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Praveen Kumar Gurinda Palli

Linux Administrator

Employed Available

Linux Administrator

Zen3 Info Solutions America Inc.,
Since August 2014
Redmond
United States - Washington
  • Working as a part of the Secure Environment Team providing routine and technical support for more than 1500 Unix/Linux servers
  • Responsible for audit remediation, customer and internal projects, patching, documenting new procedures and consulting.
  • Responsible for OS Compliance/remediation, OS patching, and Firmware upgrades.
  • Providing complex analysis of the system software and hardware requirements to determine operating system specification and customization.
  • Working with Redhat Satellite Server for upgrading and installing OS package and patches in RHEL servers;SUSE patching using ZLM.
  • Coordinated with HP technicians to determine RCA on few occasions by facilating veritas and solaris explorers, core dumps, RHEL sosreports.
  • Installation, maintenance and configuration of RHEL 4/5/6, Solaris 9/10 and SUSE operating system.
  • Disk management like adding new disk to the disk groups, giving space to the existing groups, deleting volume and increasing the file system in Veritas Volume Manager.
  • Used LVM on Linux environments and managed the file system.
  • Troubleshoot server performance using HP Performance Manager.
  • Administartive jobs like user management, Security management and space management.
  • Used remote administration tools like ILOM, ILO and IDRAC. Also, used Dell RACADM (Remote Access Controller Admin) utility, command line interface for DRAC.
  • Disabling SSLv3 support in apache and planet web instances.
  • Performing ORM audit and server remediation work using HPSA.
  • Installed and Configured Apache webserver instances in Rhel and SUSE servers.

Linux Administrator

GVS Projects - Hyderabad, India
September 2013 to July 2014
  • Performed daily, weekly and monthly backups using VMware Data Protection appliance
  • Monitored applications and environments to ensure system availability
  • Assisted in the planning and execution of disaster recover failover testing
  • Performed proactive capacity planning, including short term and long term trend analysis, ensuring all infrastructure components are monitored for capacity and stability.
  • Possessed strong network knowledge and skills in network protocols such as TCP/IP and DNS.
  • Responsible for providing support to Linux server administration, configuration and troubleshooting of the server infrastructure and performance issues
  • Developed technical and operations standards, procedures, technical documentation and metrics related to VMware products.
  • Deployed IT enterprise infrastructure, including servers, storage arrays, tape libraries, application appliances, switches, Firewalls, UPSs, and other hardware.
  • Interact with vendors on data center products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the data center/infrastructure industry.
  • Monitor and manage nightly jobs, backups, server performance and provide system performance statistics and reports.
  • Participate in managing system backup and recovery process and procedures.

Masters in Information technology Management

Campbellsville University

Since January 2017
GPA: 4.0

Masters in Computer Science

Florida Institute of Technology

August 2014 to December 2015
GPA: 3.33
  • Redhat AS/ES /4/5/6
    Advanced
  • Solaris 8/9/10
    Expert
  • WIndows
    Expert
  • HP Pro Liant
    Good
  • Dell Power Edge
    Good
  • IBM x series
    Good
  • Sun sparc
    Good
  • C, C++
    Expert
  • C#
    Advanced
  • FORTRAN
    Good
  • Pascal
    Good
  • Apache Web Server
    Good
  • Tomcat Web Server
    Advanced
  • Websphere
    Advanced
  • PowerShell
    Advanced
  • Perl Scripting
    Good
  • Shell Scripting
    Good
  • Solaris
    Expert
  • HTML5
    Expert
  • PHP
    Good
  • CSS
    Advanced
  • Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g DB2
    Advanced
  • MS Access
    Expert
  • MYSQL 3.X
    Advanced