Abhinay Pinisetty Abhinay.pinisetty@gmail.

com
Mobile : 929-322-4465
OBJECTIVE
Seeking a challenging position in a progressive company that allows career development and provides challenging work
environment. To constantly learn and utilize the skills in adding value to the organization with an eye on quality.

Technical Skills:
Operating Linux (Red Hat 4,5,6, CENTOS & SUSE), Solaris 10/9/8, HP-UX 11.0, 11.11, 11.23, 11.31, IBM AIX
Systems (4.3/5.x), HPUX11i V1, V2 & V3,SLES 8,9,10 & 11, Ubuntu 12/13, Windows NT /2000/2003.
Hardware M5000, M8000, T5220, T5240 Sun E15K, E25K, Sun Fire 6800, Sun Fire 4900, Sun Fire 3800, Sun
Fire 490, Sun Fire 280, v880, v890, Sun Enterprise Servers E6500, E4500, E3500, Work Group
Servers E450, E420, E250, E220, Netra 1405, Netra X1, Ultra 80, 60, 30, 10, 5, 2, 1, Intel Servers,
Extreme network and Cisco switches, Brocade Switches, A1000, A5200, 3510, 3511, D1000, Sun
Store Edge T3, 9980, HP DL380 Gen7&8
Networking TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, Cisco Routers/Switches, WAN, SMTP, LAN, FTP/TFTP.

WEB Tomcat, APACHE 2.x, 3.x, Web Logic (8/9/10) & Web Sphere 4.0/5.0
Technologies

Programming MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL, C, UNIX Shell Scripting, Perl Scripting, HTML, Perl, VB,
Lang & Ruby, Python.
Databases
Backup Veritas Netbackup 4.x/5.x/6.x, Ufsdump, Ufsrestore, tar, cpio, dd, Tivoli, Symantec Netbackup 7.x

Third Party VERITAS Volume Manager, VERITAS Cluster Service (VCS), HP Service Guard, Sun Cluster, EMC
Software Storage, RAID Technologies, SSL, Splunk. Puppet, chef, HPSA
Protocols TCP/IP, UDP RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, SNMP, SMTP, TELNET

Virtualization VMware vCAC, vSphere, vCenter, vCloud, VMware ESX/ESXi.

Cloud AWS EC2, S3, RDB, ELB, EBS, VPC, Auto Scaling, DynamoDB

Summary:
 System Administrator with 7 years of experience in Administration and Development of Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux,
Oracle EL, Centos, HP-UX and Solaris servers
 Experience in installing, configuring and administrating Red Hat Linux AS 3.0 /4.0/5.x/6.x & SUN Solaris 8, 9 and 10,
OEL, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10.x, HP-UX 11.00, 11i,AIX 6,7, Windows NT, 2000 and 2003
 Installed and Configured Solaris by using Jumpstart and Linux by using Kickstart
 Experience working Amazon AWS Cloud services like EC2, S3, ELB, EBS, VPC, RDS, etc
 Worked on Autoscaling, Cloudwatch (monitoring), AWS Elastic Beanstalk (app deployments), Amazon S3(storage)
and Amazon EBS(persistent disk storage)
 Experience with patching of Linux and Solaris servers and hardening of servers using native and third party tools
 Disk and File system management through Logical Volume Manager (LVM) on HP-UX, LINUX and Solaris Volume
Manager (SVM) on Solaris
 Knowledge of networking (TCP/IP, Ethernet), NIS, DNS, NFS, DHCP, SMTP and RAID
 Knowledge of Routers and Switches, Subnet, VLAN, TCP/IP, VPN, OSI model, Firewall (checkpoint)
 Created and Managed File Systems (CFS) for Oracle & Sybase data bases
 Experienced with the installation and configuration on Apache 2.x, 1.3.x, 1.2, Tomcat, WebSphere, JBoss4.0.x, 5.x,
Web Servers, WebLogic 8.x, 9.x, 10.x, 11.x servers and LDAP servers
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 Configured DNS, LDAP, Apache HTTP servers
 Experience in scripting languages such as Shell, Perl, Python and Ruby
 Experience in running SQL running queries and also performing online, offline and cold backups for Oracle and
MySQL
 Experience in SAN migrations from EMC DMX to VMAX at host level using HPUX, Linux and VERITAS LVM
 Expertise in Volume management, Disk Management, software RAID solutions using Veritas Volume manager. File
system Tuning and growing using Veritas File System (VxFS) , planed , documented and supported high availability,
fail-over, fall-back Solutions using Veritas Cluster Server in SAN environment
 Worked with Backup Team to Configure the Master and Client Backup servers Using VERITAS Net Back up 4.5/5.0
 Migrating, Configuring and installing zone and ldom
 Worked with VMware ESX servers, and Virtual Infrastructure client to create virtual guests
 Experience in migrating VMware ESX 3.5 to ESX 4.0&vSphere ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.5
 Extensive experience in UNIX performance monitoring and kernel tuning and Load balancing to ensure stable
performance
 Expertise in System performance tuning, capacity planning and Disaster Recovery planning
 Involved in installing Nagios monitoring and Splunk services on Unix servers

Experience

Ulta Chicago, IL Aug 2014 – Till Date

Cloud DevOps Engineer
 Installing and upgrading Redhat Linux on HP x86 and Itanium Servers and Solaris on Sun SPARC, HP DL 380 G 4, 5, 6
and 7 & Dell Power Edge servers.
 Installing and maintaining Solaris Jumpstart environment and Redhat Kickstart environment.
 Involved in application deployments in java using Anthill pro 4.x and 5.x component from development to
production environment.
 Build servers using AWS: Importing volumes, launching EC2, RDS, creating security groups, auto-scaling, load
balancers (ELBs) in the defined virtual private connection.
 Installation and configured SLES 9, 10 &11, Red hat 4.x, 5 on Dell Power Edge Blade servers using Kickstart with PXE
for LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl/PHP) installations.
 Migration of applications from Linux (Redhat & SUSE) to Windows2003/2008 and resolving any dependency issues
after live upgrade.
 Worked on User administration setup, maintaining account, Monitor system performance.
 Activities includes user administration; startup and shutdown scripts; crontabs, file system maintenance, backup
scripting and automation using Perl, shell scripting (bash, ksh) for Red Hat Linux and AIX systems.
 Adding patches to keep the servers updated against bugs present in the operating system as well as other
applications like VERITAS Storage Foundation, Web Sphere and Oracle.
 Used HP Service center and Remedy change management system for ticketing.
 Troubleshooting and performance tuning issues with applications like Oracle 10g, JBoss 4.x, WebLogic 10 and the
operating systems, which included Solaris and RHEL.
 Worked on the administration of the Apache, JBoss 4.2.2 servers including installation and deployments.
 Experience in building customized RPM packages.
 Shell scripting to automate the regular tasks like removing core files, taking backups of important files, file transfers
among servers.
 Experience in writing scripts in Ruby and Python for automation.
 Used Sun Volume Manager for Solaris and LVM on Linux to create volumes with layouts like RAID 1, 5, 10, 51.
 Experience in NAS environment carrying Netapp filers and EMC Celerras.
 Experience managing SAN disks like EMC Clarions and VMAX using EMC Power path and Volume management
software.
 Experience working with GIT and LDAP.

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 Worked with VERITAS Foundation Suite 5 and performed tasks like creating disk groups, volumes, initializing disks,
replacing failed disks etc.
 Implemented HA using VERITAS Cluster Server 5.0 for Apache gent and Ldom.
 Installed, configured and administrated a multiple number of virtualization environments which includes LDOM,
Zone and Hardware Domain etc.
 Implemented and administered VMware ESX for running the Windows, Redhat Linux Servers on development and
test servers.
 Installed and upgraded VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0/4.1/4.0 and ESX server 4.1/4/3.5.
 Configured VMware HA, VMware DRS in acquiring higher efficiency for VMware Infrastructure.
 Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Redhat, Ubuntu on various hardware platforms on Amazon AWS
cloud services.

HP - Andover, MA Aug 2013 – Jul 2014

Systems Engineer
• Develop configuration and Architecture for X9000 Extreme Storage Platform Based on IBRIX software and HP
hardware
• Providing support for all the functionalities of the fusion clustered file system product X9000 IBRIX with support
for features which include Snapshots-file based, Array based, Data Retention/WORM, Policy Based Tiering,
Continuous Remote Replication, Data Rebalancing, Anti-Virus, LDAP, VLAN Tagging
• Involving in the cases that are escalated from the level 3 support for customers. And sometimes directly taking
critical cases opened by our customers and seeing them through to find a resolution by doing thorough log
review, reproduce, and analyze reported issues or bugs
• Providing 24X7 support for HP Customer's Production, Development and Test systems that run on HP StoreAll
(Scale-out Network Attached Storage Solution)
• Providing Consultation on the complex HP StoreAll products at customer sites, Producing Implementation
Documentation, Assisting in user accepted Documentation and providing remote support for product installers.
• Installation and Administration of Redhat & SUSE Linux on x86 Enterprise Servers for test lab, production and
disaster recovery setup.
• Implementation of VMware Infrastructure for Windows, SLES 11 & Linux Red hat 5.0 with VMware ESX 3.5,
Virtual Center 2.5 and administered the VMs with VI client.gfcvgg
• Experience in managing HP and IBM Blade centers and deploying VMWare environment.
• Experience in installing, integrating, tuning and troubleshooting Apache, Tomcat and Web Sphere application
server and Web sphere IHS including troubleshooting.
• Used Logical Volume Manager for the management of Volumes including creation of physical and logical
volumes on Linux
• Experience in supporting Windows Cluster server running 2-4 nodes on Windows 2000,2003 and 2008
supporting applications like web servers, SharePoint and Active Directory environment.
• Strong Experience on Migrating from Windows 2000/2003 – 2008 using Double-Take Availability.
• Implementation of Windows 2003/2008 domain architecture.
• Implemented and administered VMware ESX 3.5, 4.x for running the Windows 2003/2008 Servers on
development and test servers.
• Worked extensively with Active Directory Services, Web Services(IIS Servers), DNS, DHPCP, SQL Database Servers
and Business Application Servers
• Install and configure SSH to enable secure access to the servers.
• Modified the Linux kernel to add tracing probes for Config access tool.
• Environment, Command line, Current working directory, root directory, executed command.
• Expertise in installation, configuration and administration of Windows 2000/2003/2008 servers, Active Directory
and exchange server.
• Creating User Accounts and Groups in Active Directory
• Installing and Configuring Windows 2003/2008 Servers.
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 • Remote Desktop Monitoring using Microsoft Terminal Services/Client.

Verifone - San Jose, Ca March 2010– July 2013

System Administrator
• Installation of Solaris 8, 9 based servers with Jumpstart and Redhat Linux EL 5.x based servers using Kickstart and
HPUX servers with Ignite servers in development, test and production environments.
• Performed project coordination function for evaluation, installation, monitoring, and maintenance of server
software on variety of hardware platforms also responsible for user administration and management
using SUDO and RBAC
• Installed/ upgraded patches, firmware (OBP), and security (Kernel) patches for all applications in installed
infrastructure.
• Data migration using Redhat LVM HPUX LVM & Veritas Enterprise Administration.
• Performed systems monitoring, upgrades, performance tuning and backup and recovery, Troubleshooting and
fixing the problems related to systems, software and day to day regular maintenance tasks of the system.
• Worked on C7000,C6000 Blade enclosures with x86 blades and HP BL20 ,BL 40 generation 2,3,4 Blades and
installed solaris and Linux on top of blades.
• Responsible for quality reviews and standards and provided 24x7 on-call / Remote Support for UNIX Production
Problems on weekly rotation basis.
• Applying software maintenance, program fixes and keeping the system software releases current by attending
the weekly status calls with the Engineering team and offshore team.
• Documented backup policies and procedures for backup routines, schedules and restore policies.
Mentored and trained other individuals on the team.

Citibank, India Aug 2009 – Mar 2010

Linux / Solaris Systems Administrator

 Installing, configuring and updating Solaris 7, 8, Red Hat 3.x, 4.x, 5.x Windows NT/2000 Systems using media and
Jumpstart and Kickstart.
 Installing and configuring Windows Active directory server 2000 and Citrix Servers.
 Creating and Authenticating Windows user accounts on Citrix server.
 Creating System Disk Partition, mirroring root disk drive, configuring device groups in UNIX and Linux
environment.
 Working with VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 and Logical Volume Manager for file system management, data backup
and recovery.
 User administration which included creating backup account for new users and deleting account for the retired or
deleted users.
 Managing Tape Drives and recycling it after specific period of time as per the firms policies.
 Working with DBA’s for writing Scripts to take database backup and scheduling backup using cron jobs.
 Creating UNIX and PERL scripts for automated data backup, status of the storage.
 Installing and configuring Oracle 8i database server on Solaris after creating the file systems, users and tuning the
kernel.
 Virtualization using VMware ESX server 3.5, 4.0, vSphere, VMware Workstation, Virtual Box and Xen.
 Maintained a redhat Linux file server, which used samba to serve files to mostly windows 2000.
 Installed and Configured SSH Gate for Remote and Secured Connection.
 Setting up labs from scratch, testing hardware, installing and configuring various hardware devices like printers,
scanners, modems, network and communication devices.
 Configuration of DHCP, DNS, NFS and automounter.
 Creating, troubleshooting and mounting NFS File systems on different OS platforms.

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 Troubleshooting and solving problems related to users, applications, hardware etc.
 Working 24/7 on call for application and system support.

Educational Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

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