Tanveer Syed

SUMMARY:
• 9+ Years of extensive experience in RedHat Linux / Solaris, AWS, Windows, Unix Administration on Sun,
HP Servers for Mission Critical and Enterprise applications.
• Installation, administration, implementation, testing and maintenance of complex and heterogeneous
networks consisting of Linux (Red Hat), Sun Solaris 8/9/10, SuSE, Windows.
• Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Samba, Apache Tomcat, Web Sphere and Jboss servers in
Sun Solaris and Linux environment.
• Expert in Configuring and administering Active Directory, Exchange Server 2007/2010, SQL server
2008 R2, IIS 6.0/7.0.
• Hardware configuration, installation and management on Sun, HP servers and Workstations.
• Configured ILOs and Console connections for HP and SUN servers.
• Worked on Installation and Configuration of High available IBM FileNet Connector.
• Experienced in system administration, System planning, co-ordination and group and user level management.
• Good working knowledge on AZURE.
• Configuration, implementation and administration of NFS, NIS, DNS, and Sun Cluster and LDAP on Solaris
and Linux environment.
• Understanding and troubleshooting skills with networking communications and protocols such as TCP/IP,
NFS, DNS, SMTP, CCNA .
• Ability to perform firmware and operating system patching.
• Expertise in creating and managing Logical Volume Manager in RedHat Linux.
• Expertise in Installation, Configuration of Package and Patch Management.
• Experience with Blade Logic project implementation for 2000+ servers including OS patching, provisioning
custom reporting Development, BL packaging, Compliance reporting
• Experienced with installation, configuration of RAID volume management using Veritas Volume Manager
and Solstice disk suit on Solaris Disk across & Quotas.
• Experience in Disaster Recovery and Planning.
• Deployed Docker Engines in Virtualized Platforms for containerization of multiple apps. 
• Extensively worked on Automatic Scripting using shell scripts (bash, awk, sed).
• Experience with development tools and version control tools such as CVS, Clear Quest, and Perforce.
• Tasked with both virtual and bare metal server builds
• Experience on backup and recovery software like Veritas Net backup 5.1 and 7.5 on Linux environment.
• Expertise in TSM, Data domain and Falconstor in large scale enterprise backup environment.
• Handling and generating tickets via the Remedy ticketing tool.
• Experience with configuration management and automation software such as Puppet and Chef.
• Experience in passing parameters to Control M job and creating job dependencies and Alerts.
• Maintained high availability of data using MC/Serviceguard, VERITAS cluster Server and Sun Cluster.
• Systems and network Planning and Administration.
• Backup and Restore Management like Veritas backup, Tape library and Disk library and EMC.
• Excellent verbal communication skills and strong documentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System Solaris 10/9/8, HP-UX (10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23), IBM AIX (4.3, 5.1L, 5.3L, 6.1),
RedHat Linux (AS/ES 3/4/5), VMware ESX 4.X, Windows NT
4.0/2000/2003/XP/vista, AutoSys.
Hardware Sun Fire 280R/V480/4800/3800/12K/15K, TSeries, MSeries Server, Sun Enterprise
6500/5000/450/420R, , HP 9000 K,L,N class server, IBM RS/6000, pSeries, Xserve’s,
HP/IBM/Blade Servers.
VMware VMware Infrastructure Client and VMware ESX Server 4.x/3.x/2.x.
 Network DNS/Bind, Samba, TCP/IP, NFS, Telnet, DNS, LDAP, SSH, DHCP, NAT, LAN, WAN,
Protocols/Services ARP/RARP, FTP/TFTP, ifconfig, route, netstat, xinetd, HTTP.
Storage SAN EMC Symmetrix 800/ DMX1000, 2000 & 3000, EMC CLARiiON 500, 600, 700,
NetApp NAS 2000/ 3000 series
Databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, DB2, Oracle

Web /Application Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, Weblogic

Server
Automation Tools Puppet, Chef, Kickstart, Docker, Kubernetes.
Mail Servers SMTP, POP, IMAP, qmail, Sendmail, Postfix
Cluster Veritas Cluster Server, MC/Service Guard, Sun Cluster
Languages C, C++, Java, Shell, awk, Perl, Python
Security SSH, SSL, IPchains, IPtables, Tcpdump, Wireshark, Tripwire, port scanners

EDUCATION:
Bachelors in Computer Science.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
United Airlines, Elk Grove, IL. April 2019 – Till Date
Sr. RedHat Linux/Unix Administrator
Responsibilities: 
• System administrator responsible for maintaining Linux/Unix operating systems such as RHEL, UNIX, and
Solaris servers.
• Provided L2/L3 Linux AHT Support (Above Hypervisor Support) to more than 500+ Customer Servers running
RHEL 5, 6, 7.2
• Installations using PXE boot Maintenances and troubleshooting hundreds of Linux Servers. 
• Adding/expanding new storage to existing/new systems using LVM, Veritas Volume management VXVM and
Vxfs on Linux/SUN servers. 
• Worked on Solaris servers supporting all the OS administration, application and hardware issues. 
• Very good working experience on Redhat Satellite Server upgrading and patching. 
• Building Linux servers by using VMware ESX 3.0 and also involved in channels and pushing the packages in
RedHat Satellite Server. 
• Responsible for leading the effort through full life cycle of the Upgrade project for Oracle and SAP environment
from AIX P5 to P6 and AIX 5.3 to 6.1. 
• Responsible for installation administration of AIX 4.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1 and 7.1. 
• Configured and Administered HACMP 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 IBM PowerHA. 
• Installation, Configuration and administration of LPAR's. 
• Installation, administration of VIO Server and VIO client LPAR's. 
• Migrating AIX OS from AIX 4.3 to 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3, 5.3 to 6.1 on models of p-series hardware. 
• Implemented upgrade of servers using Redhat Satellite Server. 
• Setup NFS file systems and shared them to clients. 
• Planning, Installation, administration, Trouble shooting of HP-UX (IA64) Servers 
• Troubleshooting and configuring NAS and NFS mount points. 
• Troubleshooting network, application, and server related issues. 
• Scheduling of automatic repetitive Jobs, and Shell Scripts with Crontab. 
• Monitoring Virtual memory, Swap management, and Disk and CPU utilization by using various monitoring tools. 
• Monitoring and configuration of various servers using Puppet modules. 
• Primarily applications support, config changes, troubleshooting server issues for QA/Stage/Production,
monitoring issues through systems like Jira, Zabbix. 
• Implemented rapid provisioning and life cycle management for RedHat Linux using kickstart and puppet. 
• Improved Linux OS deployment and management by creating customized kickstart scripts and installing puppet. 
• Patch updating of HP-UX servers and HPC cluster. 
• Used puppet for central management of Linux configuration files and software package management. 
• Implementing RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 levels using Veritas Volume Manager. 
• Created RPM packages using RPMBUILD, verifying the new build packages and distributing the package. 
• Installed Red Hat Linux on Intel Machines, Configured File Systems and Raw - Devices. 
• Installed various RPMS on Linux. 
• Involved in mass migration of data form old EMC Storage subsystems to new Subsystems. 
• Installed and Configured Veritas Net backup client and advanced client software's in Production servers. 
• Administer, maintain and troubleshoot EMC Clarion arrays. 
• Creating volumes, LUNs and implementing different RAID levels on the same 
• Configured and created snapshots of clones of LUNs using EMC Snap View 
• Implemented replication of data within sub storage systems using SAN Copy and Mirror View software. 
 
Environment: UNIX, LINUX, HP & DELL Blade Servers Linux RHEL 4/5, SUN High End series E25K, E15K and
E10k, HPC cluster, SUN Fire, V480, V440, V240, BASH Shell Script, VMware, GIT, Maven, Jenkins, CHEF, Puppet,
Docker, Kubernetes, NAGIOS, Jira, Confluence.

IBM, Chicago, IL. July 2017 – Mar 2019

Sr. Linux Administrator
Responsibilities:
• Providing production support for multiples applications residing on Linux and UNIX environments.
Making sure Zero-Down time for enterprise critical applications by raising outages, escalations whenever
necessary.
• Raised, handled and closed multiple Change Management and Trouble Management tickets accordingly
with Standards.
• Installed and configured VxVM, VxFS and VCS on Linux Servers.
• Experience in installation, configuration and administration of RHEL 6 and Suse10/11 on both private and
public clouds
• Monitoring UNIX batch processes and scheduling systems on Autosys.
• Creating VM instances using VMware/ESX on Linux and Sun Servers and migrating applications from
others servers.
• Configure and Implementation of Samba v3.0 to help printing and file sharing in the mixed environment.
• Maintenance level upgrades and software administration RPM installation on Linux.
• Acquiring & Initializing LUNs in clustered environments on Unix Servers.
• Scripting and task automation by Crontab using Bash, and Korn shell scripting.
• Created Bash Shell scripts to monitor system resources and system maintenance and Performed
administrative tasks such as System start-up/shutdown, and Backup strategy and scheduled cron jobs for
job automation.
• Performing O/S and kernel upgrades on Linux servers.
• Application supporting ftp ids creation on regular basis.
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View.
• Providing Knowledge Transfer to new recruited Team Member.
• Performed host based SAN migration on Standalone and Cluster Linux servers
• Accessing and controlling LPARS using HMC
• Use of Azure services for HA and DR. 
• Developed security policies for Azure cloud. 
• Troubleshoot backup issues, Perform manual backups & restore using VERITAS Net Backup.
• Document and maintain the inventory using asset management techniques.
• Supporting servers on 24x7 bases on different platforms.

Environment: RHEL4.x/5.x/6.x,AIX 6.1 Solaris 11, Suse 10/11HP BL460, DL 380 Dell and IBM X Series, IBM p5,
 p6, and p7 hardware p670, p520, p550, p570, p750 - P5 P6 P7 -Power8 SAN, LVM, RPM, , BMC patrol, , VERITAS
Net Backup, Shell and Perl Scripting, BMC Remedy 8.1, 8.1.0x

US Cellular, Orlando, FL. Mar 2013 – Jun 2017

AIX Linux Administrator
Responsibilities:
• Building, administering, monitoring and troubleshooting Windows, RHEL4.x/5.x/6.x,AIX 6.1, HP BL460,
DL 380 Dell and IBM X Series.
• Responsible for building and configuring LAMP & LEMP (L: Redhat, CentOs, Ubuntu; A: Apache, Nginx ;
P:PERL and M: MySQL, Oracle) and Java (Jboss) Web servers using for internally developed
applications using established build standards
• Linux system backup administration/monitoring using EMC Networker 7.5.6. And Backup Exec 2012.
• Worked with Storage Area Networks (SAN) which consisted of Hitachi and EMC storage.
• Involved in maintenance of systems including patching, setting up Print servers, Configuring File systems,
using LVM/Veritas on HPUX/Linux/Sun Solaris OS, involving SAN environment
• Add, remove and resizing Logical volumes using LVM in Linux and implementing software RAID at
installation time.
• Experience with SAML, HTP fed, web application proxy.
• Regular disk management like adding/replacing hot swappable drives on existing servers, partitioning
according to the requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and
managing file systems and adding virtual swap space.
• Define/setup network protocols, Network File Services (NFS), and Network Information Services (NIS) in
Linux.
• Write and publish Bash and Perl scripts to facilitate the automation process and provisioning of a variety
of Virtual Machines and Virtual Appliances, such as RHEL, CentOS and Debian.
• Installed and configured VxVM, VxFS and VCS on Linux Servers.
• Installation and configuration of Web Application servers like Apache, Tomcat and Weblogic.
• Worked on Solaris 11 container technology, configured separate zones for various applications.
• Upgraded Solaris 8 to Solaris 9 and 10. Configuring SAN Sun Storage. Through Brocade Silkworm Switches.
Fiber Optics Switch for redundancy with multi-path.
• Evaluate, install, test, configure, maintain, tune, and troubleshoot Solaris 9/10/11, Red Hat Linux 5, AIX
6.1/5.3 operating system software and third party commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products with primary
responsibility being for the UNIX operating systems.
• Experienced in Cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation templates. 
• Experience with migration to Amazon web Services AWS from Datacenter. 
• Acquiring & Initializing LUNs in clustered & standalone environments.
• Managing/Administrating ESXi 4.1, 5.1 Hosts and Clusters on vCenter Server 5.1. Using vSphere Client
5.1, VMware Site Recovery Manager.
• Installation and configuration of Webserver (Apache 2.2.17), MySQL 5.5 and PHP in a LAMP stack.
• Management of Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), Zettabyte File System (ZFS) and Logical Volume
Manager.
• Install Cluster software and configured the system for failover of databases and applications.
• Wrote scripts in K-Shell and AWK programming language to automate jobs.
• Modify and write NetBackup scripts to automate process.
• Worked on configuring Puppet master servers and installing Puppet client on Linux servers.
• Involved in automation by using Puppet and Chef Master running on RHEL with around 100 Clients.
• Experience in implementation Intrusion Detection System: Tripwire, Snort, Lids.
• Performed host based SAN migration on Standalone and Cluster Linux servers
• AIX 6.1 patching and OS disk migration
• Oracle RAC, NDM, WebSphere installation and support on AIX and Linux Servers

Environment: RHEL4.x/5.x/6.x, Solaris 9/10/11, HP BL460, DL 380 Dell and IBM X Series, IBM Filenet P8, IBM
p5, p6, and p7 hardware p670, p520, p550, p570, p750 - P5 P6 P7, SAN, LVM.
Alegent Creighton Health, Omaha, NE. June 2010 – Jan 2013
Unix/LINUX System Administrator
Responsibilities:
• User Administration, management and archiving.
• Configuring NFS, NIS, NIS+, DNS, Auto Mount & Disk Space Management on Linux SUN Servers.
• Installed and Configured LAMP Server (Linux Redhat, CentOS, Apache, Jboss, MySQL Oracle, and PHP Perl).
•  Managed servers on Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform using Puppet configuration management 
• Deploy puppet to completely provision and manage AWS EC2 instances, volumes, DNS, and S3. 
• Launching and configuring AWS EC2 servers using AMI's and configuring servers for specified
applications. 
• Monthly security patches deployment on 200+ Linux test and production servers.
• Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs
using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.
• Expertise in performing firmware and operating system patching.
• Monitoring of network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, PING) etc.
• Responsible for building / maintaining a production environment
• Checked and done the patch upgrade and Firmware upgrade for each migration server as and when
required.
• Experience in Configuring and Managing Virtual Disks, Disk Mirrors & RAID Levels.
• Worked with NAS Storage with HBA card configuration.
• Created and managed file systems with SVM and ZFS.
• SuSe Linux support on an "as needed" basis.
• UNIX based servers and services to authenticate against Novell eDirectory LDAP based naming service.
• Data Center Migration support for CX, DMX attached hosts.
• Excellent Knowledge in Capacity Planning and Performance tuning.
• Activities include user administration, startup and shutdown scripts, crontabs, file system maintenance
and backup scripting and automation using shell scripting (BASH, KSH) and Perl for RedHat Linux
systems
• Experience in CFEngine automation software.
• Used CVS, VTFS, Perforce on UNIX and Windows environment.
• Experience with setting up Linux servers for Oracle Real Application Clusters and configuring SAN
based devices for raw and File system mount points.
• Troubleshooting and analysis of hardware and software failures for Redhat Servers, Backup Servers and
work with different vendors (HP, EMC, Oracle, Redhat) to resolve the issue.
• Windows 2000/2003 and 2008 Server Active Directory Administration
• Troubleshooting hardware, software and operating system related errors on Linux including Hardware
Maintenance and Upgradation.
• Installation of Packages and Patches for AIX, Solaris 8/9/10, RedHat Linux 4/5, HP 11.X.
• Disk and file system management through Veritas Volume Manager / Veritas File System and Solstice
Disk Suite.

Environment: RedHat (2,3,4,5) , VMware ESX 4.x and SUSE Linux, Solaris 8 / 9 / 10, Sun Enterprise Server, HP
9000 K, L, N Class Server, IBM Filenet P8, IBM RS/6000, pSeries Server, Windows 2003/2008 Server.