SANDEEP KOLLI
UNIX SYSTEM ADMIN
abh9eu@r.postjobfree.com
Professional Summary:
• 3.5+ years of Unix and System Administration experience with Sun Solaris version (8, 9, 10),
Red-Hat Linux and AIX.
• Good knowledge in User account administration, adding/creating devices, patching, setting up
cron jobs, UNIX backup/restore and changing kernel parameters.
• Good hands-on experience in Sun Ultra Sparc range of desktop servers, mid range Sun Enterprise
and IBM pseries servers
Extensive experience with installation, configuration, maintenance and support on IBM AIX
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5.1/5.2/5.3, Solaris 9 and 10 on Sun Servers Using Jumpstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Experience in NFS, AutoFs and NIS administration on Solaris.
• Knowledge and experience in supporting and troubleshooting Solaris Networking services and
protocols like NIS, DNS, NFS, FTP and SSH.
• Efficiency in installing, configuring and implementing the RAID Technologies using various
tools like Veritas volume manager 4.x (VxVM), Solaris volume manager & Solstice disk suite.
• Good Understanding of ISO/OSI and TCP/IP Network models and protocols and have good
experience in writing shell scripts for automating backup, restore and other Unix processes.
• Package and Patch administration on both Sun Solaris and AIX.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work independently or in team and manage projects from inception to Completion.
Educational Qualification:
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Missouri S&T, Rolla, Missouri
Technical Expertise:
Operating System : Solaris 10/9/8/2.x, AIX 4.3/5.1/5.2/5.3,HP-UX
SuSe & Red Hat Linux, Windows NT 4.0/2000/2003/XP
Hardware : Sun Fire Server, Sun Enterprise Server, Ultra Enterprise
2/1Servers, SPARC server 1000, SPARC server 20 Enterprise
Servers, SPARC server 1000/20, SPARCstation 10, Sun Sparc
Ultra 1,5,10, HP Blade Servers, K,L,N-series, IBM RS/6000 &
P-Series, DEC DS20, ES40
Web /Application Server : Tomcat, Apache, IBM RSA/WAS.
Cluster server : Veritas Cluster, Sun cluster
Scripting Languages : Born, Bash, KSH & Perl, SED
Programming Languages : C, C++
Databases : Oracle 8.0/9i/10g, MS SQL 2000 server, AS/400
Volume Management : Solstice Disk Suite, Solaris Volume Manager (SVM), Veritas
Volume Manager, Linux Logical Volume Management
Professional Experience:
Solaris / AIX Administrator
Carefirst, MD
June 2009 - Till Date
Responsibilities:
• Installation, configuration and Operating System upgrade on Sun Solaris 8,9,10, AIX 5.2/5.3 on
p590, p595 (P-Series), Sun servers using Jump Start Installation.
• Administration for multiple sun/IBM AIX hard ware, This involves creating domains, adding,
deleting system components
• Configuring and Administrating Solaris 10 Containers and Zones.
• Creating Resource pools in Containers and processor sets.
• Administration and Troubleshooting Solaris servers running business critical application & Web
Logic (WAS) applications.
• Responsible for the upgrades to AIX and software packages and maintained them in accordance
with established policies, procedures and service level agreements.
• Perform User Account management, data backups, and users’ logon support.
• Develop Shell scripts (Bash) for automating the batch jobs.
• Cloned installations across multiple systems using Network Installation Management.
• Implemented NIS and NFS for administrative and project requirements.
• Installed and Configured Web and investigate the configuration changes in the production
environment.
• Worked closely with database administration staff to ensure optimal performance of databases,
and maintain development applications and databases
• Tuning the kernel parameters based on the application/database requirement.
• Monitoring system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore
• Set up Quotas for the user accounts & limiting the disk space usage.
• Day-to-Day trouble shooting for the end users on AIX 4.3/5.2/5.3 based applications Upgrading
Solaris 8/9 to Solaris 10 using live upgrade and manual upgrade.
Environment: Sun Solaris 8,9,10, AIX 4.3/5.1/5.2/5.3,HP-UX, Red hat Linux AS3.0, AS 4.0, Sun Fire
6800, 4800,V890, V880, V490,V480 and V210, p590, p595, Veritas Volume Manager, Solaris Volume
Manager, Solstice Disk Suite, Veritas Cluster Server, Web logic 8.1, Samba, Oracle 9i/10g
Solaris / AIX Administrator
Missouri S&T, MO
Aug 2008 – May 2010
Responsibilities:
• Installing and configuration of Sun Solaris 7, 8, 9 by using interactive and jump start installation.
• Configure IBM RS/6000 for production, staging and test environments.
• Define standards for installation and support for RS/6000 platform
• Migrate applications and other software modifications from the development environment to
production.
• Develop Shell scripts (Korn/Bash) for automating the batch jobs.
• Configure and add printers and print queues to servers to perform the printer/print spooler
management and troubleshooting the printer /print spooler related problems.
• Day-to-Day trouble shooting for the end users on AIX based applications
• Installation of Websphere, upgraded to service pack updates, installed IBM patches, configuring
and creation new admin & managed servers, start & stop Websphere server
• Network trouble shooting using ‘ndd’, 'traceroute', 'netstat', 'ifconfig' and 'snoop' etc
• Working closely with Vendors on Hardware Problems, software fixes.
• Provided 24X7 support for large number Production, and Test systems.
• Co-ordinating with Sun Support engineers to resolve high priority issues
Environment: Solaris 8 and 9, Sun Fire 15K, Sun Fire 6800, 4800, V880, V420R, E220R, E450, AIX
4.3/5.1/5.2/5.3,Veritas Foundation Suite, Veritas Volume Manager, Tomcat, Tivoli Storage Manager 5.x,
SunFire 4500/V880 /V480/E420R/E450/E250, Veritas Cluster Servers, Veritas Net backup, Web Sphere.
UNIX/LINUX Administrator
Wipro Technologies Ltd, INDIA.
May 2007 – July 2008
Responsibilities:
• Build, configure and troubleshoot in-house Sun, HP and IBM workgroup and Enterprise servers,
storage and arrays.
• Administering both local and Network printers
• Installation of new Solaris Operating Environment 2.8 and 2.9 using custom Jumpstart and
Interactive on sun hardware like Ultra 60, Ultra 80, E250, E220R, E420R.
• Installation of Sun Storage products like Multipack, A1000, D1000.
• Disk management through Solstice Disksuite/Veritas Volume Manager
• Preparing and sharing technical documents
• Modified UNIX files using vi editor.
• Installation Redhat Linux on new systems.
• Linux / SCO / AIX /HP-UX setup and Administration, support.
• Installation/Upgrading Windows 98, Windows 2000.
• Creating user Accounts and assigning the home directories in Unix & NT systems
• Write Perl and Shell scripts to format reports and perform Unix administration
• Assisted in developing software modules required for new and existing applications.
Environment: Sun Solaris, Windows NT, Linux Red Hat, HP-UX, Sun hardware, HP hardware, IBM
hardware, NIS, NFS, Solstice Disksuite, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File systems and Veritas Cluster
Server, Hardware RAID Software RM6.