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PROFILE SUMMARY

With over six years of experience supporting mission-critical environments. Highly skilled Linux Platform Engineer and well-versed in Linux systems, providing comprehensive support in server maintenance, user management, package management, troubleshooting, networking, storage, and security. Additionally, proficient in automation tools such as Ansible, Ansible Tower, GIT, and Bash Scripting. Possess experience in virtualization with VMware and AWS. Extensive knowledge and expertise in these areas have enabled me to consistently deliver high-quality results. Recently I have been exposed to containerization platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes and have a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Computer Science (2012)

University of The Punjab

TECHNICAL SKILLS SET

Operating Systems:

RHEL

CentOS

Ubuntu

Virtualization:

VMware

ESXi

vSphere

vMotion

Snapshot

Clone

Configuration Management:

Ansible

Ansible Tower

Version Control Tools:

Git

GitHub

Containerization:

Docker

Kubernetes

Ticketing Tools:

ServiceNow

BMC Remedy

Cloud Environments (AWS):

EC instances & security Group

IAM

S3, EBS, EFS

ELB & Auto-Scaling

CloudWatch, CloudTrail

Storage:

SAN, NAS

LVM, RAID

fdisk

gdisk

File Systems:

Ext3, Ext4

XFS

Monitoring Tools:

Prometheus

Zabbix

User authentication:

Active Directory

OpenLDAP

Network protocols:

TCP/IP, UDP

HTTP, SSH

DNS

NFS, FTP, TFTP

Systems Security:

iptables, Firewalld

SELinux

WORK EXPERIENCE

Linux Platform Engineer - 06/2021 – Current

Bank of China, New York, NY

Demonstrated expertise in administering Linux operating systems, particularly CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, and possessing familiarity with Debian.

Proficient in decommissioning physical and virtual Linux-based servers.

Created and managed snapshots, templates, and cloned VMs. Migrated VMs through vMotion and implemented DRS and HA.

Proven track record in resolving critical issues that could potentially affect production servers.

Well-versed in utilizing Git for pushing and pulling codes and working with snapshots and connecting Git with Ansible Tower.

Extensive experience with Ansible for automating and managing large-scale deployments.

Automated configuration management and deployments using Ansible playbooks to perform tasks, install applications, and deploy changes on multiple servers. Along with the use of Ansible tags and Handlers in playbooks to help limit tasks on need basis.

Used Ansible Tower to give teams ease of access through a dashboard for their Ansible deployments.

Expert in creating EC2 instances, adding EBS volumes for EC2, and possessing familiarity with VPC, Route 53, RDS, S3, Auto Scaling, Storage Gateway, CloudFormation, and CloudWatch.

Skilled in utilizing IAM for creating roles, users, groups, and provide additional security to AWS account and its resources.

Implementing Auto-Scaling, load balancers (ELBs), Assigned roles and policies via IAM, Security groups in the defined Virtual Private Connection (VPC).

Created, managed, and extended Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and adding or extending space on a needed basis.

Pulling images, creating Docker file to spin up Docker containers to break up monolithic app into micro services, improving developer workflow and increasing scalability.

Adept in handling daily tickets with Jira and responsible for incident resolution and reporting.

Monitored system activities such as CPU, Memory, Disk and Swap space usage to avoid performance issues and tuned various kernel parameters to achieve optimized performance.

Administer application resources, including pods, services, and deployments, by utilizing either YAML configuration files or Kubernetes API objects.

Linux Admin - 06/2018 – 05/2021

CBS, NYC, NY

Automated installation and upgrades of Linux servers using tools such as kickstart with Kickstart boot strap.

Provisioned Red Hat Linux virtual machines on VMware ESXi hosts and administered them.

Installed, monitored, and maintained RHEL7/8 servers and performed migrations from RHEL to CentOS.

Implemented secure, password-less sign-on using SSH authentication.

Conducted vulnerability scans and monitored critical alerts to ensure system security and performance.

Developed and maintained technical documentation.

Configured firewall rules to optimize system and application security and efficiency.

Skilled in managing Logical Volume Manager (LVM), and implemented RAID level with mirroring, stripping and parity solutions.

Diagnosed and resolved network issues to ensure smooth system operations.

Configured Network File System (NFS) to share files and directories over a network.

Installed, configured, and maintained various services such as Samba, SSH, Apache, DNS, DHCP, and NFS.

Managed a highly available monitoring infrastructure to monitor different application servers, and its components using Nagios.

Created logical NIC and managed Slaves under logical NIC for NIC BONDING with different arrangements i.e., for active-backup or load balancing for redundancy, enhanced performance, and fault tolerance.

Utilized the Tar tool to archive and compress files.

Monitored and optimized system performance using top, vmstat, iostat, and kernel tuning tools.

Managed user accounts, permissions, root privileges, and deletion of accounts.

Managed disk space by creating partitions with fdisk or gdisk, mounting them, creating file systems, and making them boot persistent.

Experienced with incident and change management practices. Closed tickets with SLA in place in the environment.

Linux Desk Side Support - 02/2017 – 05/2018

IBM, New York, NY

Responsible for data input into the data center application.

Identified and troubleshoot issues with servers and network devices.

Set up and managed user accounts and permissions to ensure access to a network.

Configured computer system to meet specific business goals.

Performing technical demonstrations for new equipment them with operational procedures.

Coordinated with vendors to resolve technical problems with desktop computing equipment and software.

Provided support to the different teams and customers, also responded to the server and network issues.

Ran hardware diagnostics and replaced failing parts without delay.

Assisted computer users with the operation/ repair of computer systems and other technological equipment.

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