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Senior Linux Administration Resume

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Nashua, NH

SUMMARY

  • 6 years of experience as IT professional with Linux Administration, Shell Scripting and vSphere 5.1, 5.5 administration. Insightful experience in implementation, operations and support functions of mission - critical business solutions using IT as a tool.
  • My skills include automating the configuration and maintenance of different services like DNS, ISC DHCP, Remote Administration, Server Migration, Network Monitoring using Nagios and MRTG, Configuring and Maintaining APACHE servers, SAMBA and NFS services, Security administration using Ipatables and TCP wrappers, RAIDs, LVM, performing the Automated Installations using Jumpstart and Kictstart, Performance Monitoring & Tuning, Backups and Restoration.
  • Experience in Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring.
  • Experience in Package management using RPM and YUM in Red Hat Linux.
  • Worked on VMware vSphere, installing and configuring vsphere 5.1 and 5.5, creating and configuring Guest machines, managing multiple ESXi servers through vCenter.
  • Highly self-motivated and enthusiastic.
  • Excellent problem solving skills.
  • Excellent knowledge on Linux Migrations.
  • Worked on Change Management and Disaster Recovery management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Nashua, NH

Senior Linux Administration

Responsibilities:

  • Involved in implementation of infrastructure for Confidential ’s new project called gscloud.
  • Giving support and daily maintenance to E-elab advisor
  • Installing and Configuring the Virtual Machines on ESX 5.5, maintaining more than 200 VMs.
  • Configured Apache servers, Apahce load balancing and securing Apache using mod security,
  • Managing ESXi servers through vCenter.
  • Automating Daily activities using Shell Scripting.
  • Client overall system administration activities.
  • Creating the LUNs on Confidential Equalloic and attaching to virtual machines.
  • Configured NFS cluster using RedHat Cluster Suite and Heartbeat and configured the shared storage using RDM across Virtual Machines.
  • Installed and configured packages, patches on RedHhat Linux environments.
  • Create and manage user accounts and permissions.
  • Perform regular file archival and purge as necessary.

Confidential, York, PA

Linux administration with Shell scripting

Responsibilities:

  • Installed and configured several Red Hat Servers and VMware ESXi 4.1, 5 & 5.5 Virtual Environment.
  • Providing the support for different services like DNS, DHCP and NFS
  • Managing ESXi servers through Vcenter.
  • Building the Linux packages and applying patches.
  • OSS Trouble Report Handling.
  • Technical problem solving (debugging and tracing of enterprise level applications)
  • Client OSS overall system administration activities.
  • Troubleshooting customer servers.
  • Interacting with the customers. Providing on call support to the customers during product installations or upgrades.
  • Document updates using tagtool.
  • Preparation of user guides and functional descriptions, conducting the periodic reviews of the existing documents.
  • Adhering to 100% to the project management process. Interfacing with various departments and teams for information gathering, systems implementation and ownership.
  • Working on HP Blade machines and Confidential power edge servers.
  • Configured and deployed patches, upgrades, bug fixes on both physical and virtual Red Hat Linux servers.
  • Expertise in security hardening (iptables/selinux) major Production Servers, and compiling, building and installing web server based Linux tools.
  • Monitoring and troubleshoot backups and schedule Cron jobs.
  • Experience in deploying RHEL 5.x, 6.1 in a blade environment.
  • Installing and updating packages using YUM (custom YUM servers/repositories)
  • Patch management of servers and maintaining server's environment in Development/Staging/Production.
  • Resolving assigned remedy tickets in Development/Staging/Production.

Confidential 

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

  • Maintaining Linux Remote Servers,
  • Installing, Configuring and Maintaining Web, Mail, DNS, Data base Servers.
  • Configuring the SSL certificates for web servers.
  • Remote Administration, Server Migration.
  • Installing different Perl Modules.
  • Patch Updating, Backup/Restore, performance tuning.
  • Performing Linux automated installations - Kickstart, PXE installations.
  • Configuring RAIDs and LVMs.
  • User Management, ACLs and User Quotas.
  • Performing backups using dump, tar, Rsync.
  • Performance monitoring using SAR, Iostat, Vmstat, top.
  • Securing the servers using Iptables, TCP Wrappers.
  • Network & Resource Monitoring using Nagios.
  • Automating the daily activities using Shell Scripting like user administration, backups, log monitoring and monitoring of different resources.
  • MRTG,NTOP for monitoring the Network.
  • Intrusion Detection using snort and Tripwire.
  • Vulnerability scanning using Nessus.

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