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Work Experience

• Site Reliability Engineer, Adobe

  Jan, 2022 - Present

• Site Reliability Engineer, LexisNexis Risk Solutions Group

  Jul, 2016 - Dec, 20215 years 5 months

• Devops engineer, Geoscience Australia

  Nov, 2015 - Jul, 20168 months

  Geoscience Australia is an Australian Government listed entity within the Industry, Innovation and Science portfolio.

• Web Administrator, Geoscience Australia

  May, 2015 - Oct, 20155 months

  Geoscience Australia is an Australian Government listed entity within the Industry, Innovation and Science portfolio.

• Assistant Consultant, Tata Consultancy Services

  Sep, 2010 - Jan, 20154 years 4 months

  Worked as Senior Systems Engineer handling decommissioning old and obsolete hardware and software through an automated solution and thereby reduce the cost incurred in terms of power consumption, renewal of license, productivity and compliance issues.

• Senior Systems Administrator, Verizon Data Services

  Feb, 2010 - Sep, 20107 months

  Team : ROC
  Project : Global Service Delivery

  Worked on supporting the infrastructure for online retail giants. The responsibilities included:
  • Monitor and troubleshoot servers, various services and network
  • Deploy patches to the applications during scheduled maintenance.
  • Create custom RPMs and system administration scripts
  • Configure system security and conduct periodic security audits.
  Software Used: RHEL, Hyper-V, Cobbler, NFS4, RH Cluster, NTP, Postfix, SQUID, LVM, BASH, KSH, Tomcat, Apache

• Systems Engineer, CSS Corp PVT LTD

  Dec, 2007 - Dec, 20092 years

  Global Operations Centre - supported the infrastructure (server, network and database) for asset tracking and supply chain visibility solutions.
  Responsibilities:
  • Install and configure servers for development and production (LAMP environment)
  • Deploy the developed applications to production servers.
  • Administration, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of servers and network.
  • Develop automation scripts in BASH and PERL to automate the tasks.
  • Create Nagios plug-ins in PERL for monitoring of applications.
  • Manage the MySQL database environment.
  • Manage the Puppet Configuration Management System.
  • Setup periodic backups and disaster recovery.

  Software Used: Linux, Windows, MySQL, Apache, Tomcat, VMware, BASH, PERL, Puppet, Subversion, Nagios.

  Hardware Used: Linux Server Environment with RHEL and CentOS

• Senior Systems Engineer, I-fort technologies Pvt Ltd

  May, 2006 - Dec, 20071 year 7 months

  Team : Internet Solution
  Project : HostingZoom
  Responsibilities

  Administration of 500+ servers of various clients, remotely using Nagios.
  Configuration of DNS for domain resolution.
  Configuration of Apache web server and its security modules.
  Maintenance of FTP user accounts.
  Configuration of Sendmail and Exim mail servers.
  Configuration of security over the net using TCP wrappers, IPTables and PAM
  Installation and configuration of firewall modules like APF and BFD.
  Server monitoring using Nagios and log files writing custom scripts and modules as and when needed.
  Performance of server security checks using chkrootkit and rkhunter.
  Configuration and maintenance of periodic backups.
  Administering user accounts using cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM) of the web server.
  Installation, configuration and administration of Linux Operating System.
  Configuration of NIS server and NIS user accounts.
  Configuration of NFS server to share files across the network.

• Systems Engineer, Clearlogix Technologies PVT Ltd

  Feb, 2005 - May, 20061 year 3 months

  Team : Internet Solution
  Project : Sago Networks
  Responsibilities

  Support technically and lead the shared team.
  Installation and configuration of packages, security applications, monitoring tools.
  Kernel recompilation and tuning
  Installation and configuration of Apache with PHP support
  Custom service installations.
  Configuration of backup tape drive settings remotely.
  Write/debug shell programs for cron, security checking, backup, etc.
  Monitoring servers using Nagios scripts and tools.
  Work with CPanel and WHM control panels.
  Troubleshoot and solve server problems regarding security, mail, DNS, Apache, firewall, spamming.
  Security administration using IPTables.
  Backup Management and restoration activities
  Attend technical queries from server administrators, domain resellers and from customers through ticketing system, mails, IM chats.

Projects Experience

• Nagios implementation project

  Aug, 2011 - Aug, 20111 day

  Headed the Nagios implementation project which included design, implementation and support of a monitoring solution for the servers, desktops and other devices scattered across the client locations.

• Break Tracker

  Aug, 2009 - Aug, 20091 day

  The software aimed at keeping track of the break times taken by the associates.
  Admin and User logins were provided for ease of administration.
  Reused the same user database by integrating with the company database.
  Provided a live dashboard for tracking people who are currently on break, those who exceeded the break timing etc.
  Multiple one click canned responses were provided to connect with the associates through email.
  Daily reports and alarms to the administrators to indicate those who exceeded the set break time.

  Technologies Used : PHP , Mysql , HTML, Javascript, Shell Scripting
  Platform : Linux, Windows, Active directory

• Command Line Interface - Test Automation Framework

  Apr, 2013 - Jan, 20151 year 9 months

  Infrastructure Developer (Devops) of the Command Line Interface - Test Automation Framework development team, where Perl scripts were used to develop a framework capable of testing infrastructure components using command line. The backend orchestration with VMware and windows has been carried out through puppet scripts. The AWS EC2 instances were used to deploy the framework.

  Responsibilities held:

  Architect the framework
  Define the Workflow
  Ramp up the team members
  Provide adequate training on technical and workflows related to the project
  Undertake POC and do the presentation to the prospective clients.

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