Summary

A UNIX, Sun Solaris Sparks & Red Hat* Linux Certified professional with over 15 years of excellent experience skills in infrastructure and applications support including, WebLogic, Tomcat Apache httpd Oracle,Tidal Autosys applications & Data Centre, backup on NetBackup.

Experience

Experienced in 2000+ Solaris sparks 9,10 &11/Red hat Linux Server support, maintenance.

Experienced in Multi-vendor Virtualization environment (LDOM, ZFS, Zones, VMware, and vSphere).

Work on Migration, Decom. Server and migrate to T5220 Server, create Oracle VM(LDOMS),ZONE & ZFS Files system.

SAN Migration Hitachi Disk storage to EMC Disk storage.

SAN Card Migration 2 GB to 8GB.

SAN Card Replacement, SAN Driver install & upgrade.

Extend ZFS Root File system rpool.

ZFS Files system extension

Mirror OS Disk with svm

Disk Replacement SVM, Veritas Volume Manager, ZFS.

Worked on high availability system by supporting VERITAS Cluster services, that includes failover and verification of services groups

Provided onsite/offsite UNIX support for the environment under High SLA of up-time 99.99% for the production cluster environment.

Installed configuration Red hat Linux 5,6 7&8 using kick start on Linux workstation Z840,Z820,Z440,Z420 day to day support as a system administration

Installed build successfully Redhat Satellite Server 6.11 .

Installed & configured successfully RHEL IDM Server/Client on RHEL 7.9 & RHEL 8.9.

Working knowledge of Red Hat Ansible Automation.

Configured Vlan for network card Bonding, work on iptables/Firewall

Installed and configuration Application on Apache httpd Tomcat Server .

Install MQ-Series,AutoSys,Tidal Application & Oracle database 10g,11g

Installed and configuration 2 node Cluster of HA environment using Veritas Cluster.

Hands-on experience in performing hardware upgrades, replacements and building systems.

Installed software updates, firmware upgrades, managing software/hardware and installation

Application packages, patches and troubleshooting of operating system issues.

Support Solaris/RHEL networking hardware, system, and network security.

Shell scripting using Bash shell.

Experienced in VMware VSphere (4.x, 5.x) environment on virtualization technologies.

Professional Experience:

Government of Ontario, UNIX Consultant (March 2023 – Present, Toronto, Canada)

• Supported Solaris and Linux based systems over 1000 and physical and virtual servers, that

Includes, Migration, LDOMS, ZFS, ZONE and Working on Solaris 10 & 11& day to day support.

Patching Management Project, Os Patching on Solaris 10 & 11 Servers Control ldom, Guest

Ldom & Zone/Container.

Firmware & OS Patch upgrade on RHEL Servers 7,8 & 9 Physical and vm Servers.

After patching verified with Application and database team and make sure that System is ready

to next business day.

RHEL OS upgrade project Successfully leapp upgrade RHEL7 to RHEL 8 with no issue.

Del OEM firmware and patch upgrade.

Worked on Decommission project : Decommission zones/Containers, Guest ldom & control ldom reclaim LUNS send back to SAN Team.

Solaris migration project: Migrate containers, ldoms & control ldom.

Worked on Solaris 10 SUDO vulnerability remediation.

Worked on SNMP traps and alerting, Worked on Password compliance.

Orchestrating technical design agile meetings to facilitate decision making and strategic planning for complex problem solving and implementation.

Assisting clients in utilizing the automation and orchestration environment for application administration, including change window accommodation, script customization, and patching/upgrading the orchestration application.

Managing the virtual console (OpsCenter) and handling user and system account administration.

Proven ability to proactively identify and resolve complex technical issues, employing strategic problem-solving skills to minimize downtime and ensure continuous system availability, resulting in increased user satisfaction and operational effectiveness.

Fosters a positive work environment through effective communication and collaboration, actively contributing to cross-functional teams and leveraging expertise to drive successful system administration projects in Solaris, RedHat.

Serco-Nort America

Govt Of Ontario April2022 –March2023

Drive Test Centre https://drivetest.ca/.

Senior Redhat Admin

Responsible 60 Plus Red hat Linux Servers including Red hat Linux Servers 6,7 & 8

Installed Configuration Red hat Linux 6,7 & 8 using VMware ESXi 6.7 to build VM Server,

Setup partition, create VGS,LVS & mount the files system asper apps team requirement,

day to day support as a system administration.

Successfully completed the project On Dev/UAT/SIT/PROD environment Download Road Test

Results in PDF format. Please see below the link

https://drivetest.ca/dtbookingngapp/dtdownloadapp/downloadResultSignIn .

Prepare Storage 1TB Disk to storing data & Mount on NFS Server to Download Road

Test results and Setup a corn job for deleting files older than 17 days Result.

Successfully installed & configured RHEL IDM Server/Client on RHEL7.9 & RHEL 8.9.

Successfully completed & setup Red hat Satellite Server 6.11 Create partition Linux LVM, directories, Files system Mount the mountpoint as per RHEL Satellite Server 6.11 requirement, Setup Firewall rule, port#,Organization, Activation key, Lifecyle, host group adding host on Satellite Server through register Host, on Satellite Server.

Working on monthly Patching Red hat Linux Servers patching on DEV/UAT/SIT/PROD Servers, using yum through subscription manger & Red hat Satellite Server 6.11 before patching take the snapshot of VM Servers in case of patching failure revert the snapshot, start RCA and open the case with Red hat and follow-up to successfully resolve the patching issue.

Successfully setup and configured Redhat Insight for vulnerabilities and compliance, bring all the server from the Redhat Satellite to Redhat insight inventory DEV/UAT/SIT/PROD Servers.

Setup Report for CIS Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Benchmark for Level 2 – Server &PCI-DSS v3.2.1 Control Baseline for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Extensive use of Logical Volume Management (LVM), create Disk Group, logical

volumes, and file systems expand File system through logical volume manager (LVM).

Successfully Upgrade OS Red hat Linux 7 to Red hat Linux 8 Server.

Backup recovery, Application/Oracle Database backup and restore mainly oracle Database

for refresh. (NetBackup 8.1,8.2), RMAN Backup for Oracle database

Scotia Bank July2019 – April2022

Bank of Nova Scotia Toronto, Canada.

System Administrator Solris10/11

Experienced in 2000+ Solaris Sparks / Red hat Linux Server support, maintenance.

Experienced in Multi-vendor Virtualization environment (LDOM, ZFS, Zones, VMware, and vSphere).

Hardware (infrastructure): Server Support Sun Fire (220R, 280R, V440, V490), T1000, T2000, T5220

M3000/M4000/M5000, T4/T5/T7

SAN Migration Hitachi Disk storage to EMC Disk storage.

SAN Card Migration 2 GB to 8GB.

SAN Card Replacement, SAN Driver install & upgrade.

Extend ZFS Root File system rpool.

ZFS Disk mirror

Disk Replacement SVM, Veritas Volume Manager, ZFS.

Worked on high availability system by supporting VERITAS Cluster services, that includes failover

Verification of services groups

Monthly OS patching on Solaris Sparks 9, 10/11 Servers Red hat Servers 7 & 8 through yum repo.

Expand Files system LUN Expansion on VXFS files system & Expand Logical volume Manager LVM.

Run the explorer & SOS report to analyze the critical problem for vendor.

Installation Oracle Database 9i/10G, Oracle Users Management, Managing Table Space, Data Files and

Redo Log,Files & User

Managed Backup/Recovery, Configure RMAN Backup/Recovery, Import/Export Tables, Table space,

Database

Backup &recovery Applications/Oracle Database backup &restore mainly oracle Database for refresh

(NetBackup 8.1,8.2)

WebLogic/Apache Tomcat, Deploy upgrade, migration, Hot Scan Application .

Recycled WebLogic webserver, troubleshooting & checking logs.

Install SSL certificate and setup https secure port in the webserver, troubleshoot application

performance.

Installed managed SAN and local disks, HBA Card, Mother board, Memory and CPU replacement.

• Firewall setup (whitelist IP) incoming and outgoing traffics.

• Secure communication protocols SSH, SFTP, OpenSSL, Secure Ciphers HTTPS.

RHEL 5/6/7/8

• Manage RED HAT Linux servers, Linux private cloud

• Monitoring and administering servers and Red hat Linux servers

• Red Hat Linux Diagnostic and troubleshooting

• Identify and fix boot issue, hardware issue, Storage issue, RPM issue, Security, and application issue.

• User management

• Manage disk and file system using LVM

• Install and configure JBoss

• Installation of SSL certificates Linux servers

• Backup and restore Linux file system/Database

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux live kernel patching

• RED HAT Linux patch (To f ix security vulnerabilities and other bugs and improving the usability or performance.)

• Provide 7/24 backup and recovery support.

FCA,Fiat Chrysler Auto JAN2017 – July2019

Auburn Hills,MICHIGAN,USA.

System Administrator

Installed configuration Red hat Linux 5,6 & 7 using kick start on Linux workstation Z840,Z820,Z440,Z420

day to day support as a system administration.

Extensive use of Logical Volume Management (LVM), creating Disk Group, logical volumes and file systems

expand File system logical volume manager (LVM).

Disk replacement, replace failed disk un-mirror and mirror the failed disk.

Migrate 2TB data from two Disks to one Disk through LVM.

Patching Management Project, Kernel patch through yum form repo Server.

Installed and configured engineering simulation software as per customer request.

Installed configured Remote Desktop HP RGS.

Backup and Recovery through Symantec Net Backup 6.0, 7.0 & EMC Networker.

IBM CANADA May2016 to Oct2016

System Engineer

Worked on Transition server, IBM Handover all the Business to HCL

Working on large Data centre Migration on P2V and V2V, Using Red Hat linux6 VMware, vsphere5.5

Record all the mount point, pvs,vgs, pvs Stop the CFengine, Tivoli and all running process after migration have to verified IP and VLAN, DNS, Netback up, Tivoli monitoring, check all the mount point and health check.

Backup the IPS PVS, VGS, VLAN and stop the CFenigne and Tivoli Monitoring.

Captured all the mount point and stop all the services including middleware application

Run the script to migrate the data after record the data shutdown the server.

After the migration start the CF engine and run the script to verify the Server.

Verify the mount point, Memory & all the services are running including CF engine, Tivoli monitor.

CIBC (Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce) Toronto, ON October 2012 – April 2016

System Administrator

Supported Solaris Sparks and Red Hat Linux based systems over 1500 and physical and virtual servers, that includes, Migration, LDOMS, ZFS, ZONE and Working on Solaris 9,10,11,Redhat Linux 5,6 & 7 day to day support as a system administration.

Installation and configuration & build the Sun Solaris 9&10 and Red hat Linux 5, 6 &7 Servers for Production, UAT&Development environments using Jumpstart and Kick Start, day today support as system administration

Installed configuration & support MQ Series, Tidal Application including recycling application.

Recycle Autos sys agent, Tidal application agent and Master recycle, troubleshooting and recycle DMGR, Nodeagent & JVM WebSphere.

Configured JDBC connectivity for data base db2 and oracle &ms sql.

Configured SSL key store dynamic outbound and SSL configuration.

Generate and propagate plugin and configured IHS connectivity

Installation and configuration 2 node Cluster of HA, Installed managed SAN and local disks, HBA Card.

Expand Files system LUN Expansion on VXFS files system, Expand LVM

Run the explorer & SOS report to analyze the critical problem for vendor.

Installed configuration & administered DNS,NFS NIS,FTP SFTP,LDAP, NTP, Oracle10g,11g,Apache,Tomcat

Configured IP, Bonding, network card and drivers.

Responsible for to perform DR (Disaster recovery) of server and databases on remote location.

Installed managed veritas volume manger, HBA card, mother board, memory & Disk replacement with

Vendor, configured and troubleshot veritas volume manager,

Worked on high availability system by supporting and upgrading software including Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster

Worked on emergency change request by application team to expand the live File system discover new LUN and expand the File system (LUN expansion).

Managed and responsible for VCS & VXVM, troubleshoot and bring the resources online offline, failed over resources to another node as per change management.

Using tool Service Now for incident, change and problem management ITIL processes and controls.

Provide 7/24 backup and recovery support.

Govt. of Alberta, Alberta, Edmonton June 2010 – Aug2012

System Administrator

Installation, configuration, testing and implementation of Sun Solaris Servers.

Kernel/firmware, OS patches and maintenance level releases.

Monthly Kernel patching and firmware upgrades for Production, Developer and Testing Server.

Used Sun Explorer to generate output for failure analysis and upload to Sun Oracle Support.

Performed Backup / Recovery through EMC Networker as per client requirement.

Installed, configured and troubleshot Veritas Storage Foundation 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0

Mange Datacenter replace hard ware with Oracle Engineer.

Provide security authentication, password resets, account unlock, group membership

Provide 7/24 backup and recovery support.

Micro Object Solutions Inc. Toronto, ON Jan 2007- June 2010

System operation/ Administrator

Monitor and analyses the System using HP open view and send the alerts to responsible team

Backup and Recovery - Tar (Tape archive), UFS dump/ UFS restore

Troubleshooting and repair of hardware, OS, and network problems.

Monitoring System access/controlling system access

Used Managed SSH/SFTP, password recoveries and disk failures etc.

Perform day-to-day operations activities, including running and monitoring batch jobs.

Monitor enterprise management tools and recorded the raise incidents.

PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION:

Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Science, Toronto College of Technology 2008

MSC in Mathematics 2000

Industry-Recognized Trainings & Certifications

SUN Certified System Administrator for Solaris 10

Red hat Certified RHCSA7

Veritas Storage Foundation

VMware VSphere

Red Hat Linux 6 & 7

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