Senior System Engineer
Current• Directed system administration of Sun/Oracle Solaris and Linux systems on physical and virtual servers. Gained experience with virtual servers that run in Solaris zones/containers and VMware hosts.• Provided Backup administration. Installed, configured, and administered Legato/EMC networker server and client software, tape libraries, storage nodes, NDMP, group schedules, storage pools, and onsite/offsite tape storage.• Followed and provided build standards, harden o/s, document, troubleshoot, firmware updates, patch, hardware/software upgrades, and system monitoring. • Oversaw user administration, file permissions, and sudo access on Linux/Solaris.• Configured Linux/Solaris systems for NFS server/client and Samba shares and smbclient transfers.• Gained storage experience with SAN, DAS, and NAS. Managed server storage using Logical Volume Manager, Solaris Volume Manager, and ZFS. Extended storage volumes and growfs.• Performed server repairs on systems self-maintained and worked with vendors on systems supported under maintenance agreement.• Created shell scripts to automate administration and business processes.• Monitored systems using Nagios, Cacti, Spong, and scripts. • Worked through company mergers to integrate/consolidate systems, data centers, and processes.• Collaborated with system administrators, DBAs, developers, project managers, users, and vendors.• Provided support via on-call 24x7.