Kumar Medarapu

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Phone no: 210-***-****

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kumar-m-0b12b720

SUMMARY

Over 11 plus years of experience as Solaris / UNIX / Linux / Windows/ AIX Administrator, Engineer, DevOps, Cloud Engineer with experience in provisioning, upgrading, and configuring and administering Solaris 8, 9, 10, SLES 9, 10, 11, Centos 5.0, 6.x, Debian 4.0, 5.x, AIX 5.3,6.x, 7.x (Power7), Ubuntu 14.x, 16.x and Red hat Linux 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x environments.

Experience with the configuration and administration of virtualized environments in Solaris, Redhat and VMware environments.

Experience in configuring and administering highly available environments using Veritas Cluster Server and VMware HA.

Expertise in implementing redundancy using Veritas Volume Manager, Solaris Volume manager on Solaris and Logical Volume Manager on Linux

Provisioning of Solaris servers using Jumpstart and Linux Servers using Sun Solaris 7, 8, 9 and 10 on Sun Servers.

Experience in deploying application on a 7-node cluster using Kubernetes and docker containers.

Expertise in working Esxi 3.5, 4.0, 5.0 with the Vmware 3.5, 5.0 and Guest Operating System.

AWS experience in handling VPC, EC2 instances and S3 storage handling.

Worked on configuring redhat Satellite Server 5 for system management and deployments.

Worked on open-source tool like anaconda for larger scale environment with python automation capability.

BMC blade logic Server Automation 7.x, 7.8, 8.1, Captiva InputAccel 5.3, 6.5 and Big fix enterprise suite console 8.x.

Experienced on handling IAM requests on Amazon web services.

Worked on applications like Apache 2.x, JBoss 4.2.2, Oracle 9i, 10g on Solaris and Linux environments and legacy Corba based applications on HP-UX environments

Experience in installing and configuration of TCP services as HTTP, FTP, SSH, DNS, DHCP etc

Experience in installation, configuration and administration of Apache 1.3.x, 2.2.x, Sun One 6, 7, IIS 6, 7 Web Servers and supporting application servers like WebLogic 9.x, 10.x, JBoss 4.x, and Oracle 9i, 10g, MySQL 4.x, 5.x

Familiar With: HMC 7.1, Manage Now, Maximo, TSRM, CMI, MAD, ITIM, VNC, Lotus Notes.

Experience in configuring and maintaining Samba and Centrify to authenticate and share resources between Active Directory and Linux / Solaris users.

Implemented backup solutions using Veritas Netbackup 4.5, 6.5 and open source tools like Amanda 3.x

Supported and worked on Strong on AD/LDAP integration with Centrify

Supported WebSphere Application Server, IBM HTTP/ Apache Web Servers in AIX environment for various projects

Performance Management & Tuning of AIX 5.2/6.x UNIX Kernel.

Expertise in installing and configuration of management tools like ClearCase and ClearQuest

Integrate ZENworks Configuration Management with Active Directory, Novell eDirectory environment.

Installing of ZENworks 6.5 Migration Utility, managing of users dynamically to read user identity information,

Worked on automation tools like HPSA, Puppet and PAC2000 for ticketing system.

Experience in writing shell scripting using ksh, csh, bash, sed, awk to automate administrative tasks. Using shell scripts, I did check for database locks, log monitors, storing stats, disk usage into the database, killing runaway processes, offsite backups for systems, High frequency monitoring of system on regular bases.

Implemented SUDO, SSH, SSH2, F-SECURE and other security tools and ensured that Sarbanes – Oxley (SOX) standards are met as per the norms defined.

Experienced in working with different teams such as Network engineering, Database and application to resolve the issues and provide Customer ERP Installations Satisfaction.

Experience in providing 24x7 technical support to the environments by being on-call rotation.

CERTIFICATIONS

Sun Certified Systems Administrator 10

AWS Certified Developer

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Technology majoring in Computer Science from JNTU.

Master’s in computer science from UHCL.

SKILLS SUMMARY

Operating Systems

Suse Linux 9, 10.2, 11, Centos 5.0, 6.x, Solaris 7, 8, 9, 10, Redhat Linux 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, HP-UX 10.2, 11i, Debian 4.0, 5.x, Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 XP, AIX 5.3, 6.x, 7.x, Amazon Linux AMI 2015 and 2016, EC2, S3, Lambda, Cloud Formation, Autoscaling

Hardware

Sun M3000, M5000, M8000, T2000, T5140, T6320, 15K, 12K, 6800, 4800, 2900, 880, 480, 280 x4100, x4200, x4250, x4440, Sun Ultra E6900, E4500, E3500, E2900. E450, E250, V290 Sun Storage Arrays 5xxx, IBM M2 x3500, M3 x3500, ECC 6.X IMS (Intel Modular Server) with MFSYS25 and MFSYS35, Dell 6450, IBM P570, Entire range of ULTRA SUN Workstations. HP Proliant DL 360G2, DL 360G5 and DL 580, 585G2, c3000, BL 600c, DLT, AIT, DLT/DDS drives, Sun StorEdge 3510, 7110, A1000, A5200, D1000, EMC Symmetrix 8830, DMX 3, 4, Hitachi Lightning 9990 arrays, BL460c G6 & IBM 3650 M3, IBM AIX 5.2/5.1/Power6f, Power7

Volume and Server Management

Veritas Volume Manager 3.5, 4.1, 5.1, Solaris Volume Manager, VMware ESXi 3.5, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0 Linux / HP Logical Volume Manager, SMC, SAM,

Languages

C, C++, JAVA, XML, PHP, PL/SQL, PowerShell, Shell Scripting –ksh, sh and csh, bash, Perl, python, Puppet, Ruby, NSH, yaml, Json

Data Base Servers

Oracle 9i, 10g on Solaris and Red hat Linux, Suse 9,10.2,11 and Windows 2000, 2003, MS SQL 7, 2000 on Win 2000, MySQL 4.x, 5.x on Redhat Linux, AIX 4/5.2, 5.3,6.x, 7.x, HACMP, IBM Virtualization, N-Port Virtualization (NPIV), Tivoli (TSM), EMC (DMX and VMAX), IBM Storage DS4400, DS4800, RAID, GNU Compilers, Splunk, Guardium, IBM UDB2, PostgreSQL 8.x,9.x, DynamoDB,

Networking Protocols

BGP, IGRP, LAN, WAN, ARP/RARP, FTP/TFTP, RIP, DHCP, SNMP, SMTP, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, OSPF, EIGRP, PPP, SLIP, UUCP, X.25, DNS, Route53, Security Gateway, In-bond and Out-bond rules

Desktop Applications

Novell Group Wise, Corel Perfect Office, MS Works, Acrobat, Paint Shop Pro, MS Office, Open Office, Photoshop, Bladelogic, BigFix, Chef, Puppet, OpenStack, Docker, HPSA and Ansible. Some tools like Jenkins, Atlassian Suite, Pivotal Tracker for deployment.

Internet and WWW

Apache 1.3.x, 2.2.x, Sun JES Web Server 6.1, 7 WebLogic 9.x, 10, WAS, Apache Web Server, tomcat7, Postfix 1.x, 2.x, Webmin, SWAT, GIT-HUB, Jenkins, Web/Application Servers: Web Logic Server, iPlanet Server, MQSeries, IBM HTTP Server, samba

Security Hardware/Software

Dell Checkpoint 2000, / NG/NGX/VSX, VPN-1/Firewall -1 version NGX R6x, Cisco PIX version 5.1, 6.2, Solaris IP Filters, Linux IP tables, nmap, Nessus, SSG 140, JUNIPER SSG 500, ISG 1000, Cisco PIX Firewall, 501,506E, 515,525,535, ASA 5505,5506,5515,5525, Pac2000, Service-now, SolarWinds, Data Dog, AppDynamics IBM-Lotus, Maximo, BMC Remedy, Xymon, Nagios, Vistara, CloudWatch.

PROJECT SUMMARY

Project-7

Lincoln Financial Group Dallas, Tx May 2019 – Till Date

Sr. Linux/Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Experienced in provision, support, and day to day tasks on Red hat 6.x,7.x and 8.x on VMware, Aws cloud and Nutanix servers.

Worked on New satellite server 6.5 setup from scratch for new data center migration.

Migration of Satellite server from 6.4 to 6.5 with client subscriptions, setup capsule server.

Migration of Red-hat Linux 6.x to 7.x OS from VMware to Nutanix Cluster Environment.

Working on Splunk Migration from Physical to Virtual.

Working on servers patching, rhel6 to rhel7 migration from one datacenter to another.

Worked on Gitlab management, documentation for new and existing projects.

Working on AWS services Like EC2, Cloud Formation, Lambda etc.

Maintenance of puppet and Ansible Servers, network automation, scheduling jobs and writing scripts, managing server objects, Basic compliance and rule base compliance for tasks.

Working on Docker & Kubernetes images, pods for application deployment & Kubernetes Cluster setup.

Writing NSH scripts on Blade logic and pushing across all prod servers.

Worked on creating GIT and GITHUB repositories setup in VF environment with user’s management and repositories creation.

Installed, configured Jenkins for continues integration of project created under Jenkins.

Background performance design, developing like SaaS, PaaS for continuous deployments and continuous delivery solution using AWS services, CI/CD with Jenkins, GitHub and Gitlab.

Experience with Linux security solutions in AWS environment.

Experience in installing, configuring and using various open source and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, Docker Containers with Redhat & Aws-Linux.

Worked on managing the worker nodes & master nodes of Kubernetes cluster environment.

Managed, maintained a 7 node Kubernetes cluster 1.8x with upgrade, patching, monitoring and disaster recovery.

Worked on management and setting GITHUB, GitLab account to Jenkins through http and ssh credentials for end users.

Worked on Splunk and AppDynamics Migration to Nutanix servers.

Worked on ServiceNow Ticketing tool for day-to-day tasks & tickets.

Environment: Redhat Linux 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, Windows 2008, 2012, VMware ESXi 6.x & 6.5, IBM x3500 M2 AND M3, IMS (Intel Modular Server), Service-Now, NAS, SAN, Tivoli, Dell 6450, Nutanix Cluster, AppDynamics, Nagios, Data Dog, Aws-Linux, Aws-Linux2, Splunk 7.x, HP DL380 Gen9 Servers.

Project-6

VF Corp, Austin-Tx. Jan 2017 – May 2019

Sr. Linux/Cloud/DevOps Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Worked as part of DevOps Team for different internal automation and build configuration management.

Developed shell, yaml, json scripts for automation of the build and release process with CI/CD development.

Automated the front-end platform into highly scalable, consistent, repeatable

Infrastructure using a high degree of automation using Ansible, Puppet, Jenkins and cloud formation.

Maintaining the user accounts (IAM), RDS, Route53, VPC services in AWS cloud.

Developed python scripts to automate log rotation of multiple logs for web servers.

Launching Amazon EC2 Instances (RHEL/Ubuntu) through manually, cloud formation, using CMD and configuration launch with specific applications.

Responsible for build and deployment automation using Docker containers, and Puppet.

Installed Jboss EAP 7.1.x Enterprise Application on redhat and ubuntu servers for application deployment with apache tomcat.

Automated the process of installing packages and libraries for Jboss EAP 7.1 application.

Deployed Java/J2EE applications through Tomcat Application servers.

Experience with automation and configuration management using Ansible

Experience building APIs and data delivery mechanisms for applications such as web dashboards, alerting & health systems, mobile applications, and third-party integrations

Advanced ability to craft clear and concise documentation

Knowledge of the AWS stack (CloudFormation, EC2, RDS, SQS, Route 53, S3)

Ability to design and manage CI / CD pipelines (CircleCI)

Experience with relational, non-relational, and time-series data stores

Implemented Docker on the production side and worked on Docker images and containers and deployed web applications.

Experienced in developing Written Cloud formation templates and deployed AWS resources using it.

Installation, configuration and support of Solaris and Linux Environments consisting of Solaris 10, 11 and Red hat 6.x, 7.x. SLES 11.x, 12.x, Ubuntu 12.x, 14.x, 16.x Performed automated installation of operating systems using Jumpstart for Solaris, Kickstart for Red hat Linux, Debian Linux and Auto install for SuSe Linux with anaconda.

Developed build and deployment scripts using ANT and MAVEN as build tools in Jenkins to move from one environment to other environments.

Creating S3 buckets and managed policies and utilized S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.

Implementing GitHub and Docker private repositories for SVN repository, which enables users to use both Git and SVN.

Planned and performed the upgrades to Linux (RHEL 6.x & 7, SuSE 11, 12.x, Ubuntu 14.x to 16.x) and Solaris 10, 11 operating systems and performed hardware maintenance tasks like changing memory modules, disk devices, IDE and SCSI devices.

Configuration of virtualized environments on Solaris using zones (sparse and whole root) and managing the services with service management facility (SMF). Also, used VMware vSphere 4.0 to install VMs for Redhat 6.x, 7.x and Ubuntu 14.x, 16.x.

Worked on Cloud Formation stack for auto-build environment on VPC.

Worked on windows and Linux Patching management on Blade logic 7.x

Migrating of environment to new level from Red hat 6.x, 7.x, SuSe 12 to Ubuntu 16.x.

Create, Maintain, and Enhance Automated Product Deployments

Develop, Modify, Support and maintain VMware vSphere based components through scripting and automation

Design and maintain Custom monitoring dashboards for DEV/OPS/Support

Create and maintain Cloud Operations processes and procedures for new VPC’s.

Knowledge on Docker container & Kubernetes Cluster configuration for managing the node, pods & containers.

Expertise in creating EC2 instance and S3 buckets per project requirements.

Enhance our fault tolerance and high availability strategy

Experience with Debian package management and installing Apache on servers.

Working on Remedy tickets, change and problem management and familiar with SOX process.

Worked on SAN and NAS in lab environment to share the storage for new build servers.

Resolving critical problems, performing root cause analysis, document solutions and provide preventive Measures.

Installation, configuration, and customization of Redhat Enterprise Linux, Sendmail, Apache, FTP servers to meet the user needs and requirements also automation with Ansible, Puppet tools.

Extensively used Centrify Express to synchronize user accounts, group accounts between Windows and UNIX / Linux Environments.

Installation, configuration and administration of Apache 2.2.x, WebLogic 10.x, Oracle 10g and VisiBroker 8.x on Linux and Sun Servers.

Installation, Administration and Configuration of PostgreSQL 9.3 and 9.6.

Support for database user and handling upgrades of database PostgreSQL from 9.3 to 9.6. Also, applied patches to application when needed.

Worked on PL/SQL database Applications on servers and co-ordinate with application administrators in successful migration of databases and generating the database reports.

Environment: Sun Solaris 10,11, Red hat Linux 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, SLES 11, 12, Ubuntu 12.x, 14.x, 16.x, WebLogic 9.x, 10.x, Apache 2.2.x, Tomcat7, Nagios 3.2.x, 4.3.x, Oracle 10g, PostgreSQL 9.3 and 9.6, Sun M3000, M5000, T6320, E6900, x4200, Dell T470, Dell m3, m5 series, GIT-hub, Jenkins, Hitachi Lightening 9980, Meraki switches.

Project-5

Wells Fargo, Charlotte, NC Oct 2015 – Dec 2016

Sr. DevOps/Cloud Engineer

Wells Fargo is one of the leading financial group providers in the market. Our team was responsible for dealing more than 30,000 servers in various datacenters with flavors of Linux/Unix/Aix Servers at Bank under different Domains.

Responsible for Patching Sun Solaris 9/10/11, HP-UX and Redhat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7.

Responsible for installing, managing of BoKS on all both Solaris and Red hat machines.

Responsible for firmware upgrading Sun Solaris 10/12 on Sun cool thread T2000, T5120, T5220, T5240 and M-series as M5000, M4000, M3000.

Responsible for firmware upgrading on DELL PowerEdge R610, R620, R710, R720, R810, R820 and on HP ProLiant DL 360 models.

Performed administrative tasks such as System Startup/shutdown, Backup strategy, and Documentation, User Management, Security and Network management.

Created CloudWatch alerts for instances and using them in Auto scaling launch configurations.

Wrote Puppet manifests and modules to deploy, configure, and manage servers

Automated build and deployment using Jenkins to reduce human error and speed up production processes

Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipelines for code deployment using Octopus Deploy and PowerShell

Monitoring the server alerts through Nagios, CloudTrail, CloudWatch

And troubleshooting the alerts.

Knowledge and hands-on experience working in a cloud environment such

as Amazon Cloud (EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, ELB, IAM, CloudFormation, etc.

Experience as a Senior Oracle DBA working with Oracle 11g/12c Multi-tenant RAC and Exadata running on a variety of operating systems (Linux (RHEL), Solaris 11)

Worked on python script automation with Anaconda Open-source tool for server deployments automation.

Automated deployments for 200+ cloud servers using Python and Bash

Manage 50+ total AWS, Jenkins, and Chef accounts to more effectively control access to resources and increase security

Maintain build profiles in Team Foundation Server and Jenkins for CI/CD pipeline

Spearheaded migration from Puppet environment to Docker-based service architecture

Configured IBM RS 6000,550,520,610 machines for production, staging and test environments.

Setup and configured network TCP/IP on AIX including RPC connectivity for NFS.

Building servers on cloud environment by using AWS using EC2

Adding subnet, network to each availability zones on Amazon Cloud.

Creating user and adding permissions for EC2 and S3 for creating web services on Amazon Web Services.

Worked on core Unix/Linux ecosystems such as AD/LDAP on Centrify.

Administration Tasks included User administration, Performance, send mail, weekly with Daily roles included dealing with LVM extensively. Strong hold of LVM.

Worked on Automation tools like HPSA, Ansible, Puppet for auto deployment.

Patch Management and Installation of SUN/RHEL recommended patches.

Environment: Sun Solaris 8/10, SPARC M7, DELL R720, RHEL 5, 6, 7, Sun fire T2000, T5120, T5220, T5240, Solaris 8/9/10, NFS, Auto Mounts, NIS, SUN Enterprise 6800, 4800, 2900 and 890, DELL Edge R610, R620, R710, R720, R810, R820, IBM RS/6000, P Series and 780's, HP ProLiant DL 360/G2/G3/G4/G5/G6/G7, Blade Logic, Sun cluster, File Net, Veritas Net backup 4.5, Web logic 6.0, VMware esxi 5.0.

Project -4

KAR AUCTION SERVICES JUNE 2015 – Oct 2015

Indianapolis, Indiana

Sr. Unix/Linux/DevOps Engineer

KAR Auction Services is one of the leading service providers for Car auctions over the world. I was part of System Build Engineering and System Administration team and worked on different flavors of operating system.

Worked on Building of servers through kickstart, jumpstart and provision of servers through Redhat Satellite using anaconda.

Installing, configuration and maintained of Solaris 8,10,11 and Redhat 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x servers per the environment.

Adding, deleting of users from active directory, LDAP through Kerberos with CVS repositories.

Providing sudo privileges to users, creating Users, Groups and assigning new UID and GID’s.

Installing of packages through rpm, yum and pushing through redhat Satellite servers.

Changing of network, DNS configuration, and troubleshooting of root cause issues.

Looking for new IP’s and registering of IP’s on DNS for forward and reverse Look up Zones through Administrative tools and Active Directory for new server builds.

Worked on System Monitoring Tools like Nagios, Vistara, Xymon Agents.

Worked on puppet to write scripts for running redhat satellite jobs on servers to execute on regular intervals.

Experienced on working with Remedy and Server-Now Ticketing System Tools for problem management.

Worked on Netapps and EMC storage for VMware storage sharing.

Power Broker 6.2.3 and Sudo 1.7 to access accounts with different privileges. Setting up of accounts and managing of Users through FTP/SFTP for end clients.

Use to write pre-and post-installation scripts for Servers Builds.

Upgraded Solaris 10 to Solaris 11 using live upgrade and tested the compatibility of applications.

Worked on Creating of Solaris Zones, managing, configuring, adding of users and packages to Zones

Created disk groups, volumes, volume groups and RAIDs using Veritas Storage Foundation, Logical Volume Manager and Solaris Volume Manager.

Environment: Solaris 8,10,11, Redhat Linux 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008, VMware ESXi 4.x, 5.0, 6.x IBM x3500 M2 AND M3, IMS (Intel Modular Server) with Intel Xeon, Sun x4100, x4200, M3000, M5000, with RAID, Oracle 10g, 11g, WebLogic 11g, Remedy, Service-Now, NAS, SAN, Tivoli, Dell 6450.

Project-3

TIAA-CREF, Charlotte NC Nov 2014 – JUNE 2015

Sr. Linux/Unix/AIX Engineer

Tiaa-Cref is the leading financial and life Insurance service provider in Market. My role was a Linux Engineer for Platform Delivery Team with automation of scripts project at Tiaa-cref.

Worked on different platforms with difference flavors of OS like Solaris 8, 10, Linux 6.x, Aix 5.x, 6.x, 7.x Servers and pushed automated scripts with reboot of more than 28000 servers in the environment.

am having rich experience in AIX System Administration in IBM including knowledge of Power HA(HACMP), LPARs/DLPARs, VIOs, HMC

Worked on VMware vSphere 6.x with rebooting of Solaris, Linux and Aix and trouble shooting the boot prompt issues under different run levels.

Mid-level experience working within a cross-platform environment comprised of both physical and virtual systems, with Linux/UNIX operating systems, FTP/SFTP, LDAP.

Writing start-up scripts for automation of apache, JBoss, WAS, Web logic, IBM Tivoli, Data stage, Web sphere MQFTE, Splunk, Oracle Coherence on Oracle web logic Servers.

Adding users, creating new user accounts, also closely worked with Active Directory Team.

Configuring, installation of Zones on Solaris 8 and 10, adding packages to the global zone.

Pushing automated scripts to Local and Global Zones, starting and stopping of zones to test the automation script on Solaris Zones.

Providing local Enable Permitted IP's to manage the firewall and traffic screening

Building Packages and RPMS for application to push on to the servers.

Worked on VERITAS Cluster with Solaris Zones configured and running on them.

Worked on enabling and common ports firewalls with SNMP, HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, STFP, RDP and SMTP protocols.

Responsible for updating Maximo on server’s changes and worked on Remedy ticket request for application, middleware team.

Maintaining Remedy environments used for the ticketing system and Sales Force Service Now Ticketing System.

Writing shell scripts on Ksh, Bash, Perl to accomplish day-to-day system administration task.

Provided 24X7 on call support for automation script implementation project. Troubleshooting Hardware and Operating system related issue

Environment: Solaris 8, 10, HP-UX, AIX 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, Red hat Linux 5.x, 6.x, Windows 2008, VMware ESXi 5.0, 6.x, IBM x3500 M2 AND M3, AIX Cluster Software: Power HA 6.1, Power HA 5.5, HACMP 5.4Sun x4100, x4200, M3000, M5000, Cisco PIX Firewall, 501,506E, 515,525,535,ASA 5505,5506,5515,5525, Apache 2.1,2.3, Web logic 11g(10.3.6), WAS, Remedy, NAS, IBM Tivoli, HP Blade Servers, IBM RS/6000, pSeries 650, 630, 670.

Project-2

Bank of America, Charlotte NC Mar 2012 – Oct 2014

Sr. UNIX /LINUX/AIX Engineer

Bank of America is one of the leading Bank service providers. Our Linux Platform Delivery team was responsible for Provision of Administrative tasks, Certification and packaging Providing Support for Unix/Linux systems Software’s.

Responsible for evaluating, testing, certification, packaging, integrating, and providing support for Unix/Linux, Windows systems software across multiple operating systems.

Installation, configuration and support of Solaris and Linux Environments consisting of Solaris 8, 9, 10, HP-UX 11i and Red hat 4.x, 5.x. 6. x. Performed automated installation of operating systems using Jumpstart for Solaris, Kickstart for Red hat Linux with anaconda.

Installation and administration of Sun Solaris and Linux Virtual servers using VMware 5.x, 6.x.

Operational, configuration as per PCI, ISO27001 and NIST guidelines

BMC Server Automation Software Blade Logic 7.8, 8.1 for automation of OS Patching, third party software’s, Kernel level patching and used to deploy jobs.

Advise best practices for security device Provisioning specific to the customer environment

Big fix Enterprise suite console 8.x Used to deploy jobs, third party software’s on Merrill Edge Servers.

Experienced in Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of HACMP 4.5 on AIX 6.

Created a functional account on servers to be used by Tideway system to automatically gather inventory information. Cron configuration and sendmail setup.

Managing of available yum and redhat.repos through Satellite server.

Worked on blade logic server automation scripts, server automation security, creating ACL template and release management.

Power Broker 6.2.3 and Sudo 1.7 to access accounts with different privileges.

Working on building Rpms, creating packages with automation and RPM test for deploy through BMC Blade logic 7.8, 8.1and Big fix Enterprise suite console 8.x.

Wrote scripts for automation of BMC Blade Logic, Fixlet Jobs and UNIX shell scripting using ksh and Bash.

Adding users, writing NSH scripts and providing executable permission to users for Blade logic jobs.

Experience on adding servers for Blade logic server automation console, creating workspace for different types of OS.

Installation, configuration and administration of Vintela Authentication Service 4.3, Netback up 6.5, 7.1, Tivoli Monitoring ITM 4.X on Linux and Sun Servers.

Coordinating with DBA and Application teams for operational and support issues like file system resizing, performance, application installs etc.

Configured and maintained NFS environments and Logical Volume Managers for optimization of storage in the existing environment.

Shell scripting in ksh, Bash and Perl to automate the repetitive administrative tasks.

Environment: Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10, Red hat Linux 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, IBM AIX 5.2/6.X/7.X, Red Hat Cluster Server 5.0, Blade Logic 7.8, 8.2, Big Fix Enterprise suite console 8.x, VERITAS Net Backup 6.5, 7.1 Web Logic 9.x, 10.x, Apache 2.2.x, VisiBroker 8.x, Oracle 10g, 11g, JUNIPER SSG 500, ISG 1000, Tivoli Monitoring Tool 4.x, Sun M3000, M5000, T6320, E6900, x4200, BL460c G6 & IBM 3650 M3.

Project-1

Walgreens Inc Chicago IL. June 2009 – Feb 2012

UNIX/Linux/AIX system Administrator

Responsible for configuration, migration and maintenance of organization’s server infrastructure Providing solutions to the problems on servers, applications, OS and documenting root cause analysis (RCA) in the all the phases of implementation including migration in data center.

Configured, Administered, Maintained 2 and 4 node HACMP Clusters with versions 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, Power HA mirror (6.1).

Upgraded Hacmp from 5.2 to 5.4 using Cluster snapshot.

Worked in setting the Crontab for non-root users in both AIX and SUSE

Installed, configured, supported and administered large, global and mission critical UNIX Servers in Production, UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and Development environments which include SuSE Linux 9, 10.2, 11, Solaris 9, 10 and Red hat Linux 4.x, 5.x.

Applying patches and packages after planning change requests (CR) using Red Hat Satellite server, up2date, YUM, pkgadd and RPM tools.

Used the Jumpstart to automate Solaris OS Installation and Kickstart for Red hat and Auto install for SuSE Linux.

Worked on Developing and enforcing process and procedure for Red Hat Patch Management, using Red Hat Satellite 5 Server and HP-UX.

Red hat Satellite 5 server build and configuring channels for package download.

Migrating of servers from Suse 10 to red hat 4.x and 5.x and moving the servers from xen apps to VMware virtualization 4.x.

Primarily responsible for automating manual processes using 3rd party tools such as Blade logic and Microsoft System Center Configuration Management (SCCM)

Upgraded Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 using live upgrade and tested the compatibility of applications.

Writing of scripts, develops and implements a proposed technology solution within a release notes for end users for Blade logic 7.x.

Used Perl/Shell scripting for administrative functions

Environment: SuSE Linux 9, 10.2, 11, AIX 5.1/4.5, Centos 5.0, Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10, Red hat Linux 4.x, 5.x, Windows 2000, 2003 and 2008, Blade logic 7.x, VMware ESXi 3.5, 4, 5.0, IBM x3500 M2 AND M3, IMS(Intel Modular Server) with Intel Xeon, ECC 6.X, Sun x4100, x4200, M3000, M5000, with RAID, Oracle 10g, 11g, Dell Checkpoint 2000, / NG/NGX/VSX, VPN-1/Firewall -1 version NGX R6x, Web Logic 11g, Remedy, NAS, Tivoli, Dell 6450.

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