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KARTHIK P.R

Mangalore

Summary

Unix/Linux systems administrator with experience configuring, monitoring, upgrading and maintaining systems hardware, software and related infrastructure. Strong analytical skills; able to work with technicians from various engineering disciplines to troubleshoot complex system-level issues.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Junior System Administrator

A2 hosting, Inc
04.2023 - Current

Monitor server stability and proactively resolve system issues (Apache, MySQL, etc.)
• Troubleshoot and manage service-impacting incidents
• Escalate critical events and coordinate resolutions
• Handle disk failures, RAID alerts, and filesystem integrity checks
• Manage JetBackup tasks and ensure data integrity
• Document incidents, maintain playbooks, and investigate SLA breaches
• Collaborate with support teams to resolve customer-impacting issues
• Mentor and train team members, optimizing monitoring check

Senior Engineer

GlowTouch Technologies Private Limited
06.2012 - 03.2023
  • Company Overview: Worked as Senior System Administrator for a web hosting service provider called Newfold Digital (formerly Endurance International Group [EIG])
  • Proactively maintain a 24x7x365 uptime service
  • Providing Support to end users on ticket basis (JIRA, Service now, Big Panda, Confluence, Salesforce)
  • Supporting L1, L2 and L3 support members in resolving issues
  • Perform routine system maintenance and resolve server-side issues as they arise
  • Fault finding, analysis and logging information for reporting of performance exceptions
  • Review error logs and reported errors and seek out solutions
  • Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hotfixes on server's farm wide
  • Monitor system performance to prevent slowdowns and crashes
  • Examine daily traffic logs and reports or receive direct reports from front line support
  • Performing FSCK on partitions
  • Resolving RAID issues both Hardware and software
  • Swapping faulty drives, BBU's & DIMM's
  • Installing grub, monitor rebuilds
  • Worked as Senior System Administrator for a web hosting service provider called Newfold Digital (formerly Endurance International Group [EIG])

System support engineer

Binary systems Pvt. Ltd.
12.2009 - 06.2012
  • Installation, maintaining and attending day-to-day user's problem calls
  • Maintenance of windows networking and LAN
  • Remote troubleshooting
  • Install, Configure & maintain e-mail clients
  • Troubleshooting of operating systems (Windows XP, vista, Windows 7.)
  • File and printer sharing services
  • Resolving Internet related issues of the users
  • Windows updates

Education

Secondary School -

ST.ALOYSIUS ENGLISH MEDIUM SCHOOL
Mangalore
01.2003

Diploma - computer science and engineering

S N M POLYTECHNIC
Moodbidri, Karnataka

Skills

  • Linux Server Administration (CentOS, Ubuntu & RHEL)
    Web Hosting Control Panels (cPanel & Plesk)
    Proficient in DevOps tools such as Git, Maven, Jenkins, Ansible, and Salt, with hands-on
    experience writing custom Ansible playbooks
    Web Servers (Apache, Nginx, LiteSpeed)
    Database Management (MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL)
    Scripting (Bash)
    Virtualization & Cloud (OpenVZ, KVM)
    Security (Firewalls, ModSecurity, Imunify360)
    Backup Solutions (JetBackup, R1Soft, Rsync)
    Monitoring Tools (Nagios, zabbix, Check_MK)

Certification

  • Completed AWS cloud practitioner course.
  • Knowledge on EC2, ECS, ELB, EBS, S3, VPC, IAM, SQS, RDS, Lambda, Cloud watch, Storage gateway, Cloud formation, Elastic Beanstalk and Auto scaling.
  • Knowledge on Docker, Podman, Git and Ansible.

Timeline

Junior System Administrator

A2 hosting, Inc
04.2023 - Current

Senior Engineer

GlowTouch Technologies Private Limited
06.2012 - 03.2023

System support engineer

Binary systems Pvt. Ltd.
12.2009 - 06.2012

Secondary School -

ST.ALOYSIUS ENGLISH MEDIUM SCHOOL

Diploma - computer science and engineering

S N M POLYTECHNIC
KARTHIK P.R