System Engineer Resume

SUMMARY

System Engineer and IT Professional with over 5 years of expertise in system administration, troubleshooting, and project management; a proven ability to drive development through strategic policies and methods; hands on experience with automation tools, UNIX/LINUX servers and in managing highly visible, complex projects with aggressive timelines; managing multi - discipline teams, providing technical expertise and leadership.
Innovative thinker who is capable of bridging the gap between technology and business problems, planning and implementing relevant content and format utilizing platforms, and business initiatives to support corporate objectives.
Particularly strong relationship management, high performance team building within an organization.
Ambitious, aggressive, who is excited by the potential to derive value, informed decision making and intensely focused on bottom-line results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Linux Servers - Red Hat Enterprise Linux| CentOS| Ubuntu

CI/CD tools: Jenkins, GIT, Puppet, Chef, Ansible

Cloud: AWS, OpenStack

Virtualization: VMware, KVM

Servers: Apache HTTP Server | MySQL| DNS

Networking: TCP/IP troubleshooting knowledge

Monitoring: Nagios, Splunk

Security: Iptables| Firewall| Load balancer

Scripting: Bash shell, Python

Storage: SAN |Hardware RAID

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

Infrastructure building and support of theYahoo production servers and Confidential mail delivery.
Monitoring and alert tuning throughYahoocluster monitoring 24/7/365 system.
Communications between multiple levels of GlobalYahoo engineers andYahoo management.
Development of shell and automation scripts for configuration deployments.
Second level triage of theYahoo system services including OS and application level issues.
Administration and deployment of SSL/TLS Certificates.
Application Deployments and Environment configuration using Chef
Built Continuous Integration environment Using Jenkins
Documentation of technical processes in local Jive platform.
Maintain and trouble shootsystemperformance and network monitoring using tools like Nagios, and AWS services such as Cloudwatch, CloudTrail.
Creating Change Controls, Resolving Incident Tickets and Problem Tickets using Service-Now ticketing tool, and ability to multitask in a fast paced environment under strict SLA and resolve Production Incidents with minimum impact.

Confidential, Des Plaines, IL

Linux System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Diagnose and resolve complex load balancing issue by satisfying client.
Coordinate resources with varied programming expertise to create a holistic solution to system update and service interruption issues.
Accessed tickets on daily bases while providing recommended solutions
Educate users on business interruption risk and received their buy in for system standardization and update.
Create a process for system updates to minimize risk of application failures, recovering Linux with rescued booting mode.
Diagnose and resolve TCP/IP connection problems, including patching, software and hardware upgrades. Troubleshoot and monitor various performance related issues using performance monitoring utilities like VMSTAT, NETSTAT, TOP, IOSTAT and SAR.
Supervise installation and configuration of various services like DNS, DHCP, NFS, Apache Web Server, SSH, Telnet, HTTP, RPM Package Management, YUM.
Develop UNIX shell scripts to accomplish redundant tasks to simplify in distributed administration.
Implementation of partitioning schemes like Software RAID and LVM; setting up and maintaining Domain Names System (DNS) servers. Good experience in reviewing system logs files for errors, settings up Cron jobs for backups and monitoring process.
Creation and management of VM's using KVM, including user accounts, logon scripts, directory services, file system shares, and permissions etc.