Coffi E. Amouzou

Hyattsville, Maryland ***** 301-***-**** ads3mt@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

A Linux Engineer offering 7 years of installation, configuration and troubleshooting experience on various operating system platforms including Linux, Solaris, and CentOS. Extensive experience in Unix performance tuning configuration and capacity planning. Used and troubleshot Network Protocols (such as ARP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, NTP, TCP/IP, SSH and FTP). Installed firmware upgrades, kernel patches and systems configuration on Unix/Linux systems. Knowledge of Linux internals and utilities (kernel, Memory, Swap, CPU). Worked with a variety of specialists including, a VMware administrators, Windows administrators, Developers, DBAs, and Network specialists. Self-starter, team player and result oriented.

Technical Skills

MS Office Suite, Red Hat Linux, Bash Shell Scripting, Apache Tomcat, SSH (secure shell), VMware, NAGIOS monitoring tool, vSphere Client, vCenter Server, VMware Workstation, Virtual Box, Deploy OVF templates, VMotion Putty, WinSCP, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins, AWS, MYSQL, Windows/Unix.

Education

Bachelor of Arts; Psychology, Salisbury University

Experience - May 2019 – Present – STATE FARM INSURANCE

Linux Engineer/Sys Admin

Patched test development and production environments using BIG FIX.

Performed installations and configurations of several applications.

Monitored Client's Environments using EM7.

Built Amazon EC2 Instances using AWS.

Managed Application servers and Web servers for Customers.

Installed and configured SAMBA for clients.

Configured network on new Linux devices.

Troubleshot network issues on various Linux devices using Netstat, tcpdump, Traceroute and Ping.

Ran vulnerability scans using Nessus.

Created users and granted privileges using Active Directory and IAM.

Designed and developed complex, integrated solutions to meet business requirements or enhance performance.

Wrote shell scripts to automate the administrative tasks.

Performance/kernel tuning, patch/packages management on UNIX servers.

Patch management and regular scheduled software maintenance using Katello and Spacewalk.

Installed, configured and troubleshot various types of servers like, NFS, FTP, Apache, MySQL, and Tomcat.

Filesystem investigation to find out why threshold has been passed and fixing as required.

Monitored Linux Servers using Ovirt, OMD Check M_K.

Conducted regular maintenance on HP and Dell Machines running on Linux.

Configured Cisco switches to foster Networking.

Samanage service management - handle customer tickets and SLAs.

Patch management and regular scheduled software maintenance using Foreman, Katello and Spacewalk.

Created DNS entries for Linux and windows machines.

Experience with Keypass for multi-server authentication.

Created users, organizational units and granted permissions in IDM.

Disk and file system management through logical volume manager.

Wrote Ansible playbooks and roles to update and upgrade Ubuntu machines.

Configured Linux instances in AWS.

Setup Logrotate to clean up /var/log *.

Experience with web-server Apache Tomcat.

Managed backup jobs using tar file systems on Solaris 10 and RHEL 6.4.

Managed and install packages using yum and rpm tools (Linux).

Installed, configured and volume/File system management using Logical Volume Manager.

Administered user accounts on all servers, configure user profiles, troubleshoot and resolve user login problems.

Conducted root password recovery and reset on inaccessible servers.

Performed the installation, configuration, administration, and maintenance of Red Hat Linux 6 and 7 systems according to existing standards in a virtualized environment.

Created, configured and monitored NFS filesystem.

Designed and developed complex, integrated solutions to meet business requirements or enhance performance.

Wrote shell scripts to automate the administrative tasks and management using Cron.

Used VMware to create and manage virtual servers.

Installed, upgraded and configured RedHat Linux 5 and 6 using Kickstart Servers and Interactive Installation.

THE WELMAN GROUP

Unix/Linux Administrator – Jan 2015 – April 2019

Updated systems with new version of OS and application software.

Created and managed user accounts and privileges

Extensive experience in UNIX performance tuning configuration and capacity planning.

Troubleshot reasons for server slowness.

Created RHEL virtual servers in VMware center from consolidated image and from attached image in data store.

Managed backup jobs using tar file systems on Solaris 10 and RHEL 6.4.

Managed and installed packages using yum and rpm tools (Linux).

Created Filesystems from local storage as well as NFS partitions for application portability.

Installed RedHat Linux using kickstart and applying security polices for hardening the server based on the company policies.

Administered user accounts on all servers, configured user profiles, troubleshoot and resolve user login problems.

Configured and troubleshot TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS for Linux Servers.

Troubleshot system problems and supported 24/7 high availability production servers.

Created DNS entries for AWS instances using route 53.

Setup EBS volumes for storage.

Mounted windows fileshare on Linux using cifs mount, samba.

Kernel management on Linux machines (Redhat & CentOS)

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