OBJECTIVE

• Linux system administrator/ Cloud Engineer with knowledge in analyzing and finding cost - effective solutions to maintaining both on premise and cloud-based systems.
• Proficient at monitoring performance and increasing productivity by establishing goals and meeting deadlines.
• Seeking a challenging and rewarding position in a dynamic environment that will utilize my skills and experience, to encourage growth and excellence.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Putty
• E2C
• Microsoft word and Excel
• AWS Management Console
• Ansible
• WinSCP mRemoteNG
• MYSQLWorkbench
• Keepass
• Dbeaver
• JIRA vSphere Client
• Windows PowerShell
• Postman
• RedHat Satellite
• SQLectron
• EC2
• CloudWatch
• CloudTrail
• CloudWatch
• S3
• Redshift
• RDS
• Elasticache
• ECS
• Lambda
• Autoscaling Redhat 6&7
• S3
• EBS
• VPC
• SNS
• SQS
• Cost Explorer.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Linux Systems Administrator/AWS Cloud Engineer

Confidential, Timonium, MD

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on technical support related to the overall health and maintenance of the Linux operating environment in support of 24/7 operations.
• Participate in planning, implementation, and growth of our infrastructure on Amazon Web Services.
• Experience in AWS-Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a service (PaaS)
• Experience in guiding the classification, implementation, growth, and compliance to enterprise architecture strategies, processes and standards.
• Provide systems administration (implementation, management and operational support) and technical expertise for Red Hat Linux systems, including provisioning, installing, configuring, tuning, operating, and maintaining systems hardware and software and the related infrastructure.
• Manage and support full application stacks from the OS through custom applications using Amazon cloud-based computing environment.
• Hands-on experience with EC2, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, S3, Redshift, RDS, Elasticache, ECS, Lambda, Autoscaling and EBS.
• Analyzing and monitor performance and key metrics to optimize software and system performance.
• Knowledge of deploying and building system uptime through patches upgrades and updates using tools like RPM and Yum.
• Perform system analysis, logs file reviews and resolving software issues related to networking connectivity, servers, and applications to meet business needs.
• Create and maintain user's accounts, profiles, security, rights disk space and process monitoring.
• Utilize and configure Kernel Based Virtual Machines on Red hat Enterprise Servers.
• Assist in the research, evaluation, testing, selection, procurement, implementation, maintenance of new software/hardware/systems and ensuring systems meet PCI compliance requirements.
• Good communication skills as well as ability to work both in teams and independently.

Linux Systems Administrator

Confidential, Hyattsville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Provided hands-on technical support related to the overall health and maintenance of the Linux operating environment in support of 24/7 operations.
• Practical experience in deploying pre-installation testing of both software and hardware tools to ensure smooth system installations using templates for rapid and mass deployment.
• Performed Linux system installation, configuration and administration.
• Configured Kickstart to perform Redhat installation, ensuring that configuration and server hardening are compatible with security.
• Configured LAMP servers to work with Drupal.
• Experience building LAMP stack and configuring Apache Virtual hosts (Name and IP based).
• Executed troubleshooting techniques geared at diagnosing common Linux system issues and records system output to ensure continuous uptime.
• Knowledge of system protection and hardening by using tools like iptables, SElinux and tcpwrappers to ensure system availability and data protection.
• Knowledge of deploying and building system uptime through patches upgrades and updates using tools like RPM and Yum.
• Utilized crisis management techniques to resolve matters of significance and implement corrective course of action as needed.
• Performed installations, configurations, performance testing and upgrading of system files and services.
• Basic BASH scripting.
• Documented all setup procedures and System Related Policies (SOP’s).
• Built and configure Virtual Linux Servers using ESXi and VSphere Client to ensure system optimization, management and availability needs.
• Experience with Netapp storage (ISCSI luns to attach server to Netapp storage).
• Utilized and configure Kernel Based Virtual Machines on Red hat Enterprise Servers.
• Installed and configure Logical Volume Manager - LVM.
• Knowledge in System Administration Automation frameworks such as Ansible.

Linux Systems Administrator

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Performed the administration of RHEL through installation, upgrading, testing, tuning, patching, and troubleshoot.
• Experience working on virtual and physical RHEL servers (RHEL 6&7).
• Experience with SAN (Storage Area Network)
• Maintained servers through patch management and system maintenance.
• Installed software, upgrade software, and perform troubleshooting on software applications.
• Knowledge and experience with monitoring system, including Nagios.
• Performed RedHat installation, ensuring that configuration and server hardening are compatible with security.
• Updated and documented helpdesk tickets.
• Monitored TCP/IP network environment.
• Conducted hardware and software inventory.
• Customized user environment for users. Troubleshoot user logins using various remote login utilities.
• Documented customer and software configurations and developed and/or updated standard operating procedures and training materials.