OBJECTIVES:

• Seeking an opportunity as a Linux System administrator in a company, where I can apply and maximize my technical and personal skills to contribute to the overall cooperate goal. A strong team player that is highly motivated and flexible with great interactive communication & analytical problem - solving skills to deliver high quality solution.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 & 7
• Centos 7
• RAID Technology
• Network Management
• Linux Logical Volume Manager
• Splunk
• JIRA
• Centos 6 & 7
• Zabbix
• Bash Shell Scripting
• VMWare
• Git
• Puppet
• Apache
• LDAP
• Windows MS Office
• Microsoft Visio
• Red Hat satellite wireshark website management typing speed 55wpm

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Linux system Admin

Confidential, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Created and removed files and directories in Linux servers.
• Created user and deleted user as required or upon request
• Performed user management such as creating and deleting users as required.
• Managed and resolved server hostname and IP address locally.
• Managed files and directory permissions using system tools like chown, chmod, chgrp.
• Granted sudo permissions to users to perform certain tasks.
• Maintained excellent verbal communication.
• Disabled and stopped vulnerable services from starting on reboot.
• Performed System administration, maintenance and monitoring day to day operation
• Monitored system activities like memory and disk usage to avoid any performance issues.
• Installed and configured all Linux servers per specifications of customer.
• Installed and configured RHEL 6 & 7 OS on servers - VMs or physical servers.
• Setup and configured Network interface cards on Linux servers.
• Scheduled maintenance window to perform updates and reboots.
• Reviewed log files to troubleshoot and resolve system errors.
• Worked with various teams to improve and strategize system productivity.
• Opened and closed tcp/udp ports on servers using iptables.
• Configured and enabled package repository locally on server.
• Applied security patches to keep servers secure and up-to-date.
• Scheduled various periodic future and queue tasks using cron tab.
• Resolved and tracked assigned tickets using JIRA.
• Installed and managed packages on RHEL 6 and 7 servers using YUM and rpm.
• Setup and configured hard drives using RAID.
• Installed and configured puppet agents on Linux Server.
• Created and added new physical volumes to already existing volume groups
• Mounted and setup volumes to mount upon server reboot.
• Extended and resized file systems using Logical Volume Manager.

Linux Admin

Confidential, Woodbridge, VA

Responsibilities:

• Created and removed files and directories in Linux servers.
• Created user and deleted user as required or upon request
• Performed user management such as creating and deleting users as required.
• Managed and resolved server hostname and IP address locally.
• Managed files and directory permissions using system tools like chown, chmod, chgrp.
• Granted sudo permissions to users to perform certain tasks.
• Maintained excellent verbal communication.
• Disabled and stopped vulnerable services from starting on reboot.
• Performed System administration, maintenance and monitoring day to day operation
• Monitored system activities like memory and disk usage to avoid any performance issues.
• Installed and configured all Linux servers per specifications of customer.
• Installed and configured RHEL 6 & 7 OS on servers - VMs or physical servers.
• Setup and configured Network interface cards on Linux servers.
• Scheduled maintenance window to perform updates and reboots.
• Reviewed log files to troubleshoot and resolve system errors.
• Worked with various teams to improve and strategize system productivity.
• Opened and closed tcp/udp ports on servers using iptables.
• Configured and enabled package repository locally on server.
• Applied security patches to keep servers secure and up-to-date.
• Scheduled various periodic future and queue tasks using cron tab.
• Resolved and tracked assigned tickets using JIRA.
• Installed and managed packages on RHEL 6 and 7 servers using YUM and rpm.
• Setup and configured hard drives using RAID.
• Installed and configured puppet agents on Linux Server.
• Created and added new physical volumes to already existing volume groups
• Mounted and setup volumes to mount upon server reboot.
• Extended and resized file systems using Logical Volume Manager.

JR Linux Admin

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created and removed files and directories in Linux servers.
• Created user and deleted user as required or upon request
• Performed user management such as creating and deleting users as required.
• Managed and resolved server hostname and IP address locally.
• Managed files and directory permissions using system tools like chown, chmod, chgrp.
• Granted sudo permissions to users to perform certain tasks.
• Maintained excellent verbal communication.
• Disabled and stopped vulnerable services from starting on reboot.
• Performed System administration, maintenance and monitoring day to day operation
• Monitored system activities like memory and disk usage to avoid any performance issues.
• Installed and configured all Linux servers per specifications of customer.
• Installed and configured RHEL 6 & 7 OS on servers - VMs or physical servers.
• Setup and configured Network interface cards on Linux servers.
• Scheduled maintenance window to perform updates and reboots.
• Reviewed log files to troubleshoot and resolve system errors.
• Worked with various teams to improve and strategize system productivity.
• Opened and closed tcp/udp ports on servers using iptables.
• Configured and enabled package repository locally on server.
• Applied security patches to keep servers secure and up-to-date.
• Scheduled various periodic future and queue tasks using cron tab.
• Resolved and tracked assigned tickets using JIRA.
• Installed and managed packages on RHEL 6 and 7 servers using YUM and rpm.
• Setup and configured hard drives using RAID.
• Installed and configured puppet agents on Linux Server.
• Created and added new physical volumes to already existing volume groups
• Mounted and setup volumes to mount upon server reboot.
• Extended and resized file systems using Logical Volume Manager.