Chiranjeevi Edlapalle

Results-driven professional with extensive experience in enhancing system reliability through automation and proactive monitoring. Expertise in troubleshooting complex technical issues, optimizing infrastructure, and fostering collaborative teamwork to elevate system performance. Proven ability to develop and implement technical strategies that align with business goals while managing budgets and overseeing system maintenance. Committed to staying abreast of emerging technologies to drive innovation and maintain high standards of quality and security across all technical projects.

Develop technical strategy: Create and implement a company's technical vision, ensuring it supports and enhances overall business goals.
Budget management: Develop, monitor, and control budgets for technical projects, systems, and personnel.
Innovation: Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to identify opportunities for improvement and competitive advantage.
Problem-solving: Troubleshoot complex technical issues and guide the team in finding efficient, practical solutions.
Recruitment and development: Hire, train, and mentor a team of technical professionals, such as software developers, systems analysts, and network engineers.
Task delegation: Assign technical responsibilities to team members and monitor their progress to ensure timely completion of projects.
Performance management: Conduct performance reviews and foster a collaborative, high-performance culture within the team.
Project management: Plan, execute, and monitor technical projects from inception to deployment, managing timelines, scope, and resources and Proficiency in project methodologies like Agile or Scrum to manage project lifecycles.
Quality assurance: Oversee the testing and quality control of all technical outputs to ensure they meet required standards.
Risk mitigation: Identify and address potential technical risks and challenges before they impact project delivery.
Leadership: The ability to motivate, guide, and inspire a technical team to achieve project goals.
Communication: Exceptional interpersonal skills to translate complex technical concepts for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• ITIL V4 Foundation Certified
• AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
• Microsoft Certified: Microsoft Azure Administrator - Associate
• RED HAT Certified System Administrator 8
• Certified in AIX 7 Administration
• Certified in High Availability for AIX - Technical Support and Administration - v2
• Certified in Virtualization Technical Support for AIX and Linux

• Using alternate disk installation method when upgrading or installing TL or ML on AIX Operating system and APAR, fix installation.
• Configuring NIM master, NIM resources, installing OS on NIM clients and on Experience in 6.1 and 7.1 OS migrations using NIMADM.
• HACMP - Monitoring servers, Starting and Stopping Cluster Services, moving resource groups across the nodes, increasing file system in cluster file system, synchronizing cluster resources and cluster verification.
• NFS Administration, exporting file system, mounting exported file system, working nfs daemons and fixing any mounting issues.
• Troubleshooting booting related issues, creating boot records, working with system maintenance mode, accessing rootvg in maintenance mode, recovering root password, fixing booting related issues, working with boot list.
• Performance problems determination using vmstat, topas, iostat and finding resolution by analyzing the performance reports.
• Adding the Virtual SCSI and virtual Ethernet adapters to the VIO & LPAR Partitions Configuring Shared Ethernet Adapter (SEA).
• Configuring & Testing MPIO in LPARS AND configuration of NPIV and assigning disks through NPIV adapters.
• LPAR operations including scheduling operations, troubleshooting activation errors, configuring and using system profiles, and activating and shutting down partitions, Power on/off partitions.
• Working different backups (mksysb, savevg, backup) and restore.
• Kernel patching and patching for Solaris update through Live Upgrade (LU) in Solaris servers.
• UFS to ZFS migration as per environment standardization through Live Upgrade (LU).
• Experience on File System Disk management and swap space management.
• User management, Creating and managing user account, groups and access levels.
• Creating Meta devices and Implementing RAID levels (RAID0, RAID1 and RAID5).
• Creating and Removing the Volumes and implementing root file system mirroring and in SVM.
• LDOM server configuration and creating domains (control Domain, Guest Domain) and allocating resources efficiently.
• Working with ZFS file systems create/mount/adding space and supported DR drill activities for AIX, Linux and Solaris.
• Analyze and resolve Control-M system production problems and execute Control-M utilities as required.
• Create reports using The Control-M/EM Reporting Facility.
• Control-M Administration, Installation of Control-M server/EM/agents/CM Modules.
• Power Systems (POWER5, POWER6, POWER7 & POWER8) product and architecture knowledge.
• TSM Upgrade Backup Monitoring and Basic administration.
• OS Installation & upgrade from NIM and administration and dual VIOS setup.
• Experience in implementation and administration of IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC), V7000 & IBM DS8K series.
• Experience with storage management tools like SAN Volume Controller, GUI+CLI, IBM storage manager, DSCLI, Replications, SVC Cluster.

• Brief knowledge in network configuration in Linux OS environment and Tuning NIC Parameter for better performance.
• Linux OS/kernel upgrade planning and implementation through satellite and yum server.
• Rebuilding GRUB, initrd/initramfs. Experience in working with rescue mode and single-user mode to troubleshoot issues related to kernel panic, file systems or kernel parameter misconfigurations, recover root password etc.
• Assist project teams with the creation of file systems, install & configure application software, OS hardening etc. for newly provisioned servers.
• Has experience in Network Bonding in Linux.
• Good exposure in Linux LVM (File system Creation, Deletion, Rename, Increase and Decrease).
• Good knowledge in OS level kernel Tuning (Changing kernel parameter value as per application and database team requirement).
• Patch management in Linux server with YUM utility and working with satellite servers to perform patches and ISCSI configuration.
• Installing and administering different versions Red hat Linux and other flavours.
• Good experience in Configuring new LUN and adding new disk from SAN side and VMware host as well.
• RAW disk allocation for ASM configuration in database side.
• Having good knowledge in Redhat package manager(RPM) for managing OS packages.
• Having good coordination skill between ITIS team (SAN, backup, network, firewall) Patch management in Linux server with YUM utility.
• Building Redhat Physical and Virtual machines and managing them through kickstart installation.
• Fixing various bugs in redhat and suse by working with vendors.
• Server performance analysis using the iostat, vmstat, prstat, top and sar commands and tuning kernel parameters.
• VMware tools installation on Linux virtual machines that will enable proper resource handling by ESX and guest operating systems.
• Has experience in user management using LDAP, NIS, sudoers.
• Manage and continuously develop the standard operation procedures, so that in the event of severe disruptions or disasters, to recover the services with minimum time.
• Plan and test the new releases at minimum of 3 months and update whenever required.
• Assign/Monitor Tasks/Projects to the team members according to the workload and skills.
• Participate in business meetings with various stakeholders.
• Ensure adherence to quality / security standards defined for the engagement Perform analysis, identify top few incidents and work with respective teams/individual to minimize the incidents.

• Deploying new IBM I and P Series VMs in Skytap cloud servers.
• Migrate AIX & LINUX platform servers from ONPREM to Azure Skytap.
• Configured PowerHA cluster in Skytap cloud VMs and Worked with network configuration in Skytap Cloud.
• Resource (CPU/Memory) management - add/remove resources and adding disk space and FS creation in Skytap VMs.
• Data migration from ONPREM to Skytap cloud.
• VM Template creation and import and Troubleshooting issue in Skytap VMs.
• Skytap VM live clone/snapshot, restore & Site level replication.