Abdul Aziz azizabdul323@gmail.

com (214) 274 3854 Professional Summary 7+ years of extensive experience in System administration, Network Administration, NAS Administration and application support working on RedHat Linux 4.x/5.x/6.x, VMWare ESX 3.5/4.0 & 4.1, Solaris 8/9/10, IBM p series 4.x/5.x/6.1, SUSE Linux 10 &NetApp Environments. Experience in Installation, Configuration, backup, recovery, maintenance and support of Solaris, RedHat Linux & AIX. Performed Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Configuration, Performance tuning on UNIX and system software & hardware. Installing, upgrading, and configuring RHEL 3, 4, 5 and 6 using Kickstart. Experience in working on NetApp V6080 and FAS3000 Series systems. Involved in installation, migration and implementation on NetApp systems Created Aggregates, Volumes, Qtrees and setup quotas on NetApp filers. Hands on experience in DataOntap6.5, 7.x series, DataFabric manager, Snapshot, OSSV, SnapDrive, SyncMirror, Snapvault in a clustered Environment. Experience in Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of various web server issues including IBM HTTP Server, Apache Web Server 2.x/1.x, Tomcat 5.x/4.x/3.x. Efficiency in installing, configuring, and implementing of RAID0, RAID 1, and RAID 5 levels using Logical Volume Manager, VERITAS Volume Manager and Solaris Volume Manager. Good experience in setting up of RAID0, RAID1 (mirroring) and RAID5 for data redundancy. Experience in installation and configuration of VERITAS Cluster Server. Experience in Migrations using different softwares like EMC open migratory, LVM, rsync etc. Experience working Red Hat GFS and Veritas Cluster File systems. Worked with Database administrators to tune kernel for Oracle installations on Red Hat Linux. Configured and Installed HPILO (Integrated Lights Out Advanced Lights Out). Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space, and process monitoring. Configured Network Concepts NFS, DNS, NIS and DHCP, troubleshooting network problems such as TCP/IP, providing support for users in solving their problems. Installation and configuration of web hosting administration such as FTP, SSH, RSH, Telnet, and HTTP. Used Logwatch 7.3, which reports server info as scheduled. Strong knowledge of system performance and monitoring tools. Running security scans and remediating Servers to meet enterprise standards. Installing, configuring, and maintaining Samba Web Servers, WebLogic and WebSphere Application Servers, and Oracle, SQL and Sybase database technologies. Moving RHAS machines from physical to virtual including VMware ESX 3.5 and VSphere 4.0 Installing and upgrading VMware tools on client machines. Installed and configured Ksar 5.0.4 for system activity in the RHEL 4 and 5. Capable of quickly learning and delivering solutions as an individual and as part of a team. Managed Patches, Upgrades and Licensed Products for System software on all flavors of UNIX and Linux Servers. Extensive experience in Databases, Clustering, SSLVPN, Firewalls and Cross-platform tools like Samba.

Technical Skills Operating Systems Sun Solaris 8,9,10, Red Hat Linux 4.0, RHEL-5.4, RHEL 6.4, Windows 95, 98, 2003, ME, XP, IBM-AIX, HPUX 11.0, HPUX 11i Vertias Volume Manager, Sun Volume Management, Veritas NetBackup Sun Fire (/V440, V480, V490, V120), Sun Fire X4100, X4200, X4440 and X4500, Sun Fire 2900, 4900, 6900, Sun Enterprise Server T5140, T1000,T2000 and M3000,M4000,M5000,sun java directory server 5.2,HP DL-380 & DL-580, Dell

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Poweredge 2970. UFS, hsfs, pcfs, udfs, swapfs, Tmpfs, VxFS, zfs , jfs. Bash, Ksh, JavaScript, CGI, Perl tar, ufsdump, VERITAS net backup and legato HTTP, FTP, SFTP, TCP/IP, SSH, NFS, NIS, SSL, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, SNMP, SNTP

Professional Experience Zycron Inc, Nashville TN Role: Sr.Linux Administrator Responsibilities: Worked with other team members for the installed and configured database and FTP segments for the transfer of data between two segments. Installed Linux on VMware virtual servers using Virtual Client Infrastructure Console. Installed Linux on HP Proliant DL Series servers using integrated lights-Out (ILO) and Virtual Media. Patched different software using RedHat Package Manager and YUM. Installed certain RPM packages, which were not installed default for Oracle. Downloaded latest kernel from YUM server, created repo to make it available for the installation of target servers. Created Shell scripts and also worked on existing scripts. Automating the installs using Jumpstart and Kickstartand building post install scripts using Shell scripting in SUN Solaris and RHEL Servers. Upgraded Linux Kernel using YUM. Upgraded current Linux version to RHEL version 5.6 Developed automated processes that run daily to check disk usage and perform clean up of file systems on UNIX environments using shell scripting and CRON. Upgraded Solaris 9 to Solaris 10 using Live Upgrade. Performed Solaris 9 patching using Live Upgrade. Ran RETRUST after upgrading the Solaris operating system. Deployed File System in Veritas. Disk and file system management using Solaris and VERITAS Volume Manager and Logical Volume Manager for Linux Configuration of NIS based name servers on RH and SuSe Linux for the management of name space. Configured NAS Aggregates (RAID4, RAID-DP), Volumes and file systems Configured Auto Support, SNMP based monitoring, Syslog routing for NAS management Worked on NFS Exporting and mounting of NAS file systems to Linux based servers using NFS/NFSv4 Assisted the Backup Team in configuring NDMP based backup for NAS volumes Used Performance Scripts on ONTAP 7.3.1 to troubleshoot the issues that arose during the backend disk failures. Worked extensively with Vendors Sun, NetApp, and HP for troubleshooting the issues and in replacing the failed Hardware. Configuration and administration of Fiber card Adapters and handling of SAN (SAN arrays, HITACHI, EMC) in IBM AIX servers. Performed different configuration under Veritas for Oracle agents. Performed all LVM and file system tasks like creation of Logical volume and file system, Mount a file system, Modifying size of a Logical Volume and file system, Removing a file system. Performed troubleshooting to make VMware tools run on Linux Guest OS. Monitored systems using HP-SIM and Nagios. Sep 10 Till Date

Provided 24x7 on-call / Remote Support for Technical Problems on weekly rotation basis

Environment : Solaris 8/9/10, RHEL-5.4/6.4, ONTAP 7.3.1/7.3.2, V240, V440, V480, V490, F3800, X4200, X4600, T2000, HP-DL380/580(G5, G6), NetApp FAS3140, FAS 3020, FAS 3070, FAS 6040, V6080. Trimble Dayton, OH Role: Unix/Linux Administrator Responsibilities: Managing UNIX Infrastructure involves day-to-day maintenance of servers and troubleshooting. Provisioning Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server using PXE Boot according to requirements. Performed Red Hat Linux Kickstart installations on RedHat 4.x/5.x, performed Red Hat Linux Kernel Tuning, memory upgrades. Working with Logical Volume Manager and creating of volume groups/logical performed Red Hat Linux Kernel Tuning. Checking and cleaning the file systems whenever its full. Used Logwatch 7.3, which reports server info as scheduled. Installation & Configuration of software packages in Red Hat Linux. (Using both yum and rpm installations) Volumes and File systems in Red Hat Linux environment. Coordinate with vendors for up gradation, maintenance of hardware and OS related calls. Worked on chroot Jail (jailed sftp), Creating and supporting SFTP users for our client. Used various networking tools such as ssh, telnet, rlogin, ftp and ping to troubleshoot daily issues. Also responsible to design, implement and maintain DNS, NFS and FTP services. Creating and maintain user accounts on NIS environment. Worked on Web servers which include Tomcat 5.x/4.x/3.x &Apache Server 2.x/1.x Scheduling the Jobs using CRON tab. Implemented and Enhanced the Existing Scripts which are developed in BASH, Perl, and SQL. Planning and scheduling with hardware vendors for faulty hardware replacement Installing and configuring the software packages based on project requirement Expertise in Linux backup/restore with tar including disk partitioning and formatting. Creating and Administrating File systems on Red Hat Linux. Installation and Configuration ofVMWARE ESX servers and Created RHEL Guest VMs for Dev/ Test and production environment Installed/ upgraded patches, firmware, MP, GSP, BIOS and security (Kernel) patches for all HW & OSs in installed infrastructure Upgraded Servers with Veritas Volume Manager(VxVM) from 3.x to 4.1 Veritas Netback up installation & maintenance Backup/restore on ADIC (Intelligent Storage Scalar i2000k Library Management Console) using server Windows NT/2000&Sun Solaris server& taking backup in DLT tape & checking the job failures. Created RAID 1, 01 configuration on hardware RAID devices and RAID10, 5 using SVM, LVM, VxVM Installation and support of various applications like Weblogic server 9.x, JBoss 4.x, Apache Tomcat 6.x, and Oracle 9i, 10g, in RHEL 5 Maintained Volumes and File systems for Oracle, MySQL, DB2, Sybase databases. Configuring DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS and other Network Services in IBM Power Series. Implementation of Veritas Cluster Server 4.1 for Oracle 9i Database Environment Worked on Shell scripts and Perl scripts for automation of daily tasks and created cron jobs & At jobs Worked on SAN storages of EMC products like CLARIION CX3, CX4, and Symmetric DMX-4 for storage and backup Used VxVM to add disk, create new disk groups/volumes, resize, deport and import disk groups between servers Performed systems monitoring, upgrades, performance tuning and backup and recovery. Sep 08 Aug 10

Environment : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.x/4.x/5.x, Sun Solaris 10, on Dell Power Edge servers 1650,1750,1850,2650,2850,2950 and Dell R610,R710,R810,R900,R910 Power Edge Rack servers ,Sun Blade 2500 ,Sun Fire x4500 ,280R ,240R, TCP/IP, HTTP, Brocade-Routers/Switches, SAN Switches, Tape Libraries. Time Inc, Manhattan, NY UNIX/Linux System Administrator Responsibilities: Installation RHEL on Dell, Performance Tuning and Maintenance activities on DatabaseProduction systems Configured File Systems, users and group for Oracle and Websphere. Problems and performance issues, deployed latest patches for SUN Solaris and Linux Application servers, Performed RHEL Kernel Tuning for TCP stack. Installation, Configuration and Administration of High Availability VeritasCluster Servers for failover and redundancy purpose Created shell scripts to take backup Oracle database. Automating the installs using Jumpstart and Kickstart and building post install scripts using Shell scripting in SUN Solaris and RHEL Servers. Backup configuration using Veritas Netbackup. Performed installation, configuration and maintenance of AIX 5.2/5.1 based p550/ p570/ p650/ p69, IBM Squadron servers and Linux (Redhat and SuSE) servers Performed troubleshooting, tuning, security AUDIT, backup, recovery and upgrades of IBMAIX 5.2/5.1/4.3, HACMP 5.1/4.5 and Linux (Red Hat) 4.0/3.0 based systems Configuration of Kernel parameters for Oracle Database in SUN Solaris and RHEL servers. Ensured connectivity to Servers and Network Administration Used VMWare ESX Server to build guest OS using cloning. Monitored server and application performance & tuning via various stat commands (top, mpstat, prstat, nfsstat, prtconf, prtdiag, iostat, top, printmgr, hpimliview, dmidecode, smc etc) and tuned I/O, memory etc) for SUN Solaris and RHEL Servers. Installed and setup CUPS, LPD, configured local and remote printers Created Korn shell scripts to automate cron jobs and system maintenance. Scheduled cron jobs for job automation Hardening and securing of all the SUN Solaris and RHEL servers Configured JBoss Application servers over Apache web server in Linux based systems. Applying new patches and packages on Linux. Installation and configuration of RedHat Linux 5.3 on Vsphere and VMware ESX. Installation and configuration of MySQL on Red Hat Linux cluster nodes. Took Unix native backups and restore using ufsdump,ufsrestore&tar commands. Installed Web Logic 8.1 with SP5 Server and configured Domains, Admin and managed Linux servers for Applications to be deployed. Network Monitoring using Nagios tool. Installed and configured Apache ANT for automated build processing using RPM. Installed and configured Sudo for users to access the root privileges. Developed automated processes that run daily to check disk usage and perform cleanup of file systems on UNIX environments using shell scripting and CRON. Experienced in Troubleshooting critical hardware and software issues and other day-to-day user trouble tickets. Experience in Servers consolidation and virtualization using UML Linux, XEN and VMware virtual infrastructure, VMware ESX 2.x, VMware Vcenter. Handled System tuning, log maintenance, disk space management etc Wrote UNIX shell scripts for automated installations, to extract logs using C, Bash, Perl, and Python. Installed IBM HTTP Server. Performance monitoring with Ksar, Iostat, VMstat, MPstat and Other Tools. Network trouble shooting using ndd, 'traceroute', 'netstat', 'ifconfig' and 'snoop' etc. Oct 07 Jul 08

Installed & manually configuring Sun Sparc & X86 machines and through jumpstart installation on workstations like sun ultra 20, sun ultra 40, sun ultra45, sunsparc blade 2500, sunfire servers V215 and adding in netgroups. Installed, configured Zones and maintenance in sun solaris 10.0. Monitored Network devices using SNMP. Configured & Managed storage resources using LVM Installed, managed Verities Volume Manager 3.5 (VxVM) on Solaris 9 and RHEL. Configured NFS Servers, NIS+ Servers, NIS+ Clients, Diskless clients and Auto clients and automounted the file systems using direct and indirect maps. Also setup entries in /etc/dfs/dfstab in Solaris share file systems and mounted the disks onto the client systems. Formatted raw disks & partitioned them using the format utility. Created file system using newfs and mounted it. Created devices and special files using mknod. Installation of web logic, upgraded to service pack updates, installed BEA patches, configuring and creation new domain & services starting & stopping. Installation of Oracle10g on Linux and Solaris, creating database, creating Oracle users & export and importing database, creating roleback segment etc.

Environment: DELL Power edge 1650,2850,2950,6400,Red Hat Linux Enterprise Linux, VERITAS Volume manager, Veritas Cluster Server 5.2 and VERITAS netback up 4.5.5, VMware ESX sever2.x,SAN switches, HP Network Node Manager, Web logic 8.1/9.0,Websphere,Tomcat 3.x,4.x,5.x,Apache Server 1.x,2.x, Korn, Bash. Navistar Inc, Chicago, IL Systems Support Engineer Responsibilities: Managed server on VMware and provided test environments on virtual machines. Provided IT support to internal staff members. Provided application support to large users groups. Installed hardware, installed RHEL 3.0 OS and configured required network on 25-Node HPC cluster. Managed HPC cluster, performed hardware, BIOS and application upgrade. Configured and managed Apache web server. Managed software and hardware RAID systems. Configured and maintained FTP, DNS, NFS and DHCP servers. Managed user accounts and authentication process by NIS service. Managed System Firewall utilizing IP Chains, IP Tables. Implemented SSH SSL. Managed user disk usage by setting up quotas. Administered system logs and security logs. Updated software packages and applied security patches. Performed hardware maintenance, upgrades and troubleshooting on workstations and servers. Communicated with hardware and software vendors and equipment dealers and maintained good relations. Wrote documentation for internal use about system changes, systems administration, etc. Apr 06 Sep 07

Environment: Solaris 7 and 8, Red Hat Linux, Sun Ultra E 250/450/3500/4500, Windows NT 4.0 / 2000, SQL 7.0/2000. Education Bachelors in Electrical Engineering, UTD Dallas TX