kehinde kabiru
Sandy Springs, Georgia • 404-***-**** • **************@*****.***
Highly motivated Linux Administrator with a strong background in a wide variety of system support and solutions-based IT services for Linux. Seeking a Linux Administrator position in a team oriented IT environment that will utilize my existing education and hands-on skills, as well as experience, to achieve the organization’s objectives
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Operating System
Rhel 6.x, 7.x,8.x,9.x RHEL/CentOS, Windows Server 2019
Hardware
HP Proliant DL360, ML350, BL460c [ Gen8, Gen9, Gen10 and Gen11]
Software/Applications/Tools
VMware Exsi 6.7/7.0, MobaXterm SSH client, PowerShell, RedHat Satellite, Prometheus & Grafana Monitoring Unitrends Backup system, ServiceNow Ticketing System, Jira
Languages
Ansible Playbook (YML), Bash Scripting
Networking
TCP/IP, NFS, DNS, DHCP, LAN, FTP/TFTP, SSH, SFTP
Storage
LVM,SCSI, SATA, Ext 4, XFS, SAN, NFS, SAMBA, RAID (0/1/5/10)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Nexgen Data Cloud – MD
Linux Administrator - Telecommute
04/2020 – Present
Experience in installing, configuring, Monthly patching and Daily troubleshooting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for minimizing security vulnerabilities and enhancing system stability
Assign Servers to patch groups, Assign repos to servers, Publishing Versions and Promoting Channels in RedHat Satellite
Reading Grafana Monitoring dashboards, Unitrend Backup report, and Deploying VMware EXSI 6.7/7.0 Snapshots
Install and Decommission of servers using VMware EXSi 6.7/7.0 (VMware Vsphere) for Virtual Servers and HP iLO 5 (HP OneView) for physical RHEL servers
DNS entries and removal on Windows Server Datacenter 2019
Joining RHEL servers to Active Directory. Querying AD users and AD groups using Powershell
Various System Administrator tasks: user management, File system management, Permissions and Ownership of files and Directories, Working with Vendor to setup applications, Sudo Files configuration, Kernel Tuning, Troubleshooting service failure such as network, ssh, etc…
Participate in various projects such as server migration from one datacenter to another and for virtual servers, from one Datastore (LUN) of a specific EXSI to another
Data migration using SCP and RSYNC with a combination of automated tasks usint AT and CRONTAB
Setting SSH keyless communication between servers
Setup SSSD communication between AD and Rhel servers and allow AD groups to access RHEL servers. And with a combination of sudoers files and bash scripts, AD users can switch to local users
Setup temporary root access for application team that will be removed with AT job.
Administered and maintained over 1200 Linux servers, ensuring optimal performance and uptime.
Developed and implemented shell scripts and Ansible playbooks to automate system tasks, reducing manual intervention
Collaborated with development teams to deploy applications in production environments using Docker
Sending SOS report for production outage
On-call rotation
Kiewit Corporation – Atlanta, GA
System Analyst – Level1
01/2019 – 04/2020
Assisted in the development and maintenance of system documentation, including user manuals and technical guides.
Supported data migration efforts by validating data integrity and performing quality assurance testing.
Participated in user training sessions to facilitate system adoption and utilization.
Deployment of server build request
Adding Linux and windows servers to AD
Creation of users in AD and also local user creation on Linux servers
Gathering equipment for new employees: mouse, keyboard, laptop, monitors, cellphone, Yubikey
EDUCATION
Rivers State University of Science and Technology – Portharcourt, Nigeria
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (2015)
CERTIFICATIONS
LPI Linux Essentials 010-160
CompTia Security Plus
ScrumMaster