Bilal Bhatti

Bilal Bhatti

Email: afroz.m@amvotech.com

Ph.no: 609-210-0083

Summary:

• 8+ years of experience as a System Administrator involved in system development, design, configuration, and management in physical and virtual environments.
• Experience in Windows, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, Centos and Solaris servers for Administration in Production, Development and Test environments.
• Experience in System Administration, Installation, Upgrading, Patches, Migration, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Performance Monitoring in Linux system.
• Expertise in VMware Virtualization solutions, VM Migration & Cloning in VMware ESXi servers, managing VMs, handling networking issues and troubleshooting.
• Expert in DNS administration, including daily DNS administration, health check and monitoring, in-depth troubleshooting, installation, and upgrades.
• Technical expertise in Storage, Disk Management, Logical Volume Management (LVM) and RAID disk partitioning.
• Experience with Jenkins, Maven, Ant, SVN and GIT.
• Experience in Deployment and supporting the systems hosted OpenStack and Confidential Helion
• Experience in TCP/IP network setup and troubleshooting.
• Experienced in analyzing hardware performance, Linux server performance, Kernel performance, Network performance problems, and implementing maintenance procedures.
• Experience in a Data Center Environment using ESX server, troubleshooting experience with ESX and ESXi Servers, vSphere and vCenter Server.
• Experience in configuring Networking Concepts DNS, NIS, NFS and DHCP, troubleshooting network problems like TCP/IP, providing support for users in solving issues.
• Experience in Cloud computing and creating AWS instances and deployed Linux and Ubuntu on AWS environment.
• Working on the regional server issues through Incidents Tickets of Remedy tool proficient in setting up LAN and WAN networks.
• Experience working with AWS Cloud computing and involved in creating AWS instances and deployed Linux and Ubuntu on AWS environment.
• Experience in Bash, Perl, Python and Ruby Scripting.
• Proficient in monitoring and reporting issues with Data Center devices like Windows & Linux servers, Storage and Backup network technologies like SAN, NAS, RAID.
• Experience in Implementing and Supporting High Availability Cluster environments using Veritas Cluster and Linux Cluster services.
• Experienced configuring Cisco routers and L2/L3 Switches along with IP Sub netting.

Skill Set:

Professional Experience:

SiriusXM, Lawrenceville, NJ                                                                                     Mar 2020 - Present

System/Linux Administrator                       

Responsibilities:

• Executed Linux Server Administration tasks including patching and security compliance requirements, as well as troubleshooting customer issues. 
• Responsible for monitoring and completion of all incoming backup and restore incidents and service request workload to meet SLAs.
• Delivered technical expertise in system upgrades, process improvements, adherence to security requirements, and infrastructure improvements.
• Delivered System Admin. support for Linux servers that host critical applications & services.
• Build servers using Kickstart technology as well an interactive method and introduced them to a network with proper hardening techniques.
• Conduct system capacity and planning, as well as aid users in accessing and using business systems.
• Incorporated Automated Installation of multiple CentOS servers using PXE server and Kickstart files.
• Participated in migrating Apache servers into AWS Instances behind Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) with all the website contents in S3 storage.
• Applied advanced partitioning schemes like Software RAID for redundancy and LVM for file system growth needs, which maintained availability, increased capacity & performance of machines in production.
• Mange data protection infrastructure involving multi-vendor Tape libraries, disk-based storage, and Veritas Backup Appliance.
• Worked with Nagios to health check the various deployed resources and services.
• Monitored backup servers and media server health, in terms on memory and disk usage. 
• Performed day to day Tape media management. 
• Performed NetBackup master media and NetBackup appliance upgrades.
• Assisted members on connectivity or network issues via SSH or Network adapter conflicts.
• Provided 24/7 on-call support to maintain production server availability in team environment.
• Upgraded security configurations to efficiently mitigate security vulnerabilities identified in the security audit and scan vulnerability reports. 

L Brands, Columbus, Ohio                                                                                      Apr 2018 – Feb 2020                                      

Linux Administrator                                                                                                   

Responsibilities:

• Performed system administration in Red Hat Linux environment, installation support, kernel parameter and disk partition file system, volume management and routine backup.
• Involved in managing 500+ servers both Physical and VMware.
• Setup, configure and troubleshoot volume using LVM; whereby performing tasks related to managing disk storage and installation OS.
• Configuring Red Hat High Availability Cluster and Failover Cluster servers at Datacenter.
• Working on Docker containers to host the application and Microservices.
• Install and configure Red Hat Linux Kickstart and booting from SAN and managing multipathing at boot level and OS level.
• Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2, Auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.
• Wrote Shell and Python scripting to automate the regular tasks like removing core files, taking backups of important files, file transfers among servers.
• Configured NFS Servers for both media and data sharing between servers and resolved any shared server issues.
• Creating, cloning Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware Virtual Client and migrating servers across ESX hosts.
• Monitored System Activities like CPU, Memory, Disk and Swap space usage to avoid any performance issues.
• Jumpstart Solaris servers, custom configure, install packages, patches, harden. Creating LDOMs, installing Solaris, creating volumes & installing packages.
• Configuring kickstart server on SUSE Linux.
• Installed packages, ran CRON jobs, & over-all configuration management of Linux servers using Puppet & Chef 
• Worked on implementation and troubleshooting of network services like NFS, FTP, NTP, Telnet, SSH.
• Provided administrative supports and performed branching & merging operations using GIT. 
• Involved in monitoring, performing file and group security.
• Enforced ITIL process while pushing builds/deployments to prod & pre-prod environments.
• Perform Network configuration for both physical and virtual servers.

Cygnus Professionals Inc, Princeton, NJ                                                               Jan 2016 – Mar 2018

Linux Administrator                                                                                                   

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation, testing, tuning, upgrading, and loading patches, troubleshooting physical and virtual server issues of an environment with 500+ servers.
• Involved in creating and managing users and group accounts, passwords, permissions, disk space allocations and process monitoring in CentOS and Red Hat Linux. 
• Installed RedHat Linux using Kickstart and interactive installation and apply security polices for hardening the server based on company policies and procedures.
• Management of user accounts and groups according to the security needs.
• Handling LVM related tasks, Creating, resizing LVM, Veritas Volume manager and managing Cluster environment using Veritas Cluster suite.
• Configured remote access systems through SSH, managed system security in TCP Wrappers.
• Managed systems routine backup, scheduling jobs such as disabling and enabling CRON jobs, network logging of servers for maintenance, performance tuning, and testing.
• Resizing the filesystems based on the requirement increasing/shrinking the size on VM's and physical servers which includes local drives and SAN disks.
• Responsible for installation and configuration of Chef and creating cookbooks and recipes to create the run list and configure them to nodes.
• Involved in backend solution, day to day Administration& Monitoring, File System Management and Disk Management. 
• Installed packages, ran CRON jobs, & over-all configuration management of Linux servers using Puppet & Chef 
• Established continuous integration (CI) practices and standards.
• Implementing and troubleshooting of network services like NFS, FTP, NTP, Telnet, SSH.
• Provided administrative supports and performed branching & merging operations using GIT. 
• Strictly enforced ITIL process while pushing builds and deployments to prod and pre-prod environments.
• Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging, network logging of servers for maintenance, performance tuning, testing.

Boeing, Chicago, IL                                                                                                  Oct 2013 – Dec 2015

System Administrator                                                                                                               

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical support to Middleware & Database teams, Application testing & production support.
• Involved in providing everyday support to 2000 RedHat Enterprise Linux servers on virtual, AWS and physical platforms.
• Involved in Unix system administration includes Installing, configuring, troubleshooting and updating Solaris servers. 
• Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands. 
• Documented the standard procedure for installation and deployment of VMAX Migration and logical volume manager.
• Installing RedHat Linux using kickstart and applying security polices for hardening the server based on the company policies.
• Installation, configuration, support, and security implementation on following services: DHCP, SSH, SCP.
• Scanned Application and database servers on a regular basis using Symantec ESM tool to check for security holes that need to be fixed or patched.
• Created and managed Logical Volumes and File Systems using Veritas Volume Manager on Solaris as well as RedHat and LVM on RedHat Linux.
• Involved in creation and maintenance of raw disks and volumes for databases.
• Performed Host Based Migration using VERITAS Plex Level Mirroring on Linux.
• Applying new patches and packages for RedHat Linux.
• Expanded new storage to existing and new systems using VERITAS Volume.
• Helped troubleshooting various networking and system related issues with LINUX server’s application and hardware.
• Worked with LVM to configure various volume groups, logical and physical partitions.
• Responsible for configuring and monitoring various day to day user management activities.
• Handled system monitoring activities like CPU loads, RAM loads, Ports monitoring, Disk Space monitoring, File Space monitoring.

Education:

Bachelors in Computer Science, University of the Punjab - 2008

Summary:

• 8+ years of experience as a System Administrator involved in system development, design, configuration, and management in physical and virtual environments.
• Experience in Windows, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux, SUSE Linux, Centos and Solaris servers for Administration in Production, Development and Test environments.
• Experience in System Administration, Installation, Upgrading, Patches, Migration, Configuration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Performance Monitoring in Linux system.
• Expertise in VMware Virtualization solutions, VM Migration & Cloning in VMware ESXi servers, managing VMs, handling networking issues and troubleshooting.
• Expert in DNS administration, including daily DNS administration, health check and monitoring, in-depth troubleshooting, installation, and upgrades.
• Technical expertise in Storage, Disk Management, Logical Volume Management (LVM) and RAID disk partitioning.
• Experience with Jenkins, Maven, Ant, SVN and GIT.
• Experience in Deployment and supporting the systems hosted OpenStack and Confidential Helion
• Experience in TCP/IP network setup and troubleshooting.
• Experienced in analyzing hardware performance, Linux server performance, Kernel performance, Network performance problems, and implementing maintenance procedures.
• Experience in a Data Center Environment using ESX server, troubleshooting experience with ESX and ESXi Servers, vSphere and vCenter Server.
• Experience in configuring Networking Concepts DNS, NIS, NFS and DHCP, troubleshooting network problems like TCP/IP, providing support for users in solving issues.
• Experience in Cloud computing and creating AWS instances and deployed Linux and Ubuntu on AWS environment.
• Working on the regional server issues through Incidents Tickets of Remedy tool proficient in setting up LAN and WAN networks.
• Experience working with AWS Cloud computing and involved in creating AWS instances and deployed Linux and Ubuntu on AWS environment.
• Experience in Bash, Perl, Python and Ruby Scripting.
• Proficient in monitoring and reporting issues with Data Center devices like Windows & Linux servers, Storage and Backup network technologies like SAN, NAS, RAID.
• Experience in Implementing and Supporting High Availability Cluster environments using Veritas Cluster and Linux Cluster services.
• Experienced configuring Cisco routers and L2/L3 Switches along with IP Sub netting.

Bachelors in Computer Science, University of the Punjab - 2008