Skilled System Specialist with background in managing and improving complex IT systems. Showcase strong technical knowledge, problem-solving abilities, and ability to design system solutions that increase efficiency. Previous work has resulted in successful system upgrades and effective team collaboration on IT projects.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Specialist
Kyndryl India Pvt Ltd
01.2024 - Current
Design, implement, and maintain Business Continuity Plans (BCP), Disaster Recovery (DR) and resiliency programs to ensure the uninterrupted delivery of business services.
Automate DR-DRILL to map them into Kyndryl Resiliency Orchestration solution (Sanovi DRM solution)
Collaborate with key stakeholders to develop a clear understanding of customer resiliency needs and design tailored solutions for business-critical applications and data.
Conduct disaster recovery drills to validate recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs) also monitor and evaluate existing resilience tools, platforms, and strategies, recommending improvements where necessary.
Migrating existing bank application from Kyndryl RO 1.0 to Kyndryl RO 2.0
Onboarding new applications in Kyndryl RO, completing pre-requisite for the same.
Pre-requisite includes port opening between endpoint servers and RO Sitecontrollers server, creation of OS user in Linux/AIX/Solaris with sudo privileges, for Oracle/MSSQL database creation of db user with sysdba privileges, for Windows server creating user and adding in Administrator group and setup WinRM configuration.
Configuring components, datasets, protection schemas as per application requirement.
Configuring Database (oracle, Oracle-RAC, MSSQL Log shipping, MSSQL Always-On) workflows, Application workflows, LB workflows, DNS workflows and NetApp workflows.
Configuring the success/failure pattern for Application workflows.
Co-ordinating with Application team and Bank team for creation of Single-Click workflow (Master Workflow).
System Analyst
Coforge Ltd.
09.2022 - 01.2024
Oversee the deployment and maintenance of Linux servers across multiple environments (production, staging, development).
Ensure high availability, performance, and scalability of Linux-based applications and infrastructure.
Implement and enforce security policies for Linux/Unix systems, including hardening and patch management & optimizing servers for high efficiency.
Part of regular security audits and vulnerability assessments and troubleshoot and resolve security incidents.
Monitoring servers, Services, URL’s and alerts through HP OMI monitoring tool.
Managing, Configuring and Monitoring Backups using NetBackup 10.0.0.1. Perform NetBackup upgradation and patch management.
Working on DR automation tool IBM DRM tool. Monitoring & Configuring automated DR failover and failback using IBM DRM (Disaster Recovery Manager) tool. Well versed with CRO configuration and DR Drill activity through CRO. Failover includes HPUX & Windows servers, Sybase Database, MSExchange, MySQL, HPUX 3PAR Storage replication.
JBOSS deployments on UAT, DEV and PROD environments.
Software Developer
Kyndryl India Pvt. Ltd
07.2021 - 09.2022
Implementation of New Projects in IBM DRM, understanding the client requirement, collecting inputs about Application and Database automation scripts, implementing the same in DRM within specified RTO & RPO limits.
Installing DRM agents, Database agents, SFR Agents, Configure Switchover/Switchback workflows, DNS SO/SB, Application Start/Stop workflows, SFR replication, SFR RoleSwitch workflows, Implement NormalCopy, NormalFullCopy, Include/Exclude list for SFR configuration. Rediscovering Database agents, DB home path, archive log path in case of DB upgrade.
Developing File replication strategy to keep Production and DR setup in sync.
Resolving daily issues related to DRM and provide technical support for the DR Drill.
Re-configure of DRM application in case of OS, Database and application upgrade. Change in replication include/exclude list, Adding new servers and deleting old servers.
Fine tuning the configure applications to further reduce the RTO and RPO set by the client.
Developing shell scripts to further automate the existing Application workflow.
Verify the Pre-Drill checklist, maintain list of Application version, OS details, Database details, Change request details, discuss Application owner and take sign-off to avoid any issues during Drill execution. Share the Dryrun reports with DB and Application team to verify current configuration of workflow in DRM.
Co-ordinating DR Drill and provide technical support for the successful completion of Drill.
System Specialist
Coforge Technologies Ltd.
02.2017 - 07.2021
Deputed as System Specialist at MGSTD project handling a team of 3 people.
Designing, Installing & Commissioning System & hardware, administering HPUX, SuSE Linux, performing OS hardening and optimizing servers for high efficiency.
Managing HP-UX cluster and VPAR machines. Allocation of resources to VPAR machines according to the requirement.
Monitoring servers, Services, URL's and alerts through HP OMI monitoring tool. Configuring CPU Threshold Alerts and Email alerts for the same.
Managing, Configuring and Monitoring Backups using NetBackup 8.1.2. Opscenter has been successfully configure for Netbackup Reporting.
Working on DR automation tool IBM CRO (Sanovi DRM). Monitoring & Configuring automated DR failover and failback using IBM DRM CRO (Disaster Recovery Manager) tool. Well versed with CRO configuration and DR Drill activity through CRO. Failover includes HPUX & Windows servers, Sybase Database, MSExchange, MySQL, HPUX 3PAR Storage replication.
Maintaining of Azure setup for the Production Staging environment. Creation of servers, health-check & sizing up the servers as per requirement. Setting up of Load balancer (Internal), VPN connection for accessing the Cloud environment. Optimising the cloud resources for cost cutting purposes.
Senior System Associate
NIIT Technologies Ltd.
10.2010 - 01.2017
Designing, Installing & Commissioning System & hardware, administering SuSE Linux, performing OS hardening and optimizing servers for high efficiency.
Log monitoring on a daily basis.
Installing and configuring Nagios and responsible for monitoring 100+ hosts through it.
Backup Management through Symantec NetBackup 7.6.
Upgraded NetBackup Master, Media and clients from 6.5.6 to 7.1 to 7.5, 7.6 to 7.7.3.
Monitoring of VERITAS Cluster (High Availability) for SAP & Oracle and ensure 100% uptime.
Analyzing logs (error messages) and get issues resolved from vendors.
OS Vulnerability testing & updating patch as per requirement.
Kernel upgrade.
Disk Management (Using LVM for dynamically extending and reducing partition sizes).
Capacity Management & Housekeeping (Deleting unwanted files) of servers on Monthly basis.
Managing Virtual machines through VCentre in VMWare environment. Monitoring System resources as well as doing P2V conversions.
Managing filesystems by creating RAID.
Configuring SAMBA server to communicate between windows and Linux systems and for sharing files and hardware or software resources like NFS across OS.
Setting up Secure NFS Servers with multiple Clients for File and Disk sharing.
Configuring NIS/YP Servers for Centralized and secure Password and Login Management.
Implementation of SUDO login for normal users to run specific super users commands.
We use following monitoring tools: Monitoring of Servers: Tivoli & Nagios, Monitoring of Backup: Symantec NetBackup 7.7.3.
Maintaining the Documents of Backup requests, Restoration Requests, as well as tape management on ITIL base procedures.
Tape management for development and production, including Offsite Tape Management & Maintaining media inventory for Symantec NetBackup & Tivoli Storage Manager.
Troubleshooting for backup failure and other issues related to Symantec NetBackup.
Testing of Monthly Backup by restoring in Test Environment.
Worked on Incident, Problem & Change Management based on ITIL.
Linux Administrator
Orient Technologies Pvt Ltd.
Mumbai
05.2008 - 09.2010
Deputed as Linux Administrator at TSR DARASHAW LTD through Orient Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating system such as Red Hat Linux Advance server, Red Hat 9, RHEL4/5.
Set up Intranet Web Servers with APACHE, multiple-site management with named-based Virtual Hosting and access control with HTTP authentication.
Setting up SAMBA servers, to enable Windows clients to communicate with Linux without the need of additional software on the Windows side, such as NFS clients.
Set up a secure OpenSSH server, disabling the use of ftp and telnet, to increase network security for Departmental and Corporate Intranets.
Setting up the ACL for fine-grained access.
Upgraded Symantec NetBackup from 6.0 to 6.5 and configure policies for the same.
Backup Management by 'Symantec Backup Management tool (6.5)'
Hardening the Linux OS and installing the security updates.
Installation and Configuration of AWSTATS for Apache Web-site monitoring.
Creating custom shell scripts for checking the Database, Disk space and login entries of various users.
Configure and run the Nessus tool to find the vulnerabilities in the System.
Installing and configuring VMware on RHEL 4 AS and setting up Virtual servers like Windows 2003, and other RHEL versions on it.
FMS Engineer
CMS Computers Ltd.
Mumbai
06.2007 - 05.2008
Deputed as FMS Engineer at TSR DARASHAW LTD through CMS Computers Ltd.
Installation Red hat Linux advance and enterprise server.
Monitoring and applying archive from live server to cold server and maintain both servers in sync.
Daily and Weekly backup of all servers on Symantec Netbackup 6 server and also creating policies for it.
Email Management using the Mail servers like Postmaster and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.
Administrate a network of 300 workstations, and devices running on Novell and Microsoft Windows 98/NT/2000/XP and also applying latest security patches and Antivirus updates.
Creating users in Active Directory and configuring the default policy for the same.
Creating and configuring the mail accounts on the Exchange 2007 server.
Provide Internet access to authorized users, allow/block access to websites, restrict bandwidth for downloading as well as monitoring of outgoing Bulk-Emails, done through Firewall Fortigate 200A, & FortiAnalyzer 100B.
Senior Lead, Software Architecture (Automation Architect) at Kyndryl India Pvt Ltd (IBM India Pvt. Ltd.)Senior Lead, Software Architecture (Automation Architect) at Kyndryl India Pvt Ltd (IBM India Pvt. Ltd.)