System Administrator Management

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

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