system administrator

Santoni Graham Jr.

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Email: *******.******@*****.***

Address: **** ********* **. *******, ** 20735

LINUX ADMINISTRATOR

Objectives:

Obtain a technical support position with a progressive organization to utilize my current education and demonstrate my system analysis and my ability to meet the end users’ needs, while assisting in day to day operation enhancements

Technical Proficiency and Expertise:

• Operating Systems: RHEL 5/6/7, CentOS, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Fedora

• Hardware : HP ProLiant, Blade servers, Dell R910, R810, R710 R610

• Software : MS-PROEJCT; LAMP, Linux file system, ESX 4.x, 5.x, JBOSS Tomcat, Web/ Application Server, Apache, Oracle, Spacewalk/ Red Hat Satellite, AWS

• Services : NFS, Apache, DNS, Nslookup, Netstat, Nagios, TCP/IP and TCP Dump, LDAP, ITIL

• Vi Editor, gedit

Summary of Qualifications:

Magnum Multimedia Washington, DC

Linux Administrator August 2018 – Present

• Experience administering, installing, configuring, and maintaining Linux systems

• Implement appropriate security controls to mitigate risk and threats to the system

• Install configure, and support enterprise wide Apache web servers and Tomcat/JBoss J2EE applications

• Configure monitor and perform SSL certificate renewals/updates on Linux servers to ensure security of systems and sites

• Monitor system activities and fine tune system parameters and configurations to optimize performance

• Setting up user and group login ID’s, network configurations, passwords, resolving permission

• Manage systems routing backup, scheduling jobs and enabling cron jobs

• RPM and YUM package installation, patch and other server management

• Participates in rotating 24/7 on-call shifts coordinating with Incident Management Team

• Installation of OMD/Check_Mk monitoring tool for checking system performance

• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills

• Documented all setup procedures and System Related Polices

• Use KVM, DS view and IDrac for remote access for servers

• Address L1/L2 issues and debugging problems for engineering handoff Select Medical Arlington, VA

Linux Administrator July 2016 – May 2018

• Installing Red Hat Linux using kickstart and applying security policies for hardening the server based on company policies

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

• Administration and monitoring infrastructure consisting of Nagios server as web interface for configuration display of performance data

• Implemented COTS installation, changes, upgrades and applied patches

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

• Conduct proactive research of the latest exploits and threats emerging in the security industry

• Analyze network flow data for any abnormalities and detect malicious network activity

• Utilizes IBM IT Help Software to manage IT Help tickets and change management process

• Experience monitoring and allocating vSphere datastore storage to virtual servers

• Manage user access and privileges via LDAP/AD

• Configured DNS, NFS, and APACHE on newly installed machines

• Installation of SSH and configuration of keys bases authentication

• Work with Database administrators to tune kernel for Oracle installations Capital One Bank Washington, DC

System Administrator October 2014 – May 2016

• Verify backups have occurred correctly; restored necessary files

• Troubleshooting system and user issues, providing friendly and timely customer support

• Creation and maintenance of user accounts, passwords, profiles, initialization of file permissions and customizing shell environment setup for users

• Created Logical volumes, Volume Groups, RAID and manipulated them as required

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

• Provided technical support by troubleshooting Day-to-Day issues with various servers on different platforms

• Upgrade and install Universal Power Supply(UPS)

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Science in Finance, Wagner College

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