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1. ABUL FAZAL KHAN
MOB:3176664083
EMAIL:FAZAL9001@YAHOO.COM
AWS / Unix amd Linux Admin / DevOps / Open stack.
Unix and Cloud Engineer/Architect
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Over 11+ years of experience in IT infrastructure design and implementation, Stack, Orchestration private
public and Hybrid cloud with specialization in AWS, OpenStack, Red Hat, Solaris 10, Symantec Storage
Volume Manager and Net Backup Certified.
CORE COMPENTECIES:--
RedHat/Solaris•OpenStack,•AWSCloud•DevOPSTools(Rancher,Docker,Puppet,Ansible,Sysdig,Jenkins
,Github,DockerHub,Artifactory,Sourcetree),HP-Unix •Symantec Storage Volume Manager •VCS
Cluster•VMWare Unix, Solaris 10,11, AIX,5.3,6 •Linux •Veritas Net Backup • WebLogic • Backup Exec
•EMC Networker 7.1 • BMC Patrol •Site Scope.
Architect and deployed private and public/hybrid cloud environments from scratch for enterprise level
companies in the Financial and Pharmaceuticalindustries from network infrastructure, data center,
cloud architecture and storage schematics/renderings to engineering and deploying the entire cloud
environment to production state.
Design and deploy highly available, dynamically scalable, cost effective, fault tolerant and reliable
applications on AWS platform.
Completed various migrations from Aws cloud to Aws cloud and on-premises to Aws.
Set up and completed cloud monitoring infrastructure thru New Relic and RSyslog, Sysdig.
Involved in building cloud formation Template and Terraform.
Involved in migrating and planning physical Linux/Windows servers to cloud (AWS) and testing.
Build servers using AWS: Importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS,Route 53, creating security
groups, auto-scaling, load balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection (VPC).
Experience in setup private cloud with Openstack and Creating Virtual machine with NOVA
using the existing data center.
Experience in setup Docker, Rancher,Sysdig and Jenkins for CI.
Experience in Spring cloud micro services and deploy each micro service as docker .
Using Ansible with vast expertise and experience to spin up aws instance and deployment of docker.
Using Ansible to install, update package, system configuration and automation of build images with
Jenkins.
Experienced in Monitoring tool Nagios Xi, BMC Patrol, HP Open view, Site scope, EON,Zennos,New
Relic,cloud watch,Sysdig,Watcher.
Experienced in RedHat Satellite installation configuration and Migration.. Design and implementation
of Linux, VMware NSX, and cloud solutions on Open stack for building Private/Public Cloud for
Large Enterprise application
Strong experience in virtualization technologies, such as KVM, Open Stack & VMware and cisco
ML2 and UCS plugin for neutron
2. In-Depth knowledge of cloud computing domain, and technologies, also a key player
Ability to Install, configure, and test Open stack environment (Nova, Swift, Cinder, Neutron, Horizon,
Keystone & Glance) on CISCO Hardware and HP Moonshot.
Extensive hands-on experience with Openstack including all of the Openstack components: Neutron,
Horizon, Swift, Cinder, Keystone, Ceph, etc.
Experienced in supporting large-scale multi-tenant infrastructure level services
Good understanding of High-Availability (HA),Cluster architectures, deployments & Experienced in
HA solutions. Experience in cisco UCS Hardware environment deployment and implementation
Experience in supporting private cloud environments housing multiple tenants in multiple networks
Familiar with severalOpenstack versions including Havana,Icehouse,and Juno
Experience in monitoring overall infrastructure security and availability, and monitoring of space and
capacity usage including compute clusters, block storage, and object storage as well as the API's
Highly experienced with Storage Administration like EMC SAN Administration (EMC Clariion,
Symmetrix DMAX, VMAX), NetApp, NAS Administration, VERITAS NetBackup and Legato.
Experienced in Virtualization Technologies like Solaris Containers, Zones and Knowledge in
LDOMS. VMware,Docker.
Experienced in Storage Management Solaris Volume Manager Raid ,LVM, VxVm (Symantec volume
Experienced in Ticketing Tools Service Now, Citrix , change Management. Remedy,
Experienced in Application Servers WebLogic ,Apache,Tomcat.
Experienced in VCS (VERITAS Cluster Services),HP service guard and VxVM.
Experienced in Data center migration .Storage Migration and Life Cycle Management.
Attending (External SOX Audit) and performing internal audits and Remediation for UNIX servers
through vulnerability scan and security patches.
Adding network printers and conducting day-to-day system administration, including backup/recovery
in SAN.
Installation and support of Apache Web Server, IBM HTTP Web Server, Oracle 8i/9i, SQL 2000
Server on Linux and UNIX.
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS:
B-TECH in Computer Science from A.B.E.S Engineering College Affiliated To U.P Technical
University.
Certified AWS Sysops Admin.
Certified AWS Solution Architect.
Certified Red Hat RHCSA
Certified Sun Solaris 10 Administration certification (SCSA-I & II).
Symantec Veritas Storage Volume Manager Certified.
Symantec Net Backup 7.0 for UNIXCertified.
ITIL V3 foundation certified
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
DOITT and DSNY agency, NewYork, NYC July 2015 – Present.
DevOps/ Cloud Architect .
Design and implement AWS cloud environment for both agency.
Automate linux and windows servers using cloud formation and integrate chef automation for
deployments.
Set up server and application level monitoring in cloud watch and new relic.
Involved in complete new relic administration, installing new relic, adding servers,installing web
3. agents, creating dashboards, application monitoring using various plugging, tracking key transactions
etc.
Building applications on top of aws s3,Ec2,Dynamo DB by using AWS SDK for JAVA
Creating Virtual private cloud (VPC),Elastic load balancers and auto scaling groups in development,
testing and Production environments.
Designed and Implemented Configuration and Release Management processes for multiple platforms
and applications.
Implemented & maintained the branching and build/release strategies utilizing GIT
Performed all necessary day-to-day GIT support for different projects..
Supporting build, deployment, testing and release process in an agile setup.
Working on OpenStack for managing tenants, services, machines on DOITT client.
Deploy and configure stacks on Rancher and managing microsevices.
Deployement of application and war file on Tomcat manual and automation..
Setting up Job and build configuration in Jenkins thru Java gradle build tool.
Working as Dev Ops team for installation, configuration for Docker, Rancher,Sysdig tool.
Work on patching solution and patching for Linux and Unix .
Design and implementation of on-premise data center to OpenStack.
Working on MongoDB, Nginx, Tomcat.
Working on provisioning new luns on vmMachines & vmotions
Configuring & Maintaining and Control user access & permission Thru Imanager tool from netiq.
Working on Veritas Cluster Server & Veritas Volume Manger.
Working on Change module for Different env(prod,stage,dev) in co-ordination with storage team.
Working with Storage team for new allocation of LUNS & Datastore from SAN & NAS.
Installed Redhat servers through Sattellite and Kickstart scripts.
Allegan, Irvine,CA Aug 2014 – July 2015
Linux Administrator
Onsite Team lead and client interaction and customer facing.
Deploying the Openstack components on multimode with High availability environment
Configuring the openstack keystone,glance, cinder, swift.
Configuring and Managing machines with open-source software platform Ansible.
Automation includes provisioning new servers, making sure the servers adhere to their role and maintain the
desired state from a configuration perspective with Ansible.
Integrated Openstack (Ice house) with Openstack to create software-Defined-Networking tenant and service
provider network and routers.
Configuring and managing the users and services with the Keystone Identity service.
Configure and manage the Swift Object Storage Service and Glance Image service.
Creating and managing Cinder volumes.
Configure and manage Ceph and Gluster as a Back End for Cinder.
Manage and troubleshoot the Neutron Networking service.
Creating bridge networks for internal and external access.
Ability to Install, configure, and test Open stack environment (Nova, Swift, Cinder, Neutron, Horizon, Keystone
& Glance)
As per one of the customer choice, had integrated OpenContrail which performs distributed routing and IP
encapsulation.
Experienced in supporting large-scale multi-tenant infrastructure level services
Good understanding of High-Availability (HA), Cluster architectures, deployments & Experienced in HA
solutions.
Manage and troubleshoot the Nova Compute and Controller Services.
Manage and troubleshoot Ceilometer Telemetry service.
Configuration of virtual Network and Storage.
4. Configuring & Maintaining Centrify control for useraccess & permission.
Working on Veritas Cluster Server & Veritas Volume Manger.
Working on Change module for Different env(prod,stage,dev)in co-ordination with storage team.
Installed Redhat servers through Sattellite and Kickstart scripts.
Tested disasterrecovery exercise for critical SAP finance applications.
Done in place upgrades of Redhat servers from 5.10 to 6.5.
Configure and managing Netbackup, support for HP-UX server, data centerMigration
Set up Ignite for HP-UX, migrated physicalservers to virtual servers
Worked on Centrify server with windows active directory for 10,000 useraccess.
Environment :RHEL 5.x, 6.x, Sun Solaris 10,HP-UX, VERITAS Cluster, Shell Scripting,OpenStack.
Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN Aug 2013 – Dec 2014
Linux and Solaris Systems Administrator
UNIX team lead, L2 and L3 Support admin in a Project called Eli Lilly and Company. Supporting
more than 4000+ server and worked as Zone 1 (US) UNIXLead.
Installed Red hat servers through GCRS
Maintained critical SAP servers with day to today issues with P1/P2.
Supported multiple SAP applications with metro HA setup with zero down time.
Tested disaster recovery exercise for critical SAP finance applications.
Provided 24/7 oncall support with coordination of offshore team.
Done in place upgrades of Redhat servers from 5.10 to 6.5
Installed and configured/ upgrade VERITAS clusters.
Worked on Ldap server.
File Sytem management UFS,ZFS,Vxfs,LVM
Migrated physical servers to virtual servers.
Built new Linux servers with SAP/oracle/DB2 application requirements.
Built filesystems/Rdms for database servers with redhat OS.
Involved in re-design/upgrade of Vmware clusters for SAP applications.
Configured HP physical servers DL380/580/G7 with multipath and installed Redhat
complete Responsibility for Server availability and Team
Incident, Change and Problem tickets.
Attending (External SOX Audit) and performing internal audits.
Environment :RHEL 5.x, 6.x, Sun Solaris 10, Net backup, Backup execVERITAS Cluster, Shell
Scripting, Oracle 9i, Oracle10g,Oracle 11g, SAP, HP DL 380/580/680/ HP DL870, Sun V430, V245
Linux Systems Administrator
(consultant)
January 2013–Aug 2013
Monsanto Saint Louis, MO
Installed Red hat servers using the Blade logic provisioning/ kick start
Installed remote physical servers with mini iso created from kick start.
Have good experience with BMC remedy and other ticketing tools like Maximo.
Good experience with migrating Aix servers to red hat 6.2
Good team player in sharing work load between team members and meeting the entire critical
deadline in all the projects.
Part of LCM(Life cycle management) project where we migrated all the applications and Linux
servers which are 5 years old.
Installed OS with the specific applications with (SAP/Oracle/Java)
5. Prepared documentation to the support team when installed and configured particular applications
like(vblock/BPM).
Moved 100 servers from physical to virtual servers with plate spin.
Installed and configured plate spin server for physical to virtual migrations.
Done in place server upgrades from 5 to RHEL 6.
Done a big project where we analyzed and migrated physical to virtual servers.
Environment: Linux, Aix, Korn Shell, NIS, NFS, DNS, Sparc , intel x86.
TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), India Dec 2010 – Jan 2013
Clients:
WHG(Whydham Group of Hotel)
VAA(Virgin Atlantic Airways).
UNIXSystem Administrator
Worked as Unix Administrator in IT infrastructure environment providing server administration,
application administration and automation solutions to support business objectives.
File System management UFS,ZFS,Vxfs,LVM
Swap management and swap monitoring.,work on Incident,restart application on Unix boxes.
Patch management through satellite server,support for Unix and other Unix related activities.
Work on VCS and VxVm issues,troubleshooting and support on Solaris , Red hat,performance tuning
and system activity ( disk failure, performance, escalation, troubleshoot)
Customer interaction and communication,Responsible for configuring User Authentication for the
Linux systems using LDAP and NIS.
Experience in analyzing logs, problem determination, and Recovery and restart.
Worked closely with DBAs to install raid, disk areas for Oracle database instance installations, created
Bourne shell database startup and shutdown scripts for UNIX servers. Wrote shell scripts for
automated installations, to extract logs.
Environment: Linux, Solaris, TSM, Korn Shell, NIS, NFS, DNS, HP 760, Sparc , intel x86.
EDS Ltd., India Oct 2006 – Dec 2010
GM(General Motors).
UNIX/ Linux Systems Administrator
Installed and configured SuSE/Red Hat Linux on many servers.
System administration and support for a heterogeneous network which consisted of IBM AIX Servers,
IBM RS/6000s and Linux boxes connected via NFS and TCP/IP.
Responsible for creating users, managing user permissions, maintaining User and File System quota.
Responsible for setting up permissions and implementing security policy.
Maintained separate development, test, and production environments Application Server.
Installed and configured DNS.
Analyze system performance,client to server traffic and server to server traffic.
Network Administration - involving day-to-day routine checks, Configuration of LAN adapters,
Routing, NFS, DNS and Troubleshooting.
Performed Stress and Performance testing of applications.
6. Restored files for end-users when necessary.
Implemented Cron tabs, shell Scripts for automatic jobs.
Installation and maintenance of the Internal DNS server.
Network administration and Network monitoring.
Configuring NFS, NIS, NIS+.
Hardware configuration of varied UNIX Enterprise platforms.
Installation, configuration and performance monitoring and tuning.
Migrated applications from Windows 2000 Server to Linux server.
Initiated, proposed, and managed extensive, system-wide hardware upgrade.
Day-to-day system end-user support as well as server support for Red Hat servers.
Create user accounts,Rights, Permissions & User Access to Resources.
Configure website monitoring for GM website through sitescope.
Environment: Linux, Solaris, Sitescope tool, BMC Patrol, Paregrine ticketing tool.