SUMMARY

• Information technology professional with over 7 years’ experience as system administrator/ system engineer .Vast experience in application support and infrastructure ground /up design and implementation; My day to day task as an administrator includes but not limited to infrastructure and application installation, configuration, maintenance, security, issues troubleshooting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Windows 3.x, 9x, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Server 2000, Server 2003, Server 2008, Server 2012, Mac OS, VMware ESXi, Unix (Solaris10) and Linux (RedHat, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Opensuse, etc.)
• Dell, HP, etc.
• ESXi
• Ansible.
• Ansible, Nagios, Patrol, OMD, Nconf, MySQL, WebSphere, Apache, Ngnix, Tomcat, SiteScope, DenyHosts, Git/Gitolite, Splunk, Jenkins, Jira, AWS, Confluence, GitHub, Gitlab, bamboo, Sendmail, Cron, SSH, FTP, NFS, Samba, DHCP, Nexus, Fail2ban, Squid Proxy, PhpMyAdmin, Bind DNS, FileZilla, WINSCP, Batch Scripting, Perl Scripting etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

LINUX Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting VMware related issues.
• Perform System Engineering tasks to design the software mapping to the hardware environment.
• Installation and configuration of JIRA Server for bug tracking and projects report.
• Configuration management and source code repository management using tools like GIT, Subversion (SVN)
• Setup open monitoring distribution (OMD) with Nagios to monitor system metrics such as Disk usage, CPU, RAM etc.
• Performed standard system administration tasks, such as troubleshooting and problem resolution, patching, installing packages using rpm and yum, software and hardware upgrades.
• Created Virtual machines using VSphere client to connect to vCenter server.
• Publish updates using continuous integration tools such as subversion, Jenkins, rpm, yum. using IBM WebSphere Application Server managing and supporting enterprise applications.
• Configuration of multiple websites on one Apache http server using virtual Host containers.
• Proactively identified potential issues and suggest solutions.
• Maintained user account administration and authentication.
• Maintained over 450 Linux servers (RHEL 6).
• Bash Scripting to automate daily OS level tasks, monitoring
• Perl Scripting to automate daily OS level tasks, monitoring
• Installed and configure Apache httpd server to be used by developer to host web applications, and successful
• Maintained file system and host security using chmod, chown, chgrp, immutable bit, iptables, Selinux and tcp wrappers.
• Silently installed and configured WebSphere Application Server.
• Hands on experience with installation and configuration of Atlassian products such as Jira, Confluence.
• FTP server installation and configuration.

Confidential

Junior Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Implementing Software Configuration Management processes on projects including setting up and supporting our Continuous Integration. Build environment by automating Software builds, release and configuration processes.
• Provided support to conduct system testing and integrated more servers to the infrastructure.
• Installation and configuration of various network services as DNS, DHCP, NFS, Apache server, SSH, and management of TCP/IP, UDP, SMTP protocols.
• Image servers and client computers and remotely manage their software after deployment on Redhat Linux.
• Create; clone Linux/Unix/Window Virtual Machines using VMware Virtual Client ESX and ESXi.
• RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management;
• Troubleshooting software and network problems. scheduling of tasks assigned using Cron jobs using IBM WebSphere Application Server managing and supporting enterprise applications
• Ansible creating and running playbooks and automating operating system installation
• Logical Volume Manager (LVM) to manage logical volumes or file systems
• Provide timely support for hardware, software and network - related issues, responding to and solving ~50 weekly tickets
• Automated data backup processes, increasing network security and saving company resources
• Document incident and resolution information in Remedy tracking system
• Create, modify and delete user accounts in Active Directory
• Provided tier-I support and resolved tickets regarding server, desktop, printer, phone and office equipment issues for 850+ onsite and remote end users
• Responded to inquiries in-person or via email, chat or telephone
• Relocated users to new workstations, including moving and connecting assigned equipment
• Maintained user account administration and authentication.
• Maintained over 250 Linux servers (RHEL 6).
• Bash Scripting to automate daily OS level tasks, monitoring
• Perl Scripting to automate daily OS level tasks, monitoring

Confidential

IT Technical Specialist, Information Management

Responsibilities:

• Attending to infrastructure and telecomm issues.
• Attending to network issues (Networking)
• Installation and setup of users phone extensions.
• Ensuring internet stability to computers
• Synchronizing of personal office enterprise emails (Outlook) on enterprise phone.
• Documentations.
• System maintenance.
• Resolving all telephone issues i.e. phone extensions, direct line and also enforcing security on desk phone.
• Voice connectivity of remote offices
• Ensuring effective communication during conference calls i.e. meetings and interviews
• Call monitoring and log reports to be sent to all HODs
• Maintaining all conference call devices including VOIP phones etc.
• Training on the proper use of the telephone system including voice mail setup etc.
• Troubleshooting VMware related issues.
• Created Virtual machines using vSphere client to connect to vCenter server.
• Proactively identified potential issues and suggest solutions.
• Maintained user account administration and authentication.
• Maintained over 50 Linux servers (RHEL 6).
• Thorough understanding of Load Balancing (F5) methodologies.