Jayaprakash Natarajan

Determined Unix/Linux System Administrator with 11+ years of experience as a System administrator with expertise in multiple open source operating systems with total experience of 17 years in IT industry on various reputed organizations. Passionate about improving network uptime and driving system availability. Strong team player with excellent work ethic, collaboration skills and independent judgement.

• Supporting the Unix environment which runs on different operating system includes Redhat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7/8, Centos, ubuntu and AIX on both production and non-production datacentres, stores and distribution centres.
• Performed Onsite role in handling various linux administration tasks for the past 6 years.
• Collaboration with OS and hardware vendors to keep the linux environment up and stable.
• Patching, kernel upgrade, firmware upgrade, veritas cluster management, fixing security vulnerabilities.
• Backup/Recovery of datas through Rubrik/Avamar.
• Physical to virtual server migration, RAID storage array configuration.
• Root cause analysis of the incidents and documentation of the KB articles.
• OS deployment on physical and virtual servers through Kickstart, spacewalk/puppet.
• Configuration and setup of NIS/NFS/Samba and hardening of the OS.
• Reduced servicenow backlog tickets by resolving efficiently and also appreciated for my work.
• Automated manual efforts in pulling the backup metrics through GUI and as well as our daily activities using bash scripting.
• Working Knowledge on the docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins and other devops tools.
• Working knowledge on instance creation, loadbalancer, cloud storage, filestore migration in GCP.

• Sun Certified Solaris system administrator
• Redhat Certified system administration (RHCSA-7)
• Redhat certified system Engineer (RHCE-7)
• Redhat certified system administrator in Openstack
• Certified Kubernetes administrator
• Google cloud beginners certified
• Vmware Certified Associate for datacentre, Cloud and mobility