Unix Systems Administrator & Consultant
London, United Kingdom
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- Unix Contractor (EMEA Frame Support SA) at Citi
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- Unix Contractor (Server Builds) at Merrill Lynch
- Unix Contractor (Shift Lead) at Citi
- Unix Contractor (Equities SA) at Citi
- Unix Contractor (Shift Lead) at Citi
- UNIX Systems Administrator (Shift Lead) at Halian Limited (Citigroup Contract)
- Solaris / AIX UNIX System Administrator at GKN Aerospace Engineering Services
- UNIX Support Analyst at Kerridge Computer Company
- Customer Support at Lynx Automotive
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Sarb Panesar’s Summary
• Multi-platform UNIX Systems support and hardware experience
• Positive, future orientated attitude
• Ability to work and communicate with people at all levels
• Strong organisational and customer handling skills
Sarb Panesar’s Specialties:
• Solaris 6, 8 (Certified),10
• RedHat Enterprise Linux
• Veritas Cluster Server
• Veritas Volume Manager and Filesystem
• Solaris Disk Suite / Solaris Volume Manager
• Exposure to SAN Technologies, EMC, Symetrix/Clarion
• Sun Fire 15K & 25K
Sarb Panesar’s Experience
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Unix Contractor (EMEA Frame Support SA)
Citi
(Public Company; C; Financial Services industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Responsible for Platform administration, configuration of new domains and resource allocations for the Global Data Center Migration Project.
This work involves managing the frames on the SunFire 15K / 25K High End Server platform and also LDoms on the SUN T5xxx servers. -
Unix Contractor (Server Builds)
Merrill Lynch
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)
January 2008 — April 2008 (4 months)
Working as part of the Unix build team, I was building and configuring Veritas Clustered Servers on Solaris and Red Hat Linux platforms.
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Unix Contractor (Shift Lead)
Citi
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)
September 2007 — December 2007 (4 months)
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Unix Contractor (Equities SA)
Citi
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)
June 2007 — August 2007 (3 months)
Contracting for the Equities Unix System Admin Team (EQSA) at Citi.
Performing System Admin and project related work, e.g new server builds / hand overs / COB tests & other BAU related sys admin duties on Solaris and Red Hat Linux platforms. -
Unix Contractor (Shift Lead)
Citi
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Financial Services industry)
March 2007 — May 2007 (3 months)
Contracting as a Shift Leader for Sun Managed Services at Citi. I performed work for various different Unix BAU teams, whilst mentoring junior members and ensuring that scheduled work was prepped and completed on time.
This also involved problem queue management - hardware issues/ system downs / network related issues / user administration on NIS+ / releases for application development teams into production / assisting with disaster recovery - rebuilding servers / performing restores / storage related work - addition of SAN disks from the server side / increasing file-systems / Liasing with Oracle/Sybase DBA's to perform releases, or deal with issues. -
UNIX Systems Administrator (Shift Lead)
Halian Limited (Citigroup Contract)
(Banking industry)
April 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 11 months)
Responsible for working as part of a “SUN Managed Services” team of UNIX Systems Administrators at Citigroup, a Tier 1 Investment Bank in Canary Wharf. This service curtails providing “business-as-usual” system administration and production support services on a 24x7x365 basis across the EMEA region.
My duties range from anything between supporting break/fix situations such as detecting, triaging and resolution of Solaris operating system and storage incidents. Providing UNIX administration support for any application specific incidents or requests, liaising with different teams and passing any issues to the relevant party to resolve or provide guidance.
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Solaris / AIX UNIX System Administrator
GKN Aerospace Engineering Services
(Public Company; Aviation & Aerospace industry)
January 2002 — February 2005 (3 years 2 months)
Working in a small team of 4, managing 5 sites, I was responsible for first, second and third line development, support and administration of the UNIX infrastructure comprising of Solaris and AIX.
My duties included the installation and configuration of hardware and software on Sun E450, V240, Ultra 10/60, Sun Blade 2500, IBM H50 and IBM 275 machines. I also performed other system administration duties, such as backups and restores, managing VxVM file-systems. My other duties included providing helpdesk support, problem solving, analysis and fault management.
My main achievements were the upgrading of Solaris 2.6 to 2.8 and CATIA Design software, in-line with our main customer Airbus UK. This incorporated projects comprising Airbus A400M and A380 design.
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UNIX Support Analyst
Kerridge Computer Company
(Automotive industry)
February 1998 — December 2001 (3 years 11 months)
I worked as a UNIX support engineer and remotely diagnosed hardware failures and operating system faults (AIX, HP-UX, UnixWare) on servers located at our customer sites.
This included resource and performance issues affecting the Kerridge software application. Identifying and tuning UNIX kernel parameters, application backup failures, hard disk failures on Volume Managed systems (LVM, Veritas), UNIX Sendmail problems, System down scenarios, file system corruption as well as System Administration guidance and shell scripting. I was also the primary point of contact and looked after our HP-UX customer base (20 key sites) and liaised with HP to solve their UNIX issues.
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Customer Support
Lynx Automotive
(Automotive industry)
1996 — 1998 (2 years )
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