Pavan Tulasi
Morley,United Kingdom
Summary
An experienced Senior UNIX/Linux Specialist with proven track record spanning well over a decade of administering and enhancing complex UNIX-based systems, which leads to enriched technological landscapes. Takes ownership for major projects such as complex data centre transformations and system integrations, and operates effectively across diverse industry sectors including Telecoms, Healthcare and Financial Services to drive forward new implementations and business change. Technically astute, possesses comprehensive knowledge of a wide-range of tools/technologies such as Solaris, AIX, Power Systems, VIOS, PowerHA, GPFS, HP-UX/Redhat/Oracle & SUSE Linux Administration and IBM/SUN & HP Servers, utilises these capabilities to design, develop, maintain and optimise business critical corporate IT services.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work history
UNIX/Linux Platform Engineer
Lloyds Banking Group
04.2022 - 08.2025
- Working on Redhat 6,7,8,9/Ubuntu Linux Delivering into AWS EC2 environments for business.
- Redhat satellite configuration and deployments, OS patching and upgrades.
- VMware, vSphere, ESXi Administratoin
- Vulnerability management (Qualys), Docker image scanning, Cloud platform security and IAM
- Veritas VXVM & VCS installation, configuration and administration
- System installation, configuration, and maintenance, Network configuration and troubleshooting, Security hardening, System performance monitoring and tuning and SELinux
- Ansible tower and working on Playbooks
- AIX, NIM, VIOS, HMC, P7, P8 Administration
- Working on AIX 7.1 to 7.2 and 7.3 migrations
- Deploying the infrastructure using terraform templates/modules
- Redhat/Suse Linux patching, LVM, Snapshots, Volumes administration.
- Build Grafana charts, Dynatrace metrics, SQL, PostGreSQL, Splunk Log onboarding
- Building docker images and deploying them to microservices.
- Jira, Confluence, Snow, Bamboo, Nexus & Docker administration
- Working experience on GitHub, GitLab, Ansible, AWS, Terraform and Jenkins.
- Remote (Contract)
Linux/UNIX Consultant
HMRC
06.2020 - 12.2022
- Redhat Linux deployments and administration
- Writing Ansible playbooks and config management of Linux hosts.
- Physical and virtual servers installation and configuration
- AIX 7.1 & 7.2 deployments via NIM server and VIOS administration
- Kickstart based deployments, worked on Ansible playbooks
- Linux vulnerability management, Qualys keys configuration
- Worked on AWS – deployed Linux based EC2 instances, Building new security specific AMIs.
- VCS, VxVM administration on Linux, HP-UX
- AIX 5.3, 6.1, VIOS, NIM, PowerHA, HMC deployments and administration
- Worked on Terraform to deploy AWS resources.
- Jira, Confluence, Snow, Bamboo, Nexus & Docker administration
- RHEL6/7/9 deployments and administration
- Designing HLD/LLDs for projects
- SC Cleared
Platform Engineer
Home office
01.2022 - 03.2022
- Working on AWS EKS, ECS, ECR, EC2 and RDS, ELK stack, Lambda, Redshift.
- Jenkins as CI/CD, developing new Jenkins/Circle CI pipelines using groovy
- Using Terraform to deploy the AWS infrastructure, using terraform modules
- Redhat, Suse, Amazon Linux deployments and administration
- Load Balancing & Traffic Management: AWS ALB/ELB, GCP Load Balancing
- Ansible playbooks, Linux Administration, ELK stack (Prometheus/Grafana/Dynatrace)
- Managed endpoint security tools and antivirus solutions, maintaining 99.9% coverage across the corporate environment
- Built and maintained Linux security hardening standards for 500+ servers
- Optimized network performance and security policies, enforcing Zero Trust models and micro-segmentation.
- Building GCP cloud services, GKE, API gateway and compute engines
- Bitbucket for source and version control
- Release management and supporting developers from Dev to Prod deployments
- Implemented AWS security best practices across 100+ EC2 instances and containerized applications
- Implemented AWS WAF rules and configurations, successfully blocking 99% of malicious web traffic
- Gitlab, Jfrog Artifactory, SonarQube, Jira, Confluence, Docker, Vault and Kubectl.
- Solaris 9, 10 Builds and Administration including GDOMs LDOMs.
- Atlassian tool configuration such as Bamboo, Jira, Confluence running on PostgeSql
- Contract – SC Cleared
Sr UNIX Specialist
Lloyds Banking Group – LBG
02.2018 - 06.2020
- Leading UNIX/Linux projects and governance with onshore and offshore teams.
- RHEL6/7 deployments, Administration
- RHEL LVM administration, LVM mirroring and migration.
- SAN/LUN management.
- VMWARE, Vcentre administration, creating VMs and snapshots
- Working in 24/7 UNIX/Linux support, managing incidents and changes on production servers
- Veritas VCS/VXVM configuration and administration
- AIX/HP-UX deployments, configuration and performance tuning.
- Performance tuning and OS hardening.
- Worked on Terraform templates, Docker Images and Ansible playbooks
- HPSA administration, packaging, defining a policy and deployments via HPSA.
- Working closely with DBAs, Architects, Operations and other Application teams, Including offshore team and management.
- Service now (SNOW), Connect Direst, Cyberark, AXIS, HP SM7 expertise. Working knowledge on Veritas Netbackup, Team Quest, JiRA/Confluence, Tivoli work load scheduler for batch jobs.
- Contract
Sr UNIX Consultant
HSBC Plc
01.2017 - 12.2017
- Redhat Linux 6/7 deployments via Kickstart, patching, Administration, Puppet configuration and administration.
- Linux OAT testing, Linux DR and Gateway testing.
- HPSA tooling deployment on Linux Physical and Virtual servers.
- AIX patching and upgrades.
- VCS, VxVM, VMware ESXi configuration and support
- OS deployments, OS hardening, OS Patching, LVM management.
- Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, HPSA administration
- NIM server administration, NIM builds, HMC and VIOS administration
- Contract
Sr UNIX Specialist
Lloyds Banking Group – LBG
01.2014 - 12.2016
- Operate within Signature Project Team and play a lead role in multiple initiatives including data centre migrations, systems upgrade and UNIX infrastructure development.
- Handle NIM server build & administration and AIX/HP-UX/Linux OS migrations. Work with advanced change management tools such as BMC Remedy, AXIS and HPOV to manage incidents and new amendments.
- Key Achievements:
- Actively participated in a number of project implementations and upgrades including:
- Upgrades: AIX, Veritas version 5 to version 6.x.x, Oracle upgrades from 10g to 11g on AIX & HP-UX 11 iv2 to 11iv3, VIOS/HMC code and introduction of IBM Power8 frames.
- Data Centre Transformation Programme: Handled AIX and HP-UX servers.
- Redhat Linux deployments using kickstart and Puppet and administration
- Linux upgrades, patching, security hardening, Oracle upgrades
- Storage migration project involving AIX, Linux and HP-UX from Hitachi USP to VSP.
- GPFS cluster implementation and administration
- Contract
Team Lead UNIX services
British Telecom (BT) (Tech Mahindra)
03.2010 - 01.2014
- Acted as Team Lead for five AIX, Linux and HP-UX engineers and responsible for the entire system lifecycle from initial planning, design, deployment, RFO testing and performance tuning, through to complex support.
- Worked as PM for the deployment team (Interim)
- Held pivotal roles within major projects such as migrations and data centre transformations. Took ownership for the AIX & HP-UX resources and safeguarded delivery within critical timescales.
- Performed routine administration, upgrades and maintenance on a wide range of technologies including NIM, Power Systems, HACMP cluster installations, IBM Hardware Management Console and Solaris 10.
Education
NVQ Level 1 -
JNRV
01.2001 - 01.2005
Skills
- AIX, Linux Systems Administration
- Operating within ITIL Framework
- Technical Project Management
- VIOS, HACMP, HMC, GPFS, LPAR & VMware/Linux Virtualisations
- Data Centre Migrations & Decommissions
- Technical Team Leadership
- Creating VMs and administration on VMware
- Solaris deployments and administration
- Driving Continuous Improvements
- Backup Software
- IBM/SUN/HP Servers
- Redhat/SUSE Linux Administration
- SANStorage Configuration/Administration
- Oracle Database Administration
- Automated OS Builds
- Routine Support & Maintenance
- AIX 53, 61 & 71 deployments using NIM and strong administration skills
Certification
- Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science
- IBM Certified Specialist - System p Administrator
- Certified IBM Virtualization Technical Specialist for AIX & Linux
- IBM PowerHA Certified Specialist
- Sun Certified Solaris 10 System Administrator
- HP-UX 11iv3 certified Administrator
- ITIL Certified Professional
- AWS Certified solutions architect – Associate.
Languages
6
Languages
English
Timeline
UNIX/Linux Platform Engineer
Lloyds Banking Group
04.2022 - 08.2025
Platform Engineer
Home office
01.2022 - 03.2022
Linux/UNIX Consultant
HMRC
06.2020 - 12.2022
Sr UNIX Specialist
Lloyds Banking Group – LBG
02.2018 - 06.2020
Sr UNIX Consultant
HSBC Plc
01.2017 - 12.2017
Sr UNIX Specialist
Lloyds Banking Group – LBG
01.2014 - 12.2016
Team Lead UNIX services
British Telecom (BT) (Tech Mahindra)
03.2010 - 01.2014
NVQ Level 1 -
JNRV
01.2001 - 01.2005
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