Fabris Manyah

Current Location Bowie, MD

Cell 424-***-****

Email aduzll@r.postjobfree.com

Linux System Administrator

Patient, pragmatic, and detail-oriented tech consultant and business professional with broad experience and hands-on skills analyzing, troubleshooting, and resolving complex Linux hardware problems and software issues. Comfortable at the intersection of technology and business. Well-versed in enterprise-wide deployment projects and Linux OS hardening programs. Keen investigative strengths, business intelligence, and analytical skills to discover and resolve systems issues.

IT Project Management

Root Cause & Troubleshooting

Systems Maintenance & Updates

Data Collection & Analysis

Template Management

Technical Documentation

Security & Authentication

Cloud Application Management

Client Relationship Management

Training & Evaluation

Cross Functional Teamwork

Best Business Processes

Cisco UCS Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Verisign Technologies, Reston, VA May 2022 – Present

Linux / DevOps Engineer

Perform development, automation, deployment and configuration with ansible.

Engaging, Improving, Developing, Measuring, and Implementing processes and tools for Continuous Integration and Delivery, Site Reliability Engineering, and Automation of deployment and support of products into the cloud.

Communicating, collaborating, and working effectively in a global environment.

Coordinating with product, development, support, operations, quality, and management teams to ensure installation and integration efforts are automated and well documented.

Experience in creating GitHub accounts, creating Git repositories, Cloning, Pushing and Pulling with Git.

Actively working on continuous improvement with respect to quality, risk, compliance, and costs.

Connecting securely using ssh from remote location.

Used serviceNow for authentication, and ticketing.

Automating the deployment of applications as portable, self-sufficient that can run on the cloud or on-premises with DOCKER.

Implementing continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) with a git, Marven, SonarQube, Jenkins and Nexus pipeline.

Provisioning AWS with Terraform and CloudFormation as IAC (Infrastructure as code)

SS&C Technologies, Mclean Virginia June 2019– May 2022

Linux System Administrator / AWS Engineer

Monitored Linux servers, assessed requirements, and installed recommended patches to ensure system integrity.

Deployed and customized VMs from templates to support the VMware/vSphere environment.

Coached end users and troubleshot systems issues, and documented solutions to proactively resolve future problems.

Migrated systems from RHEL 6 and VMware environment to Rhel7 and AWS cloud.

Configured/administered Amazon Web services, EC2 instances, IAM, VPC, S3, AMI's, Security Groups, Elastic IP's (EIP), key pairs, auto scaling, and elastic load balancing in Testing, Development, and Production environments.

Building and attaching volume groups to servers, Expanding, and resizing EBS volumes.

Contributed to a rotational 24X7 on-call support group for Production and Development environments.

Providing technical expertise and ownership in diagnosing and resolving issues, including the determination and provision of workaround solutions or escalation to service owners

Created quick reference handbook (QRH) documents to respond promptly on troubleshooting processes to achieve little or no downtime.

Deployed, migrated, managed, and audited Docker containers and performance in the Docker UCP environment. Recommended performance improvement tuning measures.

Employed RedHat Satellite, bash scripting, and Ansible to develop provisioning and installation techniques.

Administered LDAP for user authentication, Nginx, HAProxy/HTTP for proxy, Jboss and Apache for webservers, Autofs/NFS for volume sharing, SSL/SELinux for security, SMTP for mail, DNS for name resolution, DHCP, AIX.

Maintained system accounts, log entries, systems error logs, tickets, systems privileges, and Systems Security Administration protocols.

Engaged in a project to migrate virtualized environment to Redhat OpenShift.

Installed, updated, monitored, and maintained the operating system and associated software products.

Configured APACHE Server with JAVA based Applications in the Red Hat environment.

Conducted daily operational maintenance, systems support, and upgrades for Linux operating systems, workstations, and servers.

Good Experience in installing, configuring, and deploying Openstack solutions.

Arranged volume groups and logical volumes. Extended logical volumes to support file system growth using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.

Upgraded HPE Blade hypervisors from VMware ESXi 5.5 to 6.7 along with vCenter

Installed VMware ESXi 6.7 and 7.0 on Cisco UCS M4 and M5 blades.

Carried out root cause analysis of recurring issues, system backup procedures, and security setup.

Deploy and manage windows servers 2012, 16.

Customized Cisco UCS chassis templates for faster blade deployments

Knowledge on basic Networking and NGINX for load balancing.

Experience with AIX and RedHat Linux OS

Facilitating Daily Standup with the Team.

Lead administration activities, design, and maintenance of VMware 6.7 and 7 virtualization environments to increase IT agility, flexibility, and scalability on the Cisco UCS platform while creating significant cost savings.

Knowledge on Network, Infra and DevOps tools like GIT, HTTP, SSH, and FTP.

Perform development, automation, and configuration with ansible.

Vulnerability assessment and closure on servers.

Creating AWS accounts for client.

Launching Linux servers in AWS for client.

Beyond Teknologies, Sterling, Virginia October 2016 – June 2019

Linux System Administrator

Supervised servers in a VMware, OpenStack, private cloud environment through deployments, creating security groups, overseeing volume, designating users, and migrating events from one environment to another.

Lead administration activities, design, and maintenance of VMware 6.7 and 7 virtualization environments to increase IT agility, flexibility, and scalability on the Cisco UCS platform while creating significant cost savings.

Upgraded HPE Blade hypervisors from VMware ESXi 5.5 to 6.7 along with vCenter

Strong experience in Linux shell scripting, System commands

Tracked, troubleshot, and resolved complex Linux server issues across the systems environment by reading log messages and proactively applying solutions.

Employed broad knowledge of system security architecture, system protection standards, and hardening through firewalled, SELinux, and other tools to ensure system integrity and data protection.

Utilized Linux utilities to sustain data storage capabilities and disk space requirements.

Supported software developers and the application team on Linux requirements.

Configured volume, groups, and logical volumes. Extended logical volumes to support file system growth using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.

Scheduled jobs, tasks, and automating processes using CRON and AT.

Converted physical servers to virtual servers to streamline operations in the working environment.

Executed the Remedy ticketing system to daily access tickets and offer sustainable solutions.

Administered User accounts. Created IDs, modified accounts, and deleted unnecessary files. Formed groups, added User IDs as primary or secondary groups, and deleted User IDs from a group.

Monitored system logs and root email for error messages, systems warnings, or hardware fail errors.

Configured Apache Tomcat servers and deployed Java applications including Jenkins.

Asist in the configuration and installation of Oracle 12c

Experience with Job scheduling tools like TIDAL, and Crontab.

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Comptia Security Plus Certified

AWS certified Solution Architect

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Redhat 6/7, 8, Centos, linux, Unix & Ubuntu

Languages: Shell Scripting, Ansible, Working Knowledge of Python

File Sharing Services: Autofs & NFS

Virtualization Tools: VMware, OpenStack & AWS

Ticketing Tools: Jira

Web Server: Apache & Tomcat

Database: MySQL

Proxies: Nginx, HAProxy & HTTP

Cloud: AWS & OpenStack

Configuration Management: Ansible

Security: SELinux & SSL

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