Aws Linux Systems Administrator Resume
SUMMARY:
Self - Starter, proactive & organized individual seeking to obtain a position that utilizes meticulous Military discipline and Civilian expertise in order to optimize program efficiency. Offering years of hands on experience in providing quality support in the IT industry. Passionate about Systems Performance, Integrity and Security while keeping the machines up and running.
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Languages:
Proficient in: Shell Scripting (bash, sh, csh and ksh)
Familiar with: Python and JavaScript
Software:
Database: MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite, Oracle
Platforms: Cloud-AWS, Red Hat Linux/CentOS 5/6/7, Ubuntu, Windows, x86/x64 Platforms
EXPERIENCE:
AWS Linux Systems Administrator
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Over 4 years of strong IT experience as a System Administrator in LINUX, Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu Linux Operating System with extensive implementation and troubleshooting experience.
- Creating logical volumes, extending the file systems using LVM.
- Perform day-to-day operational maintenance, respond to support requests and incidents, create and deploy application installations/upgrades and security updates running on Linux-AWS Platforms.
- Used Icinga2 & Grafana as a monitoring tool to identify and resolve infrastructure problems before they affect critical processes and worked on Icinga2 & Grafana Event handlers in case of automatic restart of failed applications and services.
- Design and build infrastructure, Install, configure and maintain workstations and servers including web servers in support of business processing requirements, perform software installations and upgrade to Operating Systems (O/S), layered software packages.
- Additionally, maintained in accordance with the company’s established network policies.
- NFS/CIFS filesystem mounting and support for developers
- Investigate and research issues, determine impact, and provide remediation and document Root Cause Analysis (RCA) when required.
- Write and submit weekly, monthly reports.
- Continuously assesses and reports security issues and solutions to management.
- Ensure that all company policies, initiatives and goals are successfully implemented.
- Conduct vulnerability assessments on on-prem and cloud systems.
- Conduct routine hardware and software audits of workstations, develop and maintain, Troubleshooting and upgrade Linux O/S in the Cloud (LINUX-AWS-Platforms).
- Create privatized AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and launched instances, to provide high security and accessibility to applications and databases, so that inbound and outbound network traffic is accessed restricted.
- Monitored System Activities like CPU, Memory, Disk and Swap space usage to avoid any performance issues.
- Experience in upgrading major release version of Red Hat Enterprise 6/7.x, CentOS & Ubuntu.
- Knowledge on DHCP, NFS, LDAP, FTP, Patch management.
- Monitor resources and applications using AWS CloudWatch, including creating alarms to monitor metrics such as EBS, EC2, ELB, RDS, S3 and configured notifications for the alarms generated based on events defined.
Linux System Administrator
Confidential, Lanham, MD
Responsibilities:
- Upgraded in upgrading NetBackup environment from NBU 6.5 to NBU 7.5 and performed MSDP media server installations and troubleshooting.
- Upgraded NetBackup from Version 7.5 to 7.7.2
- Installed and configured NetBackup Opscenter 7.7.2
- Configured and implemented client and Server Dedupe policies on NBU 5230 appliances with impact alleviation and push optimization as guiding forces.
- Monitored and conducted replacement of hot swappable CRUs on NBU 5230 appliances
