OBJECTIVE:

• Information Technology specialist offering over 7 years of experience derived through service on Linux/Windows platforms, organizational training, project management, and worldwide mission information technology planning. Proven ability to ensure proper implementation of policies, procedures and risk management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: RHEL/CentOS 6/7, Ubuntu Windows R2 2012/2016

Servers/Services: Apache/Tomcat, Jenkins, DNS, LVM, Foreman, Nagios; Ansible, ITIL, Nessus, NFS, Samba, Solarwinds, NetBackup

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Oxon Hill, MD

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for promoting IT innovation through research and development and by providing assessments of new and evolving technologies, techniques, and industry best practices in IT infrastructure
• Collect the new technologies and tools and introduced them to the company; in which it helped the company build up an agile development environment.
• Remediate potential OS security vulnerabilities abiding to security policies and standards
• Install and maintain containers via Apache Tomcat and MySQL servers
• Experience in migrating and configuring disaster recovery environments
• Configure infrastructure standard security benchmarks
• Provided coordination support between networks, Enterprise Applications and the developmental architecture
• Building datacenters including DEV, test, production, and DR facilities
• Knowledge of installing RHEL server from scratch using kickstart and PXE boot
• Analyze systems, servers, applications, networks, and input/output devices performance
• Ongoing industry research and training on current and forthcoming technologies
• Diagnosing and resolving system related task in accordance with security priorities setup
• Wrote custom monitoring and integrated monitoring methods into deployment processes to develop self - healing solutions
• Install, configure, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of Windows/ Linux platforms.

Confidential, Manassas, VA

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Monitor CPU/ memory usage, server disk space and performing proactive capacity analysis
• Provide support in a demanding 24/7 Production environment in Linux
• Troubleshooting outages, active directory manages, DNS and DHCP management
• Analyze cost effective solutions for business compliance
• Integrate Process across Service Domains; Change, Problem and Configuration Management
• Experience with incident response (malware, DDOS attacks, data breaches)
• Setup configuration file for kick start environment for Linux production and test systems.
• Worked on installation of VMware ESX and creating virtual machines from scratch.
• Connecting blades to IO modules and Fiber interconnect.
• Creating Profiles on new blades with templates within SLA.
• Provide remote support for field engineers.
• Assign IPs with third party tools for external facing application (IPAM).
• Restoring and backup from NetBackup tool.
• Responsible for creating and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring Solaris, CentOS and RHEL.
• Experience administering, installing, configuring and maintaining Linux.
• Experience installing, upgrading and configuring Red Hat Linux 5.x, 6.x, 7.x using
• Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Configures DNS, NFS, FTP, remote access, and security management.
• Creates Linux Virtual Machines using VMware Virtual center.
• Installs, upgrades and manages packages via RPM and YUM package management
• Installs, configures and supports Apache on Linux production servers.

Confidential, Erie, PA

NOC Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Upgrade of RHEL 5.x,6.x OS.
• Daily Administration of RHEL 5.x and 6.x.
• Create and maintaining user, groups accounts on Linux Servers.
• Implemented and administered VMware ESX 4.x for running the Red Hat Linux Servers n development and test servers.
• Installed software packages and configured File systems as per specifications of client.
• Involved in configuration and support of production environment hosted in a 24x7 setup.
• Troubleshooting and problem resolutions on Linux servers.
• Troubleshooting application issues on Apache web servers and database servers running n Redhat Linux.
• Monitored the servers and Linux scripts regularly and performed troubleshooting steps.
• Package management using RPM, YUM and UP2DATE in Red hat Linux.
• Expertise in Linux backup/restore with tar, gunzip, including disk partitioning and formatting.
• Maintained necessary backup of the important files and documented Linux scripts for future reference.
• Troubleshooting all kinds of UNIX problems and assisting users.
• Involved in installing infrastructure and maintaining the performance of server, availability. Storage system software and functionality and interface components.
• Involved in hardening security on all UNIX servers.
• Involved in troubleshooting shell scripts.
• Wrote & automated security audit scripts in the environment.
• Knowledge of installing RHEL Server from scratch using Kickstart. .
• Created RAID volumes using RAID Controllers and LSI Hardware.
• Configuring and maintaining virtual server environment using VMWARE ESX vSphere