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SANTOSH KUMAR SWARNKAR

Technical Operations Lead
Hyderabad,Telangana

Summary

Looking for career enrichment opportunities in Cloud IT operations and development, IT Infrastructure Management, Solution designing & security analysis, Architect. Summary: I have around 18+ years of IT experience and 6 years in OCI Cloud computes, Docker & Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Elasticsearch, Power Broker, OUD, ODSEE, System Administration of Linux/Centos, Python/Perl/Shell knowledge, Middleware (MQ/MB) & Operating system infrastructure servers like Cluster VERITAS, KVM/Xen. I have proper exposure to DR planning, implementation, and capacity planning and configuration management. I have exposure to extensive use of Open source tools in cloud.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

IT Technical Operations Lead

Oracle India Limited
Hyderabad, Telangana
09.2014 - Current
  • Knowledge of multiple client environment & culture like, Telecom, Finance, Insurance, Airport pharmaceutical and Govt projects.
  • Working as Technical operations lead & providing Solution, Designing & Security on oracle cloud services and Unix/Linux.
  • Being a part of security, I am Supporting & leading Authentication & authorization across the region from India delivery Center.
  • Working as an operation lead for IDC & providing Support to Linux, ODSEE, LDAP, OUD, IDCS, Powerbroker.
  • Privilege policy creation using tools Power Broker & slogger for cloud compute nodes & enterprise users.
  • Solutions, Designing & security analysis Unix/Linux.
  • Applying and designing secrules for compute tenant in OCI.
  • Configure CI/CD over Travis CI using git hub.
  • Configured Elasticsearch using logstash and filebeat.
  • Cloud Computing – OCI (certified).
  • Automation: tool like Ansible, Terraform, Oracle resource provider management.
  • Docker & Kubernetes.
  • Team Handling and operations.
  • Bug Fixes in Environment.
  • Working on open source projects to avoid highly paid Licenses like logservd.
  • As a Focal take cares of escalation and critical issues.
  • Client interaction & working towards security solution.
  • Successfully completed UK Govt.
  • OC4 project using automation with Terraform/Ansible.
  • Proactive approach towards monitoring tools Enterprise Manager, Ocean, OBS, PagerDuty.
  • Implemented netgroup and centralized keystroking solutions for Cloud compute nodes.
  • Working knowledge in Jira, scrum items to tracks the projects and operations.
  • Design OS for ODSEE builds.
  • Shell/Perl/python scripting knowledge.
  • Solution providing nslcd/nscd/sssd client config.
  • Securing netgroup authentication using PAM modules for IDCS.
  • ODSEE/OUD Performance tuning.
  • Escalation support on our services.
  • Being a member of bartender program I am leading may interviews drive in IDC

Subject Matter Expert(ISME)

IBM
Noida, UP
03.2009 - 09.2014
  • Working as a UNIX ISME providing remote support to multiple accounts from US, UK & Canada. During this time I was visited multiple time onsite for the Knowledge transfer & transformation and DC migration.
  • Knowledge on Pureflex private cloud technology
  • As a Focal take cares of escalation and critical issues.
  • Mentors new team members and provide KT to them.
  • As a member of Tech Panel, conducts interview for new candidates.
  • Work includes maintaining 1300 hundreds of Linux/UNIX server and providing end to end support to client.
  • Works on short-term long-term projects to deploy standalone Linux servers, KVM and in a cluster environment.
  • Works on proactive activities like patching servers and SAN Migrations.
  • Server Build up In Satellite environment
  • Perform nic Bounding for the Failover
  • Preparation of Run Book for the different accounts.
  • Attending daily customers review calls.
  • Driving service improvement & Defect preventions plans across all the accounts.

Unix/Linux and MQ Administrator

SATYAM Computers LTD
Hyderabad , Telangana
11.2007 - 03.2009
  • Project Merrill Lynch
  • Merrill Lynch is a leading global financial management and advisory company spread across in 36 countries and around the world. It is a Fortune 58th company with 58,000 employees in worldwide.
  • Scope of the project includes Installation, Administration, Production Support, and Maintenance of the Unix/Linux, Middle Ware products throughout the Merrill Lynch.
  • Planning for disaster recovery along with the project code development and assistance of different project groups.
  • Creation, administration and maintenance of peer to peer and domain based networks in Linux environment.
  • Able to install, update and maintain application middleware system management tools and n/working in LINUX environment.
  • Configuration and maintenance of NIS based networks.
  • Installation of Linux ES 4.0 and configuring various services like.
  • BIND, NFS, NIS, DHCP, Samba, Apache, RAID, LVM, Squid etc.
  • Configuration of FTP Server, Telnet Server, Open SSH, certificate generation.
  • Configuration and administration of LVM.
  • Working on high availability clusters.
  • Implementing security with iptables and TCP Wrappers.
  • Performing Backup and Recovery Task implementing Incremental backup.
  • Implement and support the Web Sphere MQSeries infrastructure in the PRODUCTION, UAT / STAGING and DEVELOPMENT Environment.
  • MQ installation, configuration and health check.
  • MQ Upgrade.
  • Decommission of Qmgrs and MQ objects.
  • Ensuring consistent service delivery of the agreed upon SLA’s.
  • Track record of increasing responsibility in systems infrastructure and project management.
  • Experience in operational 24x6 support, best practice trouble shooting, monitoring, and maintenance.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple high-profiles, complex projects and implement with minimal disruption to end users.
  • Adept at developing effective policies and procedures, project documentation, as well as technical and business specifications.
  • Building Qmgrs and MQ object creation.
  • Migration of Qmgrs and MQ objects (Host to Host / Qmgr name change).
  • MQ Upgrade.
  • Decommission of Qmgrs and MQ objects.
  • Conversion of logging from Linear to Circular.
  • Troubleshooting MQ Issues (Error logs, MQRC Codes and FDCs).
  • Backing up messages and Testing.
  • Authorization of objects in MQ.
  • Handle Queue Manager operations(creation, migration, upgrade & decommissioning).
  • Monitoring of the queues, channels which needs to be up 24X7 for business critical.

Head Tec. Support Engineer (UNIX) for MP & CG

Working in CMS Computers Ltd
Bhopal, MP
09.2005 - 11.2007
  • Working as a head Tec. Support engineer (UNIX) for MP & CG circle and ssociated with Bharti Infotel Ltd as data center Lead.
  • I was actively involved in Air Tel project with IBM Global services India Pvt Ltd as an employee of CMS Computers Ltd.
  • Adept in planning, design, installation & configuration of IT networks, maintenance & troubleshooting, network user management on multiple platforms, governed by communication protocols.
  • Specific Duties and Responsibilities:.
  • Accepts and validates incoming technical problems within response times.
  • Assesses nature & severity of problem.
  • Provides technical action plan to field, and set proper expectations.
  • Provides customer relief via work around or temporary fix.
  • Liaise with Product Engineering, Sales, Services and third party personnel as required to ensure problem resolution.
  • Inputs and edits accurate technical and other relevant information.
  • Management tools, ensuring current status are recorded.
  • Responds to technical aliases and other knowledge sharing forums.
  • Creates and review formal and informal knowledge assets.
  • Provides technical comments to Service Head regarding the reliability, availability and serviceability.
  • Attends customer site as required for critical situations.
  • Develops and test permanent solutions in conjunction with senior TSG.
  • Working groups and other knowledge sharing forums.
  • Installing servers, Server Administration, network services and peripherals.
  • Administrative support of AIX & Linux Servers.
  • Configuring Redundancy in the servers for fault tolerance with User Security and Disk Space management to optimize the server utilization.
  • Trend Micro Office Scan Enterprise Edition.
  • Tuning of oracle server for smooth operations in Linux & AIX.
  • Maintaining & implement of LVM.
  • Monitoring of health checkup of Linux server RHEL3 & RHEL4 & Aix ML5.3.
  • Managing Disk spacing of Linux server RHEL3 & RHEL4 & Aix ML5.3.
  • Designing the Backup Strategy for the sites and ensuring scheduled/unscheduled Backups as per backup plan and restoration.
  • AV products monitoring, Backup administration and regular scanning and closures of the security holes of the server segment on periodic basis.
  • Addressing performance bottlenecks and ensuring maximum network uptime.
  • Conducting Periodic reviews with the customer and analyze calls and their trends to take proactive measures to reduce knowledge-based calls.
  • Managing 400 Servers with Infotel MP&CG circle.
  • Worked with Domino Servers, DNS, WINS, NIS, NFS, DHCP, RAID, LVM.
  • Responsible for Intrusion Detection, network traffic analysis, performance tuning.
  • Worked with Enterprise class anti-virus, backup, monitoring and remote notification and administration.
  • Troubleshoot problems using syslogs, network sniffers, ARP and routing tables and network utilities.
  • Implementation of various system/network-monitoring tools such as Nagios, MRTG and Whatsup gold etc for the on-line monitoring of the data centers and network operations in the circle.

Education

MSC -

Vinayaka University

M.Com - Business Management

Barakthullah University

Industry certification in Red Hat Certified Engineer in RHEL3 (033,133 and 253.) - undefined

Advance Diploma - computer hardware and Lan network

Jet king

Industry certification in Linux - undefined

Cambridge Intercontinental University

Corporate Training on MQ Administration from IBM IBM Web Sphere MQ Admin Professional Certified (V 6.0 / SR5404981). - undefined

Skills

Hardware and software installation

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Accomplishments

  • Various IT Audits e.g.
  • Security, Quality etc.
  • And afterwards compliance on the findings of the audit reports.
  • Coordinated installation, configuration, maintenanceAchievements.
  • Successfully Migration of oracle in AIX(IBM p-series-570) server.
  • Successfully Migration of Wfms in AIX(IBM p-series-570) server.
  • Successfully Migration of Squid proxy server in Linux(RHEL-3).
  • Successfully Migration of Nagios Monitoring server Linux(RHEL-4).
  • Successfully Migration of Nessus Scan server Linux(RHEL-4).

Timeline

IT Technical Operations Lead

Oracle India Limited
09.2014 - Current

Subject Matter Expert(ISME)

IBM
03.2009 - 09.2014

Unix/Linux and MQ Administrator

SATYAM Computers LTD
11.2007 - 03.2009

Head Tec. Support Engineer (UNIX) for MP & CG

Working in CMS Computers Ltd
09.2005 - 11.2007

Corporate Training on MQ Administration from IBM IBM Web Sphere MQ Admin Professional Certified (V 6.0 / SR5404981). - undefined

Industry certification in Linux - undefined

Cambridge Intercontinental University

Advance Diploma - computer hardware and Lan network

Jet king

Industry certification in Red Hat Certified Engineer in RHEL3 (033,133 and 253.) - undefined

M.Com - Business Management

Barakthullah University

MSC -

Vinayaka University
SANTOSH KUMAR SWARNKARTechnical Operations Lead