SUMMARY:

• Meet with PM, auditors and leads on analysis, planning, design, implementation, documentation, assessment, and management of structural framework to align IT strategy, plans, and systems with mission, goals, structure and processes of organization.
• Highly Skilled Systems Administrator with exposure in AWS and a background in implementing cloud infrastructure.
• Extensive experience working as a build engineer, patching software from source.
• Extensive knowledge installing, configuring, and troubleshooting Oracle WebLogic servers.
• Extensive experience with the configuration management of large enterprise infrastructure utilizing Puppet and Ansible.
• Experienced with systems and application monitoring using tools such as Nagios.
• Fluent in Shell, Bash and Python scripting.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
• Enthusiastic team player with professional work ethic, a positive attitude and open to new ideas.
• Excellent organization skills, research and multitasking abilities.
• Adept in the documentation of key operational processes and SOPs.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7; Oracle Solaris 10/11; CentOS Linux 5/6/7.

Hardware: HP ProLiant servers DL380p, Sun SPARC M5000, Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5240, M5000, T3 and T4 servers), DL380E, DL560 Gen8

Languages: UNIX Shells (ksh, bash), PerlSoftware: IBM Netcool/Omnibus, Remedy, VPN, VMware 5.1, Oracle Database, Symantec NetBackup 7.1, MySQL Database, Puppet.

Network Protocols: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, Telnet, SSH, VPN

Virtualization: KVM, VMWare ESXi (VSphere, VCenter)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior System Engineer/DevOps

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Install, configure, administer, optimize and support system servers and related components.
• Automate configuration management, infrastructure, and application deployment using Ansible .
• Create ansible playbooks infrastructure and custom application.
• Analyze, diagnose, troubleshoot and resolve software problems.
• Monitor the state of systems to ensure they do not experience configuration drifts using Ansible.
• Use Ansible playbooks to configure software repositories, install applications and confirm its functionality.
• Start and stop relevant services using Ansible.
• Tune configuration files, deploy and update applications using Ansible.
• Highly - skilled knowledge in the documentation of key processes and ensuring systems conform to information security policies, practices, applicable federal mandates, and meets or exceeds business needs.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively across all organizational teams and with customer.
• Extensive knowledge in building customized software from source.
• Documentation and Tracking of issues, logs and audit files.
• Update server baseline document in line with changes on servers.
• Install and implemented new patches to Linux operating system.
• Installation, configuration and daily Support of Apache Web server.
• Install. Configure, and administer Oracle WebLogic Server.
• Deploy applications, create domains and start Oracle WebLogic servers.
• Monitor domain resources, set up and use node manager, deploy applications, configure database resources and configure clusters of Oracle WebLogic servers.
• Ensure appropriate security measures are applied using benchmarks and security standards. Remediate compliance issues based on vulnerability, and internal audit reports for the operating system.
• Plan, install, administer, and apply operating system patches and upgrades on a regular basis for the Red Hat Linux operating systems and other software and custom applications.
• Participate in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation within the infrastructure.
• Create, change and delete user accounts upon request.
• Track, report, support, investigate and troubleshoot server issues.
• Participate in server disaster recovery testing and upgrades associated with emergency and system exercises.
• Research, configure and implement Personal Identity Verification Single Sign-on smart card/Linux interaction authentication.
• Configure Netbackup backup software.
• Implement Linux server replication/synchronization.
• Update server baseline document in line with changes on servers.
• Check alert logs, trace files and file system maintenance.
• Perform daily system administration activities (i.e. checking system logs, troubleshooting common network problem, cleaning up unneeded space, checking system performance etc.).
• Provide afterhours support for critical mission on systems.
• Mentor junior staff in understanding emerging technologies and processes.
• Serve as POC for the Linux team in both internal and external communications.
• Research third-party tools and solutions for integration into developmental and operational environments.
• Make recommendations to senior management on fixes for hot-button issues and bottlenecks within the enterprise environment
• Coordinate tasks assignments among junior staff.

Linux Virtualization Engineer

Confidential, Washington, DC

Responsibilities:

• Create and configure AWS VMs and VPCs.
• Design, build, configure and test highly available environments with multiple applications, utilizing almost all of AWS stack including (EC2, ELB, R53, S3, RDS, SQS, IAM) focusing on high availability, fault tolerance and auto scaling.
• Work with customers to understand business needs, project goals, and help define requirements.
• Hands on experience providing enterprise support to Linux and CentOS servers.
• Performed installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on Confidential servers.
• Knowledge of shell scripting in running system jobs.
• Experienced in a Network operations center supporting system users.
• Documentation and Tracking of issues, logs and audit files.
• Update server baseline document in line with changes on servers.
• Installed and implemented new patches to Linux operating system.
• Installation, configuration and daily Support of Apache Web server.
• Experience in network configurations to include knowledge of switches, hubs and firewalls.
• Policy management and applying Network File Systems for sharing resources across the network.
• System Performance Monitoring and capacity planning in anticipation of resource usage and needs.
• Installation and configuration of VERITAS NetBackup master, media and client servers.
• Controlling the System Logging services, and examining system Log Files of all system events.
• Checking alert logs, trace files and file System maintenance.
• Introduced new servers to the network. Maintaining and troubleshooting network connectivity.

Linux Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience providing enterprise support to Linux and CentOS servers.
• Performed installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 on Confidential servers.
• Knowledge of shell scripting in running system jobs.
• Experienced in a Network operations center supporting system users.
• Documentation and Tracking of issues, logs and audit files.
• Update server baseline document in line with changes on servers.
• Installed and implemented new patches to Linux operating system.
• Installation, configuration and daily Support of Apache Web server.
• Experience in network configurations to include knowledge of switches, hubs and firewalls.
• Policy management and applying Network File Systems for sharing resources across the network.
• System Performance Monitoring and capacity planning in anticipation of resource usage and needs.
• Installation and configuration of VERITAS NetBackup master, media and client servers.
• Controlling the System Logging services, and examining system Log Files of all system events.
• Checking alert logs, trace files and file System maintenance.
• Introduced new servers to the network. Maintaining and troubleshooting network connectivity.

Solaris and Linux Systems Administrator

Confidential, Upper Marlboro, MD

Responsibilities:

• Day-to-day functional administration tasks, as well as application-specific technical support.
• Installation automation in Red Hat Linux using Kickstart procedure.
• Automate IT infrastructures and manage computer message logging using Syslog.
• System and Application user management; groups and access levels.
• Managing system services using SMF, service and chkconfig.
• Strong documentation skills.
• System Configuration/hardening within NIST and facility guidelines.
• Configuring, Migration and resource management of Zones.
• Checking alert logs, trace files and file System maintenance using monitoring scripts.
• Oversee NetBackup infrastructure to make sure best practices are in place.
• Follow change management and configuration management procedures and guidelines.
• Install and maintain various Storage, Backup, Recovery and Data Protection infrastructure.
• Perform system directed restores of data.
• Convert clients and archive catalogs from legacy environments to current supported versions.
• Experience with Veritas Netbackup 7.5 +
• In-depth knowledge of NFS, DHCP, FTP.
• Experience using YUM and RPM for package management.
• Setup ZFS quotas, reservation and automatic NFS-share of directories.
• Daily Administration support of Oracle Solaris 10 servers and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.