Ashanti A Alleyne

ad04rv@r.postjobfree.com Location: New York

Phone: 917-***-****

SUMMARY

A versatile Systems and Cloud Administrator with a substantial 6 years of experience and currently in charge of seeing the day-to-day activities of the technical and functional operations and maintenance of assigned systems including Linux, Windows and the Cloud.

My responsibilities are but not limited to working with the Linux command line and using the GUI port to perform commands to complete the requested procedure or projects.

I am a self-starter with a wide knowledge of installing, configuring, and administering of Red Hat, Centos, and Ubuntu operating systems.

I am very versatile and very adaptive to all environments. I can work with different personalities within and outside teams without losing professionalism to attain the desired goals.

With an eye for details, I can organize work schedules with respect to timelines and priorities to meet deadlines in fast paced environments with regards to in providing robust server infrastructure and ensuring smooth system operations.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Able to work effectively with or on windows operating system and linux opreating systems such as Red Hat, Ubuntu and CentOS .

Experienced in performing duties such as installation and configuring of the above operating systems, troubleshooting, patching measures and server hardening.

Effectively execute the tasks of building servers physically and virtually using the VMware and using cloud technologies such as the AWS to create instances in an environment. Possess a strong scripting skill using Bash and Python for use in future installations and updates.

Strong use of Ansible in any environment. Skilled also in the use of monitoring tools such as Nagios

Includes a broad understanding of networking procedures involving network configuration, DNS, VPN, TCP protocols and firewall installation.

Being very versatile and social I can work with all manner of personalities within and outside teams without losing professionalism to attain stipulated goals.

With a natural flair coupled with deliberate personal development I have significant literacy, verbal and listening skills that make for effective communication between me, colleagues, superiors, subordinates and wider audiences.

Experienced in disaster recovery planning and execution.

WORK HISTORY

Linux System Administrator/Cloud Administrator

USPS (Contract) July 2020 - Present

Building of servers and provisioning them for clients. Once servers are built, they are hardened, and the right applications installed on them

Working with all Linux versions including Red-hat, Centos, Ubuntu and Solaris

Creating of Documentation for better user experience. This includes documents on best practices in the environment and updating of wiki to reflect current practises

Using Ansible for automation, Installation and running codes in all environments. patching of servers in both test and production environments.

Managing customers AWS accounts. Tasks Includes building of EC2 instances and using other AWS services as needed.

Responsible for creating and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring Centos and RHEL

Building of windows servers and Installing Active directory

Monitoring Servers using Nagios and troubleshooting alerts as they are received.

Use tools such as top, Nmap etc. for performance analysis, tuning for the betterment of the network and various applications and services.

Utilizing AWS snapshots and creating Images of servers for backups before major works for business

Being part of a 24/7 On call Rotation

Creating AWS Security groups to manage outbound and Inbound traffic.

Documenting of best practices in the environment and making sure our internal wiki (confluence) is always updated.

Creating NFS share to share files in various environments.

Performing patching services for clients by coordinating with other players and running of patch scripts.

Documenting procedures and creating referenced documents for publishing in our company wiki.

Creating change request to implement changes in production environment based on business needs.

Managing backup policies, scheduling backups, and ensuring data integrity.

Linux Systems Administrator

Digital Ocean (Contract) December 2017 – July 2020

Creating user profiles and giving permissions to users and files in different departments in the organization.

User and Security Management in Linux/UNIX (Change permission, create, modify, delete groups and user accounts in UNIX and Linux)

Performed RPM and YUM (apt) package installations, changed management requests for software releases.

Assigning tickets to various teams as they flow in our ticketing system.

Configured DNS, NFS, FTP, Apache, HTTPS, DHCP remote access and security management.

Troubleshooting issues and resolving customer alarms.

Creating user accounts on Linux servers for the Engineering department.

Auditing and ensuring all servers are up to date with current users in the environment.

Building of Linux servers on VMware and giving users privileges

Scripting and Scheduling of Cron Jobs for future use.

Utilized Netstat for performance analysis, problem prevention, identification and resolution.

Documented system configurations, procedures, and troubleshooting steps to ensure accurate knowledge transfer and facilitate future maintenance and troubleshooting.

CERTIFICATION

AWS Solutions Architect Associate

REFERENCES

Available upon request

Server Operating Systems

Performance Abilities

Deployment skills

Automation skills

Networking skills

Inter & Intra Team Working Skills

Communication skills

Backup and Recovery skills

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