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.
