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Pavani - Linux or Unix Administrator

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Location: Glendale, Arizona, USA

Relocation: No

Visa: EAD

Career Profile: Seeking a challenging position as Unix System Administrator to enhance my skills and abilities to the best in the interest of the organization, as well as to enhance myself. Have 11 years of experience as System Administrator which involves Server builds, Installation, Administration , Rhel 8 Leapp Upgrades, Patching and Decommission on flavors of UNIX like Linux, VMware and Aix boxes. Have experience on Bash/Shell scripting. Have experience on Cloud infrastructure environments like Azure, AWS, GCP. Have basic understanding on AWS Cloud fundamentals. Have knowledge on AWS services like EC2, IAM, S3, ELB, Autoscaling, VPC, Route 53, RDS, EFS, Cloud formation, Cloud trail, SQS, SNS. Expertise in tools like Service Now, Git-Hub, Jenkins, cloud bees, BMC Remedy, CMDB, HP Openview and WCC. Has self-learning skills and the willing to learn new technologies. Ability to provide creative solutions and problem solving skills. Good team player, Excellent interpersonal and communication skills combined with self-motivation, initiative and the ability to think outside the box. Skilled at handling multiple tasks simultaneously in challenging environments with excellent relationship management skills, ability to relate to people at any level of business/management Professional Experience: Senior Analyst System Engineer CVS Health (February 2023 to Till date) Linux Administrator - Trustcode Inc ( February 2022 to February 2023) Senior Linux Administrator - Tek9solutions (March 2015 to June 2018 ) Senior System Engineer INFOSYS Ltd (February 2011 to August 2014). Operation Lead Specialist - IBM India Pvt Ltd (July 2008 to February 2011). Certification: Completed RHCE (Redhat Certified Engineer) Technical Proficiency: Red Hat Linux EL 5.x: Installing and Configuring Red Hat Enterprise 5.x RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 Leapp Upgrade using satellite/local repo Moving servers from BUILD to operations by validate --QA Installation through network and Kickstart installations Installing rpm packages through YUM Server Troubleshooting Booting problems and Boot loaders problems Users and Group administrating Administrating Logical volumes Managing network services, like static routing Knowledge on Network File Sharing Services Configuring SAN on the Linux. Creating Vxfs on Linux. Installing Veritas Library files to Support EMC. WAS 6.1 installation and up-gradation. Application Node federation with NDM server. AIX v 5.x Installation Configuring and administering AIX ver. 5.3 Device Management Updating the maintenance levels Software Installation and maintenance LVM Administration Creating Logical Volumes, File Systems, Mirroring of LV s etc. Checking for error report on servers Managing user Accounts Backup and restoration. VMware VI install and configure V3.5 Creating VM s, Migration of VM s using VMotion. Re- Sizing of VM s. Project Experience: CVS Health Arizona (From February 2023 to Till date) Trustcode Inc Client CVS Health ( February 2022 to February 2023) Work Environment Team Size : 47 OS : RHEL LINUX Scripting : Bash/Shell scripting Tools : Service Now, Jenkins, Git-Hub, Cloud-bees Infrastructure Console : VMWare, Azure, AWS, & GCP Roles and Responsibilities : Scheduling Patching 4000+ Servers Managing process and procedures required to ensure effective support. Decommission Linux servers Having Experience working on Service Now Tickets, Incidents, changes RHEL 7 to 8 Leapp upgrade Worked on Turnover (moving servers from build to RUN by validating them). Performance monitoring using vmstat, iostat, Tops, netstat in production. Scheduling and executing Change records. Managing the File system which includes creating, mounting, removing, increasing and decreasing the file systems. Worked on high impact and medium impact incidents for the critical issues in production Understanding the business process requirements. User Administration tasks such as create users, define or changes their attributes, and define the security environment for the users Experience with RHEL (6/7/8) such as installation, administration and support which includes patching, LVM, backup / restore, troubleshooting, performance and other day to day tasks for both virtual and physical servers. Experience in VMware ESXI / Vcenter for various VMs activities such as disk management, vmotion, resource allocation / deallocation, network, vmtool upgrade, troubleshooting and other VM related tasks. Tek9solutions. California (From March 2015 to June 2018) Client/Project : Kaiser permanente Work Environment Team Size : 7 OS : RHEL LINUX Scripting : Bash/Shell scripting Backup Tools : TSM Tools : Manage Now, Autosys, X-Matters Roles and Responsibilities : Experience with RHEL (5/6) such as installation, administration and support which includes patching, LVM, backup / restore, troubleshooting, performance and other day to day tasks for both virtual and physical servers. Experience in VMware ESXI / Vcenter for various VMs activities such as disk management, vmotion, resource allocation / deallocation, network, vmtool upgrade, troubleshooting and other VM related tasks. Experience in network management TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS and VLAN. Performance monitoring using vmstat, iostat, Tops, netstat in production. Experience on Web Sphere Application (WAS 6.1) installation and upgrade. Scheduling and executing Change records. User Administration tasks such as create users, define or changes their attributes, and define the security environment for the users. Documenting the problem as well as configuration and Change Management. Managing process and procedures required to ensure effective support. INFOSYS Ltd. Hyderabad (From February 2011 to August 2014) Client/Project : Capital Group of Companies Work Environment Team Size : 19 OS : LINUX Scripting : Bash/Shell scripting No of Servers : Above 1000 Tools : HP OpenView, HP OMI, BMC Remedy, Autosys, WCC, X- Matters Roles and Responsibilities : Decommission of LINUX and Aix servers Patching Activities Firmware Up gradations Installing new software / patches and other third party applications when required by the developer or business Job scheduling (Putting Jobs OnIce, ONHold, Force starting, using Autosys) Creating the volume groups, physical volumes, and logical volumes. Increasing and reducing the sizes of logical volumes, physical volumes and volume groups. Managing the File system which includes creating, mounting, removing, increasing and decreasing the file systems. Worked on high impact and medium impact incidents for the critical issues in production Understanding the business process requirements. IBM INDIA PVT.LTD. Chennai (From July 2008 till February 2011) Client/Project : American Express Work Environment Servers : P595, P570, P510, IBM RS/6000, HP DL580 Storage : EMC, IBM storage Team Size : 15 OS : Linux, AIX No of Servers : above 6000 Backup Tools : TSM Tools : Manage now, Internal Ticketing Tools (InfoMan, CMDB, Service Request) Roles and Responsibilities : Mainly Focused on Linux Server build, Creating and Building Linux Virtual Machines using VMware and Decommission. Actively participating in Requirements & Solutioning calls for Linux servers in our environment Provide solutioning as per the requirements mentioned in the requirements document by American Express. Provide time frames for completion of work and updates on latest OS versions and application versions that can be installed. Building new servers OS Installation, Upgradation and Migration on Linux (using Kickstart and NFS) servers and AIX (using NIM). This includes LPAR creations for AIX and VM creation in Linux Troubleshooting Linux, AIX servers Upgrading the OS with the new version with TL- Latest patches Patching Linux, AIX servers User Administration tasks such as create users, define or changes their attributes, and define the security environment for the users. Performance monitoring using vmstat, iostat, Tops, netstat in production. Responding and Resolving Incidents and Service calls within the SLA. LVM - Creating and removing volume groups, physical volumes, and logical volumes. Increasing and reducing the sizes of logical volumes, physical volumes and volume groups. Managing the file system which includes creating, mounting, removing, increasing and decreasing the file systems. Scheduling and executing Change records Documenting the problem as well as configuration and Change Management. Decommissioning of servers AIX, Linux and Solaris. This includes creating, scheduling and executing CMR s for the decommissioning process Managing process and procedures required to ensure effective support. VSA report generation and fixing violations as per GSD331. Keywords: quality analyst sthree hewlett packard