Kame Email id: [email protected] Phone no: 214 425 2043 A proficient computing professional 9years of experience in Information Technology with experience in Unix Administration, specializing in Red Hat Linux, VMware, VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Cluster Services covering various issues such as installation, configuration, troubleshooting, support of Information systems availability. Good experience in Linux Volume manager and Veritas Volume manager (VxVM).

Summary:  Expertise in Systems Administration, Data Center migration, Server Deployment and production support with automation and scripting.  Specialized in Linux System Administration, Installation, Configuration of RHEL 5/6, CentOS 5/6 environments.  Service Requests, Incident, Problem, Change & Configuration Management Unix servers.  Troubleshoot the issues at server level (Physical & Virtual VMware )  Good experience on ticketing tools like Service Now, service manager and PPMC.  Performance and Capacity Planning to meet the growing requirements of the applications..  Proficient in System Software Installation, Configuration & Administrationof FTP,NFS, NIS, DHCP, DNS, Apache and Samba server configuration and management.  Familiar with ITIL Process, Incident and Change Management.  Having experience on working with OS and Hardware vendors for RCAs.  Have good working experience with configuration tool Chef and Ansible.  Enterprise Systems Architecture, System Backups, Restore/Recovery, ESX and VERITAS Clustering and Load Balancing concepts.  Experienced in using monitoring tools like Nagios, Splunk and Cacti  Installation and up gradation of Packages and Patches configuration management, version control, service pack. & reviewing connectivity issue regarding security problem.  Worked on Data Center Migration Project. Migrated Linux/Unix Servers from one data center to other data center with minimal downtime.  Wide knowledge and experience in Firmware upgrade on servers and add on adapters like HBA.  Experience in Creation and managing user accounts, security, rights, diskspace and process monitoring in Solaris and Red hat Linux.  Experience in working with the Version Control Systems such as Git, Git-Hub.  Extensively worked With VMware ESXi 5.1/5.5/6.0, vCenter Server, Host Clustering with HA, DRS, Replication Manager 5.x/6.0, Site Recovery Manager, VMotion, Physical to Virtual Migration and Managing  Managed Amazon Web Services like EC2, S3 bucket, RDS, EBS, ELB, Auto-Scaling, AMI, IAM through AWS Console  SAN Datastores with, iSCSI, NFS , FC.  Well organized with strong problem solving and good communication skills as well as ability to work both in team and independently.

Technical skills: Operating System Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x/5.x, Solaris 10, 11, HACMP 5.3/5.2, VMware ESX 3, 4, 5, Centos 4, 5, Ubuntu 11, 12.

Virtual Environment VMware virtual server , Zones, LDOMs

Hardware HP Proliant Servers [DL380_G5,DL380_G7,DL580_G5] etc., HP Blades, SparcEnterpriseTSeries, DELL PowerEdge(R620,R720,R920).

Volume Management Red hat LVM, VERITAS Volume Manager.

Scripting Languages Shell scripts Bash,Ruby.

Server Monitoring Tools Nagios,Splunk,Cacti

Networking NIS, NFS, DNS, SSH, CISCO Switches/Routers/Access Points and Firewalls.

Storage Devices VVM 3.1/3.2, RAID Manager,EMC, XIV, NAS, SAN.

Cloud AWS EC2, VPC, EBS, SNS, EBS, CloudWatch, CloudFormationAWSConfig, S3, autoscaling, Cloud Trail.

Professional Experience: Intuit, Mountain View, CAJan’2016-Tilldate Sr. Linux System Administrator Working with different mobile Services like data extraction, push notification, voice and message. These are the main services of turbotax which is top and best application to file taxes in the state. As a UNIX admin my responsibilities which includes User administration (setup and maintaining account), Verify that peripherals are working properly and Monitor system performance. I worked on Volume management like VERITAS, LVM and Wrote many scripts for monitoring and scheduling the jobs. Another Responsibility is Installing and troubleshooting the servers. Responsibilities:  Installing, configuring and support RHEL 6.x/5.x.  Managing and supporting a multi-cloud environment which includes AWS.  Worked on simple storage services (S3), simple notification service (SNS) and cloud watch.  Creating S3 buckets and restricting access to buckets and directories to specific IAM users.  DesignAWS Cloud Formation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates, security product templates.  Design roles and groups for users and resources usingAWSIdentity Access Management (IAM).  Creating Cloudwatch alerts for instances and using them in Auto scaling launch configurations  Support Red hat servers in Production and Development environments.  Install and Configure Red Hat Linux servers with Kickstart method.  Hands-on experience on Linux patching and OS migration from RHEL 5 to 6  Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging, network logging of servers for maintenance, performance tuning, testing  Remote system administration via tools likes SSH and console access.  Performed day-to-day administration tasks like User Management, Space Monitoring, Performance Monitoring and Tuning, alert log monitoring and backup monitoring.  Provides accurate root cause analysis and comprehensive action plans. Works closely with HW/SW vendor support teams to resolve problems quickly.  Experience working with production servers at multiple data centers.Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.  Monitored load balance on servers and performed regular system and application health checks using SARreport, log file verification.  Performed routine operational LINUX system administration duties.  Monitoring the hosts and networks using NAGIOS  Providing 24x7 support and on-call rotation.  Manage the configurations of servers using Chef.  Installed Chef-Server Enterprise On-Premise/WorkStation/ Bootstrapped the Nodes using Knife. Environment: Red hat Linux 5/6, Disk partitioning, TCP/IP, gzip and bzip2, Cron Jobs, HP Proliant servers, Veritas Volume Manager, Samba, NFS, NIS, LVM,Nagios and splunkMonitoring,AWS,Chef

Verizon, Trimble Rd, CA Oct’14-Jan’16 Linux System Administrator Responsible for systems administration of local and remote Dell hardware in a Red Hat environment. Responsibilities include work with a content inspection/data loss prevention application as well as an event correlation application. Duties also include Nagios Monitoring Responsibilities:  Providing Level 2 supports for high-level infrastructure environment.  Working in Change Management (CM) on Production and QA Servers to schedule and execution  of Change requests.  Worked on V2V server migration by using VMware Converter for various Linux distributions.  Scanning the newly assigned LUNs to the serves and assigning them to volume group and increasing the file system using Red Hat volume manager  Installed, configured and maintained HTTPD server for Intranet specifications  Maintenance and implementation of SUDO.  Working in Incident Management (IM) team to resolve Production outages and to provide turn  around on SLA Basis.  Experience in file system concepts like LVM, VxVM, creating new file systems, increasing and decreasing file systems, mounting file systems, un-mounting file systems and troubleshooting Disk space issues.  Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles.  Configuring ACL for users and groups and managing disk quotas.  Installing & Configuring AD .  Utilize chef for configuration management of hosted Instances with in AWS  Automating system administration tasks using cron.  Diagnosing and monitoring performance issues on Linux.  OS / Patch upgrades with release patches by planning down time with end users.  Coordinating with Vendors/Hardware teams and Servers Owners for mutually agreeable time  for resolving issues when necessary.  Storage setups, RAID, Logical Volume Manager, system backup design and disaster recovery.  Tuning kernel parametersper user requirement.  Configuration and managing VCS cluster.  Troubleshooting VCS related issues.  Supporting to the Ansible team for writing Playbooks for zero-downtimeinstallation,upgrade, downgrade, and uninstall processes (Oracle, Postgres and Apache). Environment: Red hat Linux 5/6, Cent OS 5.x, VMware ESX 5.0, DELL R620, R720, R920,Cron Jobs, Veritas Net Backup, Logical Volume Manager(LVM),Chef,AWS.

Dhisco, Lyndon B Johnson, TX Oct’13-Oct’14 Senior Systems Engineer The distribution hospitality intelligent systems company providing innovative distribution technology that enables hotel bookings around the globe Few of my responsibilities are installation, configuration and administration of servers and working OS upgrading and Patching. Responsibilities:  Monitoring of all kinds of infrastructure issues like Servers, Network, Databases and Applications through an internal tool called JMagic  Tracking of Emergency changes and Scheduled changes through the Change Management aspect of Remedy.  Escalating and Coordinating with L2 and L3 Administration and Support Groups for quicker resolution of the problem.  Installation, Configuration & troubleshooting in Red Hat Satellite Server  including upgrading & patching Linux Servers.Determining and Tracking the Resolution details and the Root Cause of the issue and appropriately documenting them for further reference.  Adherence to ITIL Processes (Incident and Problem Management)  Tuning the kernel parameters based on the application/database requirement.  Involved in installing and configuring operating system Red hat Enterprise Linux in Production  Worked with Red hat Linux tools like RPM to install packages and patches for Red hat Linux Server.  Installing, configuring and maintaining apache, samba, Web Sphere & Web Logic Application Servers.  Configuring NIC Bonding  Created shell scripts to automate cron jobs and system maintenance. Scheduled cron jobs for job automation.  Manage, deploy and support multiple concurrent releases through various test environments. Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Shell-Scripting, LVM, Windows, RPM, YUM, NFS, LVM, HTTP, FTP Fidelity Investments, MTP,Bangalore Jan’11-Sep’2013 Systems Engineer Fidelity Investments is one of the world's largest providers of financial services. Responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining Linux/AIX servers including web servers, mail servers, application servers and database servers. Also responsible for optimizing system performance, performing software installations and upgrades to Linux systems and maintaining them in accordance with established policies, procedures and service level agreements. Responsibilities:  Working on Incident/changes with Severity Levels, HP service Manager  Administering & supporting close to 5000 Linux physical and 1500 Linux VMs  Monitored server and application performance & tuning via various stat commands (vmstat, nfsstat, iostat etc.) and tuned I/O, memory, etc  Working on OS patching, upgrade & build, installing rpms.  VERITAS Volume manager/Cluster software works  Monitoring System Performance of Virtual memory, Managing Swap Space, Disk utilization and CPU utilization.  Providing root cause analysis for unexpected outages.  NFS/CIFS filesystem mounting and support for developers  VCS Cluster Build/Configuration, Upgrade add/remove resource & service Failover/Fail Back  Acquire permission from stakeholders to change and/or fix their systems..  Working with vendor for in depth RCAs on OS issues and Hardware issues.  Experience in replacing failed hard drivers, memory DIMMS, back planes, CPU components, Fiber Channel Adapters (HBA), NiC cards and other hardware.  Monitored the performance of the system to check the CPU utilization, bottlenecks of I/O devices, memory usage and network traffic. Environment: Red-Hat Linux Enterprise servers, BladeLogic, Veritas Cluster Server, Shell programming, VMware Virtual Client, VMware.

RazorsightSoftware, Bangalore Dec’07-Jan’11 Systems Engineer Razorsight's Cloud-based Predictive Analytics Software is used by the world's best known brands Communications & Media including AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast, TELUS, Tata, We perform web application environment set up for each customer and manage UNIX based servers. Responsibilities:  Monitored user and group administration, password management, file accessing and advanced file permission privileges  Deleting a user/modifying the user permissions.  Changing the passwords for all servers every quarter. Granting SUDO access on servers for various teams as per their specific requirement.  Installing, configuring and maintaining apache, samba, Tomcat Application .  Monitoring of web servers and other services using Nagios monitoring tool.  Configured NIC Bonding Network troubleshooting using ping, netstat, traceroute.  Deployed new builds to production and UAT environments and debug deployment related issues. Setting up local servers and installing REDHAT Linux.  Good knowledge of Hardware management console HMC.  Implementations of automatic secure SSH Login, User and Group administration.  Installed,updated, and configured the necessary packages using the RPM and YUM software/package management.  Managing system routine backup, scheduling jobs like enabling and disabling cron jobs, enable system logging, network logging. Environment: Red hat Linux 5/6, Windows 2003 Server, Disk Management,User Management.

Education:

 Bachelors Degree in Information Technology