career for systems engineer

Technical Architect for VMWare/Solaris/Linux
- VMWare ESX / vSphere
- RedHat Cluster
- Sun Cluster
- EMC and Hitachi SAN storage and zoning
- Solaris and Linux server design
- Fault Tolerant networking, High Availability


VMWare Engineer

- Clustering, High Availablity, Dynamic Resource Scheduling
- Storage distribution
- vSwitches, physical networking
- VMWare Certified Professional


Unix Administrator for Solaris, FreeBSD and Linux

- Technical Architect
- Team Leader of 6
- O/S patching strategies
- Systems maintainance and hardware upgrades
- Network/Server monitoring and alerting
- Networking and Network security
- Cisco networking products
- RedHat cluster
- FibreChannel storage



Specialties



VMWare ESX / vSphere, Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux, Cisco routers, Firewalls, Loadbalancers, Packet Filtering, IPFilter, Security, Penetration testing, Break/Fix, Clustering/Server farming/Load balancing, High Availability, Bulletproof archetecture, Infrastructure archetecture, Server/Service monitoring and Alerting, SMS messaging, Market Data/RMDS, SAN Storage, SAN switching and zoning, Redhat, Redhat clustering




skills required - career

install, tune, troubleshoot, apply patches and support Web servers and integrate third party applications
Responsible for uptime of the Web severs and improving performance
Must have extensive knowledge in conducting VAPT and providing solutions
Apache HTTPD. – Installation and Configuration of Web Servers
·          Competent in performance analysis.
·          Have basic knowledge of java and oops.
·          Competent at Shell scripting. – Should have experience in developing shell scripts.
·          One of the scripting languages – Ruby, Perl.
 SVN. – This refers to person having knowledge of source control management.
 Hands on one of the following Continuous Integration Tools – Cruise Control, Hudson or Teamcity.
Knowledge in ethical hacking and information security management systems
Strong knowledge in website development technologies
Strong knowledge in any RDBMS database preferably Oracle, MS SQL 2005/2008
implementation and maintenance of web analytics
Strong experience in CMS administration preferably Drupal
experience in Apache, Tomcat and IIS web servers administration

    * Perl, Bourne, Bash, Posix, advanced shell scripting
    * nmap, snmpwalk, nessus, dnswalk, libwhisker, strace
    * HP Openview, Nagios, ZenOSS
    * Automated Web Application Stress Testing
    * Tomcat, and Bea Weblogic java application servers
    * openldap, slurpd to syncrepl migration, ldapsearch

Mastering Packet Analysis

    * Advanced usage of sniffers for network troubleshooting and optimization
    * tcpdump, ethereal, and ngrep all covered indepth


Network, Client, Server, and Software Technologies:

    * Linux and Unix proactive system hardening
    * tcpdump, ntop, ethereal / wireshark
    * Apache Web Server, Bind DNS,
    * mysql, Oracle Enterprise Manager Console
    * ISO 17799 Information Security Compliance


    * Vulnerability scanning and network penetration testing of customer facing applications
    * Customized and branded Perl open source web metrics reporting software for intranet usage statistics
    * Moved internet facing IIS servers internally and fronted them with the more secure Apache using mod_proxy

     
    * NetApp Filer Storage and NAS administration. NFS configuration and ongoing maintenance
    * Perl archive encryption script supporting key rotation and key retrieval from Ingrian Datasecure
    * Initial setup of OpenLDAP to centralize network device authentication. Also looked into RSA products
    * RPM package creation for Ticketmaster proprietary software. Redhat Package Manager spec file creation
    * Advised on best practices and spearheaded an upgrade project from older linux distributions to CentOS/RHEL5



    * Re-implemented the global dns/ldap setup for higher availability. Used keepalived for auto-failover
    * High performance computing, benchmarking, and kernel tuning. Constant review of upstream kernel activity
    * Maintenance and engineering on a from scratch Linux distribution in support of high volume electronic trading
    * Authored many internal tools and django web dashboards. Used a mix of python, perl, and jQuery / Javascript
    * Rolled out a completely new monitoring system based on ZenOSS. Lots of custom integration using xmlrpc and python


    * Setup web-based open source software such as Piwik, CiviCRM, and Drupal
    * Learned and managed systems with the puppet configuration management system
    * Volunteered to run the gnome booth at the Southern California Linux Expo 6x, 7x, and 8x
    * Actively developed and enhanced the django application snowy for the Tomboy Online project
    * Setup a mock chroot rpm build environment. Backported rpm packages from Fedora to RHEL5

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