Unix (Solaris/Linux) and Netbackup Administrator
Riyadh cables group of companies
Total years of experience :15 years, 0 Months
Role : Unix Administrator
Operating Systems : Solaris 10, Solaris 9 and Red hat Linux 6
Hardware Platforms : T4-1, V240, V880 and Dell PowerEdge
Technologies Used : SVM, NFS, LVM, DHCP and YUM
Tools Used : Veritas Netbackup
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Providing technical support on UNIX environment.
• Installation, configuration and administration on Solaris and Linux operating System.
• Installation, configuration and administration of Veritas Netbackup server and client.
• Day to day management tasks includes User Administration and Installing requested packages/patches by application team on both Solaris and Linux Servers.
• Monitoring the file system sizes, system logs and troubleshooting the issues reported by end users.
• Configuring TCP/IP for Ethernet Interface.
• File system Management using Solaris Volume Manager and LVM.
• Creating and Managing YUM repository.
• Linux package management using rpm and yum.
• Managing DHCP server configured in Linux OS.
• Setting a permissions and security policies for user and groups.
• Swap space management on both Solaris and Linux
• Managing Backup Server connected with Storage L8 Tape Library.
• Creating backup policies and scheduling backups.
• Creating Volume pools and adding media to the pool.
• Rescan/Update Barcodes of the Media.
• Monitoring daily/Weekly/Monthly backup and Troubleshoot backup failures.
• Restoring backups in case of system failure and request from application team.
• Generating monthly backup report and submitting it to IT head.
• Troubleshooting network related issues.
• Maintaining and monitoring the cooling levels in Data center.
• Creating bash shell script for basic system administration tasks.
• Coordinating with Vendor to replace a faulty parts on the server.
Role : Senior System Engineer
Operating Systems : Solaris 10.AIX 6.1, RHEL-6
Hardware Platforms : M5000, M9000, T5220, IBM p550 & p770, Dell PowerEdge and
HP ProLiant Servers, Sun StorageTek SL500 & SL3000 Tape Library
Technologies Used : Zones, Containers, Sun cluster, ZFS, autofs, NFS, LPAR and LVM
Tools Used : Serena ticketing tool, Symantec Netbackup 7.5,
Nimbus monitoring tool.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Day to day Unix administration tasks on Solaris 10/11, IBM AIX-6.1 and RHEL-6.
• Creating and supporting virtual environments such as Containers and LPARS.
• Installating and configuring a softwares on various Unix platforms.
• ZFS/LVM file system Administration.
• Creating a Change/Service requests using Serena ticketing tool and Implementing them during maintenance window.
• Day to day support on Symantec Netbackup 7.5 server and client environment.
• Performing and maintaining system backups using Symantec Netbackup.
• Restoring backups upon the request from application teams.
• Troubleshooting Netbackup, network, systems and applications to identify and correct failures.
• Co-ordinating with different vendors to replace a faulty components on Servers, Tape Libraries and IBM XIV storage.
• Monitoring system availability and performance using Nimbus monitoring tool as well from OS level.
• User creation and deletion on different Unix flavors as per the request from security team.
• Rotational On-Call support and resolving Incident tickets during this period
• Participating in quarterly DR activities.
• Performing basic Sun cluster administration tasks.
• Preparing a document for the issues I worked on and circulate it to my team members.
Installation & Configuration of Sun Solaris OS using WAN boot and PXE boot.
Sun blade server build.
Remote management and troubleshooting of servers using iLOM.
Remote management of blade servers using iLOM administration console.
Configuring VERITAS NETBACKUP client.
Server hardening for both sun sparc and X-series sun servers as per client requirement.
Administer virtual server.
Decommissioning the Sun servers.
Decommissioning the Sun servers for retire.
Installing, Configuration and Administration of various Software.
Responsible for Build/Configuration of sparc and x-series sun servers.
Monitoring the servers performance, File System usage in Solaris.
-Creating change for new zfs filesystem creation and extension, swap space increase, soft link creation, NAS mounts using HP service manager.
Setting up the IPMP and VLAN configuration.
Engineer- Customer Services: Providing on-site technical support for both hardware and software products of Sun Microsystems which includes entry-level and midrange Sun servers, Storage, Tape Libraries and Sun Solaris Operating Environment.
The role of my job involved setting up the server and associated hardware according to client requirements, configuring lights out management, installing, configuring and troubleshooting of Solaris OS issues.
Configuration and troubleshooting of the Solaris OS includes user management, Patch and package installation, Volume management, System and user security, NFS, data redundancy techniques on hardware level such as raidctl as well as software level such as SVM.