SUMMARY

• Seasoned Linux System Administrator with over 10 years of experience managing virtually all aspects of distinct OS environment. Background generating custom code, patching, and configuring unique Linux platforms to maintain performance thresholds.
• Expect oversight for Linux system administration and maintenance, based on latest industry technical standards.
• Detailed approach to streamlining process for preparing complex company operating system initiatives and material

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Ability to work on a Linux and window command line
• Batch processing with informatics and CA scheduler
• Installing operating systems and configurations monitoring system with Nagios, cloud watch forgelight and google analytic
• Configure badboy script and url for system health check and smoke test
• Installing and configuring Apache, FTP and OpenSSH.
• Confidential Web Services - EC2,AMIs, IAMs, ELB, VPC,SNS, SES, and Cloud Watch
• Database installing, configuring, query and back-up MySQL
• Introducing systems to the LAN
• Administering storage Fdisk and LVM
• Development and Networking support
• Strong combination of system administration and communication skills
• Strong documentation skill with Excel, word and power point
• Strong focus on goal and result
• Manage code deployment, fixes, update and related processes.
• Work with CI and CD tools, and source control such as GIT, Jenkins.
• Familiarity with container orchestration services, especially Docker
• Familiarity with the ITIL lifecycle
• Experience with container networking on Docker.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

Senior Linux System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Perform the technical research necessary acquire skills needed to implement solutions that help maintain system availability and readiness while significantly reducing the labor needed to accomplish these tasks .
• Perform and helped document a very vigorous testing regime tied to more complex Ansible YAML based playbooks but also developed customized Ansible modules using the Python development language. Several playbook modules significantly enhanced the ability to manage security and cybersecurity related issues in a rapid and highly repeatable manner.
• Developed and implemented an Ansible playbook application and associated month Linux OS patching that is critical to the maintenance of a heathy information technology environment.
• Provide hands-on support for the ongoing development of Infrastructure-As-Code (IAC) and support operation and engineering team.
• Performed key technical support during the implementation of a multi-platform SSH key-based authentication system .
• Administer Ansible infrastructure, perform maintenance and configuration and provide SME level support.
• Develop, configure, and administer DevOps and IT automation solutions.
• Analyzing infrastructure automation requirements and code development.
• Configuration management with ansible
• Applying scripting languages such Python, and Bash.
• Performed research on automated server builds, provisioning and management on Nutanix.
• Design and develop reusable components, code, and document custom automation frameworks, maintain scripts, and update these items as needed to build continuous delivery pipelines, ensuring rapid availability of the product.
• Deploy and decommission client environments for multi and single tenant hosted applications following established processes and procedures.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures.
• Develop scripts to automate day to day functions within the environment.
• Coordinate activities with other technical personnel as appropriate.
• Executing tasks defined in the computing project plans, schedules, design, development, integration, securing, documentation and deployment of using best practices in computing methodologies and standards.
• Building servers from organization approved templates, provisioning these servers per SLA.
• Responsible for swiftly resolving disruptions to technology services to minimize user impacts and maintain service levels.
• Work with vendor support on root cause analysis when technical problems are encountered
• Fault finding, analysis and logging information for reporting pf performance exceptions
• Manage, coordinate, and implement software upgrades, patches, hot fixes on servers, workstations, and network hardware
• Proactively monitor system performance and capacity planning
• Analyze intricate server issues and support large enterprise and mission-critical applications

Confidential, Baltimore, MD

System Admin

Responsibilities:

• Batch processing with informatica and CA scheduler
• System monitoring with Nagios and cloud watch, and google analytic
• Experience with REDHAT 6 and 7
• Performed user management.
• Built and install multiple Linux machines
• Built Redhat gold images
• RHEL system patching
• RHEL system security
• Package management
• RHEL System and Application troubleshooting and other related issues
• Manages system process in areas like boot process, startup, and system shutdown
• Disk management with F-disk and LVM
• Plan, execute packages and update installations necessary for optimal system performance
• Work with Linux family (Red hat server, CentOS, KVM, and VMware)
• Configure network to DHCP or static, familiar with TCP/IP protocol and maintaining network
• Install and configure KVM
• Setting up and configuring SSH
• Expertise in scripting for automation, and monitoring using Shell, Python scripts.
• Installed and configured monitoring tools Nagios for monitoring the network bandwidth and the hard drives status.
• Understanding of ITIL IT Service Management methodologies
• Team member of the Linux / UNIX system Administration.
• Schedule crontab jobs Member of AWS / LINUX administration team
• Member of the migration to AWS team
• S3 bucket and backup
• AWS migration using VM Import/Export
• Managing user access to AWS resources using Identity Access Management (IAM)
• Cost Effective systems using EC2 instances, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancers and AMIs
• Mitigate failures using snapshots by utilizing EBS
• Create AMIs templates
• Provide support for SNS and SES service
• Utilizing Cloud Watch to monitor resources such as EC2
• Setting up Virtual Private Cloud