Patience Nkwetta
Peabody MA *****
Email:**********@*****.**
Tel:978-***-****
SUMMARY :. DevOps/Linux systems administrator with over 5-years of experience supporting enterprise standard environments. Excellent knowledge of Server building, configuring, troubleshooting and management in Linux operating systems. My knowledge, skills, and creativity have put me in the best practice and strong use of tools in the IT professional world. Automating application integration and deployment operation (CI/CD) using GIT, Github, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven, Nexus, Ansible & Nagios in Linux environment. Self-starter, quick learner and self-motivated individual and ability to work in a multi-cultural team, and fast-growing environment.
Willing to relocate anywhere. Authorized to work in the US for any employer .
TECHNOLOGY: Operating Systems; Red Hat Linux 6x 7x, CentOS 6x 7x Windows.
Web/Application Servers Apache
Build Tools ; Maven
Repositories; Nexus-artifactory.
Version control Subversion, Github,Bitbucket, GIT.
CI Tools, Jenkins
CD/Provisioning Tools Ansible
Active Directory
Database MYSQL
AWS :EC2,IAM,S3,cloud watch
Programming Languages; Bash Shell Scripting
Tracking Tools Service Now
Monitoring Tools; Nagios,Rsyslog
Network Protocols; TCP/IP,UDP,FTP,SFTP,HTTPS,DNS & DHCP
Professional Experience
TrinitechConsulting DEVOPS/UNIX/LINUX Admin
Beltsville MD. June 2014-Present
Operating Systems (Windows 2008 Enterprise, Red Hat 6.x & 7.x, centOS6.x & 7.x, ) installation and configuration- standard Installation.
Intensive experience with Linux system administration. ( user and group management, file and directories permission and more)
Linux Kernel upgrade and compiling
Set up Jenkins server and build jobs to provide continuous automated builds based on polling the Git source control system during the day and periodic scheduled builds overnight to support development needs using Jenkins, Git, and Maven.
Performed weekly and on-call deployments of application codes to production environments
Experience in Installing and configuring Red Hat, Centos, and Windows 2008 servers
Provision AWS EC2 Instances for Window 2012 R2 Virtual Machine.
System hardening using IPtables and SELinux,
System hardening and monitoring, implement password security and policy.
Patching ( OS upgrade )
In-depth experience in setup, configuration and troubleshoot WINDSCP, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS; NFS, CIFS, SSH, and SAMBA servers in a multiplatform LAN
In-depth knowledge in monitoring and log management on Linux, Windows servers (Events viewing), including processes management, and performance tuning.
Involved in editing the existing MAVEN files in case of errors or changes in the project requirements.
-create accounts for users, group,computers and assign permissions using virtual server windows 2012 provision on AWS
Use AWS resources to create individual IAM users, groups and assign permissions
Activate the virtual MFA and use Google authenticator to access and reinforce security
Installation and configuration of NAGIOS monitoring tool and Rsyslog
Configuration and administration of Logical volume manager.
Installed and administered Nexus repository to deploy the artifacts generated by Maven and to store the dependent jars which are used during the build.
Well versed in configuring Volume Groups and Logical Volumes, extended logical volumes for the system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
Disk replacement, Disk partitioning. Volume manager; installed and configured a LAN wide NAS (FreeNAS)
Experience attaching iscsi LUNs to Linux servers.
Install and configure a samba server on Redhat6.5 and Centos 6.5
Hands on experience with various Linux text processing tools like vi, sed, awk, grep etc.
Closely worked with Developers and Analysts to address project requirements.
Able to effectively manage time and prioritize multiple projects.
Good at communicative, interpersonal, intuitive, analysis and leadership skills with ability to work efficiently in both independent and team work environments.
Documentation of all the steps done as part of the Server Hardening process
Mapping the samba share to the Windows 2008 server.
Experience running LAMP (Linux Apache, MySQL, and PHP)
. Experience in using Nexus Repository Managers for Maven builds.
Integrated Maven with Jenkins for the builds as the Continuous Integration process.
Proficient in Performance Monitoring of CPU, Disks, memory and Network.
Create scripts to automate daily tasks like creating LAMP stack
Run Ansible playbooks
Applying patches to fix the holes that are found during the quarterly scan basis.
Perform regular installation of patches using RPM and YUM
Data Service Group Inc. March 2012 to May 2014
Bear Delawe
Jr. Unix/Linux admin
Software installation and maintenance
Installed and configured NFS servers on Red Hat and Centos
Hands on experience with various Linux text processing tools like vi, sed, awk, grep etc.
Closely worked with Developers and Analysts to address project requirements.
Participate in on-call rotation to provide 24x7 technical supports
In-depth experience to setup, configure and troubleshoot WINDSCP, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS; NFS, CIFS, SSH, and SAMBA servers in a multiplatform LAN
Creating and maintaining user profiles, security access rights, disk space and process monitoring
Excellent client relation skills and the drive to complete tasks effectively, and efficiently where customer services and technical skills are demanded.
Monitor system resources, maintenance and performance
Installed, configured and administered Red Hat,Centos servers in a Linux environment.
In-depth knowledge in monitoring logs on Linux servers and system hardening
EDUCATION:
University of Dschang- Cameroon
Bachelor Degree in Literature. -2007
Massachusset - USA
North Shore Community College Danvers -2017
CERTIFICATION:
Red Hat Certified System Administrator -United States