Anand

anand.rhel@gmail.com
575-405-9657

SUMMARY:

• Over 8 plus years of experience in Unix systems administration.

• Extensive experience in Installation, Support, Configuration and Maintenance of
various types of UNIX (Solaris/ Linux).
• Experience in resolving technical issues on system integration and support, disaster
recovery.
• Experience in UNIX shell scripting, OS upgrade, software upgrades and hardening of the
servers.
• Expert in installation and configuration of patches & package management.
• Experience in remote installation of Solaris using Custom jumpstart Installation.
• Experience in working with LDAP servers.
• Experience in supporting Databases like Oracle, Sybase and applications environment.
• Hands-on experience in Installation, Configuration and Administration of VERITAS
Volume Manager 4.x/5.x, VxFS, VERITAS Net Backup 5.x/6.x, Solstice Disk Suite 4.2.
• Experience in configuration of all levels of RAID and management using Raid Manager.
• Experience in installation and configuration of Solaris Zones and ability to work with
ZFS.
• Experience in diagnosing and resolving complex problems related to servers, SAN
storage.
• Experience in monitoring availability & performance of UNIX/Sun Solaris servers,
diagnosing the Memory, CPU utilization and hardware problems.
• Extensive experience in administration of NIS, NFS, DNS, Mail (Send mail) and Web
Servers (Apache, Web Logic, IBM, Http server)
• Installation and configuration of VMware workstation. Knowledge in various virtual
machine packages.
• Experienced in Configuring and maintaining LAN and WAN networks.
• Experience in Configuration of TCP/IP for Solaris 8, 9 and 10 systems.
• Good communication and strong interpersonal skills, self-motivated, quick learner and
team member.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Sun Fire 15K, 12K, E10k, 6800, Sun E5500, E450, E250, V880
and sparc stations, Sun StoreEdge arrays, Dell 2450, 6300, 6400,
EMC, Hitachi, and Intel based machines.
Operating System: Sun 2.5.1, 2.6, 2.7, 8, 9 & 10, Red Hat Linux 3, 4, 5, Windows
NT4.0, Windows 98/2000/XP/VISTA/7.
Cluster: Veritas Cluster, Sun cluster.
Volume Manager: Veritas Volume Manager, Sun Solaris Volume Manager (SVM).
Backup: Veritas Net Backup, Tivoli.
Networking: TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, SSH, DHCP, Cisco Routers / Switches
and LAN.
Web/Application Server: Tomcat, Apache, BEA Web Logic, Web server.
Scripting Languages: Born, Bash, KSH, Perl.
Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, oracle, PL/SQL.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Walmart, Benton, AR Mar’09 - Till Date

Sr. Unix administrator

Responsibilities:
• Build new Ubuntu 9.04 server, installed GIT, Nessus, Samba and Snort applications.
• Installed eclipse, create local repository, test push/pull to server.
• Installed Webmin on Redhat5.0 Server.
• Installed and configured the Apache on RedHat servers.
• Installed SVN version control tool on Ubuntu servers.
• Responsible for configuring FTP.
• Working knowledge on sun Rack cabinets.
• Administration, installation, upgrade and maintenance of SUN Servers [solaris8, 9, 10]
using Solaris jumpstart, flash archives and upgrade method.
• Experience in LDOM’s server virtualization with Solaris zones and ZFS file systems.
• Expert in WAN connectivity through Frame-Relay, ISDN, Fiber Optics, and data
transmission.
• Designing, Installation configuring and testing of TCP/IP based servers like DNS, NFS,
NIS services under SUN SOLARIS in the intranet
• Expert in installing and configuring sun cluster 3.1.
• Hands on experience on installation of JBoss on UBUNTU servers.
• Knowledge on installing power broker access control tool.
• Install and administer the Solaris 10 on sun T5120 server.
• Installation of Sun java system Websphere 6.0, installed patches, configuring and
maintenance of servers, start & stop of Websphere server.
• Supporting the Weblogic team by helping in the OS and Application upgrades and
installing new SSL certificates for weblogic8.1
• EMC disk configuration for Web, Application and Database servers from hostside.
• Installed and configured Sun Cluster Server-3.2 on Solaris
• Administering file systems and recognizing file access problems and Disk problems
using Veritas Volume Manager-5.1.
• Installation and configuration of veritas cluster-5.0 and experience in implementing VCS
(global) failover in production and disaster recovery environments.
• Troubleshooting the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 Servers
• Monitoring Disk Activity Checking for free space Removing temporary Core files
• Involved in UNIX deployment staff meetings and have done peer reviews on all UNIX
servers.
• Analyzing and Handling Hardware problems/failures like Memory, Disk's, CPU's,
Control Board, FDDI, SCSI Interfaces Etc
Environment: Solaris 2.8,9,10. Shell (Korn, Bourne), AIX,Sun Cluster 2.2/3.0., Servers: Sun
E220R, Sun E420R, Sun E450,Sun E1000, Sun T5120, Sun E3000, Redhat 5.5,UBUNTU 9.0.4,
Sun StorEdge Array 3900/5200.

Cvs Pharmacy, Woonsocket, RI-02895 Jan’ 08 – Feb’ 09

Sr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:
• Disk Space management using Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System, Veritas
Net Backup
• System Performance monitoring, creating File systems, mirroring.
• System Performance monitoring, User management, security planning and
implementation.
• Backup and Restore Management.
• Installed, Configured and upgraded Solaris, linux operating systems running oracle
Database.
• Installation of Packages and patches. .
• Configuration and Administration of DNS, NIS, NFS, DHCP, FTP Servers and clients.
• Performed disk to frame migrations in an EMC SAN environment.
• Maintenance of Netscape and Apache web server and Samba Server.
• Used SSA and EMC Symmetric disk arrays for network storage.
• Configuration and administration of mail server, Send mail, SNMP/POP Configuration
and Email user account maintenance.
• Worked with internal and external customer to resolve different System Issues.
• Worked with different hardware and software vendors to troubleshoot the hardware and
software problems.
• Jumpstart Configuration of Solaris.
• Hands-on experience on Shell scripting for automation of jobs, system monitoring and
error reporting.
• Configured Hardware and Software RAID, troubleshooted issues involving Disk
replacement and File system recovery.
• Maintenance and troubleshooting of Veritas Clustered Servers (VCS) for Failover and
redundancy. Worked on HACMP environment in linux.
• Management of Disk and File system through Veritas Volume Manager, Solstice Disk
Suite, Digitals Logical volume Manager.
• Network Installation, Backup, Raid Levels 0 to 5. Assisted users on connectivity of LAN
and WAN Networks.
• Worked on EMC disk storage to allocate disk space.
• Adding and configuring of SAN disks to the servers, managing and
troubleshooting servers using smit and diag tools.
• Recovery of systems due to system panics. Volume group recovery due to volume group
configuration corruption.
• Backup maintenance through VERITAS Netbackup and TSM using Tape Libraries.
• Planning and setup of Disaster Recovery Servers.
• Troubleshooting of day-to-day system and user problems developed and deployed backup
strategy using TSM environment on over 1000 UNIX and Wintel boxes.
• Performed TSM administration on TSM Master and clients
• Document backup policies and procedures for backup routines, schedules and restore
policies.
• Experience in setting up Secure Shell (OPENssh).
• Exposed to ITSM and process of handling tickets .
 • Maintain and develop web proxy configurations for web access.
• Proficient in performance monitoring and tuning in Sun SPARC Systems .
Environment: SF 25K,SF15K, SF 6800,rp5420, rp8420, Sun Cluster 3.0, Veritas Cluster 4.0,
Veritas Volume Manager 3.5, DMX 2000, Clariion FC4700, Brocade Silkworm, Sun Solaris,
TSM and Netbackup.

Sun Trust Bank, Richmond, VA Jan 07 - Dec 08

Sr. Unix Administrator.

Responsibilities:
• Supported over 60 servers which included different operating environments like Sun
Solaris 7/8, Redhat Linux 4 and Windows 2000/NT and hardware that included Sun
Ultra 60, Ultra 10 workstations, Sun E250, E450, E4500.
• Used Volume manager 3.2 for high availability and redundancy.
• Created disk groups, volumes, file systems, resized file systems, replaced failed disks,
creating RAID 1, 5 and 5+1 volumes.
• Used Veritas Netbackup 3.4 to perform backups for both Linux and Solaris
environments.
• Improved DNS performance by implementing secondary servers, replica servers for the
each subnet thereby creating a load balanced and less data loss over the network.
• Supported DBAs in monitoring, managing server performance related issues for Oracle
8i database running on Solaris 8 E4500 box.
• Supported VCS 4.0 environment for NFS and Sendmail agents.
• Supported and managed heterogeneous network environment to support Windows 2000
servers in an Enterprise Domain model and configured the domain to access Solaris
Print, Application servers and assigned priorities.
• Implemented and supported NFS, NIS to provide single authentication mechanism for the
users being supported.
• Performed user, group administration and used tools like sudo to provide special
privileges to users in need of access to selective administrative commands.
• Installed applications like Apache 1.3.x, and Gcc 3.4.x to support the development teams.
• Member of a group of UNIX/Linux administrators responsible for providing 24x7
support for Production, UAT and Development Environments.
• Administering the File Systems and trouble shooting NFS issues.
• Creating and Administering User Accounts in NIS environment.
• Proactive maintenance on systems by timely upgrading Patches to the systems and
applications, Scheduling of batch jobs and cron jobs.
• Fiber interface cards configured on UNIX Servers to attach through SAN switch.
• Shell scripting in ksh and bash to automate the transfer of daily tasks.
Environment: LPAR, DLPAR, HACMP 5.3, HMC, WebSM, NIM, KORN Shells. SAN, TSM,
ORACLE, MIDAS, ENGAGE, Storage, Shark and Calander, E/SSA Global Exceed 2000 WMS
(Warehouse Management System), Lawson, Workbrain, Retalix TRICEPS, TIBCO
Rendezvous/Hawk, Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS).

Bellsouth, Atlanta, GA Oct’05 – Dec’06

Sr. System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the planning of OS upgrades and support for existing infrastructure.

• Planned, Scheduled & Implemented Kernel Patches On Solaris & Red hat linux Servers
• Experienced in Configured TCP/IP for Solaris 8,9 and on linux systems.
• Evaluating new hardware from vendors to expand the existing Netbackup setup.
• Install and configuring zones on sun enterprise T5120 server.
• Troubleshooting application & OS issues by tuning the TCP/IP stack.
• Worked with power password in user control issues.
• Upgrade and maintaining the sun servers using jumpstart server.
• Installing and configuring JBoss on RedHat servers.
• Building new systems using Sol 9 & 10 according to SOX compliance standards.
• Supporting the PeopleSoft/Weblogic team by helping in the OS and Application upgrades
and installing new SSL certificates for weblogic8.1
• Installed and administered Apache web server, compiled the web server to use mod_ssl
and set up SSL certifcates.
• Providing on-call support and using the Remedy Ticket system for routine system
administration issues.
• Fixing Solaris volume manager(SVM) and Veritas volume manager issues, allocating and
configuring storage.
• Configure system components, memory, disk drives, and peripheral component
interconnect (PCI) devices on T5120 enterprise server.
• Experienced in migrating database applications from Solaris 8 to Solaris10.
• Experienced in capacity planing in unix and windows.
• Worked with sun cluster.
• Perform installation and configuration of Tivoli workload scheduler.
• Support LAN, WAN and MAN networks.
• Worked with LDAP implementations.
• Worked with Firewalls and management.
• Responsible for configuring NFS
Environment: SF 25K,SF15K, SF 6800,rp5420, Solaris 9, 10, Linux (RHEL 4,5), LVM,
Jumpstart, Solaris volume Manager (SVM), Veritas Volume Manager, LDAP V210, V440, V490,
V120, Linux(RHES 4 & 5), Sun Enterprise Server T5140, T1000 and T2000 and M4000.

Super Tech Computer solutions, India Sep’ 03 – Sep’ 05

Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting Sun servers for production, development and testing.
• Responsible of Installation of, maintaining the send mail server.
• Installing, Configuring and Maintaining the DHCP, DNS, NFS, NIS + and Web servers.
• User Account Management, Group Account Management, configuring dumb terminals,
adding modems, formatting and partitioning disks, manipulating swap, local and remote
 printer management, taking and restoring backup, scheduling jobs.
• Performance tuning and preventive maintenance.
• Worked with Various Teams to Coordinate like QA, UAT/Staging & Production To
Schedule the OS /Kernel Patches for solaris and linux Servers.
• Performed routine and preventative maintenance on servers and timely apply security
patches as mandated by the security team.
• Diagnosis of Hardware problems like Disk crash, board failures, etc and work with SUN
Microsystems, to resolve the problem. Interacting with Sun and Software Vendors to fix
bugs and Problems.
• Perform installation and configuration of LDAP.
• Resolving TCP/IP network access problems for the clients. Implementing Remote
System Monitoring with Sun Microsystems.
• Developed and automated Shell for performance monitoring and Disk Performance
Monitoring and Tuning
• Checking health of file system.
• Performing daily backup.
• Develop, Maintain, update various scripts for services (start, stop, restart, recycle, cron
jobs) unix based Korn shell, Perl.
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Environment: Solaris 8& 9 OS, Solaris Volume manager (SVM), SF6800/6900, SF4800,
SF3800, SF480, SF280, V880, SF240. stoarge EMC clariion cx300.

SEC (Labs) India Ltd., India. Jun’ 01- Aug’ 03

System Administrator

Responsibilites:
• Installation, Configuration and maintenance of Sun Solaris, Red hat linux and Windows
NT Servers.
• Installation & Configuration of IIS Server.
• Troubleshooting of RAS servers, configuration of ISDN Modems.
• Installation & Configuration of ODIN (Open Dealer Integrated Network)
• Scheduling of Daily, weekly, Monthly backups.
• Administration of MC/Serviceguard systems.
• Design, implementation and regular maintenance of LAN servers.
• Veritas Volume Manager management for Sun Servers.
• Patch installation and documentation for linux and Sun Solaris Servers.
• Scheduling changes of installation of DLT tape drives.
• Scripting for System Administrative tasks
• Troubleshooting of NFS and Automounter problems.
• Installation & Maintenance like replacing bad disks including bootable disks, OS, patch
installation, configuration of DNS, NFS, NIS services.
• Coordination with Oracle, and Online Trading application.
• Creating users, Assigning user profiles and responsibilities to users.
• Creation of Ignite tapes and System backups for servers weekly.
• Troubleshooting of Servers using tools like top, SAR, and PerfView.
• Installation, Configuration of Web Servers using Apache, IIS on NT Servers.
• Critical Backup Solutions using Vinca for NT.
 • Installation & Maintenance like replacing bad disks including bootable disks.
• Installation and configuration of Windows NT4.0, MS Back Office Products
• Network Solutions to various clients using Windows NT and NetWare OS.

Environment: Solaris 2.6 &7, Sun E450, E250, Sun E450, E250, E220R, E420R, SPARCstation
20, VVM, VXFS, MC/Serviceguard, DLT Tape Drives, Solstice Disk Suite, Glance Plus,
Windows NT 4.0, 98, 95, Apache, IIS, PerfView, ISDN Modems PSTN lines.