System Administrator Active Directory
Resume:
AZAM SYED
Linux System Administrator/Windows, VMWare
********.**@*****.*** Cell:408-***-****
Santa Clara, CA 95050
Professional Summary
About 13+ years of experience in Unix/Windows/VMWare Administration. Specialized in working on
server-based operating system (OS), kernel configurations on Red Hat Linux, CentOS, SUSE, Ubuntu
15.10 and Solaris, networking, kernel parameter, and tuning. Troubleshoot system and performance
issues, including package management, and patch management. Extensive knowledge and expertise:
Racking and stacking servers, switches storage, and various servers (HP, Dell, ProLiant)System performance monitoring, tuning, CPU, disk, memory, and network utilization Scripting in Bash and networking, communication devices, server utilities, TCP/IP Installing and upgrading servers, using PXE Kickstart (internally developed tools)Installing, configuring, and maintaining VMware ESX 5.x/6.0,6.5, Virtual Center 5.x, 6.0 Installing, configuring, and managing Active directory DNS, DHCP, and Active Directory trust Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, disk space and process monitoring, using Active Directory Microsoft Office 365 installing and configuring administration level
Skills
Operating System: SUN Solaris 8/9/10, RHEL 4/5/6 /7/8/9/10 and Windows Server 2003/2007/2008/2012R2/2016/2019
Hardware: Sun Fire 6800/4800/3800/880/480/1280, T2000/5000, M5000/9000,
E15K/25K, Sun Oracle M5000 T4-1, Sun Sparc T5220, T5440, 4200, Sun Fire 215, E2900, HP C7000, UCS 220/240, Apple Mac Pro, Dell PowerEdge R630 and Tintri VMStore T5000 series storage etc.
Tools: WebLogic/Apache HTTP/Tomcat/Veritas volume manager, Veritas NetBackup, Nagios and VMWare
Networking: TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, FTP/TFTP, SSH, SFTP, ARP, Switches, Routers
Storage: LVM, SCSI, ext2, ext3/4 NAS (NFS, SAMBA raid0//1/5) SAN (iSCSI, Fiber Channel)
Ticketing Tool: ServiceNow, Jira, Remedy, Team quest and Big brother
Certification:
CompTIA Security + Certified
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Sun Certified UNIX System Administrator
Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Lockheed Martin Company – Sunnyvale CA June 2021 - April 2023
Linux Admin/VMWare
Installation, Configuration and upgrade of RHEL 6.x/7.x and OEL 6.x operating systems in the physical, virtual environment
Installation, Configuration, troubleshoot and Upgrade of Solaris 8/9/10, RHEL 4/5/6/7/8, Esxi 4.x/5.x/ESXi 6.0 operating systems.
Troubleshooting OS issues, escalating them if necessary
Setup databases on Amazon RDS or EC2 instance as per requirement
Setup and managing windows servers on Amazon using EC2, EBS, Obscurity Groups, RDS and IAM
Managing VPC, Subnets, make connection between different zones, Blocking suspicious IP/subnet
Managing CDN on A Managing AMI/Snapshots/Volumes, upgrade/downgrade AWS resources (CPU, Memory, EBS Amazon RDS and EC2 instances as per requirement
Managing CDN on Amazon RDS and EC2 instances as per requirement
Perform software installation, upgrade/patches, troubleshooting, and maintenance on Unix servers.
Oversaw tuning and performance monitoring for UNIX/Linux workstation, servers and peripherals
Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of ESXi 4.x/ESXi5.Etc
Installing and managing Appl vol VMware application packages and supporting client server hardware
Manage & support a large client base Windows 2000/2003/2008 R2/2012 and 2016 in a multi domain/forest Active Directory of more than 2000 windows server on 24x7 basis in an enterprise infrastructure
Installing and configuring ESXi, vCenter and configuring multiple VM’s with different operating systems.
Experience in Datacenter racking/stacking servers
Creating domain user account (ADUC/GPM)
Installing different types of servers like HP/Dell/Sun microsystems (ProLiant 320/360/380/560/580with different operating system RHEL/Solaris and Windows O.S Servers
Using ServiceNow, Jira and remedy ticketing system to work on servers etc.
Microsoft Office 365 installing and configuring administration level
Synaptic – San Jose Feb 2020 to Sept 2020
Linux Admin/Windows
Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of ESX 4.x/ESXi5.x, Virtual Center
Manage latest Supermicro, Dell computing hardware and UCS 220/UCS240 etc.
Create and Managing buckets on S3 and store database and logs backup, upload images for CDN Server.
Setup databases on Amazon RDS or EC2 instance as per requirement
Managing AMI/Snapshots/Volume, upgrade/downgrade AWS resources for CDN Server
Managing CDN on Amazon RDS and EC2 instances as per requirement
Provided system support for 650+ servers Dell/Mac Pro/ HP of Red hat Linux, Centos, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris and VMware routine maintenance, patching and system backups and restores and software and hardware upgrades.
Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESXi hosts and Virtual machines.
Configured, deployed, managed and troubleshoot servers and virtual machines.
Installing and configuring WebLogic server and troubleshooting the application.
Worked on migration P2P, P2V and application migration, performed large scale P2V, V2V migration using VMware converter.
Installed different operation system like (Win/ESXi/RHEL) on UCS 220/240
Performed software installation and maintenance task for cloud infrastructure.
. Working in a combined Windows and Unix software environment
. Managing cloud infrastructure service instances and multiple cloud servers
. Leading, monitoring and maintenance of multiuser computing environment according to organizational requirements
Using ServiceNow, Jira and remedy ticketing system to work on servers
Setup and configured cloud-based infrastructure using AWS service such as EC2, S3, RDS and VPC supporting and deployment of cloud-based application
Dropbox – San Francisco, CA Mar 2018 to Jan 2020
Linux System Admin/VMware Administrator/Windows Administrator
Provided system support for 650+ servers Dell/Mac Pro/HP of Red hat Linux, Centos, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris and VMware routine maintenance, patching and system backups and restores and software and hardware upgrades.
Worked on VMware Update Manager for updating or patching for all the ESXi hosts and Virtual machines.
Installing Hyper-V and Configuring Hyper-V Replica
Configured, deployed, managed and troubleshoot servers and virtual machines.
Worked on migration P2P, P2V and application migration, performed large scale P2V, V2V migration using VMware converter.
Installed different operation system like (Win/ESXi/RHEL) on UCS 220/240
Responsible for the management of servers and duties include regular and proactive monitoring of servers, responding alerts.
Monitored, troubleshoot and resolved issues involving operating system.
Working on Apple macpro severs and dell PowerEdge R630 etc.
Experience in architecture and designing the servers like Unix and windows servers
Building the servers like Linux/sun Solaris and windows
Using Jira and remedy ticketing system to work on servers
Setup databases on Amazon RDS or EC2 instance as per requirement
Managing AMI/Snapshots/Volume, upgrade/downgrade AWS resources for CDN Server
Facebook – Meno Park – Aug 2017 to Feb 2018 - Network Administrator /Data Center
Monitoring of Virtual Machines and ESXi Servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and network Utilization) for security, Data Center experience racking servers connecting to switches
Break fixing – Different types of servers, troubleshooting, installing and configuring servers
Fixing the servers issue and replacing different part of the servers
Working with different teams
Installing and configuring nfs/dhcp/samba/Apache
Using remedy ticketing system to work on servers
Cisco Systems – San Jose, CA Mar 2015 to July 2017
Unix system Administrator
Provided system support for 200+ servers of red hat Linux, OEL6, centos, ubuntu and Sun Solaris, patching and system backups and restores and software and hardware upgrades.
Expertise in Performance Monitoring and Performance Tuning using Top, prstat, SAR, vmstat
Knowledge on Bash shell Scripting
Installed different operation system like (Windows/RHEL 5/6/7/8/ESXi 6.5 etc) on UCS 220/240
Experience on change management /remedy cases/Jira and 24x7 on call
Configured and Installation of sun Solaris 8/9/10 and through jumpstart server
Installing Hyper-V and Configuring Hyper-V Replica
Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone and Templates.
Installing/Configuring Nagios monitoring tool, disk space increase using VMware converter
RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management.
Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of ESXi6.x, vSphere 6.0
Installation of ESXi server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS.
Installation and administration for window server 2008/2012
Installing and configuring and managing of Active directory DNS, DHCP and active directory trust
Migrate Physical Servers to Virtual Server using VMware Converter (P2V Converter)
Creating and Managing Virtual Machines and Templates
Monitoring of Virtual Machine’s & ESX servers (CPU, Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for Security, Data Center experience racking servers connecting to switches etc.
Using remedy ticketing system to work on servers
Walmart- San Bruno, CA Jan 2014 to Feb 2015
Unix/Solaris Administrator
Installation, configuration &Upgrade of Solaris, Red Hat Linux operating system.
Installation, Configuration, troubleshoot and Upgrade of Solaris 8/9/10, RHEL 4/5/6/7, OEL6, Esxi 4.x/5.x/ESXi 6.0 operating systems.
Installation of Site Recovery Manager (SRM 6.5).
Installation, Configuration, Administration and Troubleshooting of ESX 4.x/ESXi5.x, Virtual Center
Manage latest Supermicro, Dell computing hardware and UCS 220/UCS240 etc.
Used VMware P2V tool to covert few physical machines to VMs.
Primary contact person for regular backup/restore infrastructure
Configured vCenter, motion, switch Vlan tagging etc.
Create and administer Volume groups, Logical Volumes using LVM, RAID’s
Configured HP C7000 storage with various types of blades HP BL680c/460c etc.
Installing and configuring and managing of Active directory DNS, DHCP and active directory trust
AT&T Labs, Inc.– San Ramon, CA July 2012 to Dec 2013
UNIX Administrator
Installation, Configuration, troubleshoot and Upgrade of Solaris 8/9/10, RHEL 4/5/6/7, Esxi 4.x/5.x operating systems.
Setup and manage the VMware ESXi 4.x/5.x/6.0 environment for the infrastructure team.
Deploying virtual server using template and cloning of virtual server
Key member of the team administering Virtualization clusters running VMware and Oracle VM software.
Monitoring of Virtual Machines &ESXi servers (CPU Memory, Disk and Network Utilization) for security
Monitor the Production servers/storage using NAGIOS monitoring tools, DC experience having
Installed Solaris 10 on HP DL 360 G6/G7 and connected to P2000 storage.
eBay – San Jose, CA Oct 2011 to June 2012
UNIX System Administrator
Installation, configuration &Upgrade of Solaris, Red Hat Linux operating system.
Worked on Performance monitoring tools such as BMC Enterprise Performance Assurance and BMC Patrol & Team Quest Tool
Configured and install Zones - identify zone components and resource parameters, allocate file system space, describe the interactive configuration of a zone.
Installation, configuration, testing, support of VMware ESXi server and Virtual Center running both Linux and Windows 2003 servers and Windows 2012 server.
Monitored environment using tools that includes Nagios
Cisco Systems – San Jose, CA Nov 2010 to Sep 2011
UNIX administrator
Installation, Configuration and Upgrade of RHEL 4/5operating systems.
Used VMware for testing various applications on Cisco UCS Systems.
Day to day troubleshooting and support for end users on UNIX/LINUX Servers
Monitoring Systems performance and fined tuned kernel parameters.
Responsible for NFS Management – user/ project quota administration and management.
Installed patches with UCE Tool (Sun update Connection)
Provided direct system and network administration support for multiple groups within the project.
Installed SAMBA on Red Hat Linux and shared resources on Windows clients
Installing and configuring and managing of Active directory DNS, DHCP and active directory trust
Education:
Master of Science –M.Sc. -Osmania University
Bachelor of Science – B.Sc. – Osmania University
Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application – PGDCA – Osmania University
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