ANNAMALAI KESAVAN

• Providing IBM SRE support on IBM Cloud colocation more than 15 datacenter.
• Troubleshooting of datacenter Hardware issues like storage connectivity and network issues
• Handling performance issues on AIX servers
• Handling IBM cloud customer cases, Troubleshooting and resolving their issues, when they are facing issues on the deployments and providing technical support
• Migrating VM’s, resizing the resources like CPU, memory
• Volume creation, addition and removing
• Importing OS images from the COS buckets and Exporting OS images to storage controllers
• HMC upgrade, P-series system firmware upgrades, FC adapter Microcode upgrades, VIOS upgrade
• Managing host groups, creation of utilization report and presenting to management
• Incidents, problem and change management
• Applying new tumbles recommended by development team on the production environment via ansible POWERVC migration and administration and involved Logs analyze on colo’s

• Providing L3 operations support to customers as a primary System Administrator role in AIX operating environment
• Project involves remote administration of AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 7.2,7.3 and administering VIO, HACMP, LPAR, NIM & HMC, RHEL 6,7,8 and IBM Cloud, AWS and VSP.
• Creating and modifying LPAR profiles and performing Dynamic LPAR and Live Partition Mobility operations
• Coordinating scheduled outages for hardware and/or software maintenance and actively driving completion of upgrade efforts
• Troubleshooting system performance, networking, and storage issues in a virtualized AIX environment
• Participating in rotating on-call schedule with global team (including some evening & weekend work)
• Experience with virtualized IBM Power Systems using PowerVM, Virtual I/O Server (VIOS), and Hardware Management Console (HMC)
• Excellent people-management skills

• Working experience with AIX systems, VIOS, HMC, virtualization, PowerHA/HACMP, SAN-attached storage
• General knowledge and understanding of the TCP/IP protocol and networking
• Knowledge on security policies for Unix servers
• Working knowledge on AIX NIM (Network Installation Manager)
• AIX - Performance monitoring, analysis & tuning
• AIX - H/ W troubleshooting & Vendor coordination
• AIX Volume Manager
• Hardware/ DC Migrations
• AIX Backup/ Restore
• AIX Best Practices POC and Implementation
• AIX Security Hardening
• Virtualtization Lpar Creation, VIO Server administration, VIO server Installtion/ pgrades
• HACMP Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting
• HACMP Cluster Migrations
• Strong Knowledge in shell scripting
• Understanding of ITIL processes and tools (Incident / Problem/ Change)
• Advanced knowledge of AIX and AIX virtualization, to include VIO server creation and configuration, network
• Resiliency configuration and testing, as well as storage configuration to support SAN based VSCSI and NPIV storage options
• Candidate must have good project delivery skills and be detail oriented and driven to meet delivery objectives, weekend work is sometimes required
• The candidate will need to effectively interface with various Technology towers like Engineering, Networking and Storage
• The Ideal candidate will have detailed knowledge of IBM Power 7 servers, Power 8 is a plus
• The ideal candidate will have knowledge of LPM ( Live Partition Mobility) and inter functionality with SAN storage

Installed, configured, upgraded and administrated pSeries and power5/power6 servers on various levels of AIX operating system utilizing the environment.
Performed AIX installation using NIM server and Storix back utility.
Upgraded of AIX TL and SP to the latest level using NFS mount and alt_disk Upgrade of managed machine and device's firmware/microcode.
Supported and managed servers (P5/P6) using HMC version 6 and 7.
Assisted in the d
Design of the test lab, developing test plans, assisting with the technology side of OS remediation planning.