Data Center Engineer

Fazil P A

Parappurath (H), Vattekunnam,

North Edappally P.O, Cochin,

Kerala, India 682024,

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Data Center Engineer

SUMMARY

Knowledgeable in the principles and practices of supervision and management of network operations systems. Nearly 4 years of experience in the planning, design, and implementation of network technologies. Background includes hands-on experience with multi-platform, LAN/WAN environments. Demonstrated record of success in troubleshooting server issues, increasing efficiency, and optimizing the access and utilization of shared information. Specialist in extending technology services from corporate headquarters to field operations and server management. Professionally certified in a range of technologies. Exhibit ability in bridging gap between technical and non-technical personnel.

KEY SKILLS

Network Administration:

• Cisco Routers and Switches, L3 switch, Nortel Switches, Cisco IOS 12.x

• Cisco PIX Firewall, Content Engine, ASA, Cable router, RICi-8E1 converter

• IP Routing Protocols RIP, EIGRP, OSPF

• Technical skill in LAN/WAN technologies

• Layer2 Technologies: VLAN, VTP, STP, 802.1q

• Support to LAN with more than 400 workstations

• Network Services: DNS, DHCP, HTTPS, FTP, TFTP, Telnet, POP3, SMTP

Server Administration:

• Operating Systems – Linux/Unix, Windows

• WWW Servers – Apache, Mail - Sendmail, Exim, Qmail

• Security - IPTables, APF, CSF, SSH, SSL, TCP Wrappers

• Databases - MySQL

• Scripting - Shell

• Monitoring – Nagios

General:

• Good understanding of the Data Center infrastructure.

• Familiarity with Data Center power, cooling, cabling, as well as other Infrastructure issues. Proficiency in using datacenter servers, cabling, racks, and in-rack-PDUs.

• Ability to work under pressure.

• Develop reports to include technical information and cost-analysis studies.

• Documentation of all the standard operation procedures of the Data Center products.

• Strong communication skills

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Internet Data Center Engineer, Reliance HRS Pvt. Ltd, Kerala, India Feb 2010 – Present

I have been part of the team for setting up a new data center for the South Indian Bank at Cochin. Presently, I’m managing the Cochin network division for our client KSITM.

• Took charge of the Network Centre within 7 days of assignment.

• Have done research, acquisition and configuration of new network and server hardware systems to increase the network performance.

• Maintain the network link for each LAN/WAN connection. Setting up Security using PIX.

• Setting up VLANS and configuring dot1q trunk on Fast-Ethernet channel between switches.

• Implement traffic filters on Cisco routes using Standard and Extended access-list.

• Configuring static NAT, dynamic NAT, inside Global Address Overloading.

• Troubleshoot any network issue within a specified time interval.

• Managing employees and delegating work. Also, manage all non-technical work required to maintain the data center.

Systems Engineer, Poornam Info Vision Pvt. Ltd, Kerala, India March 2007 – Feb 2010

I have managed over hundred servers for two major web hosting providers. 85% of servers: Linux, 10%: Windows and the remaining: FreeBSD.

• Internal network management. Maintaining network reachability to the servers.

• I have done short Shell/awk/sed/perl scripting to automate jobs on the server, thereby reducing the work load on the administrator.

• I learned and fixed php coding issues for clients for their additional satisfaction. I developed it into web pages, so they can have easy access to it.

• Installation of softwares such as Apache, qmail, exim, sendmail, bind, MySQL, PHP etc. from source as well as using package managers/repositories such as RPM, deb, yum, apt-get etc; performance tuning and troubleshooting.

• Configuration of Nagios to monitor hosts and services. Implemented squid proxy for web service.

• Firewalls Used: Iptables, CSF. Tcpwrappers are used to allow/deny various hosts/services.

• Managed hosting control panels such as: cPanel, Plesk, Direct Admin etc.

• Worked in OpenVZ based virtualization environment.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics & Communication 2006

CUSAT, Kerala, India. Aggregate: 71.08 %

High School, Computer Science 2002

CBSE, The Army Public School, Pune, India. Aggregate: 81.08%

CERTIFICATIONS

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) – CSCO ID: CSCO11827097

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHEL 5) - Certificate Number: 805************

OTHERS

ASP.Net from Aptech

Industrial Automation (PLC, SCADA, DCS) from Prolific

C, C++, PHP

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