AKSHARA A
Chennai
Summary
Highly motivated and results driven Senior Engineer with over 5 years of experience in fast paced Linux technology providing technical and system administration support through troubleshooting, identifying and isolating issues and worked with Linux and Cloud.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Engineer
TATA Communications Ltd.
03.2021 - Current
- Configured LVM and size extension or reduction
- Fair knowledge on network configuration and bonding concepts
- Worked in incident management and change management based on the SLA
- Created and maintained user accounts, permissions, and access rights.
- Performed seamless OS version upgrades across 400+ servers, resulting in a performance boost and extended support
- Decommissioned servers from OS level adhering to change management policies
- Deployed new VMs in VMware/ESXI and performed RAM/CPU upgrade and monitoring
- Developed Bash Shell scripts for monitoring and management tasks, improving team performance.
- Executed network vulnerability assessments, identifying and patching over security flaws.
- Worked with various teams like network team, asset team, backup team, monitoring team during new server migration, troubleshooting, asset onboard into CMDB, etc
- Worked with DELL and Huawei physical servers and experience accessing the servers from ILO console
- Replaced the failed or corrupted disks, sensors, PSUs and various other parts coordinating with the vendors
- Created user-friendly documentation on IT procedures (SOPs), enhancing efficiency and user self-sufficiency
- Represented the team in the internal and external audits to obtain the necessary certifications
- Participated in ad-hoc calls with customers, OEM engineers for implementation and troubleshooting purpose
- Launched Amazon EC2 Cloud Instances using Amazon Web Services (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configured launched instances with respect to specific applications
- Fair knowledge on ITIL process (Incident, problem and change management)
- Basic knowledge on the Docker and containerization concepts and terraform
- Performed vulnerability assessment on the Linux servers on quarterly basis
- Worked on Datacore (Caringo Swarm) on-premise object storage technologies tasks which uses AWS S3 standard protocol.
Engineer
TATA Communications Ltd.
07.2019 - 02.2021
- Performed L1.5 Tasks on Windows and Linux OS servers
- Patch Management and User Management
- Ticket monitoring and assignment to respective teams
- Administered NetApp Storage systems on Data ONTAP
- Configured Volumes, LUNs and qtrees on NetApp filers, Aggregate and vserver creation in NetApp
- Performed storage administration functions including storage allocation/de-allocation, utilization reporting, performance monitoring/tuning
- Performed zoning (add, remove, rename and replace zone members) on Brocade switches.
Education
B.E. Electronics and Communications Engineering -
Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
Chennai01.2019
HSC -
GRT Mahalakshmi Vidyalaya Higher Sec School
Chennai01.2015
SSC -
GRT Mahalakshmi Vidyalaya Higher Sec School
Chennai01.2013
Skills
- OS -Ubuntu, CentOS, Rocky Linux, Windows Server 2008, 2008R2, 2012, 2012R2, 2016, 2019
- Cloud- AWS, VMware VSphere
- Caringo Datacore Swarm (Object storage technology)
- Basic SQLs (CRUD, Views, Triggers, Sequence)
- Storage - NetApp, Hitachi VSP G400, HP Primera
- Scripting – Shell
Certification
- NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP certification
- 5 weeks course completed on AWS Fundamentals Going Cloud Native
- 1 month course completed on Linux server Management and Security
Accomplishments
- Hi5 Award for contribution in DR Drill for SBM Banking customer.
- Hi5 Award for improved KPI performance.
- Team Triumph Award for being Best Performer in the Team.
Tools Skillset
- Ticketing Tools: ITSM, ServiceNow
- Performance Monitoring Tools: Nimsoft, Zabbix, On Command Unified Manager, Grafana, Prometheus
- Others: Putty, MobaXterm, RV Tools, WinScp, Cyberduck, Gitbash, rclone
Timeline
Senior Engineer
TATA Communications Ltd.
03.2021 - Current
Engineer
TATA Communications Ltd.
07.2019 - 02.2021
B.E. Electronics and Communications Engineering -
Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering
HSC -
GRT Mahalakshmi Vidyalaya Higher Sec School
SSC -
GRT Mahalakshmi Vidyalaya Higher Sec School
- NetApp Certified Data Administrator, ONTAP certification
- 5 weeks course completed on AWS Fundamentals Going Cloud Native
- 1 month course completed on Linux server Management and Security
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