Venkatesh Nuri

510-449-1942
Venkat6.linux@gmail.com
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Over 7+ years of IT industry experience as a System Administrator and Production Support of various
applications on Sun Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Windows environment.

Experienced in Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration, performance tuning on UNIX and

system software & hardware.

Experience in Installing, configuring and maintaining Samba, Web Sphere & Web Logic Application
Servers like Nagios and Chef.

Supported AWS Cloud environment with 120+ AWS instances and configured Elastic IP & Elastic
Storage and also experience working on implemented security groups.

Knowledge of Big data and Hadoop ecosystem and its components like HDFS, Hive, Pig, Scoop and
Hbase.

Efficiency in installing, configuring and implementing the LVM, and RAID Technologies using various
tools like Veritas volume manager, Solaris volume manager.

Experience configuring and managing Puppet master server and also experience in updating and
creating modules and pushing them to puppet clients.

Experience in Installed and configured Apache/Tomcat/Java/MySQL.

Experienced in Amazon EC2 setting up instances, virtual private cloud (VPCs), and security groups.

Extensively used Veritas Cluster Server 4.x & 5.x.

Configuring and Administering DNS, NIS, NIS+, LAMP and LDAP on Sun Solaris server environment.

Experience in Install and configuration of Web hosting administration HTTP, FTP, SSH, & RSH

Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring SUN Solaris 9 and 10 on Sun Servers Using
Jumpstart Servers, Manual installation as when required.

Experience in Installation of VMware ESX server and creation of VMs and install different guest OS.

Experience in Installation and configuration of Zones and Containers in Solaris 10 environment.

Experience in Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process
monitoring.

Experience in Veritas Volume manager (VxVM), Mirroring, and striping, Parity, New File
Systems, Mounting and Unmounting File Systems.

Resolving system errors and crashes, huge file sizes, file system full errors.

Experience in Package management using RPM, YUM and UP2DATE in Red Hat Linux.

Worked on Firewall implementation & Load balancer between various Windows servers.

Ability to write Shell & Perl scripting.

Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and interpersonal skills.

 Capable of quickly learning and delivering solutions as an individual and as part of a team.

Populate Splunk from 3rd party data sources

Experience in Puppet functionality in Red Hat Satellite6

Development in Puppet in Red Hat Satellite 6

Experience in Develop new security template in VMWare for Red Hat Linux 6.5 to meet
existing security standard
Experience in Devops Support/Monitoring

Experience in docker, ansble, puppet, open stack

Expertise in EMC VMAX, VNX, DMX

Experience in Open stack implementation in POC environment.

Experience in Devops Support(Puppet/Chef)/Monitoring, docker,

Experienced in implementing Splunk, Puppet, Docker, Chef, Git and Jenkins.

Experience in Package management using RPM, YUM and UP2DATE in Red Hat Linux.

Ability to write Shell & Perl scripting

Creating, cloning Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware workstation and ESXi
Environment

Education
Bachelor`s in Computer Science Engineering, JNTU 2007.
Certification: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 2009.
TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS
Operating Systems:

Hardware:

Networking:
Web Technologies:
Programming,
Scripting Language &
Databases:
Backup Management:
Third Party Software:
Protocols:

Linux (RedHat, CENTOS ), Solaris 10/9/8, HP-UX 11.0, 11.11, IBM

AIX (4.3/5.x),
HPUX11i V1, V2 & V3, VMware ESX, SLES 8,9,10 & 11, Windows
NT /2000/2003,
MAC OS X 8/9.x/10.x.
M5000, M8000, T5220, T5240 Sun E15K, E25K, Sun Fire
6800/4900/3800, Sun
Fire 490/280, v880/v890, Sun Enterprise Servers E6500, E4500,
E3500, Work
Group Servers E450, E420, E250, E220, Netra 1405, Netra X1, Ultra
80, 60, 30, 10,
5, 2, 1, Intel Servers
TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, FTP, DNS, DHCP, Samba, Apache, SMTP, SSH,
IP-Tables
Tomcat, APACHE 2.x, 3.x, Web Logic (8/9/10) & Web Sphere 4.0/5.0
RDBMS, MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL, C, UNIX Shell Scripting,
Perl Scripting,
Python, Ruby, HTML, VB, distributed Splunk administration
Veritas Net backup 4.x/5.x/6.x, Ufsdump, Ufsrestore, TAR , cpio, dd,
Tivoli,
Symantec Netbackup 7.x
VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Cluster Service (VCS), HP
Service Guard, SunCluster, EMC Storage, RAID Technologies, SSL,
Splunk
TCP/IP, UDP RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, SNMP, SMTP, TELNET

WORK HISTORY
Client: Ericsson, Plano, TX

Dec-2013-Present

Role: Sr. Linux Admin, Devops Engineer.

The project was developing integration solution for the client using Web Service and client's developed
processes and methodologies. It involved transferring real time data by using web services exposed by both
party. It also involved transferring PGP encrypted data in flat file from the FTP location to the SQL Server.
Responsibilities:

Installed and configured several hundred Red Hat Blade and VMware ESXi 4.1, 5& 5.5 Virtual Environment.
Configured Red Hat Cluster Nodes for any legacy applications.
Verified the daily Health check on the Cluster Nodes.
Assisted in physically installing, racking and cabling new BM Blade Center S and Cisco UCS 5108 Chassis
environment.
Installing and configuring Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6.1 using kick start servers and virtual
Media based installs on several hundred Cisco UCS B200 /B250 and BM Blade Center S as required for
UAT/Production Oracle Web logic. Red hat JBoss, Oracle Enterprise Database and MySQL Database
Server requirements.
Experience in writing python scripts
Experience Develop new security template in VMWare for Red Hat Linux 6.5 to meet existing security

standard
Responsible for installation, Configuration and administration of Oracle10g/11g database on SCO Unix,
Linux and Windows 2003 Servers and also an integral part of the backup and recovery.
Installing and updating packages using YUM (custom YUM servers/repositories) and Red Hat Satellite
Server, Solaris 9 & 10 OS configuration, performance tuning and maintenance.
Maintain, grow and improve the TVX Splunk environment and Support large-scale deployments across
multiple datacentern Configured and Administered Apache, VSFTPD services, MYSQL and Tomcat.
Installation, configuration of Jenkins for Continual integration.
Day to day duties for UNIX/Linux server Maintenance and Support to developers team for their issues
with application, tuning, troubleshooting, software running on UNIX/Linux Servers.
Automation scripts for weekly and monthly backups in Perl and shell
Linux Server monitoring for maximum availability using Nagios monitoring tools and taking
steps to keep servers up and running under 24x7 environment for maximum uptime
Participating in 24x7 production on-call support of Linux and provided technical support to users.
Configured various alerts, captured support logs and configured resource pools utilizing Cisco UCS
Manager.
Configured and deployed patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Red Hat Linux servers
using satellite servers.
Implemented rapid provisioning and life cycle management for Redhat LINUX using kickstart.
Implemented in VMX, IBM.
Experience in building, installing and maintain multiple versions of the Patrol agents
Implemented chef configuring the Servers
Expertise in security hardening (iptables/selinux) major Production Servers, and compiling, building and
installing web server based Linux tools.
Experience in performing, uploading and upgrading new firmware on the Interconnects and Chassis
Familiarity with Java-based server applications & logging framework.
Proficient in providing support on the deployed Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Sun Solaris servers from both
operating system level and application Level.
Expertise Devops Support/Monitoring.
Expertise in configuring Red Hat Cluster Nodes for any legacy applications and verified the daily health
check on the Cluster Nodes utilizing clusters.
Expertise in creating VM Templates, cloning and managing Snapshots.
Expertise in working with MySQL databases, Apache Web server, Tomcat Application Servers
Troubleshooting any performance or configuration issues with MySQL and Oracle.
Expertise in hardening, Linux Server and Compiling, Building and installing Apache Server from sources
with minimum modules.
Monitoring and troubleshoot backups and schedule Cron jobs.
Experience in scripting using BASH & PERL, Mail Server, Samba Server, Apache Server.
Worked on configuring NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, FSTP, Telnet and RAID levels.
Extensive experience in network management TCP/IP, NIS, DNS, NFS, VLAN.
Experience in database replication using OCFS2 file system with oracle 10g and 11g database
Experience in deploying several sets of Linux guest builds from VMware templates using PowerCLI as well
as Red Hat Satellite Server.
Experience in deploying RHEL 5.x, 6.1 in a blade environment.
Patch management of servers and maintaining server's environment in
Development/QA/Staging/Production.
Resolving assigned remedy tickets and remedy tools in Development/QA/Staging/Production.

 Experience in Open stack, puppet, ansble, docker

Using ci and cd Jenkins
Environment: RHEL 4.x/5.x/6.x, Solaris 9,10&11, HPUX, Centos, SUSE 10, 11, VERITAS Volume Manager 3.x/
4.x, VERITAS Storage Foundation 5, Redhat Cluster, VERITAS Cluster Server 4.1, Tripwire, NFS, DNS,
SAN/NAS.
Client: AT&T St. Louis, MO

March 12 Nov13.

Role: Sr. Linux Admin.

Project Description:
The mission of AT& T is to maintain and improve the Health and Human Service Commission in Texas and to
administer its programs in accordance with the highest standards of customer service and accountability for
the effective use of funds.
Responsibilities:

Supported Solaris/Linux servers in production / stage / development environment.

Configure and administrate database cluster using VERITAS cluster.

VERITAS Volume Manager 3.x/4.x and Solstice Disk suite (SVM) RAID configuration, troubleshooting,
maintenance, disk management & space allocation etc

Implemented chef configuring the servers

Experience in writing ruby scriptings

Experience in deployment

Experience in building, installing and maintain multiple versions of the Patrol agents

Migrated Sun Server (Around 1000) and HP Servers (Around 300) Lift and Shift from Old Data Center
to New Data Center on a Weekly Basis.

Implemented Red Hat Satellite 6

Experience in Develop new security template in VMWare for Red Hat Linux 6.5 to meet existing
Security standard.

Planning, installation, configuration, monitoring, and deployment of Solaris/Linux environments

Evaluating and applying security patches on Solaris and Linux servers

Supporting and troubleshooting network services and protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, FTP, SSH,
Kerberos, sendmail, and LDAP.

Build servers using Kick Start, Red Hat Satellite Server/Spacewalk

Installation Configuration troubleshooting & maintenance of VERITAS cluster.

Solaris 7, 8 & 9, 10 OS configuration, performance tuning, patching and maintenance.

Sun Servers Hardware, OBP configuration & troubleshooting

RED HAT Enterprise Linux 3, 4 Installation on various servers using Kick start and configuration &
support for various applications run on Linux environment.

Performed Mechanization Puppet and Chef.

Exclusively done Oracle Migration from 4 Node Cluster to 4 Cluster and also 6 Node to 2 Node.

Familiarity with Java-based server applications & logging framework

Report status through JIRA tickets and track work effectively.

Performed SRT testing before bring the Cluster into the Production

Expertise DevOps Support

Experience with Devops like open stack, docker puppet.

Experience in amazon cloud services

Migrated VERITAS Disk Groups using Deport and Import Techniques.

Day to day duties for UNIX/Linux server Maintenance and Support to developer's team for their issues
with application, tuning, troubleshooting, software running on UNIX/Linux Servers.

Disaster Recovery operation setup & checkup at contracting facility

Implemented Satellite version 6 .

Performed e in installing, configuring and trouble-Shooting web servers like IBM HTTP Web Server,
Apache Web Server, Websphere Application Servers, and Samba Server on Linux (Redhat & CentOS).

Automation scripts for weekly and monthly backups in perl and shell

Maintain, grow and improve the TVX Splunk environment and Support large-scale deployments across
multiple datacenters.

UNIX Server monitoring for maximum availability using BMC patrol and other monitoring tools and
taking steps to keep servers up and running under 24x7 environment for maximum uptime.

24x7 support for the UNIX servers. Rotating on call pager responsibilities for Production environment.

Experience using the KVM, Hyporrie.

Experience with Devops environments.

Experience with Amzon EC2 cloud services

Environment: Solaris 8/9 with NFS and NIS, Linux RHRL3,4, Sun Ultra Sparc 60,SunE220,E250,E450,E3500,
E4500, VMware, Solstice Disk Suites, Volume Manager (VxVm) 4.1,Veritas Cluster server (VCS), VMware.
Client: State Farm Insurance, Bloomington, IL

November 2011 February 2012

Role: Unix/Linux, VMware Admin

The Integrated Customer Platform (ICP) is being developed to provide customers the flexibility to do business
with State Farm in the ways they choose to acquire and service all of their State Farm insurance products
across all access channels. Life Quote and Purchase is an Online Application for Customer to Generate a Quote
based on his input. Customer will be able to choose a product, save and Retrieve the quote and proceed to
purchase the quote.
Responsibilities:

Supported Solaris/Linux servers in production/QA/ Development Environment, including Solaris Zone

and RHEL.

VM's. Installed and Configured Solaris zones: whole, sparse, branded on Sun Hw (x4140, x4170,
T5240.T3-1, T3-2).

Installed ESXi 4.1 Hypervisor on HP Servers

Installing, configuring and maintaining apache, samba, Web Sphere& Web Logic Application Servers
and Nagois.

Experience in writing shell scripts bash.

Installed and Configured Kick start Server

Worked on VMware, VMware View, vSphere 4.0. Dealt with ESX, ESXi servers.

Working with VERITAS Volume Manager for creating volumes and file systems for various
applications and database.

Worked on different VMware products like VMware workstation, VMware server 1.2 /2.0
GSX/VMware server, VMware player, VMware Converter and ESX server 3.X.I

Involved in SAN migration project to migrate the data across the storage arrays

Enhanced and simplified vCenter server 4.0.

Installation of systems using Jumpstart for Sun Servers and Kick start for RHEL on HP HW.

Configure, support and perform routine maintenance of hardware and software for Linux
and Solaris servers.

Launching Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Images (Linux/ Ubuntu) and Configuring
launched instances with respect to specific applications.
Supported 200+ AWS cloud instances running ubuntu, Red hat and Windows environments.
Involved in Hardware and software evaluation, recommendation and vendor management.
Implemented VMX and XIV ,IBM
Automation of various administrative tasks on multiple servers using Puppet.
Deployed Puppet, Puppet Dashboard, and Puppet DB for configuration management to existing
infrastructure.
Proficient in installation, configuration and maintenance of applications like Apache, LDAP, PHP
Involved installing and managing different automation and monitoring tools on Redhat Linux like
Nagios, Splunk and Puppet.
Resolved config issues and problems related to OS, NFS mounts, LDAP user ids DNS and issues.
Experience in creation and maintenance of ZFS file systems / set quotas.
Regularly applying patches for Redhat Linux, Sun and HP systems.
Develop Unix Shell scripts for regular and periodic jobs and also for sysadmin jobs.
Extensively worked with Business, Application, Database, Network and SAN Team for project
requirement.
Experience in open stack
Project co-ordination and providing technical advice on system to management
Plan, document, review and maintain system administration guidelines and policies
Manage and co-ordinate Unix and Linux administration tasks
Ensure Data Center operation meets required service levels
Implemented Red Hat 6 in Puppet
Experience fuel migrants Open Stack
24x7 support for the UNIX servers. Rotating on call pager responsibilities for Production environment.

Environment: Solaris 9 & 10, RHEL 4.X,5.x,6.x: Sun Ultra Sparc T5220,T5240, T3-1,2,M5000,X4140,x4170;
HP DL360, 380 & 580; VMware, Solstice Disk Suites, ZFS; Volume Manager (VxVm) 4.1, Veritas Cluster
server (VCS), VMware.
Client: Citizens Bank, India.
Role: Linux Admin

September, 2008 October 2011

Description: This application is designed for the customers of both banks to manage their finances through
Online banking (example: view transactions, pay bills and transfer money from wherever the customer wants,
online bill pay, etc). This application provides four category selections: 1. Online Services Home 2. Online
Banking 3. Online Bill Pay 4. Online Brokerage. Each of the modules stated above gives different facilities to
the customers of the bank after proper login information is provided.
Responsibilities:

Managing UNIX Infrastructure and EMC storage involving maintenance of the servers and
troubleshooting problems in the environment.
Installing operating systems Solaris, Linux and HP according to business requirements.
Planning and implementing the configuration changes to the servers adhering with ITIL change
management process.

Trouble shooting the issues ranging from Solaris, Linux and SAN environments.
Created and Maintained Solaris 10 zones/containers.
Experience in creation and maintenance of ZFS file systems.
Regularly applying patches both for SUN and Linux systems.
Installed and Configured Jumpstart and Kick start Server.
Working with VERITAS Volume Manager for creating volumes and file systems for various
applications and databases.
Experience with Java Enterprise Application Servers such as IBM Web Sphere, Oracle Application
Server (OC4J), BEA Web Logic, JBOSS, and Tomcat.
Creating and maintenance of Virtual machines in VMware ESX.
Worked on different VMware products like VMware workstation, GSX/VMware server, VMware
player and VMware Converter and ESX server 3.X.
Installed Web Logic 8.1 with SP5 Server and configured domains, Admin and managed servers for
Applications to be deployed.
Configured, Installed LDAP Solaris and Linux server.
Connecting to ESX server by using VIC, putty and Web access.
Installed and configured Send mail on Solaris Linux and AIX servers.
Experience in working with Hitachi Storage navigator.
Manages Site minder administrator accounts and users when using the Site minder LDAP repository.
Migrated central send mail server to Postfix and Installed and Migrated SAP from Linux
to Sun servers.
Involved in SAN migration project to migrate the data across the storage arrays.
Established end-to-end software development process using shell on top of BO, including automated
builds of Rhapsody models.
Implemented security policy and managed firewalls/IDS. Managed DNS, send mail, IP space, and colocation facility transition.
Providing 24/7 on-call support on rotation basis.
Assembled, Replaced and Handled Sun, Linux and AIX Hardware problems in Data Center.
Developed Korn and Bash shell-scripts to automate routine activities
Installation and Configuration of Windows Active directory server 2000 and citrix servers.
Administration of applications via Citrix MetaFrame.
Involved installing and managing different automation and monitoring tools on Red hat Linux like
Nagios,bash and python scripts

Enivornment: SUN E10K, M4000/M500, E4500/5000, E35000, Hitachi 9980v. Solaris 8/9/10, RHEL 3, ESX 3.
solstice disk suite (SDS),SUN UCE, Jboss, Veritas Volume Manager (VxVm),VMware, Veritas Cluster server
(VCS).
Client: CVL Soft Pvt Ltd, India

June 2007 August 2008

Role: System Engineer

Project Description: The objective of designing this software is to create an automated system that keep records
of transaction of plots, details of various layouts purchase by organization, maintains record of prospective
purchaser, brokers and distribution of related brokerages. It implements the multilevel hierarchy. It is a tool
which would keep records and generates various reports for agreements, summary of plots, dues and
collections. It helps to internal auditors in accounting, recovery and automatically generating TDS. The system
is mainly designed for Real Estate Company and aimed to provide total information about flats.
Responsibilities:

Provided 24 X 7 on call support (locally and remotely) for around 500+ sun servers in a Data Center
Production Environment

Performed Red hat Linux Kick-start Installation Sun Solaris Jump start Installation.
Performed Installation, adding and replacement of Disks, Cards and Maintenance of SUN Servers.
Installed, upgraded and loaded Patches and Packages on Sun Servers.
Attended to users, developer problems; did troubleshoot the system and end user issues.
Created and maintained Operating System Installation Documents.
Monitored system performance, tune-up kernel parameter, added /removed /administered hosts, users.
Scheduled Jobs using CRONTAB and AT Utility and wrote shell scripts to automate System Process.
Managed NIS, NFS and Send mail Server.
Added more resources like Memory, Disks and increasing the Swap.\Performed User and Group
Management using Admintool.
Involved in documenting of Linux and Windows environment and configuration details including
documentation of solutions for any issues that have not been discovered previously.
Implemented Satellite version 6

Environment: Solaris 8, Sun Enterprise, Servers E4500 and E3500, Sun SPARC 1000, Perl, shell Scripting,
CRONTAB/AT.