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Mahesh Sonawane

Unix Infrastructure Lead at Barclays Tech Center India
Pune
Mahesh Sonawane

Summary

Over 20 years of experience in the areas of System Administration, Remote Infrastructure Management, Change Delivery, Build, Installation & Configuration, migrations, LAN/WAN, Quality Assurance, Testing & Implementation, Troubleshooting, Technical Support, Team Management. Currently working as Technology Lead Change delivery in Barclays Global Service Center, Pune. Experienced in System Administration on technology like Red Hat Linux, AIX, Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas cluster, VMware ESX server, storage migration. Practiced in planning and executing various projects as per requirement at client’s end. A team player with distinguished abilities in end-to-end project management, giving onsite and offsite support, custom designing business solutions and motivating team members to maintain deliverables as per SLAs.

Assignments in System Administration / Remote Server Infrastructure support, Infrastructure Delivery and System Testing with a high technology-oriented organization in IT sector.

Overview

21
years of professional experience

Work History

BARCLAYS GOBAL SERVICE CENTER INDIA
Pune

Technologie Lead Change Delivery
6 2008 - Current

Job overview

  • Leading Unix Change Delivery team India, JIRA /task and aligning resources accordingly, setting up timelines in accordance with business timelines
  • Managing multiple project requests from various Business Unit in Barclays
  • Managing request through JIRA Dashboard for multiple BU’s within Barclays
  • All Infra related requests I will be analyzing and assigning within resource in team, Managing all Technical queries and handling Escalations accordingly
  • Having good understanding Linux OS and other Unix Versions.

Key Project Highlights:

Leading UI projects with E2E process, Taking the full ownership of assigned projects and handling the project activities, complete all tasks and deliver the desired on agreed timelines by ensuring there is no project delivery failure.

· Network Segmentation : Following an external audit Barclays critical internal systems were identified as being open to internal attack

Network Segmentation is the process of putting these critical systems (MVEs) in a protected environment akin to an internal DMZ.

Key Technologies to do this:

- Cisco ACI

- NAG - Fortigate 3800D with AD Integration (Fortiauthenticator)

- Cisco Tetration

· DC migration : Involved more than 250 server movement, which includes multiple OS level task , Network reconfig, SAN reconfig , Storage migrations, VCS cluster reconfig , Oracle RAC reconfigurations.Worked server’s movement across different DC in Tokyo. It involves multiple service downtime and managed well in business agreed downtime. This Includes V2V and P2V migration and also involved SAN migrations.

· Network migrations : end to end 10G migration , Firewall rules OS deployment.

· worked on OS migrations from RHEL 5 to RHEL7 , MQ queue and MFT migrations.

· The Extranet Gateway FILE Transfer PLATFORM provides a facility for securely sharing files between Barclaycard and key external third parties such as tsffis, exeperian, Equifax and donnelly, which sit on the mpls extranet network. These file transfers happen in both directions. Worked on Setup environment on VCS cluster for this project.

· Vulnerability Remediation: Worked on embedded java removal for Nolio remidiation, Oracle Client , Jrockit ,

· JIRA and Portfolio management: - JIRA task engagement and resource management. Critical services outages support. Business/application services negotiation. Weekend task priority, handling business communication till end of task. Handling primary escalation for all JIRA.

CMS Computer Ltd.
Pune

06.2006 - 06.2008

Job overview

Windows and Unix System Administrator

Accel Frontline ltd.
Pune

07.2003 - 06.2006

Job overview

Windows System Administrator

Education

Pune University
Pune

B COM from Financial Accounting
04.2001

Skills

Compaq, HP, Dell and IBM AIX server platforms, System P

Red hat Open stack, AWS, Docker

System Administration /Networking /Cloud /DC migration, Working on maintenance of High end servers, Redhat 8x, Redhat 7x, Redhat 6x, AIX 53, 61 , 71 Operating systems, Troubleshooting for LVM, VxVm file system, boot problems; network troubleshooting, file system checks and repair, VMWARE: Disk management, Memory Management & snapshot management, V2V and P2V migration, Worked on Security Enhancement Linux ( Selinux ), Worked on HBF, iptables , Port Forwarding ,Routing, firewall rules, network load balancer (GTM/LTM), AWS: Building servers, EBS volume management, S3 Bucket, EFS, IAM, Auto scaling with ELB and VPC, VPC peering, AWS CLI, Docker: Containers and Volumes, layered File system, Build Custom Images with Docker file Linking containers, Keeping track of Change, Incidents and Problem management, also ensure that service delivery and process is followed as per defined Project SLAs, Troubleshooting with AIX HACMP, AIX Virtualization, Veritas Volume Manager and Cluster, Responsible for delivery of various projects from its procurement to its delivery to production, Interaction with various teams to setup configuration as per project requirement

Effective Communication Techniques

Team Building and Leadership

Strategic planning capabilities

Professionalcourses

  • Aws certified Solution Architect
  • Docker for Dev ops
  • Completed Red Hat System administration course RHEL 7
  • Completed Red Hat Virtualization
  • Completed Red Hat OpenStack Cloud
  • Completed Red Hat JBoss Admin
  • Completed Red Hat Server hardening
  • Completed AIX VIO server administration course
  • Completed AIX System administrator course on AIX 5.3 Version
  • Completed MCSE 2003 course
  • ITIL Training completed

Educationalcredentials

Completed Commerce graduation from Pune University in 2001.

Itcertifications

  • Red Certified System Associates in RHEL 7
  • Red Hat Open Stack cloud certified
  • Red Hat JBoss Admin Certified

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 08/20/1980

Timeline

CMS Computer Ltd.
06.2006 - 06.2008

Accel Frontline ltd.
07.2003 - 06.2006

Pune University

B COM from Financial Accounting
04.2001

Technologie Lead Change Delivery

BARCLAYS GOBAL SERVICE CENTER INDIA
6 2008 - Current
Mahesh SonawaneUnix Infrastructure Lead at Barclays Tech Center India