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Rahul Pandey

Sr. Linux Engineer
Bengaluru

Summary

Result Driven Linux and DevOps Engineer with 6+ years of experience, seeking to use proven scripting and problem solving skills to improve cost and performance . Have Setup project improvement plans and finished within due date under budget . Used Jenkins and Ansible tools automation to slash release times by 20% . Boosted customer satisfaction by 25% and created user training hub that cut trouble tickets by 18%.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Certifications
2
2
Languages

Work History

Sr. Linux and DevOps Engineer

Verifone India
Bengaluru
10.2020 - Current
  • Experience in design and implementation of Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Deployment and DevOps processes for Agile projects, working with technologies and platforms including Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, Oracle, UNIX/Linux, VM Ware, Docker, Ansible, Puppet, AWS , Appdynamics and ELK ( Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana ).
  • Ensuring that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats
  • Monitored automated build and continuous software integration process to drive build/release failure resolution.
  • Automated and implemented Server Installations and VM Provisioning using Ansible.
  • Worked on Linux server virtualization by creating Linux VMs for server consolidations.
  • Developing & managing the infrastructure as code using Ansible
  • Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring Red Hat Linux 5.x, 6.x and 7.x using Kickstart Servers.
  • Experience in Installation, configuration, tuning, security, backup, recovery, and Operating System upgrade on Red Hat Linux (RHEL 5, 6), Unix, Centos and Ubuntu.
  • Experience to setup monitoring tool such as CloudWatch and Nagios to maintain various systems on different environments.
  • Used puppet to configure servers manages profiles, push changes, writing manifests.
  • Expertise to handle tasks in RedHat Linux includes upgrading RPMS using YUM, kernel, HBA driver, configure SAN Disks, Multipathing and LVM file system.
  • Configured and managed Red hat satellite Network server, performing package management tasks and errata updates.
  • Monitoring and managing file system usage, hardware and system process failures. Planning and provisioning of hardware, storage allocation and network configurations.
  • For backup, taking a snapshot of existing volumes and create AMI from running servers and restore it in case of emergency.
  • Create Diagrams, workflow, system architectures document-based collaboration and common toolsets, like Atlassian tools (Confluence) and SharePoint Proactive and VISIO.
  • Develop and Implement new BAU tasks and manage change within BAU tasks procedures.
  • Complete acceptance testing of new releases and patches , providing technical feedback to development.
  • Preparation of technical document and SLA reporting.
  • Provide hands on support on RedHat linux and Oracle VM .
  • Manage and maintain Redhat satellite
  • Management of puppet Infrastructure and deployments.
  • Review document and change documents for technical accuracy.
  • To provide support and input for PCI audits and security compliance.
  • Recommend potential improvements in infrastructure , automation, processes or services and prepared to manage change.
  • Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure.
  • Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation.
  • Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible.
  • Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management.
  • Selecting and deploying appropriate CI/CD tools.
  • Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)
  • Working knowledge of various tools, open-source technologies, and cloud services.
  • Monitoring the processes during the entire lifecycle for its adherence and updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage.
  • Jenkins to set up a distributed pipeline that will compile and test a project on two different slave nodes respectively.
  • Build a branching model to help your team understand the git workflow for faster work integration.
  • Provisioned resources in AWS using Cloud Formation templates.
  • Collaborate with team members to improve the company's engineering tools, systems and procedures, and data security.
  • Develop and maintain design and troubleshooting documentation

Sr Analyst 3 (Linux System Administrator)

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
01.2020 - 10.2021
  • Working in 24X7 for Oracle support on Platinum Delivery of 6000+ servers includes
  • Redhat, oracle enterprise Linux, Solaris and various Exa DATA
  • Managing Software Packages and Repositories in Ansible -Performed daily administrative tasks such as troubleshooting automation equipment and unit maintenance on multi-functional process systems, auxiliary devices, and peripheral equipment
  • Managed operating systems using the OEM (Oracle enterprise manager 13 c Cloud) -Setting up Platinum Gateways and installation of advance support portal.
  • Monitored the servers and Linux scripts regularly and performed troubleshooting steps .
  • Tested and installed the latest software on server for end-users
  • Attended calls related to customer queries and complaints, offered solutions
  • Performed routine checks on the Linux servers of the firm
  • Responsible for Oracle installation, patch applied & co-ordinate with Oracle support
  • Responsible for operating system installation & patch applied
  • Administered security, users, group administration and daily backup and restore operations, networking service, performance and resource monitoring and Performed disaster recovery management procedures
  • Troubleshooting Linux network, security related issues, capturing packets using tools such as iptables, firewall, and TCP wrappers and NMAP
  • Work on disaster recovery clients -As needed done object level recovery using RMAN backup
  • Responsible to setup cronjob for application related task, database monitoring, backup jobs and write shell scripts as required
  • Monitoring databases for 24X7 environment.
  • Resolved problems, improved operations and provided exceptional service.
  • Created spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel for daily, weekly and monthly reporting.
  • Participated in team-building activities to enhance working relationships.
  • Tuned system performance to optimize efficacy of new and existing hardware components.
  • Led server infrastructure development, quality assurance, staging and production systems.
  • Monitored networks and network devices to resolve technical problems quickly.

Consultant(Linux System Administrator)

Capgemini India Pvt Ltd
Mumbai
09.2014 - 11.2019
  • Working in 24X7 Support Project of 3000+ Red hat, Ubuntu and Suse Linux/ESX Host in VMware Environment and hardware servers.
  • Installation, Up gradation, Migration, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance
    Monitoring and Fine-tuning on UNIX Systems. (Red Hat, SUSE Linux, Ubuntu)
  • Experience with configuration management and automation software such as Puppet
    and Ansible.
  • Managing open HANA Application hosted in Linux servers.
  • Virus protection on all Linux servers in support with Trend Micro.
  • Experience working in AWS cloud environment like EC2 & EBS and involved in
    supporting AWS VPC.
  • Experience on Installation of VMware ESX, ESXI migration of vm's from one host to another host and also from one data storage to another data storage.
  • Experience in configuring Oracle ASM disks and supporting Oracle RAC (Real Application Cluster) Database.
  • Developed scripts for automating administration tasks like customizing user environment, and performance monitoring and tuning with nfsstat, netstat, iostat, and vmstat.
  • Installation, Up gradation, Migration, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Finetuning on UNIX Systems. (Red Hat, SUSE Linux, Ubuntu).
  • OS patching and updating servers with RedHat Satellite Servers
  • User and Group administration ,Installation and Decommission of Linux servers.Configuring Managing Multipath & Ethernet bonding.
  • Creating and Managing Virtual server (VM) with Vshpere
  • Configuring IBM Tivoli backup client for disaster recovery for Linux server
  • Creating and managing Logical volume manager (LVM) and Configuring and managing NFS shares and Samba shares
  • Creation Standard processes document (SOPS ) and other document on day to day basis.
  • Monitoring Linux servers with Nagios XI and Managing Incident with HPSM & server records with Lotus notes.
  • IT Service Management (ITSM) based on ITIL best practices
    ITIL V3 Service Strategy, Service Design, Service Transition, Service Operation and Continual Service Improvement.
  • Visited onsite for project improvement plan.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

CSVTU
India
04.2009 - 05.2013

Skills

    RedHat Linux 5/6/7/8, Unix, Ubuntu, Debian, Centos

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Software

RedHat Linux

GIT ,JIRA,Jenkins,Github, Bitbucket

Ansible , Puppet

Nagios: Infrastructure monitoring system

SonarQube: Automated code review tool

Docker and Kubernetes

Accomplishments

  • Resolved product issue through consumer testing.
  • Wrote Ansible scripts to automatically update system components, saving 30% admin time and automatic server deployment.
  • Set up and managed multiple Linux servers with 99.95% up-time.



Additional Information

  • Passed 48th All India UN Information Test
  • Awarded as star performer and spot award for customer satisfaction and delivery operations.
  • Participated in seminars on Robotics.
  • Participated in the World Hacking conference in Bangalore.
  • Customer Delight and Star performer award 2018 ,2019 and 2022
  • Spot Award for customer appreciation in 2019
  • Visited onsite for project improvement and implementation plan.

Certification

ITIL Foundation certified

Interests

Watching Movies

Travelling

Timeline

CyberArk Certified Trustee

07-2021

ICSI | CNSS Certified Network Security Specialist

06-2021

Sr. Linux and DevOps Engineer

Verifone India
10.2020 - Current

Sr Analyst 3 (Linux System Administrator)

Oracle India Pvt Ltd
01.2020 - 10.2021

CEH(Certified Ethical Hacker)

10-2018

ITIL Foundation certified

07-2017

Consultant(Linux System Administrator)

Capgemini India Pvt Ltd
09.2014 - 11.2019

Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology

CSVTU
04.2009 - 05.2013

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