Saic Work Values

Daily Duties at Saic:

• Perform daily monitoring of Sun Solaris and Red Hat Linux environment for issues and failures. • Support Red Hat Linux GFS (Global FileSystem) • Perform IV&V request forms and CCR form requests (change controls) to have critical work performed. • Performed a migration of an E6900 with 11 Oracle databases to a pair of M8000’s clustered with VCS and VCFS (VRTS SFCFS). After this went successful I performed the same migration (cutover) to the Production environment. • Added new services to the cluster and put in cluster control. • Create and maintain 21 Solaris Zones. • Built a Disaster Recovery (Contingecy) M8000 cluster for the above database server. • Perform daily troubleshooting of client issues. • Perform Daily SASBI application troubleshooting for the SASBI application team. • Solely upgraded SASBI to a new Veritas three node cluster in three environments on Sun T5140’s. • Automated SASBI startup on the Solaris environment. • Keep sudoers file updated accurately in Red Hat and Solaris. • Performed Solaris quarterly patch roll-outs on all Sun Solaris equipment. • Wrote a data gathers script to retrieve live data on a daily basis from servers. • Perform routine tasks such as, adding accounts, creating filesystems (volumes), building servers. • Research security vulnerabilities presented to me from Security team. • Work hand and hand with clients to get their apps updated, patched, and tuned. • Create cluster filesystems on both Solaris and Red Hat. • Perform daily Remedy requests as they arrive. • Participate in all systems meetings to give as accurate information and possible resolutions. • Perform performance based measures/trending on a monthly basis. • Create Technical and Customer Notices before working on servers per SOP. • Troubleshoot backups on UNIX (Solaris/Red Hat) servers. • Installing Application Software on UNIX (Solaris/Red Hat) servers. • Upgrading the OS and Installing Latest OS Patches on UNIX (Solaris/Red Hat) servers. • Writing shell scripts to automate system Administration tasks. • Performing daily maintenance routines on all UNIX Red Hat and Solaris servers • Perform root cause analysis on production issues. • Created and maintained volumes with Veritas and LVM on Solaris and Red Hat servers. • Work closely with other departments to co-ordinate production and non-production changes in the environment.Starting April 2010, became the backup to the TeamLead. This entailed covering for him when he was out, or unable to attend certain meetings. This has more than doubled my workload, but I have still met all deadlines. o Attended 8:30am priority meeting with the COTR daily as needed. o Attend the 9:00am Standup meeting with our PM daily as needed. o Attend weekly CIB meeting without vendors. o Enforced policy and procedure in the Systems group. o I review the Performance Measures to show the Government how productive we are on a monthly basis, and to show how we measure up to the SLA’s put in place by them. o Manage the SA’s on-call list for the Sytems Team (DBA’s, VMS, UNIX, WINDOWS, and SAN personnel) o Manage and maintain inventory of all the Hardware that this contract is responsible for, and the completed status of what is running on each of them for all servers. This data is collected and verified daily to ensure accuracy. All the SA’s and the Senior Architect utilize this database extensively, as this is the most accurate source of information about the servers we have. o Manage high priority projects such as the CPEX project. This contains Title26 data and must be coordinated carefully. o Approve CCR’s for Systems Team for critical work. o Monitor and update IV&V’s/Teamtrack tasks. Perform Level-1 reviews and approve where necessary. o Monitor REMEDY to be sure that we assign any incoming ticket to an engineer within 15 minutes to meet our SLA. ENVIRONMENT: Solaris 8, Solaris 9, Solaris 10, Red Hat Linux, MS Windows

What they like about Saic:

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Tags

linux, Redhat, Solaris, IT Manager, Veritas Cluster, ITIL V3, LVM

Skills

Bash, RHEL6 Certified, RHEL 7 Certified, Solaris 2.3, 2.5, 2.8 Certified, Trouobleshooting, Veritas Cluster, Remedy

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