EZEOMA EBIRINGA

**** ******** ** • Hyattsville, MD 20785 • 240-***-**** • ac0txn@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

IT professional with over 5 years of experience in systems administration and operations. I have experience with supporting large scale IT transformation initiatives. My core competencies include Linux Red and Centos flavors, cloud administration with AWS, and automation with Ansible.

In addition to having strong technical and functional background, I am well-organized and dependable team player with strong problem solving, and leadership skills and proven ability to deal with people at all levels.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Infozen

December 2016 – Present

Linux System Administrator DEVOPS

AWS administration, create EC2 Instances, IAM, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation

Ansible configuration automation administration management

Stored ansible codes using GitHub

Confluence and Jira administration

Configuration management using Ansible

Middle tier support and administrative services, such as start and stop of the application, COTS support, break fix support in all environments

Create transition plans, identify documentation required, schedule tasks and execute the approved plan.

Scripting using Bash, Shell, yaml, yml

Support developers from source control, through build automation, merge resolution, CI, test automation, deployment based on tools usage and policies, standards.

Support full automation of CI Testing and Troubleshoot issues along the CI/CD pipeline.

Enable DevOps by moving code from Dev/ Test to Staging and Production

Worked on RedHat, Centos, aws linux servers

Hewlett Packard

October 2014 – December 2016

Linux System Administrator DEVOPS

AWS administration, create instances, EC2, IAM, Cloud Watch, Cloud Formation

Ansible configuration automation administration management

Scripting using Bash, Shell, yaml, yml

Assist in any data migration activities whenever necessary with the team.

Assist the team with transferring of software applications and reports between testing and production environments.

Booting PXE from RHEL Satellite Network and Centos Spacewalk for unattended linux server deployment for both virtual machine and bare metal installations

Configure Firewall to allow Applications to run.

Create Logical volumes and design the environment to the job's directions.

Creating new file systems, managing and checking data Consistency of file systems

Deploying open source software like Apache

Experience with Mac OS (operating system)

Giving remote access to different levels and types of users

In charge of VMware install on a large scale environment, including Linux, UNIX, and windows servers.

Installations, configurations, and support on front end and back end on tomcat

Installing various NetBackup versions, including v7.5 on Linux and Unix machines

Install Centos, Red Hat, and Solaris on machines

Install Virtual machines, as well as physical machines.

Install and Patch Apache. Configure and compile the application when needed.

Installation and configuration of web applications

Installation and configuration of intrusion detection system such as OSSEC, and DenyHosts for log analysis, file integrity checking, real time alerting and brute force attach prevention.

Installations, configurations, and support on front end and back end on Splunk, Hadoop, Apache

Maintenance of server on a weekly basis (Brand Rolls)

Manage vSphere ESXI host and virtual machines using VMware vCenter

Manage and configure RPM package building tools for building and patching of applications from source codes for Centos and RHEL systems

Manage systems routine backup, enabling crontab jobs, enabling system logging and network logging of servers for maintenance

On several occasions, Patch different applications when new versions are available.

Responsible for setting-up, managing and rapid deployment of RHEL 6/ Centos 6 linux servers using Kickstart

Responsible for monitoring and management of V-Center/VMware environment of virtual servers

RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management

Setup, manage and deploy Vagrant-testing environment for developers using customize Vagrant-Files as per requirement

Setup Nagios server to monitor systems uptime, services and file systems

Train new users to use standard applications, equipment’s and business applications

Troubleshoot and fixed NFS, UDP, TCP, IP and other protocols problem

Troubleshoot Nagios Alerts. Monitor system performance using Nagios

Using Kick start scripts to install Centos and Red Hat on multiple Linux machines.

Use Remedy for ticket coordination

BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND SPONSORED PROGRAMS

FEBRUARY 2012 - October 2014

System Administrator

Administer groups and file permissions in Linux Servers

Backup done with tar, gzip, etc. utilities.

Coordinate Incident Management activities

Create and manage user accounts on Linux Servers

Experience in Installation, Configuration, Support & Maintenance of Redhat Linux 6 Enterprise Server.

Experience with Mac OS (operating system)

Install startup scripts for various applications

Install security fixes, kernel and OS patches

Install and update various programs using yum

Install security fixes, kernel and OS patches

Maintain LVM best practices - ext3, gfs, xfs, multipathing, striping, resizing

Perform configuration management in coordination with security guidelines

Proficient in OS upgrades and Patch loading as and when required.

Provide on call after hours support for escalated problems and conducted bridge calls with Tier III support, Operations Maintain Wiki pages, documenting procedures and Knowledge Base Instructions (KBI)

Provided system administrative support on a project managed by HP on Linux servers

Provide system administrative support on a project managed by Ace Info Solutions on Linux servers

Scheduling job using Crontab

Support, Operations Management, and Vendors

Suppress server issues from monitor by placing them in outage file for maintenance

Support the project through the Remedy ticketing system to meet service level agreements

EDUCATION:

Bowie State University, Bowie, MD, May 2015

Bachelors of Science Degree in Visual Communication & Digital Media

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