Rahul Gandham
Hyderabad
Summary
Infrastructure Engineer with over 6 years of experience in system administration and technical support. Demonstrated ability to enhance operational performance through effective problem-solving and teamwork. Strong commitment to continuous learning and adapting to industry advancements, contributing to organizational success.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Unix Administrator
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Hyderabad
02.2022 - Current
- Manages over 9,000 servers, including different cloud instances ( AWS and Azure ).
- Enhanced stability of critical systems in collaboration with a cross-functional full-stack team.
- Experience in working on day-to-day operations on different flavors of UNIX (Linux, HPUX, AIX) operating systems.
- Expertise in diagnosing issues in Red Hat and Veritas clustered environments.
- Integrated tools and software agents into UNIX platforms to meet operational objectives.
- Hands-on knowledge in automation and manual patching using Ansible playbooks.
- Participates in high-priority bridge calls to achieve resolution within defined SLAs.
- Active participation in planned activities, i.e., disaster recovery, and annual maintenance.
- Good knowledge of system management tools - HP SIM, HP OneView and virtualization tool - VMware.
- Developed scripts using Unix shell scripting to automate administrative tasks.
Unix & Storage Administrator
DXC Technology
Hyderabad
09.2018 - 01.2022
- Installed and configured HP-UX and Linux solutions on HP Integrity Blade, RX and RP servers.
- Installed and configured HPE storage Products - 3PAR, EVA, MSA.
- Experience in handling and troubleshooting user management tasks.
- Worked on storage features such as Replication, NAS, Data Compression, Data Dump, Adaptive Optimization, Remote Copy, etc.
- Experience in file system management involving the creation, extension, and migration of file systems with LVM and VXVM (volume managers).
- Experience in resource management (CPU, memory, and swap) on UNIX systems.
- Configured HA Service Guard cluster on HP-UX servers.
- Experience in successfully implementing OS updates and upgrades.
- Scheduling automated jobs with Cron tools.
- Experience in working and troubleshooting hardware errors and firmware upgrades.
- Knowledge of initiating and restoring the data backup using the HP Data Protector backup tool.
Education
B.TECH - ECE
CVR College of Engineering
01.2018
Skills
- Cloud Administration - AWS, Azure
- UNIX Administration - HPUX, RHEL, AIX
- Storage Administration - 3PAR, EVA
- Virtualization Technologies – VMware, VPAR
- Backup Administration – HP Data Protector
- Monitoring tool: Splunk
- Scripting: Shell scripting and Ansible
- Incident and change management tool: Splunk, HP Service Manager
- Visualization tool – Power BI
- High availability solutions: Pacemaker, Veritas and Service Guard
Accomplishments
- Got Appreciation from Leadership Team (DXC Technology) in successfully delivering the Project Amalgamation.
- Awarded with 'Best Employee of the month – May 2024' by Cognizant for maintaining Zero Escalations on Top 23 Business Critical Applications.
Disclaimer
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Timeline
Senior Unix Administrator
Cognizant Technology Solutions
02.2022 - Current
Unix & Storage Administrator
DXC Technology
09.2018 - 01.2022
B.TECH - ECE
CVR College of Engineering
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