Kamal Resume

KAMAL MIRZAY
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SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
818-397-3932
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WARZAY TECH
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
 Over 5+ years of experience in system administration working on RHEL 5 and 6, UNIX,
SUSE 10/11, centOS and Windows (2003 & 2008) Server systems.
 Experience in System Administration, Server builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Migration,
Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Finetuning Systems.
 Strong technical background in Storage, Storage migration, LUN presentation to server,
exporting and importing the volume groups, Disk Management, Logical Volume
Management (LVM), Solaris Volume Management and logical partitioning.
 Experience in virtualization of environment with VMware. Installation and configuration
ESX hosts, Managing vcenters and datastores. Making new virtual machines, with Linux,
Solaris, MAC OSX, and Windows, making templates, cloning VMs.
 Installation and configuration of httpd, udp, ftp servers, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NFS, NIS and
ZFS.
 Creating and maintaining users, profiles, security, rights LDAP and AD integration into the
servers
 Proficient in configuring KickStart and jumpstart servers to initiate installation of Red Hat
Linux and UNIX (SOLARIS/ AIX) respectively on several machines.
 Expert in Monitoring tools such as NagiosXI, Nagios Core, HPOM, HPSM.
 Core responsible for Linux, Solaris sparc servers and IBM servers for their OS backup,
created Failure recovery solutions for them.
 Experience in installation and configuration of Web Sphere, Apache, Web Logic, LDAP, and
mail servers.
 Experience in writing Shell scripts using perl for process automation of databases,
applications, backup and scheduling to reduce both human intervention and man hours.
 Dedicated to excellent customer service. Self-direction, leadership and problem solving
skills. Ability to prioritize and work proactively. Strong communication, documentation and
teamwork skills.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Operating Systems
Hardware

Languages
Databases
Networking

Linux (RedHat 5/6), CentOS, HP superdome servers, Windows
2003/2008 Sever, VMWARE ESX/ESXi , Sun Solaris Sparc Servers.
Dell PowerEdge 12th generation tower type T110 II, rack type R415,
R610 and C series, HP Blade Series servers, Cisco UCS BLADES, IBM
Midrange Tape Libraries- TS3100, TS3500 Sun ZFS storage 7120,
SUN enterprise tapes backup system, EMC VNX5100, Ericsson
SSR8000 series Routers, SE600 MSERs
Shell scripting-Perl, C++
Oracle 11g/10g, SQL Server
TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, SSH, DHCP, Cisco Routers/ Switches and
LAN.

Tools

HPSM, Nagios, lumension, languard, splunk.

WebTechnologies

Apache 2.0, Weblogic 8.1/10,VMwareWeb Sphere ESXi 5.1.0

EDUCATION:
Bachelors in business administration.
WestField state University, Westfield, MA.

December 2008

DISNEY ABC TELEVISION, Burbank, CA

SEP 2013 – JAN 2014

SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR
Responsibilities:
 Responsible for 300 Virtual servers in house facility and 500 remote virtual servers for
their maintenance, troubleshooting, disk management, their availability and different
applications running on them. There are about 100 physical servers in this facility.
 Managed datastores in ESX hosts, made ESX host in the VMware
 Able to vmotioning, cloning and take snapshots of virtual machines.
 Able to create new VLANS in the VMware.
 Strong knowledge of VMDKs, Physical and Virtual RDMs in VMware.
 Making new virtual servers with Linux and Windows server OS, windows failover
Clustering, installation of SQL servers on windows server, MSTDC configuration.
 Worked on Chassis installation of Cisco USC blade servers 6500 series then Installing OS in
them through KVM.
 300TB HP EVA storage migration to Netapp. Presented new storage to vcenters and
Vmotioned the VMs to new storage and cleaned up old storage.
 SUN Solaris Sparc M3000 and T5220 Servers Backup and recovery. Used Bootp and DHCP
server Strategy. Used ufsdump to take backup on the NFS share in remote facility and
restored, tested and Implemented in production.
 Developed IBM AIX servers Backup procedure through NIM server. 10 servers have 20TB
SP with 2 TB each on 20 TB SP. I broke the 1 Big SP in to 10 2 TB SP so that recovery
after server failure won’t take that long.
 NagiosMigration from Nagios core to Nagios XI enterprise version with nagios fusion
integration on top. Created Custom Pluggins and scripts for monitoring.
TroubleshootedNagios XI, Taking Ticket system integration with nagiosxi. Custom
Modifications in order to do required groupings. Integrated 4 Nagios XI in different
Environments along 1 Amazon AWS server into Nagios fusion. IntegratgedNagios XI to
nagios Ticketing manager to make auto ticketing.
 Installation and configuration of windows servers 2003 and 2008 in vmware and physical
servers. Storage management, performance management.
 Writing Scripts according to requirement for backups, monitoring and automation
 Extensive application support for various client/server applications.
 Active Directory (GPO and scripting) and DNS Management (Vital QIP 7.1).
 Network & Firewall troubleshooting.
 Patch management for Linux, AIX, Solaris and windows through Lumenion. Also used
languard for windows patch management.
 Involvement in project tasks for upgrade and net new implementations.
 Server and Application tuning.
 HSM expertise on Sun Samfs, troubleshoot and working with Sun support.
 Configure Apache/Tomcat/JBoss/MySQL on Linux/Unix machine. Harden server and
applications.

Environment: Linux redhat 6 and 5, Oracle 10g solaris Servers, SUN sparc, Linux, Kick Start,
jumpstart servers, windows server 2003 and 2008,nagios, splunk, Lumension, languard, Shell
Script, Netapp storage, HP EVA, VMware servers, Websphere.

GENERAL ELECTRIC, Cleveland, OH.
UNIX/LINUX ADMINISTRATOR

OCTOBER 2012- AUGUST, 2013

Responsibilities:
 Responsible for installation, configuration, and administration of Red Hat Linux version 5
and 6, windows server 2003 and 2008.
 Designed, supported, and maintained Oracle Real Application Clusters supporting business
critical applications on HP blade system BL465c 8th generation, HP ProLiant DL385p 8th
generation& Integrity Itanium2 platforms on RHEL 4, 5 and 6.
 Expanded the environment from 128 to over 280 servers over the course of 12 months.
 Setup and maintained NFS, NIS, and TCP/IP network, configured the systems for TCP/IP
Networking with the existing LAN, setting up SSH and SCP features between SUN systems
and other Red Hat hosts.
 Maintained network and data security, maintained security compliance policies on the OS
for SOX and internal audits.
 Installed and configured VMware ESX server instances for virtual server setup and
deployment. Responsible for creating VMware virtual guests running Linux.
 Used RPM and YUM to update RHEL 6.
 Deployed Red Hat Satellite Server with custom repositories to provide a stable
management solution for the Linux environment.
 Experience with Kickstart Installations on Linux Red hat and Ubuntu.
 Installed, maintained and fine-tuned the Apache-Tomcat server and Websphere Application
Server in Linux Platform
 Created Bash shell scripts to monitor system resources and system maintenance.
 Wrote Perl scripts to generate statistics and monitor processes.
 Deployed MySQL clusters using Red Hat Cluster Suite for supporting internal applications
built on the LAMP stack.
 Automated system management tasks like user account creation, file system size
monitoring, monitor system resources and system maintenance using Shell, and Perl
scripts.
 Installed, configured & upgraded Websphere and application level troubleshooting for the
Dev, Test& Production environment and maintained Load balancing.
 Worked with DBAs on installation of Oracle database.
Environment: RedHat Linux 5/4, Oracle 10g, HP Servers, SUN Servers, Linux, KickStart, Shell
Script, Autosys, LDAP, EMC Storage SAN, VMware servers, Websphere.
BANK OF AMERICA, WILMINGTON DE.
UNIX/LINUX ADMINISTRATOR

JANUARY 2012 - NOVEMBER 2012

Responsibilities:
 Install Red hat enterprise Linux 5.4 on HP and IBM servers, creating partitions on the EVA
4400 using Linux volume Manager (LVM) to create disk space.
 Worked on amazon aws servers, their management.
 Working with developers to load software onto Linux Enterprise servers and also
debugging Scripts.
 Installed other useful relatedsoftwares such as OpenSSH, BMC Patrol Best1, IBM Tivoli
Storage Manager.

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Administered security, users, disks, groups administration, File Sharing Permissions, daily
backup and restore operations, networking service, performance, and resource monitoring.
 Installed and Administered VMware ESX 3.5 in multi-cluster environment with 8 physical
nodes in each cluster.
 Installed and maintained several Linux and Windows servers on virtual environment.
 Used Veritas Volume Manager to create diskgroups, volumes, volume groups, and RAID’s
and Used VeritasNetbackup tool for backup and recovery.
 Used VERITAS Cluster Server (VCS 5.5) to verify Failover/Pre-Failback/Failback in case of
outage in the high environment.
 Network trouble shooting using ‘ 'netstat', 'ifconfig' and Worked closely with Vendors on
Hardware Problems, software fixes.
 Administration of NFS, NIS, DNS, Samba and Send mail servers.
 Monitored system performance using sar, prof, vmstat, iostat, netstat, NagiosInstalledand
configured RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 5. Created vmdisksand volumes using the volume
manager according to the requirements.
 Worked with DBAs on installation of Oracle database, RDBMS database, restoration and log
generation. Perform security patching of Linux servers
Environment: Linux 6/5/4, Oracle 10g, SUN Servers, SUN, Linux, Kick Start, Shell Script,
Autosys, Veritas Volume Manager (VVM), LDAP, EMC Storage SAN, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS),
VMware servers,Websphere.
STERICYCLE, IL
UNIX/LINUX ADMINISTRATOR

OCTOBER 2010 – DECEMBER 2011

Responsibilities:
 Installation, configuration and upgrade ofRedhat Linux 4/5, HP-UX 11i and IBM AIX operating
systems.
 Configured and installed HP-UX and Redhat Linux Servers using kickstart and making
installation configuration files.
 Implementing file sharing on the network by configuring NFS on the system to share essential
resources.
 Worked on building and supporting on Sun Midrange platforms and IBM AIX Midrange
platforms.
 Worked on performance tuning in Solaris, Linux & HP-UX.
 Performed package and patching management and debugging in all flavors of UNIX& Linux.
 Expertise in capacity planning and migrations in HP-UX.
 Troubleshooting and analysis of hardware and failures for various Solaris servers (Core dump
and log file analysis).
 Installation and configuration of Veritas Volume Manager (VXVM), Veritas file system (VFS).
Implementation of RAID techniques and creation disk groups and volumes. Managing disks
and file system usingVeritas Volume Manager (VxVM), HP Service Guard in HP-UX and Linux
servers.
 Built high-end servers, creating and loading images on Solaris, HP-UX and Linux servers using
SystemImager tool.
 Installed, configured and managed Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) in Solaris, HP-UX and
Linux servers.
 Patches and Package administration for installation of patches as per company policy and
installation of packaged application.
 Installed, configured and managed Redhat Cluster Suite in Linux servers.
 Worked on live upgrades in Solaris and HP-UX servers. Configured and managed Zeta byte File
System (ZFS) in Solaris, HP-UX and Linux Servers.
 Performed configuration and troubleshooting of services like NFS, NIS, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, Web
servers, Samba server, and Apache server.

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Planned and implemented migrations from lower end to higher end in OS level and Hardware
level in HP-UX and Linux servers.
 Configured and managed Redhat satellite Network server, performing package management
tasks and errata updates.
 RPM package administration using RPM Build.
 Performed Data Backup and Recovery using Veritas Net Backup (VNB).
 Update the systems using Redhat Enterprise Network (RHN), Managingand monitoring
through RHN.
 Knowledge of DAS, NAS and SAN concepts and technology. Also got knowledge in HA,
Clustering, LAN.
 Responsible for setting up a disaster recovery plan for the servers, which includes in
development of programs for synchronized backups.
 Worked on installing and configuring VMware/Esx Servers for virtualizations.
 Configured and maintained Network Multi pathing in Linux.
Environment: Red hat Linux 4/5/6, HP-UX 11i, AIX, Sun Enterprise Servers E5500/E4500, HP
9000K, L, N class Server, HP & Dell blade servers, IBM RS/6000, p Series servers, VMware ESX
Server, Oracle.
SPRINGIELD Technical COMMUNITY COLLEGE , SPRINGFIELD , MA
LINUX / NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR
Responsibilities:
 Installation of Linux Operating system with necessary RPMs.
 Creation of VPN certificates and installing the same for users.
 Configured Samba file server to windows network.
 Installation of VMware client and creating different instances.
 Configured and managed Squid server using various acl’s for Internet Access.
 Installation of Network printers under TCP/IP and troubleshooting.
 Handling and preparing documents related to ISO 9001-2000 audits.
 Maintained the inventory of all the switches, routers, WAF boxes.
 Implemented and configuring RAID Devices.
 Configured Open-ssh server for secure remote administration.
 Set up a basic IP failover.
 Implemented automated Backup using Backup PC.
EnvironmentBackup PC, DHCP Server, Open VPN server, Clone Zilla