OBJECTIVE:

Possess the enthusiasm for work, strong desire to succeed and commitment to continuously build skill development to achieve desired results. Very ambitious to help others and work in the IT field.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Results - driven and solutions-focused professional equipped with five plus years of fast-track experience as a Linux/DevOps Systems Administrator on RHEL 5.x, 6.x, Debian, CentOS 5x, 6x Solaris 8, 9, 10 and VMware ESX environment.
• As a detail-oriented technologist offering strong background in a Linux-based environment, I’ve overseen the last stages of the software release life cycles and compiling source codes into final products.
• Having extensive experience with RAID, using Volume Management Software like Logical Volume Manager, Operating Systems Installation, packages and patches, adding peripherals, maintaining user accounts, System Security maintenance, backup/recovery, performance tuning, and troubleshooting at various levels. All while being flexible, versatile, and able to maintain a sense of humor under pressure.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• JBoss
• Nagios
• Jenkins
• BigFix
• Hadoop
• Ansible
• Puppet and Chef. Nginx
• Maven
• Remedy
• VM converter
• Raid
• MySql
• Varnish
• Drupal
• Nanu
• Kickstarter and KVM Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas NetBackup
• Apache
• Tomcat
• WebLogic.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Largo, MD

Linux System Admin

• Experience with Installing, Implementing, Administrating, Configuring Red Hat/Centos Linux 6-7.0.
• Managing groups and user accounts assigned permissions to users file.
• Responsible for monitoring and working on tickets. Following it up with business and technical teams, and ensuring the problem is successfully resolved.
• Configuring and implementing Web servers (HTTP) and virtual hosting.
• Installed and configured Jenkins.
• Experience with AWS - EC2, IAM and EBS.
• Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.
• Set up user and group login ID’s, network configuration, password, resolving permissions issues, and user/group quota.
• Monitored Linux sever for CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and Disk Utilization for performance monitoring.
• Created development server systems environment that was Ops-Like.
• Installed, configured, and deployment of Apache Tomcat using Puppet.

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

Linux System Admin

• Configured Users & Security Administration, backup, recovery and maintenance of various activities for Red Hat and Centos servers.
• Administration and configuration of Apache, SAMBA, NFS, ISCSI and Red Hat Satellite Servers.
• Experience creating virtual machine infrastructure using VMware Virtualization.
• Good understanding of Splunk architecture and creating dashboards.
• Performed memory and swap management to improve optimization and performance of the servers.
• Experience with KVM Virtualization and Nagios monitoring tools.
• Automating installation, deployment and maintenance of Middleware Application Servers to RHEL Development and Test Environments on VMware ESX.
• Experience building of puppet manifests and understanding of Puppet Enterprise infrastructure.
• Configuring network management services NIC teaming, IPv6 and IPv4.
• Managing HTTP web server, virtual hosting, and deploying web apps.

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Linux System Admin/ Application Support

• Installation, Administration, and Configuring Red Hat Linux and Solaris servers.
• Installation of LAMP STACK on Linux environment.
• System and User Administration - responsible for the maintenance of NFS services on Red Hat Enterprise Linux in Development environments.
• Experience in Installation and Configuration of Mail Servers like Sendmail and Postfix.
• Worked on Solaris 10 container technology, created local and global zones, modified local zone parameters, created file systems on local and global zones.
• Troubleshooting and administering High Availability using VERITAS Cluster Server on various business critical database & application production servers.
• Experience with IP Bonding between NIC cards, firewalls, proxy servers, IP Phone systems, Antivirus, authentication based event log events, application firewalls windows servers and workstations.
• Monitored system activities like CPU, Memory, Disk and Swap space usage to avoid any performance issues.
• Co-managed, maintained, and coordinated various IT vendors, providers, service technicians, and contractors; Scheduling and supervising various projects, outside vendor trainings and external communications.
• Experience with Bash/Shell scripts to automate maintenance tasks.
• Experience with running SQL queries on Oracle and MySQL.

Confidential, Largo, MD

Information Technology & Security Assistant

• Assisted in the maintenance and operations of the day-to-day network for a public school.
• Provided immediate, real-time supports to the administrative team and support staff through clear, concise, and accurate responses to user inquires and help desk requests.
• Communicated with administrators regarding network status, potential training projects, and support system tasks.
• Assisted in the migration and rebuilding of the entire network including server and software upgrades, network restructuring, inventory auditing, acceptable use and best practices policy revision.
• Assisted in the training of administrative, academic and support staff on new software, hardware, and updates to various technological applications including but not limited to: PowerSchool, Google Apps, Office 365, MS Office Suite, Interactive Whiteboards, Chromebooks, iPads, MacBook, and various mobile/smartphone devices.