Aws Engineer / System Administrator Resume
Denver, CO
SUMMARY
- Versatile, resourceful IT Professional with nearly 30 years’ experience supporting 24x7 multi - platform environments.
- E xtensive hands-on expertise in AWS Cloud Administration, Linux system administration, Tomcat administration, MySQL and Oracle RDBMS database administration, and network administration.
- Additional past experience in, Solaris and AIX system administration, and PostgreSQL database administration.
- Seasoned technical resource, with a proven track record in substantially improving system performance, availability, maintainability and scalability.
- Excel at communicating complex technical information to diverse audiences.
- Innovative and proactive problem solver, recognized for recommending solutions focused on simplicity and ease of administration.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Languages: bash, HTML, SQL, PHP
Software: Apache, lighttpd, Nginx, Kafka, Streamsets, Hadoop, Bamboo, Confluence, Crowd, Fisheye/Crucible, Jira, Nagios, Up.Time, phpMyAdmin, Git, Subversion, Logstash, Salt, Ansible, Puppet, Solr (Apache), Tomcat, Java, Jboss, Glassfish, Weblogic, WebSphere, Big Brother, ePolicy Orchestrator, MS Active Directory, Quest Authentication Services, Quest Xtensions for Device Management, samba, Spacewalk, TOAD, Visio, Zendesk
Databases: MySQL, Oracle RDBMS, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, FileMaker Pro, Sybase
Platforms: Linux (RedHat/CentOS/Scientific Linux, SuSE, and Ubuntu), VMware ESX 4.x +, Hyper-V, AWS/Cloud, UNIX (AIX 5.x, Solaris 8/9), Windows, MacOS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Denver, CO
AWS Engineer / System Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Provide Linux and Windows system administration and database administration for clients and internally.
- Design solutions and provide cost estimates/diagrams for AWS environments.
- Respond to RFPs.
- Architect, install, and configure ArcGIS services.
Environment: AWS EC2 and VPC, ELB/ALB/ECS, Ubuntu, Oracle Linux, Amazon Linux, Ansible, Rundeck, Windows, Jira, Confluence, GitHub
Confidential
System Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Provided Linux and Windows system administration and database administration in a heavily-virtualized 24x7 production environment.
- Architected Linux and Windows VMs in VMware and vCommander .
- Employed Ansible, bash, and other technologies to update and maintain CentOS/Red Hat and Ubuntu Linux systems.
- Managed domain name registration and SSL certificates.
- Maintained and deployed a variety of application technologies: LAMP/LAPP, Node.js, Java, etc.
- Participated in an environment with ServiceNow as a ticketing system.
- Responded to notifications from EM7 and other monitoring tools.
Environment: CentOS, Red Hat, Windows, VMware, vCenter, vCommander, EM7
Confidential, Lakewood, CO
System Administrator / AWS Administrator
Responsibilities:
- Provided Linux system administration and database administration in a high-performance computing, research-oriented environment.
- Architect-ed instances, VPCs, databases, etc in AWS with CloudFormation, Ansible, and native AWS tools.
- Employed Ansible, bash, and other technologies to update and maintain CentOS and Ubuntu linux systems.
- Maintained and deployed a variety of application technologies: LAMP/LAPP, Node.js, Java, etc.
- Maintained PostgreSQL, MySQL, and NoSQL databases.
- Participated in an Agile development and planning environment with Jira as a ticketing system and Confluence for documentation.
- Project lead and champion of establishing a Docker/Kubernetes environment.
- Responded to notifications from Zenoss and other monitoring tools.
Environment: Ansible, AWS, CentOS, Confluence, Docker, GitHub, Hadoop, Hortonworks/Cloudera, Jenkins, Jira, Kafka, LDAP/Active Directory, MongoDB, MySQL, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Streamsets, Vmware, Zenoss
