Kamal Kumar

DevOps Engineer

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India4 yrs 9 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in server administration and incident management.
Proficient in patch management and system hardening.
Extensive experience with Linux and VMware environments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled System Administrator with expertise in Linux and virtualization technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Server AdministrationIncident ManagementSystem AdministrationPatchingTroubleshootingSystems Management

Other Skills

Account ExpansionAnsibleBMC Control-MBMC Helix ITSMBMC Remedy Ticketing SystemBackup & RestoreBlade ServersCentOSChange Data CaptureChange ProcessCitrix ProductsClusterDaily DepositsDaily Operations ManagementDaily Reports

Experience

4 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 7 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Hcl tech

Senior

– Present

Created and managed Incidents (IRs), ERFCs, and IRCs based on customer requirements and production issues such as server hangs, root support, user corrections (with L4 approval), and troubleshooting various server-related problems. Resolved incidents based on priority: o P1 within 10 minutes’ o P2 within 30 minutes o P3 within 8 hours o P4 within 24 hours. Performed daily operational tasks including: o Patch management o Filesystem and mount point creation o Filesystem expansion o LVM creation and management o Removing unused disks from OS. Updated and fixed MQM, and upgraded IBM MQ to version 9.3.0.20. Set ulimit parameters for staging servers. Mounted new NAS volumes as per project requirements. Performed Java vulnerability cleanup to meet security compliance. Enabled and managed cron jobs on new AWS instances. Managed TNS entries including adding, removing, and modifying configurations. Handled RITMs based on customer requirements, such as: o Providing server-related data on demand o Performing data changes and ensuring user communication through standard change processes. Conducted weekly patching activities: o Non-production server patching every Friday o Production server patching every Saturday o Leveraged automation tools like Ansible and Chef for efficient patching. Worked on both standard and ad-hoc patching daily to ensure system stability and compliance. Implemented and administered VMware ESX 6.5, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, and 4.x for running Red Hat Linux servers in development and test environments. Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) and Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM): o Monitoring and managing VCS nodes: checking node status and performing node up/down operations as required. o Verifying the number of nodes configured in the cluster and checking the VCS cluster version. o Communicating daily with project leads to address team challenges and ensure maximum productivity.

Incident ManagementPatch ManagementServer AdministrationVMwareAnsibleJava Security

Foray soft pvt ltd (tata consultancy services)

Senior System Administrator

– Present

Patching: Manual, Suse-manager, BladeLogic, Ansible, Chef-Tool. Daily monitor infrastructure. Daily backup. Log monitoring. New server OS Install & configure. Install & configure all agents according to policy on OS. Checking daily Server checklist and file directory on Linux production servers on Putty. Perform Provisioning, Decommissioning, Hardening activities on Linux servers. Performing OS Patching Activities. Knowledge of ticketing tool like ITSM, BMC Remedy, BladeLogic, Master cell Tool, Linux OS installation and upgradation. Job scheduling using crontab, Partition of Disk using Linux commands. File system creation, extension and reduction using LVM in Linux. Add delete user according to user policies. Change ownership of file and set permissions on file system for owner, group and others. Manage space related issues. Daily health checkup. OS hardening of RHEL 7, 8. Server patching using BladeLogic and Manual. Handling the Server Related issues and configured RAID into the Server. Samba shared drive creation. Ftp user creation. Manual patching. Change creation. Server Migration. VMware 6.5, 6.7, 7.o.3. Samba, FTP, HTTPD configuration. Worked on Cluster Servers (1 Year).

PatchingLog MonitoringOS InstallationJob SchedulingFile System ManagementSystem Administration

Drain doctor east kent

System Administrator

– Present

Providing remote support on Linux server for client. fixing of user tickets and alerts within agreed SLAs with client. Generate daily report. Create Users, Group as per user creation policy. Change ownership of file and set permissions on file system for owner, group and others. Installation and configuration of Linux OS as per client’s requirement. Installation of software and packages by using YUM server and RPM. Managing of partitions and File System using Logical Volume Manager and fdisk command. Add new partitions and logical volumes, swap to a system. File System operations (Create, mount, unmount and remove). Creating & Managing notes groups, renaming groups, deleting groups. Solving password related problems of the users. Troubleshooting Network issues. Installation of software and packages by using YUM server and RPM. Managing of partitions and Logical Volume Manager and fdisk command, File system operations (Create, mount, umount and remove). Solving password related problems of the user. Troubleshooting network issues. Samba shared drive creation. Communicate with Operating system vendor to share the O’s files for the issue troubleshooting. Disk and File system management through Logical Volume Manager and LV Creating, Extending, Deleting. Troubleshooting day-to-day issues, such as login problems, network issues, permission issues DF hung, Read only issues, SSH issues, performance issues etc.

Remote SupportUser ManagementNetwork TroubleshootingSoftware InstallationSystem AdministrationTroubleshooting

Foray soft pvt ltd

Senior System Administrator

– Present

Patching: Manual, Suse-manager, BladeLogic, Ansible, Chef-Tool. Daily monitor infrastructure. Daily backup. Log monitoring. New server OS Install & configure. Install & configure all agents according to policy on OS. Checking daily Server checklist and file directory on Linux production servers on Putty. Perform Provisioning, Decommissioning, Hardening activities on Linux servers. Performing OS Patching Activities. Knowledge of ticketing tool like ITSM, BMC Remedy, BladeLogic, Master cell Tool. Linux OS installation and upgradation. Job scheduling using crontab, Partition of Disk using Linux commands. File system creation, extension and reduction using LVM in Linux. Add delete user according to user policies. Change ownership of file and set permissions on file system for owner, group and others. Manage space related issues. Daily health checkup. OS hardening of RHEL 7, 8. Server patching using BladeLogic and Manual. Handling the Server Related issues and configured RAID into the Server. Samba shared drive creation. Ftp user creation. Manual patching. Change creation. Server Migration. VMware 6.5, 6.7, 7.o.3. Samba, FTP, HTTPD configuration. Worked on Cluster Servers (1 Year).

PatchingLog MonitoringOS InstallationJob SchedulingFile System ManagementSystem Administration