System Analyst

Joel Skariah Anjilimoottil

Senior Systems Administrator

Contact No.972-***-****

Email address: ***********@*****.***

US Address: 10182,Teal Hollow Drive, Frisco Texas 75035

Residency Status: Green Card Holder

Proficient senior level systems professional with advanced expertise in IT operations, system, network, application management, problem & incident management. Exemplary analytical, problem solving, organizational abilities with a capability to deliver excellence independently or collaboratively. Equipped with more than 8 years of experience accomplishing major initiatives complemented by a Masters’ degree in Information management and requisite technical skills.

Technical Skills

Cloud Platforms: Vmware & Amazon Web Services

System Platforms: RHEL(5/6/7),OpenSuse,Microsoft Windows, Unix.

Database Servers: Oracle,Mysql,Microsoft Sql, MariaDB.

Cloud Computing Tools: Vcenter,VMware vRealize Automation, EC2, CloudWatch, vCloud Director.

Patching Tools: VMware vRealize Configuration Manager, BMC Server Automation.

Monitoring Tools: Nagios,Sitescope,BMC,Vmware Hyperic, Manage Engine (IT360)

Hardware Vendors: Vblock, HP Proliant, Cisco(UCS), Dell(Poweredge), IBM(X&P),Pureflex blades

Hardware Storage: IBM XIV,V7000,DS3512/3524, EMC VNX

Ticketing Tools: SDM 12.1/12.9,BMC Remedy,Xroadz, Clarify, ServiceNow

Backup Tool: Symantec Netbackup,Avamar.

Professional Experience

Atos India Pvt.Ltd. 09/2015-01/2017

Cloud System Analyst for Canopy Cloud Mumbai, India

Provided with Accolade Champagne – Spot Award for going extra mile, being proactive, showing extra commitment and efforts in completing project assignment in 2016.

Lead a team of 10 VMware,Linux & Windows Engineers providing IT Managed Services L4 support for 10 different Global organizations (approximately 7,000 servers), including Atos internal infrastructure and private corporations.

Provide Linux Server and VMware support, which includes deployment, management, remediation, and preventative maintenance of virtual servers.

Responsible for managing cloud infrastructure (Public/Private Cloud) providing IAAS services using vCloud Director, vRealize Automation Center.

Managing tenants Org, VDC allocation of compute, storage & networking in vCloud Director for allocation models like PAY AS GO, Allocation model.

Creating & Provisioning an Organization: Understand Lease, Create an Organization & Provide resource to an Organization, Allocate Resources to an Organization

Catalog Management: Create a Published Catalog, Upload a vApp Template. Import a vApp Template from and vSphere, Upload a Media File, Import a Media File from vSphere Publish a Catalog

Capable in implementation, upgrade, monitoring the ongoing provisioning of VMWARE infrastructure for Production & Staging Environment.

Configuring reservations for new tenants in vRealize Automation.

Creating and managing blueprints, fabric groups, endpoints, business groups etc

Troubleshooting deployment failures by analyzing orchestrator workflows.

Deployment of new blade servers in the cluster involving tasks like (ESXI installation, Zoning in MDS switches, Creating boot Luns in VNX Storage, etc )

VMware ESX server setup in all sites with HA/DRS Clustering/vMotion.

Troubleshooting vSphere performance: CPU, memory, disk/storage, and other issue.

Configured Affinity, Anti-Affinity rules for Virtual Machines in the Cluster.

Updating and patching ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers using VMware Update manager.

Experience with Cisco UCS Blades for ESX hosts deployment

Building OS like Linux/Windows via vRealize Automation

Executed Post build activities like ( user access/ FS creation /Patching / backup configure)

Patching of systems using BMC Server Automation & vRealize Configuration Manager

Migrating VMs from one Host/LUN to another using VMotion/SVMotion

Hyperic & VCM installation/configuration for Virtual Machines.

Provide deep OS troubleshooting as needed for systems; including process/thread stacks, IO issues,etc

Atos India Pvt.Ltd. 10/2013-08/2015

System Analyst for GAIN Siemens Mumbai, India

Following the Change,Release & Deployment Management process set by Customer.

Implementing Security Measure Plan for Linux & UNIX system according to Siemens CERT.

Inventory management of Servers & other Hardware devices across multiple locations.

Attending Customer & TECH CAB’s for reviewing the changes in client infrastructure.

Installation & configuration of the new OSI according to customer requirement.

Creating & Maintaining Knowledge Base Articles for the Project.

Red hat Linux. Suse Linux & IBM AIX System Administration.

Applying Vulnerable patches according to the Redhat.

iDRAC(Dell)/iRMC(Fujitsu) upgradation on periodic basis.

AIX Upgradation from 5.3 to 6.1/7.1

Installation of latest patches and TL/ML for Aix.

Patch management for Linux machines.

Vm Tools upgradation for Virtual machines.

Tata Consultancy Services 07/2012 -10/2013

IT Analyst for Internal Services Mumbai, India

Awarded the Technical Excellence from TCS in 2013 for implementing the virtualization cluster which resulted in lowering the Total Cost of Ownership by increasing the efficiency of server resources.

Capacity planning of Hardware procurement for the next financial year across different locations

Storage Optimization to leverage unused storages & use it for other applications

Inventory management of Servers, SAN & other Hardware devices across multiple locations.

Providing valued suggestion while procuring servers & storages to the senior management.

Installation & configuration of the new hardware’s in datacenter according to application requirement.

Red hat Linux & IBM AIX System Administration

IBM Aix upgradation from 5.3 to 6.1/7.1

Veritas NetBackup Configuration & Administration

P2V conversion of servers using Vmware Convertor for deployment.

Configuration & Upgradation of Vmware servers

Creating Storage Pools(SAN management) & LUN according to the application requirement.

Deploying Virtual machines from Clones & Templates

3i-Infotech 09/2007-06/2012

Senior System Engineer for Commodity Exchange(NCDEX) Mumbai, India

Presented with the Star Performance Award for Nov 2011for being the best performing system engineer for that fiscal year.

Linux

Red hat Linux Systems Administration

Installation and configuration Red hat Linux, fedora

Upgradation of RHEL using Yum Repository

Virtualization of Red hat Linux 5 VMware(ESXI)

Network & TCP/IP Configuration & Troubleshooting

Implementing User level Disk Quotas

Configuring swap space on demand.

NTP configuration on Linux Machines

Compiling, Hardening & Customizing the Linux Kernel

Logical Volume Management (LVM)

Squid cache Proxy server with ACL & URL filtering

Symantec Message Gateway as Send mail Server

Job Scheduling using CRON

Setting up the file, Directory Permission

Knowledge on Shell Scripting

Ethernet Bonding

Configuration of OPENVPN Server on RHEL Server

Installation and configuration of IWSS in production environment

Aix

Installation and Administration of AIX 5.3 and 6.1 on P510,P520,P550, POWER6 & Power 7 System

Scheduling jobs like NMON reports using CRON

Working with paging space : creation, increase, decrease as per requirements

Hardening and Tuning Aix servers

Job Scheduling using CRON.

MKSYSB Backup and restoration.

Installation, administration and troubleshooting of LVM

Installation of latest patches and TL/ML.

HMC management and upgradation.

Hardware firmware migration

Knowledge of HACMP & VIO

VMware

Virtualization of Linux using VMware in Dev Environment.

Upgradation of VMware version(from 3.5 till 5.0)

Configuration of VMware vCenter Server.

Provide hands on support to ensure availability, reliability and redundancy in a 24/7 enterprise environment.

Deploy VMware virtual machines and templates, HA/DRS configuration using VSphere4.

Project lead converting physical servers to virtual servers using conversion tools VMware Converter. Efforts produced a reduction of rack and power usage, decreased downtime during maintenance and upgrades, and improved management and monitoring tools.

Knowledge on VMware Convertor tools like tools like Double Plate & Plate Spin

Storage/Data Center

Working in Data center environment providing 24*7 supports to client.

Server hardware installation/upgrade, racking servers and application software installation/configuration.

Maintaining & managing IBM X-Series servers 3650,3650M2,3650 M3,345,346, 306,250 & HP DL 380 servers,Dell PowerEdge R710 with

RAID(RAID 1/5) implementation.

Managing IBM DS 3512 & 3524 storage,NetApp & IBM Blade Centers.

Coordinating with vendors to resolve hardware related issues.

SAN management Updating BIOS, Diagnostic & BMC in IBM servers.

Knowledge and installation of Enterprise Software like Symantec Netback up 7.1 server as well as client, VMware VDI

Motorala Pvt Ltd 02/2007 – 06/2007

Field Test Engineer (Manpower Contract) Mumbai, India

As a Field Test Engineer I worked on upcoming handsets which required prelaunch testing.

Worked in both GSM as well as CDMA environment with an excellent track record.

Good working knowledge of both manual and automatic testing environment.

My responsibilities include complete testing of the mobile handset, which includes call quality, stress testing and application testing.

The mobile handsets I have handled during my stay at Motorola include the MotoRazr V3re, W215, W218, Z6 and the prestigious C168.

Education

Masters in Information Management

Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies - Mumbai University

May 2015 –CGPA 6

Bachelors of Engineering in Electronics

A.C.Patil College of Engg - Mumbai University

June 2006 – First Class

Training

VMWare – VMWare vSphere:Install,Configure,Manage [V6] (2016)

Edupristine - Big Data & Hadoop (2014)

Certifications

VMware Certified Professional 6 – Data Center Virtualization (VCP6-DCV) 2017

vSphere 6 – Foundation Certificate 2017

ITIL® Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management 2014

Oracle Database 10G Administrator Certified Associate 2009

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