Red Hat Disaster Recovery

Prashanth Reddy Ganta

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•16+ years of Experience in System Administration, System Builds, Server Builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Migration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring, and Fine-tuning on UNIX (Red Hat Linux, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu, SUN Solaris) Systems.

•Hands on AWS experience in managing enterprise scale solutions that leverage AWS services like EC2, SSM, EKS, S3, IAM, Route53, VPC, Autoscaling, CloudWatch, RDS, DynamoDB, Elastic Beanstalk with focus on integrated and automated service delivery.

•16+ years of experience in Incident management, Change management, and Problem management.

•Experience in Agile Delivery Methodologies such as Scrum and Kanban.

•Experience with installing, configuring, and supporting Red Hat OpenShift with Ansible and Terraform.

•Good experience with Ansible, Ansible Tower enterprise level with Cloud.

•Good experience in using version control tools such as SVN, GITLAB & Perforce.

•Experience in Security Hardening in UNIX, Linux, and Windows servers.

•Designed and implemented highly scalable and available services infrastructure using Docker container and Swarm.

•Experience in using various network protocols like HTTP, UDP, POP, FTP, TCP/IP, and SMTP.

•Sound knowledge of VERITAS Cluster Server, VERITAS File System, and VERITAS Volume Manager.

•Expertise in deployment and configuration management using Ansible, Chef, Puppet & Terraform.

•Experienced on containerization like Docker, Rancher, Kubernetes for CI/CD pipeline and workflow design.

•Proficient in setting up Jenkins and enabling CI/CD process using GitHub and Jenkins integration.

•Experienced in High Availability (HA), Disaster recovery (DR) strategies.

•Expert in Installing, configuring, upgrading Enterprise GitLab, Nexus, and Jfrog Artifactory.

•Expert in architecture of centralized monitoring and alerting using Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty, Splunk, AppDynamics, Elastic APM, and Zabbix.

•Experienced in working with Storage Area Network (vSAN), TSM, EMC Clarion, Celera, EMC Symmetric DMX, Control Centre, and VMware ESX.

•Experience in installing, configuring, supporting, and troubleshooting Unix/Linux Networking services and protocols like NIS, NIS+, LDAP, DNS, NFS, DHCP, NAS, FTP, SSH, Containers and SAMBA.

•Expert in Installing, configuring, and maintaining Apache/tomcat, samba & send mail, Web Sphere Application Servers.

•Experience in installation and configuration of WebLogic, WebSphere, Apache, JBoss, I Planet, LDAP, and mail servers.

•Experience supporting 24x7 production computing environments. Experience providing on-call and weekend support.

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

•Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) - Osmania University (2002).

CERTIFICATIONS:

•Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) for Linux 7.

•Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) for Linux 7.

•Amazon web services Certified Solution Architect - Associate.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client – Wells Fargo July 2023 to till date

Technical Lead

•Administration of RHEL, Sun Solaris, & HP-Unix which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading, and loading patches, and troubleshooting server hardware issues.

•Responsibilities included designing and developing new back-end services, maintaining, and expanding our AWS infrastructure, and providing mentorship to others in my team.

•Worked individually, as well as in a team environment, to achieve project goals

•Experience with VMWare vCenter Server and ESX Server Installation and configuration of virtual switches, network connections, and port groups configuring Storage.

•VxRail combines compute, storage, and networking into a single appliance, reducing data center complexity.

•VxRail is deeply integrated with VMware vSphere and vSAN, delivering a seamless virtualization experience.

•Excellent skills in analyzing, designing, implementing, and system integration, Knowledge of Switches, Routers, & Firewalls.

•Extensive expertise in Linux administration, Ansible, Terraform, Cloud native automation tools, Cockroach DB, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch.

•Installing Red-hat Linux using kick start and applying security policies for hardening the server based on the company’s policies.

•Developed the scripts to push patches, and files and maintain configuration drift through the Puppet tool.

•Creating, and cloning Linux Virtual Machines, and templates using VMware Virtual Client 3.5 and migrating servers between ESX hosts and working on Red Hat Containers, Dockers, and Clustering.

•Troubleshooting problems related to the Apache web server.

•Working closely with Vendors on Hardware Problems and software fixes.

•Installed Splunk packages on UNIX Servers.

•Installed Zabbix and configured UNIX and Windows servers on Zabbix Tool and Maintenance and administration of AWS, Azure, and GCP resources.

•Supported 24/7 production support for mission-critical applications and servers

Client – Citi Nov 2021 to July 2023

SME (Linux\Unix)

•Administration of RHEL, Sun Solaris, & HP-Unix which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading, and loading patches, and troubleshooting server hardware issues.

•Responsible for configuration of Unix servers, for maximum performance in a production environment, configuring systems with various raid, strip, and mirroring configurations.

•VxRail Manager simplifies system management and monitoring, automating many routine tasks.

•VxRail supports businesses of all sizes, from small and medium enterprises to large organizations, with flexible scaling options.

•Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space, and process monitoring.

•RHEL, Solaris ZFS file systems, SMF administration, Solaris Zones, Veritas Volume Manager, G/LDOMs

•Good experience of Analytical and troubleshooting experience in MS-SQL/Sybase RDBMS technologies.

•Expertise in implementation and maintenance of DHCP, NFS, NIS, DNS, and Apache SMTP.

•Well versed in configuring Volume Groups and Logical Volumes, extended logical volumes for the system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM).

•Perform all duties relating to UNIX System Administration, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster, File system, hardware, and software technical support.

•Installation and Configuration VERITAS Cluster Servers

•Worked on Symantec products like VXVM, VCS, and Veritas Global Cluster.

•Installed and Configured EMC vSAN Power path.

•Expertise with OVM, OLVM, VMware, Solaris LDOM and/or Zones.

•Installing Red-hat Linux using kick start and applying security policies for hardening the server based on the company’s policies.

•Installed Splunk packages on UNIX Servers.

•Installed Zabbix and configured UNIX and Windows servers on Zabbix Tool and Maintenance and administration of AWS, Azure, and GCP resources.

•Supported 24/7 production support for mission-critical applications and servers.

Client – Wells Fargo Feb 2017 to Nov 2021

Business System Consultant

•Plan, design, Implementation, Installation, and configuration of Operating System Installation and upgrade of Red Hat Linux, Solaris, Ubuntu & VMware

•Deploy and maintain servers for production, staging, and test environments.

•Experience working with JIRA management tools, Crucible, and confluence page development.

•Project lead for implementation and management of server monitoring via Nagios XI.

•Good experience troubleshooting MS-SQL/Sybase RDBMS technologies.

•Deployment & system configuration Automation by Ansible, Puppet and Chef automation tools

•Helping Scrum master across the company to customize JIRA for their requirements.

•Involved in full-length Life-Cycle implementation of PeopleSoft modules.

•Leading, planning, and managing documentation projects for product releases.

•Hands-on experience in standard network protocols, load balancing, and firewalls in a CISCO network environment.

•Configured Kick Start Server and built servers using Kick Start server and Jumpstart Solaris servers, custom building with packages, patches, and volume management.

•Worked on salt configuration management tool for Patching.

•Build a Yum repository Server for the Development team to upload packages.

•Planned, scheduled, and Implemented OS patches on both Solaris & Linux boxes as a part of proactive maintenance and Secure Shell (SSH) implementation.

•Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging, network logging of servers for maintenance, performance tuning, and testing.

•Troubleshooting tickets, which include storage, network, and system related issues and logging RCA using BMC Remedy.

•Custom building Cockroach DB, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch and preparing servers for database installation, which includes adding kernel parameters, software installation, permissions, etc.

•Worked in configuring and setting up connectivity between web servers, database servers, and directory servers as a process server administrator.

•Gathering requirements from customers and business partners and designing, implementing, and providing solutions in building the environment.

•Attending team meetings and change control meetings to update installation progress and upcoming changes in the environment.

•Supported 24/7 production support for mission-critical applications and servers.

Client – Telstra (IBM) Aug 2012 to Feb 2017 Linux Admin (SME)

•Installation and Administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Windows, Solaris & VMware including performance monitoring, scaling and capacity planning, and hardware maintenance of Sun fire servers.

•Worked on Veritas Global Cluster and Red Hat Clustering.

•Server Monitoring: Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2016 and CheckMK (Nagios).

•Experience in creating and setting up SSL Certificates.

•Experience providing training to development teams on how to track, plan, and analyze using JIRA.

•Coordinating and tracking all projects for seamless releases using Project Management System JIRA, Source Code Management System SVN, and Document Management System SharePoint.

•Installation and Configuration of Red Hat Satellite on Dell PowerEdge 2650.

•Perform regular updates to the latest patches for Linux machines.

•User and group administration for all the UNIX servers (IBM AIX, HP-UX, RHEL) available in the lab.

•Collecting EMC Grab, Veritas Explorer, and Sun Explorer to work with vendors.

•Expert in Installing, configuring, and maintaining Apache/Tomcat and Samba.

•Creating, Mounting, and Troubleshooting NFS File systems on different OS platforms.

•WebSphere MQ Integrator inclusive of installation, Upgrades configuration, and administration.

•Coordinating with the networking team for the Switches information and routers and having good exposure to standard network protocols, load balancing, and firewalls in a CISCO network environment.

•Hands-on Migration Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

•Responsible for Cockroach DB, PostgreSQL security and patching, and Oracle database capacity analysis and planning.

•Providing 24 x 7 support to various application-level server-level & network-level Monitoring & troubleshooting of any data center outages.

Clients – Telstra (IBM) Jan 2008 to Aug 2012

LINUX/UNIX - Technical Services Specialist

Administering and managing the servers with Solaris & Red Hat Linux on different hardware platforms.

Modify firmware settings before booting at Open Boot PROM level.

Perform all duties relating to UNIX System Administration, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster, File system, hardware, and software technical support.

Monitoring System Performance of Virtual memory, Disk, and CPU utilization.

Mirrored the OS disks, replacing bad hard drives online.

Creating, Resizing, Restarting, Recovering, and Removing the Volumes.

Creation and Managing Users / Group accounts and set up a user’s work environment.

Scheduling automatic, repetitive Jobs using commands with Crontab.

File systems creation, increase & maintenance for LVM and swap.

Installation and Configuration VERITAS Cluster Servers

Configuration of LLT and GAB, Creation and Configuration of various VCS service groups.

Sending the status e-mails of the team to clients on a daily basis.

Used company troubleshooting resolution tree to evaluate technical problems while leveraging personal expertise to find appropriate solutions.

Maintained continuous knowledge of current and newly developed industry technology.

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