PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• A seasoned and a professional Systems Administrator with experience in installing, configuring, monitoring servers using Nagios, Patching with Spacewalk and maintaining systems hardware, software, experience with DNS, TCP/IP networking and related infrastructure.
• Strong in analytical skills, OCC monitoring systems and applications, able to work with technicians from various engineering disciplines to troubleshoot complex system - level issues in order to solve customer and business problems and performs related work as required with expertise, skills and knowledge fruitful for the growth of the organization and with a combined experience of impacting corporate performance through skillful alignment of technical resources with enterprise objectives.
• Proven leadership in identifying and eliminating operational discrepancies with the upgrade of existing systems and implementation of customized solutions.
• Research, design, implement, and troubleshoot information systems and technology solutions in support of business needs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Familiar with AWS (RDS,EC2,S3)

Linux System Administrator (Redhat)

Automate with Ansible and Playbooks

Ensure backups occur as scheduled

Strong analytical and problem solving skills, meet deadlines and multi-task

Excellent oral and written communication skills and a team player.

Scripting such as Bash and Perl

Familiar with SQL servers

Experience with CRONTAB

Familiar with LAN and Wan network

Manages Patching with Spacewalk

Knowledge of Windows 2012,Active Directory

Experience Firewalls and SELinux

Creating and removing user accounts

User Training and Support

Experience with VMware and Centos 7

Good listening skills and a quick learner

Experience NTP configuration

Good with Software and Network Mgt

Resetting passwords & documentation

Experience with DNS and DHCP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Bowie, MD

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience using Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 in a corporate domain environment
• Implementing troubleshooting and experience with HTTPS, FTP, LAN, WAN
• Familiar using Microsoft Active Directory to manage policies and user objects
• Installs new, rebuild existing servers and configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings
• Familiar with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in areas such as EC2, S3 and RDS
• Adequate experience with IP troubleshooting, TCP/IP, DNS, ping, trace route
• Perform initial troubleshooting steps in virtual and physical servers to assist in the resolution of issues for multiple projects.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware servers
• Administration, package installation, package management, setting up repositories, applying patches using YUM and RPM.
• Implementing security policies for hardening servers based on the company policies verifying completion of scheduled jobs such as backups and system application logs
• Perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
• Create, change, and delete user accounts per request.
• Performing preventative maintenance support and configuring essential services
• Manages systems routine backup, scheduling jobs and enabling cron jobs.
• Administered VMware Infrastructure Client 5.1 and VSphere v 5.5.0

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Developed and maintained installation and configuration procedures.
• Coordinate installation of client department specific applications and systems
• Identified approaches that leverage our resources and provide economies of scale and maintained data center environmental and monitoring equipment
• Performed daily backup operations, ensuring all required file systems and system data are successfully backed up to the appropriate media, recovery tapes or disks created, and media is recycled and sent off site as necessary.
• Performed regular file archival and purge as necessary.
• Repaired and recovered from hardware or software failures.
• Performed periodic performance reporting to support capacity planning.
• Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring RedHat Linux 6.x., 7.x
• Experience in administering RedHat Linux. Experience in Installation, Configuration, Backup, Recovery, Maintenance, Support of RedHat Linux.

Confidential, Marlboro, MD

Linux Administrator (Intern) Upper

Responsibilities:

• Provided systems administration support for Linux systems including server and workstation upgrades, backup and disaster recovery monitoring, user account setup and security administration
• Performed regular system backups and recovery procedures, closely following SOPs to ensure system security.
• Created and optimized UNIX shell scripts using Perl and Bash shells.
• Updated Unix OS patches and ensured compliance with STIG requirements.
• Served on team managing server deployment and allocation of virtual server capacity.
• Troubleshooting Linux system, security related issues, capturing packets using tools such as IPtables and Firewall.
• Administration, package installation, package management, setting up repositories, applying patches using YUM and RPM.
• Implementing security policies for hardening servers based on the company policies.