SUMMARY:

• Seeking a position in a goal - oriented IT environment that will utilize my existing and hands-on skills and experience to achieve the organization’s objectives.
• 6+ years hands on experience with AWS and Linux systems administration.
• Experience setting up infrastructure within AWS using, VPC, EC2, ELB, S3, and Auto scaling.
• Experience building spacewalk server to apply security patches on all servers in the environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: RHEL 5/6/7, Cent0S 5/6/7, Windows 7/8/10/2012/2016

Servers: HP Proliant DL360 G6/G7, HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen 9 and Dell PowerEdge.

Applications: Spacewalk, Nagios, VMware ESXi 6.0, Apache, Active Directory, Microsoft ExchangeAutomation: Ansible

Storage: LVM and RAID.

Networking: Nic Teaming/Bonding, Firewall, NTP, DHCP, DNS, NFS and TCP/IP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Linux Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems
• Build and maintain Highly Available secure multi-zone AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Implement and maintain monitoring alerts of production and corporate servers using AWS Cloud Watch
• Create and configure VPC by modifying its IP address range, create subnets, and configure route tables, network gateways, and security settings.
• Create security groups and add rules to limit traffic on the required instances.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues in cloud integrations.
• Responsible for patching all production and non-production servers with spacewalk.
• Responsible for infrastructure planning, scaling and monitoring process implementation.
• Design and develop Nagios for infrastructure monitoring.
• Responsible for processing new hire on-boarding and termination off-boarding process.
• Install Redhat 7 virtual machines using Kickstart Servers.
• Install and manage SSL s for secure communications.
• Configure NIC Teaming, Failover, and Load Balancing.
• Troubleshoot network connectivity issues on Windows and Linux servers.
• Automate routine activities and scheduled events using cron jobs.

Confidential, Washington, DC

Linux Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Scale applications and/or its hosting environment to support increases in traffic.
• Leveraged AWS cloud services such as EC2, auto-scaling and VPC to build secure, highly scalable and flexible systems that handled expected and unexpected load bursts.
• Worked on deployment of complex infrastructure using AWS CLI and AWS Console.
• Experience on AWS Data Migration Tools - Snowball, Direct Connect.
• Experience in Designing High Availability, Scalable, Fault Tolerant AWS cloud platform
• Implement firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with applications.
• Install packages with RPM and YUM repositories.
• Create and maintain file systems and perform RAID configuration.
• Manage Linux and Windows servers on VMware vCenter ESXi 6.5.
• Provide guidance on best practices for server configuration, patching and system management.
• Deployment of various files, directories, applications, users using ansible.
• Document support strategies, troubleshooting guidelines, and escalation procedures.

Confidential, MD

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployed RHEL 6 via VMware templates in vCenter.
• Installed and administered postfix and dovecot mail sever.
• Created and managed logical volumes and increasing logical volume size.
• Utilized kickstart and yum to build and patch Linux servers.
• Performed linux performance tuning & troubleshooting, identifying and resolving contention in CPU, memory, networking, disk I/O
• Installed DNS, NFS, and APACHE on newly installed machines.
• Deployed centralized monitoring solutions.
• Writes shell scripts to automate the administrative tasks.
• Monitored over 300+ servers with Nagios XI.
• Created and managed user accounts, security, rights, disk space.
• Troubleshot Linux OS, network, and file system issues.
• Installs Firmware upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning on Unix/Linux systems
• Monitored and performed day-to-day administrative tasks via Remedy ticket System.
• Performed local system administration using a KVM.

Confidential, HANOVER, MD

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployed OEL 6 and Centos 6 virtual machines via Kickstart and manual installation.
• Created apache web servers and provided access and permission to application users.
• Performed Linux OS troubleshooting.
• Installed and configured Logical Volume Manager - LVM.
• Performed Linux system patching and Kernel updates.
• Participated in 24/7 on-call rotation.
• Monitored servers with Nagios.

Confidential, ROCKVILLE, MD

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation of RHEL including scripted installation as well as 'Bare-Metal' builds ensuring team standards are maintained.
• Responsible for maintaining and provisioning user accounts.
• Monitored all Linux servers within the client's enterprise.
• Created and maintained documentation on Linux server builds, policies and procedures, ensuring they are accurate and current.
• Installed and replaced faulty computer parts.
• Tested and managed PC hardware (Motherboards, Ram, CPU, Nic’s).
• Imaged PC workstations via network boot and installation disk.
• Provided customer support, and ensured customer is satisfied.