Linux System Administrator Resume
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SUMMARY
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Professional with years’ hands - on experience in a Unix/Linux environment and expertise in different flavours including Red Hat, Centos, Ubuntu. Strong knowledge in OS installation, troubleshooting, security design, package management.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- RHEL 6 & 7, RAID Technology, Windows MS Office, VMWare, Ansible, LDAP, AWS, S3, EC2, Network Management, Linux Logical Volume Management, JIRA, Centos 6 & 7, Zabbix, Bash Shell Scripting,
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Linux System Administrator
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Configured and installed RHEL 6&7 OS on VMs and physical servers.
- Applied security patches to keep servers secure and compliant.
- Installed and managed packages on RHEL 6&7 servers using yum and rpm
- Set up and configured boot drives using RAID
- Setup volumes to mount upon server reboot.
- Re-kick Servers using ipmitool.
- Reboot server operating systems to resolve certain issues such as ROF.
- Troubleshoot Drive issues using “smartcltl” command to ascertain drive failure.
- Created and added new physical volumes to already exiting volume groups.
- Configured and enabled package repository locally on server.
- Reviewed log files to troubleshoot and resolve system error.
- Troubleshoot and fix TCP/IP network issues on user workstations
- Granted sudo permission to users to perform certain tasks.
- Worked with other administrators to improve and strategize system productivity.
- Manage and access physical HP servers using ILO.
- Stop and turn off all vulnerable services from starting on reboot.
- Data migration across hosts using rsync and scp.
- Scheduled jobs using crontab.
- Maintain users account, groups and permission.
- Extended and resized file systems using logical volume manager.
- Set up and configured firewall rules using iptables and firewalld.
- Start, stop services manually using “systemctl” command.
Linux Admin
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Perform standard administration tasks (patch management, OS install)
- Resolved and tracked assigned tasks using Jira.
- Monitored system activities like memory, CPU and disk usage to avoid any performance issues.
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Zabbix.
- Installed and configured RHEL 5&6 OS on physical and virtual servers.
- Perform data migration across multiple Linux servers in the environment.
- Create and manage user accounts thereby enforcing account policy (password rigidity, system security).
- Perform disk and memory upgrade on server.
- Assign file system utilities using the “umask”, “chown”, “chgrp”, “chmod” permissions.
- Configured server to run in SElinux enforcing and permissive modes.
- Experience in creating, cloning and deleting virtual machines in VMware.
- Monitored and maintained disk space on server.
- Manage and access physical Dell servers using iDRAC.
- Provide guidance to support team when they have questions or need assistance on a project or task.
- Manage several packages on rhel5 using “yum” and “rpm”.
- Document server baseline and procedures.
