Engineer System Administrator

Lucas Jonas KOUONGA DZE

Houston Texas *****; 704-***-****; ********@*****.***/********@*****.***

Summary

Over 7+ years of experience in IT industry with strong knowledge in Configuration Management, Change/Release/Build Management, System Administration, Support & Maintenance in environments like Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS & expertise in automating builds and deployment process with focus on DevOps tools and AWS Cloud. I am a Self-motivated individual, hard worker and quick learner, passionate with soccer, music & reading.

Objective

Looking for a challenging role to use my technical skills for the growth of the organization, as well as to enhance my knowledge about new and emerging trends in the IT sector.

Technical skills

• Platform: CentOS/ RHEL 6&7, Ubuntu

• CI: Git, Bitbucket/Github, Jenkins

• CD: Ansible, Docker, K8s and AWS

• Scripting: Bash and Python

• Ticketing: Jira & ServiceNow • LAMP Web server management

• Patching, troubleshooting, upgrades,

• Storage management

• Virtualization: Oracle Virtual Box/VMware •

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DATA SERVICE GROUP Inc. Houston Tx, USA

DevOps Engineer Jan.2017 – Feb.2020

• Maintain configuration of the CI/CD pipeline for server and application builds.

• Used CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Git/Github, build automation tools like Jenkins and automation using Ansible to cut release times by 20%.

• Expertise in troubleshoot build problems; work with Dev. team to resolve issues, Modified build configuration files including POM.xml.

• Create and configure amazon EC2 instances using AWS (Linux/ Ubuntu) using multiples services and deploy application on

• Create/update Ansible scripts to automatically update system components, saving 30% admin time.

• Virtualized the servers using Docker for the test environments and dev-environments needs, also configuration management using Docker by writing Dockerfiles

• Experience in creating Docker Containers leveraging existing Linux Containers and AMI's in addition to creating Docker Containers from scratch.

• Drafted and executed, Bash & Maven scripts in QA, Staging and Production environments.

• Worked as DevOps Engineer for project teams that involved different development teams and multiple simultaneous software releases.

DATA SERVICE GROUP Inc. Houston Tx, USA

Linux System Administrator Jul.2016 – Dec.2016

• Monitoring and managing swap physical and virtual space (LVM, SWAP, NAS).

• Having experience on automation concepts like shell scripting and capable of preparing scripts from project perspective.

• Performing periodic system updates/Patches, Resolve package Management dependency issues and SELinux configuration

• Installation and Configuration of the LAMP web Server on Linux platforms troubleshoot and access log files for errors and web access traffic.

• Completed over 20 tickets that involved troubleshooting equipment hardware issues

• Experience with Red Hat Linux installation, management and troubleshooting

• Used Ticketing tool JIRA to track defects and changes for change management, monitoring tools in different work environments

FRANCE COMPUTER, Bafoussam, Cameroon

Linux System Administrator Jan. 2012 – Dec. 2015

• Responsible for creating, modifying and deleting users, groups and assigning the permissions to users and groups.

• Involved in installation, configuration, implementation, management, maintain and support for the Corporate Linux servers RHEL/CENTOS 6&7

• Monitoring and managing swap physical and virtual space (LVM, SWAP, NAS).

• Assisted in maintaining systems in lab environments at various sites

• Network configuration, start/stop services, package installation (IIS), view log messages, remote access on Windows Server 2008

• Providing end-user 24/7 system support, resolving access and Training

ACADEMIA/CERTIFICATION/LANGUAGES

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) ID: 190-091-389

Master degree in Biochemistry at University of Dschang, Cameroon

English (Professional); French (Native); Spanish (Notions)

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