Software Engineer Senior

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Senior Software Engineer/Consultant with 7 years of installation, configuration and troubleshooting experience on various operating system platforms and extensive experience in Lenix performance tuning configuration and capacity planning.

Strong development experience in a modern programming language (e.g. Yaml, Python, Go, C++, Java)

Solid Network Protocol experience in ARP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, NTP, TCP/IP, SSH, FTP and UDP.

Experience in building and maintaining repositories and generating automated test results via automation; proficient in Automation tools such as Java, Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Maven, Cucumber, Jenkins, and Git for testing Client-Development, and Hybrid Framework.

Deep experience with Linux OS internals and system performance analysis, tuning, and troubleshooting including network, system, and hardware optimization for low latency.

Experience working with collaboration tools, conferencing systems, remote IT tools, and ticketing systems.

Ability to effectively communicate in technical and non-technical language and translate information into comprehensible company-wide documentation and requirements.

Proficient in Smoke Testing, Back-end Testing, Black-Box testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), Functional Testing, Integration Testing, Positive Testing, Negative Testing, Regression Testing, GUI Software testing, Ad-hoc testing, Cross Browser/Parallel testing.

Exceptional communication skills and able to work independently when required to contribute to goals and objectives. Highly self-motivated and problem-solver.

Technical Skills:

oMS Office Suite, Red Hat Linux, Bash Shell Scripting, Apache Tomcat, SSH (secure shell), VMware, NAGIOS monitoring tool, vSphere Client, vCenter Server, VMware Workstation, Virtual Box, Deploy OVF templates, VMotion Putty, WinSCP, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins, AWS, MYSQL, Windows/Unix, Nexus, WAM, Splunk.

KEY COMPETENCIES

Quality Management

Business Architecture

User Management

Project Management

Vendor Management

Risk Management

Software Engineering

Software Development

Business and IT Governance

Product Management

Change Management and Process Improvement

Network Engineering

Performance Monitoring and Management

Technical Writing

UI/UX Design

Section 508

Problem Solving

Process Improvement and Re-Engineering

Agile

Lean Six Sigma

Performance Monitoring and Management

Software Architecture

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION

Howard University - B.S. in Biology and Mechanical Engineering, Howard University, Washington DC 1999

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

CATALENT PHARMA SOLUTIONS

Senior Engineer/System Administrator August 2021 – Present

Driving growth of engineering product by leading new feature development, research, issue resolution and liaison with stakeholders to execute strategy. Directed the implementation of projects on the roadmap including features to enable real-time updated solutions.

•Patched test development and production environments using BIG FIX.

•Performed installations and configurations of several applications.

•Monitored Client's Environments using EM7.

•Built Amazon EC2 Instances using AWS.

•Managed Application servers and Web servers for Customers.

•Installed and configured SAMBA for clients.

•Configured network on new Linux devices.

•Troubleshot network issues on various Linux devices using Netstat, TCP dump, Traceroute and Ping.

•Ran vulnerability scans using Nessus.

•Created users and granted privileges using Active Directory and IAM.

•Designed and developed complex, integrated solutions to meet business requirements or enhance performance.

•Wrote shell scripts to automate the administrative tasks.

•Performance/kernel tuning, patch/packages management on UNIX servers.

•Patch management and regular scheduled software maintenance using Katello and Spacewalk.

•Installed, configured and troubleshot various types of servers like, NFS, FTP, Apache, MySQL, and Tomcat.

•Filesystem investigation to find out why threshold has been passed and fixing as required.

•Monitored Linux Servers using Ovirt, OMD Check M_K.

•Manage service management - handle customer tickets and SLAs.

•Patch management and regular scheduled software maintenance using Foreman, Katello and Spacewalk.

•Created DNS entries for Linux and windows machines.

•Experience with Key-pass for multi-server authentication.

•Created users, organizational units and granted permissions in IDM.

•Disk and file system management through logical volume manager.

•Configured Linux instances in AWS.

•Setup Log rotate to clean up /var/log *.

•Experience with web-server Apache Tomcat.

•Managed and installed packages using yum and rpm tools (Linux).

•Installed, configured and volume/File system management using Logical Volume Manager.

•Administered user accounts on all servers, configure user profiles, troubleshot and resolve user login problems.

•Conducted root password recovery and reset on inaccessible servers.

•Performed the installation, configuration, administration, and maintenance of Red Hat Linux 6 and 7 systems according to existing standards in a virtualized environment.

•Created, configured and monitored NFS filesystem.

•Designed and developed complex, integrated solutions to meet business requirements or enhance performance.

•Wrote shell scripts to automate the administrative tasks and management using Cron.

•Used VMware to create and manage virtual servers.

•Installed, upgraded and configured RedHat Linux 5 and 6 using Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.

MERCK

Unix/Linux Administrator June 2014 – August 2021

Led and established quality requirements, and implementation to improve operational efficiency of the platform and updated systems with new version of OS and application software.

•Created and managed user accounts and privileges

•Extensive experience in UNIX performance tuning configuration and capacity planning.

•Troubleshot reasons for server slowness.

•Created RHEL virtual servers in VMware center from consolidated image and from attached image in data store.

•Managed backup jobs using tar file systems on Solaris 10 and RHEL 6.4.

•Managed and installed packages using yum and rpm tools (Linux).

•Created Filesystems from local storage as well as NFS partitions for application portability.

•Installed RedHat Linux using kickstart and applying security policies for hardening the server based on the company policies.

•Administered user accounts on all servers, configured user profiles, troubleshot, and resolved user login problems.

•Configured and troubleshot TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS for Linux Servers.

•Troubleshot system problems and supported 24/7 high availability production servers.

•Created DNS entries for AWS instances using route 53.

•Setup EBS volumes for storage.

•Mounted windows file share on Linux using CIFS mount, samba.

•Kernel management on Linux machines (Red Hat & CentOS)

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