Kousalya Chandran

Experience

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Jun 2014 - May 2019

  Unix System Administrator

  • Troubleshooting OS related issues such as high CPU, Memory, IO, drive utilization and server hung issues and server boot issues.• Working experience in process and services management.• Deploying the Virtual machines & unix applicances from the created templates and ISO image in vSphere.• Increasing and decreasing RAM and CPU in Linux VM’s based on requirements.• Automatic job scheduling management using cron & Configured auto startup scripts in Redhat and Solaris servers.• Working experience in password less ssh authentication setup.• Linux server network management.• File system management - Creating new file systems which include creating partitions, volume group creations, expanding and reducing the storages in servers according to the type of file systems.• Working experience in VxVM filesystem such as creating and extending the filesystem in Linux and Solaris servers.• Setting up NFS servers, exporting shares to clients and performing NFS mounts on Linux and Solaris servers.• Server port management using iptables and firewalld in Linux servers.• Reserving IP and Adding DNS entries using infoblox based on respective domains.• Experience in NTP client management, Syslog management,Package management using yum & RPM, ACL permissions & sudo persmissions, Soft & Hard Links, File archive management (gzip & tar).• Working experience in VCS management in Solaris and Linux servers such as managing resources, adding resources, failover and failback of RG’s to secondary node.• Worked on VMware tool upgrade, VM hardware version upgrade, Performing Disk consolidation and VM migration in VMWare. Taking and removing VM snapshot manually in VMWare. • Regular maintenance of servers such as patching and OS upgrades for regular enhancements.• Having knowledge in Solaris Zones.• Working experience in VMWware console, physical ILO consoles , XSCF,RSC,ALOM.• Knowledge in teaming and bonding.• Working experience in puppet agent management. Show less

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  Ford Motor Company

  Jun 2019 - now

  Pivotal Cloud Foundry Operator

  • PCF administration support for applications hosted in PCF.• Upgrading OPS manager and product Tiles for regular enhancements to maintain the N-1 for all platform services.• Working experience with PCF platform certificate rotations.• Having good experience in Bridge call handling and responsibility to handle incident / Change / Problem management• Supporting application teams for app deployment related issues in PCF and trouble shooting the CI/CD issues with dev & testing team.• Provided admin support for PCF marketplace services and user provided services.• Creating, modifying & deleting user accounts, service accounts, admin accounts in PCF foundations.• Handled Service migration from NFS to SMB service.( Provided guidance to n number of application teams to support NFS to SMB share migrations on PCF environment )• Provided PCF Admin support for Application load and performance testing.• Provided support to application teams for DR testing and supported application teams to setup their DR by leveraging app aware GSLB.• Supported application migrations from legacy to PaaS.• Working experience in deploying PCF components and tiles.• Working experience in managing IaaS cloud resources in Azure, AWS, GCP.• Working experience in GitHub version control system and Concouse CI/CD tool.• Working experience in UAAC,BOSH,FLY,CF, SAFE & VAULT CLI,YAML.• Experience in managing platform API’s and Integrating API’s with APIC & APIGEE. Show less