Engineer Aws

Noble Peprah Kyeremateng

240-***-**** *********@*****.*** New Carrollton, MD 20784

“The only way to do great work is to love what you do” - Steve Jobs

SUMMARY

An accomplished Linux / AWS Engineer with over 4 years of experience in maintaining different Linux distributions – Redhat, Centos and Ubuntu, in physical, virtual and cloud environments, maximizing performance and ensuring a highly- available and secured environment.

CERTIFICATIONS

Red Hat Certified System Administrator --- Scheduled

AWS solution Architect Associate In Progress

SKILLS

●Automation – Ansible

●Cloud – Amazon Web Services

●Virtualization ( KVM)

●Containerization - Docker

●Version control - GIT / GitHub

●Linux installation - Kickstart/PXE

●Continuous Integration - Jenkins

●Package Management ( RPM, YUM and DNF )

●Monitoring - Nagios/Zabbix

●Networking

●Directory and files Management

●HTTP/LAMP STACK

●Spacewalk (Redhat satellite)

●LDAP

●Bash Scripting

●Patch( Updates) Management

●Logical Volume Management

●User Management

●Troubleshooting

A Team-player

EXPERIENCE

Linux / AWS Engineer

Dellatech Global LLC December 2018 - present

●Installation, Maintenance, Administration and troubleshooting of Red Hat EnterpriseLinux 6/7/8, CentOS 6/7/8 and Ubuntu systems

●Installation, configuration, maintains and up-gradation of the Linux OS, in physical, virtual and cloud environments.

●Diagnosing hardware/software problems and providing solutions.

●Troubleshooting system, network and user issues.

●Server disk space management, periodically cleaning log files using log rotate.

●Managing file systems in LVM (Create, delete and modify FS).

●Monitoring performance of systems using PS, top, vmstat, SAR.

●Troubleshooting User's login and file system related issues.

●Installing and upgrading packages using yum and rpm.

●File sharing and backup through rsync, SCP, ftp.

●Decommission of Physical and virtual servers.

●Job Scheduling and Automating process using CRON.

●Creating Runbooks/SOP's so the work can be done smoothly.

●Install and configure Nagios

●Deployed a number of cloud instances on AWS to serve clients.

●Monitors physical servers using nagios and AWS cloud based servers using cloudwatch.

●Installs a number of physical servers using kickstart /pxe automation tool.

●Create scripts and assist with automated development processes.

●Installs and manages servers such as NFS, Nagios, Apache, DNS, Ansible, etc.

●Maintains documentation regarding software and hardware troubleshooting procedures.

●Ensuring data recovery by performing regular backups and tuning for optimization.

●Provides regression testing on new software release.

●Configure directories to enable collaboration between groups.

Unix/Linux System Engineer

Akim Bosome Rural Bank (Ghana) February, 2016 - October 2018

●Monitored system logs for security and other problems.

●Performed day-to-day maintenance and upgrades of servers.

●Provided support for implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of Unix/Linux OS.

●Managed kernel parameters and disk partition modifications.

●Performed periodic systems backup and documenting standard operating procedures.

●Applying Operating Systems updates, patches and configuration changes.

●Adding, removing and updating user account information and resetting passwords.

●Installed and configured Nagios for system monitoring.

●Worked with Senior System Administrators to troubleshoot issues.

●Uses volume management utilities such as lvextend, vgextend, pvcreate, etc.

●Helped to configure Virtual machines on KVM

●wrote and maintained Ansible playbooks for as per tasks requirement

REFERENCE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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