SUMMARY:

• 4+ years’ experience as a Linux Systems Engineer/Administrator, have handled projects in Deploying/Monitoring, and Application on servers LINUX /UNIX servers.
• Configure and build Red hat Linux machines, create user accounts, set Kernel Parameters. System Administration, Create/Manage User Account, Create/Manage File Systems, Hardware/Software Break - Fix, VERITAS, Net Back-Up, Cluster Servers, Patch Management, Performance Management, Excellent Technical and Interpersonal Skills, bilingual.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Red Hat Linux
• OSSEC and NAGIOS monitoring tools
• Apache
• PHP
• SSH
• Shell and MYSQL under LINUX
• Lotus notes
• VMware
• KVM (Kernel based virtual machine). LAMP stack
• Puppet
• Ansible
• Drupal. EC2
• EBS and S3 under AWS
• Remedy BNC.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, ROSLYN, VA

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Built and configured Linux virtual machines on VMware.
• Experienced in AWS testing.
• Carried out application deployment with Jenkins.
• Troubleshot complex Linux OS issues.
• Experienced with Linux file system and user account management
• Experienced with Logical volume creation.
• Experienced with crontab job scheduler.
• Broad experience managing and troubleshooting data warehouse servers and network infrastructure.
• Remedy for ticket coordination.
• Implemented RAID 5 solution with VERITAS volume manager.
• Collected and Indexed Data through splunk.
• Carried out Search and investigated keywords in splunk.
• Correlated and Analyzed Logs with splunk.
• Created Visualize Report in splunk.
• Prepared and exported an enterprise application for deployment.
• Worked side by side with DBA's.
• Deployed applications in clustered environments.
• Configured and maintained System Security using IPTABLES in Linux.
• Configured splunk to Monitor and send Alert.
• Installed VM WARE work station and remote desktop.
• Experienced with SNMP monitoring tools.
• Shell scripting (Bash).
• Administering and troubleshooting Tomcat applications.
• Installed and configured MySQL database on Linux server.
• Experience with Apache Web Server.
• Worked with Load balancers.
• Database experience (MySQL).
• Operating Systems: RedHat Linux, Centos Linux.
• Experience securing systems in a managed government environment including but not limited to Iptables and other firewalls.
• Administering OS patch deployment.
• Experienced working as a DevOps in a testing environment.

Confidential, ALEXANDRIA, VA

Linux Admin/Application Support

Responsibilities:

• Completed install and configuration of LAMP.
• Installed and configured MySQL Database.
• Installed and configured Puppet/Ansible.
• Managed Node requirements on Ansible.
• Installed Control Machine in Ansible.
• Built and configured VM LINUX servers.
• VMWARE virtualization maintained.
• Installed and configured of hardware and OS (RHEL 5 and 6) on servers.
• Provision VM servers for customers.
• Set up AMAZON WEB SERVICES instances.
• Managed AWS instance EC2 and storage EBS.
• Configure KVM on Linux X86 Hardware.
• Administered Splunk.
• Performed kickstart network installation of servers for Linux OS.
• Installed and configured packages, patches on Red hat Linux environments.
• Documented team standard of operations.
• Planned and executed server maintenance.
• Troubleshot application error logs.
• Created and managed user accounts in Linux machines.
• Created and managed file systems and files permissions.
• Server performance monitoring & tuning.
• Server provisioning, procure and managed server growth.
• Installed and configured MySQL servers.
• Installed and configured tomcat and Nginx.
• Installed and configured Global file system.
• Automated backup by rsync.
• Configured MySQL replication between Master and Slave.
• Patching servers.
• Created scripts for Database dumps.
• Fixed Vulnerability findings.
• Server Hardening.
• Log monitoring for Linux servers.
• User account access control.
• Set up SUDO access for DBA and application account access.
• Updated Drupal on production servers.
• Co-ordinated and executed system environment failover.
• Performed regular file archival and purge as necessary.
• Networking experience DNS, SMTP, SNMP, SSH, SSL, FTP, SCP.

Confidential

Linux Admin/Applications Support

Responsibilities:

• Deployment of applications on Linux/UNIX environments.
• Took weekly calls, checked server uptime, troubleshoot errors and escalated where necessary.
• Installed and Configured Nagios for monitoring.
• Post build configurations, checks, updating, security checks, file systems, permissions and packages.
• Daily administration of RHEL which includes installation, testing, tuning, upgrading and loading patches, troubleshooting server issues.
• Managed and monitored processes.
• Coordinated patching of servers and monthly maintenance.
• Configured and installed MySQL databases on Linux servers.
• Administered Drupal and Drush.
• Experienced with Git hub.
• Deployment of War and Ear files.
• Experience with SANs, VMware, and networking equipment.
• Troubleshot network failures.
• Troubleshot application Errors from logs.
• Performed periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Experienced with AWS and installation of Linux machines on AWS.
• Deployment & Configuration Automation experience Blade Logic, and Puppet.
• Provided on-call second tier support based on a rotating on-call schedule.
• Wrote and edited multiple scripts.
• Reviewed new server technologies for Linux environment.
• Worked closely with multiple hardware/software vendors.
• Experience with custom kernels, firewalls and load balancers.