Pankaj Kumar

Experience

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  Progressive Infotech Pvt. Ltd.

  Feb 2008 - Feb 2010

  System Engineer

  • Installation & configuration Red hat Linux and Windows 2K3 • Maintaining Squid, NFS, FTP, Samba, DNS, DHCP• Configuring & troubleshooting servers as per tickets.• Administration in Active Directory, ADC, Group Policies• Installation, Configuring & troubleshooting of Lotus Domino/Lotus Notes, Microsoft Out-look.• Maintaining network environment i.e. LAN/WAN/VPN

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  Tata Consultancy Services

  Feb 2010 - Oct 2010

  System Engineer

  • Monitoring & Maintenance of servers based on Linux, Windows, VMware Esxi.• Configuring & troubleshooting servers as per tickets.• Checking and maintaining server health• User, Group and Permission management.• Managing services like SSH, FTP, NFS, Squid, SMB, DHCP, DNS, YUM, NTP, VNC etc.• Preparing Shell Scripts and using filters like grep, awk, sed etc.• Analysing logs files and Generating reports.

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  IBM

  Oct 2010 - Mar 2012

  System Administrator (Linux)

  • Maintenance of servers based on Redhat Linux, SUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu and Windows.• Maintaining VMware vSphere environment: ESX, ESXi, vCenter server etc.• Managing virtual environment of Redhat Hypervisor: KVM, XEN. • User, Group, Permission and Security management.• Managing services like SSH, FTP, NFS, Samba, NIS, DNS, CVS, YUM, Squid, NTP, VNC etc.• Managing storage like Partition, file system, Quota, ACL, LVM, NAS/SAN etc.• Performing VM migration using vMotion, SvMotion, P2V.• IT Security and Patch Management• Bash shell Scripting and Automation of tasks using crontab.• Backup & Restore using IBM TSM. Show less

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  OnMobile Global Limited

  Mar 2012 - Jan 2013

  Senior IT Engineer

  • Management of IT Infrastructure/ Data Centre at Noida development centre. • Maintenance of servers based on Redhat Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu and Windows.• Maintenance of VMware vSphere environment: ESX, ESXi, vCenter server etc.• Maintenance of EMC VNXe NAS using NFS, CIFS, iSCSI.• Managing Partition, File System, Quota, ACL, LVM, DAS, NAS, SAN etc.• Managing services like SSH, FTP, NFS, Samba, NIS, YUM, RPM, NTP, VNC etc.• Performing VM migration using vMotion, SvMotion, P2V.• Bash shell Scripting and Automation of tasks using crontab.• Discussing and troubleshooting the issues with other teams.• Planning and implementing new projects in IT. Show less

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  Rackspace Technology

  Jan 2013 - Aug 2023

  Linux System Administrator L4

  -Linux server implementation and administration in 24x7 production environment running on Redhat Linux,Oracle Linux, CentOS, Ubutntu.-Operations and administration on hypervisors products - VMware ESX and OVM/OLVM/Ovirt-Designs and deploy Physical/Virtual servers through template/kickstart/Ansible jobs-Leverage technology for service improvement and other initiatives for higher efficiency.-Patch Management and IT Infrastructure Security.-P2V, V2V, legacy OS/Hardware migration, OVM to OLVM migration, DC migration, AWS migration.-Storage and disks management - LVM, ASM disks, multipath, disk clone, disk migration etc.-AWS Cloud Services: EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, CloudWatch, IAM, AMI, load balancer, Auto scaling-DevOps Tools: GIT, Ansible, Jenkins, Maven, SonarQube, Docker, Kubernetes-Review the systems performance and deploy ways to improve efficiency.-Performs incident resolution and Root Cause Analysis (RCA)-Contribute improvement plans based on incidents and challenges.-Plan and execute IT activities with minimum downtime.-Provide weekly status reports to the client, internal stakeholders.-Prepare documents/SOPs/plans for the teams and clients.-Compliance of SLA and Ticketing System.-Taking escalation from team for high severity incidents-Mentor team and conduct interviews.-Automation through Ansible/AWX, Shell script.-Monitoring tool - Nimbus/DXIM, Zabbix Show less

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  Insight

  Aug 2023 - now

  Senior System Engineer