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Work History
Education
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Certification
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Additional IT Experience
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Vinod Soman Nair Sathy

Vinod Soman Nair Sathy

Unix Systems Administrator
Trivandrum

Summary

Enthusiastic System Administrator / Site Reliability Engineer with 15 + years experience eager to contribute to team success through hard work, attention to detail and excellent technical and organizational skills. Career achievements in large-scale customer infrastructure and skilled in supporting large IT infrastructure teams in dynamic, multi-platform environments. Motivated to learn, grow and excel in the IT industry.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
5
5
Certification

Work History

Site Reliability Engineer/Senior Unix Systems Administrator

Oracle Corporation
Trivandrum
11.2012 - Current
  • Ensured uptime and reliable performance of all critical production systems in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Database Cloud Services (DBCS).
  • Supported day to day operations and maintenance of backend Database Cloud Infrastructure (Exadata X9M, X8M, X8-2 & X7-2).
  • Performed Application and Tools Deployment on Oracle cloud infrastructure.
  • Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
  • Maintained security best practices, backup, and redundancy strategies.
  • Managed complex projects end to end including requirements, communication, execution, testing, and documentation.
  • Leveraged automation and new technologies to increase productivity and performance.
  • Improved operations through consistent hard work and dedication.
  • Suggested process and technical design changes to improve performance and efficiency.

Oracle Corporation - Principle System Administrator - Team Lead -Oracle Managed Cloud Services (OMCS)
Johannesburg , South Africa

08/2017 - 04/2021

  • Supported day-to-day operations, monitoring and resolving client/server, storage, backups and infrastructure issues.
  • Conducted routine and emergency maintenance of assigned datacenter equipment.
  • Performed software installations and upgrades to Linux or Windows operating systems.
  • Performed software installations and upgrades to Oracle Engineered systems (Exadata/Exalogic/ODA).
  • Contributed to development, administration and testing of disaster recovery plans.
  • Minimized resource and time losses by addressing employee or production issue directly and implementing timely solutions.
  • Attended meetings to deliver status reports to key stakeholders.
    Mentored employees and offered constructive feedback for performance improvement.
  • Provided comprehensive training to internal and off-site users to optimize systems maintenance and resolve recurring issues
  • Handled Data Center Administration - Monitor, Manage and provide end to end support of customer infrastructure hosted in multiple datacenter.

Oracle Corporation - Principle System Administrator - Oracle Managed Cloud Services (OMCS)
Trivandrum, India

11/2012 - 08/2017

  • Supported day-to-day operations, monitoring and resolving server,storage, backups and infrastructure issues on Oracle Engineered Systems for over 50 customers.
  • Conducted monthly and quarterly patching to Oracle Engineered Systems.
  • Performed software installations and upgrades to Linux and Windows operating systems.
  • Performed software installations and upgrades to Oracle Engineered systems (Exadata/Exalogic/ODA).

Education

Diploma - Electronics & Communication Engineering

State Board of Technical Education
Tamil Nadu - India
1997

Skills

  • Operating Systems : Oracle Linux 5/6/7 ,Redhat Linux 5/6/7, & Windows 2012/2008
  • Cloud Solutions : Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) IAAS, PAAS
  • Configuration Management Tools : Ansible
  • Oracle Engineered Systems : Exadata (EXACC, EXACS, X9M, X8M, X7, X5) Exalogic ( X2, X3, X4 & X5)
  • Virtualization : Oracle VM , XEN, KVM
  • Storage : Oracle ZFS Storage Appliances - NAS/ SAN NFS/SMB ISCSI/Fiber Channel, LVM
  • Backup : Veritas NetBackup , Oracle StorageTek SL 150 Tape Library
  • Server Hardware : Oracle X Series, SUN X Series, HP DL Series & Dell Power Edge Series
  • SUN Storage : 7320, 7420, ZS3 & ZS5 Appliances
  • Monitoring : Oracle Enterprise manager, Grafana, Telemetry
  • Networking : TCP/IP, DNS,DHCP,IPTABLES,OSI,LDAP
  • Datacenter Operations : Monitoring HW components, HW replacements, Expansions, Coordination with HW team and Vendors, reportings and documentations
  • Tools: Jira, Confluence, Slack, Lumberjack, Docker
  • Database: Oracle Database 12c
  • Teamwork and Collaboration
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Flexible and Adaptable
  • Incident Management
  • Problem-Solving

Certification

Oracle Cloud infrastructure Architect Associate (OCA)

Oracle Autonomous Database Cloud (OCS)

ITIL V3 Foundation

Cisco Certified network Associate (CCNA)

Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) - Microsoft

Accomplishments

    Oracle Corporation - Best Employee of the Year - 2014

Additional IT Experience

Ust-Global - Infrastructure Specialist , Trivandrum, India - 03/2009 - 11/2012
Oracle Corporation - Senior Systems Administrator, Bangalore, India - 03/2006 - 03/2009
Vmoksha Technologies - Systems Specialist, Bangalore, India - 06/2005 - 03/2006
Wipro Infotech - Customer Services Engineer, Bangalore, India - 10/2004 - 06/2005
Network Solutions Pvt ltd - Systems Administrator, Bangalore, Karnataka, India - 11/2003 - 10/2004
RCS Technologies Pvt Ltd - Customer Support Engineer, Bangalore, India - 03/2003 - 11/2003
Akshaya Computers - Customer Support Engineer, Trivandrum, India - 07/2000 - 03/2003
Gloria Systems - Customer Support Engineer, Trivandrum, India - 11/1997 - 10/1999

Timeline

Site Reliability Engineer/Senior Unix Systems Administrator

Oracle Corporation
11.2012 - Current

Diploma - Electronics & Communication Engineering

State Board of Technical Education

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