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Anjel Daniels

System Administrator

Chula Vista, CA, 91913

301-***-****

adib7a@r.postjobfree.com

A Dedicated and responsible Linux System Administrator with a remarkable ability to support a variety of systems and extensive understanding of installing, configuring and administering RedHat. in troubleshooting, monitoring, configuration, and maintenance of operating systems by utilizing advanced resolution procedures to complete deadline-driven projects Technical Skills

• Operating Systems: CentOS 5/6/7, Fedora, Oracle Enterprise Linux, Microsoft Windows Server, RHEL 4/5/6/7

• Software: Apache/Tomcat, Jira, Nagios, Check MK, Samba, VMware, NetBackup, BMC Footprints, Solarwinds, Kickstart

• Services: DNS, SSH, NTP, FTP, TCP/IP, TCP Dump, LDAP, Jenkins, HTTPS/SSL, AD/LDAP

• Skills: System Monitoring, Migration, Patching, Software Installation, Troubleshooting, Documentation, Technical Support, Problem Diagnosis, Hardware Configurations, Unscheduled Emergency Repair, Process and Operational Improvement, Server Management, System upgrades, System Backups, Office 365, Server Automation

Certifications

2020-11 CompTIA Security+

2020-10 AWS Certified Security - Specialty

Work History

2020-03 -

Current

Mid-Level Linux System Administrator (Remote)

Federal Contractor, Small Business Administration, Washington, DC

• Utilize Jira ticketing system to manage technical tasks and change management process.

• Professional archiving of project sites (to preserve sites at their URLs in flat-site git lab/git hub pages or within hosted environments).

• Provided necessary instruction and documentation for change requests, installing operating systems, loading (installing) COTS products, and configuring operating systems and COTS products.

• Manage and monitor COTS applications

• Setup and configure failover load balancing using IP bonding for network cards. Install Red Hat Linux using kickstart and applying security policies for hardening server based on company policies.

• Responsible for Upgrade, install, configuration and administration, and monitoring on Linux servers.

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• Assist with creation and modification of networks to support work devices upon request.

• Automate server building using System Imager, PXE, and Kickstart.

• Manage user access and privileges via LDAP/AD.

• Configure DNS, NFS, and APACHE on newly installed machines.

• Install SSH and configure key bases authentication

• Complete patches and package installation within Linux/Unix Environment.

• Build, configure, and deploy Virtual machines and create templates.

• Provide technical support by performing installations, repairs, and troubleshooting Day-to- Day issues with various servers on different platforms.

• Implement COTS installation, changes, upgrades, and applied patches.

• Compose, update, and maintain technical documentation and runbooks.

• Engage in Agile processes (drafting of plans, system testing, and application controls) for all updates made to Test, DEV, or PROD environment.

• Assist team with documentation and other technical tasks as needed included but not limited to application testing.

• Responsible for management, troubleshooting, and maintenance of NetBackup environment, which includes documentation and removal of daily, weekly, and monthly tapes.

2018-12 - 2020-

03

Linux Administrator (Remote)

Federal Contractor, National Institute Of Health, Bethesda, MD

• Successfully installed, configured, and resolved issues with Apache/Tomcat.

• Completed various tasks to resolve issues, maintain optimal performance, update and service Network (routing & switching, VPN, ASA Firewalls, DNS, and DHCP).

• Provided support for virtualization technologies on VMware hypervisors and SAN/NAS technologies.

• Applied quarterly patches to all DEV, UAT, and PRD Linux environments per company policy.

• Assisted with maintaining Office 365 suite and Azure AD.

• Successfully installed, configured, and resolved issues with Apache/Tomcat.

• Reviewed performance for: applications, systems, servers, and input/output systems.

• Work with Database administrators to tune kernel for Oracle installations, along with MySQL debugging.

• Use Apache Subversion (SVN) and Nexus to manage patch configuration and version control.

• Manage and monitor Linux servers to perform upgrades, installs, configurations, or performance optimizations.

• Used Iptables to set up, maintain, and inspect the tables of IPv4 packet filter rules in Linux kernel.

• Configured network interfaces on VM with Hostname, IP, and Gateway records.

• Modified server configuration files to establish default run levels based on system requirements.

• Configured web services to enable access to document roots and protect other directories.

• Implemented a LAMP Stack to support and Web Applications for clients.

• Configured and deployed various Linux Distributions such as Red hat, Centos, Ubuntu, Fedora.

• Created and activated Swap volumes to enhance system performance.

• Created and configured multiple Virtual Machines on a bare metal Red hat installation platform.

• Enforced System Security, managed system hardening on LINUX environments.

• Managed File Systems and Users on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 platform. 2016-01 - 2018-

12

Linux Server Administrator

State Farm Insurance, Washington, DC

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• Perform daily duties of backups, maintenance on applications and OS, patching, tuning, and troubleshooting

• Configure storage, disk management, logical volume management, and logical partitioning

• Provided technical support and troubleshooting assistance to team as needed for WebLogic and Apache issues.

• Worked with automation tools using scripts (Bash, Ansible)

• Supported AWS hosted systems with CI/CD approaches and tooling (Jenkins)

• Installed, configured, backed up, and recovered middleware tools and technology.

• Analyzed performance metrics and addressed performance concerns proactively.

• Installed and upgraded modems, hard drives, IDE controllers, SCSI drivers, power suppliers, and memory components.

• Assisted team with monitoring and allocating vSphere datastore storage to virtual servers.

• Configured Swap volumes for automatic mounting to survive Power cycle at system reboots.

• Fixed software and hardware issues on Linux and Windows systems Performed software and hardware driver updates

• Acquired comprehensive requirements from Project Managers, Team Leads regarding servers to be migrated.

• Utilized Remedy for data center service requests (Network requests for IP's, ILO's, and DNS changes).

• Hands-on experience in configuring ESX, ESXi, and vSphere4 with virtual center management.

• Took part in VMware ESX installation, updates, patches, and gathered information for capacity and performance analysis to identify potential servers for virtualization.

• Working on Volume management, Disk Management, software RAID solutions using VERITAS Volume Manager.

• File system Tuning and growing using VERITAS File System (VxFS), coordinated with SAN Team for storage allocation and Multi path.

• Experience w/ iptable commands, including those used to add, append, delete, insert, or re-place rules within a particular chain

• Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.

• User Accounts and Access Control implementation in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Servers 2013-05 - 2015-

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Junior Linux Server Administrator

FrontPoint Security Solutions LLC, Vienna, VA

• Work with team to complete server installation, detailed troubleshooting, and password recovery for Red Hat Linux and CentOS Servers.

• Created and managed user accounts and groups, including passwords, ACL file permissions, and user/group quota.

• Updated software and hardware and provided support and resolutions to issues.

• Performed Secured Remote Login with SSH for system maintenance.

• Manage supply closet with printing paper, ink, pens, paper clips, staplers, files and folders, hand sanitizers, cleaning wipes, and correction fluid.

• Efficiently used Microsoft Office Suite to compose technical documentation.

• Utilized IBM IT Help Software to manage IT Help tickets, change management process, and escalated requests as necessary.

• Participated in all team meetings, take meeting notes, and distribute them to team quickly.

• Assisted and shadowed Network Security Administrator using Windows and Linux network systems.

• Installed and configured Apache Webserver, setup HTTP based installation server for Kickstart

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• Used Cron to schedule jobs and automatic system administration duties like file system cleanups.

• Supported team with maintaining system using Ansible, Docker, and NGINX.

• Provided On-call 24/7 support by rotation to assist during scheduled power outages, disaster recovery, and unscheduled emergency repair.

• Assisted team with installing and upgrading video cards, modems, hard drives, IDE controllers, SCSI drivers, power supplier, and memory components.

• Co-built and ran QA tests, performed technical security reviews of web platforms, and implemented bug fixes in contributed code and frameworks. Education

2012-08 -

Current

Bachelor of Science: Business Information Technology Virginia University Of Lynchburg - Lynchburg

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