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Sainath Pradeep Manga

San Jose,CA

Summary

Having over 13+ years of experience as System Administrator with expertise in Linux (RHEL 6/7/8), VMware, Open stack and in diverse environments. Good analytical and problem-solving skills as well as Interpersonal skills working in a Team environment. Involved in Capacity Planning, Performance Analysis, and worked cross functional standards (CFS) teams to set standards on Linux servers. Strong experience in administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with extensive implementation & troubleshooting experience under Client Server Systems. Worked on SAN storage Technologies like RDF, Snaps and Network Storage Systems like NAS and SAN. Worked on setting up Hadoop clusters. Experience with installs, patches, upgrades, configuration, and performance tuning. Expert in Datacenter Operations including hardware, software setup monitoring, troubleshooting on a 24 x 7 basis with Splunk monitoring tool and Service now ticketing Systems. Worked on Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) database, which provides high availability Database Solutions. Administrative experience with Cloud server environments such as Openstack. Immediate acknowledgement of issues & solving them while constantly updating status for all levels of severities and provide RCA report. Provide technical support to end users. Create and maintain technical documentation for new installations and system changes as required.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Systems Administrator

CISCO Systems
10.2011 - 08.2023

Responsibilities:

  • Installing, upgrading, and configuring Red Hat Linux CEL 6/7/8 on Cisco UCS Half/Fullwidth Blade Servers and on Virtual machines.
  • Actively participated and supported in migration of 460+ production servers from old data center to New Data Center.
  • Worked with cross-functional design teams to create software solutions that improved overall functionality and performance.
  • Install and configuring ASM storage and configuring proxy backups.
  • Provisioned servers and deployed features, security using Ansible.
  • Involved in decommissioning servers project as per company procedures and update hardware inventory database.
  • Creating Cluster service groups and establishing group level dependencies.
  • Creating documentation for datacenter hardware setups, standard operational procedures, and security policies.
  • Logging events and forcing crash dumps, securing servers, and troubleshooting issues.
  • Create and maintain technical documentation for new installations and systems changes as required.
  • Planned and implemented upgrades to system hardware and software.
  • Implemented security measures and software to maintain network integrity.
  • Suggested system updates or changes after conduct in-depth technical reviews.
  • Regular participation in on-call service and participation in planned weekend work for implementation of changes.
  • Diagnosed and resolved hardware and software issues.
  • Analyzed complex project server issues and worked on large enterprise and business-critical applications.
  • Document, Troubleshooting, performance analysis, and issue escalation with vendor.

Systems Administrator

SYNOPSYS
07.2011 - 10.2011

Responsibilities:

  • Supporting on all Network, Hardware & Software issues with proper problem-solving techniques.
  • Installing, Configuring Solstice Disk suite 4.2.1 & VERITAS Volume Manager.
  • Installation of latest patches for security bugs and relevant platform specific packages.
  • Configured Solaris 10 Zones for virtual server configuration.
  • Responsible for configuring and troubleshooting Autofs, NIS, LDAP, RAID, RBAC, Jumpstart and igniteUX for flash installation.
  • Disk space management for software installed, making sure FS is exported and auto mounted on client’s systems.
  • Installing applications on multiple file systems for high availability and performance.
  • Configuring remote printers using lpadmin tool, generating printer queues on each client machines.
  • Kernel Reconfiguration, using static and dynamic kernel modules and tunable parameters.
  • Extensive use of lvcreate, vgdisplay, lvextend, vgextend in HP-UX and Linux.
  • Immediate acknowledgement of issues & solving them while constantly updating status for all levels of severities and provide RCA report.
  • Delivered Tier 2 and Tier 3 support for problem identification, diagnosis and issue resolution.
  • Configured and tested Windows Server operating systems with roles features.

Systems Administrator

IT Convergence
05.2010 - 04.2011

Responsibilities:

  • Day–to-day administration on Linux Servers which includes Installation, upgrade & loading patches & packages.
  • Red hat Linux Kick start Installation – Sun Solaris Jump start Installation.
  • Creating and Administering Volume Manager Objects.
  • Configure, support, and perform routine maintenance of hardware and software for Solaris servers.
  • Configuring DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS in Sun Solaris 8/9 & other Network Services.
  • Installing new Sun Hardware – performing test before releasing servers into production.
  • Supporting on all Network, Hardware & Software issues with proper problem-solving techniques.
  • Installing, Configuring Solstice Disk suite 4.2.1 & VERITAS Volume Manager.
  • Incident Management and Change Management.
  • Creating disk groups, volumes for Sybase and oracle databases by using VERITAS volume manager.
  • Company standards - Follow all company prescribed global standards and procedures like security, access control, and support and change control.
  • Document, Troubleshooting, performance analysis, and issue escalation with vendor.
  • Regular participation in on-call service and participation in planned weekend work for implementation of changes.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

Silicon Valley University
San Jose, CA
02.2009

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Hyderabad,India
04.2006

Skills

  • Skill Set Summary:
  • Operating systems: RedHat Linux (RHEL 5/6/7/8)
  • DevOps Tools: Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git
  • Virtualization: Vmware
  • Monitoring/Observability: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus
  • Server hardware: Cisco UCS Blades B200 M2, M3, B440/480 Dell power edge Rx720 series
  • Cluster Solutions: Oracle RAC, VCS 40 & 50, Red hat Cluster Suite
  • Scripting language: Bash
  • Cloud: AWS, Openstack
  • Storage: EMC SAN, NAS, SCSI, SDD
  • Networking Services: NIS, NFS, DNS, SSH and Send mail
  • Ticketing Tools: Remedy, Service Now and Jira
  • Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, SMTP, TELNET, HTTP
  • Systems Engineering

Timeline

Senior Systems Administrator

CISCO Systems
10.2011 - 08.2023

Systems Administrator

SYNOPSYS
07.2011 - 10.2011

Systems Administrator

IT Convergence
05.2010 - 04.2011

Master of Science - Computer Science

Silicon Valley University

Bachelor of Technology - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Sainath Pradeep Manga