Shah Nawaz

Linux Systems Engineer

862-***-**** adked2@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY:

Committed, Consistent and enthusiastic Linux Systems Engineer with 5 years of diversified experience to combat dynamic challenges with a creative and professional approach. Expert in handling daily administrative tasks including deploying, configuring, managing, troubleshooting, and patching of Linux based servers. Automated servers provisioning, app deployment processes by using DevOps tools for my advantage. Expert level abilities to handle cloud-based technology (AWS) and container-based technology (Docker). Left no stone unturned for effective monitoring of performance and proactively fixing issues, to make infrastructure highly available.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:

Ability to build effective working relationships with all functional units of the organization.

Can work without lots of supervision and possess great customer service skills.

Worked well under pressure and able to manage competing priorities.

Met or exceeded expectations on process turnaround for assigned tasks and follow ups, and issue resolution to closure.

Understand SLA and supported tier procedures.

Capable of working as part of a cross-cultural team including flexibility to support multiple locations when necessary.

Research and develop process improvements in dedication to continuous improvement.

Excellent decision-making, team organization and administration.

CORE TECHNOLOGY:

Amazon Web Service

AWS (IAM, ELB, EC2, S3, Glacier, Cloudwatch,)

DevOps Tools

Ansible, Docker, Git,Jinkins

Automation

Ansible, Bash Scripting, PXE with Kickstart

Virtualization

Oracle Virtual Box, WMware, Vsphere, Vcenter

Version Control

Git, GitHub, GitLab,

Operating system

RHEL/ CentOS 6, 7

Storage

SAN, NFS, LVM, RAID

Servers

NFS, PXE, DHCP, DNS, HTTPD, NFS, FTP, Apache

Software Management

YUM and RPM

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

FedEx, Buffalo, NY Jan 2018 – Present

Linux Systems Engineer

Performing daily system maintenance and monitoring for Physical and Linux Private Cloud Infrastructure.

configuring, deploying, and maintaining supporting numerous of Linux servers associated with production environment.

Monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing the virtualization performance of ESXI hosts and virtual machines.

Expert level experience in Configuring Kickstart environment to automate Linux OS Installation with PXEboot.

Capable of troubleshooting issues quickly and efficiently, to provide outstanding support for customers; determine root cause and implement permanent resolutions for more intricate issue.

working with application development team to monitor infrastructure, identifying bottlenecks, providing, and developing solutions. Then implementing the solution to relevant infrastructure or applications on need basis.

Proficient in patching, upgrades, vulnerability/security management, and file system maintenance

Addressing complex network-connectivity issues by using tools such as ping, traceroute, nslookup.

Automated configuration management and infrastructure automation by using Ansible. Creating playbooks, running Ad-hoc commands, creating host inventories.

Create Ansible playbooks to perform automation on Linux servers.

Utilize various ansible module to perform user management, configuration management and automate redundant tasks.

Extensive working knowledge with Ansible vault for security and compliance purpose

Use Ansible roles, tags, and handlers to trigger playbooks according to file environment needs, Eliminating manual intervention.

Creating templates from the GIT master server run jobs, schedule tasks in Ansible Tower and deploy across the Linux environment.

Experienced in the GIT command line interface to push/ pull and commit source code files such as yaml playbooks from the master GIT server.

Writing shell scripts to automate system administration task with bash.

Experience in installing, configuring, and implementing different RAID Levels (RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5) levels and Clustering.

Implementing and taking part in administration of NFS, exporting file and directories, mounting exported file systems, working NFS daemons and fixing any mounting issues. ( need story )

Configured and administered the transport mechanisms like FTP and HTTP.

Built servers using AWS Cloud Formation importing volumes, launching EC2, S3 buckets assigning roles and policies via IAM, implementing Auto-Scaling, load balancers (ELBs), Security groups in the defined Virtual Private Connection (VPC).

Configured AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and groups for improved login authentication.

Building S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets and used S3 bucket and Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.

Manage Docker containers including starting, stopping, killing, running, and mapping ports and volumes.

Creating the docker-compose fille to build docker images environment.

Monitoring performance and taking actions based on the alerts received from Nagios to resolve the issue in a timely manner.

Providing effective technical leadership and knowledge-transfer to less-experienced team members.

Identifying opportunities for improving existing environment by enhancing capabilities and/or reducing operating expenses.

Working with management, provide guidance for the systems operation's technical initiatives with clear outcomes.

Yahoo, Lockport Nov 2015 – Dec 2017

Linux Administrator

Primarily responsible for keeping the servers up and running as well as providing direct user support for any technical issues related to Linux systems.

Actively monitoring systems health using monitoring tools and responding to those tickets through the ticketing platform.

Setting up secure passwordless SSH authentication on servers using SSH key pair.

Provided support with data migration using tools like tar and gzip followed by SCP for migration.

Dynamically modify kernel Parameters as requested by clients.

Tuning and hardening Linux based OS’s with enhanced security layers of firewalls.

Worked in a data center for the Racking and stacking of servers.

Performed regular installation of patches using RPM and YUM.

Managing users including creating accounts, controlling password, deleting users, adding users in groups, and assigning permissions and privileges.

Worked with daily system monitoring, verified the integrity and availability of all hardware and server resources, and reviewed system and application logs.

Monitoring and controlling system processes using top, renice, kill, etc.

Worked with “directory naming” technologies (Active Directory (AD), LDAP etc)

Hands-on experience with incident, change, problem management and expert in leading troubleshooting efforts and performing root cause analysis (RCA)

Expert in network administration - Linux routing, network interface configuration, and troubleshooting.

Configured NIC-bonding on new builds for fault-tolerance, load-balance, and redundancy.

Managed LVM to create volumes on the volume groups, and file systems, extended logical volumes and file systems as and when needed. Managed file systems like EXT3, EXT4, XFS.

Setup cron jobs schedules for various backup and monitoring tasks.

EDUCATION:

High School Diploma – Abraham Lincoln

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