Linux Admin

Position : LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Project :
Project Name: IT O&I D/N System Management
Role :LINUX SYSTEM ADMIN
Duration :FEB 17 2014 TILL DATE
Description: We have to handle data center maintenance of our client for more than 2000+
physical servers & 4000+ virtual hosts.
Wide knowledge on Cisco Flex pods UCS Architecture, cisco Nexus switches
troubleshooting hardware issues L1 support.
Wide knowledge on configuring samba, DNS Bind, DHCP, HTTPS and Apache Web
Servers on Linux machines.
Performing L2 level full lifecycle management for all alerts and production issues
like incident logging, initial troubleshooting, doing root cause analysis, updating
process Documentation on Linux Machines.
Generating weekly reports and sharing with the Management about escalating
tickets as per Project SLAS, SLA Compliance, Ticket Volume and Escalation trends.
And escalating tickets as per Project SLAS
Responsible for the implementation, troubleshooting, and maintaining operations
of network systems.
Taking care of their CMR (change management release) plan by updating the
stakeholders via mail and phone.
Maintaining, monitoring and troubleshooting disk space, volumes, Https, site
down, Load Average, free memory, Cpu Usage, Processes etc. Alerts generated in
monitoring tools.
Good Knowledge on writing automation scripts using shell scripting for day to day
activities.
Experience in working with Production, Service Delivery, and Support
Infrastructure NOC, Ticketing environments on 365 *24/7 Basis.
Skills Used
Technical Proficiency:
Server OS : RHEL-5.0 & 6.0, Centos, Vmware, Windows 2003/2008
Mail server : Postfix, Send mail.
Network Monitoring Tool : Nagios, SCOM 2012, VMWARE 5.1
Ticketing tool : RT Ticket tool, Jira tool, SMIS
Protocols & File Systems : DNS Bind, DHCP, SAMBA, FTP, NFS, NIS, HTTPS
Operating System : Red Hat 5 & 6, CENTOS 5 & 6 Linux versions, Win 2008
server/XP/7/8

Application Server : Apache, Samba

Professional courses : RHCE, CCNA, MCITP, ITIL V3

ROLES
Linux Roles and Responsibilities
- Installing/updating Linux OS
- Installing/upgrading packages in Linux through YUM, RPM tools.
- User administration (setup and maintaining account)
- Managing Disk and Creating standard file systems and LVM file system
management
- Configuring Network Interfaces
- Configuring routes to the host.
- Managing the system memory and swap memory which includes extending the
swap space.
- Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with Linux Host.
- Performing Backups and Restoration using tar and dump
- Performing Patching on Linux Host.
- Supporting remote Infrastructure Management
- Configuring the NFS/FTP server as per user requirement.
- Monitoring Network & Hosts using Nagios Monitoring Tool
- Networking, troubleshoot (Linux/VMware/Storage)
- Building, provisioning and supporting the Linux Servers
- Configuring Printers and maintenance of local & Network based Printers
- Implementing firewall policy using Iptables
- Monitoring system performance includes Memory, Virtual Memory, and System
events, Swapping, Disk and CPU Utilization.
- Installing and configuring KACE agent on Linux Host.
- Installing and upgrading VMware tool on Virtual Host.
- VNC server/client Installation and troubleshooting.
- Use of performance monitoring tools like iostat, vmstat, netstat etc.
- Experience in Various Downtime Activities like faulty Hardware Replacement,
Hardware Up gradation when required.
Storage Related Roles and Responsibilities
- Have worked on EMC storage device like EMC 5500, EMC 5700 and EMC VMAX 10k
and HP EVA Device.
- User creation and their access privileges management.
- Storage requirement monitoring.
- Storage Group Creation.
- LUN (Logical Unit Number) Creation & expansion and allocating it to proper Host or

Storage Group.
- Storage Array performance monitoring.
- Storage Array Firmware up gradation.
- Monitoring Health Status of Storage Array & Hardware.
- Resolving LUN trespassing issue.
- In case of issue collecting 'SP collects" and raising case with vendor.
- Handling storage requests for Virtual Machines

VMware Virtualization Roles and Responsibilities

- ESX Server Installation.
- Deploying and managing Virtual Machines using VSphere Client, vCenter Server,
Virtual Machine Wizard, Templates, Cloning, VMware vCenter Converter.
- Monitoring system performance includes Memory, Virtual Memory, and System
events, Swapping, Disk and CPU Utilization.
- Handling storage requests for Virtual Machines.
- Creating Virtual Machine Snapshots and VSphere vApp.
- Configure and manage resource pool.
- Performing Vmotion, Physical to Virtual Machine conversion.
- Configuring ESX/ESXi with ISCSI, NFS and Fiber Channel Storage.
- Install and Configure VSphere Client and vCenter Server.
- Create and Manage VSphere Data stores
- Create & Manage a Standard Virtual Switch.
- Networking, troubleshoot (Linux/VMware/Storage)
- Control User Access through Roles and Permissions.
Oracle Virtualization Roles and Responsibilities
- Deploying Virtual Machine.
- OVS repository status Monitoring.
- Configure and manage resource pool.
- Creating and managing OVS repositories
- Handling storage requests for Virtual Machines.
- Moving One Virtual Machine from one OVS repository to other repository.
- Disk addition and Logical volume expansion on Linux Virtual Machine.
- Troubleshooting by examining logs generated by Oracle Virtual Machine.
- Resource (Memory, CPU, NIC Cards and Hard Disk) allocation to Virtual machine.