SUMMARY:

• A highly reliable disciplined professional who loves being challenged. An experienced representative who is able to efficiently complete projects on time and within budget due to having TEMPeffective time management and communication skills.
• Desire to constantly learn and deliver higher results to any team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: CentOS/RHEL 5/6/7; Oracle Linux; Ubuntu

Services: NTP, NFS, LVM, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL

Software: Apache/Tomcat,Nagios,Check MK,Nginx,JIRA,Ansible(roles,playbook), VMware

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for troubleshooting, deploying, supporting, and diagnosing Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 6.x and 7.x) issues within development, test, and production environments
• Responsible for configuring and Integrating the Servers with different environments to automatically provisioning and creating new machines using Configuration management/provisioning with Ansible (playbook,roles)
• Installation, configuration, troubleshooting and integrating new and existing servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux to provide service enhancements, application deployments and infrastructure upgrades
• Responsible for administering and troubleshooting Red Hat Satellite Server
• Responsible for administering and troubleshooting Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager and VMWare products being integrated soon
• Install and configure check mk agents, host and create site using OMD
• Perform daily systems and network monitoring using using check mk
• VMWare product suite installation, configuration, and maintenance but not limited to vCenter, ESXi, and Update Manager.
• Provide systems administrative services for Linux compute clusters and data storage systems.
• Configure Ngnix to halp load balance of traffic on different servers, use for reverse proxy and forward proxy
• Configure and operate Linux cluster management tools for node build, configuration and monitoring.
• Contribute to collaborative, technical documentation systems, project planning and effort reporting tools.
• Provide updates on task progress including written reports and oral presentations.
• Interact with technical staff in related units within the organization.
• Maintenance of server backups and snapshots.
• Perform upgrades and firmware patches using ansible automation tool (playbook).
• Participate in the on - call support rotation for 24/7 operations.
• Responsible for working with various teams to troubleshoot complex Red Hat Enterprise Linux issues and responding to Service Requests (SR) and availability to provide On Call support.
• Work with Ansible Tower as a front-end to Red Hat Satellite Server 6
• Knowledge of writing ansible playbooks and YAML programming language

Confidential, Washington, DC

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Work with engineers to support existing and new information technology infrastructure across multiple networks and domains
• Install and configure infrastructure related software such as DNS, APACHE, Jenkins and Linux repositories for patching and updates.
• Performed daily task of all virtual environments to include building new virtual machines, updating DNS and troubleshooting system problems.
• Implement and coordinate hardware and software upgrades, including troubleshooting
• Offer system administration support for both Windows and Linux (RHEL), including work with system security, network availability, and systems/network analysis
• Provide Tier 1 and Tier 2 support for networking inquiries and offer recommendations for improvements to those devices and systems
• Install new software releases and system upgrades
• Evaluate and install patches and resolve software-related problems
• Perform system backups and recovery
• Maintain data files and monitor system configuration to ensure data integrity
• Maintain responsibility for system security and data integrity
• Assign passwords and monitor use of resources
• Produce IT Security artifacts, business reports, data call reports, forms, etc.
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Confidential, MD

QA Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Performs a variety of complex administrative and analytical tasks in support of the CQA program.
• Coordinates with business users to define business processing activities, data availability, and requirements, to implement operational procedures
• Collects, analyzes and interprets both qualitative and quantitative data; performs analytical and root cause analyses
• Utilizes management and planning tools (flow diagrams, affinity diagrams, gap analysis, and selection/prioritizing matrices)
• Facilitates discussions between operations teams, technical teams and business stakeholders on business processes and procedures
• Identify gaps in project and systems performance management processes.
• Assists in efforts to provide, communication, presentations, and project documentation/artifacts
• Supports the project manager and/or product owner and stakeholders on project priorities
• Assists in maintaining project deadlines, budgets, and schedules
• Develops and produces reports as needed
• Conduct, reviews, evaluate data/trends and create reports to summarize performance of systems and support continuous improvement.
• Perform quality audit of work products.
• Design, develop, and maintain self - service reports and dashboards, predict future outcomes and/or perform what-if analysis.
• Maintain knowledge library and system documentation and procedures.
• Successfully identify and mitigate risks.
• Seeks opportunities to add value to internal and external client initiatives.