Engineer Manager

GOPAL BOGANA

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Experience:

Sr. Linux Engineer 15+ years of extensive experience in Unix/Linux systems as System Engineer and System Administrator on different versions of RHEL 5.x/6.x/7.x and Solaris 8/10.

Experienced in analyzing, designing, implementing and troubleshooting of complex, mission critical global IT systems using a broad base of technologies for supporting production RHEL 5.x/6.x/7.x servers in a high availability, 24x7 physical/virtual environments.

Experienced with infrastructure automation and overall CM of servers using Bash shell scripting and Ansible.

Experienced with installation of packages, patches, maintenance & YUM/RPM updates on Red Hat Linux.

Experienced with Installing, Configure, Deploy and Support RHEL 5.x/6.x/7.x servers.

Experienced in Virtualizing physical RHEL servers to virtual VM on VMware vCenter.

Experienced in supporting Web, Application and Database team.

Ability to Lead onsite and offshore teams for successful completion of projects.

Familiar with Docker container setup, configure, deploy and manage using Kubernetes.

Education:

BS in Computer Science, City College of New York, New York

AS in Mathematics, Queens borough Community College, New York

Red Hat 5.x/6.x/7.x, Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, VMware and Solaris 10 training

Skills:

Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux 5.x/6.x/7.x and Solaris 8, Solaris 10 and Solaris11

Programming: Bourne/Bash shell, Sed, Awk, Ansible and Yaml.

Software/DB: RH LVM, RH Multipather, Kubernetes Cluster, Docker, MariaDB/MySQL, Veritas Cluster Server,

Veritas File System, Apache, Tomcat, Solaris 10 Zones, EMC Powerpath, Galera Cluster

Hardware’s: HP ProLiant DL 385/585, IBM X3650/3550, Sun Netra T2000/T210/T240, Fujitsu Prime Power 650/850 and EMC Symmetrix.

Professional Experience

Broadridge Financial July 2019 – June 2020

Infrastructure Engineer

Performed installation, configuration, maintenance and support of proprietary Revport application software on

Red hat Linux 6/7 servers.

Provided support to production emergencies by recovering the system and application running on it, did root cause analysis by coordinating with vendors and applying recommended patches to OS.

Worked on CA-PAM project to test and implement CAPAM-SC agent on all Linux servers globally to track and prevent access to client data by unauthorized staff having root access.

Create/configure and support new instances of the application in different environments as needed by project.

Bloomberg L.P. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019

TechOps

Install and configure proprietary ticker plant market data application software on RedHat/Solaris/AIX servers.

Implemented Ansible Playbooks for various system activity such as verify file system space for package installation, install base ticker plant packages, run QC tools to verify data consistencies with test server containing live feeds from the vendors.

Adept at working in environments utilizing a wide array of tooling surrounding Configuration and Source Code Management (Git / Github, Phabricator, Jenkins, JIRA), Data Analysis and Monitoring (Splunk, Grafana).

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Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Jan 2016 – Sept 2017

Lead Linux Engineer in Greenfield team

Lead the team in patching of Veritas Netbackup Media/Master servers that were setup as two node Veritas Cluster running on physical Red Hat Linux 6.x/7.x servers to do OS and Security patch upgrade and troubleshoot any cluster related issues while failing over of service groups between nodes.

Managed production Cloud (VMWare vCenter) Application Hosting Environment by providing support to different application teams with their requests

Automated manual repetitive tasks using shell scripts and configuration management tool (Ansible) on multiple servers for patching, installing software, updating configuration.

Performed resource adjustments of production Virtual Red Hat Linux 6.x servers at OS level by coordinating with Virtual Core team and application team to discover and enable new LUN’s for file system resize, increase cpu/memory capacity of production servers.

Supported Red Hat Linux 6.x/7.x servers using top, vmstat, netstat, ss, tcpdump, strace, lsof, sar and iostat to troubleshoot resource related issues.

Did support during outage of service caused due to issues related to hardware, operating system, application software and network.

Astoria Bank Oct 2015 – Dec 2015

Sr. Solaris/Linux Engineer

Worked as Solaris 11/ Redhat system administrator to due day to day support of their infrastructure server.

Performed security upgrade of Solaris 11 servers and assist Application/DBA team to do deployment of their

Updated software.

UBS AG May 2015 – Oct 2015

Sr. Linux Engineer

Worked on Datacenter exit project to relocate production Red Hat Linux 6.x and Solaris 10 servers to new Datacenter with upgraded network infrastructure.

Worked on SAN storage migration project for upgrading Red Hat Linux 6.x and Solaris 10 servers with attached EMC DMX storage arrays to new and faster EMC VMAX storage arrays.

Performed upgrading of Red Hat Linux 6.x servers with fiber network adapters and applying relevant patches for moving servers from copper to 10 GB fiber network infrastructure.

Deutsche Bank AG Sep 2013 – Nov 2014

Sr. Linux/Unix Engineer in CLO team

Performed Virtualization (Solaris 10 Zones) and optimization of Solaris 10 and SLES Linux 11 servers as part of Compute Landscape Optimization team.

Migrated and Virtualized (Physical to Virtual) production Solaris 10 servers with attached EMC SAN storage under Veritas Volume Manager to Solaris 10 zones managed by Veritas Cluster Server environment and do failover testing to DR environment, working with application team to test and certify the server for production release as required by the bank standard.

Performed routine System Administrative tasks for 5000+ Solaris 10 and SLES Linux 11 servers such as installing packages, working with storage team to validate LUN masking on target Parent host for (P2V/V2V) migration, pre-activation checks by testing VCS failover/failback of newly built servers to DR, patching/firmware upgrading of Solaris/Linux servers and resolving various other user and server issues as part of team requirement.

Migrated and virtualized production SLES Linux 11 servers from physical to virtual VM on VMware vCenter.

Worked on decommissioning of the physical/virtual servers and freeing up associated EMC SAN LUN’s by identifying and removing management of it from VCS/Volume Manager/Powerpath control and returning it for

storage repurposing.

Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Aug 2012 – Mar 2013

Sr. Linux Engineer in GMRT team

Performed troubleshooting of production Red Hat Linux 5.6 servers to isolate and diagnose system related issues and took remedial steps to resolve it.

Worked on Access Management Transition project for migrating existing users and servers to Vintela.

Processed raw data to requested format by writing simple scripts for identifying servers to coordinate migration schedule with Application team.

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Bank of America/Merrill Lynch Dec 2010 – Feb 2012

Lead Linux Engineer in GCCIBT team

Lead the onsite senior Linux team for successful delivery of various projects.

Design, build and deploy physical and virtual Red Hat Linux 5.5 & 5.6 servers under assigned projects which involved working with Design team, Data Base team, Application team and configuring servers based on the agreed design.

Coordinated with Network and Data center team for deployment of Red Hat Linux servers in large scale, that were going to various environments and configuring it as specified.

Provided troubleshooting and problem resolution to a wide range of routine issues related to server hardware, operating system and its attached components.

Performed general system maintenance: Red Hat Linux OS updates and upgrades, storage addition and file system creation, assisting application team with any issues at the server level.

JPMorgan Chase March 2010 – Oct 2010

Sr. Linux Engineer in GTI team

Worked on Solaris 10 server migration to Red Hat Linux project that involved in provisioning Red Hat Linux servers on HP Prolient DL and blade servers and configuring it as required by business.

Installed and configured Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), customized third party software like Tivoli, Opsware, controlm etc.

Provided 24x7 off-hour support for production 5000+ Red Hat Linux server problems as well as scheduled night and weekend work.

UBS AG July 2000 – Nov 2009

Sr. Unix/Linux System Administrator

Managed all aspects of production Red Hat Linux/Solaris servers including NIS/NFS, automaps, software licensing, system configuration, system maintenance as determined by business requirements.

Provided root cause analysis of critical errors or outages and recommended solutions to prevent or minimize future incidents.

Capable of handling the entire process, from defining the problem, to specifying a solution by identifying the right products, work with the the vendors, install/configure their software, execute integration process for all the components of solution to fit into overall technical architecture, industry standards and corporate policy.

Implemented different project works involving setting up NY region backup servers, Rational Clearcase servers, Web servers with Veritas (VCS) cluster and Solaris IPMP Multipathing setup for high availability, Solaris10 Zones configuration, Red Hat Linux NIC bonding.

Performed Red Hat Linux/Solaris OS upgrade while simultaneously migrating attached EMC SAN disks and recovering the SAN storage for upgraded servers.

Wrote shell scripts for tasks including application startup, data format conversion, migration of user home directories, server health checks, log file maintenance.

Coordinated software installation and upgrades to ensure work is performed in timely manner and in adherence to company policies.

Supported one hundred Fixed Income traders using Solaris 2.8 Workstations and resolved user level issues rapidly enabling them to continue trading with minimal down time.

Performed Red Hat Linux/Solaris system maintenance by applying relevant patches, packages, firmware upgrades on a regular basis.

Monitored server environment throughout the day using existing tools to identify intraday performance issues.

Moved Red Hat Linux /Solaris systems from one network to another with appropriately redefined network parameters.

Performed network, NIS, NFS, DNS, automount, telnet, ssh, ftp troubleshooting and resolved problems quickly

Coordinated with field engineers to add system memory, cpu, HBA cards, network cards and replacement for any faulty disks and hardware components.

Standard & Poor’s Feb 1999 – July 2000

Unix Administrator

Installed and configured Solaris 2.5.1 servers with Veritas Volume manager for attached storage.

Upgraded Solaris servers for Y2K Project by adding packages and patches.

Coordinated software installation and upgrades to ensure work is performed in timely manner and in adherence to company policies

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Administered backup/restore using Legato Networker, read and analyzed various log files to troubleshoot backup failures.

Mirrored boot drive using ODS for redundancy and also detach/attach mirrors in case of disk failure.

Worked with our vendors for resolution of problems beyond our service coverage.

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