Larry Strugatsky

Phone : 718-***-**** E-mail: ac8dv5@r.postjobfree.com

**** ******** ***. ***.**, Brooklyn, NY 11229

SUMMARY

Over 10 years of experience as a Unix System Engineer with a strong background in system administration, design and architecture, storage and security management, system monitoring.

SKILLS

Operating Systems: Red Hat Enterprise Linux v.6-7, Sun/Solaris, Cent OS, Suse

Network: NFS, CIFS, TCP/IP, DNS, Samba, Active Directory, Domain Controllers

Security Tools: iptables, TCP wrappers, tcpdump, openSSH, SSL, ssh-config, PAM, TriGeo,

kerberos authentication, DLP by McAfee, Qualys, Varonis Data Privilage

Monitoring Tools: SolarWinds, OEM (Oracle Enterprise Manager), nagios, SNMP,

Dell Open Manage, automated system scripts

Storage: NAS (NetApp), SAN (EqualLogic), DAS, ASM, RAID software and hardware

Virtualization: VMware v.6, OVM server and manager

Programming Languages: Shell scripting, Tcl/TK, HTML

Database: Oracle, RAC, SQL, MS Access

Other: Project Management, SOX policy/compliance, security audits

EXPERIENCE:

Telephonics Inc. (Aerospace & Defense Company)

Farmingdale, NY

Sr. Linux Systems Engineer Dec ‘11 – present

Responsibilities:

Design, build, configure, implement and support of Linux/Windows Server infrastructure systems, and critical backend business Applications.

Managing SAN storage, provisioning space for the current and future needs.

Effectively manage the Systems infrastructure components such as configuration management, application and server patching, security and processes, backups, OS performance tuning.

Developed, deployed and tested disaster recovery process for production standby environment and ensured an on-going policy compliance and procedures.

Installed and configured Red Hat Identity Management server to centrally manage users across multiple Linux hosts making the system manageable and secure.

Perform system analysis and tuning by using system monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, OEM, Dell Open Manage IT Assistant.

Writing various system automation, monitoring and backup scripts.

Diagnose and troubleshot various system issues related to OS, networking, storage, software and hardware RAIDs.

Work in close collaboration with Application development teams on application release deployment to Test/DEV/UAT/PROD Linux Environments.

Regularly scan all systems for open ports and services, new user accounts, analyze system logs and activity.

Mount Sinai Medical Center

New York, NY

Unix Systems Administrator Jan ’10 – Dec ‘11

Responsibilities:

Administrating and managing all activities related to Linux servers and computer systems in local data center and abroad.

Responsible for planning and implementing system security policy, to include firewalls configuration, host and client access, secure port authentication.

Performing Linux servers installation, configuration and tuning.

Responsible for system storage using DAS via Fiber Channel.

Software and hardware RAID configuration and administration.

Quality assurance of the secure data transfer of local and remote Linux servers.

Design and implement disaster recovery plan, manage backups.

Provide remote desktop support to end users worldwide.

Design and manage the overall plant architecture including adding new servers, configuring servers security and networking, keeping all systems up to date.

Document policies and procedures of operations for system design, problem analysis and system security.

Cornell University

New York, NY

Systems Administrator Feb ’00 – Dec ‘09

Responsibilities:

Used system monitoring tools such as tripwire, SNMP, gnuplot, Command Center.

Performance analysis/tuning using sar, iostat, vmstat, sysreport.

Planed scheduled system maintenance.

Performed data backup using Unix tcl shell scripting and cron jobs to fulfill the requirements.

Designed various system automation processes and procedures to enhance the system capability.

Configured and maintained secure Apache web servers and in-house applications for Early Lung Cancer Action Program (ELCAP).

Monitored server and firewall logs, network traffic, used security intrusion tools and software applications.

Provided technical assistance to University faculty members and students.

Assisted in QA process of new software distribution releases and major system upgrades.

Built and supported disaster recovery initiatives and ensured on-going compliance.

Diagnosed and provided solutions for hardware/software problems to end users.

EDUCATION

City University of New York, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY

B.S. in Computer and Information Science 1996-1999

CERTIFICATIONS

RHSA Red Hat 2015

Yellow Belt Lean Six Sigma Certification BGPM 2017

SecureWorks Incident Response SecureWorks 2018

REFERENCES

Available upon request

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