PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Unix and Linux System Administrator with over 5 years of experience in a multi - platform Solaris 10 Operating System and RedHat Enterprise Linux, Centos 6.4/7. Very Adaptable, collaborative, strong team player, detail oriented, multi-tasking.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to work within strict deadlines.
• Experience in software installations, user and group administration, role base access control, file transfer and sharing; competent in file systems, Logical Volume Management (LVM), ZFS Volume Manager, Vmware exsi 6.4, AWS services (S3,EC2,Dynamodb,VPC,ELB,Route53,IAM,SNS,SQS,Lambda,Elastic beanstalk,AMI).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Washington, DC

Senior Infrastructure and Cloud Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deploy EC2 linux instances.
• Configure Security group for EC2 linux instances.
• Deploying, managing, and operating scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS using Autoscaling,Load Balancers.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging and cost management tools that integrate with AWS using Amazon CloudWatch.
• Create Custom VPC for EC2 instances.
• Created NAT gateways to allow communication from private instances to the internet through bastion hosts.
• Patch EC2 linux instances with Ansible Tower, yum tool and system manager..
• Create a snapshot and backup with AMIs of volumes and also images to store launch configurations of the ec2 instances.
• Configure storage on AWS S3 bucket and performed folder management in each folder, managed cloudtrail logs and objects within each bucket.
• Experience in S3 Versioning and lifecycle policies to backup files and archive files in Glacier.
• Investigate and troubleshoot failed Application.
• Remediate solutions for security threats and vulnerabities for the nodes using Nessus Manager tool(Tenable).
• Experience in solarwinds.
• Experience in dynatrace.
• Create backups on the S3 bucket.
• Migrated data from on-premises to AWS.
• Experience with AWS organizations and Resource Access Management (RAM).
• Understanding of AWS Elasticsearch, DATA PIPELINE, KINESIS.

Confidential, Rockville, Maryland

Linux /AWS Admin/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hardening, Patching (Redhat 6/7, Solaris Servers using 10-Recommended patches), and upgrades (release), on standalone servers (using single user mode), and on production servers (live upgrade )
• Created AWS Route53 to route traffic between different regions.
• Configured security group for EC2 linux instances
• Created users and groups using IAM and assigned individual policies to each group
• Created load balancers(ELB) and used Route53 with failover and latency options for high availability and fault tolerance.
• Experienced in monitoring metrics on EC2,Elastic Load balancer usings cloudwatch.
• Experience in backup services like EBS snapshots, S3 backups and Amazon Glacier.
• Experience in security policies like security Groups, IAM roles and multi Factor Authentication
• Installing and maintaining the operating system and related software products
• Participating in root-cause analysis of recurring issues, system backup and security setup, Provide 24X7 support in Production Testing and Development environments.
• ServiceNow to close age ticket in the system.
• Experience in splunk, Opnet to monitor the servers
• Knowledge in mysql database.
• Experience in TCP/IP,HTTP,HTTPS, DHCP,SSH,SSL, DNS,VPN,PKI; NFS
• System backup/Recovery.
• Troubleshoot and resolve network issues.
• User Account Management.
• Troubleshoot user account password.
• Experience in Vmware Exsi 6.4(build virtual servers and to monitor the servers(linux,unix and windows).

Confidential, Beltsville, Maryland

Unix / Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Builds, Install, configure brand new virtual and physical servers, test, deploy Solaris 10/11, RHEL 6/7, CentOS 6.4/7 servers to the network: OS installation and configuration - standard and advanced ( kickstart).,AWS EC2 AMI.
• User Account Management.
• Experience in TCP/IP,HTTP,HTTPS, DHCP,SSH,SSL, DNS,VPN,PKI; NFS, CIFS, and samba servers in a multiplatform LAN.
• Configured the storage on AWS S3 buckets.
• Experience working with IAM in order to create new accounts, roles and groups
• Knowledge in mysql .
• Perform multiplatform volume management using LVM, ZFS volume manager, and VERITAS volume manager; installed and configure a LAN wide NAS (Free NAS) used for creating LUNs and attaching to windows 2008 servers and to Solaris 10 servers using iSCSi.
• Experience in configuring Veritas manager and migration on unix servers.
• Basic knowledge in Bash Shell Scripting to schedule and automate
• Experience in troubleshooting Solaris and Linux servers.
• Experience in Solaris Zone (Build, configure, secure and deploy Solaris 10 system (global)
• Build, configure, secure, deploy and migrated Solaris 10 local zones ( spare root or whole root zone)
• Setup a domain and an Active Directory on a Windows 2008 server; install and configure a samba server on a Solaris 10 and mapping to the windows 2008 server.
• Knowledge in LDAP configuration.
• Responsible for data management using native Solaris utilities for archiving, compression backup and restore.
• Experience in Apache.
• Participating in root-cause analysis of recurring issues and security setup, Provide 24X7 support.
• Experience in building and managing servers with Vmware Exsi6.

Confidential

Unix /Windows System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Perform multiplatform Server builds on VMware, which include Windows Server 2008, UNIX Solaris 10, LINUX Centos 6.4, and RHEL 6.4. DNS addresses to Windows 2008 Servers so as to introduce them to the network. Use the “dcpromo” tool to configure DNS, Active Directory as well as to promote standard Windows 2008 servers to domain controllers
• User Account Management
• Biuld virtual servers from scratch and deploy.
• Experience in troubleshooting Solaris and Linux servers.
• Setup, configure and troubleshoot SSH, TCP/IP, DHCP, CIFS, DNS, NFS, and Samba servers in a multiplatform LAN
• Windows 7 and configurations and software deployment. Create new User accounts and profile on Windows NOS, UNIX and LINUX systems. Troubleshoot and resolve OS, application, malware desktop related issues on various Windows NOS. Use TCP/IP troubleshooting tools to troubleshoot and resolve network connectivity and DNS related issues in the LAN.
• Configure Windows NOS clients to join the domain as well as configure file and print sharing on some Windows NOS to enable resource sharing.
• Knowledge in LDAP server.

Confidential

Desktop Support Technician

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the ongoing maintenance and future planning needs of the company’s desktop environment.
• Collaborate with existing vendors to evaluate the new technology that is available and make recommendations to management on using that technology.
• Consult with IT support and design departments to make sure that network expansion projects are in line with the company’s plans.
• Monitor the performance of the company’s desktop infrastructure and make suggestions for improving efficiency.
• Evaluate applications and software patches for desktop applications to see if they will solve desktop issues.