AMIT ANAND
C: 626-***-**** adchmr@r.postjobfree.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Highly Skilled UNIX-Hadoop Administrator & Rcloud platform support with 8+ years of overall experience in IT industry with 5+ years of experience in Hadoop administration and big data technologies, with expertise in Linux/System administration. Extensive experience monitoring, tracking, and evaluating global IT infrastructure incidents. Client-focused with more than seven years’ experience, Professional, detail-oriented, motivated to drive projects from start to finish as part of a dynamic team.
WORK HISTORY
Linux, Hadoop & RCloud Platform Support, 04/2019 - Current
At&t – Los Angeles, California
Hands on experience in installation, configuration, supporting and managing Hadoop Clusters using Cloudera distribution (CDH 5.X) on bare metal, virtual machines and Big Data Appliances.
Supported and maintained administration of Hadoop ecosystem components like Hadoop HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Oozie, Hive, Sqoop, Sentry.
Experienced in Hadoop Cluster capacity planning, performance tuning, Monitoring, Troubleshooting
Experienced in setting up High Availability (HA) for diverse services in the ecosystem
Upgrade of CDH 4.x to CDH 5.x using tarballs.
Upgrade of CDH 5.7 to CDH 5.13 using Cloudera Manager.
Supported and maintained administration of Hadoop ecosystem components like Hadoop HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Oozie, Hive, Sqoop, Sentry.
Experienced in setting up backup and recovery policies to ensure the High Availability (HA) of clusters
Strong understanding of Hadoop security concepts and implementations - Authentication (Kerberos/AD/LDAP/KDC), Authorization (Sentry).
Monitored Workload job performance and capacity planning using Cloudera Manager.
Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting issues with Linux memory, CPU, OS, storage and network.
Proficient in OS upgrades and Patch loading as and when required.
Performs Infrastructure SDV functions critical to security & build on the applications
Performs upgrades and builds the (ML) & AI software SWM packages for deployments
Builds software packages for custom AI/ML applications ( R based apps) requested by the business units and data scientists
Performs 24/5 business application Platform support for rCloud
Manage certificates for Rcloud components.
Perform RCloud Platform Upgrades & Server Maintenance on all servers.
Involved in enforcing standards and guidelines for the big data platform during production move.
Responsible for onboarding new tools/technologies onto the platform.
Experienced in analyzing Log files for Hadoop ecosystem services & analyze cause using Splunk
Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting issues with Linux memory, CPU, OS, storage and network.
Worked directly with clients and vendors for critical projects like Exadata and Big data Appliance.
Cloudera Hadoop Cluster Setup using tarballs.
Cloudera Hadoop cluster setup as part of Oracle Big Data Appliance with mammoth utility.
Administration of MapReduce, Cloudera Manager, Infiniband switches, multi-rack BDA appliance, Impala, Yarn, zookeeper, Spark, Hive.
Designed and implemented new server standards for new business environments.
Coordinated with systems partners like Red Hat, SUSE, Cloudera and Oracle to finalize designs and confirm requirements for major projects.
Trained junior members of IT team regarding standard operating procedures, fixing vulnerabilities, and technical support whenever required.
Designed and implemented new server standards for new business environments.
Balancing HDFS manually to decrease network utilization and increase job performance.
Commission and decommission the Data nodes from cluster in case of problems.
Set up automated processes to archive/clean the unwanted data on the cluster, in particular on Name node and Secondary name node.
Discussions with other technical teams on regular basis regarding upgrades, Process changes, any special processing and feedback.
Handles all application Problem management tickets & activities within SLA
Performs Tier-2 & 3 support for the application within SLA
UNIX & Hadoop Administrator, 09/2014 to -4/2019
CLIENT - SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EDISON – Rosemead, California
Hands on experience in installation, configuration, supporting and managing Hadoop Clusters using Cloudera distribution (CDH 5.X) on bare metal, virtual machines and Big Data Appliances.
Supported and maintained administration of Hadoop ecosystem components like Hadoop HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Oozie, Hive, Sqoop, Sentry.
Experienced in Hadoop Cluster capacity planning, performance tuning, Monitoring, Troubleshooting
Experienced in setting up High Availability (HA) for diverse services in the ecosystem
Experienced in setting up backup and recovery policies to ensure the High Availability (HA) of clusters
Strong understanding of Hadoop security concepts and implementations - Authentication (Kerberos/AD/LDAP/KDC), Authorization (Sentry).
Monitored Workload job performance and capacity planning using Cloudera Manager.
Involved in enforcing standards and guidelines for the big data platform during production move.
Responsible for onboarding new tools/technologies onto the platform.
Experienced in analyzing Log files for Hadoop ecosystem services & analyze cause using Splunk
Experience in monitoring and troubleshooting issues with Linux memory, CPU, OS, storage and network.
Proficient in OS upgrades and Patch loading as and when required.
Expert in setting up SSH, SCP and VSFTP connectivity between UNIX hosts.
Closely work with different team such as Application team, networking, Linux system administrators and Enterprise service monitoring team
Excellent Communication, Analytical, Interpersonal, Presentation and Leadership Skills
Excellent in problem resolution and Root Cause Analysis & techniques
Good team player with excellent communication & Client interface skills.
Provided Break fixes support of Test and Production environments.
Streamlined and Enhanced OS Version upgrades on UNIX-LINUX flavors (AIX, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX).
Performed Capacity management for all the systems accordingly.
Performed LVM and Cluster file system management on AIX, Linux, Solaris servers.
Monitor UNIX-LINUX servers’ performance using BMC Remedy and BMC performance Perceiver tool.
Performed LPAR creation of AIX servers and Linux server builds through Cloud and VMware Vcenter.
Managed Power HA and Red Hat High Availability Cluster.
Worked directly with clients and vendors for critical projects like Exadata and Big data Appliance.
Cloudera Hadoop Cluster Setup using tarballs.
Cloudera Hadoop cluster setup as part of Oracle Big Data Appliance with mammoth utility.
Administration of MapReduce, Cloudera Manager, Infiniband switches, multi-rack BDA appliance, Impala, Yarn, zookeeper, Spark, Hive.
Upgrade of CDH 4.x to CDH 5.x using tarballs.
Upgrade of CDH 5.7 to CDH 5.13 using Cloudera Manager.
Trained junior members of IT team regarding standard operating procedures, fixing vulnerabilities, and technical support whenever required.
Designed and implemented new server standards for new business environments.
Coordinated with systems partners like Red Hat, SUSE, Cloudera and Oracle to finalize designs and confirm requirements for major projects.
Provided continued maintenance, bug fixes and patch set for all UNIX servers.
Trained junior members of IT team regarding standard operating procedures, fixing vulnerabilities, and technical support whenever required.
Designed and implemented new server standards for new business environments.
Balancing HDFS manually to decrease network utilization and increase job performance.
Commission and decommission the Data nodes from cluster in case of problems.
Set up automated processes to archive/clean the unwanted data on the cluster, in particular on Name node and Secondary name node.
Discussions with other technical teams on regular basis regarding upgrades, Process changes, any special processing and feedback.
UNIX Administrator, 12/2013 to 08/2014
Client - Sony Corporation of America
Break fixes support of Test and Production environments.
OS Version upgrades on UNIX-LINUX flavors (AIX, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX).
Apply Patch update on UNIX-LINUX systems to make sure all the systems are up to date.
Perform Linux server builds through VMware Vcenter.
Perform Veritas Cluster file system and LVM file system Management.
Performs OS migration from Solaris to Linux.
Perform Technology Level (TL) upgrade on AIX servers.
Perform operational and manages Tumbleweed file transfer application.Raising RFC and following ITIL process for implementing any Change.
Handling incidents within SLA metrics and provide Root cause analysis through Problem records.
Analysis and apply security patches for any security vulnerability.
Performs BIOS and firmware upgrade.
Updates VM tools and Hardware upgrade for all linux servers.
UNIX System Administrator, 11/2011 to 12/2013
Client - General Motors
Activities Perform Linux server Physical builds and also through VMware V-center.
Break fixes support of Test and Production environments. OS Version upgrades on UNIX-LINUX flavors (AIX, Linux, Solaris and HP-UX).
Apply Patch update on UNIX-LINUX systems and make sure all the systems are up to date.
Raising RFC and following ITIL process for implementing any Change. Handling incidents within SLA metrics and provide Root cause analysis through Problem records.
Performs Installation of HPOM monitoring agent and Networker (backup agent) on UNIX-LINUX servers.
Performed Solaris Live Upgrade patch in test environment.
Updates VM tools and Hardware upgrade for all linux servers.
Involved in SAN migration by taking care of RSYNC on all servers. Performs NIS client and NIS/NFS configuration.
SKILLS
RCloud
Hadoop Administration
Red Hat Linux Administration
SUSE Linux Administration
VMware
Ansible
Cloudera Hadoop
Cloudera Manager
Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) Manager
HP Onboard Administrator (OA)
BMC Remedy
Hardware Management Console (HMC)
Integrated Lights Out (ILO)
Excellent communication
Excellent diagnostic skills
Shell Scripting
Root cause analysis
Technical plan execution aptitude
Infoblox DNS Administration
Named DNS administration
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Technology: Electronics & Communication Engineering, 2011 Gandhi Institute of Engineering & Technology, BPUT – GUNUPUR
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Worked with Oracle SME to setup Exadata environment. This included planning and designing of new Exadata Appliances and their Hardware setup in our data center.
Worked with Oracle SME to setup Big Data Appliance (BDA) environment. This included planning and designing of new BDA Appliances and their Hardware setup in our data center. It also included implementation of new technologies, multi-rack setup of Hadoop Cluster in BDA appliance.
Worked on critical project like Network refresh. Got client appreciation certificate for this project. The project as name suggests included refresh of Network switches, gateways etc. I worked with Network team to make sure we have all required details about UNIX servers so that we don't face any issue due to outage during activity. It was an activity at the Data Center level and we worked together for almost a year and half to make it a success.
Implementation of Infoblox – This project was a major refresh with respect to our DNS environment. We migrated named DNS to Infoblox.
Veritas Infoscale setup.
SAP HANA setup – I have been working since 2016 with multiple vendors like Cisco, Netapp to setup HANA environment on different Cisco Hardware models. I worked on OS installation, preparing environment for HANA installation, HANA installation (single node and multi node clusters), Local HA configuration, Replication configuration.
CERTIFICATIONS
Novel Certified SuSE 11 Administrator
Veritas VxVm 6 Administration