Engineer Aws
Resume:
SHAHID PERVAIZ BUTT
Islip, NY
************@*****.***
Professional Summary: IT engineer with 5+ years of experience in Linux systems administration and cloud computing. Extensive hands-on experience providing application support, server support, migration, patching, server builds, VMware ESXI 5.x, 6.x, NetBackup support, SAN/NAS, monitoring, service now, vulnerability remediation, firmware upgrades, automation, orchestration and user management.
Skills Highlights: Linux administration, patching, vulnerability remediation, security scans, server builds, User administration, LVM, Nagios, Cisco, HP and Dell Servers configurations, Raid 0,1,5 and 10, Ansible automations, shell scripting, system performance, kernel tuning, RedHat 6/7, CentOS 6/7, RedHat Satellite, RedHat IPA, VMware ESXi 5.x, vSphere, vMotion, DRS, HA, Virtual Machines, Snapshots, Backups, Cloning, Templates, SAN, NAS, Blade Servers, FTP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP, PXE Server, LAMP Stack, TCP, UDP, POP, SSH, NFS, Qualys, RDP and AWS.
Professional Experience:
Maimonides Hospital, Brooklyn NY
//Linux Engineer
06/2018 – 06/2020
Supporting day to day operations at Maimonides hospital operations team.
Supporting virtual and physical systems running CentOS 6,7, Red Hat 6,7 and custom appliances.
Responsible for complete user management with LDAP 389.
Resolving issues as reported by help desk and providing technical support.
Working on in-house medical applications, creating start/stop scripts on systems and upgrading apps as needed
Working directly with vendors such as; Cisco, Red Hat (IBM), Brain space and etc...
Deploying docker containers on RHEL systems.
Deploying and managing Kubernetes cluster.
Experience with version control tools such as Git.
Scheduling jobs in cronjob.
Responding to alerts generated by Nagios and taking necessary actions as needed.
Installing, upgrading and configuring apps on RHEL systems.
Deploying docker containers and creating Jenkins jobs.
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Remediating vulnerabilities by applying patches from repository server.
Building virtual machines and physical servers from PXE-Boot server with customized kickstart profiles.
Racking, stacking and cabling servers, Cisco network switches and decommissioning servers as needed.
Working on Cisco UCS servers and upgrading enic/fnic drivers.
Providing level 2 & 3 support.
Responsible for complete life cycle management. Maintaining servers’ inventory, application CI's and application licenses at Maimonides.
Working on various filesystems like ext2, ext3, ext4, XFS and fat32.
Taking virtual machines snapshots, creating templates and deploying OVF files.
Resolving disk space issues, performance issues, network issues, hardware issues and etc. Coaching junior staff, setting up daily stand-up calls and attending meetings with leadership to enhance day-to-day operations.
Creating and maintaining technical documentation on internal share point site.
Coordinating and providing significant input to project planning and application design. Identifying and driving continual improvement program in Linux environment and improving the service efficiency.
Monitoring production systems, applications and network performance through the use of various Network Management and Application Monitoring Tools.
Providing status reports to direct manager and director level leadership. Providing guidance and troubleshooting for complex technical issues.
Cable Vision, Hicksville, NY
//Linux and Cloud administrator
07/2015 – 04/2018
Supported day-to-day running operations at Cable Vision.
Worked with UNIX/Linux operating systems.
Fixed network and DNS issues with TCPDUMP, dig and traceroute utilities.
Configured LAMP Stack on Red Hat 6 systems for in-house applications.
Automated application deployments and other tasks with ansible playbooks and ad-hoc commands.
Created and modified bash shell scripts for simple repetitive tasks.
Configured and deployed virtual machines, physical servers and EC2 instances in AWS cloud.
Monitored the health of infrastructure with Nagios and CloudWatch.
Reviewed AWS billing reports and made necessary changes to infrastructure to reduce overall monthly cost.
Deployed EC2 instances with customized AMI images.
Worked closely with network engineers to configure VPC, VPC endpoints, VPC peering, VPC IPSEC VPN tunnels and subnets.
Achieved high availability in AWS by deploying resources in different regions and availability zones.
Configured and mounted AWS EFS filesystem.
Deployed AWS storage gateway appliance to migrate data from on-premises to cloud. Scheduled cronjobs on servers to upload data to S3 buckets. Configured S3 lifecycle and glacier policies.
Worked closely with architects and deployed cloud formation templates.
Responsible for complete user management of in-house infrastructure. Created, modified and locked accounts in Red Hat IPA.
Responsible for complete user management of cloud. Created, modified and disabled accounts/groups in IAM.
Remediated vulnerabilities by applying patches from Red Hat satellite.
Responsible for creating channels, syncing errata, uploading custom RPM(s), and creating kickstart profiles in Red Hat satellite 5.6.
Created weekly sprints in JIRA and updated velocity charts.
Comcast, Philadelphia, PA
//Linux systems administrator
01/2015 – 06/2015
Migrated applications and servers from UNIX (Solaris) to Linux (Red Hat).
Performed OS patching using Red Hat satellite 5.6.
Decommissioned servers per Comcast policies.
Worked closely with developers to install, configure and deploy applications.
Built ESXi 5.x servers, enabled HA, DRS and created clusters.
Monitored the health of infrastructure with SolarWinds.
Worked on various tickets such as incident, changes and requested items.
Submitted and presented changes to CAB.
Worked on NetBackup and ensured all systems are successfully being backed up.
Worked on
Analyzed logs to improve system and network performance, isolate and detect failures, and identify malicious activity
Assisted in the development of disaster recovery plans with service providers Created change request packages, scheduled and managed deployments.
Exploring new technologies to improve efficiency and maximize performance
Performed configurations and adjustments to enhance system performance.
Planned and executed maintenance on UNIX/Linux systems, including deployment of new operating system releases and Layer 2 (Middleware) components.
Automation with Ansible: Patching systems, installing packages, stopping/starting services, copying files, rebooting systems, deploying applications, writing and modifying playbooks, maintaining inventory file and deploying applications with Ansible playbooks, running ad-hoc commands, downloading modules and additional playbooks from ansible galaxy.
VMware: Installing, configuring, and maintaining VMware ESXi servers. Opening support cases with vendor to resolve issues as needed. Adding hosts to cluster, enabling HA and DRS. Working closely with VMware team to ensure all virtual machines are running latest VMware tools. Applying OS patches and updating ESXi servers. Monitoring the health of vCenter with vROPs monitoring tool. Analyzing and optimizing virtualization performance of VMware ESXi hosts and virtual machines. Performing vMotion of virtual machines to other
hosts in cluster as needed.
Education: High School Diploma (some college)
Trainings: RHEL 6 and 7 / Aws Solutions Architect Associate
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