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JAVARIA IQBAL

Linux System Engineer

Email: adwg9e@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 929-***-****

OBJECTIVE

Linux System Engineer with highly 6 plus years of regarded skills experienced in building, configuring, and maintaining Linux Red Hat and CentOS systems. Proficient understanding of automation tools to enhance productivity such as DevOps ideologies with Infrastructure as Code, Configuration as Code, and CI/CD efforts. Known for dedicated work ethic, quality focus, and commitment to optimal customer service. Seeking to leverage strong understanding and provisioning of an IT infrastructure to further grow IT career. Adept in technical troubleshooting and problem solving.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Red hat (6.x, 7.x, 8.x), CentOS (6.x.7.x), Ubuntu, Windows, Oracle Linux Virtualization/Cloud: VMware ESXI 5.x/6.x, Oracle Virtualization, Amazon Web Services Networking: Firewalls, Iptables, Selinux, WAN, LAN, Auto FS, LDAP, Active Directory, YUM, RPM, NFS, DNS, DHCP, NIS, Wireshark, Squid, VPN, SSH, VNC, Tcpdump, Netstat,Traceroute

DevOps: Ansible, Ansible Tower, Terraform, Git, Jenkins, Bash/Python scripting, Red Hat Satellite 6, Red Hat Identity Management

Others: Puppet, Nagios, Splunk, Mysql, Cronjobs, Symantec Netbackup, LAMP Stack, Apache web server, Nginx, Mcafee Found stone, Disk management and LVM, RAID, Samba, SAN, LUN, PXE Boot – Kickstart, Kernel tuning, Kernel Parameters, TCP/IP, UDP, NTP, FTP, SNMP, SMTP, IPOP and IMAP, GIT, Ansible Core, Ansible Engine, Ansible AXS, Ansible Tower, Ansible Galaxy, Apache Directory Studio, Jxplorer, Active Directory, dstat Hardware: Cisco UCS Blades, HP Servers, Dell Servers, IBM compatible, HP Printers & Rack mounting, Unix Systems Form SUN, Printers from HP, IBM-AIX, Cisco, Switches, Routers. EXPERIENCE

Morgan Stanley, New York, NY

October 2020 - Current

Linux System Administrator

● Team player attributes to communicate in a team environment, collaborating and communicating with their teammates and organizational individuals

● Adept ability to learn and develop newly emerging skills to keep up to date with industry demanding tools

● Working in a hybrid Infrastructure across virtual, physical, and cloud instances

● Utilized RHEL Satellite to deploy virtual machines, manage repositories, and reboot systems

● Automated VM deployment using Ansible playbooks, PXE boot, and kickstart files

● Launching and configuring of Amazon EC2 (AWS) Cloud Servers using AMI's (Linux/ Ubuntu) and configuring the servers for specified applications.

● Working with Ansible and Ansible Tower as a configuration as code tool and platform to automate administrative tasks and application deployment

● Using Infrastructure as Code practice with Terraform to provision and deploy across Amazon Web Services

● Maintaining Terraform state file within S3 buckets and using DynamoDB to lock state file and avoid any conflict

● Wrote Jenkins pipeline scripts to automate infrastructure pipeline that provision and then using ansible to configure by SOP

● Working with ServiceNow and Jira as ticketing systems, in a change management process, and then working with Jira to manage more long term projects that work within 2 week sprints

● Performance monitoring and tuning the system using tools such as - top, ps, iostat, vmstat, netstat, sar, sysctl, and ethtool.

● Batch scheduling, batch scripting, nightly backups and network troubleshooting.

● Experience working with the following AWS services: IAM, EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, ELB, CloudWatch and ability to make recommendations on how new AWS offerings fit in the company architecture.

● Experience in writing basic scripts in Bash for performing automation of various tasks.

● Experience in server automation using Ansible. Written playbooks using modules, roles and deployed them. Used ad hoc commands as well.

● Worked Oracle RAC clusters in a non prod and prod environment with provisioning and deployment, also working with DBA’s/SAN admins to allocate shared storage for the database

● Experience configuring management ports, iLO and iDRAC on HP and Dell servers.

● Experience working with ticketing tools such as JIRA. Responsible for monitoring and working on tickets. Following up with business and technical teams, and ensuring the problem is successfully resolved.

● Implemented Firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with applications. Such as opening up ports for NFS, DNS, FTP etc.

● Monitored and optimized server performance using various stat commands such as top, vmstat, iostat and kernel tuning.

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

● Examined the statistics of CPU Utilization using a utility of commands such as uptime, mpstat, top, htop and sar

● Disk related interruptions were scanned with the command and issues were fixed accordingly

● Collaborated with SAN Engineers to scale and allocate storage to physical HP servers J.P. Morgan Chase, Jersey city, NJ

March 2017 - October 2020

Linux System Administrator

● Remediated server power cycle, booting, kernel and GRUB issues, knowledgeable in constructing different RAID levels, provisioned and managed multiple RAID levels such as 0,1,5,6 and 10 on Sun Fire, Dell and HP servers, and upgraded OS/firmwares when deemed necessary

● Configuring RHEL Satellite Server as well as Kickstart Server and then provisioned ILO, IDRAC and ILOM on ESXI servers, and then proficiency in troubleshooting and building Red Hat Cluster

● Accommodated and assisted third party hardware vendors swapping out failed hard drives with physical servers such as HP/Dell, data center exposure with customizing and monitoring Dell Power Edge and Sun Fire X4170 servers

● Building different operating systems such as Red Hat, CentOS using PXE-boot with Kickstart files

● Utilizing McAfee Foundstone Vulnerability Manager and remediated any vulnerabilities within the generated report after scans are performed

● Installing and configuring Puppet Enterprise Edition, automating server build process using Puppet, creating puppet manifests to manage resources like packages and services, and troubleshooting Puppet master, agent connectivity issues

● Using Puppet for configuration management purposes as well as inventory management, installing Puppet modules from puppet forge to manage infrastructure

● Preserving local Yum repo server and third party package management

● V-Motion to migrate virtual machines and have exposure to virtual machine workstation, VMware converter structure, and managing virtual and physical servers which include VMWare, Sunfire, Dell and HP, Server configuration by utilizing automation tools such as PXE boot Kickstart and VMWare power cli

● Automate VMWare VSphere infrastructure with the assistance of VMware Vrealize Orchestrator

● Making changes like extending and reducing logical volumes and standard partitions with LVM

● Generating passwordless SSH authentication utilizing SSH key pair and resolving issues surrounding ssh connections

● Using Wireshark to troubleshoot complex network connectivity issues, and management of NIC bonding on Red Hat systems

● Linux task such as resized hard drives with Logical Volume Manager, managed the memory usage of processes with the help of ps command

● Replace, swap and perform tests for faulty DIMMS for racked and stacked bare metal servers

● Day to day assist assembly lines assembling together physical servers proceed with rack and then stacking the servers, cabling and confirming servers are online within the internal network

● Installed and configured LAMP stack for https interface

● Provided remote SSH access to application admins with DSA security keys

● SSH server was protected for password less login and local network by changing the iptables settings

Education

Masters Brooklyn College, City University of NY Brooklyn, NY (2019) Bachelor of Science Brooklyn College, City University of NY Brooklyn, NY (2017)

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