SUMMARY

Three years experience in systems administration of RedHat, CentOS, Fedora and Oracle Enterprise Linux. Work in a team that implement, maintained and supported mission - critical IT infrastructure in a fast-paced environment. A self-start, avid learner and possesses excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills. Always learning new technologies and excelled at supporting high visibility and critical systems. At the moment am studying software development and also learning new programming language like Python and JAVA.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms/Operating System: Window Server 2000, VMware ESXi, Linux (RedHat, CentOS and Oracle Enterprise Linux). Design, installation, configuration, maintenance, tuning and troubleshooting of servers running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x/6.x/7.x. Experience in Systems Administration, Information Analysis, Server Deployment, and support. Help Desk, Tech Support, Desktop Support, Customer Service, SSH.

Applications/Services : MySQL, phpMyAdmin, Kickstart, jumpstart, Lynis, DenyHost, Tripwire Apache, Apache virtual host, Apache Tomcat, Microsoft Office, FileZilla, WinSCP, Jira, GIT, Nagios/OMD, Nginx, Putty, Kickstart, Jumpstart, DNS, Jenkins, Samba, FTP, NFS, VMware vSphere, VNC. DNS, Zabbix, Thruk, Icinga, NagVis, PNP4Nagios, NFS, IMAP, DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, SSL, SSH, LVM Management, ISCSI - NFS mounts.

File transfer systems: Sterling File Gateway, B2B Integrator, Sterling Secure Proxy, Sterling External Authentication Server, IBM Control Center, and Connect Direct

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Overland Park, KS

Unix Admin/Configuration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Provides technical support to field engineers, technicians, and product support personnel who are diagnosing, troubleshooting, repairing and debugging complex electro/mechanical equipment, computer systems, complex software, or networked and/or wireless systems. * Responds to situations where first-line product support has failed to isolate or fix problems in malfunctioning equipment or software. Reports design, reliability and maintenance problems or bugs to design engineering/software engineering.
• May be involved in customer installation and training. Provides support to customers/users where the product is highly technical or sophisticated in nature. * Coordinates problem solving efforts between vendors, customers, and field service support personnel.
• This position is within the eBusiness Support Team responsible for applications under Confidential .com.
• A Technical Support Engineer in this environment would learn to install, configure and support system software for web applications.
• Troubleshooting application or infrastructure problems and participation in small to complex projects is also part of the responsibilities. The candidate should be familiar with working in a UNIX environment and support of web application software.
• The job entails monitoring and to pro-actively identify potential issues on the applications, running maintenance events, troubleshooting production issues, participation in small to complex projects, application administration and automation scripting.
• Multi-tasking and problem management skills are a must.

Confidential, Indianapolis, Indiana

Linux System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, and administration of Red Hat Linux servers and support for Servers.
• Installation, maintenance and regular upgrades of Red Hat Linux Servers using kickstart-based network installation.
• Installed, configured and maintained HTTPD server for Intranet specifications.
• Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting of RHEL 6.x servers.
• Provide Remote support for Linux Servers.
• Maintained system configuration files to handle high volume data.
• Send mail& IMAP mail servers.
• Installing and Configuring Red Hat Linux in VMware Environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of effective trouble ticket tracking system use.
• Configuring, Implementing and Troubleshooting access lists.
• Performing Linux Kick Start installation, LVM Implementation.
• Implementing Security using iptables.
• CI/CD Tools (Teamcity, Jenkins, gitlab nexus, JIRA and docker registry/daemon) configuration management and automation using Ansible.
• Monitored and troubleshot different performance related issues using performance monitoring utilities like IOSTAT, VMSTAT, TOP, NETSTAT and SAR
• Setting up and configuring Disk Quotas for users and groups.
• Management of IBM sterling B2B integrator for secure file transfers
• Configuring automounter for mounting network shared directories
• Configuring inner and outer view of DNS server to resolve internal & external queries.
• Written Maven scripts, Installed Jenkins, written shell script for end to end build and deployment automation.
• Configuring bind as a master DNS, caching-only name server, slave server and forwarding only name server.
• Configuring Samba, NFS and DHCP server in RHEL 6.x servers.
• Configuring various Hardware level RAIDS on Dell Blade Server (Power Edge 860 & 2850 series).
• Experience using open-shift enterprise 3 and deployed applications using Docker containers in the cloud with Paas.
• Experience in Writing Python modules for Ansible customizations.
• Experience with jira v7 using Red Hat for agile project
• Configuring FTP and Apache Web Servers on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Configuring Proxy Server (Squid) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Configuring RHEL as Router by enabling IP forwarding.
• Implemented VMware Center Operations Manager.
• Preparing a centralized installation server comprising FTP, Web server, and NFS.
• Experience with the IBM file transfer products like B2B Integrator, to move data/files in transit in a manageable way. Also used it to support communication with any application.
• Created and configured MS Hyper Visor clients. installed and administered Storage vMotion configured, monitored, supported, and administered Microsoft Hyper Visor

Confidential, Indianapolis, Indiana

IT Tech/Jr. Support Analyst, Linux system Admin

Responsibilities:

• Managing Switches and configurations
• Install and configure, and Manage CentOS servers with SSH terminal.
• Apply necessary patches and updates to meet Security standards.
• Installation of Nagios/OMD server to monitor systems metrics.
• Installation and configuration of Nagios/OMD plugin to manage remote machines.
• RHEL 5.x/6.x servers’ basic administration, support, and administration.
• Reset password and access permissions on demand
• Collaborate with senior staff and clients to resolve complex problems
• Responsible for monitoring and management VMware environment of virtual servers
• Implemented Continuous deployment and environment provisioning using Ansible
• Created and implemented recommendations to improve scalability and performance
• Maintain system patches, monitoring, alerting and standard remediation
• Support remote installations and changes
• Keeping track of maintenance of the servers in hardware & software
• Used Active Direftory as an domain server
• Building servers with kickstart on a timely basis, along with corporate-wide requirements
• Assisting Senior System Administrator with Infrastructure projects.
• Deployment of CUP servers and printer troubleshooting and maintenance.
• Creation, Management and Configuration of Virtual Machines, Clone Templates
• Maintaining Virtual Machines Snapshots implementation and deployment of vSphere
• Understanding of file transfer concepts including SFTP
• Implemented VMware Center Operations Manager, vKernel Capacity Manager and App Suite, vSphere.
• Assist with implementation of VMware vCenter 5.5
• Managing VMware vCenter Infrastructure
• Server Consolidation with VMware Converter
• Experience with Jira V6 & V7 for ticket monitoring and tracking

Confidential

Computer lab assistant, Linux system Admin

Responsibilities:

• Installation of software and upgrading to ensure work is performed as per the company policy on various hardware platforms
• Recommend resolutions to complex matters and coordinate the implementation of the approved course of action
• Responsible for maintaining user accounts and basic service access permissions on infrastructure servers.
• Hardware and software troubleshooting (Mac and Windows)
• MacOS El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra support
• Disaster Recovery practices on scientific computer equipment iPad /iPhone/Android support
• Microsoft Office 2010, 2013, 2016 support.
• Deploy Windows PC, Mac, and Linux Desktops and Laptops
• Windows XP, Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, Windows 10 support.
• Performed system startups and shutdowns
• Used Active Direftory as an domain server
• Trained new users to use computers, copiers, phones, and business applications.
• Understanding of Vmware Virtual Volume
• Understanding of file transfer concepts including SFTP/SSH, file-level (PGP) and session-level encryption