Manager Software
Resume:
Saima Kazmi
**************@*****.***
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
* ***** ** ****** ********** in LINUX/UNIX.
·Skilled in using Red-hat Linux 5, 6 and 7 and Centos 6, 7
·Proficiency in Ansible configuration management tool, writing playbooks, roles and modules.
·Setup Ansible Tower, AWX (open source) and managed projects, templates, inventories and jobs.
· Experience in VMware, installed and monitored Virtual environments with ESXI 4.x servers and Virtual Center 2.X
·Knowledgeable in configuring, managing, troubleshooting AD bridging tools like Centrify and any LDAP services.
·Configured and used Kickstart to install OS. Set up YUM and RPM repositories.
·Automation of Linux patching through Ansible, Satellite.
·Proficient in Networking, configuring TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, SAMBA, LDAP, SSH, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Nginx, DHCP, DNS, FTP, VSFTPD, HTTP, HTTPS, PXE Boot, Tomcat +Java
·In Installation, Configuration, Integration, Tuning, Backup, Crash recovery, Upgrades, Patching, Monitoring System Performance, System and Network Security and Troubleshooting of Linux/Unix Servers.
·Experience in creating physical volume, logical volume, volume groups using LVM’s in Linux.
·Familiar with Docker containerization, Kubernetes- container orchestration tool, private cloud- Openstack and public cloud- AWS.
·Build vms, templates, managed resources like datastores in vCenter.
·Experience in writing Shell Scripting.
·Experienced in working with Storage Area Network (SAN), Network attached storage (NAS), DAS (SCSI, SATA, Hitachi storage)
·Participated in yearly Disaster Recovery (DR)
·Experience in providing day-to-day user administration like adding, deleting users, managing users queries and system performance tuning.
·Providing 24/7 technical support to Production environments.
·Technical professional with management skills, excellent business understanding and strong communication skills.
CORE SKILLS
Operating Systems
RHEL 6, 7, and CentOS, window servers, VMware
VMware Product
Vmotion, vCenter Cluster, vSphere, V-converter, Migration, ESXI (5.x,6.x), Snapshot, Clone
Hardware
Dell Servers, HP Servers Gen 6,7,8
Storage
SAN, LUN, NAS, NFS, LVM, DR, NetBackup,Hitachi storage
Version Control
GIT HUB
Cloud
EC2, S3, IAM, CloudFront, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trial, VPC, VMW
Performance Tuning
System Tuning, Kernel Tuning, Hardware Tuning
Networking Protocols
TCP/UDP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, VPC. IP, SysLog, SAMBA, HTTPD,Tomcat + Apache + Java
Languages
Bash scripting, Python, YAML
Devps Tools
ANSIBLE, GIT, DOCKER
Vulnerabilities
LOG Monitoring, PERMISSIONS, BACKUP.
Red Hat
Red Hat Satellite, RHEL 5,6,7
Monitoring
NAGIOS,
Ticketing
BMC Remedy, Jira.
Applications/Servers
Apache, FTP, YUM, RPM, Kickstart
START, NTP, MIGRATION, NIC-Bonding, ANSIBLE, AWS, NETWROKING, FILESYSTEM,RAID
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
Bank of America Linux Administrator October 2017 – present
New York, NY
·Responsible for installing, configuring, and maintaining Linux Based Systems such as RHEL 5, 6, and 7 and CentOS systems and developed, supported open source software
·Responsible for user management includes creating, modifying, and locking/unlocking accounts
·Configured SSH and troubleshooted connection to SSH through SSH clients, set up password-less and agent forward for SSH
·Build virtual and Bare-Metal servers using PXE with Kickstart
·Configure and manage DNS, YUM Repositories, NFS, FTP, DHCP, PXE-Boot, NTP and Crontab
·Working LVM on SAN(LUN), NAS and ISCSI which includes creating, extending, deploying, mirroring, backing up, snapshot and troubleshooting failed LVM as well as configuration of RAID on hardware and solving related issues.(pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate, lvextend, fdisk, lsblk, df, du, XFS, EXT4).
·Worked on RAID 0, 1 and 5 levels on RedHat
·Monitored System Activities like CPU, Memory, Disk Full, Host down, Printing issue and Swap space usage to avoid any performance issues using Nagios.
·Working on ESXi Architecture, guest OS installation, setting up of VM priorities, Cloning, Creating Templates and Snapshots
·Working with the vMotion and Storage vMotion technology
·Creating Disk Partitions, Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and RAID Technologies on different File Systems like Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS on various Linux Distributions and involved in creating Veritas volume manager on Solaris.
·Installation and upgrade of Software Patches, configuration management. Maintain various level of documentation. Co-ordinate with vendor to resolved OS issue.
·SME in automation and deployment utilities using Bash, Ansible, and understanding of key protocols and systems such as: NFS, DNS, SMTP, TCP/IP
·Recognize and troubleshoot problems with Linux server hardware, operating systems, and applications software.
·Managing ESXi server using vCenter, restoring systems with snapshot and migration using vMotion
·Perform RPM & YUM package installations
·Created and edited Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and documented various performed tasks.
·Performed procedures to automate various systems and tasks (e.g. automating code builds and deployments) through Git, Docker, Ansible
·Automate system management tasks using user account creation, FILE SYSTEM SIZE monitoring, monitor system resources, and system maintenance using BASH SCRIPTING.
·Resolved tickets according to priority basis related to OS / Hardware that meet our team’s requirements set by our Service Level Agreement (SLA).
·Participated in 24/7 on-call support personnel for debugging or resolving issues.
·Managed users and groups though a centralized directory for authentication.
·Working on several Docker components like Docker Engine, Hub, Machine, creating Docker images, compose, Docker registry, handling multiple images primarily for middleware installations and domain configurations.
·Working with AWS provided Solutions like EC2, ELB, VPC, S3, IAM, and Cloud Watch
·Used Git as Distributed Version Controlling system to keep track of changes in Source code files
·Manage firewall rules for new servers to enable communication & security using IPTABLES.
Verizon Media, Linux Analyst Feb 2015 - September 2017
New York, N.Y
·Provide application and hardware support directly to end users.
·Troubleshooting and problem resolution of system performance and networking using top, sar, vmstate, iostat, iotop, nmap, tcpdump, wireshark
·Configure SSH configuration files and manually set sshd authorized keys file
·Deploying RHEL 5.x, 6.x, 7.x in a Physical and virtual environment.
·Installing software's packages like NIS, NFS, open ssh compliers using Red hat Package Manager RPM on Red hat Linux.
·Built and configured Virtual Linux Servers on ESXi using vSphere Client
·Worked with multiple teams on tickets and incidents
·Software packages and patch administration, involving and removing software packages and updating patches
·Monitored systems performance of MISSION-CRITICAL servers using NAGIOS and resolved issues and incidents.
·Installing and configuring Apache, Web-server and supporting them on Linux production servers
·Perform user management tasks include adding users, configuring volumes, creating file systems, configuring various system services, configuring software firewall
·Maintained daily backups (tar, dump, Net backup, cpio, rsync, and scp) and network issues, monitored, startup and shutdown scripts, crontab, File system maintenance and automated with bash scripts.
Education pursuing Bachelor's from Brooklyn college
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