This document contains a resume for Sujith S. Pillai. It outlines his career objective of aligning technology with business growth using his 7 years of experience as a Linux/UNIX professional. It details his educational qualifications which include a B.E. in Electronics and various IT certifications. It provides a self-evaluation of his strengths and an experience summary. Finally, it describes his professional experience over the past 7 years including his current role as an Infrastructure Analyst and previous roles at Wipro and Intel where he performed various Linux administration and support tasks.

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SUJITH .S. PILLAI Mobile: +919495531970
Mail:sujithspillai90@gmail.com,sujithspillai90@yahoo.in
Web:http://linuxexperiencesforyou.blogspot.in/
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CareerVision/ Objective:-
My primary focusand goal is to align technology infrastructure withbusiness growth. Over 7yrs.of
experience in the Information Technology industry as LINUX/UNIX Professionalwithhands-on
over 6.5 yrs. Linux experience in wide range of concepts and technologies. A career in the
field of System Administration in a fast-paced / proactive environment that leverages my
experience and capabilities and gives me an opportunity for further advancement and growth with
a progressive, motivating and growth oriented organization of international standard and repute
that values teamwork,integrity and creativity.
Educational QualificationandCertifications:-
 B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering
 Red Hat Certified Engineer
 VMware Certified Professional –VCP 5
 VMware Certified Associate – VCA 5
 ITIL_v3Foundation
Self-Evaluation:
 Strengths - Hardworking, Punctual, Versatile, Optimistic, Friendly behavior and
Dynamic Approach.
ExperienceSummary:-
 Proventrack record of success with 7 years of Industry experience
 Well versed in Linux & UNIX Server administration withextensive experience in
installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Linux and Unix servers and
application servers.
 Familiar with bash scripting for automation and for various vulnerability fixes.
 Focused and Skilled in troubleshooting complex problems.
 Experience in handling Netbackup, VMware, RedHat Satellite and basic understanding
about Cloud and puppet .
Professional Experience:-
 Since July – 2011 working as an Infrastructure Analyst with UST-Global Ltd,
TechnoPark, Kerala, India.
 From April 2008 - July 2011 workedas a Senior Engineer-Server Managementwith
WIPRO Ltd, Bangalore, India.

2. Job Profile in UST Global since July 2011 till date
H&RBlock[OffshoreTeamLead]
Roles & Responsibilities:
 Installation and maintenance ofmorethan 2000 + RHEL- 4,5& 6 Linux & HP Unix machines
on the network.
 Complete UNIX&Linux server administration & management.
 Email server and Email Gateway Administration & Management.
 Setting up networkand infrastructure (Linux/Unix) rules & network policies.
 Assist in system disaster recovery requirements and Data center wide operations.
 Backup, Data Security and Storage Management.
 Infrastructure management in Virtualized environment withVMware.
 Cluster management with Veritas Clustering Suite.
 User & accountmanagement & access control.
 Monitoring Servers & applications performance on the network withvarious monitoring
tools like HP Openview,Solarwinds, HP-SIMetc.
 Implementation of Networkstandards & policies.
 Change management, Problem ticket handling and Root cause analysis
 Patching, automation and upgrade of Server OS
 Hardware/Software Provisioning & Decommissioning
 Preparation of Technical/Business documentation
 Identify & develop scripts needed for automating manual tasks.
 Backup and restore using Symantec Netbackup.
 Red Hat Satellite server management,
 Familiar with Opens’, Proftpd,Vsftp,ssftp servers with chroot environment and file
automation.
 Mail server installation and administration
 Linux Based Apache/NGNIX Web server installation and Support
 Server security and performance tuning
 Vulnerability fixes based on the qualys scan report and fix on various issues.
 Squid Proxy server – Activedirectory integration, Controlling internet access on VLAN
(Subnet), Website, IP address and File typebasis.
 NFS Server – File sharing and securing access based on computer and Subnet.
 FTP server – File sharing and securing access based on users, computer and Subnet.
 Disk management – Managing Disk with different RAID levels [0, 1 & 5], Logical Volume
management [LVM], implementing Disk Quota based on users and groups, Auto mounting
and Virtual memory management [SWAP].
 Linux Securities - Workingwith Net Filter (IP Tables and NAT), TCP Wrappers, Xinetd and
basics of PAM.
 Linux patching for Amazon cloud servers.
 User and Group Administration
 Files and permission management – Managing Files and permission with Access Control
Lists, SUDO,SUID, SGID and Sticky bit.
 Backup and Restore- Managing backups with TAR, CPIOand Dump-restore commands.
 Unattended installations – Automating the installation with Kick start through shared
images.
 Working with RPMs and source packages– Installing, Upgrading, removing and querying the
RPM packages. And installing various source packages.
 Apache – Basic Apache webserver configuration

3. Job Profile in WIPRO Ltd From APRIL 2008 till July 2011 :
March2011to July2011- 5months
UIDAI– (Unique IdentificationAuthority of India) as Linux administrator.
RolesandResponsibilities
 Handled more than 1500 live servers which is running on Red Hat Linux-5.5
 Installation, Configuration and management of enterprise servers
 Resolving the incidents escalated by L1 team
 Security management – Configuring Accountpolicy, Access rights, Passwornd control.
 Capacity Management.
 Change Management.
 Analyzing the logs – proactively (Eventlogs, sys logs etc)
 Data backup / Restore, monitoring and troubleshooting
 OS performance tuning
 Password management and control
 Recovery of server after the disaster
 Responsible to maintain the uptime of the critical servers in CIDR
 Monitoring key application parameters, logs forperformance.
 Installing applications releases into Linux servers.
 First level of trouble shooting in Linux for application related issues
 Troubleshooting applications related issues and resolving the same.
 Installation, Configuration and Administration of Apache and Apache Tomcat
 Tracking, troubleshooting and resolving Application Server and WebServers related issues
 Start & Stop application server and Web Server if required/ as scheduled
 Managing/Updating the Application.
 Circulate the New Features of Applications once released
 Networkbonding
 Configuration and administration of various RAIDlevels.
February 2011 – 1 month
SouthIndianBank, as senior Engineer-Server Management. (Special assignment for Data Center
Migration)
Roles&Responsibilities:
General OS Administration tasks on Solaris 9/10 (90% servers under support are running on
Solaris 9 and a few Solaris 10 servers),General Tasks – PerformanceMonitoring
(Memory/Swap/SAR/IO etc) and gave suggestions to resolve bottlenecks if any.
 File system creation and data copying across servers.
 Tar backups of Customer data either to Tape or to File system.
 Mirroring/Concatenation (Both SVM and VxVM)
 Root backups and Recovery
 File system consistency check (fsck) and Patching
 SoftwareInstallation on Solaris Servers
 Monitoring and Administration of Cluster
 SAN Storage (Creating volumes- RAID -0, RAID -1, RAID5 )
 Scheduling Backup Policies,Creating Volume Pools
 Backups and Restoration

4. November-2009 to December 2010 – 1 year1 month
Cisco Systems,as InfrastructureSpecialist.
Roles&Responsibilities:
 Installation and maintenanceofLinux&Unix machines on the network.
 Assist in system disaster recovery requirements and Data center wide operations
 Backup, Data Security and Storage Management
 User & accountmanagement & access control.
 Monitoring Servers & applications performance on the network withvarious monitoring
tools like HP Openview,Solarwinds, HP-SIMetc..
 Change management, Problem ticket handling and Root cause analysis
 Patching, automation and upgrade of Server OS
 Hardware/Software Provisioning & Decommissioning
 Preparation of Technical/Business documentation
April-2008 to November -2009 1 year 7 months
Intel TechnologyIndiaPvt.Ltd,as Linux L1, Server System Administrator
Roles&Responsibilities:
 Administration of about 20000+ Linux servers running on Red Hat, SuSe OS
 Installation, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of Linux Enterprise servers
 Configure and Administrate PXE Boot,Kick start and Nebulous.
 Maintain DNS and NIS servers.
 Updating BIOS and firmware for IBM,HP Servers
 Configuration and administration of RAID 5, RAID 1 and RAID 0.
 Users and Vendor interaction for calllog.
 First levelof troubleshooting on storage servers.
 Nebulous configurationfor Unix Servers.
 Networkconfiguration on servers.
 Linux OS parameter tuning according to the application hosted in the servers.
 Monitoring of servers through Ganglia, Master shell.
 Document and perform the changes
 Updating BIOS and firmware on IBM,HP servers.
 Performpatching on servers.
 Identify the basic problems in the servers and escalate for additional help.
 Routine audit on server backup, errors, performance etc.
 Co-ordinate withdevelopers and provide technical support for quires.
Personal Info : Male, Married, and Born on 10th April 1985.
Permanent Address : Sruthi, Mathra P.O, Punalur, Kollam district, Kerala.
: 0475-2251970
Passport Details : Passport No : F9966188
Date of expiry: 15/11/2016
Pan Details : CAVPS5806F