Senior Linux System Administrator Resume Akron, OH - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Systems administrator/Devops with strong experience managing cloud infrastructures over multiple Linux distributions. Effectively plan, install, configure and optimize IT infrastructures to achieve high availability and performance. Proven ability to create and deliver solutions tied to business growth, organizational development and systems/network optimization. Skilled problem identifier and troubleshooter comfortable managing systems, projects and teams in a range of IT environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Configuration Management • Amazon Web Services • Puppet • PostgreSQL • Ansible • Ubuntu • Terraform • CentOS ocker
Ruby
Git
VMWare ESX

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Akron, OH

Senior Linux System Administrator

Reengineered company's systems to enable automated server configurations and deployments using Puppet to get the deployment time of a server down to less than 10 minutes and providing critical security updates in minutes rather than days
Ensured that all server hardware, operating systems, and software aligned with the company’s security standards
Converted the company from VMWare stack to Amazon Web Services to save money on server cost expenditures and to guarantee ability to scale at a moment’s notice
Converted all servers from Ubuntu to CentOS to comply with customer’s needs
Created monitoring dashboards using DataDog for visibility into company uptime and overall server health across the organization
Migrated servers from self hosted PostgreSQL to AWS hosted RDS
Created Ansible Playbooks to automate software installation across the entire organization to reduce time installing and configuring software
Implemented Infrastructure as Code through the use of Terraform to allow for a very quick spin up of a Disaster Recovery environment