S.Somasundaram

No: **, Block ‘F’ F*, First Floor, ALA Apartments

Puliyamedu Main Road

Puliyambedu, Thiruverkadu, Chennai -77

Mobile : 944-***-****

E-Mail – adjc99@r.postjobfree.com

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/somu2019

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Technically sophisticated & result driven System & Network Administration with enriched more than10 years of experience in managing IT Hardware & Networking in the IT Sector and expertise in Windows Server & Linux Servers.

Comprehensive understanding of networking concepts pertaining to LAN, WAN, Security, IT communication, WAN protocols, Networking devices administration Software installation, OS Installation & configuration, Internet configuration, Network concepts like configurations, Troubleshooting/ Installations of Cisco Switches.

Conceptually sound in analyzing information system needs, evaluating end-user requirements, custom designing solutions, troubleshooting for complex information systems management.

Effective communicator with exceptional relationship management skills with rich experience working with steering committees and other project managers.

Builds and maintains vendor relationships and manages the purchase of hardware and software products. Education, IT Certifications & Training

Education

MCA, Manonmaniam Sundranar University – 2013

PGDCA, Manaonmaniam Sundaranar University - 1994

BSc (Physics), Madurai Kamaraj University - 1992 IT Certifications

Microsoft Certified Professional (Windows – XP)

Microsoft Certified System Administrator (Windows 2003)

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (Exchange Server 2007)

Accel Certified Linux Administrator – Accel Ltd., Chennai

TCS-ION Certified Cloud Computing Administrator, Chennai (AWS, AZURE & VMWare) Strength/Skills

Windows Server 2003, 2008 R2, 2012 R2 and 2016 Server Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting, Upgrade & Migration Server Roles Configuration, Domain Controller, Additional Domain Controller, Child Domain Controller, RODC Installation & Configuration, Active Directory User Management, Group Policy Objects Implementation & Configuration, DHCP, DNS, WDS, WSUS Server, DFS, FSRM Server Installation and Configuration, Auditing Policy, Bit locker & EFS (Public & Private Key) Integration.

Linux Server Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting - Centos and Ubuntu Servers

Virtualization – Hyper-V, VMware vSphere-ESXi, vCenter-Server, Linux – KVM Installation and Configuration

Linux Administration of Webserver/Application Server – Apache Web server, Tomcat Server, Nginx Server

Cloud Computing :

AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, SNS, SQS, SWF, API Gateway, AWS Database, ELB, Auto scaling, Route 53, Cloud watch, Cloud Trial, Flow log, Cloud Formation, EBS

Rackspace

Digital ocean

Hosting & Maintains Servers - Go daddy, Big rock(CPanel & WHM)

Storage Installation and Configuration – Free NAS

Automate Installation Tool Windows – chocolatey

Installation, Clustering, Replication, User Creation, DB Creation, Backup & Restore of Database Servers – PostgreSQL, MYSQL,MS-SQL Server

Firewall - Firewall Installation & Configuration – Fort iGATE 200E, 300C, PfSense

Networking - Cisco, HP Switches, Cisco Packet Tracer, GNS3

Knowledge of Devops tools – Ansible, Puppet, Vagrant, Dockers

Knowledge of Bash Shell and PowerShell Scripting

Knowledge of Version Controller – SVN, GIT, GitHub, Bit bucket

Knowledge of Design Tools – HTML, CSS, Photoshop, Dreamweaver

Knowledge of Video Editing Tools – Camtasia, Moviemaker, Adobe Premier Pro Technoarete Research and Development Association, Chennai - Freelancing Work Nov’2020 - Dec 2020 Designation: Server Administrator – Linux & AWS

Job Role: Development & Production IT Support

Responsibilities:

Managing Big-rock Hosting Websites WHM and Dedicated & Shared Linux Servers

Managing Amazon Web Service Cloud - EC2, S3, Route 53, IAM, VPC, ELB, Auto scaling, Cloud watch, SNS

Migrating Websites Big rock Hosted to Amazon Web Services Hosting VEC, Chennai Oct’2017 – Sep’2020

Designation: Senior System Administrator

Job Role: ITES In-Charge of IT Infrastructure

Responsibilities:

Maintenance of 1000 nodes connected Computer labs, UPS, Biometric attendance & CCTV Cameras

Maintenance of OFC Campus Area Network, 100 Mbps Airtel & 30 MBPS TATA WAN Links

Maintenance of Secured Fort iGATE 300C Firewall Wired & Wi-Fi Networks.

Maintenance of HPE ProLiant DL 380 Gen 10 Server, IBM System x 3450, 3650 & Dell PowerEdge Servers

Maintenance of HP Manageable and Unmanageable Pro Curve Switches

Maintenance Windows Domain Controllers, DHCP Server, WDS Server, WSUS Server, File Server, Educational ERP Server, Tally ERP Server, CentOS Linux Servers, MacAfee AV Server

Migrating Windows 2012 R2 Server to Windows 2016 Server Environment.

Maintenance of Go daddy Hosting Web Servers & Gmail Hosting G-Suite Mail Server

Maintenance of MS-SQL Server & My-SQL Database Servers

Maintenance of Apache & IIS Web Server

Creating and Managing Users, Groups, OU, Roaming Profile, User Quota Management, GPO in the Windows Servers

Installed & Configured Windows Server 2016 Data Center & Hyper-V in HP DL 380 Gen 10 Server and RAID 1 Mirroring Setup using HP ILO Port.

Installed & Configured Nagios Monitoring Tool for IT infrastructure management

Installed & Configured LAMP Servers, PhpMyAdmin in Cent OS 7.0

Build a Free NAS Server & Configured FTP Server, Samba Server, Plex Media Server

Maintenance of VEC Websites www.velammal.edu.in, ERP Portal : http://182.74.227.1 in Windows Environment

Maintenance of VEC Websites http://182.74.227.2/veconline, http:// 182.74.227.2/request, http:// 182.74.227.2/grp, http:// 182.74.227.2/COE, http://182.74.227.4/avv & http://182.74.227.3/vims/

Configured SQL Server, My-SQL Server Scheduled Backups to Free NAS Server

Configured Database Replication On MS-SQL and MYSQL DB Servers

Supporting all our group institutions, various IT activity

Managing 4 members of the ITES team for supporting VEC IT setup. Eagle Smartech - Chennai February 2017 – June 2017 Job Profile: Senior System administrator

Experience: 4 Months

Responsibilities:

Maintenance of Multi Domain environment on Windows / Linux / Storage /Networking/ Virtualization & Cloud

Maintenance of Cisco Core Switch and HP L2 Switches

Performed Firewall Management Rules and policies creation and monitoring the user activities on Web Filters, App Filters, SSL-VPN, IPS/IDS and bandwidth using Fort iGATE Firewall

Active Directory Installation & Configuring the Group Policies, User Management, File Server Management

Daily storage and log monitoring with backup and server health checkup

Configuration & Troubleshooting of new/existing network elements

Linux Installation & Configuring SFTP/Subversion/Samba server

Package management like Install, remove update and querying packages using RPM, YUM, APT, DPKG

Back up Scripts using bash shell and scheduling in Cron jobs

Managing DB Server Backup/Restore/User & Database Creation in MYSQL/PostgreSQL/MS-SQL Server

Deployment of Production Servers in Apache & Tomcat Environment

Installed Self-sign SSL Certificate and Wildcard SSL Certificate(Apache Webserver and Tomcat Application Server) in Production Servers

Configure and deploy virtual machines (VMs) and its recourse and services through the Hypervisor like ESXI, VCenter Server and V-Sphere Client

Backup and recovery of Virtual machines and virtual servers

Creating and Managing Rackspace, Toggle box and Digital Ocean Cloud Servers and Monitoring for any service level tickets

Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs

Coordination with vendors relating to all technical aspects in the IT infrastructure Tech Mahindra Ltd - Chennai Oct 2015 - Aug 2016

Designation: Senior Software Engineer – Windows Server / Linux Server/ Application Installation & Configuration Experience: 10 Months

Job Role:

Cisco Research & Development Center Technical Support for Server Installation and Configuration Responsibilities:

IT Support for Cisco Projects – Development, QA and Production Servers

Maintenance of Windows Server 2012, Linux Servers- CentOS 7, VMware ESXi, Vcenter Server

Maintenance of LAN, Cisco Switches, IP Phones

Maintenance of AD users & Group Policy, Auditing Policy Administration

Maintenance of WSUS Server

Configured DFS Role In Windows 2012 Servers

Maintenance of Database Servers MS-SQL 2012, MYSQL, PostgreSQL

Maintenance of Web & App. Servers - Apache & Apache Tomcat

Installed and Configured SQL Server 2012

Created the SQL Users & database to map the Projects

Installed and Configured SSL Certificates & Enabled Encryption in SQL Server 2012

Installed and Configured Nagios Monitoring Tool on CentOS 7 Server

Installed and Configured Apache Tomcat 8 Server on CentOS 7 Server

Installed and Configured Oracle Web Logic Server 12c

Installed and Configured NFS/Active-MQ /Puppet Server

Installed and Configured Clustered Apache Webservers using HA Cluster.

Configured Multiple Web-Applications using Nginx Server for Development Testing

Testing for Web Application Load Balancing Using Nginx Server

Configured Samba Users & Shares/ Users, Groups & Permissions/ SSH keys on Linux Servers

Backup & Restore MS-SQL Server, MY-SQL Server & PostgreSQL Databases

Build New Servers using Virtual Machines VMware, Virtual BOX, Hyper-V, Vagrant and Docker Madras Christian College - Chennai June 2010 – Sep 2015 Experience: 5 Years 3 Months

Job Profile: System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Administrating and Maintaining 2003 & 2008 Server Domain Controllers

Installed & Configured Windows Server 2003 OS & Application Software’s on ADS Environment Using RIS

Installed & Configured Windows Server 2008 (Enterprise Edition) & Windows 7 (Enterprise Edition) Environment with Adobe C5 Master Collection in New lab Setup

Configured & Implemented Windows Server – 2008 R2 Group Policy (App. Locker, Drive Access, Internet Access Policy, Files & Folder Access etc..)

Configured Active Directory Database Backup on Backup Server

Installed & Configured DNS, DHCP, IIS and File Servers in Windows Server 2008

Configured Windows Server 2008 R2 RAID1 Setup on IBM System X 3500 M4 Server

Installed & Configured WSUS 3.0 in Windows Server 2008

Configured FileZilla FTP Server Integrated with the Client Dreamweaver

Windows Servers & Desktops Image Backups using Norton Ghost & Windows Image Backup

Maintenance Of Kaspersky Antivirus Server

Installed and Configured PFSense Open Source Firewall

Installed & Configured LAMP/SAMBA/NFS/DNS/DHCP Server on Centos Linux

Installed & Configured UBUNTU Linux Clients & Integrated with Windows 2008 Active Directory Domain

Installed & Configured SSH Server using Xming X Server Tool on Windows Linux Integration HACEENDA Infotech & Relators Pvt. Ltd (Chettinad Cements Group) - Chennai Aug 2008 - Oct 2009 Experience: 1 Year 2 Months

Job Profile: Asst. Manager (Systems & NW)

Responsibilities:

Installed & Configured Windows 2003 Active Directory Primary & Secondary Domain Controller

Implementing set of permissions and security as per the customer needs, to prevent the files and folders from unauthorized access.

Creating and configuring user Profiles including Roaming and Mandatory levels.

Implementing GPO in Domain Level & Organization Unit Level to access and deny the desired Level

Configured &Maintained Clustered SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition running on HP Blade Server

Automated Backup Schedule Configured in MS-SQL Server 2000 & 2005

Configured & Maintained Symantec (v 11.0) Antivirus Server in Windows 2003

Co-Ordination & Implementation of Medical ERP Software SAGE ACCPAC Navagate Software Pvt. Ltd - Chennai Jan 2008 - Apr 2008 Experience: 4 Months

Job Profile: Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Maintenance of Windows 2003 Primary Domain Controller & Back up Domain Controller

Maintenance of Server/MYSQL/MS-SQL/Oracle Database Serve/

Maintenance of Symantec Antivirus Server

Maintenance of Tomcat/Web sphere Application & Portal Server/Web logic Application Server

Maintenance of Apache And IIS Web Servers

Installed & Configured Lotus Notes Mail Client, Chat Client Sametime & Notesbuddy

Installed & Configured Toad oracle Client /CVS Client/ SVN Client

Installed & Configured Oracle 10G Server & Client

Installed & Configured Tomcat/Web logic/Jasper Application Server Vernalis Systems Pvt. Ltd - Chennai Nov 2006 - Dec 2007 Experience: 1 Year 2 Months

Job Profile: Senior Associate

Responsibilities:

Installed & Configured Active Directory Primary & Secondary Domain Controller

Installed & Configured IBM Web Sphere Application Server in Windows 2003

Installed & Configured MS-SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10G Server & Client in Windows XP

Installed & Configured Lotus Domino Client/Trend Micro Anti-Virus Client in Windows XP

Installed & Configured Visual SourceSafe Admin & Clients

Installed & Configured SQUID 3.0 Proxy /VSFTPD Server/Samba Server/Webmin/PHPMyAdmin

Installed & Configured Open Source Ejabberd Chat /MS-Share Point Portal Server in Windows 2003

Maintenance of DNS,DHCP, WSUS, SQL Server, Trend Micro Antivirus, CATIA and Chat Servers

Maintenance of Web Server – IIS, Apache, Tomcat/ JBOSS Application Server

Maintenance of Symantec Backup Exec 11D Backup Server

Automated Backup Schedule Configured in MYSQL, MS-SQL Server 2000 & 2005

Build a LAMP Environment for Development & Production Servers Dishnet DSL Ltd - Chennai Dec 2000 - Oct 2006

Experience: 5 Year 8 Months

Job Profile: Field Engineer

Responsibilities:

Constantly strived and steered the effort towards the Maintenance of server involving customer configuration online, customer details through an in house software product named DSLIM and Co- ordinate with LCO’s & Cable Contractors.

Configured the Ericsson ECN-320 switches/ Lucent Control cards /PEM Server Client/Ericsson IP/ Lucent IP

Installed & Configured the DSLAMs Remote monitoring Setup used by NMS Software “WhatsUP”

Installations of Cisco Switches like 2950, 1900, 3750 series, 1800 Routers and Ericsson switches.

Involved in configuring USB Modems and DSL Routers like TE/4 DSL Router, D-Link DSL Router, Aztech Router, Xavi Router and Ericsson Router for our DSL users.

Trouble shooting & management of network spread over 20 DSLAM locations/Installations of L2, L3 switches

Backend Technical Support for DSL Field Engineers/Co-ordination of Fiber & E1 Technical Team

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