CAREER PROFILE

• Highly motivated and experienced Linux Engineer with a strong background in a wide variety of systems support and solution based IT services for Linux and Windows administration. Versatile with process re - engineering and strong coding/scripting credentials.
• Exceptionally skilled in server monitoring, complex systems configurations, troubleshooting, and maintenance of operating systems.
• Solid applications & middleware technology background, and a strong advocate of team work, performance, excellence and continuous self-improvement.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY AND EXPERTISE

Operating Systems: Red hat Linux, Solaris and Centos Windows Server 2008, 2012 and 2016

Hardware: Dell R610, R710, R810, R910, PE2950, PE2970, PE1850, PE1800, M610, GX-1, Sun V880, x3-2l, x4-2l, x4150

Software: Veritas Netbackup, Volume Manager, Veritas File System, Glpi, Cacti, Nagios, MS Office, Visio, Procussion, Jira, Confluence, Pitneybowes Jenkins and WebLogic.

Servers/Services: KVM, VMWare, SAS, DNS, NFS, SSH, Telnet, Apache, DNS, Nslookup, Netstat, Proxy, DB, File/FTP, NetBackup, MySQL, PostegreSQL, Puppet, Ansible, TCP/IP and TCP DUMP.

VI Editor File Systems: ext2, ext3, ext4, Fat, XFS, GlusterFS ZFS, NTFS, vfat, NFS and SMB.

VERITAS (Volume Manager), VERITAS SRVM VERITAS Clustering. AWS such as EC2, S3, ELB, ALB, CloudWatch, RDS, and Certificate Manager Authentications LDAP, Active Directory (AD), Kerberos and PAM. SAN and NAS Storage

DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Splunk, Git, Github and MySQL Workbench.

HIGHLIGHTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Linux Systems Engineer / Linux Server & DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Leveraging ansible and puppet for job automation and integration in a large scale environment
• Configuration management and utilization of Jenkins for workflow optimization and auto deployments in a complex environment
• Heavy use of SQL queries for troubleshooting.
• Constantly using Splunk to monitor logs files on every systems.
• Build, maintain and configure Red Hat Linux systems within Amazon Web Services and VMware environments.
• Work with customers to define technical solutions that meet their requirements and industry best practices.
• Introduce efficiencies around server processes and procedures.
• Train and mentor junior system engineers.
• Work closely with internal development teams to create scalable solutions and deploy applications.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills. Must assist, guide, and share information with technical and non-technical personnel.
• Monitor system health and promptly respond to outages to support aggressive uptime goals.
• Manage ticket queue for Tier 3 support
• Participate in rotating on-call requirements.
• Install configure and maintained Drupal
• Other job-related duties as assigned .

Confidential, Silver Spring

Linux Systems Engineer & Application Support Specialist.

Responsibilities:

• Supporting Tomcat, Jboss, & Oracle WebLogic Application Servers in a DEV, TEST, PROD environments.
• Installing Red Hat Linux using kickstart and applying security polices for hardening the server based on the company policies.
• Creating and cloning Linux Virtual Machines, templates using RHEV and VMware.
• Performing capacity analysis, monitoring and controlling disk space usage on systems.
• Monitoring system activities and fine-tuning system parameters and configurations to optimize performance and ensuring security of systems.
• Deploy EAR WAR RDF and SQL file using WebLogic Jboss Tomcat ApExand CLI
• Designing Firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with application
• Doing Heap and Thread Dump using Jmap tool.
• Perform and monitor daily server backup and weekly off-site tape rotation
• Configure and supporting Jira, Confluence, Pitney-Bowes, InPort and more.
• Setting up network environments using TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, SNMP, VSFTP and DHCP
• Setting up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password, resolving permissions and access related issues via ACL
• Assisted project management team with design issues, trouble-shoot technical issues, rotating on call pager, install OS patches, NFS mounts and Auto mount.
• Strong scripting experience in either SHELL, PERL, or similar scripting language
• Linux security (web and network)

Confidential, Washington, DC

Linux Administrator.

Responsibilities:

• Installing Red Hat Linux using kickstart and applying security polices for hardening the server based on the company policies.
• Experience with UNIX server environments, including experience with Solaris, Red Hat and AIX.
• Creating, cloning Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware
• Performing capacity analysis, monitoring and controlling disk space usage on systems.
• Monitoring system activities and fine-tuning system parameters and configurations to optimize performance and ensuring security of systems.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills. Adaptable and able to learn quickly
• Designing Firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with application
• Setting up network environments using TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, SNMP, VSFTP and DHCP
• Setting up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password, resolving permissions and access related issues via ACL
• Researched the market to gain information on the latest updates available and recommended accordingly.
• Assisted project management team with design issues, trouble-shoot technical issues, rotating on call pager, install OS patches, NFS mounts and Auto mount.
• Strong scripting experience in either SHELL, PERL, or similar scripting language

Confidential

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured all the Linux servers in the network per specifications of clients.
• Monitored regularly and performed troubleshooting on servers as well as tested and installed the latest software on server for end-users
• Performed daily maintenance routines on servers, monitored system access, managed file space and tuned the system for optimum performance
• Cluster management and scripting for file & log retrieval/collection/monitoring in Perl, CSH, and BASH.
• Network infrastructure trouble-shooting and problem correction.
• Set up FTP, NFS, Samba and Apache servers for file sharing.
• Configured Volume Groups and Logical Volumes for efficient storage management.
• Setup NIS maps, send mail, add user ids, performance tuning, installed 3rd party software, installed and configured Ethernet network interface boards, setup file systems & mirrors with VERITAS.
• Setup a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) stack to deploy MediaWiki for technical documentation amongst the team.

Confidential

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Created, installed and configured Linux and Windows physical and Virtual Machine using VMware ESX 3 and 4.
• Supporting Unix/Linux and Windows servers
• Account management on the Centos and RHEL 4 and 5 server
• Web and Application support using the CLI
• Configured Volume Groups and Logical Volumes for efficient storage management.
• Monitoring Unix/Linux servers storage spaces, memory usage, system backup, load average and logs
• Installed, configured and maintained OpenProject ticketing system.
• Installed, tested and configured new workstations, peripheral equipment and software
• Monitored regularly and performed troubleshooting on machine as well as tested and installed the latest software on machine.
• Monitor Service Desk for tickets assigned to the queue and process first-in first-out based on priority
• Modify configurations, utilities, software default settings, etc. for the local workstation
• Utilize and maintain the helpdesk tracking software
• Document internal procedures
• Assist with onboarding new users
• Ensure each workstation has a computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, hard drive, and any additional specialized equipment
• Perform timely workstation hardware and software upgrades as required
• Assign users and computers to proper groups in Active Directory
• Manage PC setup and deployment for new employees using standard hardware, images and software

Confidential

IT Help Desk Support

Responsibilities:

• Created, installed and configured Linux and Windows physical and Virtual Machine using VMware ESX 3 and 4.
• Supporting Unix/Linux and Windows servers
• Account management on the Centos and RHEL 4 and 5 server
• Web and Application support using the CLI
• Configured Volume Groups and Logical Volumes for efficient storage management.
• Monitoring Unix/Linux servers storage spaces, memory usage, system backup, load average and logs
• Installed, configured and maintained OpenProject ticketing system.
• Installed, tested and configured new workstations, peripheral equipment and software
• Monitored regularly and performed troubleshooting on machine as well as tested and installed the latest software on machine.
• Monitor Service Desk for tickets assigned to the queue and process first-in first-out based on priority
• Modify configurations, utilities, software default settings, etc. for the local workstation
• Utilize and maintain the helpdesk tracking software
• Document internal procedures
• Assist with onboarding new users
• Ensure each workstation has a computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, hard drive, and any additional specialized equipment
• Perform timely workstation hardware and software upgrades as required
• Assign users and computers to proper groups in Active Directory
• Manage PC setup and deployment for new employees using standard hardware, images and software

Confidential

IT support

Responsibilities:

• Provide remote support for the District offices of the congressional districts.
• Setting up Interns with Windows OSX and Linux user profiles, authenticating and configuring their network accounts on the Windows systems OSX systems and Linux server.
• Create and support company mail and applications servers.
• Monitoring Service Desk for tickets assigned to the queue and processing tickets in order of priorities.
• Part of the migration team, which was responsible for installing Linux Windows Severs new servers.
• Setup a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) server also install and maintened Redmine ticketing system.
• Ensure all requests coming in on emails, phones and conversations is logged in the support system
• Feedback any important client information to Client Services Team and/or Technical Support Team
• Log any bugs or feature request in bug and feature handling system