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Support Technician Linux Systems

Location:
Brooklyn, NY
Posted:
March 31, 2023

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Resume:

Summary:

Linux Systems Engineer holding * years of experience that encompasses proven ability in managing computing infrastructure, networking, operating systems, databases, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, automation, and configuration tools like Ansible, Ansible Tower, GIT, and containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes. Strong experience in deploying, configuring, and decommissioning Red Hat and CentOS servers in complex environments. A natural curiosity for investigating new technologies and creating unique solutions to complex problems.

Professional Skills:

Storage: SAN, NFS, RAID Levels, S3, MYSQL

DevOps Tools: Ansible, Ansible Tower, Docker, Kubernetes

Version Control: Git, GitHub

Monitoring Tool: Nagios, Solarwinds

Ticketing Systems: BMC Remdey, Servicenow, Jira, Confluence

User Management: Active Directory, Open LDAP, IDM

Storage Management: Logical Volume Manager, fDisk, gDisk

Package Management: RPM, YUM Repository

Networking Commands: nmap, ping, ifconfig, ip, traceroute, tracepath, netstat, dig, curl, ifconfig,

nslookup, route, tcpdump, nmcli, firewall-cmd, selinux

System Commands: top, uptime, sar, vmstat, free, lscpu, iostat, nice, renice, tuned, sysctl,

df -h, lsblk,

Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, SSH, HTTPD, FTP, Vsftpd, SMTP, Telnet

Servers: HP, DELL, DHCP, PXE, Apache, Tomcat, Nginix, DNS, SAMBA, NFS, EC2

DNS, KICKSTART, iLO, iDRAC

Virtualization: Vmware, vSphere, ESXI 6.5,6.7, vCenter, vMotion

Containerization: Docker, Docker Image, Docker Volume, Docker file, Docker compose,

Docker Registry

Cloud: AWS, EC2, EBS, EFS, IAM, S3, ACL, CloudFront, CloudWatch, AMI

Languages: Python, YAML, Bash Scripting, Shell

OS: RHEL 6 7, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu, Windows

Working Experience:

Linux Systems Engineer

JP Morgan Chase - Jersey City New, NJ

04/2020 - Current

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

Provided direct application and user support for any technical issues triggered on RHEL 6, 7 servers.

Building and configuring Virtual Linux Servers using ESXi and vSphere Client to ensure system scalability, optimization, management, and availability needs.

Creatively handle system or networking constraints imposed for on-prem deployments.

Worked with various cloud services including but not limited to EC2 instances, S3 buckets, EBS volumes, Elastic file system, IAM, Cloudwatch, Cloudtrail, ELB, and AMI.

Taking advantage of statistical data generated by Amazon CloudWatch metrics to view, analyze, and set alarms on the operational behavior of your EBS volumes.

Distributing incoming traffic across multiple targets, such as EC2 instances, and containers, in different Availability Zones using Elastic Load Balancing automatically. Monitoring the health of its registered targets, and routing traffic to the healthy targets.

Engineering infrastructure deployment and automation by configuring Ansible to eliminate time-killing manual processes.

Managing patching processes, which include running pre-patching checks, patching implementation, and post-patching checks using Ansible. Troubleshooting post-patch troubleshooting and bringing failed hosts up back to normal function.

Experience with Ansible Tower for Managing job templates and job template workflows, executing simple tasks like adding users, managing malfunctioning services, and resetting passwords on any host or group of hosts in the inventory.

Running apps in Docker containers, moving monolithic apps microservices, enhancing developer workflow, and increasing scalability.

•Creating customized Docker images from Dockerfile to deploy containers, using Docker compose to initialize multiple containers on the same host.

•Collaborated with teams on Cloud migration project with the goal to minimize the cost of bare metal resources.

•Hands-on LVM for partitioning the hard disks storage spaces for improving the efficiency of storage rather than traditional partitioning. Managing volumes group, Logical volumes, and migrating storage.

•Closely monitor mission-critical infrastructure components tracking systems metrics, applications, host resources, network services, and network infrastructure through monitoring tool Nagios.

•Involved in troubleshooting and Root cause analysis of critical tickets and incidents. Creating documents for reference.

Linux Systems Admin

Bank of China, NYC, NY

06/2017 - 03/2020

Experienced in managing users, groups and assigning file access privileges, ACL, changing ownerships and groups using chown and chgrp commands.

Performed Kernel Tunning according to client’s requirements so application behaves accordingly.

Monitored the system health, checks the performance of OS, load average, and application in the environment using monitoring tool and resolve the incident.

Configured Redundant Array of Independent Drives (RAID) by placing data on multiple disks and allowing input/output operations to overlap in a balanced way for improving performance.

Expertise in managing shared NFS files system, mounted NFS share client’s machine with much-needed permissions. Allowed NFS service in firewall and managed NFS service.

Analyzing, assessing, prioritizing, and resolving user requests and incidents raised through the ticketing system using the ticketing queue.

Used protocols like SCP, SFTP, and FTP for transferring files over the network.

Deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting DHCP, FTP, TFTP, Apache, SSH, and NFS.

Provided information and statistics relevant to system limits on capacity, data storage, system utilization, etc.

Handled SAN and NAS storage. Working experience in creation of partitions with fdisk and gdisk utilities.

Used command line interface to monitor system resources (CPU, RAM, IO & swap space) to achieve optimized performance and improve vulnerability management.

Modifying the file permissions using chmod, SUID, SGID, Sticky bit commands according to the requirement.

Experience with Vmotion to hot migrate servers and resources among clusters on ESXi host.

Remote administration using ILOs and IDRAC to bring up servers immediately.

Linux support Technician

Bloomberg, NYC, NY

12/2016 - 04/2017

Created user and group accounts, shared files and managed permissions.

provided technical assistance in system diagnostics, documentation, and errors.

Installed new equipment and racked and stacked servers with system administrators.

Monitored system performance using the command line.

Upgraded system software, updated, and replaced hardware and accessories.

Handled system equipment and peripherals-related tickets.

Added resources to VMs including CPU, hard disk, and RAM.

Provide 24x7 on-call support to clients.

Education:

Advance Regents Diploma

F.D.R. High School

2010

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Linux Systems Engineer

Mohammad Umar Sharif

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