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Sidharth Walia 

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Resume Headline: Sidharth Walia - Unix Cloud Architect/Administrator

Resume Value: htxsnn8rwzbti7sd   

  

 

Sidharth Waliasidharthwalia@hotmail.com

972.510.4125

 

A versatile, innovative and result oriented IT infrastructure Architect and System Administrator with 15+ years of experience in the field of Information Technology working in large scale organizational . Creative problem solver who always inspires other team members to challenge and think outside the box to get the job done.

 

 

 

Skills

 

§    Unix System Administrator

§ Infrastructure/Cloud Architect

§ Solaris Administration

§    Red Hat Linux Administration

§ Oracle Ops Center

§ Apache HTTPD implementation and administration

§ Veritas Volume Manager

§ Amazon Web Services

§    Veritas Cluster server

§    Implementing LAMP server

§ Solaris Volume Manager 

§ User Management               

§ Cloud Services Architecture and

§ implementation

§ VMware ESXi Server

§    Automation using Puppet

§ Security Administration

§ Storage Administration

§    Network Administration

§ OpenStack

 

§ MariaDB

§    Oracle Clustering

§ Oracle/HP/IBM Harware

§ Shell Programming

 

 

 

Certifications and Education

 

·   B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication.

·   Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA-EX200 ).

·   Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE-EX300).

·   ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management.

·   Sun Solaris 8 Certified Professional.

·   Sun Solaris 9 Certified Professional.

·  Sun Solaris 9 Network Administrator.

 

 

 

Highlights

 

§ Expert Technologist with over 15 + years of experience in IT Unix administration and Infrastructure technical Architecture.

§ Strategic view of a broad cross section of UNIX technologies, including database, messaging and web platforms, with a strong focus on implementation.

§ Managing Projects dealing with migration to Cloud infrastructure

§ Infrastructure architecture & engineering experience, including functional and technical requirements gathering and solution development.

§ Implementation and migration expertise with Cloud infrastructure such as Amazon Web services, Openstack,VMWare, Oracle Ops Center and KVM.

§ Proficient in Unix installation, configuration, performance monitoring and tuning, backups, troubleshooting and local area networking under Unix and Windows 2k/NT.

§ Hands-on administration, implementation and architecture experience on Red Hat Linux version (rhel6 and rhel7),Solaris (9,10 and 11) Ubuntu, Veritas/Solaris/Logical Volume Manager, Veritas Clustering, SQL Clustering, Apache, Amazon Web Services, Open stack cloud environment, VMware ESXi server, KVM and MariaDB.

§ Installation and configuration of Apache, mariaDB, Mysql and PHP on RHEL6 and RHEL7

§ Vast Experience working with File systems – ZFS, VxVF, CIFS, iSCSI,NFS  etc.

§ Work with various IT teams to resolve any issues and address any break/fix problems related to infrastructure.

§ Work with infrastructure vendors to deliver enterprise class operational efficiency and delivery.

§ Vast experience working in Oracle T2,T3,T4,T5 and M series servers, worked with high end Solaris servers E15k,25K, 6500,E6800,

§ Vast experience working in x86 arch hardware with HP blade and IBM series servers.

§ Vast experience working with Oracle Ops Center. Installation and configuration of CDOMs and LDOMs.

§ Expertise in the total application lifecycle management perspective including technical understanding of relationships, dependences and requirements of hardware and software components, best practices, standards, and governance for complex integrated service oriented infrastructures (SOA).

§ Installation, configuration and administration of Solaris Jumpstart and DHCP server.

§ Vast Experience in performing IMM/ILO/ILOM administration, experience in performing firmware upgrade in Linux and Solaris Platform.

§ Configuring and administering Solaris Zones and Containers on Sun Solaris 10 /11 operating system

§ Knowledge of Automation using Puppet.

§ Vast experience with the design review and design documentation of IT projects relating to Unix administration.

§ Recommend changes to enhance the stability and performance of relevant platforms

§ Vast experience working as a team lead and providing guidance to team members.

§ Vast experience working with TCP networking and networking configuration on UNIX servers.

§ Worked closely with developers for implementing their applications on UNIX or Intel environments.

§ Work closely with Project Management and application teams during life cycle of Unix related projects.

§ Possess good analytical skills and problem solving capabilities with excellent communication skills.

§ Knowledge of Python

·   Experience with IBM AIX.

 

Professional Experience

 

Altruist Technologies, OverseasNov.2015 – Feb 2016

Cloud Architect/Manager

 

§    Study the Design, development and administration of company’s entire IT infrastructure.

§    Design and implementation of various Linux based servers on VMware ESXi.

§    Role of a Trusted Advisor in implementing the best solutions in Amazon Cloud.

§    Worked on Migration of several systems to Amazon Web services.

§    Built and Configured Linux Servers in AWS Cloud Environment 

§    Updated the AMI with the latest patches

§    Utilized AWS to set up Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) for Management, Production and Testing environments with customer operational requirements and parameters (e.g., internet gateway, subnets, elastic ip, and Security Groups). 

§    Utilized other AWS Cloud Computing platforms and its many dimensions of scalability including but not limited to: VPC, EC2, ELB, IAM, SQS, S3, auto scaling architectures, using EBS under high I/O requirements, custom monitoring metrics/analysis/alarms via Cloud Watch, the AWS CLI, to meet client's needs and project requirements. 

§    Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures. 

§    Consolidated the AWS systems of the entire company applications.

§    Setup of monitoring tools like Nagios and Amazon Cloudwatch to monitor major metrics like Network packets, CPU utilization, Load Balancer Latency etc. 

§    Performed all Linux operating system, disk management and patch management configurations, on Linux instances in AWS.

§    Guided the company with OpenStack environment for consolidating their entire application to be hosted on OpenStack.

§    Installion, implementation of Apache and mariadb server.

§    Configuring Amazon relational database such as mysql and Mariadb

§    Work with various sources within and outside the company to gather extensive amount of data

§    Worked with various development teams

§    Work with company’s management and give guidance about Cloud based infrastructure tools.

§    Worked in the company’s hiring process to hire cloud and Linux engineers.

§    Helped the company to decommission unused hardware.

§    Guided the company for various IT Infrastructure roles

 

 

 

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Dallas TXMarch 2014 – Sept 2015

Senior Unix Consultant.

 

§    Design, develop, deploy, upgrade and administer UNIX (Solaris, Red Hat Linux and AIX) based servers.

§    Design and implement private cloud environment for the company.

§    Work with Project manager lead for guidance on ESXi and Openstack environment.

§    Install Linux on VMWARE/ESX OS as part of complex setup, OS Upgrade, cluster upgrade etc. Setting up virtual center and installing virtual clients on base ESX.

§    Install, upgrade and administer Solaris through Oracle Ops Center.

§    Manage, Administer and implement Solaris CDOMs and LDOMs through Oracle Ops Center.

§    Investigate, debug and solve relevant problems generating in company’s UNIX environment.

§    Recommend changes to enhance the stability and performance of relevant platforms

§    Support various IT applications on Linux (RHEL6) and Solaris servers.

§    Install, Configure and support LVMs and Veritas Volume Manager for Linux and Solaris servers.

§    Install, Configure and support Veritas Cluster server.

§    Installation, configuration and administration of Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster server.

§    Test and build RHEL6 servers and day to day support for the new servers.

§    Work on testing of installation and implementation of Red hat Linux 7.

§    Work on the change and incident management processes of the company.

§    Involved in migration of several Solaris servers to Linux servers

§    Work in 24/7 production support environment of the Unix platform server support group.

§    Responsible for any addition, upgrades, changes, build and issues with the production servers.

§    Developing procedures for any implementation, changes or upgrades on the Unix servers.

§    As part of production support worked on technical incidents created through on BMC Remedy ITSM: Incident Management system.

§    Worked with the security audit process on Unix servers.

§     Building new Unix servers from scratch to production live implementing all the company's standard configuration ( such as Networking, routing, File system layout, Monitoring and backup tools, user management tool, Security tools and security clearance) 

§    Shell scripting for day to day Unix system administration activities.

§    Training completed on Various IT processes and procedures.

 

 

 

 

 

AT@T – Dallas,Tx

Senior System Administrator/ArchitectMay 2007 – Oct. 2013

 

§    Design, develop, deploy, upgrade and administer Unix (Solaris and RedHat Linux) based servers.

§    Prepare various processes, standards and documentation for installation and configuration of Unix based systems.

§    UNIX H/W sizing, capacity planning, UNIX hosting architecture Sign off from client

§    Install, configure and test any new upgrades for Unix based systems.

§    Involved in migration of Unix to Linux servers for various IT projects.

§     Building new Unix servers from scratch to production live implementing all the company's standard configuration ( such as Networking, routing, File system layout, Monitoring and backup tools, user management tool, Security tools and security clearance) 

§    Design, review and setup of Cloud Openstack environment ( Grizzly ) and gave demo to various Unix teams within the company

§    Conduct design reviews and provide infrastructure guidance wherever needed to various IT teams and higher management.

§    Providing Cloud services knowledge to IT application teams.

§    Design and planning of Cloud infrastructure environment.

§    Provided guidance and review of Virtualization and cloud computing environment.

§    Installation, configuration and administration of zones/containers for Solaris 10.

§    Installation configuration of RHEL5 / RHEL6 on VMware. 

§    Configure LVMs for Linux based servers.

§    Installation, configuration and administration of Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster server.

§    Installation and configuration of Solaris disk suite.

§    Installation. Configuration and administration of Solaris Jumpstart server

§    Prepare and update documentation for jumpstart server process

§    Use of Shell and Perl scripting for configuring Jumpstart server

§    Analyze and resolve diagnostic problems on Unix based servers.

§    Experience on VMware ESX managing guests.

§    Involved in migration of several Sun servers to Linux servers Dallas Data Center.

§    Working knowledge with Memory management and performance analysis of Unix servers.

§    Coordinate with IT Delivery Project managers and various IT infrastructure support teams and provide expert technological guidance for Unix based environment.

§    Coordinate with various IT applications teams for any issues relating to Unix based environment.

§    Adhere to Security policies set by security team on Unix based servers.

§    Shell scripting for day to day Unix system administration activities.

§    Experience working on High end Sun server’s e25K, e15K and 6800 and most of the T- series servers.

§    Review and provide expert guidance on the design of Unix based projects.

§    Vast experience working with networking and storage configuration on Unix based servers.

§    Work and coordinate with various teams (Patrol, Security, backup and network) for configuring tools on Unix based servers.

§    Configuring IPMP on Solaris and VLAN tagging for Linux servers.

§    Package configuration management on Solaris and Linux based servers.

§    Vast experience with network tools and protocols (Iptables, firewall,tcpdump, snoop,netstat,TCP/IP)

§    Coordinate and interact with various vendors for their products and services.

§    Installation and configuration of Apache, Mysql and PHP on RHEL6

§    Interaction with Various IT project Management team to provide infrastructure guidance.

 

 

Sun Microsystems/Sun Professional Services – Dallas Texas

Senior System AdministratorNov 2005 –May 2007

 

§    Design, develop, deploy, upgrade and administer Unix based servers.

§    Installation. Configuration and administration of Solaris Jumpstart server.

§    Prepare and update documentation for jumpstart server process.

§    Installation and configuration on SAN and NAS on Solaris Servers.

§    Installation, configuration and administration of Sun servers with Solaris 8,9 and 10.

§    Provide Solaris server guidance to IT project Managers.

§    Involved in Migration old Sun servers to T series servers.

§    Design and architect of Solaris servers in support to applications.

§    Install, configure and administer High end Sun server’s e25K, e15K and 6800.

§    Coordinate with IT Delivery Project managers and various IT infrastructure support teams and provide expert technological guidance for Unix based environment.

§    Coordinate with various IT applications teams for any issues relating to Unix based environment.

 

 

Verizon Data Services, Dallas Texas

IT Infrastructure ArchitectAug 2003 –Nov 2005

 

§    Responsible for implementation of Verizon’s retail applications for Unix and Intel servers.

§    Develop Infrastructure solutions and designs to provide on demand platforms.

§    Provide Infrastructure technical guidance and support to all levels in the organization including disaster recovery, technical upgrade planning and storage administration.

§    Managing IT projects from start to production ready.

§    UNIX H/W sizing, capacity planning, UNIX hosting architecture Sign off from client

§    Defining new Unix Infrastructure model and processes.

§    Prepare IT Infrastructure design and involve in the IT projects process flow.

§    Assist service engineers, vendor software support personnel and other vendor hardware / software specialists in isolating and resolving hardware and software problems.

§    Perform Project coordination in support of Unix OS related software/hardware changes/additions, from project inception to project completion.

§    Storage. Networking and hardware recommendations to IT projects.

§    Provide knowledge to application teams for using load balancing for web servers and high availability for database servers.

§    Leading the offshore team for complete implementation and architecture process.

§    Installation and configuration of Windows 2003 and Active directory 2003.

§    Work with various teams for guidance to their tools like oracle DB, BMC Patrol, Weblogic, IIS.

 

 

Verizon Data Services, Sacramento CA

IT Infrastructure Architect/System AdministratorDec 2002 –Aug 2003

·               Responsible for Initial Build of Solaris, Linux and Intel servers at Verizon’s Data centre with configuration of Jumpstart server.

·               Administration and Configuration of all UNIX and Intel servers.

·               Installation and configuration of Jumpstart Server.

·               Installation and Configuration of Veritas Volume Manager on all Sun servers.

·               Installation and configuration of windows 2000.

·               Responsible for clustering all database servers using Veritas clustering for UNIX servers and SQL Clustering for Intel Servers.

·               Responsible for trouble shooting for all problems relating to SUN hardware, Solaris and Linux OS, Clustering and middleware.

·               Installation, environment setup and administration of middleware and application software’s like BEA Tuxedo, Weblogic, IIS, SQL, Oracle, DB2, and COM.

·               TCP/IP troubleshooting on Unix/NT/Linux network.

·               Troubleshooting of Intel environment.

 

Tata Consultancy Services, India

IT Infrastructure Architect/System AdministratorNov 2000 –Nov 2002

 

·               Installation and Administration for Sun Servers for all IT projects at TCS Noida.

·               Installation and Administration for Intel Servers for all Projects at TCS Noida

·               Installation and Configuration of Oracle 8i on Sun Database server.

·               Installation and Configuration of Jumpstart Server.

·               Installation and configuration of iplanet on Sun Servers.

·               Storage, Planning and Management, Mirroring and Striping through Logical Volume Managements.

·               Initial presentation to TCS Management for using EMC for the servers

·               Presentation to TCS Management for high availability.

·               Apache Installation and Configuration.

·               Responsible for maintaining and administrating Security policies on Unix Servers.

·               Installation and administration of middleware on the servers.

·               Responsible for backups and restoration on all Sun Servers.

·               Initial Setup of Veritas Volume Manager on Sun Servers.

·               Initial Setup of Veritas Clustering on Oracle Database Servers.

·               Installation and configuration of Domain for NT Users

·               User Management for all projects at TCS Noida

·               Trouble shooting of Sun and Intel Servers.

·               Responsible for Upgradation of UNIX Servers at TCS Noida.

·               Presentation to the Clients for UNIX resources for TCS.

·               Responsible for Automation and Monitoring of the servers

·               Responsible for scripting backups and restoration for Sun Server

 

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Target Job:

Target Job Title:

Unix Cloud Architect/Administrator

 

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IT/Software Development

·         Computer/Network Security

·         Desktop Service and Support

·         Network and Server Administration

 

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US-TX-Dallas

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