Salomey Asare Ampong

Waldorf, MD *****

240-***-****

ac5xcy@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

Team and goal-oriented, analytical, adaptable Linux System Administrator with experience in enterprise level Linux systems seeking a meaningful employment with a company to support Linux and AWS technologies to optimize the performance and availability of the IT infrastructure by applying my experience within the areas of system administration.

COMPUTING SKILLS

Installations System Integration

Migrations / Upgrades AWS Cloud Technologies

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6/7, CentOS and Windows Server 2008/2003

Networks / Protocol: DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, LAN, WAN, VPN, SMTP, SFTP, SSH, AWS (EC2, Security Group, IAM, S3, ELB)

Virtualization and Cloud: AWS, KVM and VMWare ESXi(5.5/4.5) Cluster

Scripting: Bash Script

Application Tools: Jira, Cerberus, Confluence, GitHub, Big Brother, Nagios, LDAP, Puppet, Ansible, RedHat Satellite

NOAA, College Park Nov ‘17 –May 2018 Linux System Administrator

LAMP server installation.

Perform RPM, Redhat Satellite and Yum package installations

Installing and configuring LDAP servers and adding users for authentication.

Writing bash scripts and executing them with cron in automation of daily activities

Server Hardening to prevent attacks and hacking and generation of SSH authentication keys.

Using puppet for configuration management and integration automation

Perform version control using Git

User and File management: Adding, removing and giving access rights to users and groups on servers. Changing permissions, ownership of files and directories, and assigning special privileges to selected users.

Provision of telephone and in-person support to end users by troubleshooting network and application issues

Documentation and update of user correspondence relevant to internal information via ticketing system

Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, server resources, system processes, viewing system and application logs and verifying completion of scheduled jobs

Ensure proper recording, documentation and closure of tickets

Monitor Service Desk tickets from queue, prioritize and provide timely assistance to users

Working closely with vendors, Operations and Maintenance teams to support Standard Operations Procedures

American Signature, Waldorf MD May ‘15 – Oct ‘17 Linux System Administrator

Experience in administering Linux. Experience in Installation, Configuration, Backup, Recovery, Maintenance, Support of Linux.

Experience in Installing, upgrading and configuring RedHat Linux /5/ 6/7 Servers and Interactive Installation.

Experience in deploying and managing AWS EC2 instances.

Configured Security Groups in AWS instances to control the flow of traffic to production environment.

Creation and attachment of EBS volumes to AWS instances to increase storage.

Experience in Creation and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring in RedHat Linux.

Installation and upgradation of Packages and Patches configuration management, version control, service pack. & reviewing connectivity issues regarding security problem.

Experience in configuration of DNS, NFS, Sftp, remote access, and security management.

Experience in Installation of MYSQL

Experience in installation and configuration of Apache and Tomcat

Experience in administering VMware Infrastructure Client 5.5 and VSphere 5.5 and earlier version.

Experience in writing shell scripts to automate the administrative tasks and management using cron.

Team player with good management, analytical, communication and interpersonal skills.

Experience in Installing Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning on Linux systems.

Creating Linux Virtual Machines using VMware Virtual Center.

Provision of technical leadership to the Linux System Administrators team to ensure best practice is followed in a commercial, production-grade environment

Provision of Linux expertise, training and consulting to other teams to ensure that new solutions are built to be scalable, supportable, and affordable. Provide mentoring for other technical staff

Comcast, Silver Spring MD Oct ‘11 – April ‘15 Linux System Administrator

Installing RedHat Linux using kickstart and applying security policies for hardening the server based on the company policies.

Lead daily Linux environment operations, monitoring and support; delegation of day-to-day activities to other engineers as appropriate

Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs, enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging and network logging of servers for maintenance.

RPM and YUM package installations, patch and other server management.

Installation of recommended patches on Linux servers and applications to help improve performance

Configuring multipath, and creating physical volumes, volume groups and logical volumes.

Installation & Configuration of Logical Volume Manager – LVM

Documentation of all the setup procedures and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) in Confluence.

Collaboration with developers to load software onto Linux Enterprise servers.

Troubleshooting day-to-day issues with various servers on different platforms

Provision of monthly maintenance on various Linux servers

Participation in on-call rotation to provide 24/7 technical support for Linux infrastructure

Micron Technology, Manassas VA Oct ‘06 – Sept‘10 Desktop Support Specialist

Assisted staff with the installation, configuration, and ongoing usability of desktop

computers, peripheral equipment and software within established standards and

guidelines.

Monitored the performance of the company’s desktop infrastructure and made suggestions for optimizing efficiency

Assessment of functional needs to determine specifications for purchases.

Collaboration with existing vendors to evaluate new technology that is available and make recommendations to management on using that technology

Training and orientation of staff on the use of hardware and software

Clearance

Public Trust

Education

Bachelor of Science, Natural Resources Management, 2001

University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

Master of Business Administration, Information Systems (Part Completed)

Delaware State University, Dover DE

Reference

Available Upon Request

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