SUMMARY

• Talented and self - motivated with six years of experience in a Unix/Linux environment and expertise in Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu, SUSE & Solaris.
• Experienced in Break fixes, Server builds, Server decommissioning, Load balancing, Vulnerability Management- Patching Scheduling & Implementation, Install & configure OpenShift 3.11, automation with Ansible, CFEngine, Git, Red Hat Satellite.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: RHEL 5/6/7, CentOS, SLES 10/11/12, UNIX

Scripting: Bash

Technical Skills: Ansible, CFEngine, AWS, LVM, DNS, VMware, Red Hat KVM, TCP/IP, NFS, FTP.

Tools: CyberArk, Novell iManager, Qualys, Rapid 7, Service Now, Veeam, Zenoss, slack, UCS Manager, HP ILOs, SUSE Manager, Red Hat Satellite.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Jacksonville Florida

Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensive patching coordination experience of over 3000 servers; creating quarterly schedules & seeking approvals from application owners, creating change requests in service now and assigning CTASKS to respective teams, getting changes approved at infrastructure change review meeting, suppressing alerts in Zenoss, creating patching playbook and starting email chain to all teams involved, working with all teams to resolve pre/post patching issues, coordinating with 2nd & 3rd shift patching resources to make sure patching goes hitch free, post patching validation and removal of snapshots, updating patching tracker and management.
• Red Hat 6 & 7, Suse 11 & 12 VM and BareMetal server builds
• Responding to variety of reported inputs via phone, web, email, Microsoft Teams, Skype, SLACK, Service Now, system generated messages and various monitoring tools
• Review daily ticket queues and remediate incident/problem management to meet SLA requirements
• Provide rotational 24/7 on-call support to include incident management of Code Red support
• Open cases and troubleshooting with vendors (Nutanix/Oracle/Redhat/SuSE,Veritas/vMWare)
• ESXi host support, security vulnerability testing and remediation, NFS Storage configuration, SSH management, and execute scripts
• Performing compliance scanning to analyse configurations and facilitate implementation of configurations and hardening settings for networks, operating systems, applications, databases, and other information system components.
• Recommend appropriate remedial actions to mitigate risks and ensure information systems employ appropriate level of information security controls.
• Maintain Knowledge based articles & SOPs
• User management, creating user accounts, groups and permissions/access levels.
• Managing sudoers privileged access
• Two years experienced in AWS; deploy AWS EC2 Instances using CloudFormation, User management for EC2 instances using Novell IQManager, Creating IAM roles, creating S3 Buckets, NAT gateways and Subnets for VPCs, configured CloudWatch for monitoring, also configured API Gateway for Serverless infrastructure.
• Administrative duties include supporting Linux servers in a virtualized environment via: Ansible, Cisco UCS Central/Manager, CyberArc, GIT, HashiCorp, Novell IManager, Nutanix, OpenShift, OpenStack, Qualys, Raritan, RedHat 5,6,7; Solaris 10,11; Suse (Manager) 10,11,12; Service Now, Veeam One Reporter (Vmware performance Monitoring tool), VMware vCenter, Zenoss and other propriety systems
• Experience writing bash scripts to automate routine tasks.
• Writing ansible Ad-Hoc commands and ansible playbooks to automate routine tasks
• Experienced with Service Now, creating incidents, tasks, normal & standard changes, generating reports, retrieving incident, change, tasks history, etc

Confidential - Orlando, FL

Broadcast IT Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensive experience in System Administration and Enterprise Installation, configuration patching, upgrades and performance tuning on Linux systems (RedHat, CentOS, Ubuntu)
• Processes and Process management (at and crontab)
• Software Management and RPM Packages (rpm and yum)
• Server Administration and network administration
• Apache Web Server Configuration, FTP Server Configuration and NFS Server Configuration
• Basic and Advanced Linux Security methodologies and SELinux and Network Security Enforcement
• Managing services, maintaining and managing log files, monitoring event logs and troubleshooting system problems.
• Installing and upgrading the kernel, checking and understanding kernel version
• Installation and configuration of Apache webserver and building of LAMP stack and Apache virtual hosts.
• Monitoring System Performance using CloudWatch
• User management, Creating and managing user account, groups and access levels.
• Creating, Mount & Unmount the File Systems.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation, analytical and problem-solving skills, willing to take initiative and able to apply new tools and technologies in the projects.

Confidential

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Resolving software and hardware issues
• Document customer and software configurations and develop and/or update standard operating procedures and training materials
• Assist in the research, evaluation, testing, selection, procurement, implementation and maintenance of new software/hardware/systems.
• Provide first level support to end-user community on hardware, software and network related problems, questions, and/or issues.
• Troubleshoot problems with operating systems, applications, remote access, email, telephone, and wireless issues.
• Setup computers and printers on the network
• Monitoring TCP/IP network environment
• Experience with Internet technologies including TCP/IP and HTTP
• Hardware and software inventory.
• Scheduling backup of files.
• Performed Operating System upgrades
• Configuration and troubleshooting of mobile devices
• Familiarity with network systems such as servers, switches, firewalls and routers.

Confidential

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Develop new system OS and 3rd party software builds as new versions are available
• Version control product builds to support a repeatable process within the lab and with project teams receiving the product release
• Support system and platform builds for development and test environments
• Automate the build process to the extent possible to reduce cycle time and errors caused by manual effort
• Coordinate patch management process
• Manage availability and usage of test and development equipment, labs, and virtual machines
• Coordinate with development resources to develop or resolve product issues that involve the OS and 3rd party builds
• Update standard builds to contain new versions of 3rd party software and/or OS
• Work with development teams to design and implement test and development labs and associated software.