Active Directory System Administrator

Ngongha JR A. Fon

Phone 571-***-****

***********@*****.***

Job Title

Unix/Linux Systems Administrator

Education

BSc. Science

Training

Unix System Administration (Solaris 9, 10, 11)

Redhat Enterprise Linux 6, 7, 8

Certifications

Redhat Certified Administrator (RHCA)

CompTia Linux+

Professional Scrum Master I

CompTia Security+ (in progress)

Technical Skills

Hardware

Sparc M3000, M4000, T5000, HP ProLiant DL 360, 380 G7, G8 and G9.

Software

VMware ESXi, Vcenter and VSphere Clients, Microsoft Office Suite, Site cope, vrealize operation manager, service now

Operating Systems

Applications

Unix/Solaris, Redhat, Ubuntu Server, IBM Power series, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Server 2008.

SiteScope, Tomcat, WebLogic

Programming Languages

Bash

Experience:

Iridium Satellite LLC

System Administrator

11/01/2021 – Present

Have overall responsibility for the administration, maintenance, tuning and troubleshooting of development and production operations, which includes administering Windows, Linux, and AWS environments

Ensure proper backup processes are in place to allow for full recovery of sites and documents

Service and coordinate user requests for changes and enhancements to environments

Evaluate tools and applications relevant to the sites

Maintain proper Change Control and Configuration Management processes

Assist with planning and designing architecture to support scalability of existing sites and provide for new site requests

Monitor sites daily, respond to alerts, and provide on-call support using solarwinds

Monitor and analyze site events to proactively optimize system and application performance

Oversee data fixes for business issues or to address network login and application issues

Create scripts to automate tasks such as monitoring and running updates across EA LANs, web servers as needed

Provide regular metrics and reporting as directed

Work with the team to automate procedures where possible and to promote rapid response to known issues

Work with other teams to promote changes to production and other environments

Use Service Now, and the CR tool, to submit service requests, update and resolve customer tickets

Utilizes Ansible Tower and Redhat Satellite for patching, deployment, scale and manage across physical, virtual, mission and test environments.

Configure centralized authentication with Active Directory and Linux

Working with users to ensure proper access to mission site using various jump servers

Increasing or update license on company products.

Beyond Technologies

Unix/Linux Administrator

10/2018 – 10/29/21

Plan, analyze, and implement client server UNIX/Linux. This includes system software, utility software, applications software, specialty software, setting up, configure and maintain new servers.

Assist systems developers in methodologies and best practices during implementation

Application deployment on WebLogic, Tomcat and jboss

Developing WebSphere cells, clusters, and nodes

Application deployment and monitoring using AutoSys

Proactively run scripts to clear error handlers

Research, evaluate and recommend new software, hardware and security options for UNIX/Linux facilities.

Experience working and managing Relationship Database Management Systems (RDBMS) such as SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL

Support the deployment and management of java based web applications to non-production environments including physical and virtual servers.

Respond to BPM tickets with PODD (prospect onboarding due diligence) and CODD (costumer ongoing due diligence) relating issues

Create and maintain implementation, testing, back out, backup, modification and operational documentation and procedures for UNIX and Linux

Installed, configured, managed VMware host and virtual machines, trend micro as well as AWS EC2 instances

Working knowledge of how to configured and implemented EC2, EBS, S3, ELB, RDS MySQL, SQL, Route 53 DNS, Glacier, EFS, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail

Assigned Roles and Policies to Users, Groups by employing IAM and Key Management

Utilized BigFix, Ansible Tower and Redhat Satellite for patching, deployment, scale and manage across physical, virtual, and cloud environments

Use On-Demand Privileges Management (CyberArk) to provide control of support users and privileged accounts access.

Provide platform support for DEV, SIT, UAT and Pre-Production, Production and BCP environments

Performed CIS benchmark compliance verification on Solaris and Linux servers

Administered sudo user account Management on Solaris 9, 10, 11 and Linux servers.

Customized user environment. Troubleshoot user logins using various remote login utilities.

Automation of various manual tasks and procedures using Unix Shell Scripting, Perl, Python, Bash and Ansible.

Used Vi or Vim editor to edit necessary files.

Performed administration and monitored job processes using associated commands. Proficient in troubleshooting system problems. Monitored client disk quotas and general disk space usage using splunk. System performance monitoring and tuning.

Installed tripwire intrusion, detection monitoring agent on Solaris and Linux servers

Responsible for patch management on Solaris and Linux servers

Assist in setup and configuration of network TCP/IP on AIX servers including RPC connectivity for NFS

Initiate, plan, and coordinate AIX operating system upgrades on IBM Power series servers, as well as perform the same for Linux on X86 servers and in a VMWare environment

Build and support new Power AIX logical partitions using Power VM virtualization

Use Service Now, and Remedy Ticketing, to submit service requests, update and resolve customer tickets.

Monitored system logs for unauthorized access, system errors, hardware failures and system health using Nagios and SiteScope.

Working knowledge of devops to include: Git, GitHub, Jenkins, docker, Kubernetes, ansible

MTN Bamenda Cameroon

Linux System Administrator

04/2014 – 04/2018

Install and configure physical or virtual servers.

Set up administrator and service accounts.

Monitor BPM track in App Dynamics to ensure JVM heat, CPU, Memory are all green and make sure the nodes are up and running

Perform secure server decommission & in-place upgrades from rhel 6 to 7.

Perform system tuning, and job processes using associated commands.

Working knowledge on Varonis application support and administration

Monitored client disk quotas and general disk space usage.

Evaluate and install system wide software.

Experience working and managing Relationship Database Management Systems (RDBMS) such as SQL Server, Oracle or MySQL

Deploy/update web applications with csr, cert and customer keys.

Use ServiceNow to submit service requests, update and resolve customer tickets.

Review and prepare documentation for systems, tests, and software installation.

Validate and implement critical system patches, and allocating mass storage space using enterprise Systems Management toolsets.

Support proactive monitoring of systems, analyze system faults, and troubleshoot operating systems to detect problems.

Support platform security hardening

Configure centralized authentication with Active Directory and Linux.

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