Linux Administrator

Ayodeji Abidakun

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Lagos State

Nigeria.

Mobile number : 002************.

Email : ************@*****.***

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Certification: A+, N+, CCNA, VCP, RHCSA(CURRENTLY) .

Education: HND Computer Engineering,National Diploma System Analysis and

Design, BTEC National Certificate for IT Practitioners.

SKILLS

Virtualization & Cloud computing

1 VMware Skills

Planning and installing

Creating and Managing Virtual Network

Creating and Managing Storage Device, e.g. iSCSI, NAS, Storage VMotion etc.

Creating and Managing Virtual Machine

Migrating and Importing Virtual Machine, e.g. P2V, V2V etc.

Configuring and Managing vSphere Access Controls

Managing Resource Allocation e.g. VM VMotion, DRS, EVC etc.

High Availability, e.g. HA, FT etc.

Monitoring VMware vSphere Performance

Securing VMware vSphere

Automating VMware vSphere e.g. PowerCLI, ESX shell scripts.

vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager installation and Configuration.

Puppet configuration management and Foreman dashboard management

VMware WorkStation

3 XEN (working knowledge)

4 Amazon Elastic compute cloud (Amazon EC2)

5 Rackspace Cloud management

Network Services

NFS

FTP/vsFTP

TFTP

SSH

DNS (Master, slave, caching name server)

DHCP

Apache/Apache Tomcat

HTTP/HTTPS

NTP

SMTP e.g postfix, sendmail, fetchmail, Qmail.

Security

SELinux, Access Controls, TCP Wrappers & IPTables.

Storage & Filesystems

NFS, VMFS & ISCSI.

Programming Language

shell scripting, C++ and Ruby programming.

Hardware

Patch Panels, LAN Cabling

Power Distribution Units (PDU)

Cisco Catalyst switches 3550/3560

Cisco Router 7200 series

Installation & Configuration Management

Kickstart & PXE

Katello, Puppet & Foreman

Load balancer

Operating Systems

ESXi & ESX

Ubuntu/Debian

Centos/RedHat/Fedora

BSD/FreeBSD

Solaris/Opensolaris(working knowledge)

Windows Operating Systems

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

LINKEL INSTUTITE OF COMPUTER Lagos State 2000 - 2004

Systems Administrator

Duties include setting up and maintaining user account, maintaining

systems, verify that all peripheral are working properly, repair of

hardware and software failure, monitor system performance e.g Load

balancer, create file systems e.g luks encrypted, systems installation and

configuration, maintenance of servers services e.g. Apache,Apache Tomcat,

DNS, DHCP, FTP/vsFTP, SSH, NFS, MYSQL, HTTP/ HTTPS etc.

WM Morrison Leeds/London 2005 to 2009

Sales Assistance

Duties include attending to customers both over the phone or on the shop

floor by giving information and assistant on any issues they might be

having in the store, taking payment and issuing receipt at the checkout,

stacking shelves with goods and keeping the working environment clean and

tidy, preparing and serving of fast food for customers at the oven fresh

and at the restaurant and any other duties my line manager may request.

ABIDAK LTD London 2009 to 2012

First line Support(contractor)

Worked as a contractor with various company alongside first line help desk

support technician providing support to business clients, providing

solutions to clients problems and rectifying issues which they encounter.

Assisting the second and third line support staff with new installations

and configuration both in the tech center and at clients site, also

provide support via telephone or remote /internet based.

LOCOG London Newham 02/04/2012 to 08/09/2012

Village Communication Center Team Member (contractor)

Enforce radio protocol,Track radio users, Provide communication assistance,

this include passing a message on, locating a user, or answering a question

on the status of an issue or incident. Log and track all issues to ensure a

complete audit trail of issue and response. Perform operational issue

tracking, management and resolution; this includes the provision of

communication and issue tracking support for incident and emergency

response, as necessary.

Participate in team meetings and provide communication related updates,

Communicate operational updates to the members of the village team,

including all functional areas as necessary, via cell phone, text messages,

e-mail and radio announcements. Support Village management in gathering,

managing, and forwarding relevant information to Village leadership and the

Main Operation Centre at headquarters when required.

Collect reports and distribute as requested by the Village Manager and

other defined protocols. Monitor radio channels, Provide communication and

issue tracking support for incident and emergency response, as necessary.

DE-LA SAAB VENTURES Lagos State 10/09/2012 to date

Linux Administrator (contractor)

Duties include planning, design and administration of VMware and Red Hat

Linux-based server installations and maintenance of the base operating

systems as well as providing technical support and problem resolution.

Providing day to day system administration support including usage

monitoring e.g load balancer and vCenter, security administration e.g TCP

Wrappers & IPTables, SELinux, applying patch management and system

configuration update e.g Puppet and foreman, also provide recommendations

to management on system enhancement.

Work with technical, operational, and functional areas to answer question,

resolve problems and identify opportunity for efficiency gains and also

provide on-call support.

Reference Will be provided on demand.

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