Gerald Musaga
Contact: **** ********** **, *****: 404-***-**** Houston Tx,77084. Email: ************@*****.***
Professional Summary
DevOps / Cloud Engineer /Linux systems Administrator
I am an enthusiastic DevOps Engineer with a strong AWS, Azure, and Linux background. I have 5 years of experience designing, implementing, and managing cutting-edge deployment and automation of cloud resources.
SKILLS
●Bash Shell Scripting,
●Virtualization: Oracle Virtual Box, VMware
●Platforms: Linux Centos 6&7 RHEL 6&7, and Ubuntu
●System configuration, error.log
●System inventory and upgrades,
●Patching
●Storage: LVM
●Web server: Apache
●System Administrator,
●Database: MySQL
●Windows Server 2008
●Ticketing: JIRA-Kanban Board/Confluence/
●Strong verbal and written communication skills, Quick Learner
● Amazon Web Services: (EC2, S3, Route53, VPC, ELB, EBS, MYSQL, IAM, Auto scaling group, CloudWatch, CloudFormation)
Firewalls, Help Desk, HTTP, LAMP,
Managing, memory,
Network installation,
Process management
Redhat Linux, SAMBA,
Scrum, SSH, Shell Scripting,
Version Control Systems: Git
Customized image: Docker
Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes
Continuous Integration: Jenkins
Build Tool: Maven
Infrastructure provisioning: Terraform
Continuous Deployment: Ansible
Container Orchestration: Kubernetes
Infrastructure Monitoring: Nagios
Tech Support and troubleshooting
Work History
DevOps Engineer August 2015 to Present
Wind Creek Hospitality
●Create and maintain fully automated CI/CD pipeline for code deployment using Jenkins
●Automated build and deployment using Jenkins and maven to reduce breaktime, human error and speed up production process.
●Troubleshooting deployment and installation issues. Automated the Build Process using Jenkins.
●Verify and troubleshoot failed maven builds on Jenkins, verifying artifact id, troubleshoot, document, and communicate failed builds to the Dev team.
●Collaborate with business partners to perform software enhancing testing and scanning.
●Resolve package management dependency issues.
●Working with the Dev team, making modifications on the code using Git, VCS to clone, add, commit, and push codes from local and master branches to central repositories.
●Creating new/modify Ansible YAML, Play-books, Roles, and bash shell scripts for application deployments.
●Collaborating with Dev and Prod teams to ensure smooth running of the pipeline.
●Verify and troubleshoot failed maven builds on Jenkins, verifying artifact id, and date stamps on Nexus, troubleshoot, documents and communicate failed builds to the Dev team.
●Deploy snapshots of application codes to Dev and SIT/QA environments using playbooks and roles.
●Participate in daily scrum to improve system performance, and automation capabilities.
●Searching and testing open-source applications and software to integrate into the infrastructure.
●Creating documentation resources to aid in future troubleshooting issues, to interact with users and business partners to design solutions for current and future business problems including cloud Migration solutions.
●Monitor system infrastructure against zero downtime, perform periodic backups, and troubleshoot failures.
●Expertise in AWS platform and its dimensions of scalability including EC2, S3, EBS, VPC, ELB, AMI, IAM, Cloud Watch, Security Groups.
●Deploy and monitor AWS resources (EC2, VPC, ELB, S3,) using Ansible
●Expertise in DevOps, Release Engineering, Configuration Management, Cloud Infrastructure, Automation. It includes Amazon Web Services (AWS), Ansible.
Linux Systems Administrator
Wind Creek Hospitality
●Installation, configuration and hardening of Linux servers, working with the security team on future patching needs.
●Installation and Configuration of the APACHE web Server on Linux platforms, troubleshoot and access log files for errors and web access traffic
●Diagnose application memory leaks, identify and fix issues related to SElinux, and identify library dependencies for third party software.
●System performance tuning and basics in monitoring, analyzing system and application logs,
●vulnerability assessments, performing upgrades and Patching.
●Managing physical, virtual, and network storage (HD, LVM, NFS, SAMBA, NAS).
●Perform installation, configuration, monitoring and troubleshooting of LAMP.
●User/group administration, file/directory security, authentication, and access management (SSH, Firewalls).
●Analyzing and interpreting system and application log files.
●Configuring SElinux detection security software.
●Configuration and management of network services (HTTP, NFS, SCP NTP).
●Troubleshoot boot issues, identify, and resolve service failures affecting boot.
●Resolve package management dependency issues.
●Collect system information to aid in troubleshooting, document resources, monitor for any behavior modifications and intrusion, configure the system to send log messages to system centralized hosts.
●Installation, configuration, and Hardening of standalone Linux servers.
EDUCATION: Bachelor's Degree
Intellipaat DevOps Certification
IBM Devops Certification
REFERENCE: Available upon request.
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerald-musaga-14b51016b/