Jonathan Ganesh
IT System Administrator
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Summary
• IT Administrator with 6+ years of experience in installing, maintenance and security patches on server infrastructure. • Excellent communication skills with proven ability to collaborate effectively with members of multidisciplinary team, managers, clients and stakeholders. • Demonstrated ability to support and motivate team members in finding solutions for programming roadblocks and developing best strategies to overcome issues. • Experienced in overcoming challenges faced by distributed teams as well as distributed team
members, fostering team spirit • Strong coaching ability to help teams on aspects of conflict resolution and high performance • Proven track record of keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and
dynamic environments
Skills & Expertise
Linux CentOS Fedora Ubuntu
System Administration
Zabbix Grafana Servers Virtualization Xen
Linux KVM Docker OpenStack
Amazon Web Services (AWS) LAMP
Windows Server Active Directory Veeam
Network Administration
Percona ElasticSearch Logstash Kibana
Experience
IT System Administrator at SystemBind Consulting & IT Services Inc.
January 2015 - Present (10 months)
• Performed system administration, webhosting, dev-ops and end-user support, remotely over phone. • Setup an Asset management system for a client to keep track of infrastructure(they used unmanageable Excel before) • Pioneered setup centralized Hyper-V, Linux and Windows server backup system using Veeam. • Adding of infrastructure to Zabbix monitoring system as well as proactive monitoring of entire
infrastructure. • Provisioning of software stacks such as Django, PHP, Wordpress & LAMP to Xen & Hyper- V instances for customers. • Setup, maintaining and securing network-based services such as FTP, SSH, NTP etc. • Troubleshooting of web-based applications for customers.
IT System Administrator at Operation Mobilization
January 2009 - December 2014 (6 years)
• Provided end-user & dev-ops support testing of customized Linux OS “OMSLS” and CRM “Petra” • Deployment of software stacks such as Drupal, LAMP etc. • Initialized setup and deployment of company’s international Moodle-based LMS www.jabinonline.com • Onsite end-user support for applications such as Microsoft Office Suite, “Petra” and general sysadmin.
Education
Kristu Jayanti College Of Management And Tech
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer and Electronic Engineering, 2002 - 2005
Languages
English (Native or bilingual proficiency)
Afrikaans (Limited working proficiency)