Mohd SK: Vmware Engineer in Chicago,IL, 71

Responsibilities: • Installed, Create Virtual machine(KVM, VMware) and configured Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL5/6/7,8&9) Centos 5/6/7,8,9,10 • Server racking, cabling and server built (kickstart). • Install and maintain security patches on the operational and development system, which includes but is not limited to, Centos, Red Hat Linux and Solaris 10. • Worked on installation, configuration and maintenance Redhat, CentOS and Suse Servers at multiple Data Centers. • Managing Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or custom-built designing cloud-hosted solutions, specific AWS product suite experience. • Proficient in using all Amazon Web Services including EC2, EBS, IAM, S3, ELB. • Managed VMWARE vSphere HOSTS in a HA/DRS Environment with vMotion/ Site Recovery Manager, Replication Manager vRealize Automation Center and Fiber SAN. Experience working with production servers at multiple data centers. • Implemented Migration from VMWARE to AWS using VMDK Import tools. • Experience in migration of consumer data from one production server to another production server over the network with the help of Bash and Perl scripting. • Installation, configuration and management of Veritas Volume Manager & Veritas File System. • Configured RedHat Kickstart for installing multiple production servers. • Installed and configured DCHP server to give IP leases to production servers. • Management of RedHat Linux user accounts, groups, directories and file permissions. • Applied the Clustering Topology that meets High Availability and Failover requirement for performance and functionality. • Installation, Configuration and administration of DNS, LDAP, NFS, NIS, NIS+ and Sendmail on Redhat Linux/Debian Servers. Configured, managed ESX VM's with virtual center and VI client. • Performance monitoring using Sar, Iostat, VMstat and MPstaton servers and also logged to munin monitoring tool for graphical view.Installed packages with yum and rpm. • Installed and configured monitoring tools Nagios for monitoring the network bandwidth and the hard drives status. • Installed/Configured/Managed Puppet Master/Agent. Wrote custom Modules and Manifests, downloaded pre-written modules from puppet-forge. Upgradation or Migration of Puppet and monitor scalable infrastructure Community and Enterprise. • Deploy on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration management using puppet. • Developed and supported the Red Hat Enterprise Linux based infrastructure in the cloud environment. • Experience in AWS, which included managing application in the cloud and creating instances. • Developed automation scripting in Python (core) using Puppet to deploy and manage Java applications across Linux servers. • Installed Jenkins/Plugins for GIT Repository, Setup SCM Polling for Immediate Build with Maven and Maven Repository (Nexus Artifactory) and Deployed Apps using custom ruby modules through Puppet as a CI/CD Process. • Logged events from forced crash dumps and troubleshoot server issues. • Configured yum repository server for installing packages from a centralized server. • Installed Fuse to mount the keys on every Debian Production Server for password-less authentication. • Experience with Configuration Management Tools (Puppet, Ansible, Chef) • Configured RedHat Kickstart for installing multiple production servers. • Installed and configured DCHP server to give IP leases to production servers. • Management of RedHat Linux user accounts, groups, directories and file permissions. • Applied the Clustering Topology that meets High Availability and Failover requirement for performance and functionality. • Installation, Configuration and administration of DNS, LDAP, NFS, NIS, NIS+ and Sendmail on Redhat Linux/Debian Servers. Configured, managed ESX VM's with virtual center and VI client. • Performance monitoring using Sar, Iostat, VMstat and MPstaton servers and also logged to munin monitoring tool for graphical view. Installed packages with yum and rpm. • Installation and configuration of PostgresSQL database on RedHat/Debian Servers. • Performed Disk management with the help of LVM (Logical Volume Manager • Configuration and Administration of Apache Web Server and SSL. • Created and maintained network users, user environment, directories, and security. • Provide the support of building the server, patching, user administration tasks, deployment, software installation, performance tuning and troubleshooting and KVM. • Applied patches every quarter regularly to meet audit requirements using Oracle Ops Center, Red Hat Satellite server, Up2Date, YUM, RPM tools. • Performance Tuning and Management for Linux/AIX server and working with the application/database team to resolve issues. • Worked on Installation/Configuration/Administrated VMware ESXi 5.1/5.5 & 6.0,7.x,8.x and migrated existing servers into VMware Infrastructure. • Installing & deploying application and patches, and validating patches & application. • Troubleshooting, performance monitoring and optimizing of all aspects of the virtual infrastructure including underlying storage and network systems. • Implemented and managed all aspects of core virtualization technology such as vMotion, Storage vMotion, HA, DRS, Affinity Anti-Affinity rules and resource pools. Hot and Cold Cloning of Virtual Machines using VMware Converter. • Provided server and client support for all issues such as logon failures, account lockout, network connectivity and authentication issues. Worked on vsphere 4.0, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0,7,8,9 • Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups. • Solid understanding in SELinux, TCP wrapper and Iptables. • Worked in collaboration with the SAN team, using LUN to increase volumes. • Installing and Configuring both ISCIS initiator and target. • Solid TCP/IP networking skill. Setup and managed disk spaces and file systems using LVM. • Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary. • Create, change, and delete user accounts per request as necessary. • Provide support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues. • Repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies • Well versed in configuring an automated tool Puppet that included installation and configuration of Puppet and written manifests and modules for a puppet to do tasks like application deployment, configuration and create filesystems. • Expert in Setting up Continuous Integration (CI) by configuring Build, Code, Deploy and test automation Jobs in Jenkins for different applications and in creation and deployment using Codeship to automate branch & project creation in Git using (Groovy language) in Jenkins file and automating (using Ansible). • Professional in deploying and configuring Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK) and AWS Kinesis for log analytics and skilled in monitoring servers using Nagios, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Monitor and ELK. • Skilled with Python, Bash/Shell, PowerShell, Ruby, Perl, PowerShell, JSON, YAML, Groovy. Developed Shell and Python Scripts used to automate day to day administrative tasks and automation of the build and release process. • Experience in Java, C, C++, C#, Net, and ASP.Net to manage Software Configurations and builds in a UNIX environment • Creating the automated build and deployment process for application, re-engineering setup for better user experience, and leading up to building a continuous integration system for all our products. • Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups. • Responsible for Design of different Release Environments for new projects and monitoring. • Implementing a Continuous Delivery framework using Jenkins, Chef, TeamCity in Linux environment. • Managed Chef Cookbooks to automate system operations. • AWS Cloud management and Chef Automation. • Integration of Maven/Nexus, Jenkins, RunDeck, Urban Code Deploy with Patterns/Release, Git, Confluence, JIRA and Cloud Foundry. • Using Jenkins AWS Code Deploy plugin to deploy to AWS. • Responsible for code build, release and configuration on Amazon EC2. 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