Pradeep Cheedella

A Competent professional willing to contribute my technical skills to the projects alongside upskilling with new advancements to nurture a reliable environment.

Overall 16 Years of IT Experience 15 Years of experience in Solaris Operating System Administration and 4 Years of experience in Linux Operating System Administration

Have exposure on Kubernetes cluster set up on AWS using EKS and writing YAML files for Kubernetes Manifests

Have knowledge on containerization tool Docker Exposure to AWS - EC2, Volumes, S3, RDS, VPC, Route 53, ELB, EKS and IAM services.

Experience in scripting language in shell Experience on build and release management

Knowledge on applications deployment through Kubernetes cluster using HELM.

Had training on SAP Basis administration and Oracle Database administration

• Kyndryl Solutions Pvt. Ltd., 09/2021, Till Date, Bengaluru, India, Schneider Electric, Senior Lead Systems Administration Maintenance of servers that include server builds, patching administration, performance management, user administration and security compliance as part of BAU Under RFS projects will participate in migration of servers from on-premise to AWS cloud Participation in customer workshops and discuss the proposed solution with their architects to come up with the fit-for-purpose solution. Mitigate risk factors through analysis of performance data of implemented solution. Anticipate and manage changes effectively in rapidly evolving requirements. Services/Tools involved Linux and Solaris OS with Sparc and X86 servers
• IBM India Pvt. Ltd., 03/2017, 08/2021, Bengaluru, India, Schneider Electric, Solaris System Administrator Maintenance of servers that include server builds, patching administration, performance management, user administration and security compliance as part of BAU Under RFS projects will participate in migration of servers from on-premise to AWS cloud Participation in customer workshops and discuss the proposed solution with their architects to come up with the fit-for-purpose solution. Mitigate risk factors through analysis of performance data of implemented solution. Anticipate and manage changes effectively in rapidly evolving requirements. Handling Non-Compliance issues to counter the vulnerabilities in the server environment Services/Tools involved Linux and Solaris OS with Sparc and X86 servers
• Concentrix Pvt Ltd, 08/2015, 02/2017, Bengaluru, India, Texas Instruments, Linux and Solaris OS Administrator - Lead Engineer On Legacy On-premise Systems Linux / Solaris OS and Server Hardware Infrastructure Support for SUN SPARC, Dell X86 servers and their performance monitoring using Splunk and other software tools. Maintenance includes raising tickets with Vendors like Oracle, Redhat and Dell support in case of faults. Installing, upgrading including Live upgrades, Patch Upgrades and configuring SUN Solaris 10, Red Hat Linux using Jumpstart, Kickstart from MWS (Management Workstation) towards all Administration Servers. Managing and formatting Disk File Systems, Volumes and File systems initializing, replacing, mirroring, encapsulating and removing disk devices using SVM, LVM, VxVM and ZFS. Working on Veritas Cluster environment that includes Configuring, Switching, Splitting and troubleshooting using Cluster logs. Implementation of scripts using UNIX Shell Scripting and PERL Scripting for automation activities such as maintaining centralized sudoers cleanup and push the same across all servers in the environment, cleaning up tmp file system log files and old unnecessary dumps created by Applications Performance Tuning including monitoring Disk and CPU Utilizations and applying remedies like adding or deleting resources in case of over or under utilizations. Maintaining Access Control, User Administration and File Access Permissions and configuring LDAP client on all servers. Configuring and troubleshooting of various services like NFS, SSH, Telnet, ProFTP on UNIX platform. Services/Tools involved Linux, Solaris, Splunk, Puppet, LVM, SVM, VxVM, ZFS, vCenter for managing VMWare clients
• IBM India Pvt. Ltd., 12/2014, 08/2015, Bangalore, India, Scottish Power, SUN Solaris Administrator - Technical Services Specialist Solaris OS and Server Hardware Infrastructure Support for SUN SPARC and their performance monitoring using traditional SAR tool. Maintenance includes raising tickets with vendor Oracle support in case of faults. Installing, upgrading including Live upgrades, Patch Upgrades and configuring SUN Solaris 10 using Jumpstart towards all Administration Servers. Managing and formatting Disk File Systems, Volumes and File systems initializing, replacing, mirroring, encapsulating and removing disk devices using SVM, VxVM and ZFS. Performance Tuning including monitoring Disk and CPU Utilizations and applying remedies like adding or deleting resources in case of over or under utilizations. Maintaining Access Control, User Administration and File Access Permissions Configuring and troubleshooting of various services like NFS, SSH, Telnet on UNIX platform. Performing tape backups with using traditional native OS commands like dd Handling Non-Compliance issues to counter the vulnerabilities in the server environment Services/Tools involved Solaris, SVM, VxVM, ZFS
• Wipro Ltd., 10/2009, 12/2014, Bangalore and Hyderabad, India, British Petroleum, SUN Solaris Administrator - Senior Software Engineer Solaris OS and Server Hardware Infrastructure Support for SUN SPARC and their performance monitoring using traditional SAR tool. Maintenance includes raising tickets with vendor Oracle support in case of faults. Installing, upgrading including Live upgrades, Patch Upgrades and configuring SUN Solaris 10 using Jumpstart towards all Administration Servers. Managing and formatting Disk File Systems, Volumes and File systems initializing, replacing, mirroring, encapsulating and removing disk devices using SVM, VxVM and ZFS. Performance Tuning including monitoring Disk and CPU Utilizations and applying remedies like adding or deleting resources in case of over or under utilizations. Maintaining Access Control, User Administration and File Access Permissions Configuring and troubleshooting of various services like NFS, SSH, Telnet on UNIX platform. Mainitaining Hitachi Data Systems Storage that include tasks of LUN Creation, LUN Assignment, LUN Deallocation and LUN Volumes shredding, HDS storage microcode upgrade activities Handling backups via legato networker backup tool Handling Non-Compliance issues to counter the vulnerabilities in the server environment Services/Tools involved Solaris, SVM, VxVM, ZFS, Brocade SAN Switches, Hitachi Command Suite, Legato Networker
• Mahindra Satyam, 02/2007, 10/2009, Bangalore and Hyderabad, India, British Petroleum, SUN Solaris Administrator - Software Engineer Solaris OS and Server Hardware Infrastructure Support for SUN SPARC and their performance monitoring using traditional SAR tool. Maintenance includes raising tickets with vendor Oracle support in case of faults. Installing, upgrading including Live upgrades, Patch Upgrades and configuring SUN Solaris 10 using Jumpstart towards all Administration Servers. Managing and formatting Disk File Systems, Volumes and File systems initializing, replacing, mirroring, encapsulating and removing disk devices using SVM, VxVM and ZFS. Performance Tuning including monitoring Disk and CPU Utilizations and applying remedies like adding or deleting resources in case of over or under utilizations. Maintaining Access Control, User Administration and File Access Permissions Configuring and troubleshooting of various services like NFS, SSH, Telnet on UNIX platform. Experience on SAN zoning on Brocade switches Mainitaining Hitachi Data Systems Storage that include tasks of LUN Creation, LUN Assignment, LUN Deallocation and LUN Volumes shredding, HDS storage microcode upgrade activities Handling backups via legato networker backup tool Handling Non-Compliance issues to counter the vulnerabilities in the server environment Services/Tools involved Solaris, SVM, VxVM, ZFS, Brocade SAN Switches, Hitachi Command Suite, Legato Networker

• Father's Name: Pedda Reddenna Cheedella
• Gender: Male
• Nationality: Indian
• Marital Status: Married