->Leading a large practice team of 40+ Unix and Cloud Engineers supporting multiple customer accounts in the US. -> My team is geographically distributed in India, US, Canada and Mexico. -> Helped the organization in running the team within budget and ensuring profitability.-> Coached the team to become a more cohesive unit and function as ONE team. -> Introduced DevOps practice in team by availing tools like Ansible, Automox, Jenkins.

Set up the Unix operations team for a major insurance service provider in US.Was part of the transition team and ensured reverse KT for the offshore team in Noida.Conducted Interviews and selected the team to support the operations.Was awarded on multiple occasions for my efforts in setting up the team.

1) Shell and Perl scripting to automate routine tasks.2) Nagios activities: configuring nagios clients, nagios server side activities.3) Building and customizing Linux VMs on VMware ESXi cluster.4) Performing day to day server administration in a data centre consisting of Red Hat Linux, Sun Solaris and Windows OS.5) Working and resolving alerts from Nagios, and other SNMP based monitoring tools.6) Handling administrative tasks on client's Netbackup 7.0 infrastructure.7) Performed server maintenance on V series Sun hardware.8) File system management through VxVM and LVM.9) Package and patch management for Linux and Solaris severs (pkgadd and yum).10) Coordination with DBA, NOC and Engineering teams for immediate resolution of issues.11) Administering day to day issues on NetForensics (security log management tool).12) Handling day to day IT incidents via Remedy13) DHCP configuration via dhcpd.conf in lab environment.14) Yum server configuration via createrepo utility.15) Automated installations via Kickstart and PXE.16) Oracle database installation and configuration on RHEL5.

Handling and resolving wide range of HP desktop issues for HP desktop users. OS installation, Software installation, Network connectivity issues, detecting hardware issues if any and setting up part replacement. Anti Virus updates, printer issues.