Systems Administrator Resume
SUMMARY:
Interested in high - available opportunities in complex systems engineering and managements.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Applications: Apache, Nginx, IIS; BIND/named; Postfix, Dovecot; Netbackup 8, AWS, Glacier, Kaspersky Enterprise; Hubot; Google, Atlassian; Prosody XMPP; OwnCloud.
Accessibility: SSH, IPTABLES, pf.conf and pfSense, SELinux, Cyrus-SASL.
Virtual Hosting: Amazon Web Services, Google Developer Cloud, Microsoft Azure.
Virtualization: VMware, vSphere, FreeBSD Jails, RHEV, Hyper-V, VirtualBox.
Databases: MySQL (CLI/GUI), MSSQL Management Studio.
Operation Systems: FreeBSD 9/10/11, Red Hat Enterprise, CentOS, Debian, Microsoft Servers.
Securities: NMAP, SQLMAP, tcpdump, tshark, Ettercap, Metasploit, airodump-ng.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Confidential
Systems Administrator
Responsibilities:
- working part-time with three IT professionals for hosting over 3,000 customer websites, email and databases.
- Uses Apache for web hosting, Postfix for email and MySQL for databases.
- Configures the firewall using IPTABLES and uses BIND to host DNS for 3,700 domains.
- Ensures operational states and responds to any downtime or errors that occur.
- Provides direct customer support for 200 users.
- The production server is hosted in England and a disaster recovery server is hosted in the USA.
- Uses rsync for full and daily differential backups and outlined the disaster recovery plan.
- Worked on the migration from a physical server to Amazon Web Services virtualized server.
- Built the VM within AWS and deployed, migrating files, databases, securities, passwords and secure access.
Confidential, Folsom, CA
Technical Support Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Supported a product line developed for an iPad that uses bluetooth medical devices to transmit readings to a centralized user interface, to monitor remote home health patients.
- Position was one of two Tier 2 engineers working in Customer Operations.
- Worked as the liaison between T1 support and T3 developers and worked with escalated tickets.
- Handled incoming and outgoing phone support through 8x8, and ticketing through Zendesk, Netsuite and Jira. Worked within ITSM and Change Management initiatives as the spokesman for customer support.
- Worked on the User Acceptance Testing team and the Release Management board.
- Worked as the Lead Analyist for the Failure Analysis division.
- Tested returned products for failures, tracks rate of recurrence and trends, fixed products and conferenced with the manufacturer's team in weekly meetings.
- Devices in the fields are managed through Meraki and Airwatch.
- Updated software and deployed new packages.
- Outlined processes and wrote documentation.
- Issued a PIV card by the Confidential .
- This role includes access to sensitive information and HIPAA compliant actions.
Confidential, Louisville, KY
Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Worked full-time in conjunction with 6 engineers fully supporting the LAMP stack, FreeBSD and Windows.
- Used cPanel for web hosting, Postfix with MySQL for e-mail and Subversion for quality control.
- Worked on systems, deployed physical and virtual servers, using vSphere, Hyper-V and FreeBSD jails.
- Installed pfSense on Netgate appliances and configured.
- Consulted for managed services, such as hosted servers, websites, DNS, databases and security.
Confidential, Louisville, KY
Systems Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Handled virtualized RHEV and vSphere environments and provisioned and deployed VMs for staging, development and operations.
- Used Puppet manifests for implementing any changes across all clustered Linux servers.
- Administered the Windows update server for central deployment of updates to 200 end- users.
- Maintained Kaspersky 2010 and installed remote packages through the Netagent.
- Project management was with Atlassian and JIRA Scrum cards, integrated in Confluence for the company wiki.
- Wrote documentation and trained users.
- Worked with 30 professionals in conjunction with MySQL, MSSQL, PHP5, Apache2 and Nginx, PF Sense and Duplicity for backups in an Ubuntu clustered environment.
Confidential, Knoxville, TN
Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Servers are in-house for editing, production, commercial-integration and satellite broadcasting.
- Worked with 30 IT specialists for infrastructure operations in a Linux Red Hat enterprise environment.
- Used an internal ServiceNow CMDB to run reports for all active servers and validated server functionality.
- Monitored the CMDB and responded to support ticketing, incidents and service alerts.
- Used Red Hat Satellite to view server profiles and checked for errors on the network.
- Used vSphere to manage virtual servers and upgraded VM Tools and the VM hardware with vCli scripting via Powershell.
- Used Netbackup 7.6 to backup both physical servers and the virtualized environment.
- Configured master and media servers, created policies and checked for errors in daily backups.
- Documented processes as an authority for operational workflow.