Kishor BammidiBracknell, Berkshire

Position Held

Senior Integration Engineer.

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

Oct 1st 2013 to till date. Senior Integration Engineer. Job Profile : Build Automation and Integration engineer. Responsibilities : Developed automation script for setting up kickstart/pxe server to automate builds. Implemented cross-platform Single Sign-On SSO using Red Hat IDM IPA and implemented access control/sudo policies. Implemented spacewalk server for patching Linux servers. Performing every month security audit of infraSTructure using nessus with latest plug-in and hardening/patching servers as report suggests. Building custom RPMs for configuration changes, servers hardening and deploying them through spacewalk. Implemented puppet for automation of configuration management and creating modules as per project configuration requirement. Requesting and installing SSL certificates for web servers. Working closely with development team and troubleshooting/resolving system administration related issues. Creating high level project documentation.

Company Name

Intelligroup Asia Pvt Ltd

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

Intelligroup Asia Pvt Ltd 7/8/2008 to Till - 2nd Sep 09 Server Administrator Linux/Solaris Administrator Responsibilities : Involved in all Planning, Architecture, System Admin aspects of Solaris 8/9/10 , Linux Red hat and SUSE and AIX Administration. Installation/administration of Linux, AIX and Solaris Servers, setting up optimal RAID levels. Installed and configured DHCP, DNS BIND , web Apache, tomcat , sendmail SMTP and file servers. Installed and configured Red hat, sun, VCS and HACMP clusters. Configured network installation manager NIM server and installed OS on multiple clients using it. created standard and Virtual I/O client LPARs using HMC. Installed, configured, managed, NIM server and installing clients using NIM recourses. Managed, patched SUSE systems with YaST. Installed and configured 2 Node VERITAS clusters and sun clusters on Solaris. Volume management on Linux/Solaris/AIX servers using native volume management tools and veritas volume manager. Installed and configured Solaris Zones and managed ZFS in Solaris Container. Configured nagios to monitor Linux server for CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and Disk Utilization for performance monitoring Setup NFS file systems and shared them to clients. Integration of NIS, NFS with Auto mount. Configured samba on Linux/Solaris servers to share resources across multiple platforms. Installation of software packages and checking the integrity of the installed packages Performed scheduled incremental backups using ufsdump and recovered and rolled over backups using ufsrestore. Used tar to ship directories/files. Troubleshooting backup and restore problems and constant monitoring of system performance. Worked with DBA for Installation of Oracle on Linux, AIX and Solaris. Installed and configured virtual hosts and installed SSL certificates for different websites configured on apache/tomcat. Performed day to day trouble shooting for the end users on Linux Red Hat and SUSE and Solaris based applications. Implemented openfire chat server with active directory authentication. Environment : Solaris 8/9/10 , AIX, SUSE enterprise Linux, RHEL, Ubuntu, AIX, SUN Enterprise Servers SUN FIRE v440/v480/490 , IBM RS6000 , p520 , p550 , p570 , SUN SPARC/VERITAS Volume Manager 4.x, sun volume manager, Veritas cluster, sun cluster, Veritas netbackup, Shell scripting, Puppet, SENDMAIL Protocol, DLT 7000 tape drive, Unix/Windows Workstations, oracle

Company Name

Oracle Corporation UK Pvt Ltd

Position Held

Senior system administrator

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

Oracle Corporation UK Pvt Ltd. Feb 27th 2012 to Sep 30th 2013. Senior system administrator Job Profile : Datacenters design, build and support for Oracle public cloud InfraSTructure. Responsibilities : Proactively involved in project meetings to collect infraSTructure requirements and preparing rack elevation diagrams for new datacenters and existing datacenters expansions for Oracle public cloud. Working closely with network team and assessing IP addresses requirement and advising them to create network subnet for each VLAN. Registering new Exadata, Exalogic in DNs and deploying them for both PAAS and SAAS oracle public cloud services. Building servers right from setting up ILOMs, configuring RAID, installing OS, configuring network bridges and creating shares on storage sun 7320.7420 as per project requirement. Performing network redundancy testing from server, switch stand point of view and enabling arp based monitoring when required and making sure everything is redundant. Bare metal server provisioning using Kickstart and Cobbler. Implemented puppet with foreman and created puppet recipes to automate the configuration management. and also automated a variety of administrative tasks through shell scripts and puppet. Create, deploy, and manage Xen virtualized servers, windows servers, Solaris servers. Installing ESXi servers and creating virtual machines and managing them through vSphere server. Working closely with application team and configuring apache webservers, installing ssl certificates and Memcached. Installing vertas volume manager software on linux solaris servers and managing volumes. Building high availability clusters using vertas cluster suite. Installing, configuring, managing Solaris systems with ZFS file system. Upgrading Exadata, Exalogic, batemetal and virtual servers to the latest standard OS/patch level. Upgrading infiniband switches, sun storage heads firmware to latest. Configuring sun 7320/7420 storages and creating projects, shares, snapshots as per project requirements. Servers performance monitoring and tuning. Writing scripts to automate tasks. Working on daily tickets for general unix admin support like performance issues, volume management, file system management, account admin, ntp configs etc and resolving them quickly.

Company Name

Tescobank

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

Tescobank, Edinburgh. June 24th 2011 to Feb 24th 2012. Senior Unix administrator Project Description : Responsibilities as a Unix System Administrator include Setting up, configuring, monitoring, troubleshooting, performance tuning and backing up UNIX Linux, Solaris and AIX servers. Responsibilities : Building servers, installing OS, applications and patches. Configuring kickstart servers and installing OS using kickstart method. Building VERITAS clusters to provide high availability. Volume management using veritas volume manager and native volume management tools. Fine tuning veritas volumes to improve performance. Installing applications and configuring connectivity to servers, databases, and applications. Installing, maintaining and troubleshooting Oracle database and refreshing DB to build new environment. Installing Oracle patches on Oracle/Apps servers. Updating Linux servers using Red hat satellite server. Backing up servers using veritas netbackup. Setup ESXi servers and created virtual machines and migrated all physical SAS servers to virtual servers. Creating and managing Amazon EC2 instances, configured MySQL maSTer-maSTer clusters on EC2 instances using GenieDB. Working on service requests and resolving them before SLAs. Writing shell scripts to automate tasks.

Company Name

Lloyds bank ing Group

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

Lloyds banking Group, Edinburgh. Dec 6th 2010 - April 11th 2011 AIX Engineer Project Description : Upgrading all HBOS Unix servers to Lloyds bank servers level to standardize the whole UNIX environment. Responsibilities : Upgrading AIX servers from version 4.3/5.1/5.2 to 5.3.12. Upgrading VERITAS cluster server software on AIX systems. Upgrading VERITAS volume manager software on AIX systems. Upgrading HMC servers. Configuring/resolving MPIO issues. Managing physical I/O resources between client logical partitions using VIO. Upgrading Java on all AIX servers. VERITAS volume manager administration Increasing volumes, adding new disks to volume group and trouble shooting Creating change requests using SM7.

Company Name

Oracle India Pvt Ltd

Position Held

volume manager

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

Oracle India Pvt Ltd Sep 2009- Sep 2010. System Administrator Linux/Solaris Administrator Responsibilities : Setting up Solaris and Linux servers, monitoring, troubleshooting and performance tuning. Building and configuring Solaris 8/9/10 using Jump start server, Red hat Linux using Kick Start server as required for the project. AIX 5x and 6x installation, up gradation, migration and troubleshooting. Involved in Planning, building and Administration of High Availability clusters on Sun Solaris using SUN cluster, VERITAS cluster, on Linux using red hat cluster and on AIX using HACMP. Volume management on Linux Red hat and SUSE using lvm, on Solaris using Solaris volume manager and AIX systems using LVM. Installed VERITAS volume manager and implemented various RAID levels, logical volume creation, mirroring and file systems management. Install, configure, manage, NIM server and installing clients using NIM recourses. Using SMIT to managing and maintaining AIX servers. Closely coordinated with SAN team for storage, fabric issues. Upgrading Emulex cards firmware for HBA to the current revision levels. Configuring samba on Linux/Solaris and sharing resources across multiple servres. Configuration, Administration and maintenance of DNS BIND , sendmail, DHCP, NIS on Linux and Solaris Servers Configuring distributed file systems and administering NFS server and NFS clients and editing auto-mounting mapping as per system/user requirements. Configuring and managing Solaris zones and managing ZFS in Solaris Containers. Installation and configuration VERITAS Net Backup and performing restore activities. Backing up and restoring Solaris servers using ufsdump and ufsrestore. Installing and renewing SSL certificates for different websites on apache/tomcat. Setting up cron jobs for backups and monitoring processes. Planned, scheduled and Implemented OS patches on Solaris, Linux and AIX. Participate in installing and configuring Oracle on UNIX/Linux/AIX systems. Server Virtualization using Solaris Containers zones and VMWare and xen. Environment : Solaris, RHEL, SUSE enterprise Linux, AIX, Jumpstart/Kickstart, SAN-HBA, RAID, DNS, NFS, NIS, Sendmail, Veritas Suite, HA, Oracle, Zones, VMware, Sun Fire Servers - E15k, 1280 , 6900 , V440 , V490 , V880 , V40z, X4100 , M3000 , M5000 , IBM p570 ,p595 Dell poweredge Machines, HP BladeSystem c3000/c7000 , IBM blade centre.

Company Name

Sonata Software Limited

Position Held

System Administrator.

Dates

0000 - Present

Details

Sonata Software Limited Since 14/6/2006 to 4/8/2008 System Administrator. Responsibilities : Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Administration of Red Hat Enterprise linux 3/4/5 using Kickstart. Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Administration of Solaris 8/9. Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Administration of AIX. Volume management on AIX using logical volume manager, on Linux using lvm, on Solaris using solaris volume manager. Installation, Configuration, Maintenance and Administration of Ubuntu workstations. Applied patches on all Linux Boxes from common repository using RPM Worked on installation of home based agents on all target servers. Worked on installation of Power path on all Linux and Solaris boxes. Administrated DHCP, DNS, sendmail, NFS, Autofs, NIS, FTP, HTTP and Samba services in Linux/Solaris. Responsible for Connectivity Issues among various Servers and Switches and also responsible for installation of various hardware components on various servers Troubleshooting Day to Day issues with various Servers on different platforms. File system Administration, Setting up Disk Quota, configuring backup solutions on SAN storage. Responsible for patches for the operating system, building startup shell scripts, managing the automation of CRON jobs and managing file systems Troubleshooting logon problems, boot process and printing Responsible for designing High Availability Solutions for different applications, using VERITAS Clusters/Storage Foundation Suite. Responsible for patches for the operating system, building startup shell scripts, managing the automation of CRON jobs and managing file systems Reconfiguring Consoles, NIC on the servers and worked with SAN migrations team to bring the EMC disks online. Managed Disks and File systems using LVM on Linux. Implemented of Nagios for monitoring network devices and servers. Implemened proxy squid with content filtering Dansguardian and antivirus ClamAV . Worked with Linux, SAN, Oracle Database, and Network teams to ensure the smooth relocation of the servers. Environment : Red Hat Linux AS3.0/AS4.0/AS 5.0 , AIX 4.3.3/5.1 , SUSE Linux, Solaris 8/9 CentOS-4.4 , Ubuntu,VERITAS Clusters, VERITAS Volume Manager Veritas netbackup, VMware, EMC Clariion Array, Apache 2.0 , NFS, SAMBA, NIS, FTP, DHCP, SENDMAIL, SAMBA, Nagios and Software RAID, puppet. Dell poweredge 1950 , 2850 , 6850 , sunfire v440 , v480 , HP BladeSystem c3000 , IBM RS600 ,p520 ,p550 servers. Areas of Interest System and Network Security Open Source Software Linux