Objective:

Devote strong analytical capability and technical skills in a Linux and Storage administration position.

Technical Proficiencies and Experiences:

Operating Systems : Solaris 10/11,RHEL 4/5/6, SUSE 11/SP2/SP3,HP-UX 11i, Ubuntu12/14, Centos 6/7, Windows 2003/2008/2012 Server.

Virtualization : VMware ESXi 4.1 to 6.0, VSphere, VCenter and VConverter.

Storage Platforms: NetApp FAS Series, IBM Total Storage DS, EMC VMAX and VNX.

Hardware : HP Proliant, Oracle Blade Servers 6000, 6080, Sun M5000/M4000, T5120,

T5140/T2000, V490, V880, Dell R610, R910, Cisco PIX, Ethernet Switches and Apache 2.2/2.4 Web servers.

Tools : Puppet, Chef, GitHub, Sun Cluster 3.2, Admin Tool, Ufsdump, Storage Foundation Suite, Solaris Volume Manager, File manager and Sendmail.

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g,SQL Server 2005/2008, MS-Access and MySQL.

Networking Protocols : FTP, HTTP, TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS,DHCP and AD.

Scripting Tools: Bourne, Bash, Korn Shell, Perl and Python.

Backup Applications: Tivoli Storage Manager and VERITAS Net Backup .

Certifications:

LPIC - Linux Professional Institute Certified.

Education:

Master of Computer Applications May,2007

Kakatiya University, India

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science June,2003

Kakatiya University, India

Professional Experience

Linux & Storage Administrator (Contractor)

CIS Pharma Inc

Cranbury, NJ Jan, 2014 - Present

Experience in administering the Linux and Windows Servers such as RHEL5/6, ESXi 5.0/5.5/6.0, Centos, Ubuntu and Windows 2003/2008/2012 Servers.

Deploying, configuring and troubleshooting of Solaris 10/11 versions on Sun hardware.

Expertise in configuring Server using Jumpstart, NIM, Flash archive, Ignite and Kick start techniques.

Proficient in Installation, Upgrading, Patches, Migration, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning of Linux systems.

Implementing and troubleshooting various protocols and applications like SSH, SCP, SFTP, DNS, NFS, CIFS, NIS, Samba Server, LDAP, Security Management and Apache Web servers.

Administration of the monitoring tools like Nagios, Cacti and Zenoss.

Hands on Experience with NetApp filers like FAS 60XX and 80XX Series with 7-mode and C-Dot various versions.

Good experience in transitioning and planning of 7-mode filers to C-Dot.

Configuring and troubleshooting Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees, SVMs, CIFS Setup Shares, Export/Firewall/Dedup Policies, and LUNS on Cluster Data ONTAP.

Installing and Configuring of Work Flow Automation.

Design and Implementation of the Disaster Recovery tools like SnapMirror and SnapVault.

Proficient using business continuity tools like SnapCenter and SnapManager.

Expertise in using the OnCommand Unified Manager and OnCommand Insight for performance monitoring and alerting.

Maintaining the troubleshooting and how-to's documentations in event of business continuity requirements.

Linux & Storage Engineer

Northrop Grumman Technology Services

Herndon, VA Jan, 2012-Dec, 2013

Installation and troubleshooting of RedHat Enterprise Linux, and CentOS on HP and Dell Hardware.

Administration of utility servers like Apache/Tomcat server, mail server, mysql DB, DHCP and DNS.

Proficient in performing DR of UNIX (Solaris & Linux, Ubuntu), Oracle databases, and whole infrastructure using the vCenter.

Experience in creating physical & logical volumes, volume groups using LVM's on Linux Servers.

Building up the Virtual Machines (Linux and Windows) under vCenter cluster using the VM templates.

Expertise in writing Shell scripts, bash, Perl, python for process automation of databases, applications, backup and scheduling.

Expertise in using the tools like Puppet, Wireshark, TightVNC and Nagios.

Installed designed and configured NetApp C-DOT clusters with 6 nodes and 4 nodes.

Tuned and Managed the shared storage systems for SAN & NAS Environments.

Upgraded the FAS filers from 7-mode 7.3.2 to 8.X versions.

Implemented the SnapMirror relationships between 7-mode and c-Dot systems.

Managed Brocade Directors and Over Chasis Switches,HBA Adapter Configuration.

Migrated Data from DAS to NAS using the tools like SCP, rsync, xcp, robocopy etc.

Configuration and administration of Cisco MDS 9500 such as zoning.

Experience in using Veritas Netbackup tool for Backup and recovery.

Linux & Storage Systems Engineer

CHSI

Reston, VA June, 2010-Dec, 2011

Involved in the complete Administration tasks on UNIX (Solaris, RedHat Linux and Ubuntu) .

Configured Kick Start Servers and booting the images using PXE in RedHatC Linux.

Implemented the disk and raid controller swaps, c.

Implemented the setup and configuration of NetApp filers 6020, and 6040 clusters.

Expertise in creating Solaris and Linux Virtual Machines on VMware Esxi 4.1, and 4.5.

Monitored Storage Area Network (fabric/storage/hosts), EMC and NetApp Storage products.

Preformed day to day Administration of NetApp Array like snapshot, maintenance, qtree creation, snapdrive, snap lock, and snapmirror.

Through management of NAS (NFS and CIFS) and SAN (FC and ISCSI).

Performed the installation, configuration and deployment of applications on Web logic Application Server 8.x/9.x.

Troubleshooting of the hardware and software failures for various storage and Linux servers (core dump and log file analysis) by vendor support.

Linux Systems Engineer

Noa Soft Solutions

Pune, India Dec, 2008-May, 2010

Installations and configurations of HP-UX, Linux and Windows operating systems.

Established backup and restoration procedures and schedules for UNIX servers.

Provided support, and maintain UNIX system and application software on multiple platforms.

Implementation of SSH between servers to enable password less logins between Servers.

File System administration and management like monitoring various logs and file systems.

Writing Shell Scripting for automation of jobs.

Applied the recommended best practices of application, hardware vendors as per.

Systems Administrator

Reylon Technologies

Hyderabad, India Aug, 2007-Nov, 2008

Installations and configuration of Sun Solaris and Window NT servers.

Performed the Hardware Upgrades of barebone and vendor servers.

Administered a heterogeneous environment which consisted of Windows and UNIX systems.

Installed Oracle and Mysql clients on Solaris and Windows servers.

Maintained messaging systems like qmail, and exchange.

Felicitated the support, monitoring for whole data center monitoring 24/7/365.

Deployed the applications and changes to production, QA and development servers as per change management.

Proven high learning curve progressively with excellent track record of documenting the infrastructure.

References: Provided on Demand.

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