SUMMARY

• Over 6 years of Linux Administration experience working on RHEL 6.x/7.x system administration. Extensive experience on RHEL networking, package and patch management, Identity management, SAMBA, NFS, DNS, FTP, Postfix, Firewall, SELinux, Troubleshooting hardware/software issues and Windows Active Directory. Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, BURBANK, CA

LINUX ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and maintenance of RHEL 6.x/7.x VM and Physical server.
• Create and configure VMs using VMWARE vCENTER and RHEL installation through kickstart/template.
• Configure Logical Volume Manager for creation of Physical Volume / Volume groups / Logical Volume and File systems in LINUX.
• Installation, configuration, and troubleshooting DNS, NFS, SAMBA, Postfix, FTP, SMTP and other OS services.
• Experience with installation and configuration of ESXi and Windows 2016 server. User and host management through Windows Active Directory (AD).
• Performed configuration changes to OS, software and firmware upgrades with in maintenance timeframe with appropriate change management approvals from ServiceNow Ticketing.
• Diagnose and resolve systems hardware/software related issues and document root cause analysis.
• Automate administration task through use of ansible and shell scripts.
• Experience with Filesystem and VM Backup/Restore using NetBackup.
• Storage provisioning to ESXi hosts through ONTAP System Manager 9.6
• Self - starter, self-motivated and quick learner. Excellent interpersonal communication and problem solving skills. Ability to work in a team or independently.
• Experience in Performance Monitoring, Security, Troubleshooting, Maintenance and support.
• Rotating On-Call 24/7 production support.
• Working closely with other business units like Development, DBA, Middleware, SAN Admin and other product vendors.

Confidential, PEAPACK, NJ

LINUX ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for installation and configuration of RHEL 6.x/7.x VM through vCenter and kickstart.
• Integrate RHEL VMs to Satellite 6.x for Lifecycle management and upgrades. Use YUM for package management.
• Configure LVM, Filesystems, DNS, NFS, SAMBA, Postfix, FTP, SMTP and Identity Management for user and host management.
• Install and configure ESXi and Veritas NetBackup 8.x client for Linux servers. Backup/Restore using NetBackup.
• Coordinate with different teams to perform configuration changes to OS, software and firmware upgrades to hardware with appropriate change management approvals through Remedy.
• Setup and configure firewall rules using firewalld.
• Diagnose and resolve systems hardware/software related issues and document root cause analysis.
• Automate administration task through use of ansible and shell scripts.
• Knowledge of iSCSI, SELinux and MariaDB.
• Working knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing platform.
• Administration and configuration of EC2, EC2 Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing.
• Storage administration of Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Block Store (EBS), Elastic File System (EFS), Glacier and Storage Gateway. Good understanding of Amazon Snow Family Physical devices.
• Network administration using Route 53, CloudFront, virtual private gateways, Network ACLs, Security groups and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) which includes Elastic IPs, Internet Gateways, NAT Gateways, Endpoints and VPC peering.
• Administration of amazon RDS, DynamoDB and ElastiCache
• User management through Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Confidential

LINUX ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration, Backup/Restore and Maintenance of Red Hat Linux 6.x.
• Using VMWARE vCenter create virtual machine (VM), clone VM from template and deploy VM using OVA file.
• Configuring and setting up NFS file systems.
• Installed and configured SAMBA server for Windows and Linux connectivity.
• Established YUM repositories used in conjunction with the kick start server.
• Experience in systems upgrades, patching Linux OS
• Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles and ACLs
• Created and modified users and groups with SUDO access
• Creating and managing filesystems as per business requirement.
• Hands-on experience in diagnosing, troubleshooting various networking concepts, hardware & Linux/ UNIX