Gordon Adu

Periwinkle Way

Severn, Maryland *****

Tel: 301-***-****

Email: adtjxo@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVES

A Multi-Platform Systems Administrator always looking to grow in skills, take on extra tasks and willing to help push my next environment to the next level. An individual ready to learn, adopt, develop, and apply acquired knowledge and best practices related to the daily management and implementation of goals in an environment. Excellent facilitator, reliable team player and can work well independently even under pressure. Dedicated to corporate goals, accepts all challenges and tasks, and aim to meet all timelines and milestones.

Experienced Systems Administrator with 6-year experience in reputable firms, a specialist with a passion for delivering outstanding service.

EXPERIENCE

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

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

Operating Systems: Linux (Red hat7, RHEL, Centos7)

Enterprise Networks (DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP)

VMWARE ESXI

Active Directory

Windows

NFS Management

Ansible

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Over 6 years’ working experience using Unix/Linux as a core operating system has equipped me vast experience in the IT industry. I have a lot of experience with most common flavors of Linux (RedHat Centos Ubuntu). I have a specialty in working with the Linux terminal and using the GUI interface to execute commands to accomplish the requested services or projects. Below is a bulletin of some of my expertise

An excellent team player with good interpersonal skills and ability to relate to all manner of people.

Ability to think divergently, a novel approach to problem solving.

Operating System installation, firewall rules creation, installing and maintaining services and applications and providing network services.

Routinely scanning system performance for vulnerabilities and Patching using the industry specific tools.

Building Windows Server on all Platforms

Assigning permissions to files, onboarding and offboarding users, creation and application of Batch scripts and Cron jobs.

Configuration and maintenance of storage using LVM.

JOB EXPERIENCE

Ellucian (Contract)

(August 2020 - Present)

Linux System Administrator/Cloud Administrator

Building of both Windows and Linux Servers on different platforms such as VMware, AWS and Azure

Installing Active directory for Authentication

Installing Jira and Confluence and creating pages

Running a 24/7 on call rotation monitoring company servers and reporting issues via ticketing and phone calls.

Disk Administration based on customer needs in both AWS EBS and VMware Datastore

Monitoring servers with Nagios and troubleshooting alerts when they come up.

Troubleshooting and resolving customer issues following a JIRA ticketing system.

Building EC2 Instances based on customer specifications.

Creation of CRON jobs to schedule tasks both in Test and Production environments.

Using Ansible for automation, especially to Patch both Test and Production servers.

Leading the team during Patching. This involves coordinating with other players in the environment and running patch scripts.

Server hardening to prevent hacking and attacks and generation of SSH Keys to secure the environment.

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

Creating snapshot images of servers for backup before any major works for the business continuity.

Cataloging of best and up to date practices in the company wiki.

NFS share creation to share files in various environments.

Working closely with Operations and Maintenance teams and other vendors to support Standard Operations Procedures.

Mantech International Corporation (Contract)

(Jan 2016 - August 2020)

Systems Administrator

Being part of the patching team and implementing patches on all environments

Installing applications and troubleshooting of servers

Running of scans using Nessus scanner and implementing remediations on the vulnerabilities

Serving as Help desk and managing the various teams ticketing systems

Disbursing of projects and tickets to teams and making sure tickets are closed on time

Building servers on VMware following customer specifications

Troubleshooting and resolving customer issues.

Assigning tickets to various teams as they come up in the ticketing system.

Creation of CRON job to schedule tasks

Cataloging of best and up to date practices in the company wiki.

EDUCATION

BSc. Bachelor of Arts, (1999-2003)

University of Science and Technology, Ghana

REFERENCES

Available upon request

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