Name: ALAIN ABONGWA

Email: adi66p@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 651-***-****

I am a self-motivated professional with more than 4 years of Red Hat Linux experience providing thorough and skillful support to both internal and external parties. I am highly skilled in following through, communicating and meeting deadlines to ensure on time completion of projects. Ability to learn and incorporate new technology. Consistently receives positive feedback from managers, co-workers and clients.

Summary of Computing Skills

Languages: Shells scripting (bash), basic python, salt stack

Operating Systems: RHEL 6, Centos 6, RHEL 7, Basic windows servers 2012, Solaris9,10,11..

Software: Atlassian Jira, Atlassian Confluence, MySQL, Github, Red Hat Satellite, OpenStack

Monitor Software: SolarWinds, Appdynamics, Nagios, Ansible, Ansible Tower, bash, basic python, Tanium.

Professional Experience

Sr. Linux Systems Admin: Dynamic Tech IT, LLC Date June 2016 - Present

-Installation and configuration of Linux/Unix Servers using Kickstart, PXE, flash archive, live upgrade, jumpstart and Ansible

-Administered, troubleshot and monitored UNIX (Solaris) systems.

-Administer and troubleshoot RSA token for both internal and external parties

-Participated in monthly maintenance patching of Linux and Unix servers

-Installed and configured Red Hat Satellite repositories in preparation of Red Hat 7 migration.

-Automated some basic tasks using shell scripting.

-Configured DNS servers for local name resolution in test environment

-Implement SpaceWalk repository.

-Troubleshoot file system issues, grub functions. conceive shell scripts for automating file systems administration and cron jobs for disk management, process management, and server reboots.

-Monitoring System Performance of Virtual servers, memory and Swap Space using Nagios and Solawinds.

-Managing system storage resources and security by implementing LVM for disk utilization, logs alert and CPU utilization of Dev/Test/Prod environments.

-Sound understanding of Linux internals, in the aspects of Installation/configuration of physical and virtual servers, creating and managing user accounts, Troubleshooting problems related to applications in Dev/Test/Prod Server environments, System Hardening, Monitoring, perform system patches for security, update and bug fixes, backup/restore and Scripting, Apache website and Virtual hosting.

-Experience with Internet technologies and Proficient with Network Protocols such as DNS, NTP, TCP/IP, HTTP, FTP. Configuration of Static IP, DCHP and IPtables addressing.

-Experience working with automated configuration management tools, like Chef and Puppet.

-Perform large scale configuration and installation of Red hat instances using kick start

-Automation of system administration tasks using shell scripting

-Perform bare metal installation and configuration of VMware Hypervisor on 64-bit servers

-Planning, development and Implementation of hard ware requirements to support a broad

-Experience configuring Iptables/Firewall, Selinux,based

-Created and configure LVM partitions

-virtualization infrastructure using VMware and Red hat tested technologies

-Physical hardware troubleshooting experience

-Red Hat Network (RHN)

-Ability to enable virtualization and verify critical flags required for Cloud based operations

-Performed installation and management of 300 virtual machines on VMware ESXi

-Experience in Enterprise Virtualization and Cloud Computing

-Expertise in Solaris virtual environments

-Installed multiple sparse and whole root zones within one physical instance of Solaris 10.

-Performance Monitoring and capacity planning

JUNE 13th 2017 - May 21th 2019 G & M Health

Unix/Linux Systems Admin:

-Build local yum repository for internal network use

-Create and extend physical volumes, volume groups. Resize existing logical volumes for additional space requirements. Setup user account quotas for system resource management

-Restrict access to files and directories using Access Control Lists file permissions. Set suid, sgid and stickets on files as needed

-Configured firewall using iptables for system security

-Configure directories to enable group collaboration and private/public sharing

-Configure NFS servers for file sharing across the network

-Setup NTP servers for time synchronization of multiple clients on the network

-Configure SSH server for password less login, secure ssh logins and restrict ssh logins to local network using iptables

-Perform patching on running servers using live upgrade, yum update, reducing minimal downtime

-Manage and troubleshoot user account issues login issues

-Troubleshoot network connectivity, hardware, cpu, memory, I/O, boot, DNS and other application issues

-Installed and configured DNS for internal name resolution.Daily Administration and - - Management of Multiple Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers

-Perform large scale configuration and installation of Red hat instances using kick start

-Automation of system administration tasks using shell scripting

-Perform bare metal installation and configuration of VMware Hypervisor on 64-bit servers

-Planning, development and Implementation of hard ware requirements to support a broad based virtualization infrastructure using VMware and Red hat tested technologies

-Physical hardware troubleshooting experience

-Ability to enable virtualization and verify critical flags required for Cloud based operations

-Performed installation and management of 300 virtual machines on VMware ESXi

EDUCATION:

University of Buea, Cameroon

Computer Science Degree in Bachelor of Science

Earned 96 college credits towards a Computer Science bachelor with The University of Buea.

Relevant courses include: Principles of Financial Accounting, Visual Basic Programming, Fundamentals of Speech Communication, Macroeconomic Principles, Stats for Business and Econ I, Writing for Liberal Education, General Math with College Algebra, Finite Mathematics, Calculus I, Public Speaking, Calculus II, Introduction to Computer Science I, Introduction to Computer Science II, Data Communication and Networking, Software Engineering, Database Management Systems, Operating Systems, Network Security, Application Software Security, Introduction to Statistical Methods, Writing for Business and Industry.

Accounting, Cooperative Education, Physical Fitness & Health, Comprehensive Spreadsheets, Database Management Systems, General Biology, Programming with Visual Basic, System Analysis and Design, Finite Mathematics, Introduction to Telecom, Fundamentals of Speech Communication, Object Oriented Programming for Business Applications C++, Pre-Calculus I, and Weight Train.

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