Linux Engineer

Urooj Farooqi

Red Hat Linux Engineer

Email: *****.*********@*****.***

Phone: 917-***-****

Summary:

Seasoned Red hat Linux Systems Engineer holding 5+ years of experience in provisioning, configuring, monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining the integrity of Linux servers by performing patching operations on a regular and planned way, performed troubleshooting the network issues, Configuring RAID, LVM, and ensuring maximum uptime. Strong experience in Linux systems, VMware, Networking, Bash, and storage management.

Experience:

JP Morgan Chase, NJ

Linux System Administrator Jun 2019 – Present.

●Building, automating, and handling mission-critical, highly secure, and highly available large-scale complex infrastructure.

●Installing, configuring and managing various distributions of Linux (RHEL & CentOS) in different environments.

●Configuring kickstart server and updating/applying patches to the servers using Red Hat Satellite server.

●Installing and configuring VMware ESXi as well as migrating existing servers into VMware Infrastructure.

●Hands on experience creating and managing snapshots, templates and cloning VMs.

●Migrating VMs through Vmotion and working with DRS and HA.

●Experience with inter networking using TCP/IP and resolving network connectivity using tools like dig, nslookup, ping.

●Adhering to company’s change management procedures.

●Devising backend solutions, day-to-day Administration & Monitoring, File System Management, and Disk Management.

●Follow all Technology processes (Change Management, Problem Management, etc.)

●Managing Disk like adding/replacing hot swappable drives on existing servers/workstations.

●Setting up NFS server for quick access of the shared file and directories.

●Configuring volume groups, and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.

●Partitioning according to requirements, creating new file systems or growing existing one over the hard drives and managing file systems.

●Hands-on experience in version control management tools like GIT.

●Cloning, Performing System failure analysis and recovery; ensuring the consistency and integrity of file systems.

●Automating processes for efficiency and consistency.

●Managing infrastructure as code, Securing the infrastructure and product with industry standard best practices.

●Planning capacity, reliability, and security while optimizing costs.

●Implementing NIC bonding on Linux and VMware systems to increase redundancy and load balancing.

●Working with different tools for monitoring the health checkups using Nagios, Searching and Reporting with Splunk.

●Responding user related tickets, incidents, and demonstrating expert-level experience in root cause analysis (RCA) and documentation.

●Managing systems routine backup, scheduling jobs and enabling cron jobs.

●Strong experience in automating large-scale deployments with automated configuration and deployment management system that is Ansible.

●Automating recurring tasks by using Ansible by writing playbooks.

●Writing Ansible playbooks for the automation that define tasks using YAML format and run Ansible Scripts to provision Dev servers.

●Experience building services on on-line infrastructure like AWS, Azure, GCP.

●Hands-on experience of Writing Docker Files for creating Docker Images and Docker-compose files for running Docker Containers.

●Understanding of Containers and CI/CD pipelines.

Yahoo, Lockport, NY

Linux Support Technician Mar 2017 – Apr 2019

●Maintained user account information (network, email etc.) including rights and security.

●Performed operating System and application software upgrades.

●Experience in making ssh key-based authentication.

●Managed ticket using JIRA ticketing system for support and change management.

●Updating computer operating systems and other important software, as needed.

●Experience of maintain ticketing queue using Jira ticketing system and resolved tickets on set priority basis.

●Configured and deployed all virtual machines and installed and provided backup to all configuration procedures.

●Participated in an on-call rotation for support of systems outside of normal business hours.

Core Skill Set:

Provisioning Tools

Ansible, PXE-Boot, Templates, Devops, Kubernetes

Operating systems

RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu

Version Control Tools

GIT, GITLAB,

Build/Automation Tools

Ansible, Ansible Tower, Bash scripting

Virtualization/Container

Docker, VMware (ESXI 5.5, 6.0, 6.7), vSphere(5.5, 6.0)

Storage

SAN, NAS, LVM, RAID

Monitoring Tools

Nagios, Splunk

Web/App Server

Apache, Tomcat, Web Logic

Networking

DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, SMTP, LDAP, HTTP, FTP, TFTP

Ticketing/Testing Tools

JIRA, SNOW, BMC Remedy

Scripting Languages

Bash, Ansible playbook (YAML), Python

Education:

Bachelors – Karachi University

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