Owusu M. Afriyie
Linux System Administrator
Email: ****************@*****.***
Phone Number : 301-***-****
Summary: Skilled IT professional with 5 years of experience providing critical Systems Ad- ministration solutions. In addition, strong analytical skills; able to work with technicians from various engineering disciplines to troubleshoot complex system- level issues. Education:
2022 LPI Linux Essentials Certified
04/2009-08/2010 University of Nebraska: Omaha, NE
College of Medicine: Masters in Physician Assistant Studies 08/2000 -12/2005 Howard University: Washington, DC Bachelors of Science: Physician Assistant
Security Clearance: Preliminary Clearance
Job History:
01/2019-Present NEXTGEN DATA CLOUD, Frederick, MD
Position: Linux Administrator (Remote)
• Experience in installing, configuring, Monthly patching and daily troubleshooting of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Assign servers to patch groups, assign repos to servers, publishing versions and promoting channels in RedHat Satellite.
• Reading Grafana Monitoring dashboard, Unitrend Backup report, and Deploying VMware EXSI 6.7/7.0 Snapshots.
• Install and Decommission of servers using VMware EXSi 6.7/7.0 (VMware vSphere) for Virtual Servers and HP iLO 5 (HP OneView) for physical RHEL servers.
• DNS entries and removal on Windows Server Datacenter 2019.
• Joining RHEL servers to Active Directory. Querying AD users and AD groups using Power- Shell.
• Various System Administrator tasks:
o User management, File system management, Permissions and Ownership of files and Directories.
o Working with Vendor to setup applications, Sudo Files configuration, Kernel Tuning, Troubleshooting service failure such as network, ssh, etc…
• Participate in various projects such as server migration from one datacenter to another and for virtual servers, from one Datastore (LUN) of a specific EXSI to another.
• Data migration using SCP and RSYNC with a combination of automated tasks using AT and CRONTAB.
• Setting SSH keyless communication between servers.
• Setup SSSD communication between AD and RHEL servers and allow AD groups to access.
• Manage RHEL servers and with a combination of sudoers files and bash scripts, AD users can switch to local users.
• Setup temporary (root) access for application team that will be removed with AT job.
• Write my own Ansible Playbooks, BASH scripts, and Python scripts to accomplish various projects.
• Creating standard operation procedures(SOP) to help new staff following company standards.
• Verifying daily Unitrends backup of assigned servers.
• Take VMware snapshots of newly built VMs before handing it over to application teams.
• Viewing dashboard to detect filesystems (LVM) running out of space and troubleshoot it, viewing services issues that need a restart/reload with (systemctl).
• Setting up NFS home directories and NFS mount for applications.
• View logs under /var/log for troubleshooting various issues.
• Experience with ticketing tools ServiceNow.
• Using PowerShell to query Active Directory.
• Participate on the ON-Call Rotation every 2 months. (Mon – Sun from 5pm to 7am). 01/2017- 01/2019 National Institutes of Health(NIH): Bethesda, MD Position: IT Support Technician
• Imaging laptops for new hire employees.
• Diagnoses and resolves problems in response to reported incidents through the Service Now portal.
• Installs, tests, maintains, and upgrades network operating systems.
• Configure Cisco IP Phone in CUCM as an onboarding process.
• Support and maintain all network printers; HP LaserJet, Xerox, WorkCentre and Plotters.
• Knowledge of maintaining and troubleshooting Apple iPhone/iPad OS mobile services.
• Assist with migrating Microsoft Outlook to the Cloud.
• Windows 7 deployment to Windows 10 enterprise while restoring user data through SCCM.
• Communicate with vendors to order new parts, solve problems and build relationships.
• Report to supervisor periodically on work accomplishments, problems and progress. Skills:
Operating System
Rhel 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x CentOS 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 8.x Windows 7, 8, 10 Windows Server 2019 Hardware
HP ProLiant G7, G8, G9, G10.
Software/Applications/Tools
Ansible, VMware Exsi 6.7, Putty, PowerShell, Satellite, Prometheus, Grafana, Unitrends, ServiceNow Cloud
AWS CLI, AWS Shared responsibility model, AWS management Console, Networking, Databases, Ser- vices, and Identity & Access
Languages
Shell Scripting, Bash
Networking
TCP/IP, NIS, NFS, DNS, DHCP, LAN, FTP/TFTP, SSH, SFTP Storage
LVM, SCSI, SATA, Ext 4, XFS, SAN, NFS, SAMBA, RAID (0/1/5)
(References upon request)