PROFILE SUMMARY
A seasoned Red Hat Certified System Administrator with over 3 years of experience with strong troubleshooting and communication skills and ability to learn new materials quickly. Passionate about open source, virtualization, and automation. A passionate technologist with a strong desire for personal growth. TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Cloud: Amazon Web Services (EC2, VPC, S3, CloudWatch, etc.)
• Virtualization: VMware
• OS: Red Hat, CentOS
• Automation: Ansible
• Version Control: Git
• Web Applications: Apache, HAProxy Load Balancer, LAMP
• Networking: DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, UDP, SMTP
• Servers: NFS, Mail Servers (Postfix & Dovecot)
• Monitoring: Nagios, Dynatrace, CloudWatch
• Security: Iptables, Firewalld, ACL, SELinux, Secure Shell (SSH)
• Storage: Hardware/SoftwareRAID, SAN, NFS, SAMBA
• User Administration: LDAP, AD
• Backup: R1Soft
• Package Management: Yum, RPM
PROJECTS
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Web Server Load Balancing Systems
Disaster Recovery R1soft Backup
Infrastructure Monitoring Systems
Implement Datadog Monitoring Tool
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Domain Name Resolving Systems
Local Repo Server Installation
Ansible Tower Configuration
VPC Configuration
EXPERIENCE
Steadfast Networks July, 2015 - Present
System Administrator
• Decreased ticket’s escalation to 5% by going beyond documentations
• Cut ticket resolution time by 5-8% by automating day to day tasks within the team
• Improved documentation contents to easy use for new hires
• Managed backup tools as R1soft, Rsync and Tar
• Proactively involved in implementation of services like NFS, DNS, DHCP, HTTP and Telnet
• Configured and managed LVM on Linux using tools like lv extend, lv create and Resize
• Troubleshoot and resolve network issues that are related to servers
• Designed Firewall rules for new servers to facilitate communication with application
• Daily monitored and troubleshooted enterprise server and network
• Assessed tickets on daily basis while providing recommended solution
• Troubleshooted various issues related to system performance, hardware, storage and file systems A KMANA T URGA N
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• Monitored server logs, performance logs and growth of data on network
• Managed and configured Amazon EC2 instances with respect to customer’s specific applications
• Installed, administered, and updated Linux machines, with Red Hat, Debian, and CentOS
• Performed Disk Management, Partitioning and Logical Volume Management and monitoring
• Created root cause analysis reports and provided long-term resolution actions to be taken
• Installed RDBMS for the clients, configured, and backup/restored databases
• Masterminded daily system backups - data recovery with (R1Soft)
• Administered and troubleshooted web and database applications, including RDBMS, Apache, and Nginx.
• Provided multi-layered security on Linux systems per PCI compliances – OS hardening, and complete tickets to resolve software and hardware issues
• Performed standard system administration tasks, such as patching, software and hardware upgrades, troubleshooting and problem resolution
• Provided 24*7 On-call production support based on shift rotation
• Experienced diagnosing and resolving TCP/IP connection problems
• Experienced performance tuning, troubleshooting and resolving network issues
• Troubleshooted and monitored various performance related issues using performance monitoring utilities
(NETSTAT, TOP, IOSTAT and SAR)
• Installed and configured various services such as DNS, DHCP, NFS, Postfix, Apache Web Server, Samba, SSH
• Telnet, HTTP, RPM Package Management, YUM
• Analyzed Ansible playbooks to determine how to migrate them
• Trained team with configuration management using Ansible
• Developed working knowledge of automation tools including Ansible
• Gained familiarity with application deployment utilities Ansible
• Implemented Infrastructure Automation using Ansible
• Built an infrastructure automation framework with Ansible
• Managed systems with Ansible; created custom roles and playbooks
• Developed, installed and configured applications and services with Ansible EDUCATION
• Bachelor of International Relations 2007 – 2012
• Linux Academy, A cloud Guru, Udemy subscriber 2015-present CERTIFICATION
Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Cert. ID: 180-111-767 REFERENCES
Available Upon Request