Manager Vmware

Narayan Paudel npaudel**@gmail Phone:-817-***-****

Linux System Administrator with over 6 years of experience on various flavors of Linux & Solaris which included but not limited to Installation, configuration, Hardening, Maintenance, Patching, Backup & restore using Rubrik, Data Protector and Support of those servers. Implemented Red Hat Satellite and Spacewalk Server to Automate Patch process and server build. Vendor coordination for purchase of RHEL and OEL licenses and products. Knowledge of AWS clouds and DevOps culture. Tenable tool and Red Hat Insights to scan Linux servers to find the vulnerability and remediate them. Splunk, Gray log for monitoring

RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsible for designing, implementing, configuring, deploying and managing RHEL, OEL, Centos, Ubuntu Linux systems Physical and virtual.

Maintain vendor relationship to purchase RHEL and OEL licenses for Data Center and systems.

Build and upgrade Oracle VM Manager Version 3.4.3 to support oracle based products like oracle database, WebLogic.

Performed POC for satellite and spacewalk servers and successfully deployed Satellite and spacewalk servers to patch the entire RHEL and OEL servers.

Build and assist DBA Team with Virtual Machine for oracle database 10g &12c, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

Installation and upgrading of Control –M agent and its modules for automation of jobs on Production environment of Linux and Solaris

Create and manage local users, groups and controlling access to file with Linux file system permissions.

User management for LDAP authentication and maintain LDAP servers.

Schedule maintenance with the collaboration of command centers to eliminate the issues on call center, Web station for workforce management.

Worked on configuring NFS, DNS, FTP, FSTP, Telnet and RAID levels.

Worked on virtualization Products like VMware vSphere and Oracle VM Manager.

Build Virtual machines (RHEL,OEL) using VMware vSphere and Oracle VM Manager.

Worked on Security patch using Red Hat Satellite Server for RHEL products and Oracle spacewalk & OEM for OEL servers.

Replace hardware and Upgrade firmware on Oracle Hardware SPARC T4, T5-2, M series, CISCO blades.

Encrypt File systems using LUKS technology, Allocate memory through VMware, Increase File system and Disks using Logical Volume Manager for all flavor of Linux through CLI.

Create users and set up permission for user and group with certain permissions to access the files.

Generate rsa key for user on different servers for password and password less login.

Migrate Virtual Machine of VMware vSphere Client and Oracle VM Manger from one hypervisor to another hypervisor in collaboration with Genesis and other application teams.

Build decommissioned document for Virtual and Physical Machine from Data Center and set standard for server build and decommission.

Perform backup, restore, Replication& DR using Rubrik.

Participate in on call rotation to provide 24x7 technical supports on Mission Critical and Business Critical Environment .

Monitor all the systems, network switches and storage devices using Graylog &Solar winds.

Worked on solving tickets created on Service Manager for day to day activities and problems related to Production, QA and Development Servers.

Prepare Rollout plan, meeting and get proper approvals from stakeholders for Mission Critical and productions environment.

Environment: - RHEL 5.x, 6.x and 7.x OEL 5.x and 6.x Solaris 10 and 11. Solar winds, HP open view in monitoring, Rubrick, HP Data Protector for backup. EMC Unity and PURE for Storage. VMware vSphere Client and Oracle VM Manager for virtualization. SAN/ NAS, DNS, NFS, subnetting, TCP, SSH, weblogic, JBOSS

Client/Location: Philips Home Monitoring / Framingham MA

Duration: Mar 2016 – Present

Role: Linux System Admin

Summary of skills:

Worked on RHEL, CENTOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu.

Experience in installing and upgrading OS on multiple operating environments like Red Hat Linux 5, 6, 7, 8 and OEL5,6, 7 Ubuntu.

Experience in installing and updating packages in Red Hat and oracle Linux servers using RPMs and yum repositories.

Performed Servers consolidation and virtualization using VMware virtual infrastructure, VMware ESX, Virtual Center, VM tools

Worked on configuring NIS, NFS, DNS, FTP, FSTP, Telnet and RAID levels.

Create and manage local users, groups and controlling access to file with Linux file system permissions

Experience with virtualization products like VMware ESX 5.x, 6.x and Xen.

Build and upgrade Virtualization products like Oracle VM Manager version 3.4.3 to support oracle based products like oracle database, WebLogic etc

Exposure to cloud style environments, large production and development environments.

Experience in scheduling full backup and incremental backup for daily, weekly, and monthly basis and replicate to co-location data center and restore as needed.

Creating, maintaining user profiles, security risks, backup of data and disaster recovery.

Experience in working on Logical Volume Manager, encrypt Filesystem using LUKS technology.

Installing, configuring, and maintaining WebSphere application server, Samba, Apache/Tomcat, and Sendmail.

Worked with implementation of different webservers and application servers (Apache, Apache Tomcat, WebLogic, and JBoss).

Use ansible and ansible playbook to patch and configure the servers as required

Monitored and supported hundreds of Linux servers running variety of applications.

Configured Oracle ASM disks in Oracle Enterprise Linux.

Experience in developing and adopting tools for infrastructure and system automation.

Knowledge of working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) installation of Prometheus monitoring tool, DGraph, Cassandra.

Good knowledge of Network and Networking switches

Extensively work on creating, mounting and unmounting new file systems.

Extensively worked on OS level patching, Package management, System Upgrade.

Familiar with DMB and Agile methodologies.

Experience in scheduling full backup and incremental backup for daily, weekly, and monthly basis, and worked in solving tickets issued on day to day activities and problems related to servers.

Experience working with Solaris Volume Manager, Logical Volume Manager, Storage planning, Backup and Recovery, and VMware VSphere server virtualization etc.

Excellent communication and documentation skills and is able to work individually as well as a team member.

Participated in on-call rotation to provide 24X7 technical supports.

Excellent team building, project implementation, analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills.

NttData Consultant

Duration: Mar 2014 – Feb 2016

Role: System Admin/Engineer

Responsibilities:

Installed and configured several hundred Red Hat Blade and VMware ESXi 4.1, 5& 5.5 Virtual Environment.

Configured Red Hat Cluster Nodes for any legacy applications and verified the daily health check on the Cluster Nodes.

Assisted in physically installing, racking and cabling new BM Blade Center S and Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis environment.

Installation, Upgrade and configuration of Nagios XI and Nagios XI agent for Red Hat, OEL, SuSE and Windows operating system

Media based installs on several hundred Cisco UCS B200 /B250 and BM Blade Center S as required for UAT/Production Oracle Web logic. Red hat JBoss, Oracle Enterprise Database and MySQL Database Server requirements.

Configured and Administered Apache, VSFTPD services, MYSQL and Tomcat.

Configured various alerts, captured support logs and configured resource pools utilizing Cisco UCS Manager.

Use Puppet for Automation and system monitoring

Configured and deployed patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Red Hat Linux servers using satellite servers.

Expertise in security hardening (iptables/selinux) major Production Servers, and compiling, building and installing web server based Linux tools.

Expertise in creating VM Templates, cloning and managing Snapshots.

Expertise in working with MySQL databases, Apache Web server, Tomcat Application Servers

Expertise in hardening, Linux Server and Compiling, Building and installing Apache Server from sources with minimum modules.

Experience in deploying several sets of Linux guest builds from VMware templates as well as Red Hat Satellite Server.

Patch management of servers and maintaining server's environment in Development/QA/Staging/Production.

Environment: RHEL 4.x/5.x/6.x, Solaris 9,10&11, HPUX, Puppet, Centos, SUSE 10, 11, Nagios Monitoring,VERITAS Volume Manager 3.x/ 4.x, VERITAS Storage Foundation 5, Redhat Cluster, NFS, DNS, SAN/NAS.

Education

Bachelor in Electrical & Electronic Engineering

Kathmandu University

Reference upon request

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