Shahban Ali

929-***-**** adg267@r.postjobfree.com U.S. Citizen location NYC

Summary

Professional Linux/Unix Administrator/Engineer with 9+ years’ experience in the IT industry, including managing, configuring & maintaining Linux Red-HAT and CentOS servers. Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities, with a deep understanding of Linux Red-Hat networking, virtualization management, cloud computing, AWS, DevOps, automation. Proficient working experience of Linux Red-Hat 4/5/6/7, CentOS 4/5/6/7, also Ubuntu and Fedora. Other strengths include server configuration with PXE boot, automation through puppet and Ansible, and other configuration management tools. Great interpersonal skills and can communicate with teams to resolve challenging technical issues

Skills & Abilities

•Operating Systems:

RHEL 5.x, 6.x, 7, CentOS and Windows 7, 8, XP, Vista, Server 2008 R2

•Automation tools: Ansible and Puppet

•Hardware: DELL (Power Edge), HP (ProLiant G7, G8)

•Tools: WordPress, Apache HTTP, Nagios, Ansible, VMware, AWS, KVM, Jira, IBM-BigFix, Solar-winds, Tenable, and Nexus

•Networking: TCP/IP, NFS, NIS, SSH, DHCP, FTP/TFTP, SMTP, SNMP, Iptables, DNS

•Storage: LVM, Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, and NAS (NFS, SAMBA, RAID 0,1,5,6,10)

HIGHBRIDGE CAPITAL MANAGEMENT NYC JUNE 2019 – CURRENT LINUX SYSTEMS ENGINEER

•Provisioning and configuring Red Hat, CentOS & other UNIX based operating system’s virtual machines on VMware ESXi hosts

•Maintaining and administering Red hat & CentOS’s physical and virtual hosts

•Perform, automates and customs installation of Linux/Unix Based OS using PXE boot and Kickstart

•Experience using AWS Cloud Watch Service to creating alarms and notifications for EC2 instances

•Work with IAM service creating new IAM users & groups, defining roles and policies and Identity providers

•Experience in working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create AWS EC2 instances with S3 storage and EBS storage also VPC, ELB, Auto-scaling, elastic beanstalk, etc.

•Experience working with network access control list (Nacl) and security groups

•Responsible for provisioning, configuration, security, and maintenance of Red Hat Linux servers according to the company compliance, as well as management and deployment of security patches with Red Hat Satellite

•Performing vulnerability scanning, use system hardening and OS patching with Red-Hat satellite to remediate vulnerabilities and improve the score

•Working closely with the IT Security team to identify and remove security vulnerabilities as part of a best-practice approach

•Manage system routine backups approve, Autosys jobs and enable system logging of servers

•Supporting CA Workload Automation (Autosys) in Unix & Windows environments

•Resolve job failure, job deployments, and other job-related issues timely manner.

•Registering cases with the vendor. Implement suggestions and apply patches provided by the vendor, also open cases and collaborate closely with the vendor for bugs and improvements

•Proficient Creating, deleting & rename Git repositories

•Maintain Git workflow for version control (source code management), also knowledge of Jenkins CI/CD

•Knowledge to build and deploy Docker containers for implementing micro-service architecture and orchestrate Docker container cluster using Docker Swarm

•Working knowledge of NetApp (Dell EMC) Solid-fire, Onefs, Isilon

•Create and manage Logical Volume using LVM to create volumes on the volume-groups, and file systems, extending, reducing logical volumes and file systems

•Assisting network team for troubleshooting network related issues including the use of the TCP-dump and Wireshark tool

•Install and configure configuration management tools like Ansible for automation

•Write Ansible-playbooks for manage configuration, deploying applications, and install Linux based Services

•Knowledge of automating processes through Ansible- playbooks for virtual and physical hosts such as provisioning, configuration, patching, and deployment

•Working closely & directly under directors and managers to build SOP Documents to streamline the processes

•Primarily responsible for keeping virtual and physical servers up and running

•Experience setting up secure password-less SSH authentication on servers using SSH key pair

• Managing and resolving incident tickets open by clients as well as those logs by an event monitoring system timely manner to meet SLA

•Monitoring Linux server for CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and Disk Utilization for performance monitoring tool Solar Winds, SysEdge and Nagios

•Experience Setting up directory shares with NFS servers and clients

•Proficiency with VMware, VCenter, and vSphere which includes new VM creation, modification, taking Snapshot and deletion

•Deploying several VMs in a week to support a migration from Red hat 5.x,6.x to Redhat 7.x

•Experience in Creation and managing user accounts, security rights, disk space, and process monitoring in Red hat Linux

•Provide 24/7 technical support to Production and development environments

•Setting up and configuring services such as LDAP, DNS, SSH, DHCP, FTP, TFTP, VSFTP

•Ability to learn new and different technologies to a working depth quickly

HEWLETT-PACKARD AUSTIN, TX MAY 2016 – JUNE 2019

LINUX SYSTEMS ENGINEER

•Responsible for installation and upgrade of patches and packages on RHEL 5/6/7 using RPM & YUM

•Expertise in performing the automated and custom installs using PXE boot and Kickstart installation

•Strong knowledge and experience in Logical Volume Management (LVM), Storage and Disk Management creating, extending, resizing, and shrinking volume groups when needed

•Experience in setting, maintaining, and configuring the YUM repository.

•Proficient in installing, configuring, and maintaining VMware ESX and ESXI.

•Monitor web servers using the Nagios monitoring tool.

•Working knowledge of AWS services like EC2, S3, EBS, IAM, VPC, Cloud Watch, and Auto Scaling, etc

•Experience in Creation and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space, and process monitoring in Red hat Linux

•Good working knowledge of Ansible, setup of Ansible environment, and implementation of different applications & services through Ansible playbook

•Experience in using automation tools like Puppet, Ansible

•Experience in writing bash scripts for automating tasks and for creating backups

•Working on monitoring larger scale servers on VMware, vSphere, and installing monitoring agents

•Install and configure various client servers on Unix/Linux platforms: DHCP, DNS, NFS, FTP, SSH, Apache, RPM, YUM

•Implement the monitoring tools Nagios to monitor services like CPU, Hard drive, Memory utilization, Users, HTTP, SSH, etc

•Build the system process and supervised the server performance using Vmstat, ps, top, Netstat, Iostat

•Implement Sudo accounts, creating and managing user accounts, entitlements and process monitoring in Redhat Linux

•Use Cron jobs in managing systems routine backup like performance, upgrades tuning, and testing

•Installation and upgrade of Software, configuration management, troubleshooting connectivity issues regarding ssh, and network problems

•Create Linux/Unix/Window Virtual Machines using VMware

•Set up directory shares with NFS servers and clients

•Everyday monitoring of health and memory usage of servers and web applications running Apache and Tomcat

DU PONT, WILMINGTON, DE MAY 2014 – APRIL 2016 LINUX SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR

•Build and configure VMware virtual machine templates for Redhat/Centos servers.

•Manage a large development, test, and production environment with physical and virtual servers.

•Install CentOS using pre-execution environment boot and Kick start method on multiple servers, remote installation of Linux using PXE boot.

•Harden Redhat Linux 6 /7.

•Perform system monitoring; CPU, memory, I/O, hardware, job scheduling, and processes management.

•Experience in creating EC2 instances in the cloud (AWS).

•Create and manage user accounts. Setting password aging and account expiration. Troubleshoot user account issues and network related connectivity issues

•Deploy and manage the NFS server and NFS shares. Restricted Shares per subnet and domains. Configure NFS servers for file sharing in Rhel 6 &7 Servers

•Good working knowledge of Puppet, setup of Puppet-master, and creation of resource groups and users

•Experience in writing concise and clear documentation

•An effective team player and motivate team members to achieve desired targets.

•Perform Root password recovery in the Linux servers.

•Secure, monitor, and patch the server using Redhat Satellite Server.

•Create, clone Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware vSphere client 5, and migrating servers between ESXi hosts.

•Perform package administration on Linux using rpm and yum through RHN Satellite and subscription manager.

•Solve ticket issues on day to day activities and problems related to the development and test servers.

•Familiar with working Jira and Service Now ticketing systems.

•Create a BASH script for Alias that I used for the most common commands that I ran on servers every day.

•Work on adding new users and groups and give Sudo access in test and development servers and central file synchronization via sudoers, authorized_keys, Passwd, Shadow, group.

•Manage bare metal servers (HP, DELL, and Cisco switches) servers as well as Virtual servers (VMWare and KVM).

•Experience in troubleshooting of issues with applications, network, user hardware, naming services, etc.

Organizations

•DOW JONES, Midland, MI JANUARY 2010 – APRIL 2014

•LINUX SYSTEMS Analyst

Certification and Training

•Attended Red-hat training.

•Attended AWS training.

•Attended VMware training.

•Attended Ansible training.

Cert Link: https://www.certmetrics.com/amazon/public/badge.aspx?i=1&t=c&d=2020-02-29&ci=AWS01281026&dm=80

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