ILYAS SYED

Senior Unix Administrator

Email ID: adpx6n@r.postjobfree.com Contact: 469-***-****

Professional Summary

Overall 9 Years of IT experience in AIX/UNIX/LINUX System administration.

Performed Installation, Configuration, Testing, Troubleshooting, Performance monitoring and tuning of AIX systems.

Extensive experience in AIX 4.x/5.x/6.1/7.x on 590, 570, 550 and RS/6000 Servers.

Extensive experience in RHEL 6.x, 7.x,SUSE, Ubuntu, Solaris and HP/UX

Experience in configuring and supporting Logical Partitions (LPAR), via HMC (Hardware Management Console) and IVM.

Performed installation, administration, configuration and testing of VIO client LPARS, Virtualization.

Performed installation of HACMP 5.1/5.5 and configured HACMP for application failover testing back and forth.

Remotely supported SAP Systems based on Platform AIX 5.1, DB2 v8. 1 & Oracle 9. 2, MQ Series etc.

Resolved application startup problems, PATH problems, name conflicts, TCP/IP and networking problems, kernel tuning etc.

Strong hands-on experience in Disk Management and Volume Management using LVM.

Extensive experience and expertise in Global Server Build process and Service Activation and Deactivation (SA&D) processes.

Extensive experience in analyzing and resolving Audits and Compliance issues, SLA,CIRAT/APARs etc.

Implemented RFS projects SIEM-QRADAR, IBM Systems Director etc. on large client environments.

Extensive experience in Privilege User Monitoring, Manual monitoring

Worked on P9 Migrations projects to upgrade servers from P7, P8 to the P9 hardware using live partition mobility.

Technical Skills

Sun Solaris 2.5-1 to 11

HP/UX 11.0 – 11.i v3

Vax/VMS 5.0 – 6.2

Tru64 4.0 – 5.1b

AIX 5.2-4 – 6.1

RedHat 6.x- 7.x

SuSe 11.x

Education

B.S Computer Science, Roosevelt University, Chicago IL -- 2013

Professional Experience

Client: CVS Health, Scottsdale, AZ Nov-2019 – Till Date

Role: Senior UNIX (AIX) System Administrator

Responsibilities:

•Providing support, security hardening, health checks & upgrades to AIX 6.x/7.x & RHEL 5.x/6.x/7.x in a large environment.

•Performing OS upgrades and installing patches to address & resolve security vulnerabilities.

•Participating in HACMP upgrades from 6.x to 7.x.

•Participating in Storage Migration & EMC Power Path Upgrades

•Troubleshooting and resolving any issues encountered during patching & upgrades.

•Working as on-call support during weekend & off business hours.

•Addressing Remedy based incidents and problem tickets.

•Spearheaded conversion of AIX data center running stand-alone IVM systems to a system managed by HMCs.

•Utilized agile methodology to drive effective project management and improve software outcomes.

• Drove the setup and maintenance of ILMT in development and production.

• Managing User and Group Administration.

• Installing and upgrade the Linux using kick start method.

•Installed and configured Solaris 10 servers with LDOM on Sun T5-1, SUN M10

•Performed day-to-day troubleshooting for end users on Solaris based applications.

•Built and configured Solaris 9/10, Red Hat Linux using Jumpstart server and Kickstart as

required for the project.

Client: IBM, Dubuque, Ia Aug-2017 to Oct-2019

Role: Senior UNIX (AIX) System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Providing support, security hardening, health checks & upgrades to AIX 5.x/6.x/7.x & Red Hat Linux 6.x/7.x servers.

Monitoring & Reviewing AIX/Linux & Windows based systems generated security logs.

Creating SIEM/CIRATS for various teams for non-compliance security related issues.

Assigning Log Requests for manual security log gathering.

Working with technical teams to perform live log pulls from AIX/LINUX & Windows Servers as per process requirement.

Creating ICD event tickets based on the log review findings and following up with the support teams to get findings remediated.

Providing Audit, Compliance, & Privilege User Monitoring Process training to various IBM account security teams and other resources.

Trained and prepared global teams to assume administration duties of systems.

Streamlined processes by automating commonly used commands through shell scripting.

Accomplished perfect success rate on every software release.

Spearheaded HP-UX administration of data center servers and storage devises utilized for development and testing.

Creation, Installation and administration of Red Hat Virtual machines in VMware Environment.

Extensive use of Rsync utility for customized data migration from UNIX to Linux systems.

Patch administration - Red Hat Linux.

Client: IBM, Columbia, Mo Nov-2016 to Feb-2017

Role: UNIX (AIX) System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Creating & scheduling Changes via BMC Remedy & Maximo Ticketing Tool.

Administering LPARs / Micro partitions using HMC /IVM including memory and CPU upgrades, configuring SCSI and Ethernet Cards.

Performing Oracle ASM disk allocation and migration.

Installing, patching and configuring AIX, Linux OS on various IBM p5, p5+, p6

Series servers via NIM.

Applying maintenance/technology levels and patch releases and missing APARS.

Performing VIOS upgrades from 2.1 to 2.2

Working on Incidents, BAU and Problem tickets in a timely fashion.

Performing Logical Volume Management on HACMP, tasks such as configuring Shared Volume Groups, file-systems creation & space allocation, Storage Snap mounts and unmounts HACMP failover.

Performing PowerHA migration from 6.1 to 7.1

Performing Logical Volume Management (LVM) tasks such as disk mapping from VIO to Lpars, configuring new volume groups, file systems creation.

Provided project management for hardware and software upgrades and new installations.

Served as Project Lead for IT Services Catalog

Client: IBM, Dubuque, Ia Jan-2014 to June -2016

Role: UNIX System Management Specialist

Responsibilities:

•Providing Steady State support on IBM’s Healthcare Client consisting of more than 5000 AIX (physical and Virtual) Servers.

Creating and Implementing Changes via BMC Remedy & Maxim Ticketing Tool.

Administering LPARs / Micro partitions using HMC /IVM including memory and CPU upgrades, configuring SCSI and Ethernet Cards. Performing Oracle ASM disk allocation and migration.

Performing Logical Volume Management (LVM) tasks such as disk mapping from VIO to Lpars, configuring new volume groups, file systems creation.

Worked extensively both on EMC and IBM storage allocation tasks, nfs share etc.

Performing Logical Volume Management on HACMP, tasks such as configuring Shared Volume Groups, file-systems creation & space allocation, Storage Snap mounts and unmounts, HACMP failover.

Installing tools TSM, SEA, ITM, Fusion, TEM and SRM on large server environments.

Performing Manual Health Checking and Remediation, GAP checks, Patching, tools installation based on Client specific requirements before the Servers Turn-Over to the Client in order to prevent non-compliant security issues from arising later on.

Performing TCP/IP port scans and remediating the vulnerabilities.

Performing Steady State tasks such as Maintenance/Technology level upgrades, performance tuning, LVM, network configuration, disk space management, memory and cpu upgrades, storage management, vio disk mapping, SAN storage changes, scheduling cron entries, syslog rotation, nfs mounting and setup, ip aliasing, network configuration, user id administration, installing Perl, openssh/ssl upgrading and addressing compatibility issues with third party ssh.

Installing Java, Send mail, postfix etc. on the servers as per the client requests.

Writing Shell, ksh, bash scripts to perform configuration changes on multiple servers across the environment.

Performing Change Management, Problem Management, Service Request issues using Remedy, Maxim ticketing tools.

Client: IBM, Columbia, Mo June-2012 to Oct-2013

Role: System Management Specialist

Responsibilities:

•Administering LPARs / Micro partitions using HMC /IVM.

•Primarily responsible for Analyzing and Resolving Audit and Compliance related issues including CIRATS, APARS, SA&D and managing large client accounts per Compliance policies.

•Coordinating with a Global Server Build and other Compliance process teams to facilitate and improve Service activation and deactivation processes.

•Collecting evidences and providing artefacts in Checklists for verification and approval purposes.

•Installing and configuring tools such as Fusion, TEM, Tivoli, SEA, SRM, TAD4D, VIO Checker etc. on servers in client environment

•Performing Manual Health Checking and Remediation, GAP checks, Patching, tools installation based on Client specific requirements before the Servers Turn-Over to the Client in order to prevent non-compliant security issues from arising later on.

•Performing TCP/IP port scans and remediating the vulnerabilities.

•Registering the systems in the Asset Configuration Management tools such as ITIM Vault, SysReg,MAD, GACDW etc.

•Performing Steady State tasks such as Maintenance/Technology level upgrades, performance tuning, LVM, network configuration, disk space management, memory and cpu upgrades, storage management, VIO Disk mapping, SAN storage changes.

•Scheduling cron entries, configuring operating systems and installation of websphere and oracle on servers.

•Allocating storage and configuring disks for Oracle ASM, syslog rotation, nfs mounting and setup, IP Aliasing, Network Configuration, User id administration, installing Perl, openssh/ssl upgrading and addressing compatibility issues with third party ssh.

•Working on RFS projects including QRADAR-SIEM, IBM System Director Installation to successful completion on large client environment.

•Writing Shell, ksh, bash scripts to perform configuration changes on multiple servers across the environment.

•Performing Change Management, Problem Management, Service Request issues using Remedy, Maxim ticketing tools.

Client: 9292 Solutions, Chicago, il Dec-2010 to Aug-2011

Role: AIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

•Administering LPARs / Micro partitions using HMC.

•Installing, patching and configuring AIX operating systems on various IBM p5, p5+, p6 servers via NIM

•Installing and managing HACMP 5.3, 5.4 environments.

•Installing maintenance/technology levels and patch releases and missing APARS.

•Troubleshooting system bottlenecks relating to top processes, CPU, disk I/O, memory, paging space and network interfaces to enhance system performance.

•Building and configuring AIX V6.1, 5.3 on LPARs using NIM.

•Scheduling the backup processes, Backup / Restore procedures.

•Working extensively in setting up with TCP/IP networking, Firewall rules.

•Working extensively with Manage Now, Remedy for handling problem or incident tickets

•Responsible for creating user profiles, service level maintenance and quality assurance, password resets, IP addressing, backup and recovery services.

•Provided input on the scope of work for project planning of Cobol migration.

•Managed resources for a small team of servers, support professionals, and systems

•Point of contact for SOX and AIX annual audit.

Client: Moody’s Investors Services, New York, NY March 2009– Nov 2010

Role: UNIX (AIX) System Administrator

Responsibilities:

•Working as a Systems Administrator configured and maintained AIX servers.

•Working on LVM extensively, Creating/Modifying/Deleting Volume Groups, Logical Volumes & file-systems, Adding/Removing physical disks; Mirrored Volume Groups&Logical Volumes.

•Setup of print queues and definition printing and plotting devices.

•Setup NIM master and slave clients.

•Setup 2 node of HACMP clusters

•Configuring TCP/IP for servers and workstations and setup network.

•Involving in user, package and patch management and administration.

•Support for all the internal Windows nodes

•Network administration and Network monitoring.

•Implementing Crontabs, Shell Scripts for automatic back -up.

•Handling and response to the mails, such as providing information to users.

•Creating ticket and escalate to concern team.

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