Adil Syed
Unix/Linux/Aix Adminstration
Chicago,IL
Summary
- Over 10+ years of experience in Infrastructure Management, System Administration/Engineering and experienced in Aix, Redhat Linux & Solaris.
- Play an infrastructure lead role on projects which will be related to various aspects of infrastructure including Informatica, Cognos, Hadoop, Business Objects, Tableau, Exadata, UNIX, Hadoop.
- Provided monitoring, and support for all applications including but not limited to Informatica, Cognos, Hadoop, Business Objects, Tableau, Exadata, UNIX including operational responsibilities.
- Responsible for Aix to Linux Migration Project involving 100+ teams.
- Support of high availability design in all aspects of infrastructure components including HACMP, IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS), load balancing technologies (i.e., F5/HA Proxy) and networks.
- Actively maintain patch management strategy for AIX/LINUX servers.
- Extensive experience in installing, configuring, maintaining, design, development, implementation, and support on IBM AIX 5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1/7.1 and RedHat Linux 5.0/6.0/7.0 Environments.
- Experienced in working with DevOps tools like Maven, Jenkins.
- Experienced with automating modern web system deployments (Ansible).
- Experienced in Power5/Power6 (550, 570, 575, 590, 595), Power7(740, 750, 770, 780) & Power8(822, 870) System Software Maintenance.
- Manage enterprise scale identity and access management solutions such as Active Directory. Support escalations from IT Service Desk and act as 3rd tier resource to resolve issues.
- Configuration management including the building of LPARs and configuring the hardware devices that support them and Configuring VIO clients using HMC.
- Experience in designing of micro partitioning in VIO server. Configured Dual VIO server.
- Experienced in managing LPAR with virtual memory management and memory optimization and using AIX Virtual Memory Manager (VMM).
- Experience with IBM Power4, Power5 and Power6 virtualization. Expertise in Administering, Maintenance of IBM Power HA V4L, V5L, V6.1 & V7.1. Configured and Administered HACMP 4.5, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1 & 7.1 IBM PowerHA.
- Administering and troubleshooting of AIX HACMP Clusters.
- Installation and configuration of NIM master server and clients.
- Experienced in monitoring system performance and check the status of the system using utilities such as TOPAS, GLANCE, NMON, VMSTAT, IOSTAT, etc. Experience with LVM, User & System Resource Management and Job Scheduling.
- Worked 24X7 and on-call in production support and troubleshooting on UNIX/Wintel servers.
- Driven Systems Administrator with 10+ years of experience in software implementation and maintenance.
- Proven history of managing complex infrastructures and data center operations.
- Expert in solutions-oriented business application problem-solving and dedicated to providing best-in-class service.
- Skilled at troubleshooting, communication and collaboration.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Infrastructure Service Delivery Lead
Kaiser Permanente
2017.03 - Current
- Primary Responsible for Administration and Production support of all infrastructure solutions in a very large healthcare environment consisting of more than 5000 Unix/Windows servers
- Lead the IT Infrastructure team of 9 members
- Engage with peer IT teams (IBM, CTS, Oracle) and the business to propose changes to existing infrastructure and building out new infrastructure
- Play an infrastructure lead role on projects which will be related to various aspects of infrastructure
- Communicate solutions and issues around the solutions to his/her peers in the business, infrastructure, application, and database areas
- Provides, monitoring, and support for all applications including but not limited to Informatica, Cognos, Hadoop, Business Objects, Tableau, Exadata, UNIX including operational responsibilities
- Leverages infrastructure as code to deploy networking stacks and server stacks (Ansible)
- Developed and maintained Ansible playbooks to automate the deployment and configuration of Linux servers, improving efficiency and reducing manual effort
- Maintains current, meticulous documentation, on all infrastructure components that are shared amongst all team members and with peer teams as required
- Responsible for Aix to Linux Migration Project involving 100+ teams
- Support shared storage protocols, storage networks, configuration, support, and capacity planning
- Support of high availability design in all aspects of infrastructure components including IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS), load balancing technologies (i.e
- F5/HA Proxy) and networks
- Administered and maintained IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS) clusters, configuring and optimizing cluster performance, managing storage resources, and ensuring high availability
- Understand, communicate, and document to an extremely accurate and detailed level all aspects (physical, logical, virtual, etc.) of a modern IT infrastructure
- Works on project-based initiatives and provides written and oral status updates to business users/stakeholders
- Conducts weekly meetings with internal and external teams
- Maintains and upgrades operating systems to the current supported level; coordinates downtime for maintenance activities and system upgrades with the management to minimize disruption of business operations
- Actively maintains and improves on patch management strategy for servers
- Deployed Rack awareness on Hadoop Servers
- Educates users on changes; recommends alternate solutions as necessary
- Ensure associated service level agreements are met and assist with reporting on SLAs and other key metrics
- Manage enterprise scale identity and access management solutions such as Active Directory
- Adheres to all standards, policies and procedures such as HIPAA, SOX, PCI
- Support escalations from IT Service Desk and act as 3rd tier resource to resolve issues
- Work 24/7 and co-ordinate with different application teams to remediate issues
- Provide on call support and weekend support
- Administering and troubleshooting of AIX/Linux GPFS Clusters
- Upgrade IBM Spectrum Scale of AIX/Linux servers
- Supporting of the system monitor, trouble shoot, problem solving, support and fix operating system and hardware problems on several versions of AIX systems
- Debugged network performance, network communication and network configuration issues
- Maintained various applications and resources in a Highly available environment
- Conduct/Attend team meetings change control meetings to update installation progress, and for upcoming changes in environment.
Senior UNIX Administrator
IBM
2013.03 - 2017.02
- Primary Responsible for Administration and Production support in a very large healthcare environment consisting of more than 5000 Unix (Primarily Aix and few Linux) Servers
- Work 24/7 and co-ordinate with different application teams to remediate issues
- Provide on call support and weekend support
- Worked with IBM p590 p570 p550 P795 P770 P822 P824 P880 & RS6000 servers connected to storage area networks EMC, IBM ExtremeIO, Hitachi etc
- Configured and Installed logical partitions (LPARS), assigned hardware resources within LPARS, installed AIX 5.3, 6.1, 7.1 and installed patches
- Co-ordinate with vendors such as Cerner, Epic and Oracle to fix hardware and software issues
- IBM P-series System Software Maintenance, AIX System Dump Generation and sending System Dump to AIX System Support Center Monitored trouble ticket queue using Remedy software to attend user and system calls
- Installed, upgraded and recovered HMC environment, created configuration and created backups of installed HMC's
- Extensively worked on power enterprise pools
- Performing Migration and/or Preservation Installations and upgrades from AIX 5.3 to AIX 6.1and AIX 7.1
- IBM Power VM experience including setup and management of VIO partitions and performance tuning on IBM hardware specifically P6 550/570595, P7 730/750/770 & P8 822/824/880
- Setup and installation of VIO servers, VIO clients, setup of network and disks in virtual environment
- Virtual server backup and restoration
- Implements and managing resources in VIO server for client LPAR's
- Administering and troubleshooting of AIX HACMP Clusters
- Migrated from HACMP from HACMP 5.1 to V5, 6.1 to 7.1 Adding new managed systems to the HMC and upgrade the firmware of the HMC's as required
- Used the LVM extensively; Created/Modified/Deleted Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and File systems; Added/Removed physical disks; Mirrored Volume Groups and Logical Volumes Daily tasks included dealing with AIX/Linux/Solaris side of SAN (EMC)
- Like troubleshooting Fiber card adapter, replacing Fiber card adapters
- Configuring LUN's back Responsible for Profile backup of Managed Systems and Critical backup of HMC
- Responsible for new installation and migration of servers through NIM, software installation and updating through NIM
- Performed NIM installation of AIX servers using Virtual Ethernet within a managed system
- Performed the daily system administration tasks like managing System resources, Disk space resources, operations and security
- Installing and configuring and troubleshooting applications SAP, Oracle, DB2 and Websphere
- Supporting of the system monitor, trouble shoot, problem solving, support and fix operating system and hardware problems on several versions of AIX systems
- Debugged network performance, network communication and network configuration issues
- Involved in adding and applying HACMP cluster snapshots
- Fix realtime Hacmp issues in various situations (dead man switch, automatic reboot etc)
- Responsible for Cluster Node Management in Fail over scenarios, Fail over testing
- Maintained various applications and resources in a Highly available environment
- Experienced in Backup of Cluster nodes, Switching Cluster resources and Applications
- Disabling and enabling daemons and services and configuring them
- Performed Disaster Recovery using mksysb and restored the system
- Resolved many Application Startup problems, PATH problems, Name conflicts Performance Management & Tuning of AIX /UNIX Kernel
- Experience in Disk Management
- Experienced in configuring Oracle Rac servers
- Experience in working to remediate critical issues for clients like Epic and Cerner
- Documented installation procedures, changes required in present environment
- Attended team meetings, change control meetings to update installation progress, and for upcoming changes in environment.
Senior UNIX-AIX Administrator
Aviva Insurance (Now Athene Holding ltd)
2012.06 - 2013.03
- Responsible for installation, troubleshooting and maintenance of AIX 5L, 6.1 & 7.1 servers
- Responsible for installing AIX on IBM p-series power 5, 6 & 7
- Responsible for the operation, maintenance and integrity of a distributed, networked Solaris,AIX based environment
- Expertise in NIM installation, setting up NIM servers, clients, define various NIM resources like lpp source, spot, mksysb, image.data, bosinst.data
- Responsible for Alternate Disk Migration with NIM
- Maintained system backup's mksysb, mkdvd savevg and savevgcd
- Responsible for building VIO servers, VIO server configuration on IBM Power 6 Frames
- Setting up NIM servers and clients for New & Complete Overwrite/Migration Installation management and Nimadm Upgrade
- Performed various methods of AIX Installation/Migration using alternate disk installation (NIMADM), Network Installation Manager (NIM)
- Have upgraded servers from AIX 5.3 to 6.1 and 6.1 to 7.1
- Configuration management including the building of LPARs using HMC and configuring the hardware devices that support them
- Extensively used LVM - created VGs, LVs & disk mirroring for IBM p-series servers
- Responsible for backing up the system image
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
JNTU
2002.08 - 2006.05
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
KSI
Skokie, IL 2009.01 - 2011.12
Skills
Performance Analysis
Virtualization Technologies
Network configuration
Patch management
Capacity Planning
Configuration Management
System Upgrades
Process Management
Load Balancing
Server Management
Resource Monitoring
Hardware troubleshooting
Problem Management
Disaster Recovery Planning
Incident Management
System Performance Tuning
Log Analysis
High Availability Clustering
User and Group Management
Unix System Administration
Ansible automation
Performance Testing
Timeline
Infrastructure Service Delivery Lead
Kaiser Permanente
2017.03 - Current
Senior UNIX Administrator
IBM
2013.03 - 2017.02
Senior UNIX-AIX Administrator
Aviva Insurance (Now Athene Holding ltd)
2012.06 - 2013.03
Master of Science - Computer Engineering
KSI
2009.01 - 2011.12
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
JNTU
2002.08 - 2006.05