SUMMARY:

I am a self - motivated professional with more than 7 years of Red Hat Linux experience providing through and skillful support to both internal and external parties. I am highly skilled in following through, communicating and meeting deadlines to ensure on time completion of projects. Ability to learn and incorporate new technology. Consistently receives positive feedback from managers, co-workers and clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Languages: Shells scripting (bash), basic python, salt stack

Cloud Services: Amazon Web Services (AWS), TerrackMark.

OS: RHEL 6, Centos 6, RHEL 7, Basic windows servers 2012

Software: Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Bamboo, MySQL, Github, Red Hat Satellite, OpenStack

Monitor Software: SolarWinds, Appdynamics, Splunk

Automation: Ansible, Ansible Tower, bash, basic python, Tanium

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Migrated Solaris based applications to AWS Linux platform.
• Led time critical project for application migration from offsite vendor to doj internet network.
• Automate Linux patching with ansible playbooks and add-hoc commands
• Installed and configured windows active directory including group, group policy, share drives to authenticated users.
• Configuration and administration of AWS services (EC2, S3,EBS, VPC, Security Groups,, NAT, AMI, IAM.
• Installation and configuration of Linux/Unix Servers using Kickstart, PXE, flash archive, live upgrade, jumpstart and Ansible
• Administered, troubleshot and monitored UNIX (Solaris) systems.
• Administer and troubleshoot RSA token for both internal and external parties
• Participated in monthly maintenance patching of Linux and Unix servers
• Write playbooks for PIV authentication, AWS instances provisioning, and day to day Linux tasks.
• Installed and configured Red Hat Satellite repositories in preparation of Red Hat 7 migration
• Automated some basic tasks using shell scripting.
• Configured DNS servers for local name resolution in test environment
• Implement SpaceWalk repository.

Confidential

Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and administration of AWS services (EC2, S3, RDS, EBS, VPC, Security Groups, ELB, Snapshots, Route53, Cloud Watch, CloudFront, NAT, AMI, IAM, Glacier, SQS, SNS, MySQL, CloudTrail
• Administration of SA-related solutions for various project and operational needs
• Install and upgrade new / rebuild existing servers and configure virtual infrastructure, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with Federal standards and project/operational requirements
• Contribute to and maintain system standards
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, basic automated approaches for system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage resources and provide economies of scale
• Perform daily system and security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions
• Provide Tier II or other support per request from various constituencies. Investigate and troubleshoot issues
• Perform daily system and security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions
• Repair and recover from system or application failures
• Maintain operational, configuration, or other procedures
• Perform periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning
• Participate in on-call rotation to oversee upgrades and ensure uptime of all services
• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures

Confidential

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Daily Administration and Management of Multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers
• Perform large scale configuration and installation of Red hat instances using kick start
• Automation of system administration tasks using shell scripting
• Perform bare metal installation and configuration of VMware Hypervisor on 64-bit servers
• Planning, development and Implementation of hard ware requirements to support a broad
• Experience configuring Iptables/Firewall, Selinux,based
• Created and configure LVM partitions
• virtualization infrastructure using VMware and Red hat tested technologies
• Physical hardware troubleshooting experience
• Red Hat Network (RHN)
• Ability to enable virtualization and verify critical flags required for Cloud based operations
• Performed installation and management of 300 virtual machines on VMware ESXi
• Experience in Enterprise Virtualization and Cloud Computing
• Expertise in Solaris virtual environments
• Installed multiple sparse and whole root zones within one physical instance of Solaris 10
• Performance Monitoring and capacity planning
• Setup ZFS quotas, reservation and automatic NFS-share of directories
• Used SMF system utilities
• Create and manage user accounts. Setting password aging and account expiration. Troubleshoot user account issues and network related connectivity issues
• Install and provision new servers to the network using non-interactive kickstart and, jumpstart, flash archive and live upgrade installation
• Troubleshoot system boot issues using rescue environment and single user mode
• Configured networking in both solaris and linux, including network bonding and IPMP
• Setup central log server for remote logging. Monitored system log files
• Perform system monitoring; cpu, memory, I/O, hardware, jobs scheduling and processes management
• Creating new partitions, including raid partitions, logical volumes, zfs file systems for running systems nondestructively
• Performed package management for system upgrades and updates using yum and rpm
• Build local yum repository for internal network use
• Create and extend physical volumes, volume groups. Resize existing logical volumes for additional space requirements. Setup user account quotas for system resource management
• Restrict access to files and directories using Access Control Lists file permissions. Set suid, sgid and stickets on files as needed
• Configured firewall using iptables for system security
• Configure directories to enable group collaboration and private/public sharing
• Configure NFS servers for file sharing across the network
• Setup NTP servers for time synchronization of multiple clients on the network
• Configure SSH server for password less login, secure ssh logins and restrict ssh logins to local network using iptables
• Perform patching on running servers using live upgrade, yum update, reducing minimal downtime
• Manage and troubleshoot user account issues login issues
• Troubleshoot network connectivity, hardware, cpu, memory, I/O, boot, DNS and other application issues
• Installed and configured DNS for internal name resolution.Daily Administration and Management of Multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers
• Perform large scale configuration and installation of Red hat instances using kick start
• Automation of system administration tasks using shell scripting
• Perform bare metal installation and configuration of VMware Hypervisor on 64-bit servers
• Planning, development and Implementation of hard ware requirements to support a broad based virtualization infrastructure using VMware and Red hat tested technologies
• Physical hardware troubleshooting experience
• Ability to enable virtualization and verify critical flags required for Cloud based operations
• Performed installation and management of 300 virtual machines on VMware ESXi
• Experience in Enterprise Virtualization and Cloud Computing
• Expertise in Solaris virtual environments
• Installed multiple sparse and whole root zones within one physical instance of Solaris 10
• Performance Monitoring and capacity planning
• Setup ZFS quotas, reservation and automatic NFS-share of directories
• Used SMF system utilities

Confidential

Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managing of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 servers
• Daily Administration of Oracle Solaris 10 servers
• Deployment and configuration of Apache Web server on Linux and UNIX machines
• Performed Jumpstart installations and Live upgrades on Oracle Solaris servers
• Installation of Virtual Interfaces In Solaris
• Enforced Security Administration on Linux systems
• Installed and configured VERITAS volume manager
• Implemented RAID 0-5 solutions with VERITAS Volume Manager

Confidential

Computer Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performed Operating System upgrades
• Configuration and troubleshooting of mobile devices
• Familiarity with network systems such as servers, switches, firewalls and routers
• Knowledge of Internet and networking infrastructure design
• Troubleshoot desktop applications issues while maintaining excellent customer service
• Updated and documented Helpdesk tickets with Remedy ticket system
• Performed Computer Systems Repairs and services
• Performed telephone systems repairs and servicing
• Resolving software and hardware issues
• Administer Sun Solaris 10 O.E
• Repair Sun and Sparc Platforms
• Maintaining Local area networks
• Setup computers and printers on the network
• Monitoring TCP/IP network environment
• Experience with Internet technologies including TCP/IP and HTTP
• Hardware and software inventory
• Scheduling backup of files
• Virus Protection Software Installation