Manager Vmware

MAIRA KHAN

929-***-**** ************@*****.***

SUMMARY

● Linux system admin with years of experience in supporting production environments using Redhat, Ubuntu and CentOS systems.

● Adept in using virtualization and containerization technologies such as VMWare and Docker.

● Experience in working with various automation tools such as Ansible and Bash scripting

● Exposure to Cloud technologies such as AWS EC2 instances, S3 Buckets, Glacier, EBS, ELB, and VPC.

● Extensive knowledge in networking infrastructures such as SAN, NAS, Switches, LAN, VLAN and WAN

SKILLS & ABILITIES

Operating System: Red Hat/CentOS Linux, Suse-Linux, AIX, Solaris, Ubuntu

Network: DNS, DHCP, LDAP, TCP/IP, UDP, RIP, VLAN

Hardware: IBM(Service Express), HP, Dell (EMC), Oracle, Supermicro, Ciara, Netapp, Cisco Switches, Juniper routers.

Automation tools: Ansible, Bash Scripting

Application Server: SSH, FTP, Apache, Samba, NIS, NFS, Sendmail, Nagios, NTP

Database: MySQL, SQL, MongoDB and Informix

Tools: AWS-EC2, VMware S3, Norton Antivirus

EXPERIENCE

Linux Systems Administrator, Bloomberg LP Sept 2017 - Present

–Providing support to systems, such as Linux operating system installation, upgrades, patching, tuning and troubleshooting, monitoring, decommissioning.

–Maintained and administered more than 20000 servers including Physical and virtual environment.

–Performed hardware level activity including investigation, maintenance and repair of server, network components and data cabling.

–Highly skilled in navigating through Bloomberg Terminal.

–Created users, manage user permissions, maintain User & File System quota on Red Hat Linux .

–Dealt with maintenance and updates on Trading System Servers.

–Coordinated with vendors like Sun, Dell and Microsoft for Server, Hardware and Software issues.

–Experienced in using Vendor exclusive commands such as HpCLI, MegaCLi.

–Coordinated system downtime with appropriate machine owners and teams.

–Collaborated with SAN team to add storage capacity to many servers.

–Performing decommissioning tasks of servers, switches and Storage arrays.

–In depth experience with IP networking (TCP/IP packet analysis, DNS, DHCP, NAT).

–Troubleshooting link flaps issues on Cisco switches by investigating both server and switch side, bouncing ports using tools such as ifup, ifdown.

–Monitored systems performance and daily power consumption using tools such as Grafana and Splunk.

–Worked in direct contact with incident management teams to troubleshoot reports and find the resolutions relating to the issue and urgency that may affect production servers.

–Documented high severity troubleshooting tickets to help benefit me and my team on future instances.

–Resolved network related issues by implementing networking tools and modifying configuration.

–Documented various regular administrative tasks and backup procedures on Bloomberg portal.

–Experienced in provisioning and managing virtual machines using VMware, VMware vSphere Client, and Vcenter.

–Equipped with strong oral and written communication skills.

–Managing server by using CHEF, adding recipes and cook book, Managing attributes.

–Providing technical assistance to Operation, Application Teams in resolving production incidents.

–Experienced in working with Ansible deploying play books through MONKEY RANCH and ANSIBLE TOWER for patching as well as other configuration such as installing services and managing multi nodes.

Linux Operations Analyst, Samsung Jan 2016 – Aug 2017

–Deployed and Maintained RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, servers running on VMware and bare metal servers.

–Prepared the Documentation for Installation & Configuration of OS servers.

–Installed and configured virtual machines on VMware ESXI.

–Expert level of experience on Change Management as well as Service Now queue Management.

–Installed packages using YUM and Redhat Package Manager (RPM) on various servers

–Hands on experience using LDAP (Active directory Protocol) to manage users.

–Providing after hours On-Call support.

–Followed SLA Protocols for incident and ticket management to resolve issues in a timely manner.

–Diagnosed server performance issues, such as CPU, Memory, Storage and Network bottlenecks Using tools such as top,iostat, netstat, and tcpdump.

–Harden the system security by adding rules to Iptables and SELinux

–Migrated data using tools such as tar, gzip and scp.

–Scheduled routine tasks using crontab.

–Develop ansible playbooks to automate day to day tasks and procedures such as deployments, patching and system health checks.

–Experienced in using version control tools such as GIT

–Deployed, maintained and configured NFS and FTP file shares.

–Experienced in using AWS storage solutions such as S3 buckets, Glaciers, and EBS.

–Deployed, maintained and administered EC2 Instances.

–Worked with cloud networking services such as VPC, ELB, subnets, and security groups

–Adept in working with IAM roles and policies, creating users and groups.

–Exposure to containerization technologies such as Docker.

–Maintained and updated various scripts for services (start, stop, restart, recycle, and cron jobs) UNIX based Bash.

–Experienced in prioritizing processes to optimize CPU performance and memory allocation.

–Used Logical Volume Manager for the Deployment and management of physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes.

EDUCATION

Undergrad in Business Administration (Kingsborough community college)

Bachelors in Business Administration expected 2021 (Brooklyn College)

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