Full Name: Musa Wilson Email: ************@*****.***
Gender: Male Phone: 064*-***-*** /079*******
Date of Birth: 03-04-1986 Address: 101 Tennessee Avenue Nationality: Zimbabwean Cosmo City
ID: EN198512 Roodepoort Johannesburg
Work Permit: General work permit
SA Driver’s License: 40470004HCVS
Languages: English, Ndebele, isiZulu, Shona
Religion: Islam
Marital Status Married
Ethnicity African
Areas of Expertise Overview
Digital communication systems deployment, integrations, maintenance and support Design and implement a fully operational Enterprise network service with industry standards Sound knowledge of the TCP/IP Protocol stack at all levels of Network design Deploy, migrate, secure and manage a Linux-based infrastructure Capacity planning, troubleshooting, performance monitoring and tuning Linux Servers Hardening, security best practises and Administration Web Technologies, Mail servers and Back-end database systems Open Source Virtualization, Cloud, and Clustering technologies Containerization and Microservices technologies
Infrastructure automation with Code as an Infrastructure technologies Network Access Control, Firewalling, Switching, and Remote connectivity IP-Telephony and Network Access Control
Knowledge of open source Applications for different Systems Admin areas Work Experience
Access Telecoms (Junior Telecoms Engineer 2007 – 2010) Roles and Responsibilities
Installation, configuration and support of voice and data switching technologies Installation and Configuration of analogue and IP-Based voice PBXs systems Customize voice services as pre client requirements and project comissioning Installation and configuration of Physical Access Control and Time-Attendence systems Customize the access control and time-attendence system to meet client requirements Installation of IP and analogue HIK-Vision Network cameras Installation of networking hardware, routers, switches, Wireless APs Design and installation of structured cabling with Industry standards color coded termination Doing site surveys and Projects implementation documentation Reporting to the Senior technician and the project manager Technologies
Matrix IP-Pbx
Matrix analogue and digital voice gateways
GrandStream IP-Pbx
Grandstream IP Phones, yealink, snom and Fanvil
Matrix Cosec Vega and Path Biometric Readers
HIK-Vision analogue and IP-Cameras
Cisco routers and switches
Projects:
BOKA Tobacco Auction Floors Complex(Voice System)
Installation of a multi-tier Matrix Digital Pbx at Boka auction floors. 700 extensions and termination of 100 pairs color-coded telephone cables. Hardware configuration of different system Card Slots, PSTN, analog and Digital extensions Configuring system Basic and Advanced call settings Configuration of incoming and outgoing call routings, Music on hold, auto-attendent, call-billing liasing with PSTN Telko service providers and training the IT team. Gauteng Gambling Board (Biometric Access Control & Time-attendance) Installation of Matrix Biometric Readers for 25 doors Planning the cable routing and Power supplies distribution Points Mount the readers and connecting them to the magnetic locks Installation and configuration of the Coses Software and integration with MSSQL Configuring Access Control Policies for different Users and departments Customizing time-attendence policies in accordance with organizational requirements Customizing access control and time-attendence reports Testing the system and training the IT team
Project commisioning and after installation support Omni Africa Technologies (Linux Systems Administrator 2011 - 2013) Roles and Responsibilities
Managing and supporting the entire department dealing with Unix\Linux systems Pre-sales engineer and architecting systems deployment Researching and exploring new technologies in the open source industry Testing and validating new Open Source technologies on the market Managing and Monitoring Linux VMs on our Cloud Hosted environment Project planning, and building roadmaps for implementation Drafting Reports, engaging with clients and reporting directly to the HOD Technologies:
KVM Virtualiztion Qemu, Proxmox, Ovirt
Containeriaztion Docker and Kubernetes
Mariadb and Postgres
Apache, nginx and Oracle weblogic
Collaboration Solutions (NextCloud, Zimbra)
Bash and Python Scripting, awk, sed and grep
Prometheus Monitoring
Projects:
KVM Virtualisation:
Deploying a KVM Virtualisation infrastructure for a Chemical Engineering Company. Deploying a baremetal Virtualisation Hosts With CentOS based Ovirt Node & Engine Configuring NFS based lvm, Storage High Availabilty and Scalability. Configuring Networking with network scripts and Open Virtual Switch(SDN) Configuring the VM templates, snapshots, life-cycle and VM Backups Command Line managemet of VMs with virsh and bash scripts Monitoring VM Performance and Resources Consumption Automation:
Automating the Linux Infrastructure of Media Company running on CentoS Servers Using Bash Shell scripts to automate processes the IT team was doing manually kick start scripts for automated OS deployments, scripts for processing & manipulating files Developed cron driven Backup scripts, archiving, security audits, firewall & Network management Scripts for packages installations, updates and Resources Monitoring with email notification Creating well documented templates to help the IT team build their own custom scripts Cloud (VPS)WordPress e-commerce site and Mail Server Installation of an e-commerce Web site and Mail Server for an Electrical and Electronics contracting Company Configuring the LAMP stack Mariadb, Apache and php packages on a CentoS Server Securing the Site with SSL certificates and managing the directory structure of the Site content Installation of the Postfix mail server with dovecot and Roundcube WebMail Securing mail server with SSL certifcates, Spamassassin and Greylisting Securing the Server at Firewall, kernel and config level, fail2ban and 2FA policies Managing Mailboxes storage space and mailboxes backup with mail notification Configuring the Public DNS records for the e-commerce site and Mail txt, mx records Monitoring http traffic,logs with log stash and VPS server performance with Prometheus & Grafana Interfile (Pvt) Ltd (Linux System Administrator)
(Based in UIF Pretoria HQ) (2014 to date)
Roles and Responsibilities
Working closely with the dev team in deploying Business Process Management systems Installing virtualmachines and container platforms for testing Apps before production Container orchestration with Docker swarm, docker stacks and kubernetes Configure docker persistent storage, port mappings and networking Contanerizing applications, running builds and pushing them to a localbased registry Kubernetes administration, configuring the pods, Networking, storage and monitoring Installation and Administration of Java Application Servers(Oracle Weblogic) Jenkins configuration and administration
Monitoring UIF Labour Servers in terms of performance, logs and application stability Writing scripts to monitor system resources, backups, archiving and security audits Scripts for querying databases and formatting the results as csv files Database, Mail and Application servers Administration and Implementing Security Best practices Processing and filtering system logs for troubleshooting and incidences analysis Technologies:
Java Applications Servers
Automation with Ansible, Bash Scripts and Python scripts Apache, nginx and Oracle Weblogic
Clustering Technologies - Load-balancing, HA,Performance, Storage Databases Mariadb, postgres and Mongodb
Prometheus Monitoring with Grafana
Jenkins
Virtualisation (Proxmox)
Containerisation docker, Kubernetes and yaml
Major Projects:
Currently automating the infrastructure using Ansible play-books Automating Infrastructure with python scripts using OS module Replacing the Nagios Monitoring Server and clients with Prometheus,C advisor and Grafana Deploying a dedicated smtp server for systems email notifications and reports Deploying an OpenStack cloud platform on top of the exisitng KVM virtualization platform Education and Qualifications
Magwegwe High School
Five O level Subjects (with Maths and English)
TelOne Centre Telecommunications College (2006 – 2011) Diploma in Telecommunications Engineering T3
Level1
Fundamentals of electronic communication1
Communication systems & Digital Networks1
Fundamentals of Networking
Level2
Fundamentals of electronic communication II
Communication systems & Digital Networks II
Principles of Programming1
Unix\Linux Operating systems1
Databases1
Level3
Fundamentals of electronic communication3
Communication systems & Digital Networks3
Radios Systems
Principles of Programming II
Unix\Linux Operating systems II
Databases II
CCNA (2013)
Routing and Switching
Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (2013)
MCSA 2012 (70-410)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux (2017)
Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator 7 (RHCSA)
Red Hat Certified Engineer 8 (Ansible) [ Current Study ] Linux Foundation (2020)
Kubernetes Certified Administrator [ Current Study ] Sophos Certified Engineer (2017)
XG Firewall
Sophos Central Cloud EndPoint
Cyberoam Firewall (2016)
CCNSP (Cyberoam Certified Network Security Professional) ForeScout NAC (2020)
FSCA (ForeScout Certified Administrator)
References
Omni Africa Interfile (UIF)
Kennedy Govha (Technical Manager) Andrew Muller (Technical Account Manager) 072*******-*** 656 1565