Senior Linux Server Engineer - 5 Years Experience - Available 24/7

Sarath Kumar

Senior Linux/Cloud Support Engineer.

Redhat certified Linux system administrator with good exposure in Linux hosting

environment,customer support,trouble shooting and profound knowledge in Cloud Computing

technologies with excellent communication and interpersonal skill.

Linux server administrator with more than 4 years of experience Redhat Certified Engineer

Exposure to large IT Infrastructure management and handled mission critical environments

Having 5+ years of experience in IT industry.

Expertise in cloud computing technologies like, Applogic, Amazon AWS,Hexagrid Excellent

knowledge in LAMP.

Experience in handling teams

Excellent knowledge in Bash/Python/Perl scripting

Experience in deploying applications in a cloud instance.

Good Exposure in Networking and Client-Server Architecture.

Highly knowledgeable in monitoring tools Nagios, Zenoss, Zabbix,OpenNMS Excellent

communication and interpersonal skill.

Excellent Documentation skills, ITIL principles Devops Practitioner

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Operating System:

Highly Competent : Linux-Redhat Legacy,Fedora,Debian,Ubuntu,Centos

Windows /98/2000/XP/8

Experience In: FreeBSD,DesktopBSD

Server Administration: NFS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, SMTP,WEB SERVERS,VPN

Hosting Control Panel : Cpanel, Plesk, Ensim

CORE COMPENTECIES

Implementing Security policies in Firewalls.

Implementing Linux Based Software Firewall System, Configuring Port forwarding,

Configuring ACL, Configuring Web Proxy using Squid.

Automating the administering tasks using custom scripts from both windows and linux

platforms Experience with configuration management tools such as puppet,chef

CERTIFICATIONS

RHCE

RHCE(RHEL-5)

Technical Trainings:

Redhat Enterprise Linux Training From Redhat India

Designation at Spark Support: Senior Support Engineer.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Writing custom scripts to automate tasks, preventing ddos attacks on servers, batch video

conversion etc in bash scripting

Installation and configuration of software application. Work with control panel like Cpanel,

Plesk.

Troubleshoot and solve server problem regarding security, mail, dns, apache, firewall,

spamming, hacking, spoofing.

Installation and configuration of softwares like moodle, drupal, phpmotion, red5, joomla

Monitoring mail servers, ensuring mail delivery etc

Creating custom Cpanel load balanced cluster in applogic (CA 3tera cloud) environment

Creating custom appliances in the applogic environment

Autoinstallation using Kickstart

Configuration management using Puppet

Attend techinical quries from server owner and NOC techs through ticketing system (mail) or

chat. Advanced apache configurations

Installation and configuration of SNMP tools (Zenoss, Nagios,Zabbix)

Database recovery/Tweaking mysql

Setting up Nginx servers/ Troubleshooting and fixing issues on the same Managing releases in

SVN

Implemented many vpn networks in both openswan and openvpn networks for our clients

Working with advanced MTA’s like Ironport.Port 25, Message systems etc

Lead a team of server administrator and interact with the client directly to manage and ensure

quality of the service to the client.

Profound knowledge in Xen & KVM based virtualization.

Setup, configuration and administration of Ovirt .Proxmox Cloustack,and Openstack

Platforms.

Experience on Onapp platform administration

Profound knowledge and automation skills in Amazon AWS.

Setup, configuration and administration of Puppet based, Chef Based, & Salt Stack based

configuration management.

Continuous Integration of Jenkins & continuous deployment of Codeship

Nimsoft Experience

Installation of Nimsoft Unified manager

Setup robots on linux and windows

Monitor Service Desk and prompt actions

Setup probes based on requirements

Design architecture to monitor multiple locations

Monitor multiple offices using SSL tunnel for secure data transactions

Worked with Nimsoft technical team to setup Nimsoft on Applogic cloud architecture

EDUCATION

B tech Computer Science from MG University.

The above statements are true to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Sarath Kumar

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