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Engineer Manager

Location:
Ellicott City, MD
Posted:
June 24, 2015

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Arun Babu

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Career Summary-

** ***** ** ********** ** IT Infrastructure Services and hands on Datacenter Operations

A Unix Admin by trade, have handled different platforms such as, Solaris, HP Unix and Redhat Linux, along with Volume Managers ( VxVM, ZFS, SVM, LVM) and Clustering technologies ( VCS).

Worked with world class MNC’s and clients located in different places USA, provided support to Datacenters in Huston, Phoenix, Colorado Springs, Braintree, and Littleton

Acknowledged for integrity, high professional standards, “big-picture” vision, and sensitivity to deliver projects within the committed time. Responsible for SLA management of Operations Support Team.

Major System Administration And Operations Skills -

Operating Systems: Solaris 8,9,10 / HP-UX 11iv3 Redhat Linux

Volume Managers: VERITAS Volume Manager, Solaris SVM, ZFS and LVM

Cluster Technologies: VCS

Virtualization Technologies: Solaris Zones, LDOMs,

Hardware’s: SunFire, v890/880, v480/440, T Series, HP Blades

Back up Technologies: IBM TSM

Monitoring Tools: QESM, BMC, HPOV

Process: ITIL

Work History-

1. IBM

Client : CenturyLink Inc

From May 2013 – May 2015

Designation: Technical Service Specialist

Datacenters- Omaha, Denver

Technologies used: - Solaris 9 /10 / 11, VxVM, ZFS, VCS, LDOM,, NFS, ZONE, Redhat Linux, LVM

Prime Responsibilities

New Projects and having the responsibility to stabilize operations

Server build and migration (Physical/ LDOM's/Zones) as per project requirement

Responsible for escalations from Operational issues from L1/L2/L3 team, handle all major changes and project activities

Work with client for new application requirements and help them getting integrated with the server

Make sure all the SLA’s are met and no change failures

Working for Server, Storage migrations,

Providing Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for issues.

DR testing

Coordination and preparation of detailed design for new projects

2. Mphasis Ltd

Client : Pegasus Solutions

From Nov 2010 – May 2013

Designation: Lead infrastructure Engineer

Datacenters- Houston, Phoenix, Texas, Bangalore

Technologies used: - Solaris 9 /10 / 11, VxVM, ZFS, VCS, LDOM,, NFS, ZONE, HP-UX11iv3,Redhat Linux, LVM,

Prime Responsibilities

Take care of the Unix Operations for the client.

Needed to meet the SLA’s for Incident, Change and Problem Management and also the team, is responsible for completing new Projects within Time limits. Responsible for any SLA miss

Acted as First level Escalation for the team from Unix side for Technical Outages, Delivery related issues.

Worked with Onsite team in understanding the new requirements.

OS Installation/Rebuild of Sun Solaris and HP-UX as per customers requirement.

Worked with Server Engineering team

Worked with different virtualization techniques(Zone)

Understanding operational risks and doing service improvement

NFS, and DNS configs

Worked with various Volume managers like VxVM, LVM, SVM and ZFS

Worked with Clustering technologies like VCS

Servered performance monitoring and tuning

Responsibilities included day-to-day functional administration tasks

Server’s configuration as per customer requirements.

NTP Configuration to sync the server on global time zone

IP Teaming Configuration using IPMP(Solaris) and APA ( HP-UX)

Maintaining DRD and ignite

3.Accenture Service Pvt Ltd

Client:- Star Wood Hotels and Resorts

From June 2010 – Nov 2010

Designation: Solaris Administrator

Datacenters: - Houston, Braintree, Phoenix

Technologies used: - Solaris 9 /10 / 11, VxVM, ZFS, VCS, LDOM,, NFS, ZONE, LVM

Prime Responsibilities

Remote support includes assistance in Installation of new & upgrade/troubleshooting existing customer environments.

Took live calls on production down situations understanding customer’s environment & troubleshooting problem & helping customer to get business running.

If required interacting with different vendors on conference to resolve the issue.

Interacting with Backline & Engineering (Product Development) teams located in different geographies as & when needed for different escalation levels.

Being a single point of contact for customers until the issue is resolved.

Imparting/Sharing knowledge with the frontline team as & when needed for different products increasing the team skill set.

Worked as Project Manager from Infrastructure team side on couple of projects

4.HP( Hewlett –Packard ) Global Soft Ltd

Client :- On Semicondutor, Hawaiian Telcom

From Oct 2007 – May 2010

Designation: System Engineer

Datacenters :- Houston,Littleton, Colorado Spring

Technologies used: - Solaris 9 /10 / 11, RHEL, VxVM, ZFS, VCS, LDOM,, NFS, ZONE, LVM

Prime Responsibilities

Provided Unix remote support to American Clients (Solaris,HP-Ux ) .

Managed datacenter operations team which was responsible for giving Solaris Support ( L1/L2/

Used to work on Incidents, Changes and Server Builds.

Used to work on Monitoring tools related issues

Installed of new applications/ packages.

Administration of VERITAS Cluster and volume manager.

Administration of NFS / Zone, etc

Installation of kernel Patches release as per patch cycle

HP Open view (OVO8.1 and OVPA4.7) client administration

Co-ordination with Vender for any hardware related issues.

5.Network Solutions Ltd

From March 2007 - October 2007

Designation: Customer Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Prime Responsibilities

Used to support for multiple OS platforms – Sun Solaris, and Windows related systems / servers.

Responsible for installation of new systems / servers

Worked as Resident Engineer for NXP semiconductor, taking care of all the IT related issues and managing the infrastructure.

Helping customers on Backup and recovery options

Closing the issues based on time frames agreed with Clients

6.Accel Front Line Ltd

From Oct 2004 - Feb 2006

Designation: Customer Engineer

Location: Bangalore

Prime Responsibilities

Used to support for multiple OS platforms – Sun Solaris, and Windows related systems / servers.

Responsible for installation of new systems / servers

Worked as Resident Engineer for NXP semiconductor, taking care of all the IT related issues and managing the infrastructure.

Helping customers on Backup and recovery options

Closing the issues based on time frames agreed with Clients

7.KELTRON LTD

From Dec 2001 - Dec 2002

Designation: Technician Apprentice

Location: Trivandrum

Prime Responsibilities

Worked as Technician Apprentice and provide system admin task to domestic clients

Certifications-

Sun Certified System Admin I (SCSA –Solaris 10)

Educational Academics-

Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Technology from The Trustforte Corporation, New York, USA based on Education,Training and Experience for H1B

Diploma from Technical Board of Exams, Kerala, India with 72%

Class X (Technical High school) from State Board, Kerala, India with 78%

Professional Training-

Solaris 10 System Administration Training 2008

Solaris 10 Boot camp Training from HP 2010

VERITAS Cluster Server training by Symantec 2011

VERITAS Volume Manager 2012



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