TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application Servers:: JBOSS, Apache - Tomcat, Apache Webserver

Platforms: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6, Ubuntu, x86 64 platformsCloud Computing: Amazon web services. (AWS) and Azure

Automation/Configuration: Puppet and Ansible

Languages: Bash, Python

Other Techs.: Symantec Net Backup, TCP/IP, SMTP, NFS, FTP, Nagios, BMC Remedy, LVM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, McLean, VA

Cloud Engineer/Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Infrastructure Development and Operations involving AWS Cloud platforms, EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, RDS, SES, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, CloudFormation, ElasticCache, CloudWatch, Subnets, Routing tables, Internet gateways, SNS, DynamoDB, AWS Import/Export and VPC peering
• Supported migration project of Red Hat Servers to the Elastic Cloud. Autoscale to spin over 50 EC2 instances when some are down to create high availability
• Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS.
• Created Highly Available Environments using Auto-Scaling, Load Balancers, and SQS.
• Assigned and managed roles for users and groups by defining policies via Identity and Access Management.
• Expertise in migrating key systems from on-premise hosting to AWS Web Services.
• Setting up private networks and sub-networks using Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and creating security groups to associate with the networks and Setting up scalability for application servers using command line interface.
• Develop concise, detailed documentation for new and existing environments
• Excellent knowledge of Client/Server architecture, OSI layers, TCP/IP networks.
• Good Knowledge of using different protocols like FTP, SFTP, SSH, HTTP, and HTTPS
• Create AMI images of critical EC2 instances as backup.
• Configured Elastic Load Balancers with EC2 auto scaling groups.
• Configuring the Docker containers and creating Docker files for various applications.
• Integrated the Docker containerized applications to get them functional and working.
• Utilize EBS to store persistent data and mitigate failure by using snapshots.
• Designed AWS CloudFormation templates to create custom sized VPC, subnets, NAT to ensure successful deployment of Web applications and database templates.
• Performed S3 buckets creation, policies and also on the IAM role based polices and customizing the JSON template.
• Created monitors, alarms and notifications for EC2 hosts using CloudWatch.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

AWS/Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Build Red Hat Linux server 6 and 7
• Configure and setup Netback-up/DDBR
• LDAP configuration and management.
• Experience with Physical and virtual Decommissioning of Linux servers
• Logical volume partitioning and managements.
• Red Hat Network configuration/networking protocols (DNS, NAT, SSL, TCP/IP, IPv4, UDP)
• Extended Experience with virtualization - KVM and VMware/VSphere.
• Experience using YUM and RPM for package management.
• Create Snaps for management approval required for server downtime/outage.
• Experience on IBM Remedy ticketing system; able to Assign, open and close tickets.
• Experience in Shell scripting (bash) to automate system administration jobs.
• Monitoring the hosts and networks using NAGIOS, HP OpenView and BMC .
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Manage IAM accounts and policies setting up EC2 instances
• Investigate and troubleshoot issues
• Virtual private cloud (VPCs)
• Security groups,
• Elastic load balancer (ELB).
• Setup S3 buckets and the required policies
• EBS and snapshots.
• Cloud front, and Cloud formation.
• Route 53
• RDS.
• Amazon machine Image, IAM, and Auto-scaling.
• Expertise in Installing and Managing LDAP.
• Monitors and tunes appropriate systems to ensure optimum level of performance.
• Performs moderately complex systems/database administration.
• Oversees appropriate level software installations, upgrades and related software packages.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Linux / Cloud Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform server updates, patching, upgrade and package installations using RPM and YUM.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Red Hat Linux servers
• Utilized kick start for systems builds/recovery.
• Manage and/or provide guidance to junior members of the team
• Design, install, administer, and optimize company servers
• Experience with virtualization - KVM, VMware ESXi.
• Scheduling and managing jobs, patches and configuration files with Red hat Satellite
• NFS/CIFS file system mounting and support for developers.
• Experience with JBoss installation, configuration and load balancing
• Apache Web Server and Apache Tomcat hosting
• Apply required security patches within NIST and enterprise guidelines
• Experience upgrading server operating systems, tech refresh, imaging, patch management.
• Acquire permission from stakeholders to change and/or fix their systems.
• Maintain Linux systems serving as firewall, mail server, DHCP and DNS server
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Transition engagement.
• Experience with cloud computing configuration and administration using Amazon Web Services
• Experience with EC2, Glacier, RDS
• Experience configuring VPCs, Auto scaling, Elastic load balancing
• Cloud security using IAM roles.
• Snapshot configuration using EBS snapshots and design of life cycle policies.
• Designing highly available and fault tolerant applications on the amazon architecture
• A good understanding of Route 53, IAM and AMIs
• Web application installation (Apache httpd)
• Experience working of Git and GitHub
• Performance tuning functions on RHEL servers.
• Monitoring System Performance of Virtual memory, Managing Swap Space, Disk utilization and CPU utilization.
• System Configuration and hardening using Iptables, SELinux, TCP Wrappers, ACL on Red-Hat Linux.
• Installing, configuring, hardening and upgrading Linux servers, evaluating needs and installing appropriate recommended OS patches as needed using Yum.
• Follow and document procedures related to systems administration of backup and recovery environment.
• Create, manage and troubleshoot LVM.
• Check alert logs, trace files and file System maintenance
• Experience with Zimbra open source enterprise mail servers setup and troubleshooting of issues related to configuration.
• Utilize puppet for automated configuration, management and deployment.
• Present and guide changes through Remedy change management process
• Support Micro Strategy development team
• Investigate and research issues, determine impact, and provide remediation and document RCA when required.
• Develop and maintain training materials and server documentation for use by internal team.
• Monitor system performance using Nagios and OSSEC.
• Experience with OS-Ticketing and Remedy ticketing system
• Responded to and closed out Remedy tickets.
• Experience with Network configuration/networking protocols (DNS, NAT, SSL, TCP/IP, IPv4, UDP)
• A good knowledge of Programing language/scripting in Python, and shell/Bash scripting.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed RHEL 5/6 on servers and set up volumes
• Installed and Administered patches and updates
• Installed packages on servers.
• Configured and managed Server networking.
• Troubleshoot and resolved TCP/IP networking issues.
• Performed user accounts administration.
• Managed Password aging configuration on servers
• Maintained file systems and host security.
• Performed security hardening on dedicated servers by turning off unused services
• Setup SSH keys for secured key-based authentication
• Monitored and controlled system processes.
• Monitored and Managed Server performance using associated tools.
• Performed logs administration to detect and resolve system errors
• Managed systems storages using LVM
• Configured Apache HTTP and Apache Tomcat Servers
• Utilized cron to schedule and run jobs
• Developed functional and technical documentation
• Work as part of a team and provide 7x24 support when required.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS

• Experience in system design, construction, deployment, administration and support of Unix/Linux servers.
• Strong administration and troubleshooting skills in Linux environment.
• Very confident with Apache, Tomcat, NFS, FTP, and DHCP in Linux.
• Good understanding of network concepts and protocols.
• Ability to understand client requirement and provide the best solution.
• A keen desire to learn and update knowledge base and skill sets to keep abreast of latest technologies and trends.
• Committed team player with strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Centos 6
• Fedora
• Ubuntu
• HTML
• Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 Server
• UNIX Shells (bash)
• MySQL Database
• TCP/IP
• LAN/WAN
• VPN
• VMware
• Nagios, Zabbix
• Cloud Computing Services: Amazon EC2 (virtual servers), Amazon Linux, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, Amazon CloudFront (CDN), AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Amazon CloudWatch (monitoring), AWS CloudFormation (infrastructure templates), Amazon Route 53(DNS management), Amazon VPC (private cloud), Amazon S3 (storage), Glacier, Amazon EBS (persistent disk storage), VPC, RDS