Rahul Pratap 408-***-****

AIX/Solaris/UNIX Administrator v33wtg@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE:

Solution oriented UNIX (AIX, Solaris) administrator with notable success directing a broad range of corporate initiatives while participating in planning and the implementation of UNIX based solution in support of business objectives.

SUMMARY:

• 8+ years of proven systems project experience including infrastructure administration primarily on AIX and Solaris.

• Have worked on various IBM p series, and Power systems, have extensive experience in Installation, Configuration, and Administration of AIX including Installation, Configuration and Maintenance AIX v5.x, Solaris 8, 9, 10.

• Manage Server disks through Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Solaris Disk Suite (SDS)

• Experience in Installation/Configuration of hardware and software, migrating systems to current OS releases, OS TL upgrading, OS patching, configuring storage devices using Veritas Volume Manager.

• Performed task in LVM, NFS, Performance Tuning, Installation, NIM, LPARs and mksysb, system dump, migration of environments etc.

• Experience in setting NIS servers, NIM installation, setting up NIM clients, defining resources.

• Installation/Configuration/Administration of SSH, TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, Auto Mounts, Send mail and Print servers as per client’s requirement.

• Experience in Installation, Configuration, Performance Tuning, Security, Backup Recovery and Upgrades of AIX / Solaris.

• Experience in implementing various security features in AIX environment using NIS like configuring user authentication.

• Performed 24/7 on call support.

• Responsible for basic operations on Netapp filers (e.g. Vol/LUN creation, assigning LUN’s to AIX servers, reclaiming space etc.)

• Excellent client relation skills and drive to complete tasks effectively and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded as well as the ability to communicate with all levels of management and client community.

• Leading team of 30+ engineers for System engineering group Onsite/Offshore.

• Responsible for smooth operation of Onsite / Offshore UNIX team.

Certifications:

Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 9.0

IBM Certified for AIX 5.3 System administration

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: AIX (5.x, 6.1), Sun Solaris (8/9/10)

Hardware: IBM AS/400, IBM RS/6000, IBM (p series) IBM Power Systems (Power 4, 5, 6, 7), IBM Blades, Sun Fire 4800, V880, V1280 Sun Enterprise 4000, Sun Enterprise 250, Sun enterprise 220, Ultra 10, Sun Blades.

Web Servers: IBM Http Server (1.2, 1.3), IPlanet Web Server (5.1, 6.0), Netscape Enterprise Server, IIS (4.0, 5.0), and Apache

Languages: HTML, C, C++, Shell Scripting

Databases: Oracle 8i/9i, DB2, MS SQL Server 7.0, Sybase

Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, DHCP, NFS

Tools: HACMP, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Netbackup,

Other Skills: Remedy, Espresso, OpenView, MS Office

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Apple Computers, CA Aug 08 –Till date

Role – Technical lead, AIX / Solaris Administrator

About Client: Apple Computers

Apple is the most admired company in the world from 2008 to 2012, It is furthermore the largest technology company in the world by revenue and profit. Apple is widely known for its products like iPhone, iPad, iPods. It has Infrastructure / data centers across globe.

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration Management, and Maintenance of AIX Systems from Scratch.

• Perform TL / SP Upgrades.

• Installation of APAR’s

• LVM management e.g. VG creation, LV creation.

• Moving and adding resources through HMC

• Monitor CPU, Kernel, Disk, Memory and I/O parameters.

• Management of LPAR’s thru HMC.

• Responsible for day-to-day troubleshooting of problems related to hardware, networking and OS.

• Device Management

• User Management– Creation and Deletion of users, groups.

• File-systems management

• NFS exports and mounts across hosts.

• Resolving requested related to AIX servers logged by clients based on priority.

• Verify system logs, Problem determination and troubleshooting.

Management Skills: Apart from daily technical tasks, I am responsible for following:

• Leading UNIX team of 30+ people Onsite / Offshore.

• Responsible for client interaction, resource management, billing, clear flow of information to/from Onsite / offshore.

• Monitor work done by team and focus to improve performance of the team.

• Train new joined members in the team.

• Conducted technical interview to form a team of 20-25 people.

• Prepare monthly report for client.

• Regular documentation of technical issues / resolution on WIKI for team.

Alltel Wireless – USA Nov’07 –Aug’08

Role - Senior Systems Executive (Solaris Admin)

Responsibilities:

I have been recruited for the position of Senior System Executive in Fujitsu for the client Alltel Communication. My core profile was based on the Unix Administration (Solaris 9.0) to give support to the 1200+ UNIX servers in production environment.

• Working and handling on UNIX servers on Fujitsu, SUN and Intel hardware.

• Customer Support of all range of Solaris 8,9,10 and Redhat Linux 3.0 as operating systems. This includes configuring the operating system and creating file systems according to customer requirements.

• Working on ticket management system of BMC Remedy to handle the severity issues of sev -1 and sev -2

• Have to work on Veritas Volume manager and Veritas Cluster server at level 1.

• Responsible for day-to-day troubleshooting of problems related to hardware, networking and OS.

• Monitoring of system performance and tuning of Operating System parameters to achieve best system throughput on Sun Solaris.

• Performance Monitoring of the system using inbuilt OS tools and additional monitoring tools for Solaris.

• Fine Tuning of Unix servers for adequate Throughput, Response Time and Utilization.

• Configuration and troubleshooting of Network file system services such as NFS.

• Handling Change requests and tasks assigned to UNIX team.

• Have to train the new joined members in the team

KPMG, USA June’07 - Nov’07

Role -Systems Engineer (Solaris Admin)

Responsibilities:

Functions well in both independent and team environments. Customer focused attitude with particular attention to Service Level Agreements.

Unix Remote Management Support for HP-Global Delivery India Center: Shared delivery model, supporting multiple customers of heterogeneous environment. Customers include Hawaiian telecommunication, On-semiconductor Customers (Includes around 2000 servers).

• Delivering IT Infrastructure operation (Unix Administration) services to outsourcing customer accounts on time, on target with quality.

• Providing L2 support and administration role for a customer based worldwide.

• Working on ticket management system of HP Open View to handle the severity issues of all levels.

• Activities involve Monitoring, Operations and Incident and Problem management

Oil and Natural Gas Corp. Ltd, India Aug’04 –June’07

Role – Eng. – Server Management- Sun Systems

Responsibilities:

• Configuration & maintaining disks through Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Solstice Disk Suite (SDS).

• Monitoring and maintenance of server’s installed in data center.

• Monitor CPU, Kernel, disk, memory and I/O parameters.

• Create and maintain NFS mounts, AutoFS, CacheFS.

• Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Sun Spark like Sun Fire V480, Sun Fire 4800, Sun Enterprise 4000, Sun Enterprise 250, Ultra 10 & Sun Blade 150.

• Check for crash dumps / panics and resolve them.

• Verify and Analyze system logs periodically.

• Schedule & execute cron jobs.

• Schedule and optimize the services running on the server.

• Take back up of the file systems.

• Check for bad blocks and bad processes.

• Recover the server from system crashes.

• Security management – Configuring Account policy, Access rights, Password control.

• Regular patch management from sun’s site and EIS CD provided.

• Installation of packages.

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Eng. (Computer Science)

Mumbai University, Maharashtra, India.

References: Provided upon request

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