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Sai Prasanna Nakkala

Sai Prasanna Nakkala

Senior Unix Specialist
Berlin

Summary

Experienced Unix Specialist with 5 years in Redhat and Solaris. Troubleshooting system booting issues, Package Patch management, Security and Compliance. Experience in configuration, monitoring and administration of Redhat 5/6/7/8 and Solaris 10/11. Installation of patches, Hardware, software's and firmware upgrades. Ability to handle multiple tasks and work independently as well as team member.

Overview

2025
2025
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Unix Specialist

HCL India Pvt. Ltd
Hyderabad
06.2023 - 03.2024

Unix System Administrator

Kyndryl India Pvt. Ltd
09.2021 - 06.2023

Unix System Administrator

IBM India Pvt. Ltd
Hyderabad
05.2019 - 09.2021

CLIENT

STATE STREET CORPORATION

Key responsibilities:

  • Administering 10,000+ Linux/Solaris servers to provide remote support across the globe.
  • Experience on RHEL5/6/7/8,SUN Solaris S10/S11
  • Environment: DEV/UAT/BUAT/PROD/DISA.
  • Performing Patch upgrades and package installation on Linux server using YUM and RPM.
  • Managing servers with VMware VC,HP-ILO and Avocent Ds-View, Aurora etc.
  • Handling priority issues and resolving the issues as per the SLA.
  • Performance monitoring of CPU,Memory and Disk utilization.
  • File system/Space management like creation/extend as per Change Management Policy.
  • Password reset/recovery using single user mode and maintenance (CTRL)issue.
  • Coordinating with vendor support teams and DC support teams to check hardware status and fixing the issues.
  • Configuring additional swap, root and var space asper requirement.
  • VERITAS cluster management using VCS in GUI and CLI mode.
  • Troubleshooting issues like booting, SSH, File system,IP configuration etc.
  • Creation of file systems and checking the NFS automount file systems functionality.
  • Backups and restoration using rear,tar,zip.
  • As part of Risk and Compliance activities, performing security health checks in regular intervals to ensure that servers are compliant.
  • Patching the servers using Ansible Automation tool for Linux servers from ansible tower server.
  • An initiative-taking and personable UNIX system administrator and business administrative professional with proven Leadership skills and administrative experience in several departments.
  • Maintained flexible schedule and responded to after-hours and weekend emergencies.
  • Analyzed complex project server issues and worked on large enterprise and business-critical applications.

Education

Master of Science - DATA SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF EUROPE IN APPLIED SCIENCES
Potsdam, Germany
04.2024 - 01.2026

Bachelors of Technology - ECE

SPHOORTHY ENGINEERING COLLEGE
HYDERABAD, INDIA
01.2014 - 01.2018

Skills

  • Operating Systems: SunSolaris10/11, REDHATLINUX(RHEL-5/6/7/8)

  • Hardware: HP, DELL, IBM, SPARC

  • Environment: DEV/UAT/BUAT/PROD/DISA

  • Firmware Upgrades: Gen9, Gen10

  • Tools: Putty, WINSCP, SSH, VCS

  • Ticketing Tool: Service Now

  • Configuration Tools: Ansible Towers - North America, EMEA & APAC towers of all environments

  • Cluster: Veritas cluster Storage LVM, VXVM,ZFS

  • Services : Oracle DB, mqm,was/httpd, sybase, NFS, Cloakware, samba, NDM,

SQL, Python, AWS, Machine Learning, Data Visualization

Certification

Certified as Amazon Web Services Cloud practitioner

Timeline

Master of Science - DATA SCIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF EUROPE IN APPLIED SCIENCES
04.2024 - 01.2026

Unix Specialist

HCL India Pvt. Ltd
06.2023 - 03.2024

Certified as Amazon Web Services Cloud practitioner

03-2022

Unix System Administrator

Kyndryl India Pvt. Ltd
09.2021 - 06.2023

Unix System Administrator

IBM India Pvt. Ltd
05.2019 - 09.2021

Bachelors of Technology - ECE

SPHOORTHY ENGINEERING COLLEGE
01.2014 - 01.2018

CLIENT

STATE STREET CORPORATION
Sai Prasanna NakkalaSenior Unix Specialist