Professional Summary

• I am a motivated IT professional with hands on systems administration, System configuration, Enthusiastic team player, always looking for innovative and efficient engineering solutions, Energetic self-starter capable of learning quickly with minimal guidance.
• I am seeking to progress my career in the Information Technology sector where I will use my skills and experience in system maintenance and technical troubleshooting to contribute to an active growth and productivity of the company.
• I am authorized to work in the United States for any employer.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Bash Shell Scripting,
• Version Control Systems: Git,
• Continuous Integration: Jenkins,
• Automation/Deployment: Ansible,
• Continuous Monitoring: Nagios
• Virtualization: Oracle Virtual Box,
• Platforms: Linux Centos 6&7 RHEL 6&7, and Windows Server 2008
• Storage: LVM, NAS
• Web server: Apache
• Ticketing: Jira/kanban board/Confluence/
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Database: MySql
• Apache, web Server, error.log,
• Automation, Bash, Hardware, content,
• Customer service.
• Database
• Firewalls, Help Desk, HTTP, inventory, LAMP, Managing, memory,
• NAS,
• NFS, Network installation, network
• Process management
• ,Redhat Linux, SAMBA,
• scrum, SSH, servers, Shell Scripting, shell scripts, SMTP, System Administrator, Tech Support, Troubleshoot, troubleshooting, upgrades,
• Windows Server
• Patching

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bear, DE

Responsibilities:

• Working with Dev team, making modifications on the code using Git VCS to clone, add, commit and push codes from local and master branches to central repositories.
• Creating new Ansible YAML, Play-books, Roles and bash shell scripts for application deployments.
• Collaborating with Dev and Prod teams to ensure smooth running of the pipeline.
• Verify and troubleshoot failed maven builds on Jenkins, verifying artifact id, and date stamps on Nexus, troubleshoot, document and communicate failed builds to the Dev team.
• Deploy snapshots of application codes to Dev and SIT/QA environments using playbooks & roles.
• Participate in daily scrum to improve system performance, and automation capabilities.
• Searching and testing open source applications and software to integrate into the infrastructure.
• Creating documentation resources to aid in future troubleshooting issues, to interact with users and business partners to design solutions for current and future business problems including cloud Migration solutions.
• Monitor system infrastructure against zero downtime, perform periodic backups, and troubleshoot failures.
• Diagnose application memory leaks, identify and fix issues related to SElinux, and identify library dependencies for third party software.
• Collaborate with business partners to perform software enhancing testing and scans.
• Resolve package Management dependency issues.
• Using Nagios XIt to monitor overall server performance, log management and communicating log messages to appropriate teams in different environments within the organization.
• Installation, configuration and hardening of Bare Metal Linux servers, working with security team on future patching needs.
• Installation and Configuration of the APACHE web Server on Linux platforms, troubleshoot and access log files for errors and web access traffic.

Linux Systems Administrator,

Hyattsville, MD

Responsibilities:

• System performance tuning and basics in monitoring, analyzing system and application logs, vulnerability assessments, performing upgrades and Patching.
• Managing physical, virtual, and network storage ( HD's, LVM's, NFS, SAMBA, NAS).
• Using command line & software server/application monitoring and process management tools (Nagios, Rsylog).
• Perform installation, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting of LAMP.
• User/group administration, file/directory security, authentication and access management (SSH, Firewalls).
• Analyzing and interpreting system and application log files.
• Configuring SElinux and Tripwire intrusion detection security software.
• Configuration and management of network services (HTTP, NFS, SCP NTP ).
• Troubleshoot boot issues, identify and resolve service failures affecting boot.
• Resolve package management dependency issues.
• Collect system information to aid in troubleshooting, document resources, monitor for any behavior modifications & intrusion, configure system to send log messages to system centralized host.
• Installation, configuration, and Hardening of standalone Linux servers.
• Performing periodic system updates/Patches.

Help Desk Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring Operations and collaborating with employees Help Desk level2 Tech Support Vodafone Essen Germany, Network installation & connectivity tasks for business clients.
• Providing fast pace customer service satisfaction in a quota driven environment, providing accurate customer support to clients all over Europe of English, French and Deutsch language backgrounds.
• Hardware assembly and quality control.
• Testing & troubleshooting new applications.
• Providing end-user system support, resolving access and connectivity issues.
• Collaborate with IT professional to track company asset inventory database.