System Admin, cloud infrastructure, server admin

AMU VERMA Email: **********@*****.***

Markham, ON Cell: 647-***-****

Summary:

CompTIA A+, Security+, Microsoft & AWS certified professional with 8 years’ experience in various technologies. Seeking a technology position where my education, skills and experience can be utilized to achieve company objectives. Keen to expand knowledge, skills and prepared to work in a variety of roles as required. Strong team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to work successfully individually or in a team with limited supervision

Education:

Course in Microsoft and AWS cloud computing - System Admin, MDM, Linux

Certification in CompTIA A+ and Security +

Diploma in Computer Engineering Technician, Northern College for Technology - PURES Campus, 2018

Bachelors in Computer Science from Punjab University, India 2016

System Administrator

BMO - Markham, ON Feb 2022 to Present

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Lead Technical member of Project in Installation and Migration of 1500+ stand-alone physical and Virtual servers from Dell Servers to HP Servers.

Experience with 3rd party utilities such as Dell Security Explorer 9.6

Providing and maintaining SharePoint documents for migration related use and queries.

Configure servers with IPs provided by Network team, ensure correct IPs are allocated to the servers.

Experience working in the Government of Alberta Domain environment or an environment of equivalent size and complexity

Maintain data center hardware, including servers, Firewall, storage devices, and networking equipment, to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and security.

Check for UPS load through Power Chute Business app on host machines.

Console in the server through ILO to make changes as required and confirm settings on server.

Start VMs to configure the remote server and as recommended by the Network and Server team.

Verify if all SCCM related software's, patches and updates are in place before installation.

Disable the services on both old and new server before any server/network activity change.

Maintain backup through data migration scripts and install printer scripts.

Decommission of the server in safe environment.

Experience with Microsoft Office suite, Office 365

Maintain and support Checkpoint and FortiGate firewall hardware, software and FortiGate VPN configurations and ensure robust network security measures are maintained.

Ensure the HDD and removable devices such as USB or SD card are destroyed before decom of the server.

Verify all pictures before and after installation of server on rack along with the decom of the server.

Monitor and analyze firewall activity, implement security policies, network objects, and troubleshoot issues to prevent unauthorized access.

Experience with Remote Access software (VPN, Citrix, MFA, Remote Desktop, VDI)

Manage and support Azure AD, ensuring secure and efficient identity management across the organization.

Managing and providing support for company related software's.

Implement and manage single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and other identity-related services to enhance security and user experience

Installation, configuration and OS patches on RHEL 6 and CentOS 6

Administered VMware ESX 5.5 for running the Windows, Centos and Red Hat Linux server on all environments.

Creating Volume groups, logical volumes and extending them using LVM.

Working with application team for exporting shared volumes and mounting shared volumes.

Worked with DBA team for network related, permissions, mount points and space related issues.

Network/Linux Systems Administrator

TROX - Markham, ON Oct 2018 to Jan 2022

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Maintain, support and troubleshoot local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), mainframe networks and Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

Monitor network performance using tools like CiscoWorks, Solarwinds and threat analysis using tools like NMap, ARCSight, Snifferpro, Firewalk for security and compliance.

Experience creating accounts using Active Roles 7.0 (or newer) Console

Implemented and supported the network consisting of various platforms with Cisco ASA firewalls, 7600/4300/2900 routers, Catalyst 6500/4500 switches, wireless AP’s and VPN.

Support and implement fully switched network using Cisco switches & routers with Cisco ASA/Checkpoint Firewalls to achieve improved reliability and performance.

Worked on network consisting of hybrid routing technologies like BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VPN and multi-vendor equipment’s like Cisco and Juniper.

Administer windows servers, clients, Active Directory, Office365 & Applications.

Strong knowledge of OS and hardware as well as MS Windows Operating Systems (Windows 10, Windows 2016/19), server hardware and software, MS Office products such as O365, Antivirus/encryption solutions, and collaboration tools such WebEx and Teams

Manage HP & Dell hardware through ILO & IDRAC interfaces.

Configure and troubleshoot Linux OS-related issues on server.

Experience packaging and deploying essential software such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office through MDM/Software Distribution.

Experience managing escalation of issues, coordinating with multiple vendors and external IT support.

Experience with Robocopy

Experience writing both IT and end-user documentation to follow standards.

Responsibilities installation, configurations and OS upgrades on RHEL

Implemented and administered VMware ESX 5.5 for running the windows, Centos, SUSE and Red Hat Linux Server on development and test server.

Creating volume groups, Logical Volumes and extending them using LVM.

Worked with HP XEN Blade servers.

Installed, configured and maintained Weblogic and oracle DB servers on OS Redhat Linux.

Responsible for setting up new instances, migrating. Existing services from physical server to AWS cloud.

Computer Lab / Teacher Assistant

Northern College for Technology - PURES - Toronto, ON Sept 2017 to June 2018

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Assist undergraduate students in class and with the questions.

Support the class in Java programming, Linux Administration, Operating System and Networking

Assist student in their final year project in technical and project management aspects

Supported and counselled students experiencing difficulties.

Experience with scripting tools, such as PowerShell

Handling operations of the computers and the networks

Supervising lab equipment, facilities and assisting students

Demonstrating proper use of computer systems to students and resolve hardware issues

Creating and deploying virtual machines

Installing Windows server 2012, adding roles and features to the server

Assisting tutors by setting up lab activities

Network Administrator

Microland Technologies - Punjab, India Jan 2014 to May 2017

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Support and maintain LAN/WAN network service provider circuits like MPLS, Microwave and DSL.

Manage Data Centre activities like connecting devices, power-up/ backup servers, logging, monitor connectivity of network links and inter connects

Interlinked diverse remote locations over WAN and resolve real-time issues to ensure 24/7 uptime.

Installed, configured and troubleshoot the large redundant MPLS network consisting of Cisco routers/Switches/Firewalls with DSL backup and 3-tier switched backbone (core, distribution, access).

Provided support for Windows/Unix servers, DNS, WINS, DHCP, FTP, Citrix, Web Servers.

Manage Active Directory and replication between AD sites

Work directly with Application users, outside vendors and service center(s) to provide user support in resolving application issues.

Additional Skills:

• At least 2 years of experience in Java, C++, HTML and Python development.

• Experience working with MS SQL, MySQL technologies.

• Linux knowledge & Shell scripting

• Knowledge working on Hyper V, VMware Workstation

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office

• Networking: TCP/IP, FTP, DNS, DHCP, LAN, WAN, VPN, Routers, Switching Technologies and Firewalls

• Experience in Operating Systems: Ubuntu, Linux. Windows

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