System Administrator Red Hat

HOUESSOU ELIE HOUNGBO

Linux, Unix System Administrator /Hardware installation & configuration

Work authorization: Green Card

Tel: 708-***-**** Email: ********@*****.***, CHICAGO,IL

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (current Rhel9)

• 12 years of experience in IT (Hardware and software)

• 7+ years of experience in LINUX environment

• Strong experience scripting bash Shell

• Network hardware installation and configuration.

Technical Skills

UNIX Linux Shell Scripting Ansible Docker Podman RHEL 6, 7, 8 & 9 VMware ESXI KVM LVM HTTPD LDAP SAN NAS TCP/IP Red Hat Satellite DHCP DNS NFS SAMBA Mysql Nagios

Understand and use essential tools to operate and running systems

Manage basic networking

Configure local storage

Create and configure file systems

Deploy, configure and maintain system

Users, groups and security management

Manage Podman containers.

Connect Linux system to single sign on LDAP/AD server

Install and maintain the operating system and related software products.

System patching using Red hat Satellite and Ansible playbook.

Participate in root-cause analysis of recurring issues, system backup and security setup, provide support in production testing and development environments.

Collaborate with datacenter operations, storage, and engineering apps

Ability to lead and quickly apply right solution to resolve any issues.

Successful in resolving customer issues through troubleshooting.

Fast learner, ready to learn more.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FIELD NATION INC

System Admin Linux (January 2020 – Present)

• Linux (RHEL) administration and application management.

• Installation and configuration of virtual and physical systems

• User management and security.

• Troubleshooting of network, SElinux related issues, even hardware issue

• Automate Systems configuration and patching using Ansible.

• Connecting Linux systems to Single Sign on LDAP/AD Server.

• Perform file system management using LVM, NAS and SAN tools.

• Ensure all environments meet scale and resiliency requirements.

• Support customer facing and internal applications.

• Troubleshooting, solving problems and incidents.

• Creating container from image, deployment and maintain

• Network hardware installation and configuration.

• Participating “On Call Rotation”

UBER, inch ( June 2017 – January 2020)

• Linux (RHEL) administration and application management.

• Installation and configuration of virtual and physical systems

• User management and security.

• Troubleshooting SElinux related issues, Network even hardware issue.

. File system management

• Patching using playbook and system automation

• Install and maintain the operating system and related software products.

• Offered various support to software developers.

• Participating “On Call Rotation”

Contracts (March 2013 – June 2017)

Over 4 years of experience of HARWARE AND SOFTWARE INSTALLATION & CONFIGURATION, with more than 10 companies ( part-time contracts) including: SPENCER TECHNOLOGIES, LMI, RETAIL TECH,COMM-WORKS, CONNECTRA, POMEROY, ACUATIVE CORPORATION, INSIGHT, WATCHER and more.

• Troubleshoot Managed guest systems via VMware infrastructure (ESXI, vSphere)

• Server builds and deploys (Centos6x, 7x; RHEL6X, 7x)

• Performed user accounts administration.

• Successful in resolving customer issues through troubleshooting.

• Monitored and managed server performance using associated tools.

• Setup, configure and troubleshoot TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NFS, CIFS.

• Performed logs administration to detect and resolve system errors.

• Developed functional and technical documentation.

• Performed security hardening on dedicated servers by turning off unused services.

• Basic working knowledge of LDAP server, active directly and auto-mount the home directory.

• Archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files using gzip, tar, bzip.

• Configure key-based authentication for SSH

• Install and update software packages from Red Hat network, configure a remote repository, or for the local file system.

• Managed File system such as LVM

EDUCATION BACKGROUND

• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (Current Rhel9, March 2024)

• Red Hat Engineer (in Progress as of now)

• Master degree in Science (in 2009), in Benin, West Africa.

Certification

• Red Hat Certified System Administrator

Credential: https://rhtapps.redhat.com/verify?certId=240-029-900

• Master degree in Science

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