SUMMARY:

5 years’ experience as a Linux systems administrator with strong troubleshooting skills. I have worked extensively on Linux platforms. I have excellent communication skills and a great team player with a fast learning curve. I work well under stressful conditions where speed and accuracy are necessary for mission critical systems. A true believer in paying attention to detail and continuous improvement, am seeking a Linux Administrator position in a goal oriented IT environment that will utilize my existing education and hands - on skills, as well as experience to achieve the organizations objectives.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Linux System Administrator

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Apache webservers for multiple sites using Vhost and proxy Pass modules.
• Troubleshooting critical hardware and software issues on a day to day basis using ticketing system. (Remedy).
• Installed virtual machines on Vpshere and KVM's and using Kickstart to do the O's installations.
• Account management for work place environment users. Set up user accounts; assign privileges and user rights (password management, user account deletion etc). LDAP creation and administration
• Disk management (partitioning) on Rhel and Centos using parted, disk (LVM & RAID)
• Package managemen t using RPM and YUM
• Installed, configured, secured, and patched servers for clients using the latest Linux platform versions of Redhat (6 &7), Fedora, Debian and Centos.
• Experience configuring and utilizing SAMBA, HTTP, DHCP, NFS, NTP, SMTP, VSFTP and DNS (bind). Updated DNS configuration based on the new servers that are rolled out.
• Installed new software releases, system upgrades, evaluate and install patches.
• Performed system backups and recovery.
• Created and cloned Linux Virtual Machines using VMware Virtual Client and migrating servers between ESX hosts.
• Implementing/maintaining/updating security standards and policies
• Interfaces with staff assigned to application development to maintain familiarity with application development
• System performance tuning and System hardening.
• Troubleshoot hardware, software, and network connectivity problems
• Interacts with network and technical operations staff as well as engineering staff
• Experience and working knowledge of PUPPET
• Set up CRON jobs for automated processes
• Played a role in moving all migrating servers to the cloud
• Working knowledge of Amazon Web Service-AWS (IAM, EC2, S3 and Security Groups).
• Advanced knowledge and experience of File system, File permission, installation, and package management, user account management (setting user accounts, deleting users, password management etc.)
• Advanced knowledge and experience in package management
• Advanced knowledge and experience in storage (disk) management using (fdisk, gdisk parted) software management and security management.

Linux System Administrator

Confidential, Beltsville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Work as a Linux administrator contractor in assisting private businesses with configuring mail, DNS, and web servers on windows and Linux platforms. Troubleshoot DNS and network issues by using network tools and monitoring graphs: telnet, ping, dig, netstat, etc.
• Package managemen t using RPM and YUM
• Install, configure, secure, and patch servers for clients using the latest Linux platform versions of Redhat and Centos.
• Installed web servers using Apache.
• Working knowledge of Amazon Web Service (IAM, EC2, S3 and Security Groups).
• Experience working with PUPPET
• Set up CRON jobs for automated processes
• Advanced knowledge and experience of File system, File permission, installation, and package management, user account management (setting user accounts, deleting users, password management etc.) SAMBA, DHCP, NFS, NTP, VSFTP and DNS.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in package management, storage (disk) management, software management and security management
• Kernel update patching and tuning.
• Experience with virtualization and maintaining virtual hosts.
• Monitors user account and security management
• Experience monitoring network using tools as Wireshark and Nagios
• Documented all setup procedures and System related Policies (SOP's).
• Experience building servers from ground up and introducing them to a network

Linux Systems Admin

Confidential, Upper Marlboro, MD

Responsibilities:

• RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management.
• Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs like disabling and enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging, network logging of servers for maintenance, performance tuning, and testing.
• Tech and non-tech refresh of Linux servers which includes new hardware, OS upgrade, application installation, testing.
• Set up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password, resolving permissions issues, user and group quota.
• Gathering requirements from customers and business partners and design, implement and provide solutions in building the environment.
• Installing and configuring Apache and supporting them on Linux production servers.
• Experience in creating disk groups, volumes, increasing volumes.
• Experienced in Troubleshooting critical hardware and software issues and other day-to-day user trouble tickets
• Developed automated processes that run daily to check disk usage and perform clean-up of file systems on UNIX environments using CRON