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SUJITH .S. PILLAI Mobile: +919495531970
Mail:sujithspillai90@gmail.com,sujithspillai90@yahoo.in
Web:http://linuxexperiencesforyou.blogspot.in/
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CareerVision/ Objective:-
My primary focusand goal is to align technology infrastructure withbusiness growth. Over 7yrs.of
experience in the Information Technology industry as LINUX/UNIX Professionalwithhands-on
over 6.5yrs. Linux experience in wide range of concepts and technologies. A career in the
field of System Administration in a fast-paced / proactive environment that leverages my
experience and capabilities and gives me an opportunity for further advancement and growth with
a progressive, motivating and growth oriented organization of international standard and repute
that values teamwork,integrity and creativity.
Educational QualificationandCertifications:-
B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering
Red Hat Certified Engineer
VMware Certified Professional –VCP 5
VMware Certified Associate – VCA 5
ITIL_v3Foundation
Self-Evaluation:
Strengths - Hardworking, Punctual, Versatile, Optimistic, Friendly behavior and
Dynamic Approach.
ExperienceSummary:-
Proventrack record of success with more than 6.5 years of Industry experience
Well versed in Linux & UNIX Server administration withextensive experience in
installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Linux and Unix servers and
application servers.
Familiar with bash scripting for automation and for various vulnerability fixes.
Focused and Skilled in troubleshooting complex problems.
Professional Experience:-
Since July – 2011 working as an Infrastructure Analyst with UST-Global Ltd,
Techno Park,Kerala, India.
From April 2008 - July 2011 workedas a Senior Engineer-Server Management with
WIPRO Ltd, Bangalore, India.
2. Job Profile in UST Global since July 2011 till date
H&RBlock,asInfrastructure Analyst.
Roles & Responsibilities:
Installation and maintenance of more than 2000 + RHEL- 4,5 & 6 Linux & HP Unix machines
on the network.
Complete UNIX&Linux server administration & management.
Email server and Email Gateway Administration & Management.
Setting up networkand infrastructure (Linux/Unix) rules & network policies.
Assist in system disaster recovery requirements and Data center wide operations.
Backup, Data Security and Storage Management.
Infrastructure management in Virtualized environment withVMware.
Cluster management with Veritas Clustering Suite.
User & accountmanagement & access control.
Monitoring Servers & applications performance on the network withvarious monitoring
tools like HP Openview,Solarwinds, HP-SIMetc.
Implementation of Networkstandards & policies.
Change management, Problem ticket handling and Root cause analysis
Patching, automation and upgrade of Server OS
Hardware/Software Provisioning & Decommissioning
Preparation of Technical/Business documentation
Identify & develop scripts needed for automating manual tasks.
Backup and restore using Symantec Netbackup.
Red Hat Satellite server management,
Familiar with Opens’, Proftpd,Vsftpssftp servers with chrootenvironment and file
automation.
Mail server installation and administration
Linux Based Apache/NGNIX Web server installation and Support
Server security and performance tuning
Vulnerability fixes based on the qualys scan report and fix on various issues.
Squid Proxy server – Activedirectory integration, Controlling internet access on VLAN
(Subnet), Website, IP address and File typebasis.
NFS Server – File sharing and securing access based on computer and Subnet.
FTP server – File sharing and securing access based on users, computer and Subnet.
Disk management – Managing Disk with different RAID levels [0, 1 & 5], Logical Volume
management [LVM], implementing Disk Quota based on users and groups, Auto mounting
and Virtual memory management [SWAP].
Linux Securities - Workingwith Net Filter (IP Tables and NAT), TCP Wrappers, Xinetd and
basics of PAM.
Linux patching for Amazon cloud servers.
User and Group Administration
Files and permission management – Managing Files and permission with Access Control
Lists, SUDO,SUID, SGID and Sticky bit.
Backup and Restore- Managing backups with TAR, CPIOand Dump-restore commands.
Unattended installations – Automating the installation with Kick start through shared
images.
Working with RPMs and source packages– Installing, Upgrading, removing and querying the
RPM packages. And installing various source packages.
Apache – Basic Apache webserver configuration
3. Job Profile in WIPRO Ltd From APRIL 2008 till July 2011 :
March2011to July2011- 5months
UIDAI– (Unique IdentificationAuthority of India) as Linux administrator.
RolesandResponsibilities
Handled more than 1500 live servers which is running on Red Hat Linux-5.5
Installation, Configuration and management of enterprise servers
Resolving the incidents escalated by L1 team
Security management – Configuring Accountpolicy, Access rights, Passwornd control.
Capacity Management.
Change Management.
Analyzing the logs – proactively (Eventlogs, sys logs etc)
Data backup / Restore, monitoring and troubleshooting
OS performance tuning
Password management and control
Recovery of server after the disaster
Responsible to maintain the uptime of the critical servers in CIDR
Monitoring key application parameters, logs forperformance.
Installing applications releases into Linux servers.
First level of trouble shooting in Linux for application related issues
Troubleshooting applications related issues and resolving the same.
Installation, Configuration and Administration of Apache and Apache Tomcat
Tracking, troubleshooting and resolving Application Server and WebServers related issues
Start & Stop application server and Web Server if required/ as scheduled
Managing/Updating the Application.
Circulate the New Features of Applications once released
Networkbonding
Configuration and administration of various RAIDlevels.
February 2011 – 1 month
SouthIndianBank, as senior Engineer-Server Management. (Special assignment for Data Center
Migration)
Roles&Responsibilities:
General OS Administration tasks on Solaris 9/10 (90% servers under support are running on
Solaris 9 and a few Solaris 10 servers),General Tasks – PerformanceMonitoring
(Memory/Swap/SAR/IO etc) and gave suggestions to resolve bottlenecks if any.
File system creation and data copying across servers.
Tar backups of Customer data either to Tape or to File system.
Mirroring/Concatenation (Both SVM and VxVM)
Root backups and Recovery
File system consistency check (fsck) and Patching
SoftwareInstallation on Solaris Servers
Monitoring and Administration of Cluster
SAN Storage (Creating volumes- RAID -0, RAID -1, RAID5 )
Scheduling Backup Policies,Creating Volume Pools
Backups and Restoration
4. November-2009 to December 2010 – 1 year1 month
Cisco Systems,as InfrastructureSpecialist.
Roles&Responsibilities:
Installation and maintenance ofLinux&Unix machines on the network.
Assist in system disaster recovery requirements and Data center wide operations
Backup, Data Security and Storage Management
User & accountmanagement & access control.
Monitoring Servers & applications performance on the network withvarious monitoring
tools like HP Openview,Solarwinds, HP-SIMetc..
Change management, Problem ticket handling and Root cause analysis
Patching, automation and upgrade of Server OS
Hardware/Software Provisioning & Decommissioning
Preparation of Technical/Business documentation
April-2008 to November -2009 1 year 7 months
Intel TechnologyIndiaPvt.Ltd,as Linux L1, Server System Administrator
Roles&Responsibilities:
Administration of about 20000+ Linux servers running on Red Hat, SuSe OS
Installation, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Linux Enterprise servers
Configure and Administrate PXE Boot,Kick start and Nebulous.
Maintain DNS and NIS servers.
Updating BIOS and firmware for IBM,HP Servers
Configuration and administration of RAID 5, RAID 1 and RAID 0.
Users and Vendor interaction for calllog.
First levelof troubleshooting on storage servers.
Nebulous configurationfor Unix Servers.
Networkconfiguration on servers.
Linux OS parameter tuning according to the application hosted in the servers.
Monitoring of servers through Ganglia, Master shell.
Document and perform the changes
Updating BIOS and firmware on IBM,HP servers.
Performpatching on servers.
Identify the basic problems in the servers and escalate for additional help.
Routine audit on server backup, errors, performance etc.
Co-ordinate withdevelopers and provide technical support for quires.
Personal Info : Male, Married, and Born on 10th April 1985.
Permanent Address : Sruthi, Mathra P.O, Punalur, Kollamdistrict, Kerala.
: 0475-2251970
Passport Details : Passport No : F9966188
Date of expiry: 15/11/2016
Pan Details : CAVPS5806F