SUMMARY

• A top - performing, experienced, and talented Linux Engineer committed to maintaining cutting edge technical skills and up-to-date industry knowledge.
• A professional, detail-oriented Engineer motivated to drive projects from start to finish as part of a dynamic team.
• Experienced in Engineering and System administration, which includes installation and operation of server configurations, continuous integration and continuous deployment, working with complex network topologies with excellent problem-solving skills in a Linux environment.
• Exceptional communication, presentation & interpersonal skills with proficiency at grasping new concepts quickly and productively utilizing the same.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Linux Engineer / Linux Administrator

Confidential - Morrisville, NC

Responsibilities:

• Perform upgrade on Red Hat Enterprise Linux whenever required.
• Expertise on ESXi Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning and Snapshots.
• Delivering and maintaining core builds for Redhat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Support and Service (SUSE) Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
• Good working knowledge of SUSE Enterprise Linux
• Linux systems engineering and administration of (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, SUSE, and Ubuntu Linux) and documentation of processes and procedures for server configuration and security.
• Experience in using VERITAS Volume manager and Logical Volume Manager in creating new file systems, mounting file systems and un mounting file systems.
• Expertise running YUM and RPM for OS patch management
• Perform hardware and software installations, upgrade and maintenance, patch administration, file system management, performance and security analysis and network configuration.
• Expertise on Veritas clustering configuration and administration, Veritas Volume Manager, Linux VMware administration.
• Administrating, creating and modifying DNS records, DHCP scope and reservation, Web servers including record/scope creation, troubleshooting and managing user and group accounts Administration.
• Worked on ESXi and VM storage issues and also coordinated with the storage admin team.
• Creates, maintains and manages Disaster Recovery Plans for Physical and Virtual Servers.
• Support application development, including determining required patches, packages, permissions, software, etc.,
• Worked as Cloud Administrator, involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups.
• Monitoring the operating system, database network by using the monitoring tools.
• Configuration, implementation and administration of clustered servers on Linux environment by using pacemaker.
• Create virtual switches and port groups, configure virtual networking settings for redundancy, and configure network traffic, security and load balancing policies.
• Good understanding of IaaS and virtualization - service orientated architecture designed around the delivery of Infrastructure components as a service.
• Ability to work and understand benefits and challenges with existing infrastructure services so as to target areas for disruptive innovation.
• Develop systems management solutions using automation and self-repair rather than relying on alarming and human intervention.
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot UNIX and Linux processing problems and applied solutions to increase company efficiency.
• Installation and setting up Kubernetes cluster manually from scratch.
• I have been involved in creating Kubernetes deployment, stateful sets, Network policy etc.
• Strong scripting experience using Bash Shell
• Involve in DevOps migration/automation processes for build and deploy systems
• Build automation tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Bitbucket, Gradle, Nexus, Maven, CodeDeploy and more.
• Hands on experience in updating / upgrading ESXi servers, Virtual Center servers and windows virtual machines using Update manager and manual upgrades for Patching
• Ability to administer, maintain, and troubleshoot Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) attached to VMware environments
• Work as part of an agile team implementing software development best practices including test automation, continuous deployment and application monitoring.
• Worked on creating and removing files and directories in Linux servers
• Experience in static source code analysis such as Fortify.
• Control and managed IPv4 and IPv6 address space for Confidential and ensure adequate and efficient public/private IP allocations.
• Ability to set up, maintain account, and monitor system performance.
• Creating/modifying host-based firewall rules using firewalld and iptables.
• Implemented company policies, technical procedures, and standards for preserving the integrity and security of data, reports, and access.
• Administered Linux servers for several functions including managing Apache/Tomcat server, mail server, MySQL database and firewalls in both development and production.
• Configuration and administration of LDAP, NFS and NIS in Linux and also implemented Samba, FTP for sharing of resources between Linux and Windows environments.
• Consistently meet deadlines and requirements for every production work orders.
• Installation of ESXi hypervisor servers, vSphere clients, and VCenter Servers.
• Managed firewall, network monitoring, and server monitoring both on- and off-site.
• Configuring and adding new services as necessary.
• Applying OS patches and upgrading on a regular basis.
• Recommended architectural improvements, design solutions, and integration solutions.
• Amazon Web Services experience such as EC2, S3, EFS and many more.
• Ability to sync elastic stash data between the data centers using logstash.
• Designed and implemented new server standards for core business services.
• Provided continued maintenance and development of bug fixes and patch sets for existing web applications.
• Worked with monitoring tools such as Nagios, New Relic, ElasticSearch, ELK and OMD
• Maintained proper documentation of all the activities carried out during the project.
• Restoring data in the event of an emergency.
• Used Jira as a ticket tracking and workflow tool.
• Used Slack as a collaborative tool.
• Ability to set up MySQL (and preferably PostgreSQL) replication, troubleshoot issues on complex server environments and assist developers.
• Ability to Upgrade and configure system software that supports infrastructure applications.

Jr DevOps Engineer / Linux Administrator

Confidential - Lynchburg, VA

Responsibilities:

• Transitioned to GIT version control and pair programming to raise speed 30%
• Responsible for installation & configuration of Jenkins to support various Java builds and Jenkins plugins to automate continuous builds and publishing Docker images to the Nexus repository.
• Provided base level IT support to non-technical personnel within the business
• Maintained network of 30+ Unix servers with 99.9% up-time .
• Retained existing clients and developed the new business by extending the high quality and efficient service.
• Resolved problems with malfunctioning products.
• Experience in creating Disk Partitions, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) & RAID Technologies on different File Systems.
• Expertise in installing, configuring, supporting, and troubleshooting Unix/Linux Networking services and protocols like TCP, SMTP, HTTP, LDAP, DNS, NFS, DHCP, FTP, SSH, and SAMBA.
• Involved in On Call rotation for supporting production strictly maintaining SLA's.
• Creating and managing user accounts, system security, performance tuning, change management, documents, and procedures on Linux.
• Advise users on appropriate action.
• Building Physical as well as Virtual (VMware) Servers
• Track and route problems and requests and document resolutions.
• Experience installing and administering various Red hat Linux Distributions with the use of Kickstart in order to monitor, scale, maintain, and plan capacity of Servers.
• Research questions using available information resources.
• Design and develop infrastructure monitoring and reporting tools
• Help tune performance and ensure high availability of infrastructure
• Evaluated and responded to incoming sales leads and requests for technical support assistance.
• Activated accounts for clients interested in new services.
• Managed, monitored and tested individual and group user access privileges and security
• Experience with revision control systems, especially CVS and Git - setup and daily use
• Ansible scripts to automatically update system components, saving 30% admin time .
• Automated configuration management and deployments using Ansible playbooks and Yaml for resource declaration and creating roles and updating Playbooks to provision servers by using Ansible .
• Using the Ansible YAML scripts to configure the remote servers.
• Identified and solved technical issues with a variety of diagnostic tools.
• Troubleshooting and maintaining of TCP/IP, Apache, SMTP, and DNS applications.
• Built application platform foundation to support migration from client-server product lines to enterprise architectures and services
• Creation of VMs, cloning, and migrations of the VMs
• Building and maintaining Domain servers
• Handling problems or requirements as per the ticket (Request Tracker) created.
• Building Physical as well as Virtual (VMware) Servers
• Worked extensively with Network File System (NFS) for storage.
• Remained up-to-date on the latest technologies and solutions applicable to company products.
• Installed software, modified and repaired hardware, and resolved technical issues.
• Good understanding of TCP/IP protocol suite.

Linux Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Installed software, modified and repaired hardware, and resolved technical issues.
• Building Physical as well as Virtual (VMware) Servers.
• Verification of the built servers.
• Worked extensively with Network File System (NFS ) for storage.
• Monitored System Activities like CPU, Memory, Disk and Swap space usage to avoid any performance issues.
• Configuration and administration of LDAP, NFS and NIS in Linux and also implemented Samba for sharing of resources between Linux and Windows environments.
• Handling problems or requirements as per the ticket (Request Tracker) created.
• Maintained proper documentation of all the activities carried out during the project.
• Software package and patch administration, involving adding and removing software packages and updating patches.