SUMMARY:

• Diligent Linux System Administrator with almost four years of extensive expertise monitoring, configuring, installing, and maintaining Linux environments. Looking to contribute and collaborate with other technical professionals to optimize efficiency, productivity, and business functionality.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Monitoring
• Installation
• Configuration
• Maintaining
• Project Management
• User Administration
• Automation
• Documentation

Customer Service

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Linux Administrator

Confidential, Elkridge, MD

• Install and configure a wide variety of software products such as RedHat, Fedora, VmWare and Ubuntu Servers.
• Serving as a System Analyst, responsible for analyzing and designing servers, virtualization or Cloud Infrastructure solutions required by the organization.
• Test, maintain, and monitor computer programs and systems, including coordinating the installation of computer programs and systems.
• Develop and place appropriate support tools for centralized user management, server management, yearly patching and configuration management.
• Develop, document and revise system design procedures, test procedures, and quality standards.
• Define the goals of the system and devise flow charts and diagrams describing logical operational steps of programs.
• Designed, implemented and maintain all corporate infrastructure consisting of five linux servers, five desktop workstations and various small business network gear including firewalls, routers, Wi - Fi AP's, switches, etc.
• Create and document procedures to automate or simplify many daily tasks including backup.
• Implement NTP and BIND DNS servers for lab of 60+ systems which previously relied on hosts files for name resolution.
• Address customer issues via standard process such as Incident management, ticketing tools change management, troubleshooting and problem management.
• Worked extensively with Active Directory Services, Web Services (IIS Servers), DNS, DHCP, SQL Database Servers and Business Application Servers.
• Develop procedures for installation and configuration of software products.
• Maintain SSH and FTP servers on the DMZ, responsibilities included monitoring servers for unauthorized connections and blocking access to their hosts.
• Strong experience on configuring the scripts for services using shell scripting in Nagios.
• Utilize Logical Volume Manager for the management of volumes including creation of physical and logical volumes on Linux server.
• Install and configure SSH to enable secure access to the servers.
• Perform root cause analysis based on reported incident and initiate remediation process.
• Responsible for continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) process implementation-using Jenkins along with python and shell scripts to automate routine jobs.

Linux Administrator

Confidential, Severn, MD

• Installed, Configur ed and upgraded of Linux 5 to Linux 7 operating systems.
• Introduces new servers to the network, maintaining and troubleshooting network connectivity, firewalls and DNS hostnames resolution.
• Serving as a System Analyst, responsible for analyzing and designing servers, virtualization or Cloud Infrastructure solutions required by the organization.
• Test, maintain, and monitor computer programs and systems, including coordinating the installation of computer programs and systems.
• Assisted customers in identifying security risks to their applications and implementing appropriate data security procedures and products.
• Setup NFS and Samba File sharing applications on Linux servers.
• Performed various system administration task including adding users, creating and configuring file systems.
• Perform ed patching, software and hardware upgrades, troubleshooting and problem resolution.
• Give sudo access to users to perform limited administrative tasks, by configuring visudoers file.
• Built new servers supporting development, testing, and production environments.
• Perform ed disaster recovery exercise yearly for the Linux team’s activities.
• Provided on-call supports in debugging and fixing issues related to the Linux operating system.
• Maintained SSH and FTP servers on the DMZ, responsibilities included monitoring servers for unauthorized connections and blocking access to their hosts.
• Created and documented procedures to automate or simplify many daily tasks including backup.
• Provided technical support by troubleshooting daily issues with various servers on different platforms.

Technician

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

• Work to enhance the BGE Fraud Detection/Energy theft through a CIMS program to identify and address issues by documenting findings that could possibly affect public safety.
• Conduct liaison with back office and Theft of Energy Department in reporting findings for investigation.
• Develop, document, and disseminate information to appropriate departments.
• Update all training materials.
• Plan and implement policies and procedures relating to the detection of energy theft
• Operate a secure policy to ensure protection of customer and company information and protect customers payment information against fraud.
• Collect payments or disconnect services non-pay.

Cargo Specialist

Confidential, Baltimore MD

• Ensure compliance with operational, security and control policies and procedures.
• Promote activities that create security awareness.
• Acquire knowledge by attending trainings.
• Receive, store, handle, and issue supplies, materials, and equipment.
• Sorting and segregating frustrated cargos and making note of damages and making verbal and written reports to the supervisor.
• Conduct liaison with squad to patrol and secure all entries and exits.