I am a Certified Professional having more than twelve years of experience in
information technology, currently employed as Sr.Support Engineer in a highly demanding environment.My expertise lies in design, administration, performance tuning, backup, recovery, production support, multi-node installation & migration and maintenance of Enterprise Unix and Storage systems. This include extensive experience on HP UX , Red Hat EL Oracle Solaris 11 and enterprise storage from NetApps , EMC (VMAX,Cx3/4 ) and HP (3par StoreServ ,EVAs ,XP12K , now p - series) in High Availability suits and , as well , standalone configurations. I have done 2 storage migration projects from EVA to VMAX , using hot and cold pull methodology and EVA to Netapps ,using lvm mirroring and disk dumps scripts.I have also completed 2 fabric migration projects for brocade switches. Previous experience not only include highly regulated and compliance environments like Johnson &Johnson (offshore, HCL), but, mission critical environments like Banking. Rahul has experience in managing of large SAN from various vendors and brocade SAN switches. He has good technical know-how about high end storage solution. He has also performed the responsibilities of solutions architect, technical architect, infrastructure management & data center setup, capacity planning, designing purging and archiving solution, OS sizing, performance tuning. He has experience in high availability Clusters suits like Service Guard, Red Hat Cluster Suit , VCS cluster . Rahul has hands on experience with oracle databases, VMware technology (ESX 4/ and 5) servers on various infrastructure like hp blades, rxseries , Dell M7/6 series, brocade switches and storages(different vendors) . I have done capacity planning and sizing for different employers. He extensible experience with DBAs and Middleware teams and their requirements. Rahul has excellent communication skills. Presently working in a banking environment, he delivers responsibilities and has involvement in oracle databases and application servers (Web sphere Application Server, J2EE application deployment) hosting banking applications. I adheres and strives to imbibe the best established ITIL and other compliance and regulatory practices in his daily deliverance of tasks. 1/7
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech)
scoring 73% Intermediate (10 +2) scoring 63% High School (10) scoring 80% Additional Qualification
IET ,Govt. college(Agra University)
Batch 2003 Vishwa bharti ,Noida(CBSE Board 1998) Vishwa bharti ,Noida(CBSE Board 1996) HP Certified System Engg. HPCSA/HPCSE ITIL
October 2008 till date Integrated Systems LLC
Responsibilities (as in JD):
1) Participate in capacity planning and sizing based on the
requirement gathering session with the application/business owner for the new and existing application. Designing the proposed solution and getting the same approved from stakeholders. 2) Proposing the Infrastructure diagram, for solution chosen with respect to servers, virtualization, middle tier, databases, getting the same approved from the solution requirement owner and solution vendor for flotation of RFPs. 3) Trouble shoot storage and fabric issues at customer premises and led to resolution, within Specified SLAs or escalate to concern vendors and follow-up until resolution. Storage environment is heterogeneous VMAX series , 3PAR , Netapp , Equal logic and san switches from brocade.
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3)General Unix Admin configuration and management task, on
HP -UX v 3.1 and 2.3 create and maintaining LVM/VxVM , VxVM volumes and storages. Red Hat (RHEL 5 and 6) and Oracle Solaris OS Admin task for management of file systems and clusters in production, test and development environments. 4) Installing and configuring HP UX v3 operating system RX series standalone partition able, rack mount and blade servers. Managing Netapps and EVA for Production and DR site. 5)Configuring , deploying , troubleshooting and maintaining new and existing Cluster suits installation ( Service Guard version 11.16 , 11.18 and 11.20 ) in production and DR environment. 6) Ignite backs and verification of the same, of the production servers. Backup, recovery and DR planning and implementation thru solutions like DP. 7) Install, validates , maintains banks Red Hat server , red hat cluster suits. Backup and recovery solution (Mondo rescue/Aconics).Patching as per assessment by security team, and proactive patching strategy. Using Red Hats customer portal for registering and patching servers. 8) Maintains corresponding servers and storage for Test and development environment at banks DR site. 9) Managing storage, from different vendors, allocates LUNS as and when necessary, capacity planning for the same .Controllers, switch and EVA disk firmware upgrade, in coordination with vendors. 3/7
10) Analyzing any requirement in terms of server and storage
capacity and presenting the same to higher management. 11) Red hat cluster suite configuration with iSCSI based storage solutions like Dell s EqualLogic , MSA (HP) etc. ,establish and demonstrate the feature of the same during testing phase to IT audit and compliance, application support team ,before releasing the same in production environment. 12) Install and integrate channels (FI, C-24 and internet banking) , for Finacle instances in test and DR. Install Finacle instances from scratch , analogous to existing production instances. Validate business test cases and coordinate with Infosys for resolving issues, ensure that team members follow up and resolve cases to business content.
13) Involvement in annual DR drill of bank, preparing the DR
server for the same and active participation in the same. 14) Following change management, ITIL practices , security review of servers with banks system security team
HCL Johnson And Johnson (Client)July -2006 October 2008 )
Environment: Consists of more than 700 HP UX server , around 500 Solaris and Red Hats servers serving various Parma locations for its subsidiaries , located in US and around the word elsewhere .The JnJ datacenter , operated under strict SLAs , with regulation and guidelines adhering to best in industry ITIL practices and Parma regulatory body of US . The conglomeration of latest infrastructure is divided into 5 datacenters, the 4/7
ticketing system managed by Remedy and monitoring by HP Open View, for
backup VERITAS Net Backup is being used. Responsibilities Requesting SAN disks and extending HP LVM and VXVM file systems as per existing FS layout. Analyzing and resolving Incident tickets Implementing Change control tickets Installing new softwares and patches on servers Configuring new service groups under VERITAS clusters and new packages in M/C Service Guard Installing HA solutions (Red Hat cluster, VCS , Service Guard ) from scratch. Relayout existing file systems in VXVM Analyzing existing patches on server and downloading required new patches and creating patch depots New Server Builds Doing quarterly SOX testing Preparing IQ/OQ documents Performance monitoring of the server using Measure ware tools. Patch analysis on Itrc. Coordinating with application team and completing their requests Reset or enable user accounts and giving FTP access to users Monitoring server performance when ever required and to take corrective actions when performance is low Installed Operating system and Java DST patches on all Unix Servers. Reset or enable user accounts and giving FTP access to users Coordinating with Application team and hardware engineers while replacing faulty hardware Find the root cause for the repetitive and system failure cases and preparing RCA document
System Administration Skills
Writing shell scripts to simplify the jobs according to requirements Basic knowledge on storage technologies like NAS and SAN, worked with netapp NAS snapshots Configured Cluster Setup over SAN and DAS with VERITAS Cluster Server 3.5 for oracle Databases and M/C Service Guard for Web Methods Applications Maintaining clusters with Cluster Manager (GUI) 5/7
Worked on VERITAS File System
Adding disk in cluster , BC after space allocation Implemented RAID-0, Raid-1, and Raid-5, Raid 1 + 0, Raid 0 + 1 with VERITAS volume manager Performed disk group importing and deporting Mirroring and encapsulating disks Implemented volume and file system snapshots with VERITAS volume manager to perform online backups Did online resizing and relayouts of the file systems Monitoring VERITAS volume manager with VEA Worked on Logical Volume Management (LVM) on HP-UX for implementing raid-1 and raid0 Performed OS backup and created recovery tapes with make_*_recovery on HPUX Restored OS from Ignite Tape/Network Backup in HPUX Configure SAMBA (CIFS) file Server for sharing resources package administration and patch management both with command line and SD-UX OS hardening (implementing basic security policies and issues) Did kernel rebuilding and tuning in HPUX Monitoring performance with sar, glance, top and other utilities Business Copy Configuration from server side using raid manager tool Troubleshooting Veritas Netbackup issues from client side. Implemented Dynamic Multipathing of NICs for redundancy and fault tolerance and Auto Port Aggregation in HPUX Worked on basic TCP/IP protocols like rsh, rcp, ftp, telnet, etc. Exhaustive exp. With ext. scheduler (Unix.) Maestro /TWS JSC and CLI i/f
June 2003 Mar 2006 Commtel N/W Pvt. LTD
Responsibilities as Eng. Positioned at Power Grid , Head Office . Managing Unix servers, oracle data bases backups and telecom applications. Analyzing the storage and tape requirements and preparing request for procurement. 6/7
Installation of Various telecom applications (billing systems etc) on HP UX servers.
File system resizing , addition and relay out , day to day administration task. MC/SG High availability cluster installation and management ,day to day administration task. Editing production and configuration scripts with approved CR as per application requirement. Schedule bi-monthly server, DB and application shutdown/startup. Regular backups on DAT tapes and restoration, including Ignite backups. Maintaining Oracle cold and rman backups on tapes and storages. Recover/Restore the schema as and when needed by alarm handling teams. Oracle DB recovery and trouble shooting 1st level issues. Trouble shooting network issue if any b/w application and p-muxes and other NE. Escalating any server oracle issue , if needed to HP and oracle , follow up the case to resolution , so as to maintain the SLAs (RPO/RTO) with the client. Preparing report for availability, monthly and presenting the same to client in monthly meeting. Suggest solution that might improve the over infrastructure of voice and data channels.