CAREER OBJECTIVE
To secure a challenging position where I can effectively contribute my
skills as a linux server administrator possessing competent technical and
troubleshooting skills.
EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
June 2011 to January 2013 as Technical Specialist (Linux) at Dinoct(OPS
Metrics), Infopark, Cochin.
February 2013 to till date as System Administrator (Linux/Windows) at
Qburst Technologies, Infopark,Trissur.
Developing interface for environmental setup / application deployments on
AWS platform
Setting up Secure Environment on Amazon Cloud Platform
Monitoring and maintaining servers on Amazon cloud using RIMS (Remote
Infrastructure Management Services)
Periodic deployment of applications on cloud based servers
Troubleshooting and fixing infrastructure and application problems
maintaining SLA
Analyze and improve performance and fix operational problems
Attending customer generated tickets using JIRA and Redmine
Generating periodic operational reports (via bash scripting )
Attending and organizing periodic meetings with client
Server Monitoring using Nagios/Ground Work, Amazon Cloud-watch & Webwatch
Performance fine tuning
SKILL SETS
AWS :
VPC,EC2,RDS,Security
Groups,SES,IAM,Autoscaling,OpsWorks
Scripting : BASH
Computer Languages : C, C++
Tools/ Software / Services : Nagios, Ground Work, OTRS, Apache,
Tomcat,
AWS,Ossec,Splunk,Awstats,Clamav,OpenVas,Zentyal,
Jmeter,Wiki,Pfsense,Fail2ban,GoAccess,Webwatch
Operating Systems : RedHat Linux, Ubuntu, Debian,Centos,
Fedora,Windows7
Certification : RHCE-Certi?cate Number: 805************
SPECIALIZED SKILLS
Cloud Services (AWS)
Amazon VPC, RDS and EC2 Instance management
Amazon S3 Bucket Management
Amazon Auto scaling & Cloud-watch management
Automating day to day activities using Shell Scripts (BASH)
O.S. / Application Installation and Applying Patches
User Management (Sudo, Permissions etc)
Disk Management (Partitions, File Systems, LVM, NFS, RAID)
Database Management (MySQL)
Linux Package Management
Diagnosing problems with help of Log files
SSH Tunneling
File Sharing
Backup Configuration and scheduling using Cron
DNS, DHCP Configuration
Server Hardening & Firewall (iptables)
Site migrations
SSL certificate installation
C-panel, Godaddy, 1&1 services
Version Control-SVN &GIT
GIT management using codebase
Wordpress Installation and configuration
Microsoft SQL server management
FTP server configurations
Virtualbox configurations and maintenance
Hardware setup and troubleshooting
ACADAMIC QUALIFICATION
B.Tech Computer Sceince from College of Engineering,Poonjar, affiliated to
Cochin University with 62.3 % in 2010.
Plus Two from C.M.M.H.S.S,Karikkattoor (Board of Public Examinations,
Kerala) with
83 % in 2003.
S.S.L.C. (10th) from C.M.M.H.S.S,Karikkattoor (Board of Public
Examinations, Kerala) with 83.5% in 2000.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name : Amol A Choorappady
Address : Choorappadil(H)
(Permanent) Poovatholy (P.O)
Karikkattoor,Kottayam,686544
Date of Birth : 22/03/1988
Marital Status : Single
Languages Known : English, Malayalam & Hindi.
Amol A Choorappady