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Santa Clara, Ca, Us

San Diego, California, Us

★ Designed and implemented Ansible for configuration management across Linux and Windows systems.★ Built Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform to provision and manage GCP-based Linux environments.★ Architected a new Debian Linux environment to support a major upcoming product release.★ Acted as service owner for Linux and configuration management across compute environments, including manufacturing.★ Developed custom automation tools using Python to streamline operations.★ Collaborated with InfoSec teams to enhance system security and manage vulnerabilities for manufacturing systems.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead a team of experienced DevOps engineers and system administrators while providing guidance, roadmap, assistance at various projects and operation levels. Involved in several projects and initiatives within organization to enable workloads move between public clouds and on-prem data centers as per business requirements. ★ Partnered with engineering (Software and Silicon) to deliver strategic initiatives, automation, IT DevOps, Cloud Computing, software/utilities continuous integration and continuous development (CI/CD), projects, recommend technologies and automation efforts.★ Responsible for leading and participating in small, medium, large scale, enterprise-wide projects.★ Architect, deploy and maintain continuous integration pipelines using GitLab for supported operating systems & other flows★ Architected and maintained system provisioning tool (Foreman) for all sites in Xilinx. ★ Provided advanced Linux (RHEL, CentOS & Ubuntu) troubleshooting and technical support to the Engineering organization.★ Contributed to roadmaps, leveraging current and future technologies, providing innovative and sustainable solutions to complex problems.★ Assisted in day-to-day maintenance of the Engineering infrastructure, including Linux system builds, configuration & security management, patching, automation and system upgrades, troubleshooting complex technical issues.★ Maintain, monitor, produce and analyze metrics for production systems to ensure optimal performance, resource utilization and uptime ★ Overall landscape includes AWS Cloud infrastructure, 5000+ Linux servers on-prem, 3500+ engineering users and 8 major sites where infrastructure is deployment and maintained.

San Jose, Ca, Us

In my new role, I am working on AWS, EC2, Serverless / Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudFormation, S3 and other AWS technology stack. Also, serving as SME of Cloud & Linux for local site operations. In addition to Cloud, working on Puppet Enterprise and related new Linux technologies including but not limited to Docker and Containers to migrate legacy apps to Cloud using containerization.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Linux / Unix / VMware operations and managing two datacenters (Santa Clara, CA and Puyallup, WA). Involved in global initiatives like monitoring, configuration management and licenses renewals apart from day to day System administration & troubleshooting etc.★ Proposed, architected and deployed Oracle Virtual Machine (OVM) solution for Business applications and migrated MIS applications & databases from VMware and bare metal servers to OVM with hard partitioning – to save on Oracle CPU based licensing costs $$★ Architected Puppet solution for Configuration management, maintaining OS configuration of physical servers & VMs using Puppet Hierra (overall ~3000 EDA compute nodes)★ Architected Global monitoring solution using Nagios XI and Nagios Fusion – covering more than 3000+ servers with tiered monitoring to reduce number of alerts while keeping eye on datacenters★ Identified key areas for trainings for team members and came up with skills gap management system to enable at least two resources for each key skill★ Involved in servers procurement, server lifecycle management and OS/apps licenses renewal★ Day to day support to end users (DBAs /BSAs, application owners etc), business applications, engineering teams (EDA tool admins & engineers)

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Focused on setting up a new data center in Puyallup, WA for active-active use and also serve as DR for few Business applications ★ Involved in setting up new datacenter – servers, storage, VMware, NIS, VLANs requirements ★ Installed/ configured Kickstart server for new datacenter in Puyallup to be able to install more than 800+ servers★ Identified projects and engineering teams which can leverage new datacenter and moved their projects (storage and compute) in new datacenter★ Installed, Configured and maintained VMWare clusters, datastores, Dynamic Resource scheduler (DRS), High availability (HA), licensing, setup clustering on multiple 2-8 nodes clusters, VLAN tagging, VM Cloning & templates, P2V conversion as needed – (500+ Virtual machines in two years)★ VMware ESXi (5.5 and older versions) installation, configuration with RHEL 4/5/6 & Solaris 10 as guests, VM Guests installation from templates, OVF & OVA files★ Netapp/ IBM Storage administration (Netapp FAS 6280/6070/3040/3050, IBM N7900/N6060 etc.) • Initial install/ cluster setup/ Ontap upgrades/ Firmware upgrades (disk shelves & disks)• Setup Aggregates/ Volumes/ Qtree creation and administration• Snapmirror, iSCSI, DeDuplication (a-sis), NDMP configuration as and when needed• Filers head swap / diskshelves upgrade/ migration/ merging etc.• Quota/Exports/NFS/VIFs configuration/ troubleshooting• Hardware management (SSD/SAS/SATA/FCAL/SSD disks allocation & management)★ Day to day support to end users (DBAs /BSAs, application owners etc), business applications, engineering teams (EDA tool admins & engineers)

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Daily operations, projects, initiatives around Linux / Unix / VMware operations Responsibilities include: ★ Unix/Linux servers and service delivery for 2500+ users using 3000+ physical servers ★ RedHat Linux (RHEL 4, 5, 6) OS installation, upgrade and administration using kickstart★ Architected, installed and maintained backup solution to backup 1 Petabytes data using Symantec Netbackup 6.5 along with Storagetek SL3000 tape library (with SSO, NDMP licensing)★ NDMP based backups configuration for Netapp, IBM filers, EMC storages ★ 1+ PB backup on a weekly/monthly/yearly backup schedule★ Deployed LDOMS (Logical domains) configuration & administration on Sun Fire T2000/ T5120/ T4-2 servers to save Oracle Licensing costs $$★ Kickstart server installation and maintenance (on variety of platforms including Supermicro micro-cloud, Sun, Dell, HP DL360 series servers, HP Blade centers, IBM iDataPlex, servers etc)★ NIS/NFS/AUTOFS/DHCP administration and maintenance on Solaris/Linux★ Automation of routine tasks using shell scripts and CF-Engine configuration & maintenance

Hanover, Md, Us

★ [Client] HSBC Finance Corp. | Unix Administrator | Feb 2008 to Mar 2008 ★ Responsibilities & project details: As Unix System Administrator, my role was to assist HSBC to move their data center from the leased place to their own data center. I was responsible for implementation of server moves and their reconfiguration in the new data center in Volo, IL. I was also involved in SAN base lining (upgraded HBA drivers) and Sun server’s OS upgrade (Solaris 8 to Solaris 9 upgrade) projects. ★ [Client] Allstate Motor Club | Unix Administrator | Jul 2007 to Feb 2008 ★ Responsibilities & project details: Unix Administrator for the Allstate Motor Club (subsidiary of Allstate Insurance Company). Involved in Oracle 10g/Oracle Real Application Cluster (Oracle RAC) Migration from logical Nth Tier to physical 3 tier Sun Solution with RAC 10g R2 and Oracle Real Application for RAC 10g R3. Managed the SAN which comprised of 2 6540, 6 DISK Trays, 2 5000 series Brocade switches, 1 L500 Tape Library and 23 T2000 Sun Servers running Solaris 10. Administered SAN that included STK6540 storage plus six disk trays & Brocade 5000 switches using SANtricity. Also used Santricity to configure, allocate and maintenance of LUNs. Configured and maintained IP Multipathing (IPMP) and Storage multipathing (MPXIO). Setup Jumpstart server setup and configuration of non-interactive installation of Solaris 10.

Bangalore, Karnataka, In

★ [Client] Pfizer, Groton, CT | Consultant – Grid Computing | Apr 2006 to Jun 2007 ★ Job responsibilities: Solaris 8 & 9 based compute Grid nodes administration, Solaris 10 system administration including zone administration, resource management. LSF support, batch jobs monitoring and administration. ★ [Client] Walgreens, Deerfield, IL | Consultant – UNIX | Dec 2005 to Mar 2006 ★ Job responsibilities: System administration of Unix (Solaris 8, 9, 10 OE) servers. OS Upgrades of critical servers on Solaris 8 OS to Solaris 9 & 10 OS using Live-Upgrade feature Jumpstart server setup for Solaris 8, Solaris 9 & Solaris 10. Patch administration and implementation in Solaris. Preparation & maintenance of server documents & configuration management database (CMDB). Customization of various tasks and reports using shell scripts.★ [Client] Firmenich SA, Geneva | Consultant – Unix Administration | Dec 2003 to Dec 2005 ★ Job responsibilities: System administration of UNIX (Solaris and Tr64) servers, Dynamic creation and administration, reconfiguration of System boards in Sun Fire 6800 servers. VERITAS NetBackup administration, troubleshooting for backup of Unix & windows servers, StorageTek tape library (L700) administration for NetBackup use. Big brother monitoring tool administration and customization. Quota administration in NetApp filers (NetApp 810C). Installation of new servers using Jumpstart technology for Solaris servers. ITIL processes implementation and adherence (Change management and release management)

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In

Worked as a Systems Engineer. Involved with Facility Management team at its client Container Corporation India Limited, Delhi. Job responsibilities included System administration of Sun Solaris on Sun servers (Sun Fire 280R, 3800, Enterprise 3500, 450), Daily backups on Sun Servers for Oracle Financials and others customized file systems and daily log monitoring and performance enhancement activities for Sun Solaris based servers.

Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, In

★ [Client] Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd | Resident Engineer | Oct 2002 to Jun 2003 ★ Brief Description: Project by CMC Limited for Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), Korwa, Distt. Sultanpur (U.P.) for implementing backbone networking of various blocks and divisions. The main objective of the project is to provide interconnection between all offices / plants of HAL by means of LAN/WAN. ★ [Client] Delhi Transport Corporation | System Administrator | Mar 2002 to Oct 2002 ★ Brief Description: Project by CMC Limited for Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC) for online tracking of their fleet. The main aim of this project is to computerize their time control, billing department and other departments. The infrastructure included Sun E250 server clusters, WhatsUp Gold software for LAN/ WAN monitoring.