
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.
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.
Windows and Unix System Administrator
Windows System Administrator
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