G.Santosh Kumar E-mail: santoshg.kumar07@gmail.

com
Unix/Linux System Engineer Mobile: +91-9381225993

Career Objective
Obtain a challenging assignment enriching my technical and professional skills by learning new
technologies and grow with the organization

Summary

 +5.4 Years of Experience in Unix/Linux System Administrator.

 Having experience in both L1 and L2 support roles in Linux environment.
 Supporting and monitoring more than 19,000 physical and virtual servers globally of 700+
clients.
 Used to monitor alarms based on priority clearing issues by customer notification and
scheduling down time as required for resolving.
 As a system administrator implementing and performing various changes (patches) on the
servers which is to be done through window from the client.
 File system Management on Windows and Linux servers.
 Assisted in bridge calls based on severity which was initiated by Incident managers with client
technical leads for troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
 Experience in cloud technology Amazon Web services like EC2, S3, ELB, IAM, VPC, Cloud
watch, and Auto scaling.
 Good Understating of Source code management collaboration tool GIT
 Implementations of automatic secure SSH Login, User and Group administration.
 Complete understanding of Jenkins complete work flow as well as its advantages over other CI-
CD tools.
 Good Understanding on configuration and management software such as GIT, Jenkins, Ansible.
 Knowledge on SQL/NoSQL Queries
 Good Understanding on container and docker and kubernetes.
 Good interaction with developers, managers, and team members to coordinated job tasks and
strong commitment to work.

Technical Exposure

Operating systems : Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 7 & 8, Aix 5, 6 & 7.

Software : LVM/VXVM /RAID’s
Monitoring Tools : Service Now & HP-Service Manager Ticketing Tool.
Networking Utilities : TCP/IP, NFS, and Autos
Remote Connectivity : Putty, rlogin, SSH, FTP, telnet etc.
Source Code Management: Git, Github, Bit bucket
Scheduling Tools : Jenkins, DollarU.
File systems : Ext3/Ext4/XFS (Linux), JFS/JFS2 (Aix), and Vxfs (VXVM).
Cloud Technologies : AWS (EC2, S3, EBS, RDS, IAM, AMI, VPC, Route53, CloudWatch)
File Transfer Tools : NDM, SCP, WinSCP, SFTP.
Backup Tool : VERITAS Netbackup
Scripting Language : Shell Scripting
Work Experience:

Company: NiselsenIQ July-

2022 – Till Date
Client: NiselsenIQ
Project: Infra Global CIP
Role: Linux System Engineer

Pro-actively used to monitor all alarms and work on solutions as per the alert's severity.
 Day to day operational support and maintains for Redhat, 6, 7 & 8 servers.
 Managing File system issues and notifying customer as per requirement.
 Working on daily tickets and planned change requests.
 Finding the root cause of issues by analysis the logs and provides permanent solutions.
 Working with Vendors HP, Symantec to fix critical issues.
 Day to day jobs include Monitoring, troubleshooting and Reporting on the Server.
 Rebooting physical servers (Through console) as per client request.
 Involved in performing various changes (patches) on the servers which is to be done through a
downtime window from the client.
 Creating and removing volume groups, physical volumes and logical volumes.
 Increasing and reducing the sizes of logical volumes, physical volumes and volume groups.
 Managing User and Group administration like creating, deleting user accounts. Monitoring the
user administration related files.
 Configuring and Maintenance of Apache and Database My-sql.
 Networks file system management, which includes exporting, unexporting, mounting and
unmounting an NFS Servers.
 Monitoring the critical servers based on the performances and does the necessary
amendments as requested by client.
 Increasing File systems as per the requirement on database servers.
 Using HP ILO for doing maintains of servers from remote location.
 Verify the backups by restoring it on test servers.
 Managing and troubleshooting of NFS shares.
 Worked with vendor support like HP to replace the hardware.
 Worked on business critical issues and resolved within SLA and provided proper RCA to cus -
tomer.
 Failover and Failback test as per the client requirement.
 Creating LVM partitions, managing LVM partitions, extending LVM partitions.
 Configured Network bonding, logrotate, password policy, samba security setting in all the linux
servers.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Design the environments in cloud based on customer requirements

 EC2: Launching Linux/Windows Instances.
 ELB: Creating Internet Facing/Internal Load Balancers, Registering the Instances and configur-
ing the Health checks to them.
 VPC: Setup a VPC (Default and custom based).
 Cloud Watch: Creating Billing Alarms, Monitoring the EC2 with Custom metrics, managing the
Load balancers using health checks.
 Securely controlling AWS users and groups’ access to AWS services and resources by using
IAM, Implementation of Roles.
 S3: Creating buckets and uploading the objects, worked on versioning, Lifecycle management
of data, Archiving into Glacier, Encrypting with AWS KMS Services etc.
 EBS: Implementation of various block storages.
  Route53: Routing traffic to instances with/without LB, Using different Routing policies, Perform-
ing DNS failover by using Route53.
 Creating/Managing AMI/Snapshots/Volumes, Upgrade/downgrade AWS resources (CPU,Mem-
ory,EBS)
 Creating AWS Instances and Resources Bills.

Work Experience:

Fujitsu Consulting June-2021 –

July 2022
Client: Nissan
Project: Infra App
Role: Linux Support Engineer

Installation Ordinary Installation, Network and Kick start (Jump Start) Installation Package Management Red hat Package
Manager, Yellow dog Updater Modified (Yum) File system management Creating partitions and file systems, mounting &
unmounting file system.
 Perform on going performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource Optimization as required. Configure
CPU, memory, and disk.
 Create new users, resetting user passwords, lock/unlock user account.
 Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
 Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary Investigate and troubleshoot issues.
 Experienced with a broad range of software, utilities and protocols including Admin , VNC, SSH, TOP, Ping, tar,
telnet, FTP, SAMBA, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Proxy, ifconfig, SCP, etc.
 Managing File system issues and notifying customer as per requirement.
 Working on daily tickets and planned change requests.
 Day to day jobs include Monitoring, troubleshooting and Reporting on the Server.
 Rebooting physical servers (Through console) as per client request.
 Involved in performing various changes (patches) on the servers which is to be done through a downtime win-
dow from the client.
 Creating and removing volume groups, physical volumes and logical volumes.
 Increasing and reducing the sizes of logical volumes, physical volumes and volume groups.
 Managing User and Group administration like creating, deleting user accounts. Monitoring the user administra-
tion related files.
 Troubleshooting booting related issues, fixing booting related issues
 Worked with vendor support like HP to replace the hardware.
 Worked on installing and configuring VMware/Esx Servers for virtualizations
 Worked on business critical issues and resolved within SLA and provided proper RCA to customer.
 Failover and Failback test as per the client requirement.
 Creating LVM partitions, managing LVM partitions, extending LVM partitions.
 Configured Network bonding, log rotate, password policy, samba security setting in all the
Linux servers.
 File system management using LVM, User, Patch and Security Management, Problem determi-
nation.

Work Experience:

Karvy Innotech Ltd April-2018 –

June-2021
Client: BSNL
Project: CDR
Role: System Admin

Red hat Linux (RHEL 5, 6 &7)

 Ensuring availability of Machines at 24*7 supports for Client.
 Working experience on the live server and maintaining infrastructure for live services
 Day to day operational support and maintains for Redhat, 5x, 6x, 7x servers.
 Hands on experience on FTP Server, Samba server & NFS server
 Managing Disk space and process Management and CPU Utilization.
 Attend day-to-day Operating system related problems and troubleshoot the problems
 Installing all flavors of Unix Operating Systems in Remote client machines.
 Coordinating hardware related issues with the respective vendor support groups
 Setup, Modify & Managing User/Group Accounts.
 Configuring and Maintaining NFS, Auto FS
 For User requests to perform the job schedules from root user side
 Creating and increasing the swap space according to requirements
 Coordinating with Hardware, Application and on call teams to fix the issues and reduce the
Downtime as less as Possible.
 Problem determination and resolution within Expected time frame & escalate to appropriate
support Level
 File System creation and mounting the same as per the requests.
 Configuration and administration of common networking services.
 Performing on User Administration and group Administration.
 Monitoring System Performance of Virtual memory, Managing Swap Space, Disk utilization and
CPU utilization.
 Performing the Job Automation.
 LVM configuration and increasing the size of Logical Volume and updating the file system.
 Using rsync command copying files and directories from one host to another host.

AIX System Admin

ML/TL up gradation, installation, working with alternate disk installation.

 Working with paging spaces, creating, modifying and removing paging spaces.
 Performing System Health Checks
 NIM environment configuration, configuring NIM resources, configuring client machines, in-
stalling OS, TL, and other software using NIM master.
 Configuring ftp server, scheduling job using cron and at tools.
 Managing log files, going through errpt, fixing any issues that found in error report.
 Performing daily Management activities such as health checks on servers.
 Backup activities using mksysb, tar, backup and savevg. Recovering the server from mksysb
image though tape or NIM.
 Managing and configuration of NFS. Fixing any NFS issues in the environment. Configuring auto
mounts in NFS.
 Configuring new hardware, identifying faulty hardware and replacing such devices.
 Configuring and managing HACMP environment (two node cluster). Configuring networks,
heart beats etc.,
 Creating and managing resource groups, service ip’s etc., troubleshooting HACMP related is-
sues, synchronizing cluster topology, going through different cluster log files to know if any is -
sues.
 Creating Logical Partitions on the managed server using HMC. Working on HMC, performing
DLPAR operations on partitions, creating profiles etc.
 Configure, setting up network installation manager (NIM), creating NIM resource for Operating
system and other software. Installation of AIX on remote server (LPARs) using NIM master.
 Configuring HACMP cluster environment and supporting HACMP nodes, solving any issues re-
lated to resources, HACMP networks, heartbeats etc.
 Working on incidents as part of daily business, plan and implementing changes on servers as
per change schedules.
 User Management - Creating, maintaining, and removing users and groups. Security settings
on user accounts, passwords and groups.
 File system management - Creation, Deletion, file Systems Changes – Grow and Shrink
 Disk Storage Management in AIX – Logical Volume Creation, Logical and Physical Volume Con -
figuration and maintenance.
  Handling file systems issues, creating, mounting, un mounting, removing, fixing any related is-
sues.

Educational Qualification:

 PG in Master of Computer Applications (MCA) from Osmania University with 1st Divi-
sion.
 Bachelor of Computer Science from Sri Sai Degree College with 1st Division.

Personal Details:

Name : Santosh
Nationality : Indian
Languages Known : English, Hindi and Telugu
(Santosh)