UNIX Admin

Pramod

Ph: 678-***-****

Objective:

Would like to utilize 6 years of experience in the IT industry & venture into a profile that would flex my diverse Systems and storage administrator’s background with broad experience in diagnosing and resolving technical problems in a multi-user environment.

Summary:

• Over 6 years of IT industry experience as a System and Storage administrator of various applications on Sun Solaris, AIX, Redhat Linux, HP-UX and Windows environment.

• Hands-on experience in handling RS6000 Standalone AIX Hardware, IBM p Series Model Regatta P690, P570,p550,p650,p630,Sun Enterprise class servers for Solaris.

• Proficient in configuring JumpStart and KickStart servers to initiate installation of Solaris and RedHat Linux on several machines at once.

• Configuring and Administering NFS, DNS, NIS, NIS+ and LDAP.

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

• Resolving system errors and crashes, huge file sizes, file system full errors

• Installing network Printers and rectifying the Printer problems over the network.

• Experience in writing Shell scripts using ksh, bash, and perl, for process automation of databases, applications, backup and scheduling.

• Installed, monitored and supported Web and Application Servers on Solaris and Linux environments.

• Installed and configured the Samba Server and Apache/Tomcat Web Server.

• Good knowledge on operating systems architectures.

• Strong technical background in Storage, Disk Management, Logical Volume Management (LVM) and logical partitioning

• Networking communication skills and protocols such as TCP/IP, Telnet, ftp, SSH, rlogin.

• Highly experienced with Storage Administration like EMC SAN Administration, NetApp, NAS Administration, Veritas NetBackup and Legato.

• Experience in Configuring, Administering & maintaining Veritas Logical Volume Manager (VxVM) & Cluster Server.

• Experienced in increasing the file system, create Mirroring, striping and parity using veritas volume manager (VxVM).

• File system administration, software RAID solutions using Veritas Volume Manager3.x/4.x, Veritas file system.

• Experience in working with Tivoli Storage Manager Backup and Archive client on AIX and Solaris for backup and recovery activities.

• Experience in Supporting production HACMP 4.6 set-up and trained on setting-up HACMP 5L V5.3 for AIX 5L.

• Experienced in Hitachi disk storage system.

• Experience in performing service de-activation of AIX, SUN standalone servers, LPARs/DLPARs.

• Plan, document and support high availability, data replication, business persistence, fail-over, fail-back and using Veritas Cluster Server 3.5 in SAN environment.

• Experience in Solaris Server - Client in open systems environment.

• Provided 24/7 Production on-call support.

Technical Summary:

Operating Systems: Solaris (2.51, 2.6, 7, 8, 9 and 10), AIX (4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 & 6.1), HP-UX 11.11, 11.23, RHELinux 8, 9, Window NT (3.51 and 4.0), Windows 95/98/Me, Windows 2000.

Backup Tools: Veritas Netback (3.x, 4.x and 5.x) and Legato Networker (5.x and 7.x).

Web Servers: Apache, Tomcat.

Volume Managers: Veritas Volume Manager (3.x and 4.x) and Solstice Online Disk Suite 4.x

File Systems: UFS, HFS, and VXFS (3.x and 4.x)

Databases: Oracle (7.x, 8.x and 9.x)

Applications: WebLogic (6.x, 7.x and 8.0), Websphere

Scripting: Bourne Shell, Korn Shell

Tools: SUDO, Secure Shell, SAMBA, Maven, cruise control, TCP Wrappers and WUFTP

Networking: TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, and HTTP

Professional Experience:

Sony Latin America, Inc., Miami, FL Mar 2008 – JUL 2009

Role: UNIX Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

 Primary ownership of more than 100+ Sun, Linux and AIX, servers.

 Installation and Administration of wide range of P Series and RS/6000 servers.

 AIX, Solaris Installation, Migration, ML/TL/SP upgrade and Security fix installation.

 Installed and configured SAMBA, Apache server for Solaris and Windows connectivity.

 Involved in the Implementation of the SunFire 4800/6800 in Veritas Cluster Server 3.5/4.0 environment.

 HACMP cluster software installation/administration.

 Expertise in Administrative duties, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting and tuning Websphere.

 Responsible for JAVA, WebSphere and application troubleshooting with Application Development staff or other administrators and assist with problem resolution. Analyze system performance and makes recommendations for optimization

 Troubleshooting Websphere MQ queues, channels, listeners, and clusters and triggering.

 Installing and configuration and maintenance of Veritas NetBackup 4.5/5.1

 Managing disk storage with Veritas Volume Manager 3.5/4.1, Hitachi and Solaris Volume Manager with Veritas File System (VxFS)

 Installed and Configured EMC SAN Power path

 Deployment and Undeployment of builds on Sun Servers

 Backup Management - Tivoli Storage Manager.

 Server health Monitoring and Alerting.

 Implementation of Sun Availability suite for snapshot backups & remote snapshot backups.

 Providing On call and Remote Support for 24/7.

 Coordination between end users and DATA Centers (TDATA).

 Proficient in supporting and Troubleshooting TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, LDAP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, SNMP, SSL, and HTTP.

 Monitoring Network issues and troubleshooting.

 Upgraded oracle 8i to 9i database servers using export/import method and using Oracle upgrade utility in Sun Cluster environment.

 Implementation of Client / Server setup using Oracle 8i.

 Performance / Capacity Planning.

 Deploying script for any alert.

 Updating and Closing the tickets in Remedy as per the SLA Norms.

 File System Management.

 Coordinating with Hardware Vendors for hardware issues.

Environment: Solaris OS 8, 9 and 10, AIX (4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 & 6.1), RHELinux, Tivoli Storage Manager, Veritas Volume Manager, Websphere, Weblogic, HACMP cluster, Remedy & 3Si (Monitoring Tools).

IGI, Somerset, NJ Aug 2007 – Feb 2008

Role: UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

 Primary owner ship of more than 100+ SUN and AIX Servers.

 Installation and configuration of Linux servers.

 Backup Management - Tivoli Storage Manager.

 Coordinating with IBM Customer Engineer for hardware replacement.

 Performance / Capacity Planning.

 Managing disk storage with Veritas Volume Manager, Hitachi and Solaris Volume Manager with Veritas File System (VxFS).

 Server commissioning and decommissioning.

 Experience in installation, configuration, troubleshooting and tuning Websphere.

 Tuning the kernel parameters based on the application/database requirements.

 Provided support for critical escalations related to Midrange Servers, High End Servers and High Availability products like Sun Cluster 3.0/3.1.

 RAID 1, RAID 5, RAID 10 configuration and management.

 Upgrading Storage systems according to client requirements and implementing high availability standards like RAID implementations.

 Scheduling backups and analyzing failed backups to maintain automated backups.

 Setup, maintain and management of user accounts and groups according to the security needs and adding the packages and patches when needed.

 Updating and Closing the tickets in Infoman as per the SLA Norms.

 Server health Monitoring and Alerting.

 LVM and File system Management.

 Providing On-call and Remote Support for 24/7.

Environment: Solaris 8, 9 and 10, AIX (P Series, E-Server, RS-6000), RHE

Linux, Tivoli storage Management, Infoman, Weblogic, Websphere, Sun clusters, veritas volume manager.

EPL, Sterling, Virginia Jan 2005 – Jun 2007

Role: System Administrator

Responsibilities:

 Installing and configuration of Sun Solaris, AIX, Linux,.

 Support Level1, Level 2 and Level 3 calls for users worldwide.

 Data Centers support contains 500 + servers.

 Installation and configuration of Veritas Storage Foundation Suite, Volume Manager, Cluster Servers & Veritas File systems (Vxfs).

 Troubleshooting Websphere MQ queues, channels, listeners, and clusters and triggering.

 ¬Involved in problem analysis using MQ errors logs, performance tuning, monitoring behavior of MQ infrastructure and providing 24x7 on-call supports for test and production team.

 Involved in applying patches and Bundles.

 Involved setup and Administration of Websphere 6.1

 Created Queues, channels, processes and queue managers as per required.

 Omni Backup, Netbackup and TSM Backup for backup administration.

 Installation of SSH and configuration of keys bases authentication.

 Install and configure Jump Start servers

 Integrating UNIX file systems using packages like SAMBA. Setting up printers on UNIX / NT machines to work seamlessly across platforms.

 Assisting Development team to provide the information and troubleshooting.

 Installation of weblogic, upgraded to service pack updates, installed BEA patches, configuring and creation new admin & managed servers, start & stop web logic server

 Troubleshooting the problems related to Iplanet web server.

 Network trouble shooting using ‘ndd’, 'traceroute', 'netstat', 'ifconfig' and 'snoop' etc

 Working closely with Vendors on Hardware Problems, software fixes.

 Administration of NFS, NIS, DNS, Samba and Sendmail servers.

 Installed and Configured EMC SAN Power path.

 Provided 24X7 support for large number Production, Development and Test systems.

 Co-ordinating with Sun Support engineers to resolve high priority issues.

 Setup, maintain and management of user accounts and groups according to the security needs and adding the packages and patches when needed.

 Intiating Backups on daily basis and monitoring the scheduled backups.

 Clarify Ticket based problem management.

Environment: Solaris 7, 8 and 9, RHELinux, AIX P series, E series RS-6000, Sun Fire 15K, Sun Fire 6800, 4800, V880, V420R, E220R, E450, Veritas Foundation Suite, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Servers, Veritas Net backup, Websphere, Iplanet.

GTE, TX, USA May 2003 – Nov 2004

Role: UNIX Administrator

Responsibilities:

 Performed system administration of UNIX servers by using Operating Systems of Solaris 2.7/8

 Managing SUN Solaris, Compaq and Linux workstations and servers.

 Installation of patches and other software packages

 Disk and File system management through Solstice Disk Suite on Solaris and other logical volume manager for other flavor of UNIX.

 Configuration of Hardware and Software RAID on Digital & Sun Servers

 Installation of Oracle Patches and Troubleshooting, Creating and modifying application related objects, Creating Profiles, Users, Roles and maintaining system security.

 Configuration and maintenance of NIS, NFS, DHCP and DNS Servers on Solaris.

 Administrative tasks such as System Startup/shutdown, Backup strategy, Printing, Documentation, User Management, Security, Network management, dumb terminals and devices carried out.

 Installation and configuration of Oracle 7.x/8.x.

 Performed the administration of the Domain Name Server and configuration of the Database Files.

 Troubleshooting Backup and Restore problems and performed Day-to-Day trouble shooting for the end users on Solaris based applications.

 Performed OS upgrades and Patch loading as and when required.

 Backing up and restoring files across the network

 Responsible for Installation of various software components on several servers.

 Installed and Configured Sendmail Utility on Sun UNIX Servers.

 Administering NFS Mounts.

 Troubleshooting Backup and Restore problems.

Environment: Sun Solaris7/8, RHEL, SunFire 4500/V880 480/E420R/E450/E250, IBM, Sun StorEdge L280, Sun StorEdge A1000, A5000, JBODs Compaq servers, Solstice Disk Suite, Oracle 7.x/8.x

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