Satpal Singh Dhiman

• Develop, test, and maintain automation infrastructure.
• Conduct automation scripts code review
• Monitor and update automated test strategies
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of general source control concepts: Branching, merging, tagging, labels
• Experience in creating inventory, job templates and scheduling jobs using Ansible Tower
• Identify potential areas of improvement and design plan for implementation.
• Providing 24/7 On call support in off business hours
• Very Good Knowledge in bash scripting
• Writing codes for Infrastructure Automation Team in shell, ansible and ruby
• Managing Linux and AIX Production Servers and Troubleshooting issues
• Implemented and supported Virtual IO Servers and Live partition mobility

• Lead team members to identify, research and resolve technical problems
• Perform system audits and provide remediation steps when required.
• Established satellite 6 servers.
• Built strong relationships with customers through positive attitude and attentive response
• Mentored and guided employees to foster proper completion of assigned duties
• Coached team members in customer service techniques, providing feedback and encouragement toward reaching sales goals

• Responsible for effective provisioning, installation/Configuration, operation and maintenance of systems hardware/storage and software related infrastructure
• Implement UNIX servers such as AIX, Linux & Solaris for optimum performance along with troubleshooting and problem resolutions
• Configuration and administration of IBM Cloud Orchestrator (ICO), PowerVC, PowerHA, SSP, vHMC, Redhat Satellite and LPM
• Configuration and administration of VMware infrastructure which includes VM deployments, Vmotion, Datastore, VDS port group, OVF management and snapshot consolidation
• Perform operating system, security updates/patches on systems using Redhat satellite network and multibos
• Implementing infrastructure upgrades on ESXi, ILOM, HMC, Pseries and blade servers
• Server configuration automation using ansible playbooks
• Establish security baseline, capacity thresholds, correlate events and define monitoring/alerting criteria
• Provide proactive health checks, capacity management and performance management through lpar2rrd, ELK stack and Sitescope.

Achievements:

• Received “I CAUGHT YOU AWARD” – Server Consolidation
• Received “Unix Team - Best IT Team” award
• Datacenter migration
• Storage migration

• (Healthcare): TIER-3 support (onshore) for around 2000 high end UNIX production servers in multiple healthcare USA data centers
• These servers are mostly catering critical high availability (24x7) services for Billing, regional sales and distribution, Call Center management, Value added services and other Medic product development, Testing and Operations.

• System Administration for AIX severs in Production, UAT, Development and DR environment
• Installation, configuration and administration of AIX (LPAR, VIO and HACMP/Non-HACMP) servers
• LPAR creation and administering the LPAR servers using HMC
• HACMP Cluster Configuration
• Installation of Veritas Netbackup & EMC storage softwares on AIX servers
• Updating Technolgy level & Service pack
• Administration of Blade servers using Advanced Management Module (AMM)
• Replacing defective devices.

• AT&T - USA
• JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
• Handle Incident and Change management tickets in 24X7 production critical environment
• Administration of HACMP/VCS nodes and performing activities like switching resources, Failover testing and other HACMP/VCS maintenance activities
• Administration, Monitoring and logging functions, User/Group administration, Usage scenarios of HACMP, reduce planned downtime, reduce unplanned downtime, Increase Maintenance availability.

• Server management which includes Disk management, LVM management, Software installations, job Scheduling, backup and restorations
• Experience troubleshooting performance related issues (CPU, Memory, Network and I/O) File system management - Creation, Deletion, File Systems Changes – Grow and Shrink

• Outsource Management of Nokia), Providing support in areas of Operating systems (UNIX, Linux), Hardware/ LAN/ Installation of OS/ up gradation of packages for power pc servers of IBM
• Providing daily routine health checkup for LBA which includes Operating systems, Hardware devices, IBM RAID storage, applications and Network Connectivity
• Providing daily data backup and support/administration on Tivoli Storage manager
• Tape Library Management
• Troubleshooting through HMC & Hardware management console management
• Handle technical escalations from corresponding personnel / agencies.