Linux Admin Resume
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Washington, DC
SUMMARY
- A highly driven and motivated Linux administrator with proven technical skill in a wide range of operating system platforms and support based system services including and not limited to troubleshooting, maintenance, hardware support, installation and configuration.
- Possesses strong communication skills and comfortable in team based roles or single focused positions with minimal supervision.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating systems and related technologies: RHEL 5/6/7, Solaris 9/10, Centos 4/5/6/7, Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows vista/XP/7/8, Active directory, LDAP, Puppet
Virtualization technologies: KVM, VmWare ESXi, RHEVM
Networking: TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, INTERNET
Computer skills: Microsoft word, excel, PowerPoint, outlook
Software and applications: Oracle 11g, 12c, apache tomcat, puppet, NetBackup(Symantec)
Ticketing applications: Remedy IT service management, BMC Remedy
Connection tools: ssh, telnet, sftp, ftp, WinScp, putty
Backup technologies: NetBackup, gzip, bzip, tar, rsync
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
LINUX ADMIN
Confidential, Washington DC
Responsibilities:
- Patching development, test and production servers based on given patch cycles and times.
- Managed and installed packages using yum and rpm tools
- Created user accounts, managed user privileges, managing disk space and setting up disk quotas for specific accounts
- Installed VmWare ESXi 5.5 on Hypervisor for test purposes
- Created RHEL virtual servers in VmWare center from consolidated image and from attached image in datastore
- Automated installation management using kickstart
- Configured and set up network for newly created virtual servers and added them to the Red Hat Satellite
- Installed, configured and supported apache on virtual machines.
- Managed backup jobs using NetBackup.
- Set up cron jobs and enabled or disabled jobs as required
- General troubleshooting
- Configured password less login between servers
- Performing server readiness review after build according to set guidelines by customer/client
- Created filesystems using logical volumes and updated fstab
- Recovered root password for older generation servers
- Performance tuning for oracle team, fixing issues with Hugepages and swap space modification
- Set up and configured CIFS for windows O.S accessibility
- Fixed broken links associated with startup scripts
- Used Powerpoint for team presentation and mini proposals
- Network troubleshooting using telnet, ping, nmap, traceroute etc
- Fixed NFS stale handles
- Oracle 11g and 12c installation, configuration and support
- Troubleshooting to figure out possible reasons for server slowness
- Killing zombie and runaway processes using the kill command
- Managed security using ports/iptables
- Used Remedy to track tickets and update events per resolution
- Set up passwordless login for financial servers using ssh - key (private and public)
- Root cause analysis and investigative procedure to avoid repeat of server failures
- Other duties assigned
LINUX ADMIN
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Installed red hat servers using puppet and foreman
- Cloned virtual machines in VMware ESXi host and migrated between hosts
- Set up virtualbox using vdi images for developers
- Created and managed user accounts, user profiles, and privileges.
- Wrote mini scripts for repetitive weekly jobs
- Granted sudo (elevated) privileges as required.
- Filesystem investigation to find out why threshold has been passed and fixing as required.
- Configured local repositories for development servers that were not connected to the satellite server
- Responding to alerts thrown by monitoring tool (HPOV)
- Shifts in NOC monitoring servers per week
- Configuring and setting up NFS filesystems
- Chron jobs set up and administration
- Carried out periodic performance reports on production servers to determine points of failure
- Physical server walk-through and observations to determine physical points of failure
- Scanning for LUNS allocated by storage team and creating logical volumes and filesystems from them
- Documentation of each team member procedure
- Physical disk replacements (Hot swappable)
- Data recovery from backup (Symantec Netbackup)
- Supported the audit teams
- Virtual box set up on windows machines using centos vdi images
- General troubleshooting