SUMMARY

• Highly dedicated and motivated individual possessing experience within the IT industry as a Linux systems administrator/engineer.
• Strong ability to solve complex problems and adapt to any new surroundings.
• Seeking a position where my vast experience will be built upon through the use of new technologies and skills, along with adding value to an organization by contributing to its goals using my expertise.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• HP and Dell server platforms VMware Administration
• Linux/Windows Admin/Engineer Patch and provision servers
• User Management Package Management
• Red hat satellite
• Disk management
• LVM
• Raid Decommission and migration Servers
• Git
• Git hub Docker
• Ansible Change and incident management
• Service Now
• Netcool Cloud Computing AWS
• Troubleshooting bash scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Raritan, NJ

Linux Admin/Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration and Operating System upgrade on, Centos, Red Hat Linux 5.x, 6.x, 7.0Ubuntu 13.x, 14.x and Windows 2008.
• Managed windows servers configured disk drives and managed IP.
• Provisioned and configured virtual servers with RedHat, CentOS, Oracle Linux and windows 2008/2012/2016 also OVF templates.
• Managed and resolved incident tickets opened by clients as well as monitored logs by event monitoring system Netcool.
• Installation of ESXI Hypervisor, vSphere clients and vCenter servers & Managed ESXI hypervisor and deployed Virtual guest machines, created clones, snapshots and templates.
• Managed and installed software packages using YUM and RPM, creating YUM repository files for running servers.
• Monitored system performance and prevented resource exhaustion using TOP, SSH, SAR VMSTAT, IOSTAT, NETSTAT.
• Patching servers through Red Hat Satellite and Ansible Playbook to prevent system vulnerability.
• Deployed Ansible for automation and configuration management to existing infrastructure and writing multiple custom ansible playbooks for deployment orchestration and developed Ansible playbook to automate day to day administration.
• Configured NIS Server and client on servers for authentication and authorization.
• Implemented and troubleshooting NFS, FTP, SAMBA, SSH, DHCP, DNS.
• Experienced in configuring physical volume, volume group, Logical volume, also extending and Managing LVM.
• Experience working on Docker hub, creating Docker images and handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configuration.
• Responsible for Containerizing using Docker, Docker Compose.
• Worked on creation of Docker containers, Docker files and Docker consoles for managing the application life cycle, configured deployment automation of all the microservices.
• Monitor and managed Disk space as needed in LVM and Setup RAID 0,1,5,6,10.
• Experienced in Job scheduling and automate process using CRON JOB.
• Created different Linux file systems on partitions and disks such as ext3, ext4, and xfs.
• Implemented AWS solutions using EC2, S3 buckets, VPC, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer, Auto scaling groups and Cloud Formation Templates.
• Performed backup/restore operations using tar, and gzip.
• Worked with hard linking and soft linking of files.
• Setup SSH password - less authentication.
• Transferred files between users securely via SCP.
• Set up user and groups accounts, setting up permissions for users.
• Creating templates, cloning Linux Virtual Machines and migrating servers between ESX hosts.
• Configuration LVM using SAN and virtual disks.
• Patching and upgrading servers through Red Hat satellite.
• Experienced with automation tool such as ansible.
• Experienced in bash scripting language.
• Experienced in bash scripting to schedule and automate processes.
• Experienced in working with VCS cluster.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Linux Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Monitor status of critical system services reporting performance and server health Develop mutually beneficial working relationships with customers.
• Responsible for Linux server’s maintenance, troubleshooting, disk management, availability and different applications running on them.
• Maintained DNS, DHCP, HTTPS, NIS, NFS, FTP, TFTP and Apache on Linux servers.
• Installation of VMWare ESXI, migration of VM from one host to another host also Installed and managed VCenter, taking snapshots in the environment.
• Built and configured VirtualLinuxServers using ESXI and V Sphere Client to ensure system scalability, optimization, management and availability needs.
• Worked on Installation, Configuration, and upgrade of Centos, RedHat Linux release from RHEL 5 To RHEL 6 and RHEL 7 using Red-hat satellite.
• Experienced in file system administration, resolving system errors, crashes and file system errors.
• Security Configuration, Network, System Monitoring on UNIX based Servers Basic hardening of the system and network security, attaining the goal of allowing only the valid users/ports into the system.
• Implantation and troubleshooting of network service NFS, FTP, NTP, Telnet and SSH.
• Maintaining appropriate filesystem security and monitoring status of process in order to increase system efficiency.
• Setup AWS infrastructure using EC2, S3, IAM, EBS and Security Groups.
• Experienced of AWS Identity & Access Management.
• Maintaining, supporting, troubleshooting, configuring, installing, and deploying upgrades on Linux servers.
• Installed, removed, and upgraded various Linux packages with the yum and rpm utilities.
• Configured various network services - DNS, LDAP, DHCP, NFS, NIS, Apache, Samba, SSH, FTP, Telnet, HTTP, HTTPS
• Experience NIC bonding/NIC Teaming configuration in Linux/UNIX /VMware systems to increase the bandwidth or redundancy based on requirement by the application. knowledge of Linux kernel configuration, performance monitoring, and tuning
• Set up, configure and trouble shoot TCP/IP, DHCP, Default Gateway, FTP, Firewall SSH, Iptables, UDP, NFS in a Linux Servers.
• Installing, upgrading, and configuring Red Hat Linux 5 to 6 using Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Hardened Linux systems through iptables, SE Linux, and port Performed L1, L2 systems administrator duties, while working in an environment consisting of both physical and virtual machines.
• Worked in data center such as racking stacking and cabling.