SUMMARY

Self - starter, team player, highly motivated, and contributor to dynamic work environment. Detail oriented, excellent communication skills, collaborative and problem solving skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Platforms: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6, Ubuntu, x86 64 platforms, Windows 2008, 2012 Server, Win7, 10

Hardware: HP (ProLiant DL980, DL380e, DL580), Dell PowerEdge M620, PowerEdge M905, PowerEdge M910

Software: Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, HTML5, TWS

Languages: Bash, Perl

Other Techs.: Symantec Net Backup 7.x, TCP/IP, SMTP, NFS, FTP, VPN, MYSQL Database, NagiosPuppet, BMC Remedy, LVM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

AWS/Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Build Red Hat Linux server 6 and 7
• Configure and setup Netback-up/DDBR
• LDAP configuration and management.
• Experience with Physical and virtual Decommissioning of Linux servers
• Logical volume partitioning and managements.
• Red Hat Network configuration/networking protocols (DNS, NAT, SSL, TCP/IP, IPv4, UDP)
• Extended Experience with virtualization - KVM and VMware/VSphere.
• Experience using YUM and RPM for package management.
• Experience on IBM Remedy ticketing system; able to Assign, open and close tickets.
• Experience in Shell scripting (bash) to automate system administration jobs.
• Monitoring the hosts and networks using NAGIOS, Zenoss, HP OpenView and BMC.
• Experienced in Amazon Web services tools;
• Experienced in Amazon Web services tools;
• Amazon machine Image, IAM, and Auto-scaling.
• Expertise in Installing and Managing LDAP.
• Monitors and tunes appropriate systems to ensure optimum level of performance.
• Performs moderately complex systems/database administration.
• Oversees appropriate level software installations, upgrades and related software packages.

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Linux / Cloud Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform server updates, patching, upgrade and package installations using RPM and YUM.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Red Hat Linux servers
• Utilized kick start for systems builds/recovery.
• Manage and/or provide guidance to junior members of the team
• Design, install, administer, and optimize company servers
• Experience with virtualization - KVM, VMware ESXi.
• Scheduling and managing jobs, patches and configuration files with Red hat Satellite
• NFS/CIFS file system mounting and support for developers.
• Experience with JBoss installation, configuration and load balancing
• Apache Web Server and Apache Tomcat hosting
• Apply required security patches within NIST and enterprise guidelines
• Experience upgrading server operating systems, tech refresh, imaging, patch management.
• Acquire permission from stakeholders to change and/or fix their systems.
• Maintain Linux systems serving as firewall, mail server, DHCP and DNS server
• Monitoring System Performance of Virtual memory, Managing Swap Space, Disk utilization and CPU utilization.
• System Configuration and hardening using Iptables, SELinux, TCP Wrappers, ACL on Red-Hat Linux.
• Installing, configuring, hardening and upgrading Linux servers, evaluating needs and installing appropriate recommended OS patches as needed using Yum.
• Follow and document procedures related to systems administration of backup and recovery environment.
• Create, manage and troubleshoot LVM.
• Check alert logs, trace files and file System maintenance
• Experience with Zimbra open source enterprise mail servers setup and troubleshooting of issues related to configuration.
• Utilize puppet for automated configuration, management and deployment.
• Present and guide changes through Remedy change management process
• Support Micro Strategy development team
• Investigate and research issues, determine impact, and provide remediation and document RCA when required.
• Develop and maintain training materials and server documentation for use by internal team.
• Monitor system performance using Nagios and OSSEC.
• Experience with OS-Ticketing and Remedy ticketing system
• Responded to and closed out Remedy tickets.
• Experience with Network configuration/networking protocols (DNS, NAT, SSL, TCP/IP, IPv4, UDP)
• A good knowledge of Programing language/scripting in Python, and shell/Bash scripting.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed RHEL 5/6 on servers and set up volumes
• Installed and Administered patches and updates
• Installed packages on servers.
• Configured and managed Server networking.
• Troubleshoot and resolved TCP/IP networking issues.
• Performed user accounts administration.
• Managed Password aging configuration on servers
• Maintained file systems and host security.
• Performed security hardening on dedicated servers by turning off unused services
• Setup SSH keys for secured key-based autantication
• Monitored and controlled system processes.
• Monitored and Managed Server performance using associated tools.
• Performed logs administration to detect and resolve system errors
• Managed systems storages using LVM
• Configured Apache HTTP and Apache Tomcat Servers
• Utilized cron to schedule and run jobs
• Developed functional and technical documentation
• Work as part of a team and provide 7x24 support when required.