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Linux/Devops Engineer Ph. No. 216-800-8835 Email
Linux/Devops Engineer Ph. No. 216-800-8835 Email
Linux/DevOps Engineer
Ph. No. 216-800-8835
Email: [email protected]
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SUMMARY
8+ years of experience in System administration and DevOps, for various operating systems such as Red hat Linux (4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x), CentOS (4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x),
VMware ESX/ESXi 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x) and Windows (2003, 2008 R2, 2012, 2016, 2019) and DevOps Automation.
Hands-on experience with various Cloud Services GCP, AWS (EC2, sS3, RDS, ECS, Elastic Load Balancer, EBS, RDS, IAM, Route 53, Auto Scaling Groups) Experienced with
the open source KVM/iDRAC Virtualization technologies to host Linux and Windows
Installation of patches, Security fixes, packages on Linux and AIX, and Windows 2003/2008/2012 R2/2016/2019 Servers on both Physical and Virtual Environments. Hands on
experience on Automation/Build tools like Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, Ant and Maven.
Implemented day-to-day tasks in Red Hat Linux including upgrading RPM's, Kernel tuning, HBA Driver, configure SAN's, Multipathing and Logical Volume Manager LVM and
Automation in CI/CD
Experienced in Installation, Configuration, and administration of RHEL 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5.x, 6.x, 7.x and Windows Server
2003/2008/2012R2/2016Experience in migrating AIX and HP-UX environment to Oracle Linux 6.x/7.x as a part of migration project.
Experience in Servers consolidation, virtualization using VMware virtual infrastructure, VMware ESXi 4.1/5.5/6.0/6.5, VSphere 5.5/6.0/6.5.Expertise in configuring and security
Groups in Public and Subnets in VPC.
Experience in Configuring & Administering SAN Devices and other storage solutions like Veritas DMP.
Experience in Logical Volume Manager for creation of Volume groups / Logical Volumes and File systems in UNIX environment. Experience in administering and configuring
Nexus Repository Manager for Maven builds.
Installation Configuration and Administration of Veritas Volume Manager, Red Hat Cluster Server, Veritas Cluster Server using EXT3, EXT4, GFS, ZFS, XFS. Worked
extensively on creating volumes using different RAID levels using LVM in Linux.
Experience in configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting various file systems like Ext 4, 3, 2. Developed tools to automate manual tasks using shell scripting, Python and
integrated them in CI/CD pipeline through Jenkins.
Experience in creating, installing, updating packages in Red Hat Linux servers using RPM’s and YUM repositories.
Used ILO/iDRAC/Cisco UCS Manager for remote access of servers and managing the hardware's.
Worked extensively on Red Hat Linux DNS servers from installing BIND package, updating the BIND database, and troubleshooting the problems.
Worked with DevOps tools such as Ansible, Chef and Puppet, for configuration management.
Expertise in designing build/configure documentation related to Red Hat Enterprise Linux via Spacewalk/Satellite/Kickstart/Puppet/Cobbler servers. Experience in Server build
using Jumpstart, Ignite and Kickstart Process on multiple servers.
Performed numerous server migrations on both Unix/Linux servers. Migrations include moving all clients and their data, configuration settings, testing and verifying everything
is correct with zero downtime.
Knowledge about Microsoft Azure in creating cloud environment and managing the application servers across Microsoft managed global data centers. Experience in handling
VERITAS Cluster Server (VCS) during Fault Tolerance.
Experience in UNIX with Perl, Python, and Ruby and Bash shell scripts.
In-depth understanding of the principles and best practices of Software Configuration Management (SCM) processes, which include compiling, packaging, deploying and
Application configurations.
Worked on Group/User administration, Startup & Shutdown Scripts, Crontabs, File System Maintenance, Backup Scripts and Automation. Expertise in configuring servers from
Kickstart and Jumpstart Installation Methods.
Experience in using various transport, application, and internet protocol layers, DHCP, DNS FTP, HTTP, IMAP, POP3, RPC, SMTP, SOAP, SSH, Telnet, TLS/SSL, TCP/IP, IP
(IPv4).
Developed Python and PowerShell scripts to automate the deployments within AWS and Azure cloud environments as well as the day-to-day tasks for building infrastructure
Developed Python and PowerShell scripts to automate the deployments within AWS and Azure cloud environments as well as the day-to-day tasks for
building infrastructure
Written Ansible Playbooks with Python SSH as the Wrapper to Manage Configurations of Azure Nodes and Test Playbooks on Azure instances using Python SDK and
automated various infrastructure activities like continuous deployment, application server setup, stack monitoring using Ansible playbooks. Developed Python, Perl and
shell/bash scripts for TC Server
Implemented CI/CD automation process using various tools like Jenkins, and Puppet to ensure shortened deployment cycles.
Expertise in creating bash/perl scripts to perform change control automation, close the security ports and assist with daily duties for help desk teams. Responsible for Installing of
OS on Several hundred Servers using Ansible.
Expertise in Installing, administering, troubleshooting NFS, DNS, DHCP, NIS, LDAP Mail Server, Send Mail and Samba Server. Experience in configuring LAMP
stack. Experience in using various network protocols like SSH, SCP, SFTP, HTTP, UDP, POP, FTP, TCP/IP and SMTP.
Proficiency in VMWare. Installation and monitoring Virtual environments with ESX Servers and Virtual Center.
Expert in Red Hat Linux V 5, 6, 7 and most recently 8 of heavy experience in install / rebuild servers. Understanding the business requirements, capacity planning, Vendor
management, team co-ordination, business migration. Patching and Packages rollouts. Experience in using Version Control Tools like GIT and SVN.
Experience in integrating Jenkins with various DevOps tools such as Nexus, Maven, and developed Jenkins jobs to automatically manage, test and deploy code and
applications. Administered shell interfaces, groups/user accounts, login scripts, and kernel patches & updates.
Expertise in Installation, Configuration of Package and Patch Management through
Red hat Satellite Server.
Expertise in working with Terraform key features such as Infrastructure as a code, execution plans, resource graphs, change automation and created infrastructure such as Web
app, Function App, VNet's, DNS Settings, Routing, Security Policies, Load Balancer, App gateway, Application Insights in a coded manner using Terraform.
Good knowledge in Operating system level configuration of SAN using Netapp, EMC, 3PAR and Hitachi technologies and also worked with NAS and SAN. Installation,
Configuration and Administration of VERITAS Volume Manager (VxFS/VxVM/VCS) and LVM.
Hands on experience in RHEL Performance Monitoring tools using vmstat, iostat, prstat, mpstat, sar , top , Nagios, and Zabbix.
Designed, Installed and Configured VMware ESX/ESXi within vSphere 4/5/6 and VMware View 4.5, 4.6, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x environments, Consolidated Backup, load balancing,
DRS, HA, FT, DPM, vMotion and VMware Data Recovery, VCloud directory & VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) 4.0/4.5, 6.x, and 7.x. Experience with vBlock
Overview, EMC, 3 Par and SAN storage administration.
Experience in maintaining VMware ESX / ESXi environment, VCloud Suite, Microsoft Windows Server, EMC Storage Arrays, Citrix Xen app, Xen Desktop, Data Center
management and day-to-day operations with Skill and Efficiency.
Built, Configured and Deployed VMs and Templates. Migrated Physical-to-Virtual (P2V) and Virtual-to-Virtual (V2V) Migratio. Installed Patches and Host Profiles on ESXi
hosts and virtual machines using VMware Update Manager. Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, Ethernet), FTP, SFTP, SUDO, NFS, NIS, DNS, DHCP and RAID levels.
Experience in periodic checking of the open ports / services on the servers using tools like nmap and ISS.
EDUCATION
Bachelor's in Commerce, University of Texas Dallas, 2004.
SKILLS
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Operating System: RHEL 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, 7.x; CentOS 5.x, 6.x, Esx4.0/Esxi4.1/5/5.1/5.5/6.0/7.x, Windows /2003/2008R/2012/2016/2019 Servers
Shell Scripting: Bash, Korn, Python.
Recovery tools: Dump, Restore, Tar, CPIO, Rsync, Kernel re-compilation & Patches, updates.
Hardware: DELL (PowerEdge), HP (ProLiant G7 & G8), Dell Power Edge Servers, Cisco UCS, Nexus 2
k/3k/5k, F5's, Cisco MDS.
Web, Application: WebLogic 10.x/9.x/8.x, WebSphere, Apache HTTP/Tomcat/Jboss Server Installation & Configuration; Compiling with
Modules; Virtual Hosting; SSL, Load balancing & Clusters, VMware ESX and ESXi, Oracle Virtual Box and Microsoft
Virtual PC.
Network Protocols: DHCP, DNS, SNMP, SMTP, Ethernet, NFS.
Databases: Oracle 8/9i/10, 11G, DB2 and MySQL.
Cloud: AWS (EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, Glacier, CloudWatch, Cloud Front, and Route 53)
Open-Source Tools: Nagios, Puppet, Ansible, Shell Scripting, OS Administration basics, Terraforms
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EXPERIENCE
Experience installing and Configuring RHEL 5.x, 6.x, 7.x & CentOS 5.x, 6.x
Installed and configured several Red Hat Enterprise Linux in both Physical Blade utilizing Kickstart/PXE/Red Hat Satellite server and VMWare EXSi 5.0 virtual environment
On boarded and migrated test and staging use cases for application to AWS cloud with public and private IP ranges to increase development productivity by reducing test-run
times. Managed several hundred UNIX servers running RHEL on HP and Dell hardware including blade centers.
Supported Redhat servers in Production and Development environments. Install and Configure Linux with Apache, Oracle 8i and PHP (LAMP Project). Configure multipath and
Linux Device Mapper to configure multipath ‘ed LUN's from EMC VMX and NetApp solutions
Install and configure DHCP, DNS (BIND, MS), web (Apache, IIS), mail (SMTP, IMAP, POP3), and file servers in Linux environment.
Worked on Virtualizing Redhat servers using vSphere 4.1/5.0 and managed ESX servers using vCenter and also worked with ESX Cluster and vMotion. Installed and Configured
Redhat Linux using Kickstart and booting from SAN.
Utilized Kubernetes for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploys. Configuration and administration of Fiber Card Adapter's and handling of SAN
(SAN arrays, Netapp, EMC) Perform Deployment of Release to various QA & UAT in Linux environments.
Optimized volumes and EC2 instances. Created multi-AZ VPC instances Configured S3 versioning and lifecycle policies to and backup files and archive files in Glacier
Configured Elastic Load Balancers (ELB) with EC2 Auto scaling groups. Created monitors, alarms, and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch. Troubleshooter of
integration Atlassian tools Managed users, workflow, groups, and projects in JIRA
Experience with Streaming platforms like Apache Kafka. Implemented Kafka Customer with Spark-streaming and Spark SQL using Scala.
Developed shell scripts for collection and summarize server information for server monitoring and other housekeeping tasks such as file transfers. Migrated applications to the
AWS cloud. Azure Automation (cloud and on-premises) solution development for Microsoft POC engagements. Performed Mechanization Puppet and Chef. Configure Backup
and Recovery Methods for MongoDB
Configured Role-Based Access Control with custom roles and privileges. Running MongoDB with secure configuration options.
Scripting in multiple languages on UNIX, LINUX, and Windows - Batch, Shell and Python script etc.
Manage and Configure Various Atlassian Tools like JIRA, Green hopper, Confluence, for Agile development in the organization
Provide End to End Linux Administration including installation, configuration, upgrades, and maintenance and troubleshooting of Linux systems. Manage systems routine
scheduling jobs and enabling cron jobs.
Day-to-day, hands-on work building, patching, and maintaining Linux systems in a highly virtualized (VMware) environment.
Respond to all Linux systems problems and resolving them on a timely basis.
Monitor systems performance on all servers (Virtual memory, Disk and CPU utilization).
Install, configure and support of Apache on Linux production servers. Implement password aging on Red Hat and Centos servers. Manage Red Hat Storage using Linux logical
Volume Manager. Creating and Managing resource pools for Virtual Machines.
Monitoring and managing performance of ESX servers and Virtual Machines using Virtual center server for HA, DRS and VMotion. Work on Migration concepts like VMotion
and cold migration. Creation & Troubleshooting of Virtual Network. Troubleshooting ESX & Virtual Machines
Used Maven as build tool on java projects to build artifacts on the source code, and defined dependencies and plugins in POM.xml for various required activities to be
done. Experience with VMware update manager to install patches and updates on ESX/ESXi 4.0, 5.0 hosts and virtual machines.
Created and Maintained Chef Recipes and cookbooks to simplify and expedite deployment of applications and mitigate user error.
End to End Client Server Installation & Customization of Jenkins for to atomize the build/deployment process for respective application/project. Installation, configuration &
administration of RHEL 3.x/4.x/5.1,5.2, CentOS 5.x/6. X. Configuration of Hardware and Software RAID on Digital & Sun Servers. Installation and configuration of Oracle
7.x/8.x Implemented NFS, DNS and NIS under SUN.
Wrote bash shell scripts for getting information about various Linux servers. Provided remote technical support for the AIX software team.
Administration of RHEL 4, 5, 6.x which includes installation, configuration, testing on both physical and virtual machines.
Configured the yum repositories for installing and updating the packages on the Red Hat Linux.
Installed and configured WebSphere Application server 5.x/6.x, Apache/IBM HTTP server on Linux and AIX.
Installed and configured MySQL and oracle database on Linux servers.
Physical Blade and VMware ESXi Virtual Environment. Trouble shooting issues related to VMware ESX host, VMware virtual center, HA, DRS, VMware update manager.
Responsible for determining hardware and compatibility requirements for installation of application
Software and different tools. Analyzed problems on RPC, security & directory services of DCE/DFS. Fixed bugs using IPtrace tools, core dump analysis tools and memory leak
tools. Logical Volume Management (LVM) administration of AIX.
Performance Management & Tuning of AIX UNIX Kernel. Installed, Configured, and maintained Red Hat Linux, CentOS and Windows Servers. Responsible for troubleshooting
end user and application problems. Installed and Configured Send mail Utility on Sun UNIX Servers. Administering NFS Mounts. Troubleshooting Backup and Restore
Problems Creation of LVMs on SAN using Linux utilities
Responsible for determining hardware and compatibility requirements for installation of application software and different tools. Installation of Oracle Patches and
Troubleshooting, Creating, and modifying application related objects.
Configured File Systems, users and group for Oracle and WebSphere. Configuration of Kernel parameters for Oracle Database.
Developed Shell scripts (Korn/Bourne) for automating the batch jobs. Extensively used LVM, created VGs, LVs, and disk mirroring. Configured clustering by using Veritas
Clustering. Monitored file system space using simple shell scripts; resize file systems as and when required.
Setup and configured network TCP/IP on Red Hat LINUX, CentOS including RPC connectivity for NFS. Created mount points for Server directories and mounted these
directories on the Servers. Installation and Configuration of Veritas Volume Manager, Logical Volume Manager and Red Hat Cluster. Managed and optimized Continuous
Delivery tools like Jenkins.
Troubleshooting problems with hardware and operating systems on multiple platforms working with multiple vendors to repair. Installation of software on multiple platforms
using Ansible.
Extensive use of Logical Volume Manager (LVM), creating Volume Groups, Logical volumes and disk mirroring in Red Hat Linux, HP-UX, and AIX. Day to day trouble
shooting for end users on UNIX/LINUX. Configured NFS and Open LDAP services in Red Hat Linux and Solaris systems.
Performed setting up Configuration Server and Boot Server for Jumpstart process. Installed and configured Red Hat Linux using Satellite Server.
Implemented and organized a rollout project which involves upgrade of servers using Red Hat Satellite Server.
Created Nagios monitoring infrastructure, various Nagios plugin scripts Perl & python based for checking health of App Servers and for monitoring load. Worked on creating
Perl scripts for Startup, Shutdown of Servers, Server Groups, monitoring JVM parameters. Responsible for Log management through Splunk. Hands on Experience working with
private and public cloud platforms (e.g. OpenStack, OpenShift, etc.)
Hands on experience with scripting language on BASH. Installed and verified that all AIX/Linux patches or updates are applied to the servers.
Define/setup network protocols, Network File Services (NFS), and Network Information Services (NIS) in Linux Environments. Installed and configured VxVM, VxFS and
VCS on Linux Servers.
Worked as Red Hat Enterprise Linux and AIX Systems Administrator and performed support role for applications on mission critical Enterprise Networks and Multi-server
environments.
Installing and upgrading patches and packages on RHEL 5.x, using RPM, YUM and third-party software applications. Limiting user account privileges using SUDOERS.
Installed packages using YUM repositories and configured Disk Management using LVM.
Analyzing and implementing OS patches and hot fixes as well as other OS configurations and updates using Blade Logic Patch Management tool. Used Cisco UCS 1.3for
managing Cisco B200 M2 and B440 M2 Blade servers.
Managing VM’s and ESX servers by using VIC, Putty and Web Access and installing the VMware Tools on the VM. Install, upgrade, delete, and query packages in system.
Migrating virtual machine configuration files and virtual disks from one Datastore to another Datastore Customizing VM’s (Memory, hard disk, Nic). Analyzing log files,
Resources utilizing monitoring.
Provided 24x7 System Administration support for Red Hat Linux 3.x, 4.x servers and resolved trouble tickets on shift rotation basis.
Responsible for Steady State Team With more than 800 servers and Provided 24x7 supports on shift rotation basis.
Extensively used LVM, created VGs, LVs, and disk mirroring and Managed Red hat Linux and VMware ESX servers.
Installed and configured Sudo for users to access the root privileges.
Wrote shell scripts for automated installations, to extract logs and TL upgrades from TL03 to TL05, TL07
Provide the support of building the server, patching, user administration tasks, deployment, software installation, performance tuning and troubleshooting and KVM.
Creating User accounts, Mail account, groups, printer etc. Monitoring system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore.
Assigned local security policies on member servers and standalone servers using RDP. Manage and monitor Active Directory services and group policies. Assisted various senior
level Linux architects in installing, configuring and managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5.
Worked elaborately on different windows environment which include Windows NT version 4.0, Workstation, Terminal, 2000 and 2003. Assigning folder permissions to the
users by gathering approval from the group owners.
Worked closely with database administration staff to ensure optimal performance of databases and maintain development applications and databases.
Installed and configured VMware ESX 4.x and 5 and configured VMware Virtual Center Server, Installing Virtual center components and Managed Virtual center permissions.
Health check on VMware Infrastructure using VMware Health check tool and custom scripts
Create and Setup monitoring bash shell script to monitor system resources, logs, disk usage, scheduling backups and restore.
Resolved and completed various maintenance tasks on UAT/Production servers and Apache software issues.