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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
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
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