ASHOK KAMSALI
Frisco,TX
Summary
- 14+ Years of IT experience as Linux/Solaris System Administration. Experienced in branching, tagging and maintaining the version across the environments using SCM tools like GIT, Subversion (SVN) and TFS on Linux and windows platforms. Knowledge on VMware, AWS, Azure SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
- 14+ years of work experience in, Solaris/Linux, AWS, VMWARE, Resiliency & Infrastructure Testing, Telecom domain, And Telecom Applications
- Install, upgrade, configure, troubleshoot, administer, implement, and support the software applications, tools & services that support our business processes, while ensuring proper integration is in place. These software applications include server installations, cloud installations, Software as a Service (SaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS) systems
- Install, upgrade, configure, troubleshoot, administer, implement, and support the underlying infrastructure used by those applications, tools & services, including Linux, Apache, WebLogic, Tomcat, and MySQL.
- Knowledge on Integration tools, configuration management tool, Log Data analyser, Monitoring Tools- Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Zenoos , GLPI, Bugzilla, elastic search, Tivoli,Kibana
- Knowledge of best practices with virtualization (VMware/Zones/LDOM/Xen) and cloud
- Perform OS upgrades and patch installations.
- Strong knowledge of AWS Lambda, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS), and Amazon Simple Workflow Service (Amazon SWF)
- Strong knowledge with Web Services, API Gateways and application integration development and design
- ELK stack creation
- Knowledge on Integration tools, configuration management tool, Log Data analyser, Monitoring Tools- Jenkins, Puppet, Chef, Zenoss, GLPI, Bugzilla, elastic search, Kibana, Terraform and Dockers.
- Knowledge of infrastructure design and implementation.
- Knowledge of information security issues and best practices.
- Strong knowledge on ITIL process.
- Production Application Support Knowledge (OSP, OVO, Apache, WEB)
- Knowledge on SUN Cluster,Service Guard Cluster, SVM,and LVM.
- Having considerable experience in Telecom applications.
- Having considerable ONSITE work experience with E-Plus Germany, SFR FRANCE, MTC-TOUCH LEBANON and DONICANA ROMANIA
- Having extraordinaryData Centre managing skills
- Strong knowledge on ITIL Data centre Process (Experience on Bharti Airtel Data centre/ Telstra US)
- Strong knowledge in SS7/SIGTRAN configuration.
- Infrastructure and Resilience Testing
- Basic knowledge on Shell scripting
- Having good experience on creation of documents, Tech Plan, PPT & VISIO Diagrams (POC,SOW,BOM)
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Technical Support Specialist
HSBC
08.2019 - Current
Service Specialist Engineer
IBM
10.2016 - Current
Service Specialist Engineer
Wipro
08.2019 - 01.2022
- Client: HSBC
- LINUX O/S, Cluster and OSP installation
- Solaris, Zones and LDOM configurations
- Administration of SUN/UNIX/Linux/VM/AWS based systems on physical and virtual servers as well as software
- SAN storage infrastructure in relations to SUN/UNIX/ Linux based systems
- Administration of ESXi environments, including advanced diagnostics and performance Management
- Administrators are responsible for the support and administration of Client’s Linux servers running primarily
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux both on prem and in the cloud
- They will support everyday operations through documentation, configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Responsibilities and duties will fall into the following categories:
- Install new systems and rebuild existing systems
- Collaboration with application owners and business partners
- Perform after hours system and configuration changes
- Participate in project planning and implementation
- Develop and maintain procedural documentation
- Assist with automation and virtualization where applicable, including scripting (Chef, Ansible)
- Monitor systems to ensure reliability and stability
- Troubleshooting issues in production, test, and development environments
- Work incoming tickets and requests
- Hardware maintenance and repair
- Participate in an afterhours on call rotation
- Running and writing health checks on shell, Yaml, Python scripting
- Experience with Maintain & Manage various services running in Linux system which include Apache web/Web logic server
- Experience with maintaining high-availability production systems
- Excellent understanding Linux Operating system internals like process management, file systems
- Perform OS upgrades and patch installations
- Linux Operating system Resource management - CPU management, Disk management, Memory/Swap management
- Excellent understanding of internet and networking protocols, including TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS
- Application deployment on Zones, LDOMs and VM boxes
- Watch, Maven, Nexus, Jenkins, Chef, Batch, Shell script
- Maintaining, Deployment, configuration of all Solaris/Linux/AWS servers
- Jira, ServiceNow and change management tasks
- Experience on AWS cloud services like EC2 , S3 , RDS , ELB , EBS , VPC , Route53 , Auto scaling groups , CloudWatch , CloudFront , IAM for installing configuring and troubleshooting on various Amazon images for server migration from physical into cloud
- Used AWS Cloud Formation and Terraform templates to create custom Design, implement and maintain all AWS infrastructure and services within a managed service environment
- Migration of VM to AWS using standard Terraform templates
- Had worked on implementing a Continuous Delivery pipeline with Docker, Jenkins and GitHub
Sr. Test Engineer
IBM
10.2016 - 08.2019
- Telstra
- Handling of Ticket management(Remedy), CRQ, PBR, Fault analysis, Performance Management
- Troubleshooting server problems and fault analysis with in defined SLA
- Preventive maintenance and performing Health checks for all Servers
- Troubleshooting issues wrt Zones, LDOM,VXVM and VCS
- Configuring Hardware and Software SVM/VxVM for scalability
- Patch and packages installation and management
- Implementation of patches on the Solaris Servers
- Troubleshooting with Boot related Problems
- Troubleshooting with Hardware Problems
- User Account Management that includes user creation, deletion
- Lab deployment of vCloud Suits of Products
- Lead data center transformations projects to migrate client/server applications and platforms to cloud environments
- Maintaining, Deployment, configuration of all Solaris/Linux/AWS servers
- Jira, ServiceNow and change management tasks
Solaris System Administrator
Prolifics
07.2014 - 10.2016
- VMware
- PROJECTS: VMWARE Projects (IAM UPGRADE, MYVMWARE, VMWORLD, SOA, GEMFIRE, vSWA, RS2 and VCredit), PG & E and McSSION
- Responsible for installation, configuration of Solaris and Linux & VMWARE
- Working as a Team Lead position to handle the team with size of 4
- Creating VMs, Zones and Application deployment
- Handled more than 100 monthly release projects (MYVMWARE, VMWORLD, ORIAN, ASCEND, IAM Up and etc.)
- Verifying the Solaris, Linux boxes wrt to Business functionalities
- HA testing, F5 load balancer validation
- Infrastructure and Resiliency Testing for VMWARE client
- Web Application, middleware Application Testing
- HelpNow ticket management/zenoss monitoring
- Tools configuration & installations (Jenkins, Nagios, Webmin, GLPI, Apache, Mysql)
Senior Engineer
PROLIFICS
07.2014 - 09.2016
Senior Software Engineer
ARICENT GROUP
10.2010 - 06.2014
Senior Software Engineer (Linux/Solaris System Administrator)
ARICENT
10.2010 - 06.2014
E-Plus, SFR
03.2014 - 06.2014
Customer Support Engineer
TOUCH
03.2013 - 06.2013
- TELECOM, LEBANON, Alcatel Lucent
- LINUX O/S, Cluster and OSP installation
- Solaris, Zones and LDOM configurations
- Application deployment on Zones, LDOMs and VM boxes
- Installation & configuration of RHEL-SAN based cluster
- Deployed whole IN services for OSP-CLI project
- Switch configuration and network connectivity
- SIGTRAN/SS7 configuration
- Site Preparation, Rack mounting servers, cable connection, switches configuration
- VLAN creation, network alignment with customer network
- Setup 3 different sites in various locations as Main/Mated/Test bed
- Added 2 slee’s for SS7 based calls
- Configured OMNI6850 switch, CISKO switch
- Installed OSP using MAP-Tools
- Troubleshooting server problems and fault analysis with in defined SLA
- Installation of OS and configuration of SVM, LVM, VXVM
- OSP ,5350 and mCAS Applications installation
- Verifying the issues like SHMDB,SEPs,ss7,massaccess,Traces
- Ss7 configuration & link creation
- Involved COSTNODES preparation
Bharti TNG
12.2008 - 10.2010
- Aricent Client, Alactel Lucent
- One of the Critical Data Centre where more than 500 servers are installed which control Bharti Airtel network country wide
- We maintain all system administrator related task as well as backup of these servers on daily basis and also Recover Data when it lost from Servers
- Work Profile & Achievements
- Handling of Ticket management, Fault analysis, Performance Management
- Configuration of Zones, LDOMs
- VCS and VxVM configuration
- 3rd party tools installations
- Configuring Hardware and Software SVM/VxVM for scalability
- Patch and packages installation and management
- Implementation of patches on the Solaris Servers
- NIS, NFS configuration
- HP Open view ticketing management, OVO monitoring
- Hardware replacement (V240,E25k, 440,880,890, T2000, T5120, DL380 & etc..)
Customer Support Engineer
ACCEL FRONTLINE Ltd
12.2008 - 09.2010
Solaris System Administrator
Accel Frontline Ltd
12.2008 - 09.2010
Infrastructure Engineer AMER
Lakhi Info Tech, Credit
Suisse, NC
Lead Administrator
07.2022 - 1 1
- Experience in managing Linux-based systems, including installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance
- Server management: Hands-on experience in managing Linux servers, including web servers (such as Apache or Nginx), database servers (like MySQL or PostgreSQL), and application servers
- Networking and security protocols: Knowledge of TCP/IP networking, DNS, DHCP, VPN, and other networking protocols commonly used in Linux environments
- Satellite, Ansible Patching
- QUID,DR Activities, LEEP Upgrade, FTP Issues, MVP DMZ patching
- Cloud platforms: Familiarity with deploying and managing Linux-based systems on cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Virtualization and containerization: Familiarity with virtualization technologies like VMware or KVM, as well as containerization platforms such as Docker or Kubernetes
- Monitoring and troubleshooting: Ability to utilize monitoring tools like Nagios, Zabbix, or Prometheus to monitor system performance, identify issues, and troubleshoot them effectively
- Configuring and optimizing ASM disk groups for efficient storage allocation and improved performance
- Performing backup and recovery operations for ASM disks to ensure data integrity and availability.Troubleshooting and resolving issues related to ASM disk failures, diskgroup corruption, or performance bottlenecks
- Collaborating with database administrators (DBAs) to ensure proper integration of ASM with Oracle or other database systems
- Involved in designing and deploying a multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including EC2, Route53, S3, RDS, Dynamo DB, SNS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling
- Migrated the current Linux environment to AWS/RHEL Linux environment and used auto scaling feature
- Install and configure chef server / workstation and nodes via CLI tools to AWS nodes
- Increasing EBS backed volume storage capacity when the root volume is full using AWS EBS Volume feature
- Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions
- Deployed and supported Memcache-AWS ElastiCache
- Working with GitHub private repositories
- Terraform code build to deploy EC2 machines
- Using Ansible patching and PYO jobs to install quarterly upgrades
- 10000+ servers patching and support
- Install new systems and rebuild existing systems
- Collaboration with application owners and business partners
- Perform after hours system and configuration changes
- Participate in project planning and implementation
- Maintaining, Deployment, configuration of all Solaris/Linux/AWS servers
- Jira, ServiceNow and change management tasks
Education
MCA -
Osmania University
01.2006
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C02) Oracle Solaris 10 System Administrator Certified Professional, Part I (1Z0-877)& Part II(1Z0-878) Electrical Authorization HAB-BT, APAVE INDAIN OCEAN LTD -
Skills
- TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Operating Systems: Solaris, LINUX, HP-UX, VMWARE, Cloud
- TOOLS: VERITAS Volume manager, Cluster, SVM, Bugzilla, Hudson/Jenkins, Nagios
- Virtualization: Zones, LDOMs, VMware (ESXi, vCenter) and Xen
- Applications: Apache, WebLogic, OSP Intelligent Network
- Testing Knowledge: Infrastructure Testing, Resilience Testing
Certification
Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate AZ-104
Timeline
Lead Administrator
07.2022 - 1 1
Technical Support Specialist
HSBC
08.2019 - Current
Service Specialist Engineer
Wipro
08.2019 - 01.2022
Service Specialist Engineer
IBM
10.2016 - Current
Sr. Test Engineer
IBM
10.2016 - 08.2019
Solaris System Administrator
Prolifics
07.2014 - 10.2016
Senior Engineer
PROLIFICS
07.2014 - 09.2016
E-Plus, SFR
03.2014 - 06.2014
Customer Support Engineer
TOUCH
03.2013 - 06.2013
Senior Software Engineer
ARICENT GROUP
10.2010 - 06.2014
Senior Software Engineer (Linux/Solaris System Administrator)
ARICENT
10.2010 - 06.2014
Bharti TNG
12.2008 - 10.2010
Customer Support Engineer
ACCEL FRONTLINE Ltd
12.2008 - 09.2010
Solaris System Administrator
Accel Frontline Ltd
12.2008 - 09.2010
Infrastructure Engineer AMER
Lakhi Info Tech, Credit
MCA -
Osmania University
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C02) Oracle Solaris 10 System Administrator Certified Professional, Part I (1Z0-877)& Part II(1Z0-878) Electrical Authorization HAB-BT, APAVE INDAIN OCEAN LTD -
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