Sr. Linux/vmware Administrator Resume Profile
Morrisville, NC
Summary:
- Worked with Confidential
- Worked with different Storage Vendors EMC, Netapp, Hitachi and worked on configuring SAN using Multipath and Power path.
- Experienced in Disk Management, software RAID solution using Logical Volume Manager LVM , VERITAS Volume manager VxVM , File system Tuning and growing using VERITAS File System VxFS
- Worked on Kernel Patching with different distributions.Checking Kernel Parameters for better Performance Tuning
- Performed Datacenter infrastructure maintenance including racking, cabling and troubleshooting
- Strong technical support background includes Network Design, System Security and Administration
- Implemented the virtualized environment using VMware and Xen
- Expert in system auto-building using Kickstart-PXE and automating all aspects of operations
- Installed, Configured and maintained Redhat Satellite Server.
- Experience in installation, configuration, backup, recovery, maintenance, and support of Linux RHEL 4/5/6 SUSE ,Solaris 8, 9 10, HP-UX 10.x, 11.x , AIX 5.x, and Windows NT/2000/2003
- Over 6 years of Experience in Linux/Unix Systems Administration and Virtualization.
- Expert in Configuring Custom Redhat channels, creating standard Kickstart Profiles, Applying Secure patches with Redhat Satellite server.
- Design, setup and Supported the three node Oracle 10g Real Application Cluster RAC
- Administration of VM infrastructure with Virtual Center management server and provisioned VM guests on VMware vSphere 4.5/5.0/5.5
- Installation, configuration and administration of VERITAS Net Backup 4.x, 5.x, 6.x and 6.5.x.
- Worked with NIS, NFS, DHCP Server, and Samba in heterogeneous environment.
- Proficient in archiving and backups. Using tar, cpio, dd, ufsdump, ufsrestore commands. Day to day administration of the Development environment and Production and Test environment systems.
- Configured Users Security administration, backup, recovery and maintenance of various activities.
- Advance level of experience in researching OS Issues, Applying Patches and opening the vendor Tickets.
- Capacity planning and recommending hardware for SAN implementation and replacements.
- Very Strong experience and understanding of NFS, Auto mounts, NIS , NIS, DNS, TCP/IP, SMTP mail configuration and Printer configuration.
- Experience in DAS, NAS, SAN technologies.
- Proficient in working with various Middleware/DBA groups in the organization to test open source technologies and analyzing the open source technology to verify and configure the technology for customers business needs.
- Expertise in hardening Linux Server and Compiling, Building and installing Apache Server from sources with minimum modules.
Technical Skills:
Operating Systems | Redhat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4.x , 5.x, 6.x ES/AS/WS HPUX 10.x/11.x Fedora Core 2, 3, 4 Open SUSE IBM AIX 6.1, 5.3 Solaris 2.6,8,9 10:Windows 95/98/2000/XP and MacOS X. |
Linux Experience | System Administration Tools, Apache, Squid Proxy Server, Websphere, Tomcat, JBoss, Sendmail/Postfix, IP Chain/IP Tables |
Virtual Environment | VMware, Xen |
Application Software | SSH, telnet, ftp, Terminal client and Remote Desktop Connection |
Programming/Scripting Languages | Unix Shell Scripting Perl, Bourne shell, csh, and tcsh HTML, DHTML and Puppet |
Hardware | HP ProLiant and HP Blades, Dell Power edge and Blades |
Data Storage | Storage Area Network SAN , Network Attached Storage NAS , Direct Attached Storage DAS , RAID |
Database | Oracle 9i, 10g, MS Access, MYSQL 3.X. |
Networking Skills | TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NFS, NIS, LDAP, SMTP, Load Balancing, High-Availability, F5 BIG-IP. |
Professional Experience:
Confidential
Role: Sr. Linux/VMware Administrator
Responsibilities
- Installed and configured several hundred Red Hat Enterprise Linux in both Physical Blade utilizing Kickstart/PXE/Red Hat Satellite Server and VMware ESXi 4.1/5.0 Virtual Environment.
- Create and configure LVM based EXT3 and OCFS2 based Cluster file systems on SAN LUNS utilizing Multipath to assist redundant path detection and increase I/O stability.
- Configuration Installation of Red hat Linux 5/6 and Oracle Enterprise Linux by using Kick Start, Red Hat Satellite Server and customized bash/perl scripts.
- Write and Deploy bash/perl scripts using crontab to perform daily backups, audit collection, and push new changes out to manage and maintain consistency across Redhat Enterprise Linux servers.
- Configure linux multipath and linux device mapper to configure multipathed LUNs from EMC/NetApp.
- Built RHN Satellite Server v5.4.0 for patching, registration, and builds kickstart .
- Implemented, configured and deployed new patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Red Hat Linux servers using satellite server and YUM server.
- Configured Logical Volume manager to create, extend and maintain volumes.
- Provided 24/7 on call support for 1000 Red Hat Guests, and OEL baremetal deployments.
- Configuring network interface cards for bonding assignments to maintain redundancy.
- Provide maintenance on systems by timely upgrading patches to the systems and applications, Scheduling of batch jobs and cron jobs.
- Installation of ESXi 5.0 Hosts, vCenter Server, vCenter update manager and administering VM's across 3 Datacenters running 2200 VM's.
- Deploying VMware vSphere 5 by upgrading VMware infrastructure 4.1.2 to vSphere 5 and also Upgrade Experience from VMware vSphere 4.0 to Update 1.
- Write and design server modification and environment based BASH/PERL scripts to manage over 500 Servers.
- Responsible for oracle 10g database replication and from site to site to maximize uptime and also an integral part of the backup and recovery.
- Work with DBA's to help configure, manage and develop databases in Oracle 10g, 11g.
- Deployed various Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual builds using a combination of VMware Templates and PowerCli.
- Implementing and utilizing networkmonitoring tools such as BMC Patrol for the Oracle Enterprise Linux Environment and HP OVSD/Solar Winds suite for the RHEL Physical and Virtual environment.
- Provide support to the Java development team to help develop Java based applications.
- Provide 24/7 support to Middleware application servers Websphere, Weblogic, Tomcat , Webservers Apache, IIS, Oracle IPlanet and Database servers Oracle, DB2, MS SQL, MySQL .
- Knowledge and hand on experience on Advanced Power5 and Power6 Virtualization.
- Partitioning and management Virtual I/O servers and clients
- Configure, maintain NFS, LDAP PAM , Kerberos, Samba Servers as per environment's requirements.
- Participating in 24x7 Production on-call Support of Linux and provided technical support to users at remote datacenters.
- Create and maintain ACL's to allow only specific LAN computers to use squid, as well as utilizing access.log to test squid proxy.
- Particular Focus in monitoring the production HA Environment using Nagios.
- Provide level 1, 2, 3 support for Physical Linux servers running on HP ProLiant BL460's and Linux Virtual Servers running on VMware ESXi.
- Maintain and deploy web farm servers designed to run on Apache and configured Apache to load any custom modules.
- Deployed various Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual builds using a combination of VMware Templates and PowerCli.
- Patch and upgrade the firmware HP blades using ILO and Onboard Administrator.
- Install and upgrades Red Hat Linux OS using Virtual Media Applet in ILO.
- Manage VMware infrastructure comprising of 60 ESXi hosts with 700 RHEL, Centos Linux Windows OS virtual machines
- Experience in Creating VM templates Managing Virtual machine deployments
- Migrated existing physical server to virtual m/c with P2V tool using hot cloning method
Confidential
Role: Systems Administrator
Responsibilities
- Installation and configuration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers using Confidential unattended installation in addition to PXE Boot, configuring of new servers and workstations using Confidential and autostart.
- Maintained user account management, configured servers to register with Red Hat Network RHN Satellite Server, monitored servers workload assessment, service console monitoring.
- Tuning of the Linux OS in order to increase performance as well as installation of new patches as needed, developed shell scripts to automate such as file transfers.
- Troubleshooting any and all problems with performance upgrades and files transfers.
- Supporting 600 Solaris/Linux servers in production/stage/development environment.
- Unix/Linux user's creation, file/dir level permissions, Sudo permissions etc.
- Disaster Recovery operation setup checkup at contracting facility.
- Using VM converter converting Physical machines in VMware VMs.
- Updating/patching Linux, Windows Virtual Machine in VMware clusters.
- Creating VMware Lab setup as per Internal QA team's requirement using VMware ESXi servers.
Confidential
Role: Linux Administrator
Responsibilities
- Mounted/un-mounted new file systems, mounted file systems on remote servers using Confidential Server client configurations, performed disk configurations and crash recovery
- Troubleshooting, networking, security, services, reporting, monitoring, database-backed management, capacity planning, strategic planning, documentation
- Established network security using Linux Firewall and troubleshoot problems relating to boot loaders Confidential
- Assisting with the software integration and turning software builds into Confidential packages.
- Configure and maintain Confidential Servers for both media and data sharing betweenservers and resolved any shared storage server issues.
Confidential
Role: Jr. Unix Administrator
Responsibilities
- Install and configure Confidential using NIM and custom based installs.
- Utilizing HMC to install, configure and maintain LPAR's/DLPAR'.
- Active Directory Configuration, creating users, groups, andadding DNS entries.
- Migrating, Configuring and installing zone and ldom.
- Package and User management in zone environment.
- Recreate mirror on drives and root using SVM, VXVM.
- Installation of Veritas Volume Manager