Linux Systems Administrator Resume Philadelphia, PA - Hire IT People

SUMMARY

A dedicated Systems Administrator with 6 years of experience on Linux Systems. Performed installation of RHEL on various hardware platforms. Experience in filesystem, volume management, recovery, patches, network backup, FTP, DNS and NFS.
As Systems Administrator, was responsible for managing smooth day to day operations of mission critical Linux Systems. Involved performing upgrades, maintaining system integrity and monitor cluster performance in a multi - tenancy environment. Professional attitude with strong communication skills, can take pressure to drive with enthusiasm to support clients.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Reach out to application and server owners to gather data regarding these servers.
Set up meetings with different application owners to gather application data.
Run vulnerability scans using Rapid7 scanner across the domains to identify threats.
Schedule patch windows after acquiring downtime data.
SSH into servers which had no owner (orphaned servers) to identify last logins.
Ran bash scripts to pull last login information from orphaned servers.
Reaching out to users in Lastlog reports to identify patch windows and applications hosted on the servers.
Patched multiple systems in the given time windows. Ensured the applications were running after reboot. Troubleshooted any issues that occurred after reboot.
Added the servers to Nagios monitoring tool and monitored post-patch performance.
Deployed Ansible server and add hosts for automated patching.

Confidential, Austin TX

Linux Systems Administrator / Engineer

Responsibilities:

As an integral part of an IT department responsible for a diverse environment, I have contributed enormously to the successful integration of hardware and software systems.
I have completed several projects which have brought tremendous improvement in the computing environment, to integrate diverse Linux and Windows environments.
Providing 2nd and 3rd level system support - managing all flavors of Linux and Windows platforms - day to day duties include the following:

Confidential, Bentonville, AR

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

Installing applications using YUM and RPM.
Adding machines to Nagios and SolarWinds monitoring tools.
Creating local accounts and adding them to appropriate groups.
Physical racking/stacking and cabling the HP, Confidential and Dell servers in the datacenter.
Solving complex application connectivity issues using TCPDump and Wireshark.
Provisioning servers, installation and configuration, post-build monitoring and troubleshooting.
Monitor the availability and health of the infrastructure and applications across multiple datacenters. (System resources, CPU load, disk space, memory).
Restore data in the event of emergency.
User management: creating, modifying, closing and propagating maps to NIS clients.
Deploying virtual guest machines using clones, snapshots, and templates.
Punching holes in the OS firewall using IPTables.
Setting up password less entries between different servers.