Professional Profile:
Overall 7+ years of rich IT Proven Experience in many popular ?avors of UNIX, Linux & Windows system /security /network /SAP administration with a strong technical support background of IT infrastructure including large scale system support, server & network problem diagnosis, performance analysis, script and program writing, 24-7 on-call experience, net back up, cluster, patch management, VERITAS, software configuration, manage user access, files security administration, analyzing, installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing the high availability mission critical systems and TCP/IP based networking systems. Possess considerable practice experiences in various IT industry domains.
4+ years of UNIX System and Network administration in Sun Solaris (8/9/10), HP-UX (10.x,11.x), IBM AIX (4.3.x, 5.x), SGI IRIX, Linux. (RedHat, Mandrake, Susie) and 1+ years in the field of SAP BASIS NETWEAVER administration.
SAP Enterprise Support technical skills include Solution Manager installation, administration SAP Basis Architect hardware and software upgrade skills and end-user skills and SAP OSS,CRM skills, also have skills in ABAP with SQL and with SAP CCMS.
Enterprise SAN Storage Installation/Configuration and Administration. (IBM, Sun, HP, EMC, HDS)
Storage Provisioning, Volume and Filesystem Management using Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Filesystem. (Veritas Storage Foundation)
Clustering and replication solutions for High Availability using tools such as Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Veritas Volume replicator(VVR) and Command Central Availability.
Maintaining virtual server environment using VMWARE ESX/GSX. Creating, deleting and troubleshooting virtual servers.
Backup/Recovery Solutions using Veritas Netbackup 5.x, EMC,Legato Networker, IBM Tools.
Implementation of various SAN, NAS and DAS solutions in UNIX/Windows Environments.
Planning, Design and implementation of Disaster Recovery Sites.
Performance Monitoring and reporting using a variety of system and custom tools.
High Performance Computing using PC Linux Clusters.
Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 5.10 (( Part-I SA310- 200; Part-II SA 310 -202 ). Sun Microsystems, a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation -License SR3417427)
Summary of Work Experience:
2013 April – Present : Working as an SAP BASIS/UNIX System administrator at BT ERPTech,Italy
Job responsibilities: Responsible for the technical monitoring, support, and administration of the SAP R/3 Basis systems and Involving in UNIX System and Network administration in Sun Solaris (8/9/10), HP-UX (10.x,11.x), IBM AIX (4.3.x, 5.x), SGI IRIX, Linux (RedHat, Mandrake, Susie), Enterprise SAN Storage Installation/Configuration and Administration. (IBM, Sun, HP, EMC, HDS)
2006 Mar – Sept 2009: Worked as an Infrastructure Administrator cum project coordinator at B. S. Abdur Rahman University, Chennai, India.
Job responsibilities: Involved in Level II & III System Administration in various flavors of operating systems (primarily Solaris; also IBM-AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux) with advanced network support administration and project resource allocation.
2002 Oct – Feb 2006: Worked as an IT System administrator at Seethakkathi Groups, Tamil Nadu, India.(A West Asia Maritime Group Company)
Job responsibilities: Level I & Level II support for system & networking domain.
Summary of Educational Qualifications:
2010 – Till Date – Master of Science in Computer Science and Networking.(M.S.CSN)
Scuola Superiore Sant’anna and the University of Pisa,Pisa,Italy.
2004 – 2008 – Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering.(B.E.CSE)
(Part Time) Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
1996 – 1999 – Diploma in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.(D.E.E.E)
State Board of Technical Education and Training, Tamil Nadu, India.
Key Skills:
Operating Systems:
UNIX: SUN Solaris 5.8/ 9/ 10, IBM AIX 4.x ,5.x, 6.1; HP-UX 10.x 11.x, Free BSD, Open BSD, PFSense, Freesbie.
Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5, CentOS, Debian, SuSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint, Xandros.
Microsoft Windows: MS-DOS, Windows 95-98, Windows ME, Windows 2000,2003,2008 servers, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Microsoft Exchange 2003/ 2007.
Hardware Environment and Network Products:
SUN x86/x64 which includes Sun Fire™ E10k,15k,25k / Sun Fire V210/240 servers; Sun Enterprise™ E250,E450,E4500,E6500/220R,420R servers; UltraSPARC Enterprise T2000,T5120 servers; Sun Blade T6300,T6320,T6340 Server Module and Sun Ultra 24 Workstations; IBM RS/6000, pSeries® such as p770,p730,p720,p690,p670,p650,IBM Blades HS20 and HS21 servers; HP Proliant C-Class Server Blades Bl460c/Bl465c. DELL Power Edge M805,T105,PowerPC(Apple), EMC Storage Arrays (DMX4/DMX3), Shark, DS-8000, STK Robotic Tape Libraries, Various SAN storage systems, Load balancers, Cisco Routers& Switches 3600/2600/2500 series,Catalyst 1900/2900/3500 series, Cisco PIX Firewall – (506, 515, 520, 525) Series, Cisco IP Telephony equipment (ICS7750), Checkpoint FW-1; Linux/Unix firewalls.
Network Technologies:
TCP/IP and L2/L3 protocols, Fast Ethernet, Telnet, IPv4 Forwarding, DNS, NFS ,SMTP, DHCP, STP, VPN, VLANS, RIP, OSPF, MPLS, GMPLS, BGP, SONET/SDH , GSM, GPRS, 3GPP, HSPA, EDGE, LTE, UMTS, WSN, QOS, Junos operating system, OPNET, Omnet++, Glomosim, and NS2 Simulators.
Unix/Linux Monitoring Tools:
CVS, Perforce, SVN, Nagios, MRTG/RRDtool, RPM, Kickstart, OpenLDAP, BIND, Postfix, Rancid, Rsyslog, SIPxchange, Debian Preseed, Cfengine, Openview, Insight Manager, SNMP, Sysstat, Big Brother.
Storage / backup / Virtualization:
EMC SAN, NetAPP NAS,IBM Tivoli(TSM); Veritas Net Backup, tar, cpio, dump (ufsdump),Snap shots &cloning; VMware vSphere(ESX,ESXi,GSX,Workstation),VirtualBox, Solaris Zones.
Admin Tools:
admintool, smit, linuxconf, vmstat, iostat, top, traceroute, ping, sar, ntop, chkrootkit, webmin.
Mail / Security:
SMTP, POP, IMAP, Sendmail, QMail, PostFix; SSH, TFTP, SSL, SELinux, Ipfilter, Tcpdump.
High Availability:
Veritas Cluster Server, Sun Cluster, Red Hat Cluster, Big IP F5, Heartbeat 2.
Scripting / Coding:
Shell Scripting (Bourne, Korn & C-shell), Perl, Sed, Awk; C,C++,Java,HTML,ASM (x86-64).
Database / Web Server:
Oracle 8i/9i&10g/11g,SQL Server,MySQL 4/5; IIS, JBoss, Apache,Tomcat,Web logic.
SAP:
R/3, ECC6, Netweaver, SCM 5 & 7, EBP 4.0.
Professional Experience:
BT ERPTech, Italy. (01 April 2013 – Present)
SAP BASIS/UNIX System administrator,
Environment : Sun Enterprise Servers 250/450/3500/4500/6500, SunFire V210/280R/
440/880/1280, SUN Ultra 1/5/10/30/60,HP9000/700,800, Visualize Workstation,IBM FastT500, Exp500, IBM 3584, Cisco MDS 9506, IBM 2109 Brocade, JNI, Qlogic HBAs, Qlogic FC Switches, Sun T3 storage, Sun A1000s, Sun SPARC Storage, HP XP Arrays, Routers, Hubs, Switches, CSU/DSU.Veritas Foundation Suite (VxVM, VxFS), Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Veritas Netbackup, HP ServiceGuard, Legato Networker, ADSM, Omniback, Checkpoint, Raptor, VPN, Jumpstart, Ignite, HP Openview, CiscoWorks, Sniffer,LAN/WAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, Telnet, tn3270, QWS3270 Plus, NFS, NIS, DNS, Samba,TAS, MVFS. SAP R/3 4.7 Enterprise, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, ABAP with SAP CCMS.
Accomplishments:
– Performance analysis,STMS configuration and administration, Language installations, Client copy of ABAP, system health checks and dump/trace analysis,Install and maintain add-ons,Configure CCMS and Solution Manager Database Administration,Manage SAP landscape configuration documentation, Early Watch Alert application analysis,Backup and recovery procedures implementation
– SAP Enterprise Support technical skills include Solution Manager installation, administration and end-user skills and SAP OSS and CRM skills. Installing and maintaining a wide range of releases of SAP R/3 and SAP NetWeaver on Oracle 8i, 9i and 10g utilizing my SAP Basis and AIX/HP-UX, Linux and Windows 2000/2003 Server system administration skills.
– Complete Systems and Network administration for Sun Solaris(2.x,8,9,10), Linux (RedHat 7.x,8.x,SuSE, HA), HP-UX(10.x, 11.x), Windows2000 Advanced Server. Installed/Configured Enterprise Sun Servers (SunFire V890/880, 490, 440, 280R, 240, 210, Enterprise 250, Blade2000), IBM 300G SnapServers, RedHat HA Servers, HP9000 workstations, Procomm NAS devices.
– Implementation and configuration of SAN Storage such as IBM DS8000/4000, Shark, HDS, Sun T3B Storage, Qlogic/MDS 950x FC Switches. Installation and configuration of Tape Libraries (IBM 3584, Sun StorEdge L180, Overland)
– Backup/Archiving and Recovery/Restore using Legato, Veritas Netbackup. Provisioning SAN/NAS/DAS storage to various UNIX/NT clients using tools such as IBM Storage Manager, SVC, TSM.
– Clustering Solutions for High Availability using Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Veritas Volume Replicator(VVR), Command Central Availability. Installation/Configuration of PC Linux Cluster for High Performance Technical Computing.
– Implementation of various Disaster Recovery Solutions and planning and design of a Disaster Recovery Site using tools such as VVR and Improved monitoring with Nagios and custom plugins.
B.S. Abdur Rahman University, India. 3.6 Years (01 March 2006 – 12 September 2009)
System Analyst cum Project coordinator.
Environment : Solaris, IBM AIX, HP-UX & Linux Red Hat AS/ES, Hardware platforms including Sun Enterprise server (E3800,E6000,M4000,T5220), Sun Fire Servers(3800/4800/6800/15K), HP9000-K460/D-Class/L3000/N4000, IBM RS/6000, p770,p730,Sun StorEdge L40 Tape Library, EMC-DMX4/DMX3, Tape Drives(DLT), Network Appliance NFS/CIFS server, Tivoli, Oracle9i/10g, Veritas Suite, Zones, VMware, Web logic 8.1,Netback up, Apache, SAN-HBA, RAID, Shell Scripting, Sendmail, Cisco Routers and switches, load balancers, Firewall, NFS, SMF, ZFS, SSH, FTP, NAT, TCP/IP, SAMBA, DNS, DHCP and Remedy.
Accomplishments:
– Functioned as a UNIX system administrator, provided the 2nd and 3rd line support activities for RISC based(Power,SPARC) and x86 based(Intel Architecture, multi vendor Blade systems) Server related issues. Maintained the IT Infrastructure environment and Managing and troubleshooting day to day server/hardware related configuration issue. Technical resolution/troubleshooting of escalated tickets from the L1 and L2 teams, handling user requests and incident tickets based on criticality.
– Experienced in System monitoring and performance tuning, used utilities such as vmstat, iostat, mpstat, sar, gnome-system-monitor&top to analyze and report system & application behavior. Monitoring system error and performance analysis with tools like Explorer, sun-checkup, core dumps and ATS Methods.
– Developed UNIX shell scripts using Korn, CShell, Bash Scripting, Perl, SED, grep and AWK to ease the administration tasks, automate requested services and also for daily backup of data.
– Implementation & managing of RAID levels like RAID 1 & 5 using SVM and VxVM. Created Meta Devices (mirroring, Concatenating and Raid5) in Solaris environment using Solaris volume manager and VERITAS volume manager for providing data in failover situations.
– Planning, documenting and supporting high availability, data replication, business persistence, fail-over, fail-back using Veritas Cluster Server 3.x,4.x, sun cluster server 2.5,3.1 in SAN Environment.
– Maintained the regular backups using Veritas Net Backup, tar, cpio, ufsdump, Snap shot backup etc.
– Project Management involves EMC Networker, Server Virtualization, new server builds&re-host projects.
– Migrating, configuring and installing Zones/Containers and ability to work with ZFS /SMF /POOLS. Recommended Sun OS kernel/OBP patch upgrade for production/development servers.
– Configured & administration of Solaris Server for NFS, DNS, NIS, NIS+, FTP, Telnet, SAMBA service.
– Configured jump-start/kick-start server to install Solaris OS, Red Hat Linux on multiple machines.
– Functioned as a Network administrator, Responsible for site-to-site IP Sec VPNs, design/deploy and configure the network and security devices. Familiar with the network protocols /network topology and maintained network infrastructure (routers, switches, terminal servers, cable plant, wireless devices) by coordinating user and group needs, implementing features for improved flexibility and performance.
– Remote network administration for servers and support for all hardware and software on network including 3rd party software. Experienced in Cisco routers/switching plus VLANS, VPN, subnets, routing, WINS, ARP, FTP, Telnet, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS Server and Firewall administration.
– Worked in a 24×7 operational environment and ad hoc /on-call support during weekdays and weekends, regularly provided either on-site or remote support to end users.
Seethakkathi Groups, India. 3.4 Years (23 October 2002 – 28 February 2006)
IT System administrator.
Environment : HP Proliant DL380, HP ML570, DELL Power Edge M805, T105, Intel, 3COM, Windows (NT/9X/2k/2k3/XP),DNS, DHCP, ADS, Domain Controllers, TCP/IP, VNC,Terminal services, VMware, IIS, MS SQL Server /Database and Antivirus Server, OS Clustering, AN & NT Backup, LAN, WAN Support.
Accomplishments:
– Worked on File system, Active Directory Services, DNS Servers, DHCP Servers, WINS, Microsoft Cluster Admin and Application Center and IIS 5.0, 4.0.
– Implemented and managed IP Addressing; configured TCP/IP addressing on a server.
– Managed an Active Directory site; replication schedules, site links and boundaries, used ADUC to create and manage computer, user and group accounts in an ADS environment.
– Diagnosed and resolved issues related to master role failure and AD database.
– Configured automatic updates for network clients by using Group Policy.
– Designed, planned and implemented Group Policy, delegation strategies and OU structure.
– Managed local, roaming, and mandatory profiles, planed strategy for placing Global Catalogue (GC) and evaluated the need to enable Universal Group Caching.
– Created approximately 500 user accounts in Active Directory and migrated all Windows NT users by User State Migration Tool (USMT).
References: Will be furnished upon request.
Language Skills
Tamil (native), English (fluent), Italian (basic), Hindi (basic)
I genuinely believe that my technical background, qualification and work experience are ideally matched to your company’s specific requirements. My achievements range from installing and managing many flavors of servers (primarily Solaris; also IBM-AIX, HP-UX, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Windows), responsibilities included large scale system support, performance analysis, script and program writing, 24-7 on-call experience, diagnose server & network, net back up, cluster, patch management, VERITAS, manage user access, files security administration, analyzing, installing, maintaining, troubleshooting, and repairing the high availability mission critical systems and TCP/IP based networking systems, network infrastructure (routers, switches, terminal servers, cable plant, wireless devices), software and connectivity for major corporations. I believe that my extensive experience with a strong technical support background of IT infrastructure will be extremely valuable to your company.
Please refer to the accompanying resume to provide you with further details of my qualifications, in consideration for this position. I would like to offer my exemplary communication and technical skill to your company, as well as my dedication to providing superior system/network support.
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