SUMMARY:

To obtain a position that will allow me to utilize my interpersonal skills in a professional, yet challenging and stimulating environment while contributing to the success of the company

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY AND EXPERTISE:

Operating Systems: RHEL/CentOS 6/7 Windows R2 2012

Servers/Services: NFS, SSH, Telnet, Apache, Tomcat, DNS, LVM, Github, Docker

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Laurel, MD

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting all kinds of UNIX problems and assisting users.
• User and Group administration in Linux.
• Day to day resolving ticket issues.
• Creating and maintain user, groups account on Linux servers.
• Knowledge of installing RHEL server from scratch using kickstart and Pxe boot.
• Deployment, configuration and administration of VMware VSphere 5.1 environments as well as Red hat (5.and 6.x) installed required binaries and packages.
• Maintain and installing of RPMs and custom package repositories. Deploy, install and configure.
• Hand on experience in data center, work with architecture team to design test, build and support infrastructure.
• Responsible for migration of Microsoft Virtual Servers and VMware servers to ESX platform.
• Diagnosing and resolving system related tasks in accordance with priorities setup in dealing with trouble tickets.
• Installation of operation system patches, updating the maintenance levels when required, when server went down coordinated with Data center team to bring up the server within the time.
• Strong knowledge of Linux kernel configuration, performance monitoring and tuning.
• Good knowledge of LVM, which includes creating, PVs, VGs, LVs and file systems and troubleshooting.
• Involved in complete administration tasks on UNIX, RHEL and documentation for the project executed.
• Responsible for installation, configuration and administration if RHEL on x86 architecture.
• Rapid provisioning and configuration management for CentOS, Kickstart.
• Build automatic provisioning system with Kickstart and Golden Image.
• Architected and implemented automated server provisioning using Kickstart.
• Installed, monitored and supported Web and Application servers on Linux environments.
• Implementation and setup of local Linux disk backups using open Source applications.
• Profound understanding of networking on UNIX.
• Hands on experience using the vi editor.
• Install, configure, tuning, security, backup, recovery and upgrades of Windows/ Linux and higher.
• Experience using Kickstart and modified Kickstart based on server profiles and hardware specifications.

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Provide support in a demanding 24/7 Production environment in Linux
• Setup configuration file for kick start environment for Linux production and test systems.
• Knowledge of built, manage and maintain Cisco UCS enclosure and Blades.
• Connecting blades to IO modules and Fiber interconnect.
• Creating Profiles on new blades with templates with in SLA.
• UCS cluster redundancy testing to ensure VMware vMotion capabilities and full redundancy of cluster (HA).
• Rack/Stack, Cables, Logical configuration, deployment of UCS clusters.
• Provide remote support for field engineers.
• UCS project to stabilize the environment migrate to UCS central, create standard server profile policies.
• Managing database, storage, network and System management teams.
• Knowledge of Infoblox to assign DNS and DHCP/ Dynamic IPs.
• Assign IPs with third party tools for external facing application (Mark Monitor).
• Restoring and backup from NetBackup tool.
• Responsible for creating and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring Solaris, CentOS and RHEL.
• Experience administering, installing, configuring and maintaining Linux.
• Experience installing, upgrading and configuring Red Hat Linux 5.x, 6.x, 7.x using
• Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.
• Configures DNS, NFS, FTP, remote access, and security management.
• Creates Linux Virtual Machines using VMware Virtual center.
• Installs, upgrades and manages packages via RPM and YUM package management
• Installs, configures and supports Apache on Linux production servers.

Confidential, Washington, DC

System Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and Upgrade of RHEL 5.x,6.x OS.
• Daily Administration of RHEL 5.x and 6.x.
• Administered Linux servers for several functions including managing Users, Groups and Permission for each Group and Users.
• Create and maintaining user, groups accounts on Linux Servers.
• Implemented and administered VMware ESX 4.x for running the Red Hat Linux Servers on development and test servers.
• Installed software packages and configured File systems as per specifications of client.
• Involved in configuration and support of production environment hosted in a 24x7 setup.
• Troubleshooting and problem resolutions on Linux servers.
• Troubleshooting application issues on Apache web servers and database servers running on Redhat Linux.
• Monitored the servers and Linux scripts regularly and performed troubleshooting steps.
• Package management using RPM, YUM and UP2DATE in Red hat Linux.
• Expertise in Linux backup/restore with tar, gunzip, including disk partitioning and formatting.
• Maintained necessary backup of the important files and documented Linux scripts for future reference.
• Troubleshooting all kinds of UNIX problems and assisting users.
• Involved in installing infrastructure and maintaining the performance of server, availability. Storage system software and functionality and interface components.
• Involved in hardening security on all UNIX servers.
• Involved in troubleshooting shell scripts.
• Wrote & automated security audit scripts in the environment.
• Knowledge of installing RHEL Server from scratch using Kickstart.
• Server Installations, configurations, upgrades and migrations on HP - UX, Linux.
• Created RAID volumes using RAID Controllers and LSI Hardware.
• Configuring and maintaining virtual server environment using VMWARE ESX vSphere 4.x.
• Install and configure ftp servers running wu-ftpd 2.6.
• Performed day-to-day LVM operations and System Admin tasks.
• Creating Linux virtual machines using VMware virtual center.