux 2, 3, 4.x 5.x,6.x, 7.x, 8, 9, AS 2.1, 3.0, 4, HPUX 10.20, 11.00, Windows 2000/2003 Server Family & Professional, Windows 95/ 98/ME/ XP/Vista/ Windows7/ Windows8/ Windows12.

Hardware: Sun cool thread T2000, T6320,Sun EnterpriseM3000, M5000,Sun Midrange 4500, 6500, V480, V490, V880, V890,E220,E4900, Sun Entry Level x4100, x4200, x4250, x4440, V440,420R, Netra T1DELL Poweredge 1350, 1750, 1850, 2850, 6450, HP Proliant DL 360G2, DL 360G5 and DL 580, 585G2,c3000, BL 600c,DLT, AIT, DAT & CTD Backup Devices, Jukebox, Ethernet Hubs, Repeaters, Routers, LAN Testers, Cable Modems, Terminal Servers and Print Servers, DLT/DDS drives, Sun StorEdge 3510, 7110, A1000, A5200, D1000, EMC Symmetrix 8830, DMX 3, 4 arrays.

Volume and Server Management: SOLARIS VOLUME MANAGER, LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGER, VERITAS VOLUME MANAGER, ZFS and VERITAS Cluster Server Management.

Languages: C, C++, XML, PHP, PL/SQL, Shell Scripting - ksh, sh and csh, Perl, Visual Basic, FORTRAN.

Data Base Servers: Oracle 8i,9i, 9.2.x,10g on Solaris and Redhat Linux and Win NT/2000, MS SQL 7, 2000 on Win NT/2000, Sybase 12.5

Networking Protocols: SNMP, SMTP, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, OSPF, BGP, IGRP, EIGRP, PPP, SLIP, UUCP, X.25, LAN, WAN, PCNFS, ARP/RARP, FTP/TFTP, RIP, DHCP, DNS, NIS, NIS+, Automounter.

Desktop Applications: Acrobat, Paint Shop Pro, MS Office, Novell Group Wise, Corel Perfect Office, MS Works, Open Office, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, FrontPage, and many others.

Internet & WWW: Apache Web Server 1.2 and 1.3.x on Windows, Linux and Apache web server 2.x on Solaris, IIS 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, iPlanet 6.x, IBM HTTP Server 6.0 (Apache), Sun JES Web Server 6.1, WebLogic 8.x, 9.x, 10, Sendmail, Postfix, Mozilla, Webmin, SWAT, Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator Browsers.

Security Hardware/Software: Checkpoint 2000 VPN-1/Firewall -1 version NGX R6x, Cisco PIX version 5.1, 6.2

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. System Engineer

Confidential, Chicago IL

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and upgrade of Redhat Linux 5/6, AIX 6/7, SUSE 11 operating systems.
• Write basic PowerShell scripts
• Worked with REDHAT 6 6.5 6.6 and 7
• Responsible for maintaining a Citrix XenApp 5.X/6.X/7.X environment consisting of 300+ XenApp virtual servers running on XenCenter/VMware/Hyper-V 2012 platform.
• Extensively worked on Hudson, Jenkins for continuous integration and for End to End automation for all build and deployments.
• Manage CyberArk ID's IBM Automation Process including identifying ID failures, review the errors, ensuring IDs within EPV is configured correctly and being managed successfully by the tool.
• Team lead for US Azure Architects
• Provide guidance and assist the XO account teams and customers in building solutions to address specific business telecommunications needs which can be delivered by XO enterprise products (T1 to 100G).
• Telecommunications and XO Product Training to sales, support personnel and customers.
• Technically verified XO products and services were compatible with both customer and our requirements.
• CentOS Systems Administration supporting Hadoop in a Real Time Bidding Environment
• As a Network Operations Specialist responsibilities included support for developers on CentOS and RedHat.
• Manage upgrades of Linux systems including Oracle Exadata appliances.
• Upgrade and integrate HP BSM, Diagnostics, Sitescope, Service Manager, and HP Operations Manager for UNIX.
• Design and software coding using C, C++, QT, multi-threading, data structure and Algorithams in different OS environments like WINDOWS, LINUX and HP-UX.
• Hands-on experience in diagnosing, troubleshooting various networking, hardware & Linux/ UNIX server's services issues and performing preventive maintenance.
• Setup of full networking services and protocols on UNIX, including NIS/NFS, DNS, SSH, DHCP, NIDS, TCP/IP, ARP, applications, and print servers to insure optimal networking, application, and printing functionality.
• Configured F5 load Balancers, kickstart server and updating/applying patches to the servers using Redhat Satellite server.
• Coordinating various IBM teams while troubleshooting CyberArk failures and repairing such failures.
• Remedy ITSM Lead for BMC Implementation project.
• Created PowerShell script that monitored Oracle Enterprise Manager Status and emailed results.
• Modified existing codes and developed PL/SQL packages to perform Certain Specialized functions/enhancement on oracle Application.
• Configured and installed AIX, and Redhat Linux Servers using NIM, Kickstart.
• Package management using RPM, YUM and UP2DATE in Redhat Linux.
• Configured and deployed patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Redhat Linux servers using satellite servers
• Wrote tools using powershell and Java script to increase work flow and productivity
• Ability to write Shell & Perl scripting.
• Monitor application transactions and quickly identify application bottlenecks using Hp diagnostics
• Configured and used Hp diagnostic to monitor and analyze the performance of the server by generating various reports of CPU utilization, Memory Usage, JVM Heap Size etc.
• Expertise with UNIX and Windows environments including shell and perl scripts, Perforce, DevOps.
• Build about 50 Linux servers in a cloud environment using AWS EC2.
• Experience in cloud computing technology AWS(Amazon Web Services).
• Learned, Configured, and Worked on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Integration implementation of Jenkins, uDeploy, JIRA and Crucible for DevOps automation.
• Using Puppet Enterprise to Manage Application configurations in both a large VMware environment, as well as a new SOA environment - built completely in Openstack Grizzly. Utilizing BASH Scripts and Rightscale to do initial server provisioning,
• 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.
• Provide 24*7 production support and performed weekend changes during maintenance window.

Environment: RHEL 6.x/5.x, AIX 6/7, SUSE 11, VMware, IBM/HP blade servers, WAS 5/6/7/8, Logical Volume Manager, Veritas net backup, SAN Multipathing (MPIO, HDLM, Powerpath), VM ESX, VM vSphere, VMware VDI 5.0.2, 5.2 and 6.1, HP Vertica,Apache web server, Shell Scripting, Powershell, Ansible, ITSM 8.1, HP Site scope, HP Open View.

Sr. System Engineer

Confidential, CT

Responsibilities:

• Worked as an AIX/Linux administration, OS installation and maintenance of AIX 5.3/6.1/7.1 on IBM P-5, P-6, P-7 series (P795, P770, P750, p740, p595, and p560), Solaris SPARC and SUN Fire, Linux RHEL and SLES, CISCO USC and DELL and HP x-86.
• Installing, configuring and maintenance of AIX 5.3,6.1,7.1/ Redhat 5.4/5.5/6.0, SLES 10, 11on servers in production, Development and performance environments.
• Assist in P2V and V2V conversion of Windows 2003 server editions using enterprise VMware converter and also installed the VMware tools on that machines.
• Responsible for maintaining the CyberArk environment, and work closely with the CyberArk Professional Services for overall optimization
• Migration of data and script from Netezza to Vertica.
• Built Citrix Presentation Server Farms to provide access to the most critical company applications for remote users and installed, monitored, and configured Citrix Secure Access Gateways
• Worked with a farm of Citrix Provisioning Servers to provision maintenance images, create new images, add new virtual servers, and to ensure VMs were load balanced across the PVS farm. Responsible for day to day ITSM administration of Remedy platform and minor enhancements.
• Completion of Transition and setup for HP BSM, HP RUM, Sitescope and various other monitoring tools
• Responsible for both technical and managerial aspects for HP tools (BSM, RUM and SS). Team size is 23 with a split of Onsite and Offshore
• Maintain in-depth technical knowledge of XO products and offerings, along with Industry Standard Trends, Including evolving network requirements that are driven by cloud and hybrid solutions.
• Demonstrate the full capability of XO’s Hosted PBX product utilizing both hardware, and the XO HPX portal to both internal and external customers.
• Manage upgrades of Linux systems including Oracle Exadata appliances.
• Setup of full networking services and protocols on UNIX, including NIS/NFS, DNS, SSH, DHCP, NIDS, TCP/IP, ARP, applications, and print servers to insure optimal networking, application, and printing functionality.
• Proficient in Networking and configuring TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, NIS+, SAMBA, LDAP, SSH, SSL, SFTP, SMTP, SNMP, SCH.
• Administration experience of CyberArk vault with Safe creation, integration with LDAP and other authentication methods
• Configured F5 load Balancers, kickstart server and updating/applying patches to the servers using Redhat Satellite server.
• Build about 50 Linux servers in a cloud environment using AWS EC2.
• Experience in cloud computing technology AWS (Amazon Web Services).
• Learned, Configured, and Worked on Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Installed and configured WebSphere Application production Server - Network Deployment v 5.0/6.0/6.1/7.0 , IBM HTTP Server in Redhat Enterprise Linux, Unix,
• Installed, configured & integrated Web production Servers- Apache, Oracle RAC, WebSphere, siteminder, IBM Http Server.
• Responsible for all aspects of AIX/Linux System Administration and support for pSeries production servers like P6-570, power550, power570, power595, power770 and IBM Bladecenter, SUN SPARC and RHEL production server. This includes OS installation and upgrade, OS problem resolution, OS fixes.
• Used Python 3.0 for generating IP access frequency lists in different data logs.
• Wrote Python scripts to read from Excel files and generate XML configuration files.
• Performed QA testing ; wrote test scripts in Python/Unix
• Perl script code to monitor File System.
• Contributes non-deployable application release changes to company GitHub code repository for the heavily used Innovation insurance ISCS.com application.
• Agile integrated engineering, with typical GitHub and Scrum workflows
• Provide 24*7 production support and performed weekend changes during maintenance window.
• Experience working in a SAP Environment and building the servers for SAP.
• Experiencing working Virtualization like VMWare ESX.

Environment: RHEL 6.x/5.x, AIX 5/6, Cent OS 5.8, Solaris … VMware, Jboss AS 5/6/7, WAS 5/6/7/8, Logical Volume Manager, IBM/HP blade servers, Veritas netbackup 5.x/6.0, SAN Multipathing (MPIO, HDLM, Powerpath), VM ESX 3.x/2.x, HP Vertica,Apache web server, Shell Scripting, Powershell, Ansible

System Engineer

Confidential, Ohio

Responsibilities:

• Evaluate, install, test, configure, maintain, tune, and troubleshoot Solaris 9/10, Redhat Linux AS 4/5, SUSE 10, HP-UX … AIX 6.1/5.3 operating system software and third party commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products with primary responsibility being for the UNIX operating systems.
• Extensive use of Logical Volume Manager (LVM), creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes and disk mirroring in HP-UX, AIX and Linux.
• Worked on migrating data from EVA, XP to 3-PAR Storage on Linux.
• Package management using RPM, YUM and UP2DATE in Redhat Linux.
• Extensively worked on tools like Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas file System, Logical Volume Manager (LVM), Solaris Volume manger (SVM).
• Experience in building Servers using Jumpstart in Solaris, Kickstart in Linux, Ignite process in HP-UX and Manual installation.
• Configuration and administration of DNS, LDAP, NFS, NIS, NIS+ and Sendmail on RedHat Linux.
• Installed and deployed the KVM containers for the Openstack Cloud.
• Installed and deployed the VMware ESX containers for the VM cloud and Vsphere
• Worked closely with Cloud teams to build and deploy VM's using Open Stack and VMware.
• Good working experience with Redhat Satellite Server for upgrading and patching Linux Servers.
• Installed and administered Tripwire applications in tier 2 and tier 3 environments.
• Responsible for Daily Backup maintenance through Tivoli Storage Management (TSM).
• Coordinated as member of SAP Infrastructure team.
• Expertize in designing, developing middleware components for software in C/C++ using STL.
• As in architectural design and hardware maintenance of all pSeries servers and IBM Blade center.
• Installed and Upgrade VIOS 1.5, 2.1.2.2 server on IBM power5/power6 p-Series servers.
• Developed Shell scripts (Korn/Bourne) for automating the batch jobs and for taking backups.
• Restore the backup of production file systems onto dev box using IBM LTO3.
• Configured ether channel adapter on multiple VIO clients LPAR
• Supported for IBM p6/p5- (595, 560, 570, 550, 520, 510, 55A, 505), RS6000 servers running IBM AIX 5.3 and AIX 6.1 in virtualized environment.
• Provide 24*7 production support and performed weekend changes during maintenance window.
• Extensively hands on experience for troubleshooting LVM and system management.

Environment: -IBM AIX 5x/6x, Web Sphere Application Server 5.0/4.0, Windows XP professional, IBM HTTP Server, Tomcat, Samba Server, DB2, Oracle11g, Oracle10g, Oracle Grid Control, CommVault, Virtualization, LPAR, DLPAR, HACMP, HMC, NIM, IBM Power servers (595, 560, 570, 550, 520, 510, 55A, 505),IBM, KORN shell, SAN, Demantra, EBS, Manhattan, Lawson, APEX, PM4data, WMS, RED PRAIRIE, NMON, MICROSTRATEGY, SOFTGROCER, IBM DS 8300, DS4800 series, Cisco SAN switches, IBM SVC cluster, Helpdesk, Grid Control, GPS, Oracle RAC, ASM, Ansibles, SuSE Linux 10.x