1. Rajesh Muthu
Contact No: 647-524-1096
Toronto, Canada
SUMMARY:
11 years of experience in the field of Information Technology.
Extensive exposure to Operating Systems AIX, , Redhat Linux , SUSE Linux, Ubuntu, Solaris,
PowerKVM, PowerVM (VIO), PowerHA , Veritas Volume Manager and Veritas Cluster.
IBM Enterprise Storage DS8800, XIV and IBM Storwize V7000.
Attending high severity problems, automation (through scripts), troubleshooting, handled various
projects and transition/transformation of accounts.
Ability to work in demanding and challenging environments.
1 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1 Company: Blair Technology Solutions Inc, Markham
2 Profile : Technical Consultant
3 Period: Oct 2015 – Till Date.
BLAIR Technology solution location in Markham, provides personalized and customized IT
solutions to enterprise and midrange customer and Business partner with IBM, Suse, EMC and
Redhat.
• Administrating IBM Storwize V7000, V3500 Storage. Knowledge in XIV and DS8800 Storage
• Implementing Power KVM, configuring Linux flavors RHEL, SUSE and Ubuntu in Little and Big
Endian mode
• Performing proof of concept for customer requirement. Performed Storix Backup solution for
Linux DR
• Knowledge in Storix Backup solution
• Implementation and Knowledge in Segate Evault Backup and Recovery.
• Certified in POWER8 Scale-out servers Technical Skill
• Certified in IBM Enterprise Storage Technical skill.
• Supporting AIX and PowerVM servers for KIK Custom production from Client Location 3days a
week.
• Auditing customer servers provide solutions for service improvement.
• Knowledge in Virtualization and Cloud technologies IBM PowerVC, PowerVP, PowerKVM, Kimchi
tool
2. 1 Company: IBM India Pvt Ltd.,
4 Profile : System Support Specialist
5 Period: July 2005 – Aug 07, 2015.
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Profile: Advisory I/T Specialist.
Position : Supplementary Contract (IBM India to Canada)
Period: March 2011 – Jan 2015.
Client: IBM Canada – Assigned to National Bank of Canada
Work location : Montreal/Toronto, CA
I worked as Supplementary employee at IBM Canada, based in Montreal then later in Toronto,
supported banking client Nation Bank of Canada. I hold multiple position during this period
Roles & Responsibilities:
• Core System Administration of OE AIX 7.1, 6.1, 5.3, REDHAT LINUX 6, 5 and Solaris 8, 9, 10
hosting Oracle database, SAP and other Banking application, VCS nodes.
• Technical Account Focal for 20 member’s team.
• Security SME – responsible for keeping the customer servers compliant to ISEC standard, In-
depth knowledge in Security controls on UNIX/Linux (OS, sudo and SSH) technical specification.
Focal for IBM Internal/External, Corporate and Customer Audit.
• Pre-Qualification any AIX, Solaris and Linux new build, changes or update in the Environment.
• AIX 6.1, 7.1 and VIO 2.2 server Build using NIM and its Virtualization technologies.
• Redhat Linux 5, 6 server build using kick start
• Redhat Linux Ext4, XFS, Oracle Solaris ZFS and IBM AIX JFS2 LVM administration.
• Solaris 10 zone, spares zone and Solaris 8 branded zone build, ZFS filesystem management
• Redhat Linux 7 XFS filesystem, systemd, firewall-cmd, secure-NFS and selinux context
administration, network teamin/bonding.
• Execute Functional testing of Disaster Recovery Sites. GM and Flash copy for setup between
prod and DR. Planning and setup TSM Backup environment and its DR servers.
• Track missing patches and co-ordinate with customer to Apply CIO, OS patching.
• DST patch monitoring for every day light change.
• Managing Redhat Linux patches using Redhat Satellite server and yum tool
• Performing Root Cause Analysis for major Incidents and performing defect prevention process
for reducing incidents.
• Multipath device management for Storage using SDDPCM, HBA device firmware upgrade.
• Worked in multiple internal project of Bank with different project managers and lead them to
completion within project deadline
• Executed any changes in environment with proper change management process.
• Maintain production and operational environment, fixing any problems that occur within SLA
following Problem and Incident Management.
• Involve vendor to repair and recover from hardware or software failures. Apply performance
tuning based on best practice of OS and application.
3. • Research and recommend innovative, and where possible automated approaches for system
administration tasks with Shell scripting. Identify approaches that leverage our resources and
provide economies of scale.
• Document and maintain installation and configuration procedures and share with the Team.
• Hosting daily huddle to go through ongoing issues and projects.
• Supported on-call in 24X7 for Redhat Linux, Solaris and AIX operating system.
Period: May 2008 – March 2011
Client: Philips Healthcare
Work location: Bangalore, India
Philips Health-care manufacturing health-care machines, its IT hub located in Boston, USA
• Providing Team Lead and remote Level 2 / Level 3 support on 24*7 to US based client
• Supported environment – AIX 5.3, REDHAT LINUX 4, HACMP 5.4, VIO 1.2, 1.5 servers hosting SAP
R3 and Oracle database servers
• Involved in migrate servers from customer datacenter to IBM Datacenter server build, data
migration.
• Planning and Install HACMP 5.5 2 node clustering for SAP R3 servers.
• VCS administration of adding Service Group to 2 node cluster, VxVm filesystem management on
Solaris 9 server, freeze/unfree cluster nodes, recover from Service Group failure.
• Solaris Volume manager administration.
• Implementing ACS backup solution for SAP.
• Planning and implement data migration to XIV storage.
• Servers monitoring and their performance tuning based on vendor best practice
• Performing Root Cause Analysis for major Incidents and performing defect prevention process
for reducing incidents.
• Samba configuration for file sharing with windows servers.
• Work closely with Service Delivery Manager and Customer for new project implementation and
planning.
Period: July 2005 – May 2008
Client: Pfizer Italy, USA - BP-eHUB, Europe - 18 midrange customer
Work location: Bangalore, India
• Providing Level 1/2 support on 24*7 bases on AIX 5.x and Solaris 8, 9 servers
• Managing servers day to day activities, such us resolving severity incidents, implementing
changes, managing tape backup for operating system and filesystem management.
• Patch management of AIX and Solaris servers.
• Managing CIRATS (Compliance activity) remediating server health check violations
4. • Pfizer Italy – travelled to Italy reserves transition of critical SAP customer environment
servers. Worked there with IBM counterpart and customer to build the delivery confidence
in-front of customer. Transitioned the account successfully to India.
• Managing VxVm and VCS cluster for BP-eHUB Client.
Certification
- Red HAT Enterprise Linux 7
RED HAT CERTIFIED SYSTEM ENGINEER (RHCE)
RED HAT CERTIFIED SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR (RHSA)
Trainings
- May 2015 – RHCSA, RHSCE version 7 classroom training at Redhat Training Partner.
- 2008 – VxVm and VCS – IBM provided training.
I’m willing to learn and work in application support along with platform.
QUALIFICATION
Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communication) from Madurai Kamaraj University,
Tamilnadu, India – April 2004
Personal Details:
Communication Address 211-Carabob Court
Scarborough, Ontario – Canada, M1T 3N9
Email rajeshmvrs@gmail.com
Current Resident Status Permanent Resident of Canada.
Contact No (1)-416-915-5012
Linkedin profile
https://ca.linkedin.com/pub/rajesh-muthu/13/996/224