Bismark Ollenyah

Phone: 443-***-****

Email: adrrsu@r.postjobfree.com

Objectives:

A knowledgeable, detail-oriented, and performance-driven Linux system administrator with over six years of experience. Who is eager to work with any company that will allow me to address and solve technical needs by applying my knowledge, experience, and skills in system administration and ability to complete a deadline-driven project.

Technical Proficiency and Expertise:

Servers/Services: NFS, SSH, Apache, NTP, SMTP, TCP/IP

Operating Systems: Linux (Red hat 7, RHEL, Centos 7), Unix, AIX, Windows

LVM, SAN storage management

AWS (EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, CloudWatch)

NFS management

VMWARE ESXI

Active Directory

Windows Machines on AZURE

Enterprise Networks (DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP)

Atlassian products like JIRA and CONFLUENCE for collaboration

Summary of Qualification:

Having over 6 years of working experience using Unix/Linux as a base operating system, I have acquired vast IT industry experience and learned many skills outside my usual sphere of expertise. I have a specialty in working with the Linux command line and using the GUI interface to execute commands to accomplish the requested procedure or projects. I have much experience with Red Hat Linux and other distributions like Centos and Ubuntu. Below is a bulletin of some of my expertise

Ability to think of novel and outside-the-box solutions to challenging problems

Install the Operating system, create firewall rules, install various services and applications, and provide networking services.

Onboarding and offboarding users and assigning permissions to files, creating and managing Bash scripts, and utilizing Cron in the scheduling of jobs for the smooth running of the environment

Administering and configuring AWS Instances in an environment

Patching of servers and scanning for vulnerabilities using the industry-specific tools

Working knowledge and applications of Batch scripts,

Self-driven, committed, and able to combine these keen strategic senses to achieve the desired outcome.

A great team player possessing good interpersonal skills and able to relate to all manner of individuals

Maintained and configured storage using LVM

Created Windows Machines on AZURE.

Professional Experience:

Edge Total Intelligence Inc (Contract)

April 2019-Present

Linux System Administrator/Cloud Administrator

Installing Servers and managing them on VMware, AWS

Troubleshooting and resolving customer issues following a Jira ticketing system

Implementing Atlassian products like Jira and Confluence for collaboration

Creating Cron Jobs to schedule tasks in both Test and Production environment

Monitoring Servers using Nagios and troubleshooting alerts as they are received

Utilizing snapshots and creating Images of servers for backups before major works for business continuity

Building of EC2 Instances based on customer specifications

Documenting best practices in the environment and making sure our internal wiki is up to date

Creating NFS share to share files in various environments

Serving as Team Lead during monthly patching; this includes coordinating with other players and running patch scripts.

Utilizing Ansible for automation consists of the patching of servers in both test and production environment

Running a 24/7 on-call rotation to monitor company servers and report issues through ticketing and phone calls

Use tools such as top, Nmap, ps, etc., for performance analysis, tuning for the betterment of the network, and various applications and services.

working closely with vendors, Operations, and Maintenance teams to support Standard Operations Procedures

Hardening of servers to prevent attacks and hacking and also generating SSH authentication keys to secure the environment

Installing Active Directory and adding users and groups for authentication

Asiliant technologies

April 2014 – April 2019

Systems Administrator

Creating user-profiles and giving permissions to users and files in different departments in the organization

Assigning tickets to various teams as they flow in our ticketing system

Troubleshooting issues and resolving customer concerns

Building Linux servers on VMware and giving users privileges

Scheduling of Cron Jobs

Keeping documentation and editing of company wiki to ensure proper and uniform information sharing across teams

Creating user accounts on Linux servers for the Engineering department

Auditing and ensuring all servers are up to date with current users in the environment

Educational Background:

Bachelors, University of Ghana, Ghana

REFERENCES:

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