Linux Engineer /System Administrator

Pranav Sharma

(Linux System Administrator, RHCE, RHCSA)

Proven Success in Systems Optimization and Strategic IT Solutions

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Professional Summary

Accomplished Linux systems administrator/Architect with analytical skills combining 7 years of experience in managing 1200+ servers infrastructures and data-center operations across multiple platforms (Unix, Linux, Windows). Effectively plan, install, configure and optimize the IT infrastructure to consistently achieve high availability and performance.

Proven ability to create and deliver solutions based upon SDLC that is tied to business growth, organizational development and systems/network optimization. Skilled problem identifier and troubleshooter comfortable managing systems, projects and teams in a range of IT environments and documenting procedures following ITIL approach

Skills and Proficiency

7+ year of Expertise in setting up Redhat Enterprise Linux Servers(5,6,7),Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora and Gentoo Linux, PCI and Nesus Hardening, ACL, SELinux, Firewall policies, DNS, DHCP, NIS, LDAP, Oracle-RAC,Puppet, IMAP/POP3,Sendmail /Postfix servers, Monitoring tools like Cactii,Snort,NagiOS,Zabbix

Expertise in setting up MS Server 2008/2012 AD,DNS,DHCP,GPO and IAM

Expertise in VMWARE ESXi host setup, VM’s,Templates,vmotion,vSphere,vCenter Autoscaling . AWS, Softlayer,Openstack solutions for server virtualization

Experience on SAN/NAS(FC),NFS iSCSI(FCoE) based Enterprise storage devices and managing LUN’s,Volume groups, LVM’s and Multipathing & fencing

Expertise in Symantec VERITAS cluster and VxVM, GlusterFS Clusters for OS clustering and High Availability.Nginx,HTTP/Apache,Tomcat,Jboss Applications

Expertise in setting up Redhat Satellite, proxy to achieve OS patch management, Kickstart provisioning- Cobbler & Snippets,snapshot,SSM,Autoscheduling & Server Inventory and strong experience in Blade server and rack mount,patch cabling.

Experience in setting up BlackBerry server, Citrix XenDesktop/XenServer 7.x,Apache, Tomcat, Jboss and Php Myadmin along with MySQL,PostgreSQL

Complete ITIL understanding and SLA agreement, Exposure to Service and Maximo

Programming efficiency in .net,c#, C,C++,Bash and Perl and Data Structures

Career Race…

[ IBM INDIA Pvt Ltd, India] (03rd Oct 2013 to 1st Sept 2015 )

Designation: Technical Services Specialist/Analyst (UNIX/Linux)

Key Contributions:

Worked for Banking and Finance account, Deploying/Managing physical / virtual(VMWARE 5.5), Cloud based Linux Hosted servers Across all locations with respect to Applications/DB

Reconfigured Multipathing & VERITAS Clustering in Environment to achieve high availability.(SFHA and CVM)

Automated OS, package deployment,scripts & configurations by using Redhat Satellite

Deployment, configuration of various Tomcat/php Applications

Strong Network skills,routing,switching and firewall rules.

Allocating /Deallocating SAN/NAS, iSCSI Storage devices and LUNS

Administering Open LDAP/Active Directory, Proxy Server, Web Server, Log server, DNS Server, Mail, Yum repository, Oracle RAC, DB2 instances and Mysql server etc...

Scheduling Backups of all Application/ Databases Cyberlink, VEEAM, Symantec, Acronis and maintaining scripts for the same, Documenting each procedure, configurations and prepared runbooks. Experience in Dell Equalogic, EMC,Tyrone, SVC

Performed change management, risk management & capacity management as per company norms, Health check remediation’s, Disaster recovery management

Focal for Client Interactions/ Bi weekly Meetings Amendments and & Implementations

[ New vC Services Pvt. Ltd (A Tech Mahindra Company),India]

Designation: Sr. System Engineer (Linux/Windows) : (1 Jul-2011 –Till 30 Sep 2013)

Worked within a team of highly motivated 57 software engineers supporting 800+ servers, hosting 600+ client applications and tools to deliver strategic solutions to Client Services and business. Deeply involved in the designing, implementing and maintaining of software/hardware to support various client’s products and services

RAMPgreen Technologies Pvt.Ltd.(Sister Concern of vCustomer)

Designation: Linux Engineer-Research and Development (1 Jan-2010 – 30 Jun 2011 ) Selected from 40 candidates appeared and was promoted to lead,Setup incoming IT projects and got exposure of DevOps and IT infrastructure and Data Center Management

[vCustomer Services India Pvt. Ltd,India ]

Designation: System Engineer-Linux/Windows (Apr-2007 - 31-Dec-2009) Applied for an IJP and got promoted in Technology and got Trained to be a professional System Admin

Designation: Sr. Technical Support Engineer ( 22Mar 2006 –Apr 2007)

Education

B.C.A. (Bachelor of Computer Application) 2000 - 2003

[ Dr. BHIMRAO AMBEDKAR UNIVERSITY, AGRA with first division (72.3%) ]

P.G.D.C.A (Post graduate diploma in Computer Application) 2003 - 2004

[ Dr. C.V. RAMAN UINVERSITY, RAIPUR with first division (75%) ]

M.Sc (C.S). (Master of Computer Science) 2004 - 2006

[ IASE University,Rajasthan (INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED STUDIES IN EDUCATION) in Computer Science with first division (86%) ]

High School & Senior Secondary - From C.B.S.E. Board with Mathematics.

Certifications

RHCSA – Redhat Certified System Administrator

RHCE - Redhat Certified Engineer

VMWARE 5.5 –VCP Training participation certificate

Awards and Achievements

Awarded with a Special Recognition/Accolades by Client of vCustomer.

Awarded with ‘Champion of the Quarter’ thrice for Automations and performance in my tenure with I.B.M

Voluntarily worked for Kendriya Vidyalaya(Air force station) as Computer Instructor for 1 year to impart computer literacy to students.

Got “Blue Thanks” while in IBM from Project Client for Automating and providing solution for day to day problems

Hobbies and Interests

Love to play Football, Represented my college in Inter college Football league.

Inter school Table Tennis Champion, and Winner for 500m Race.

Para Sailing, Photography, Travelling and making new friends.

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