G. Pandithurai
Bangalore
Summary
Smart DevOps Engineer with career spent in IT designing and planning. Talented leader with extensive knowledge of high availability architecture and concepts. Ready to tackle new challenges in project planning and development capacity.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Associate Consultant
Infosys
BANGALORE
01.2025 - 01.2026
Specialized in banking and financial sectors, ensuring robust operational support.
Managed day-to-day DevOps tools, addressing issues with Jenkins, Puppet, and e-flow deployments.
Resolved build-related issues within Jenkins and deployment pipelines efficiently.
Troubleshot CDN-related issues in QA testing environments to ensure seamless functionality.
Automated size verification of RPMs for newly created packages against previous versions.
Administered bi-weekly code deployment activities using Control-M for central monitoring.
Provided level 2 support for pre-production environments, addressing OS and application issues.
Monitored system performance with Nagios and SolarWinds WPM for proactive issue management.
Associate IT Consultant
PandiThurai
Bangalore
07.2022 - 01.2025
- Provided technical advice and support to IT users, including troubleshooting hardware and software issues.
- Developed and implemented new systems and procedures for the organization's internal IT operations.
- Performed system administration duties such as software installation and maintenance, network configuration, and user management.
- Monitored system performance, identified potential problems or areas for improvement, and proposed solutions accordingly.
System Engineer
Value point systems
Bangalore
05.2021 - 07.2022
- Company Overview: Valuepoint Systems is a,one of the leading Digital systems and services integrator Company focused on communications IT
- Working in a team of talented Technical Support Engineers for the Client, reporting to a Shift Admin in a 24
- 7 support in rotational shifts
- Efficiently resolving tickets in the RT (Request Tracker) Ticketing System by attending, resolving, updating and closing the tickets within a given interval of time
- Installation and configuration of Linux server for new build environment
- Adding Disks, creating partitions and File System Administration
- Monitoring all production servers and services and respond to alerts as per the SOP
- Troubleshooting booting issue via remote tools such as IPMI
- Installing, Configuring, and monitoring servers using Nagios
- Resolving Kernel panic, fixing booting related issues like reinstalling GRUB and booting GRUB via GRUB commands when GRUB fails
- Booting the server in rescue mode, fixing file systems inconsistency issues by running fsck over filesystem and checking FSTAB entry
- FTP Creation & Management
- Job Scheduling and Automating process using CRON
- Installation of patches and packages
- NFS configuration & administration
- Creation and deployment of LVM and RAID
- Installation and configuration of Apache
- Installing and configuring of Backup servers like R1Soft
- Complete server management, such as load monitoring, installing, running, and updating necessary applications.
- Managing Virtualized servers with administration tools like SolusVM, Virtualizor
- Valuepoint Systems is a,one of the leading Digital systems and services integrator Company focused on communications IT
- Monitored system performance and implemented necessary changes to maintain optimal utilization of resources.
- Installed, configured, maintained and upgraded Linux operating systems and services.
- Provided technical support for Linux-based systems including troubleshooting of server applications and hardware issues.
L1 Linux Administrator
Nixserv IT Solutions
04.2018 - 04.2021
- Company Overview: Nixserv IT Solutions is the one of the growing support based company, which is Providing web-hosting and server Management Services
- Nixserv IT Solutions is the one of the growing support based company, which is Providing web-hosting and server Management Services
Education
Higher secondary -
03.2012
Skills
- Linux and Unix administration
- WPM monitoring
- Job scheduling with Control-M
- Continuous integration and deployment with Jenkins
- Container management with Docker
- Performance testing with Apica
- Incident management with Big Panda
- Project tracking with Jira
- System monitoring with Nagios
- CentOS and Ubuntu expertise
- Windows server management
- Virtualization with KVM
- Storage management with LVM
- Web hosting management with WHMCS
- User account administration
- File system management (Fstab/disk)
- RAID configuration and management
- File systems (Ext4/xfs)
- Disk partitioning (Fdisk)
- DNS configuration and management
- Secure shell (SSH) access
- File transfer protocol (FTP) services
- Network file system (NFS) setup
- Web server configuration (Apache)
- Dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP)
- Static IP address configuration
Serveradministrationskillset
ps/top, user management, grub boot config, fstab/disk, LVM, RAID, ext4/xfs, run-levels, awk/grep, vi/nano, netstat, lsof, sudo, tar, scp/rsync, fdisk, Installing and configuring Nagios., Installing and configuring KVM, XEN and OpenVZ. Creating and managing VMs in it. Upgrading/Downgrading its resources according to business needs., Configuring and managing various types of RAID and LVM based partitions., Top, IO monitoring, IPtraf for DDOS monitoring, SSH consoling, Remote desktops, Excellent understanding of DNS, SSH, FTP, NFS etc., Decent knowledge in Apache installing and troubleshooting basic issues., Consoling through IPMI, KVM, Booting the server via rescue, single user and troubleshooting., Good understanding of some network concepts such as DHCP and STATIC IP Configuration., IP Tables, SSH. Preventing DDOS attack using IP Tables and other security tools, hardening the server etc., Decent Knowledge in LDAP user management and LDAP configuration.
Disclaimer
I hereby declare that the above mentioned information is correct to the best of my knowledge.
Roles And Responsibilities
- Working in a team of talented Technical Support Engineers for the Client, reporting to a Shift Admin in a 24
- 7 support in rotational shifts.
- Efficiently resolving tickets in the RT (Request Tracker) Ticketing System by attending, resolving, updating and closing the tickets within a given interval of time.
- Installation and configuration of Linux server for new build environment.
- Adding Disks, creating partitions and File System Administration.
- Monitoring all production servers and services and respond to alerts as per the SOP.
- Troubleshooting booting issue via remote tools such as IPMI.
- Installing, Configuring, and monitoring servers using Nagios.
- Resolving Kernel panic, fixing booting related issues like reinstalling GRUB and booting GRUB via GRUB commands when GRUB fails.
- Booting the server in rescue mode, fixing file systems inconsistency issues by running fsck over filesystem and checking FSTAB entry.
- FTP Creation & Management.
- Job Scheduling and Automating process using CRON.
- Installation of patches and packages.
- NFS configuration & administration.
- Creation and deployment of LVM and RAID.
- Installation and configuration of Apache.
- Installing and configuring of Backup servers like R1Soft.
- Complete server management such as load monitoring, Installing, running and updating necessary applications.
- Managing Virtualized servers with administration tools like SolusVM, Virtualizor.
Area Of Expertise
Linux - RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows, KVM, Xen, Open VZ, LVM, Solus VM, Virtualizor, Nagios, WHMCS
Timeline
Senior Associate Consultant
Infosys
01.2025 - 01.2026
Associate IT Consultant
PandiThurai
07.2022 - 01.2025
System Engineer
Value point systems
05.2021 - 07.2022
L1 Linux Administrator
Nixserv IT Solutions
04.2018 - 04.2021