Manager Engineer
Resume:
Summary of qualifications:
Six plus years of experience in Unix System Administration with expertise
in IBM-AIX (4.X/5.X/6.X), Sun Solaris (8/9/10), Red Hat LINUX, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, HP-UX and VMWARE.
V Experience in manipulating UFS (Solaris), GPFS (AIX), JFS (AIX)
filesystems includes creation/modification/deletion. Knowledge of
various backup tools such as tar, cpio, mksysb, savevg, ufsdump,
ufsrestore, dd, backup and restore.
V Expert in setup of LDOMS
V Strong technical support background includes troubleshooting and
repair of networks, hardware and software.
V Experienced in configuring and running, Oracle Application servers
with fault tolerance and load balancing with clustering, security
planning and implementation, and performance tuning.
V Exposed to supporting and monitoring high availability (HA) system
based on Sun Cluster Server and Veritas Cluster Services (VCS)
V Planed and implemented corporate disaster recovery procedures and
documentation.
V Experienced with Tivoli Monitoring Environment.
V Experienced with HP Openview Monitoring environment
V Hands-on experience with Autosys on creating and scheduling jobs.
V Hands-on experience in setting up network environment using NFS and
NIS
V Experienced in monitoring and Configuration of IBM Web Sphere
Application server V3.5/4.0/5.0, IBM HTTP Server on AIX, Solaris, and
Linux and Windows platforms.
V Proven ability to define System requirements, recommending solutions,
analyze capacity and make appropriate modifications.
V Proficient in support coverage to accommodate client requirements by
being available and on call 24x7
V Excellent documentation skills of ongoing activities within the
project and specific detailed documentation of each and every server's
functions and application configuration.
V Making recommendations of hardware depending on current resource usage
and future forecasting of an application using Sun Management Center
tools.
Technical Skills:
Operating Systems: IBM AIX 4.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3.x, 5.1, 5L, UNIX
Solaris 2.6,2.7, 8,
9 and 10. Windows 95,98,NT,2000,XP, HP-UX 11.0, 10.20,
Red Hat 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.X.
Storage & Backup: Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 4.2, 5.1, 5.2, Veritas
NetBackup,Legato Networker, Tivoli Framework, ITM 5.x, DM,
TEC, TCM, scripting Veritas Volume Manager 3.0,
RAID Manager 6.2, EMC
Celerra File Server, EMC Symmetrix
5430, StorageTek 9740 Tape
Library, Quantum-ATL Tape
Library and Veritas
NetBackup.
Networking: CISCO Routers, Motorola Modems, 3Com,
Longshine, D-Link
HTTP, SMTP, NFS, CIFS, TCP/IP, FTP,
SSH, TCP wrappers.
Languages: C++, Perl, Shell Programming-Bash, Ksh, Sed,
Awk, JAVA, CSS
and HTML/XML.
Hardware: IBM RS/6000 P570, P670, p650,s80, P595, P590,
P570
Sun Enterprise Servers(E4500, E3500, E450, E420R, E250),
Sun Ultra 60/10 workstations, HP 9000 (800 series- K-class,
L, B-class), Ethernet hubs and switches.
Other Technologies: IBM HACMP 4.5, 5.x, IBM HMC, Microsoft Office
Suite,
Oracle 7.x, Oracle 8.x, SQL Server
2000, DB2 8.0/8.1, LDAP,
WebSphere Application Server
V3.5/4.0/5.0,HTTP 1.3/2.0,
Samba server and Enterprise Storage
Systems 8100, 8000.
Professional Experience:
March 2009 - Present
Walgreens Deerfiled, IL
Senior Sun Solaris Administrator / Engineer
Working as a UNIX System Administrator on 350+ Solaris and Linux servers.
. Installed and configured Solaris 8,9 and 10 and Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4 and 5 and Red Hat Advance Server using jumpstart and Manual
installation.
. Install and configured Emulex HBA and configure LUNS from
Hitachi/Neetapp with multi-path using power path, mpxio and veritas
volume manager utility
. Expert and proven ability to use SVM Solaris Volume Manager for RAID 1
and SAN administration
. Data protection and management tasks with RAID using VERITAS Volume
Manager (VxVM), Veritas file system (VXFS), Solstice Disk suite and
Sun Volume Manager ZFS
. Day to day DNS Administration
. Installed and setup Solaris virtual servers with zones in Solaris 10
. Edited /etc/project according to application requirements
. Managed and manipulated resources available on zones
. Created memory caps on zones to utilize and document maximum used
resources
. Installed and configured Sun Management Center 4 server
. Configured Sun Management Center agent on T2000, M4000, M5000, 6800
and various Linux clients
. Created LDOMs on 6800 servers using XSCF prompt
. Created and maintained trusted connections among various Solaris,
Linux and AIX servers for fast and secure customer data transfer
. Created and manipulated file systems using newfs and format commands
. Created users accounts and groups
. Planned and implemented backup procedures for Veritas NetBackup
servers
. Created backup of critical files and configuration using Solaris 10
tools and utilities to safeguard system and data
. Monitor and troubleshoot network and servers with Big Brother
monitoring tool
. Scheduling client jobs with cron
. Planned and implemented RAID 1 using SVM Solaris Volume Manager
. Performance monitoring with Nagios and Sun Management Center
. Stress tested the OAS and Solaris 10 systems for production
environment
. Planned and implemented system configuration changes in QA and DEV
environments according to application needs
. Install Setup and Support Jumpstart server in corporate environment
. Setup and support NFS server and client in the Legacy Environment
. Backup and restore user and client data using VERITAS net backup and
conventional Solaris 10 utilities
. Day-To-Day user Administration such as creating cron jobs, creating
files and users, monitoring log files.
. Configured of Meta devices, soft partition and LUN configuration using
Sun Volume Manager
. Created LDOM's on Sun Enterprise 2900 server.
. Installed and configured LOM, ALOM and System Controller on Various
Sun servers
. Managed mission critical applications File Systems using VERITAS
Volume Manager, Sun Volume Manager and ZFS.
Hardware: Ultra, Enterprise 420R, E480, E490, 450, 6500; Netra T1; Sun Fire
V120, V240, V480, V880, V2900, V3800, V4800, F4900, V6800, F12K, T2000,
M4000, M5000 and V40Z, X4100, X4200 and X4600, Storage sun A5x00, Sun FC
3510 EMC; Hitachi
January 2007 - February 2009
Discover Financial Services / Morgan Stanley Credit Corp
Riverwoods, IL
UNIX Systems Engineer / Administrator / Infrastructure Engineer
. Responsible for the support of Production, HA, DR, QA and Development
environments with over 30 servers (v240, v490 and E2900) running on
Solaris 8 and Solaris 10.
. Responsible for monitoring systems performance and troubleshoot system
/ network bottlenecks.
. Performed Security on users, groups administration and daily backup
and restore operations, networking service, performance, and resource
monitoring.
. Performed a routine check on nodes syslogs and errorlogs for system
and hardware errors.
. Configured Sun containers, LDOMS and ZFS
. Perform periodic file system UFS tuning and monitoring jobs to enhance
system/complex performance.
. Replaced failed components like Ethernet/ fiber channel adapters,
power supplies, and disks to avoid down time.
. Maintained /etc/hosts file all across Oracle DB servers for OAS and
oracle access and administration
. Maintained /etc/vfstab file for easy mount and unmount process of
filesystems and clean startup process for Solaris 10 Operating System
. Performed installation, periodic maintenance updates and applied
patches and kernel fixes.
. Setup and managed user accounts, and changed user attributes based on
users requests, and troubleshoot login issue by configuring NFS/NIS
settings.
. Created NFS file system exports from data movers and configuration of
network interfaces in control workstation station.
. Created system startup and shutdown procedures
. Provided user and group administration and implemented centralized
home directory services for all users
. Configuration nodes as NIS master and NIS slave server and monitoring
NIS slaves for all the updated NIS maps.
. Setup cron jobs schedules for various backup and monitoring tasks.
. Assisted in setup and configuration of network TCP/IP on SUN servers
including RPC connectivity for NFS.
. Performance monitoring done with conventional tools like sar, topas,
nmon, iostat & netstat.
. Monitored system activities, log maintenance and disk space
management.
. Created Magic tickets for problem notification and documentation
purposes and opening of Cases with Sun Microsystems and various
vendors for unresolved issues.
. Experienced in actively syncing production environment with HA and DR
environments.
. Experienced in setup and configuration of sync tools such as rsync.
. Experienced in installation and configuration of OAS and Oracle
standard DB's.
. Create, setup and manage multi domains on Sun fire F15K, F12K,
6800/4800/3800
Environment: HP-UX 11i, Solaris 2.8 and Solaris 10, Sun Volume Manager,
SunFire servers (v240, v490 and E2900), HP Server DL380, HDS TagmaStore
(UPS 600 and AMS 500) HP Clustered Gateway (Windows 2003) File Server,
Perl, Korn, C Shell, NIS and NFS.
February 2006 - December 2006
Sprint / Nextel Overland Park, Kansas
Sun/HP/IBM/Windows Administrator and Capacity Planner
UNIX ADMINISTRATION: Large installation (>50 servers) of Solaris 8 and 10,
IBM AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, Linux HP-UX 11i systems, Windows Server 2003 and
VMware ESX and GSX applications. Duties include user administration;
startup and shutdown scripts; file system maintenance and backups.
Responsibilities and activities in Data Centers
. Setup cron jobs schedules
. Performed a routine check on nodes syslogs and errorlogs for system
and hardware errors.
. Ran scripts for LVM configuration change like LV size extensions and
FS extensions.
. Purchase Hardware and software applications
. Maintained and administered Solaris 10 services using SMF utility.
. Assisted in setup and configuration of network TCP/IP on AIX, HP,
Windows and SUN servers including RPC connectivity for NFS.
. Installed and configured VERITAS cluster server (VCS) for various
critical application and database servers
. Designed Backup and Recovery and Disaster Recovery solution for newly
implemented servers
. Provided hardware support to the application development team.
Replaced failed components like Ethernet/ fiber channel adapters,
power supplies, and disks etc to avoid down time.
. Performance monitoring done with conventional tools like sar, topas,
nmon, iostat & netstat etc.
. Stay up to date with upcoming HP, Sun and IBM technology
. Create strategies for Database Backup using SQL Backtrack and Hot
Backup techniques
. Maintain work load using the maintenance windows
. Analyzed system performance, client-to-server traffic, and server-to-
server traffic.
. Coordinate with EMC team for data movement from one data center to
another data center
. Capacity planning of different applications and use of HP performance
tools
. Documenting daily usage of applications and the number of users using
the application and proposing hardware changes and upgrades
. Future forecasting of hardware to make use of resources to its fullest
extent
. Assisted in prioritizing lock downs in datacenter for performance
monitoring
. Installed and configured Legato for client side backups
Environment: IBM AIX 5.1,5.2, (RS/6000), HP-UX 11i, Solaris 2.6, 8 and 10
Tivoli Storage Manager, pSeries servers (p570, p670), Sun Fire V240, V490
and E6900, HP Blades and HP Super Domes, IBM Web Sphere Application Server
4.0/5.0, IBM HTTP Web Server 2.0.47.7, EMC Celerra File Server, EMC
Symmetrix, EMC Clarion, Perl, Korn Shell, NIS, NIM, NFS, DNS, LDAP Server,
HACMP software, Veritas Clustering, I-Planet, BEA Weblogic, Oracle 11i and
HP Performance Tools.
May 2005 - January 2006
Fidelity National Financial Chicago, IL
Systems Administrator
Responsibilities: Responsible for the support of SP complex with over 30
servers (p690/670/650, S80) running on AIX 5.1/5.2. Primarily responsible
for monitoring systems performance and troubleshoot system/ network
bottlenecks.
. Performed Security, users, groups administration and daily backup and
restore operations, networking service, performance, and resource
monitoring.
. Performed a routine check on nodes syslogs and errorlogs for system
and hardware errors.
. Perform periodic file system GPFS tuning and monitoring jobs to
enhance system/complex performance.
. Configured HMC service agent for automated service call and LPAR
monitoring.
. Provided hardware support to the application development team.
Replaced failed components like Ethernet/ fiber channel adapters,
power supplies, and disks etc to avoid down time.
. Ran scripts for LVM configuration change like LV size extensions and
FS extensions.
. Performed installation, periodic maintenance updates and applied APAR
fixes.
. Setup and managed user accounts, and changed user attributes e.g.
maxage based on users requests, and troubleshoot login issue by
configuring NFS/NIS settings.
. Assisted in creation of NFS file system exports from data movers and
configuration of network interfaces in control workstation station.
. Assisted in configuration of nodes as NIS masters and slaves based on
SP complex requirements, and monitoring NIS slaves for all the updated
NIS maps.
. Setup cron jobs schedules for various backup and monitoring tasks.
. Assisted in setup and configuration of network TCP/IP on AIX servers
including RPC connectivity for NFS.
. Performance monitoring done with conventional tools like sar, topas,
nmon, iostat & netstat etc.
. Monitored system activities, log maintenance and disk space
management.
. Assisted in opening of Pregrin tickets for problem notification and
documentation purposes and opening of PMR with IBM for unresolved
issues.
Environment: IBM AIX 5.1,5.2, (RS/6000) SP frames, HP-UX 11i, Solaris 2.6,
Tivoli Storage Manager, pSeries servers (p570, p670, s80), EMC Celerra File
Server, EMC Symmetrix, Perl, Korn, C Shell, NIS and NFS.
April 2003 - March 2005
Blue Cross Blue Shield Jacksonville, Florida
UNIX/AIX/Windows Administrator
Responsibilities:
. UNIX ADMINISTRATION: Large installation (>30 servers) of Solaris, IBM
AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3, Linux HP-UX systems. Duties include user
administration; startup and shutdown scripts; file system maintenance
and backups.
. AIX administration supporting RS/6000 Servers (p570,p670), installed,
configured and maintained a complex of 70 virtual servers.
. Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes
for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
commands.
. Created and configured LPARS on pSeries machines.
. Supported High Availability (HA) cluster on IBM pSeries platform
(HACMP for AIX).
. Configured enterprise applications on IBM WebSphere Application Server
4.0/5.0, IBM HTTP Web Server 2.0 on AIX, Sun Solaris.
. Integrated enterprise-wide J2EE applications and deployed using IBM
Websphere Application Server 4.0/5.0, Application Assembly Tool (AAT)
and managed security policies for different applications.
. Strong experience in Analyzing, Trouble shooting and taking
appropriate actions for Application/Web server errors and logs using
WebSphere Log Analyzer tool.
. Setup and maintained NFS, NIS services on a SP complex.
. Updated Perl and Korn shell scripts for admin tasks like customizing
user environment, performance monitoring, platform independent wrapper
scripts, pushing changes through cron, security management etc.
. Performed installation, periodic maintenance updates and applied APAR
fixes.
. Configured primary and standby data movers, failsafe devices in EMC
Celerra File Server connected to EMC Symmetrix for NAS storage.
. Systems administrator providing support for production and development
systems. Environment consisted of multiple IBM RS/6000s and X-Window
terminals.
Environment: IBM AIX 5.1,5.2, (RS/6000), HP-UX 11i, Solaris 2.6, Tivoli
Storage Manager, pSeries servers (p570, p670), IBM WebSphere Application
Server 4.0/5.0, IBM HTTP Web Server 2.0.47.7, EMC Celerra File Server, EMC
Symmetrix, Perl, Korn Shell, NIS, NFS, DNS, LDAP Server, HACMP software.
Education:
Chicago State University Chicago, IL
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Certification:
Sun Solaris Systems Administrator for Solaris 10
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