Appas M ac4k4c@r.postjobfree.com / +91-984*******/+966*********

Objective

To work in a company which gives me an opportunity to demonstrate my skills and in turn be a source of growth for the business of the organization.

Professional Summary

-Having 7 years progressive IT Server support experience as UNIX System Administrator on Unix servers in Production, QA and development environment.

-Having experience in installation, upgradation, migration and administration of Linux with varying versions.

-AIX migrations 7.1 using NIM and all day 2 day activies .

-Having experience in Bash shell scripting and Ansible playbooks creation to automate the environment.

-Implementation and Administration of Linux environments on HP, DELLand CISCO UCS servers.

- Having hands on experience with storage Migration (VNX,VMAX,SCALE IO) with ASM and APP instances

-Adequate knowledge about Oracle(11g/12c) and Mongo DB for administrative perspective.

-Having high impetus in learning new technologies and high aspiration in troubleshooting mission critical production server’s issues.

-Having Experience in Payment card Industry standards on ALRajhi Bank,western union

Education and Training summary

-Pursued Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic and Communication passed out on 2010.

-Pursued Diploma of Electrical and Electronics Engineering passed out on 2007.

-Trained in ITIL in Mphasis& Comcast.

-Have given training for Linux administration to the junior engineers in Mphasis.

Experience Summary

- Senior Unix system Engineer in AlRajhi Bank, Saudi Arabia from january 2018 to till date

-Senior Linux system Engineer in Comcast India., Chennai from December 2016 to January 2018

-Linux system Engineer in Sify Technology., Chennai from October 2014 to Nov 2016

-Infrastructure Engineer in Mphasis, An HP Company.,Chennai from March 2013 to October 2014

-Linux Administrator in Network Solutions An IBM Company., Chennai from March 2011 to April 2013

CERTIFACTION DONE

Red Hat Certified Engineer [RHCE-6]

Certification ID: 120-082-755

Date: - 28rd MAY 2012 [RHCSA Components score: 100 RHCE Components score: 95.4]

Technical expertise

-Operating System

-RH Linux 5/6/7, Centos5/6/7 AIX (5.3,6.1,7.1) ESX and Vmware

-Software Tools

-LVM, Basic( Ansible),Github&Splunk, Shell scripting, Rally, Jira,Remedy

-Storage&Vmware

-Hitachi, EMC(VNX &VMAX ),Vcenter Vsphere(5.0,5.5), ESX– Basic Tasks

Senior System Engineer – Linux & Automation

Comcast: Dec 2016 –Till date

-Having experience in Devops like ansible, foreman,jenkins and GitHub.

-Implemented shell scripting for repeated tasks and automated deployment using Run deck and Ansible.

-Worked on online storage Linux end migration for ASM and APP servers

-Building and maintaining templates on VMware to support multiple operating systems, as well as building and maintaining VMware infrastructure.

-Average hands on experience on VxVm and VCS

-Migrated all operations files and scripts to GitHub Enterprise installation to optimize deployment and allow tracking of configurations and scripts within GitHub.

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-Working closely with Architecture, Development, Test, Security and IT Services teams

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-Installing, configuring and maintaining Continuous Integration, Automation and Configuration Management tools.

System Engineer – Linux October 2014 – Till date

Sify Technologies

Project: Corporation service company client

Environment:RH Linux EL5/EL6/EL7, VMware/Storage

Skills sets & Job Responsibilities:

-Maintaining a list of Production and DR Development Unix servers of extremely critical application servers proactively monitoring the load frequently 24*7

-Work on an integrated ticketing tool ‘Cherwell’ and ‘service manager’, for attending daily issues of incidents and service requests

-Version control is used like anthill pro and GitHub to automate environment.

-Ansible and Puppet is used our environment to automate the frequent tasks and splunk is used to save the logs in common location to browse the logs in developers.

-VSphere Vmware High Availability, works on basic stuffs like VMclone,snapshot ESX update and datastore increase .

-Redhat satellite will push the patches to all the environments to avoid the security concerns

-EMC,HiTACHI LUN allocation and basic storage access .

-Focused on automation and integration.

Infrastructure Engineer March 2013 – November 2014.

Mphasis, an HP Company, Chennai

Project: RMC East HUB - have 25 clients.

Environment: RH Linux EL5/EL6, Solaris 10,AIX 5,6/7

Clients: Agile Card Framework, AGCO, Airgas, Anheuser Busch, Big Rivers, Butterfield Bank, Convatec, EDS-Centralized backup, EDS - Centralized Backups_AHSMC, Goodyear, J Crew, Meritor, Owens-Illinois, PGI, Phoenix, Reichhold, TEREX, Tops, Western Union, Westlake Processing

Skills sets & Job Responsibilities: Linux administrator

-Maintaining a list of Production and DR Development Linux/Solaris servers of extremely critical application servers proactively monitoring the load frequently 24*7

-Work on an integrated ticketing tool ‘Service center’ and ‘service manager’, for attending daily issues of incidents and service requests.

-Coordinating with the application & database team and ensuring the their process are running in the servers as smoothly

-Memory & Swap Space management and kernel tuning for highly utilizing APP/DBA process servers to enhance system performance

-Implementing server hardening by configuring and maintaining security compliance as agreed by clients.

-Upgrading ILO firmware and BIOS firmware on Linux servers.

-LVM for dynamically extending and reducing partition sizes as and when the need arose.

-Planned and executed Linux system changes and upgrades

-Performed routine checks on the Linux servers of the firm

-Having Experience in Payment card Industry standards on Western Union& Butterfield Bank customer

-Working on Linux servers for incident tickets resolving as a monitoring level

-Analyzing issues, finding their root cause with vendor coordination and fixing them permanently

UNIX System Administrator March 2011 - March 2013

Network Solutions An IBM Company, Chennai.

Project: IBM global Account - IGA

Environment: RH Linux, Open Client Linux

-Supported around 100 Linux servers; responsible for Redhat Linux Administration include Sudo Configuration, package and patch management; administering File systems.

-Installing Linux OS and configuration on Blade servers.

-Co-ordinate with Hardware vendor for any replacement of faulty server hardware.

-Configured Squid, Samba in the local small office setup

-Administered Network Services like DHCP, SSH, NFS, SAMBA, DNS, HTTPD.

-Taking frequent Backup of Log files; Performance monitoring activities.

Personal Details

Date of birth : 24th April-1989.

Sex : Male.

Languages known : Tamil, English.

Father’s name : K .Mohammed Meeran

Permanent Address : 12/146 4th Street, AnnaiSanthiya Nagar,

Tondiarpet, I.O.C

Chennai-600 081

Nationality : Indian.

Passport : Valid B1 Visa Available

Phone No : +91-984*******

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