NAGA DILIP

PHONE NUMBER: 7147120927

EMAIL ID: nagadilip278@gmail.com

SUMMARY
 8 years of Strong Experience in Linux Administration, Shell Scripting with expertise in Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6,7 Solaris 9,10,11 Windows 2003 and familiar with IBM AIX 6.
 Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Integration, Tuning, Backup, Crash recovery, Upgrades,
Patching, Monitoring System Performance, System and Network Security and Troubleshooting of
Linux/Unix Servers.
 Experience in implementing and monitoring High Availability environment using Red Hat Cluster,
Veritas Cluster Server, Sun Cluster and Oracle RAC. Experience in an established
WebSphere/WebLogic environment comprises of Firewalls, Load Balancer, Web Servers, App
Servers and Databases (DB2, Oracle, and MS SQL Server).
 Expertise also encompasses engineering, including VOIP, installation and troubleshooting of
networks and telecommunications systems, including working with security and networking
departments when troubleshooting network issues.
 Responsible for build and deployment automation using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes containers and
Chef.

 Experience in Implementing Configuration Management tools like Puppet, Chef and Ansible and
used for Application Deployments & Environment configuration.
 Deploy and monitor scalable infrastructure on Amazon web services (AWS) & configuration
management using Puppet.
 Experience in Puppet Master and Client installation and configuration, in developing puppet
modules (blue prints) for installation, configuration and continuous integration (CI) using
combination of puppet master, Git, R10K wrapper, Open stack (Horizon), Vagrant and
Jenkins/Udeploy.
 Configured and used Kickstart, Jumpstart and NIM to install OS.
 Strong experience in VERITAS Clusters in supporting high availability mission critical servers.
 Experienced with the installation, configuration and volume/File system management using Veritas
Volume Manager (VxVM), Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and Solstice Disk Suite (Solaris Volume
Manager).
 Proficient in Networking and Configuring TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, NIS+, SAMBA, LDAP,IPA SSH, SSL,
SFTP, SMTP, SNMP, SCH.
 Good knowledge on various cloud computing products such as Amazon (EC2), OpenStack.
 Good knowledge on SAN, EMC Clarion CX, EMC Symmetrix DMX, EMC Mirror View, Hitachi data
storage.
 Expert in Installation, configuration of Patches and Packages.
 Solid understanding of RPM, building, maintaining, and installing packages. Installed and configured
IBM WebSphere Application Server 6.1 on AIX, Linux and Solaris.
 Proficient in installation and configure system file systems such as EXT, and software RAID managers
such as Logical Storage Manager.
  Experience in HTML, Java Script, providing day-to-day user administration like adding and deleting
users and managing user queries.
 Setup and maintained NFS and TCP/IP network, configured the systems for TCP/IP Networking with
the existing LAN, VLAN, setting up SSH and SCP features between SUN systems and other Red
Hat/UNIX hosts.

 Utilized Python in the handling of all hits on Django, Redis, and other applications.
 Performed research regarding Python Programming and its uses and efficiency.
 Experience in installation, configuration, Deployment and management of web and enterprise
applications on BEA WebLogic Server 8.1/9.x/10.x and JBoss Application servers.
 Experience in VMWare vSphere Client 4. Experience in VMware Installed and monitored Virtual
environments with ESX 3.x servers and Virtual Center 2.X
 Strong in troubleshooting, monitoring, training and 24/7 production support in mission critical
environments Worked with systems support team to define, architect and maintain highly available
production systems.
 Experience in LDAP and Puppet, Splunk, Cumulus, Ansible designed and developed integrated
solutions through tools, processes and procedures to facilitate the cost-effective delivery of services
or fielding of products.
 Self-motivated, able to set effective priorities to achieve immediate and long-term goals and meet
operational deadlines. Able to work independently and as team member.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
Red-Hat Linux Enterprise servers (HP ProLiant DL 585, BL 465/485, ML Series),
Hardware Solaris 9,10, SAN (NetApp), BladeLogic, Veritas Cluster Server 5.0, Windows 2003
server, Dell Power edge 1300/1500 server, IBM Xseries, Blade server, Oracle RAC.
Red Hat Linux (RHEL) 4/5/6, Solaris 9/10, IBM AIX 5.3, Windows NT /2003/vista,
Operating systems
Fedora 16/17/18, SUSE 10.x
Naming Services DNS, NIS, and NIS+
Backup
VERITAS NetBackup 4.x/5.x/6.x, ufsdump, ufsrestore, tar, dd, cpio
Management
Script,
Programming Shell, Bash, Python, PERL, C, C++
Languages
Web Technologies Apache 2.x/3.x, IPLANET 4.x/5.x, WEBLOGIC 8, WebSphere 4.0/5.0
Storage SAN, EMC Symmetrix / Clarion, iSCSI, SNAP, NAS, DAS
Third-party
VERITAS Volume Manager, LVM, LDAP
Software
Cluster Red Hat Cluster, Veritas Cluster Server (VCS), Sun Cluster, AIX HACMP
RDBMS Oracle, MS SQL Server
NetBIOS, NetBUI, SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, TCP/IP, FTP, TELNET, SSH, UDP & RIP, DNS,
Protocols
WINS, DHCP, SCH
Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition, Trend Micro Messaging Suite for Exchange,
Antivirus
MacAfee Virus Scan Engine 7.1 / 8i, AVG (Grisoft)
 Remote Access Terminal Services, Net Meeting, Web – Ex, PC Anywhere and VNC for Windows
Tools Servers

EDUCATION
B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication (ECE), JNTU.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Client: Charter Communications, Charlotte, NC Aug 2019 – Till date

Title: Sr. Unix Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Worked on Red Hat (5.x, 6.x, 7.x), Cent OS (6.x, 7.x), Ubuntu (12.x, 14.x), SUSE Linux 10.x distros,
AIX (5.3, 6.1, 7.1), Solaris (10, 11) and some Windows versions like Windows 2008 R2, 2012 servers
on virtualization with VMWare (Vsphere Client, VCenter).
 Configuring and Administering NIS, LDAP ,IPAand FTP on Linux and Sun Solaris server environment.
 Experienced in automating system admin tasks like Provisioning, Installing, Configuring, Updating
and Deploying services using Puppet, Chef and Ansible.
 Involved in developing custom images on Cloud using AWS images and on VMWare ESX using
templates and involved in building physical servers using Kickstart PXE Boot and Jumpstart.
 Extensive working knowledge on system administration tasks like OS installations (Kickstart, PXE),
user/group creations, ACLs, Logical Volume Management (LVMs), Package management (RPM,
YUM, apt-get, dpkg), patching (RedHat Satellite), troubleshooting network/server/application
failures etc.
 Developed Cron jobs and Shell Scripts (Shell, Python) for automating administration tasks like file
system management, process management, backup and restore.
 Extensive experience in cluster planning, installing, configuring and administrating Hadoop cluster
for major Hadoop distributions like Cloudera and Hortonworks.
 Responsible for Cluster maintenance, commissioning and decommissioning Data nodes, Cluster
Monitoring, Troubleshooting, Manage & review Hadoop log files.
 Performed automated installations of Operating System using kickstart for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5/6 and Jumpstart for Solaris 9/10 Linux.
 Administered and supported distributions of Linux, including Linux Enterprise Desktop, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Server, RedHat and Solaris.
 Configured the NIS, NIS+ and DNS on RedHat Linux 5.1 and update NIS maps and organize the RHN
Satellite Servers in combination with RHN Proxy Server.
 Experience with VMwareVirtualization using ESX hypervisor of Vsphere 5.1.
 Extensively worked on Linux Cron jobs for automating various build related jobs and application
data synchronization jobs.
 Synmantec Veritas Netbackup administration, ensure backup status, trouble-shoot any failed
backups, restore files, store tape media to outside facility.
 Experience in implementation and maintenance of VMware, DNS, DHCP, NIS, NFS, SMTP and
Amazon Linux instances.
  Worked with DBAs on installation of Oracle database, RDBMS database, Restoration and log
generation. Perform security patching of Linux servers.
 Installation, configuration, support and security implementation of DHCP, SSH, SCP services.
 Configuration and administration of NFS and Samba in Linux and Solaris.
Environments: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x/6.x/5.x, CentOS 6.5,7, Solaris 9/10, VERITAS netback up, HP-
UX 11.20, AIX 5.3, CloudBolt, NIS, NFS, IBM Tivoli, IBM SDS, IBM z/VM, IBM Web sphere, Chef, Apache,
Tomcat, JBoss, Nagios.

Client: CVS Health, Cumberland, RI Dec 2018 – July 2019

Title: Senior Unix Server Admin
Responsibilities:
 Provided system support for Redhat Linux, Solaris, Cent OS and servers including routine
maintenance, patching,system backups, restores, and software & hardware upgrade.
 Worked on building, deploying and managing Web Application and Database servers like APACHE,
HTTP, TOMCAT, NGINX, WebSphere, JBOSS, MySQL, Mongo DB, PostgreSQL, Oracle DB etc.
 Worked on Jenkins CI/CD pipeline jobs for end-to-end automation to build, test and deliver
artifacts and troubleshoot the build issue during the Jenkins build process.
 Plan, Install and Integrate software packages (OEM, OS, etc.), performed new package installations
using (YUM) and Custom RPM builds.
 Involved in configuring, administration and troubleshooting Linux/Unix Servers which are
connected to Storage such as NetApps, EMC. Experienced working with Fiber Chanel and iSCSI
Storage Area Networks SAN.
 Responsible for build and deployment automation using AWS, Docker, Kubernetes containers and
Chef.
 Hands on experience in Deployed Puppet, puppet Dashboard and Puppet DB for configuration
Management to existing infrastructure.
 Deployed RedHat Satellite Server with custom repositories to provide a stable management
solution for the Linux environment.
 Experience with Jumpstart & Kickstart Installations on Solaris & Linux. Experience with NetIQ
Access Manager.
 Familiar with DataStage Administrator, defined projects, environment variables, user groups and
privileges and set up different environments (Dev/QA/preprod/Prod).
 Performed debugging, troubleshooting, monitoring and performance tuning using DataStage.
 Responsible for the design and installation of a mixed computation and storage HPC cluster with 0.8
Petabytes of storage.
 Assisted in configuring the application servers with other components such as database, web
servers, LDAP directory, IPA, Active Directory, BEA Web logic etc.
 Maintained 15 VMware ESX server connected with two EMC VNX SAN box and managed of two
Cisco MDS switch using Fabric Device management tool.
 Configuration and administration of EMC Vmax san array on SMC/SPA, creation of thin devices,
meta devices and virtual devices as for database space allocation, administration
on EMC Unispehere. Report generation for array disks, heat maps, I/O status.
 Configured the systems for TCP/IP Networking with the existing LAN, VLAN Setting up SSH and SCP.
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 Implemented thin provisioning from VMAX to UNIX (AIX, Solaris and Linux) and
Windows2003/2008 (clusters) servers, and VMware ESX Servers.
 Experience in host based migration activities including the D&A (collection of host grabs) and
migration execution (Vmotion, LVM, etc).
 Implemented Disaster Recovery Planning, and executed email archiving and file retention policies,
Business Continuity, and Security Policies.
Environments: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x/5.x, CentOS 6.5,7, Solaris 9/10, VERITAS netback up, HP-UX
11.20, AIX 5.3, CloudBolt, SAN, NIM, ZFS, VMware ESX LPAR/DLPAR's, NIS, NFS, IBM Tivoli, IBM SDS, IBM
z/VM, IBM Web sphere, Chef, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, Nagios.

Client: Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America, Iselin, NJ September 2017 – Nov 2018
Title: Senior Unix Core Server Admin
Responsibilities:
 Reengineered company's systems setup, establishing automated server generation routines,
optimizing system performance, installing upgrades/patches, establishing system monitoring and
maintaining security protocols.
 End to end migration of applications from Solaris 10 to Linux CentOS 7 and Redhat 5.x and 6.x.
using Chef deployments.
 Involved in developing custom images on Cloud using AWS images and on VMWare ESX using
templates and involved in building physical servers using Kickstart PXE Boot and Jumpstart.
 Involved in health check of servers after Patching/Rebooting and checked all the services of Linux
on AWS Cloud and also physical servers.
 Supporting & consulting customer on their Microsoft Server and Adv. Server, Novell 6.5 and SUSE
10\11\12 Enterprise Servers, Open SUSE, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) VMware Servers
2.5/3.X/4.X/5.X and XEN.
 Deployed and maintained servers (Red Hat Linux/CentOS) providing clustered key-value caching
and text indexing.
 Installed, configured, and updated Linux machines, Debian, and CentOS.
 Linux kernel tunables knowledge - security, network (TCP, UDP) and memory.
 Configured the systems for TCP/IP Networking with the existing LAN, VLAN Setting up SSH and SCP.

 Strong knowledge of design, implementation, and support of network systems and technologies
such as routers, switches, file servers, DNS, and LDAP.
 Wrote Perl and Python scripts to generate statistics and monitor processes. Monitored various VPS
instance in the cloud by Zenoss.
 Deployed applications in WebSphere 7.0, 8.5 ND environments by creating Clusters, virtual hosts,
data source, configuring HTTP transports.
 Automated system management tasks like user account creation, file system size monitoring,
monitor system resources and system maintenance using Shell, and Perl scripts.
 Closely worked with the core hosting team to build the servers required using CloudBolt.
 Worked with the network team to setup the VIPs and setup the LoadBalancers across the
environment.
  Developed automated processes that run daily to check disk usage and perform cleanup of file
systems on environments using python scripting.
 Used Fabric, a tool for remote execution and deployment to Automate Administration Tasks And
Deployments.
 Solved complicated defects related to memory leaks, design issues, LDAP protocol issues, etc.
Configuring LDAP for authorization configuring loggregator for logs in PCF (ELK/SPLUNK).
 Experience in IBM WebSphere, Tuxedo, and Datastage Config to support EPM environment.
 Managed servers on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform instances using Puppet,Chef
Configuration management.
 Architected the IAM solution and created the high level designed document.
 Extensively worked on implementation of IAM solution from scratch.
 Knowledge on how to associate applications with other objects within (NDS\eDirectory from Novell
3.11/4.X/5.X/6.X and SUSE Linux OES).
 Worked on implementing, customizing and integrating Identity and Access Management product
(IAM suite).
 Work as the part of Identity Access Management, improving and automating IAM solution for ping
Federate, Ping Access, CA SiteMinder, Radiant Logic VDS, LDAP and CA Directory Systems.
 Worked on fitting the Business Requirements to the IAM Product Features.
 Configured AD pass-through authentication for Identity Access Manager (IAM).
 Installed and configured the IAM suite components in production environments.
 Using automation tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible) to deploy and configure environments.
 With ansible, creating roles, and updating playbooks to provision servers.
Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x/5.x,6.x, CentOS 6.5,7, Solaris 9/10, VERITAS netback up, HP-UX
11.20, AIX 5.3, CloudBolt, SAN, NIM, ZFS, VMware ESX LPAR/DLPAR's, NIS, NFS, IBM Tivoli, IBM SDS, IBM
z/VM, IBM Web sphere, Chef, Apache, Tomcat, JBoss, Nagios.

Client: Nationwide Insurance, Columbus, Ohio Jan 2015 – August 2017

Title: Senior Unix/Linux Admin
Responsibilities:
 Installation, configuration and upgrade of Redhat Linux 5/6, Cent OS 5.7 &Solaris 11 operating
systems.
 Involved in developing custom images on Cloud using AWS images and on VMWare ESX using
templates and involved in building physical servers using Kickstart PXE Boot and Jumpstart.
 Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux distribution is a cloud management software product that
provides an enterprise type solution to deploy and manage.
 Highly experienced on Linux based server solutions like Apache, FTP, DHCP, DNS/NIS, SAMBA and
NFS.
 Created Puppet manifests, profiles and roles module to automate system operations.
 Helped provision and manage AWS linux servers with Chef and Ansible.
 Maintain and troubleshoot systems performance and network monitoring using tools like Nagios
(installed on RedHat), and AWS services such as Cloud watch and CloudTrail.
 Responsible for the development of strategic documents including technical specs of ETL design using
Datastage, QualityStage and IA integration with MDM.
  Worked with Infrastructure team for Datastage migration from Datastage 9.1 & QualityStage to IIS
IBM DS QS 9.1.
 Prepared full migration process and framework for Datastage migration projects.
 Migrated old system data into SAP using ETL Datastage 11.3 connector states.
 Installed and configured Information Analyzer and integration with Datastage.
 Application Deployments & Environment configuration using Chef, Puppet, Ansible.
 Responsible for the management and administration of the corporate Voip telephone system as well
as managed corporate distribution lists.
 Performed telecom service cutovers and VOIP installation support for approximately 35 users.
 Excellent working knowledge of Operation & Production Support with large mission critical systems
in multiple technologies and platforms including WebLogic, Apache, JBoss, WebSphere, UNIX,
Windows NT, and Oracle.
 Extensively worked on BEA WebLogic 8.x, 9.x, 10.x,11 Server, Apache http Server, Apache Tomcat
Server as administrator for Server Installations, Configuration, Application components deployment,
performance tuning including troubleshooting and maintenance.
 Extensively involved in troubleshooting bottlenecks of Memory, CPU, Devices and Network using ps,
vmstat, Iostat, Netstat, snoop, nfsstat and sar commands tuning the performance.
 Package management using RPM, YUM and UP2DATE in Red Hat Linux.
 Experience with Provisioning and Virtualization of IBM P-Series hardware (LPARs, VIO).
 Associated with DBAs for installation of Oracle database on Linux servers & for Tuning, Backup and
Restore.
 Scheduling the jobs by creating Crontabs on Linux.
 Perform operational tasks and activities e.g. Monitoring Log Files, Performance Tuning and
Migration between environments.
 Configuration and administration of LDAP, NFS in Linux and also implemented Samba for sharing of
resources between Linux and Windows environments. Experience in VMware Virtualization and cloud
computing.
 Installed and configured VMware ESX server instances for virtual server setup and deployment.
Responsible for creating VMware virtual guests running Solaris, Linux, Windows.
 Configured the systems for TCP/IP Networking with the existing LAN, VLAN Setting up SSH and SCP.
 Maintain security for the networked environment while allowing users to access all data and software
remotely.
 Experience working on web applications like Apache, HTTP headers Load balancing, DNS, DHCP.
 Involved in supporting Apache, Apache Tomcat and generated SSL keys for renewing SSL certs on
web servers.
 Responsible for monitoring and working on problem tickets (BMC Remedy). Following it up with
business and technical teams, and ensuring the problem is successfully resolved.
 Responsible for documenting the issue, cause and resolution. Have been the on-call person for the
application, worked with the appropriate team members to bring the issue and get a resolution.
 Able to assess the code of others and write in BASH, Perl or Python.
 Experience working on with system monitoring tools such as Nagios and Cacti.
Environment: RHEL 6.x/5.x, Solaris 9/10/11, Apache 1.2/1.3/2.x, Logical & Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas
net backup 5.x/6.0, VM ESX 4.x/3.x.
Reliance Industries Ltd., India Dec 2011 – Dec 2014
Title: Unix/Linux Admin
Responsibilities:
 Managed Installation, Configuration, Upgrades, and Patch systems running OS such as RedHat,
Fedora, Centos and Oracle Solaris.
 Utilized bash and ksh shell scripting to automate daily system administration tasks.
 Researched to improve service performance and reliability through investigation and root cause
analysis.
 Managed data backup of UNIX, Windows, Virtual servers, Disk Storage Tier1 and Tier2 backups.
 Installation, Configuration, Upgradation and administration of Sun Solaris, RedHat Linux.
 Jumpstart & Kick-start OS integration, DDNS, DHCP, SMTP, Samba, NFS, FTP, SSH, LDAP integration.
 Configuration of LVM (Logical Volume Manager) to manage volume group, logical and physical
partitions and importing new physical volumes.
 Configuration of NDMP backup and troubleshoot of NDMP backup failures associated with storage.
 Adding servers to domain and managing the groups and user in Active Directory, Installing and
Configuring send mails.
 Custom build of Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers which includes adding Users, SAN,
Network Configuration, installing application related packages, Managing services.
 Responsible for maintenance of development tools and utilities and to maintain Shell, Perl
automation Scripts.
 Setup and maintained NFS and TCP/IP network, configured the systems for TCP/IP Networking with
the existing LAN, VLAN, setting up SSH and SCP features between SUN systems and other Red
Hat/UNIX hosts.
 Installed and Configured Virtual I/O Server V1.3.01 with Fixpack8.1.
 Integrating WebLogic 10.x and Apache 2.x and Deploying EAR, WAR files in WebLogic Application
Servers.
 As a member of the team, monitored the VERITAS Cluster Server 4.1 in SAN Environment.
 Created and maintained detailed procedural documentation regarding operating system Installation
and Configuration of Software packages, Vendor contact information, etc.
 Installation, configuration, support and security implementation of DHCP, SSH, SCP services.
 Configuration and administration of NFS and Samba in Linux and Solaris.
 Creation of VMs, cloning and migrations of the VMs on VMware vSphere 4.0.
 Expanded file system using Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) in the fly in Solaris boxes.
 Configuration and administration of Web (Apache), DHCP and FTP Servers in Linux and Solaris
servers.
 Decommissioning of the old servers and keeping track of decommissioned and new servers using
inventory list.
 Configuration and troubleshooting - LAN and TCP/IP issues.
 Patching of RHEL5 and Solaris 8, 9, 10 servers for EMC Power path upgrade for VMAX migration.
 Performed a trend analysis of CPU/Memory/Disk utilization for critical servers.
 Worked with File System includes UNIX file System and Network file system.
 Planning, scheduling and implementation of O/s. patches on both Solaris & Linux.
  Created file systems using VERITAS volume manager & VERITAS File system.
 Administration of Disks and File systems using SVM and Veritas Volume Manager.
 Participating in Emergency Power Outages and Disaster recovery procedures.
Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x, 5.x, Ubuntu, Centos, JEE, Sun Solaris 8, 9, 10, Windows
2008/2003, Sun SPARC and Intel Servers, VMware Infrastructure, HP Blade, VERITAS Volume Manager, VxFS
4.1, VxVM 4.1, Samba, Oracle RAC/ASM, EMC Power path, DELL PowerEdge 6650, HP ProLiant DL 385, 585,
580, Sun Fire v440, SUN BLADE X6250, X6270.