Storage Engineer System Administrator

Adebayo Adeyemo

***-* ******* ***** ***, Winston-Salem, 27104, NC

+1-312-***-**** +(234) 803-***-**** *********@***.*** linkedin.com/in/asadeyemo

OBJECTIVE

A Unix-based (Solaris/Linux) Systems and Storage Architect/Engineer and Administrator with over 14 years of experience managing and supporting high availability, high capacity, and performance enterprise environments. And 5 years of technical leadership in design, redesign, and deployment of IT systems infrastructures in production and disaster recovery environment, including backup operation. I will avail myself for growth in any competitive and challenging environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Oracle Enterprise systems configuration and deployment in both production and disaster recovery environment.

NetApp and Oracle ZFS storage designing and deployment with replication to DR environment.

Designing of datacenter environment (Tier1,2,3,4) and all required infrastructure in line with compliance standard by governing bodies like (HIPAA, SSAE 18, SOC, PCI-DSS and ISO 27001)

Deployment of cloud-based infrastructures servers and storages like (EC2, S3, EBS) on AWS.

Diverse database (Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB) server support on Linux and Solaris platform.

Homo and Heterogeneous application (Java, Apache) server support on Linux and Solaris environment.

Enterprise Unix Operating Systems Support – RedHat 6,7&8, Oracle Linux 6&7, Solaris 10&11 and CentOS

Enterprise Storage Support – NetApp 7-mode, C-mode, Hitachi, ZFS storage and Oracle Exadata storage cell

Hardware Support – Oracle Engineered Systems, E25k, T4, T5-8, T6320, M6, M5000, M9000 sparc servers

Configuration Management tools – Improving level in Ansible, Saltstack Fabric, JetPatch

System network configuration, security, and firewall administration

Server Provisioning, Configuration, Patching and Update – Kickstart, OVM, Automated Installer (AI), Fabric, etc.

Monitoring and Collaboration tools - ManageEngine, BMC Remedy, Nagios, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Service Now, Splunk, SolarWind, SNMP, SCOM

Containerization and Orchestration – Improving level in Docker and Kubernetes

Scripting -Unix bash shell, improving level in python, PL/SOL, MySQL program, and HTML

Switch and Segmentation – Brocade, InfiniBand, VLAN, VNIC, LACP, IPMP, Trucking, Bonding

Troubleshooting – Sar, top, tcpdump, snoop, strace, vmstat, iostat, free, grep, netstat, awk, iostat, lsof, proc, cat

Virtualization and Cloud – AWS (EC2, S3, EBS), EXSi VMWare, Hyper-V, Oracle VM (Sparc & x86), VirtualBox

Standards Practice and Risk Management – ITIL/ITSM, COBIT Framework

NetApp storage management and data migration using snapshot, snapmirror replication and snaprestore.

System Security, Audit and Remediation using Compliance guidelines – HIPAA, PCI-DSS, STIG, CISCat tools.

Backup and Recovery - OSB, NetApp dump & snapvault, NetBackup, NDMP, tar, cpio, ufsdump, rsync, dd, cloning

Services & Protocols – LDAP, DNS, NTP, Chrony, Sendmail, TCP/IP, UDP, SMTP, SSH, SFTP, FTP, SCP, Xterm

File System and Disk Volume Management – NFS, VxFS, ZFS, LVM, VxVM, GFS, BTRFS, ext3/4, XFS

Storage Networking Protocols and Services – FC, iSCSI, Samba, NFS, CIFS, ASM for oracle database

EXPERIENCE

American Cyber Systems – Consultant for Wipro Technologies at Xerox Site, NY. Jul 2019 - Date

Sr. Solaris/Linux Systems L3/4 Support Engineer/Team Lead (Solution Architect)

Managed and support over 1500 Solaris 8, 9, 10 and 11 on OVM sparc servers and Redhat 6,7&8, CentOS on both physical and VMWare virtualized platform.

Migration of servers from old Sun infrastructures (M500, M800, T4 to M8 sparc servers)

Migration of User data from one storage to another with little or no down time.

Migration of application from one physical platform to virtual environment using lift and shift method.

Migration of application from lower OS version to higher compatible OS version.

Linux and Solaris operating system patching and update.

Timely remediation of Unix environment from all vulnerabilities and threats.

Timely SSL/TLS certificate renewal across the internet facing platforms to avoid hacking and failure.

Provide support to DBA and Application Developer team 24/7 using ServiceNow ticketing tools.

Support Application and Database Team and developing Unix bash scripting for file transfer and job schedule.

Migration of oracle databases running on solaris 10 (VCS/VxFS) from one storage to another non-disruptively.

Software upgrade of Splunk, Veritas Infoscale, bigfix, eracent, crowdstrike, etc

On project to migrate some database and application running Solaris 8, 9 and 10 to Solaris 11 on OVM Sparc server

VM Linux Database Server Storage migration from EMC Unity SAN/NAS to XtremIO storage without downtime.

Performance tuning performance review on Solaris 10, 11 and Redhat Linux servers

Incident and System monitoring using SNOW, Splunk and Nagios.

Analysis Unix systems capacity and performance metrics and rebalance the resources requirement.

Oracle ASM disks implementation for oracle database on both Linux and Solaris servers

Using OVM to manage resource (disk, CPU and memory allocation) to vm servers.

Ford Motors - Chicago, USA Jan 2019 – Jun 2019

Automobile Quality Control & Testing Engineer

Ensuring all technology tools deployed in production lines are calibrated and working accurately.

Scanning and testing of technology-based features in the production before dispatch to customers.

Support other department in troubleshooting issue related to IT operation and engineering.

Wipro/CWG Plc – Consultant at MTN Nig. Datacenter Dec 2017 – Oct 2018 Sr. Unix/Linux Systems Engineer/Administrator

Managed and support over 1000 Linux flavors (Redhat 6&7, CentOS, Oracle Linux 6&7) on both physical and VMWare virtualized platform and provide support to DBA and Application Developer team on 24/7 basis

Managed and support over 1500 Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 on both physical and VM (Sparc & x86) serves and provide support to DBA and Application Developer team on 24/7 basis

Database and Application migration from M5000 & M9000 Sparc servers to M6-32 Sparc server on OVM manager

Automated and deployed configuration and across Linux and Solaris platform using ansible and fabric

Maintained all Unix infrastructures’ patches and firmware are up to date and secure from vulnerabilities

Support sustained resiliency, disaster recovery and high availability events

Installation of new infrastructures (Racks, Servers, Storage, Network devices, Power and Cooling equipment)

Collaborate and communicate effectively with peers in IT (DBA, Application and Network team) and other departments to resolve issue during incidents and to improve performance

Working knowledge of BMC Remedy and ManageEngine to provide service support to tickets

Automated many repetitive tasks and jobs using unix scripts, crontab and Control-M.

Assist Team Lead to carry out some of his responsibilities and also relieved him when on vacation or special duty

ITIL practices in Service Management for ticketing, Incident, Problem, and Change Management using Remedy

Evaluate current operating procedures and provide improvement recommendations to all SOP

Work in a team environment to provide rotating 24/7 L2 and L3 support of the Unix and Linux servers infrastructure

Ensure that all detected problems are promptly reported, action is initiated, status is tracked, and resolution is achieved without introducing additional issues or risk

System clustering using veritas and Solaris cluster and disk management using VxFS, VxVM, and VxCFS,

Ensure Linux and Solaris systems are adequately hardened to meet security and audit requirements

Debug and review logs and troubleshooting performance issues on multi-hosted, physical, and virtual platforms

Installed, configured, and managed Veritas Volume Manager for storage manager and Cluster Service software for system clustering; and carried out necessary Unix audit remediation, security patch update and Solaris patch.

Monitor and Analyze system performance and manage system resources using EMS, and Nagios

Write bash shell and python scripts to provide automation and system administration tasks support

Detect, isolate, timely report, and resolve system outages, or problems encountered during operations which includes the collections of diagnostic data, restoring the system operation, development of workarounds, and other activities necessary for recovery of a system

Working through incident root cause analysis RCA to put together remediation plans for the global environment to prevent reoccurrence of the same issue

Support user access control and privilege on remote repository infrastructure services using LDAP, ACL and RBAC

Union Bank Plc, Nig. May 2009 – Dec 2017

Unix/Linux Systems and Storage Engineer/Administrator

Ensured full delivery of reliable, high availability and high-performance environment across both storage (Oracle ZFS, NetApp) and compute nodes (Oracle Supercluster, E25k, E15K, T5-8, T4-4, X-Series x86 servers, etc.)

Provide first and second line (L1 and L2) support to all Unix (Solaris 9,10 &11 and Linux 5,6 &7) based application and database servers on 24x7

Managed NetApp SAN, ZFS NAS and brief Hitachi storage environment includes storage provision, performance tuning, data movement and replication, troubleshooting and resolution of problems in the environment

Keep servers up to date by upgrading them with the latest version of OS and patches

Managed Linux and Solaris filesystem for high availability using veritas filesystem, cluster and volume manager

Monitoring of infrastructures using SolarWind, ManageEngine, Oracle Enterprise Manager, SCOM and Nagios

Ensure up to date data replication to disaster recovery site to prevent data loss in case of disaster

Administer daily oracle database and weekly application backup using Oracle secure backup and ZFS snapshot.

Managed and Support NetApp and Oracle ZFS storage infrastructures on both production and disaster recovery site

Carry out preventive and corrective maintenance of all infrastructures and also maintain routine fire alarm test

Collaborate and communicate effectively with peers in IT (DBA, Application and Network team) and other departments to resolve issue during incidents and to improve performance

Production compute node migration from E25k domain to OVM T4-1b, T5-2 and T5-8 sparc server with NetApp

Zones migration from OVM T5-2 sparc standalone server to Oracle SuperCluster T5-5 Sparc server

Discussed necessary change required with the IT head and present same to the Change management for approval

Design and implement infrastructure solutions to meet business and technical objectives requirements

Provide input and recommendations on new potential technology solutions based on research and analysis

Monitor issue resolutions and collaborate with the application and database team to resolve and apply fixes

Support deployment of the banking application FCUBS, Apache, middleware, EBS, SOA BPEL, WebLogic etc.

Follow ITIL practices in Service Management for Incident, Problem, and Change Management using ManageEngine reporting tools

Maintained SOP and policy documentations and present change request to Change Management

Liaised with support partners and OEM to analyze and resolve 3rd and 4th level support issues

Akamkpa Local Govt Council, Cross-River, Nigeria Mar 2007 – Dec 2008

System & Network Officer (National Youth Service)

Installation of 50 windows 7 workstation across all offices in the Local Government Secretariat

Networking of all offices in the Local Government Secretariat and installation of printer in each Department

Training of staff in the Secretariat on how to use system and system applications like Microsoft word and excel

Provide daily support to all users and resolve all issues relating to windows workstation and printers

CBC Lagos, Nigeria Apr – Oct 2005

Trainee Engineer (Student IT/SIWES)

Introduction to Unix-based multi-users environnements (Solaris and Linux)

Introduction to mainframe systems architecture like E25K, E20K and E15K

Introduction to enterprise storage environment like NetApp R200, FAS960

Following of Senior Engineers to Customer’s datacenter and production work environment

Participated in V-Mobile datacenter relocation in Victoria Island.

Installation of solaris 9 and 10 and training/lab systems in CBC

Carry out all other tasks and assignments as may be required by the establishment.

CERTIFICATIONS

Veritas Certified Specialist (InfoScale Availability for Unix/Linux 7.x Admin) - Veritas Feb 2018

RedHat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) - RedHat Jan 2018

Oracle Solaris 11 Certified Professional Engineer (OCP) - Oracle University Feb 2017

Oracle Solaris Certified Associate Engineer (OCA) - Oracle University Aug 2016

COBIT 5 Foundation Certified - APMG International Jul 2015

ITIL Foundation Certified V3 - EXIN Sept 2014

Solaris 10 Network Administration - Oracle University May 2014

Network Appliance Storage Networking Administrator (NSNA) - NetApp University Sept 2010

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Master of Science – CyberSecurity and Information Assurance (MCSIA)

Western Governors University (WGU), USA Ongoing

Bachelor of Technology – Computer Engineering (BTech Nov 2006

Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria (Evaluated: USA Equivalent)

Oracle Solaris Cluster 4.x Administration Training – Lagos, Nigeria Aug 2018

RedHat Linux 7.5 Administration Training – LPI Lagos, Nigeria Oct 2017

Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Administration Training – Oracle Univ Abu Dhabi, UAE May 2017

Oracle Solaris 10 & 11 Administration Training – Oracle University Dubai, UAE May 2016

Unix and Windows Servers Security and Audit Admin Training – Deloitte (DTTL) Oct 2016

Oracle VM server for Sparc: Installation and Configuration Ed2 – Oracle University – Dubai, UAE Jun 2016

RedHat Linux 6.5 Administration Training – NIIT Lagos, Nigeria Oct 2015

VCE VBlock Administration Training – IBM Sacramento, USA Apr 2015

ITIL V3 Foundation Training – Digital Jewels Lagos, Nigeria Aug 2014

Oracle Exadata Database Machine Administration Workshop – Oracle University Dubai, UAE Jun 2014

NetApp Data Recovery and Backup Admin Training – NetApp Lagos, Nigeria Aug 2013

Symantec NetBackup 7.5 for Unix & Windows Admin Training – Symantec Joburg, S/A Mar 2013

NetApp Data Ontap 7.3 & 7-Mode Admin Training – NetApp Lagos, Nigeria Aug 2010

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

A natural sense of urgency, initiative, and a positive team player philosophy to be reflected in daily work ethics

A Strong interpersonal relationship with ability to handle official matters confidentially

A proven record of reliability, the ability to work under time constraints creatively and analytically, and above expectation under pressure

A tenacious and energetic challenge seeker with uncommon ability to work independently and as a team player

Desire to work in a fast-paced environment and manage and prioritize multiple tasks simultaneously

Excellent problem solving and troubleshooting skill, and ability to work in multi-discipline and multi-tasking environment efficiently

Guided Enthusiasm that motivates teammates and gets tasks done.

Strong Communication skills, both written and verbal in English language

REFERENCES: Available on Request

Contact this candidate