Nirav Jasavantlal

Contact no: +1-647-***-**** Email: acrex9@r.postjobfree.com

SYNOPSIS

Linux/Windows System Administrator professional offering around 4 years of experience in this field, looking for an opportunity as a System Administrator.

General IT Skills

Operating System – Windows XP/7/8/8.1/Server 2008/Server2012, Unix/Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Solaris

CentOS, FreeBSD, pfSense, Elementary OS, Linux Mint, Amazon Linux)

Extensive experience in installation, administration and networking in various environments

Amazon AWS virtual server Management (EC2, RDS, S3, Route 53, ELB, Auto Scaling)

Windows Servers (Windows Server 2008 & 2012)

Creating, configuring and maintenance of virtual servers on Xen Server

Maintaining DNS zones and records

Managing security profiles and Access Control List

Configuring and maintenance of FreePBX (SIP Administration)

Creating regular backup and maintenance of Database (MySQL)

Configuring and maintenance of network devices and firewalls

Worked with different Subversion Control tools i.e. SVN, GIT, Atlassian Stash and Jira

Monitoring and troubleshooting with performance like issues on servers

Writing various kind of Shell Scripts for monitoring and alarm on servers

Managing upgrades on servers (yum and apt upgrade)

Database Replication (Master-Master)

Job Scheduling and Automating process using CRON

MySQL Database Optimization and fine tuning for better performance

Installation of Patches and Packages on Server

Experience in managing Cisco Routers and Switches

Experience in Active Directory management

Basic knowledge of deployment tools such as Chef

Software, Protocols and Utilities Used

Web Servers – Apache, Nginx

Networking – TCP/IP, Telnet, DNS, DHCP, NAT, HTTP, FTP

Database – MySQL

Security – IP Tables, SSH, SSL, ACL,

Office – Microsoft Office, Open Office

Backup – Bacula, tar.gz, zip, tar.bz2

Monitoring – SIP monitoring, Nagios, Cacti

Subversion Control – SVN, GIT, Atlassian Stash/Jira

Scripting Languages – Bash, Python, Basic knowledge of PHP

Academic Qualification

Masters of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal

Bachelors of Electronica and Communication Engineering, VNSGU, Surat, India

Diploma in Electronics and Communication Engineering, Kherva, India

Work Experiences

Rogers, Toronto

Network/System Administrator Apr 2014- July 2015

Responsible for providing tier3 support of escalated issues from level1 & 2 support engineers, field engineers. Point of contact for 3rd party vendors, delivering voice, data, telephony, network printing, and document management solutions to contract customers.

Providing support for Microsoft servers including database, application, web, file, and XenApp servers used to deliver file, applications and network resources to Rogers staff.

Responsible for building virtual machines on IBM hardware, creating and maintaining virtual machine templates, performing server migrations between hosts and clusters to improve performance or preform server maintenance with little or no impact to production systems.

Maintaining Active Directory GPO's, User rights and files access in a multi windows domain environment.

Provide support for VERITAS volume and clusters

Installation, configuration and establishing load balancing & fault tolerance of servers.

Proactive monitoring of production systems with a sense of urgency when issues arise; environment consists of several hundred production systems and nodes.

Build reports and perform trend analysis of system and application events

Created documentation, reusable and tested modules

Support for business critical system

Thomas Reuters

Network System Engineer Aug 2013- Mar 2014

Responsible for high and low level design of the network infrastructure within the Thomson Reuters corporate network for Canada.

Ensuring that Reuters real time middleware trading software was working to maximum optimization.

Carried out Project Management for implementation of network hardware and systems throughout Canada

Responsible for leading a team to providing support for internal customers throughout Canada

Liaising with carriers to design and implement a fiber, GigE and DSL networks throughout Canada

Working with vendors and suppliers for RFQs and RFPs and purchases.

Responsible for the Implementation and administration of Solar Winds to manage internal client’s networks.

Technical – Cisco routers 2900, 2800,1800, 800, switches 6509 VSS, 4506, 4900, 3700, 3600, 2900, N5K 5596, 6248, 3048, 2048, ASA 5515, 5520 (HA), Nokia Checkpoint 4000 firewall(HA), 5508 Wireless Controllers, Load balancer and DSL technologies.

Beezid.com

Network/System Administrator Jan 2012- July 2013

Reorganize network infrastructure

Central Authentication

Streamline backups using Bacula

pfSense firewall and firewall replication using CARP

Open LDAP + Kerberos setup for Single sign on

Samba implementation for Single sign on

MySQL replication master-master

LDAP + Kerberos setup for Linux clients

Active directory setup for Windows clients

Bind and DHCPD setup with automatic updates, bind replication and DHCP peer setup

Cacti + Nagios monitoring setup

Apache web server management for development

Network Attached Storage (NAS) device management

Cisco switch configuration and maintenance

Manage Amazon web services such as Ec2, S3, RDS etc.

Netgear wireless router configuration and maintenance

Windows 7 computer troubleshooting and maintenance

VOIP telephone configuration

Virtualization using Oracle virtual box

VPN configuration using OpenVpn

Ticket-based problem management using GLPI

Hardware troubleshooting

Network cabling and troubleshooting

K.D. Polytechnic, Patan, Gujarat, India

(Affiliated to Gujarat Technological University) Oct 2008 – Aug 2010

Lecturer in Electronics & Communication Engineering Department

Taught various Electronics & Communication subjects to students

Worked as Network Administrator at the Institute

Windows server 2003/2008 management

Windows Active Directory management

References available upon request

-Nirav Jasavantlal

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