Linux Admin

HAJRAH SAJJAD

Linux Administrator

E-mail: *************@*****.*** Phone: 929-***-****

CAREER OBJECTIVE

A resolute, dependable and well-adept professional Linux Administrator with experience in maintaining, managing, and administrating environment with different flavors of Linux based servers. Possess abilities to build, provision, deploy, and configure Linux based systems in an enterprise setting. Profound knowledge of troubleshooting and resolving issues related to operating systems. Exposure to hybrid cloud environments such as AWS and perspicacity with DevOps tool including ANSIBLE, GIT and DOCKER. Seeking an opportunity where I can apply my skills and problem-solving techniques that allow me to grow, improve my expertise and give exposure to more cutting-edge technologies.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Linux Systems Administrator with strong technical background in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL & CentOS).

In-depth understanding of Administration and significant prior experience in a closely created Linux based IT environment.

Effectively able to monitor environment, validate the integrity and accessibility of all server resources, hardware, systems, and key processes.

Strong knowledge on performance monitoring, system tuning and troubleshooting Linux based operating systems.

Extensive knowledge of user management, file management and disk storage management.

Experience in writing basic shell scripts in bash for task automation and system administration.

Demonstrated written and verbal communication skills to audiences with a wide variety of technical knowledge.

Ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously and resolve technical issues and juggle out multiple priorities efficiently.

Adaptable professional with a unique path of professional development in IT specialties and exceptional following interpersonal skills.

Strong interest & passion in Linux technologies and interest in advancing technical skills in progressive shop.

WORK EXPERIENCE

AT&T NYC, NY

Linux Admin 01/2019 - Present

Worked as Red Hat Linux Administrator in IT infrastructure environment by providing server administration, application administration along with automation solutions.

Installed and configured Red Hat, CentOS, on variety of different servers and provided system administration support.

Worked with Linux servers in virtualized environments such as Virtual Box, VMware (vSphere ESXI & vCenter), Hyper-V.

Experience in automation of repetitive tasks by using ansible and ansible tower, with ability to create & manage playbooks, roles, dictionaries to automate the deployment & configuration of applications and various services.

Proactively monitored system performance and capacity planning and help to tune performance and ensure high availability of infrastructure

Exposure to cloud computing platforms, particularly Amazon Web Services (AWS) with good comprehension of services like EC2, S3, Glacier, ELB, IAM, Cloud Watch, RDS, Route 53.

Knowledge of building and deploying Docker containers to break up monolithic app into micro services, improving developer workflow, increasing scalability, and optimizing speed.

Have good insight in performance management by using updated tools such as Nagios with ticketing/incident management system (Service-Now).

Experience and understanding of version control of repositories by using GIT Hub as well as GIT lab.

Engineered the systems administration-related solutions for various project and operational needs.

Sound knowledge of enterprise-level deploying and configuration multiple servers simultaneously by automation technique such implementing Kickstart/PXE Boot Servers on multiple RHEL/CentOS distributions.

Maintained system security by actively identifying faults and vulnerable areas within the system’s architecture.

Experience with applying patches, upgrades, bug fixes with integration of Redhat Satellite Server and Ansible Tower.

Knowledge of implementing channel/NIC bonding on Linux and VMware systems to increase redundancy and load balancing.

Understand and able to implement LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) web server configuration, which includes installation of all standard plugins and configuration.

Extensive knowledge with user, group, file management, and Logic volume management (LVM).

Maintained and worked collaboratively with handling and sharing files on remote servers by NFS.

Created tools to help teams and made the most out of the available infrastructure.

Familiarity with integration of Active Directory & LDAP servers for authentication (Linux & Windows)

Improved system recovery after a crash or other outage and supports data integrity by ensuring that there is never a massive loss of vital information.

Hand-on experience of networking and can manage and troubleshoot basic networking issues smoothly.

Provided technical support and guidance to users and other administrators.

Maintained best practices on managing different operating systems and various services across all environments.

Wells Fargo – NYC, NY

Linux Admin 11/2017 – 12/2018

Provided support in the implementation and installation of hardware and software components.

Experience in system administration, system builds, installs, upgrades, patches, migration, troubleshooting, security, backup, decommissioning, performance monitoring and fine tuning on Red Hat Linux systems.

Exposure to Hardware Equipment such as Dell & HP ProLiant, handled tickets that involved troubleshooting and replacement.

Assisted in maintaining systems in lab environments at various sites.

Provided support on weekends and odd hours to ensure little to no disruption of local and operational systems during scheduled maintenance and outages.

Managed daily activities to include user support and system administration tasks.

Installed, configured, and updated Linux machines, with Red Hat, CentOS.

Experience in Implementing Various Network services such as DNS, LDAP, NFS.

Used to troubleshoot, analyze and resolve computer problems related to both hardware and software.

Deployed new equipment and install applications, which enabled the customer to perform their job function on updated equipment which leads to higher work output.

Implement Ansible to manage groups of servers to create users, deploy applications, and perform server maintenance.

Created a process for system updates to minimize risk of application failures.

Monitor and sort error logs and reported the errors and sought out solutions.

Without negligence take backups of the systems. Ensuring data is properly backed up and archived according to established data management policies

Brooklyn College – Brooklyn, N.Y

IT support Technician 07/2016 – 9/2017

Provided tier 1 technical support in person, over the phone and remotely regarding hardware, software, and network-related issues.

Imaged and deploy desktops, laptops using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT).

Assisted the Desktop Engineering team with various tasks such as testing new OS images, packaging software, as well as group policy management.

Monitored connectivity of network printers’ daily using scripts.

Install/ rebuild computers. Configure hardware and software in accordance with group policies, company guidelines and industry regulations.

Provided desktop, laptop, network, printer support and troubleshoot. Install, upgrade, correct software errors and install updates, patches.

EDUCATION

Bachelor – (2019)

CUNY – Brooklyn College, NY

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