Kiran Kumar Balasubramani
Chennai
Summary
Proven Senior Unix Systems Administrator with a track record of enhancing system efficiencies and capacity management at Accenture Solutions Private. Expert in AIX, HP-UNIX, and Solaris Administration, coupled with a strong foundation in ITIL V3 principles. Demonstrated ability to lead disaster recovery tests and streamline patch management processes, significantly improving infrastructure reliability and performance.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Unix Systems Administrator
Accenture Solutions Private Ltd
11.2014 - Current
- Establish and maintain the status, event and threshold alerting mechanisms for the Core Infrastructure Services
- Track, manage, communicate, and resolve all events, alerts and Incidents related to the Core Infrastructure Services
- Perform regular, or as reasonably required by Company, monitoring and reporting of capacity utilization and efficiencies, and report regularly on utilization statistics, trends, tuning initiatives or resource shortages
- Participate in testing and benchmarking new Infrastructure, software tools, and services prior to deployment into the production environment. Participate in scheduling and performing integration testing reasonably required by Company and/or Third Parties with assistance from Company where required.
- Install and configure software and tools (e.g., server and storage management tools, monitoring, operating systems, and virtualization, SAN Infrastructure software, and Backup and Restore software, etc.)
- Engage and participate in Problem investigations and mitigations
- Manage and participate in disaster recovery tests
- Implement performance and configuration tuning of the Infrastructure in conjunction with capacity management and Change management
- nstall, configure, and update security patches for VMWare ESX, Xen and other virtual hosts
- Automate and perform manual vMotion or other virtual server provisioning as required to maintain availability and performance
- Provide a centralized tool for patch management deployments to operating systems and Define standard patch windows
- Plan and deploy emergency patching at Company’s security team’s request,
- Deploy a Company-provided patch management solution that has the ability to withhold a patch or update from applying to the Company Group’s environment and to support granular deployment exceptions based on the Device function until the patch or update has been tested
- Perform storage Device configuration functions, such as drive configuration including RAID levels, caching, drive types, limits and storage pools, configuration of SAN switch ports, configuration of virtual tape library appliances, etc. to comply with provisioning requests
- On an ongoing basis, enhance processing capabilities and efficiencies through Company Systems tuning and other run-time improvements
- Maintain and update the operational documentation for all operations procedures and services, including maintaining accurate information about all Configuration Items (CIs) in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB) / Configuration Management System (CMS)
- Assist support group(s) with installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of NAS folder and file sharing services
Unix Systems Administrator
HCL Technologies
06.2009 - 10.2014
- Orchestrated integration and communication of software upgrades.
- Conducted routine and emergency maintenance of assigned data center equipment.
- Performed software installations and upgrades to UNIX or Windows operating systems.
- Delivered Tier 2 and Tier 3 support for problem identification, diagnosis and issue resolution.
- Operating, maintaining, and supporting all Equipment and Company Systems Software/Applications, and Infrastructure-related Software and tools, including the necessary backup systems, and operational/security event reporting to comply with the Service Levels.
- Remotely performing and/or supporting all necessary Equipment installation, Equipment maintenance, and Equipment repair to comply with the Service Levels.
- Performing all necessary installation of Software and integration of Company Systems Software, Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) Vendor supported Infrastructure Applications, maintenance of Company Systems Software related to Core Infrastructure in accordance with the Procedures Manual and Changes in accordance with the Change Control Procedures to the operating environment necessary to operate, develop, support and maintain Software and perform all the tasks in compliance with the Service Levels.
- Coordinate with the teams supporting Active Directory, Enterprise Directory, and DMZ to enable policy deployment, configuration, and authentication/authorization of the VMware Horizon/View environment.
- Respond expeditiously to requests from Company for priority script, process and task execution.
- Restart jobs, tasks and scripts that end abnormally and resolve interruptions caused by conditions external to production programs, such as disk or tape issues.
- Provide operational support for data transmission
- Perform periodic and emergency systems maintenance in accordance with procedures established to minimize the impact to Company Group business
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Vel Multitech Engineering College
Chennai04.2008
Skills
- AIX Administration
- HP-UNIX Administration
- Solaris Administration
- Linux Administration
- Microsoft Azure Architecture
- ITIL V3
- Agile Methodologies
- Release Management
- AWS
Certification
- ITIL V3 Foundation
- IBM Certified System Administrator - AIX 7.1
- IBM Certified Systems Expert - High Availability for AIX Technical Support and - V2
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals - AZ900
Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Hindi
Upper intermediate (B2)
Onshore Details
United Kingdom and stayed between 04/2013 to 02/2014
Timeline
Senior Unix Systems Administrator
Accenture Solutions Private Ltd
11.2014 - Current
Unix Systems Administrator
HCL Technologies
06.2009 - 10.2014
- ITIL V3 Foundation
- IBM Certified System Administrator - AIX 7.1
- IBM Certified Systems Expert - High Availability for AIX Technical Support and - V2
- Microsoft Azure Fundamentals - AZ900
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communication Engineering
Vel Multitech Engineering College
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