UNIX and Storage Professional

RAHUL GUPTA

H.No.****, Sec-**, Gurgaon, Haryana-*22002.

Phone: +91-956*******; Email: *****.***********@*****.***

Date of Birth: 15 March 1987

Passport Number: H4004866

UNIX & STORAGE Engineer

Highly technical professional with a dedicated 4.5 years career in architecting, building, expanding and managing high

availability, predictable and stable Unix systems environments for global organizations on various clouds.

Exceptional analytical, troubleshooting, organizational, communication, prioritization, and problem solving and

leadership skills with ability to create and sustain high work tempo.

Technical skills

• Experience Red Hat Linux 5.x, 6.x. Oracle Solaris 5.10, AIX 5.3, 6.1, VIO, ESX

• Storage IBM Mid Range DS 3K,4K,5K and NetApp NAS N 3600

• VMware management and VM build.

• Designing, implementing and automating a build using scripting, release and workflow process

• VCS ( RG failover, Freezing/Unfreezing groups, LLT, GAB, basic configuration and cluster operations)

• VxVM, LVM, Storage Foundation

• PowerHA ( Cluster Build, C Spoc Operation on LVM changes, RG failover, Heartbeat setup, Shared VGs, HA logs)

• Hardware knowledge of IBM Blade, Power systems, HP and Dell Hardware.

• Scripting in Shell.

Qualifications and Certifications

• IBM Certified AIX 6.1 Administrator.

• IBM P-Series Systems and Storage Internal Certifications.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

Fidelity Worldwide Investments Sep 2013 to Present

UNIX and Virtualization Engineer

• Working in implementation team to build and engineer servers for Linux, AIX and Solaris operating systems.

• Working on clustering technologies on Linux like VCS and using volume managers VxVM and LVM on it.

• Automation of manual tasks using Shell scripting.

• Provide support to IBM Mid range (DS 3k, 4k, 5k) Storages and NetApp NAS.

• Provide production support to Fidelity’s investment Banking environment consisting of around 1000 Physical servers

and 5000 virtual servers across the datacenters located in UK on Linux, AIX and Solaris platform.

• Maintaining/installing/Patching ESX Cluster on VMware and install Linux virtual Machines over it. It also includes

managing and assigning of data stores inside the cluster and VMOTION of the Linux machines

• Implementing change requests raised by user for server configuration, kernel tuning, software installation and OS

hardening.

• Managing Linux VMs using puppet as per some projects requirement, have knowledge of modules, manifests and

roles on puppet.

• Worked on a project to customize RPM packaging for Linux servers according to the organization standard.

• Troubleshooting OS issues on AIX, Linux and Solaris and doing performance tuning to help user in smooth running

of application processes.

• Building NIM server, Kickstart server for automation of OS installation.

• Good understanding of OSI model, VLAN, Subnets and routes, liaising with network team for the same.

• Have knowledge of middleware tools like WAS, HIS, Apache HTTP as coordinating with other teams on daily basis.

• Doing firmware and Microcode upgrades.

• Managing NFS, DNS, DHCP, NIS, AutoFS.

• Good Knowledge in server performance monitoring using vmstat, sar, nmon and top/topas.

• Debugging network problems using tcpdump, entstat, ethtool, traceroute and netstat.

• Tracing processes using ps, strace, proctree etc.

• Maintaining and installing packages on Linux using rpm and yum, making yum repositories within the estate.

• Knowledge of HMC like dynamic resource allocation, HMC upgrade etc.

• Worked on HP systems ILOs and on bladecenter.

• Following the Compliance activity to make sure all servers are adhering to the compliance.

• Proficient in group/user/sudo management, used NIS for central login mechanism.

• Performed root disks, SAN disks and HBA replacements.

• Coordination with Hardware vendor to solve the problems coming in the environment.

• Involved in several storage migration from Unix side and provide the solution for all platforms.

• Analyze root cause of failures & develop breakdown solutions in minimum turnaround. Adhere to the standard

environment to standard ITIL processes Change management, Incident management, Problem Management etc.

IMSI India Pvt.Ltd. February 2013 September 2013

Senior Linux, AIX, VMware and Storage Administrator

Giving Second Level Support in the Development/Production Environment including monitoring and tuning the

system to ensure optimum level performance in Linux, Sun, AIX systems.

Provide support to IBM Mid range (DS 3k,4k,5k) Storages and NetApp NAS.

Data Centre Management/Reorganization and physical installation of HP, IBM and Linux Servers. Troubleshoot LAN,

h/w, s/w problems, installation of servers through NIM(AIX), Kick start (Red Hat Linux)

Handle OS patching, firmware upgrade, tuning the kernel parameters, upgrading the OS of Sun Solaris, AIX, Red

Hat Linux servers.

Worked on various Virtualization methods in different platforms like VIOs on AIX and ESX for Linux and have some

knowledge of zones as well.

Maintaining/installing/Patching ESX Cluster on VMware and install Linux virtual Machines over it. It also includes

managing and assigning of data stores inside the cluster and VMOTION of the Linux machines

Provide support to Integration, middleware, DBA, development teams for issues related to system. Provide technical

Support for day to day operations and manage assets & Helpdesk activities including remote assistance to clients.

Writing shell scripts to automate various day to day tasks and expedite various deployments and configurations

M.S.Compserve (ISP of IBM India Pvt.Ltd.) March 2011 – February 2013

Giving First Level Support in the Development/Production Environment including monitoring and tuning the system

to ensure optimum level performance in Linux, AIX systems.

Handle OS patching, firmware upgrade, tuning the kernel parameters, upgrading the OS of AIX, Red Hat Linux

servers.

Worked on various Virtualization methods in different platforms like VIOs on AIX and ESX for Linux and have some

knowledge of zones as well.

Maintaining/installing/Patching ESX Cluster on VMware and install Linux virtual Machines over it. It also includes

managing and assigning of data stores inside the cluster and VMOTION of the Linux machines

Provide support to Integration, middleware, DBA, development teams for issues related to system. Provide technical

Support for day to day operations and manage assets & Helpdesk activities including remote assistance to clients.

Provide support to IBM Mid range (DS 3k, 4k, 5k) Storages and NetApp NAS.

BECIL July 2010 – December 2010

• Worked as a Project Engineer on IBM P Series Systems using AIX and IBM SAN.

• Achieved a certificate for outstanding performance.

EDUCATIONAL CREDENTIALS

B. Tech (Computer Science and Engineering), 2010

Guru Tegh Bahadur Inst. Of Technology, GGSIPU, Delhi; Cumulative C.P.I: 7.5

Diploma (Digital Electronics), 2007.

Ambedkar Polytechnic, B.T.E, Delhi; 81%

A.I.S.S.C.E., 2004

Central School Delhi C.B.S.E; 62%

A.I.S.S.E., 2002

Central School Delhi C.B.S.E; 71.3%

Trainings Attended

Attended Red Hat System Administrator.

VxVM classroom training

5 days training on “AIX server administration” at IBM, Noida

ITIL v3 Training

Academic and Sports Accolades

• Got rewards from Common Wealth Games as the best performer in working environment.

• Gold Medalist in Diploma.

• Gold Medalist at Diploma and School level Badminton Championships.

• Gold Medalist in Volleyball Championship in Diploma.

Professional Accolades

• Got Second highest rating in the team of Unix Estate engineers in Fidelity Worldwide Investments.

Date of Birth: 15th March 1987

Languages Known: English, Hindi

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