Fokwen Bechem, Emmanuel(RHCSA)

Email:adwow3@r.postjobfree.com 617-***-****)

Key Competencies

Python

R

SAS

Ansible

MYSQL

PostgreSQL

Active Directory

Red hat Enterprise Linux

Iac

Containers

Bash Scripting

Vmware

Relevant Experience

DataSolutions Consulting LLC, (April 2020 to present)

Linux System Administrator-Using Ansible to automate Linux System Admin tasks

Deploy Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using ansible on the Main Control Server to remotely manage and service a cluster of 15 local servers via ssh.

Refactored and configured in-house deployment configurations scripts with ansible

Worked as automation support in various automation tasks with ansible and python.

Wrote bash shell scripts for monitoring the systems and applications such as monitoring processes in all the servers, cron jobs,logs and system journals.

Used ansible adhoc commands and playbooks to efficiently carry out system admin tasks on managed servers as follows;

Used ansible user module to create system users and groups assigning them permissions based on their roles and need to know.

Used ansible sefcontext module to manage file content and security of files in our production environment.

Used ansible service, archive modules to schedule routine tasks and backup files.

Used ansible lvg, lvol, parted to create filesystems, logical volumes and mount them persistently on the /etc/fstab on managed hosts.

Wrote ansible playbooks using the yum/package module to install and update software, backup and reload configuration files after each update on a cluster of managed host servers.

Used ansible RHEL system roles to manage local storage, and to manage ntp time synchronization.

Served as de facto cybersecurity liaison officer ensuring employees adopt safe cybersecurity habits.

Conducted monthly cybersecurity awareness training to educate department employees about cyber hygiene and cybersecurity best practice and latest trends in the industry in order to prevent ransomware and malware attacks on company infrastructure.

Environment: Ansible, Redhat Enterprise linux, CentOS, Vmware, Vsphere, Oracle virtualbox, bash shell, linux terminal, windows, powershell, vagrant

DataSolutions Consulting LLC, (April 2020 to present)

Linux System Administration using Redhat, CentOS, Vmware, Vshpere, bash

Installed, configured, administered and upgraded Red hat Linux 5.x,6.x Operating systems.

Implemented and administered vSphere ESIX and VMware workstation.

Installed Linux OS and configured the required network settings and disk partitions both virtual and standalone servers using kickstart, normal installation and via automation with bash scripting and ansible.

Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file systems (XFS, ext4, ext3) growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.

Created and managed Virtual Machines and Templates, worked with clones and snapshots of Virtual Machines.

Conducted periodic reviews of the state of running servers and applications by scanning them for vulnerabilities.

Implemented hardening of Linux servers and applications running on them via patching and regular daily updates.

Configured distributed file systems and administered NFS server and NFS and edited auto-mounting mapping as per system/user requirements.

Created, troubleshot and mounted NFS file systems on different OS platforms.

Configured various services (Apache web services, email service, ntp, container services, firewalld etc), devices as well as applications of UNIX servers and worked with the application team to customize the environment.

Diagnosed, troubleshot and maintained hardware, file system, storage issues involving single and multiple points of failure using Red hat Insights in collaboration with Red hat Inc staff.

Performed routine account maintenance upon customer request, including DNS updates, httpd changes, and mailman list setup and maintenance on linux systems.

Utilized ssh-keygen with DSA encryption to connect remotely to servers without a password from the local machine.

Managed, installed and updated software packages and using dnf, yum and rpm in subscription-manager, and created local repositories for software package management on Redhat and CentOS servers.

Setting-up, configuring and troubleshooting TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS; NFS, CIFS, and Samba servers in a multiplatform LAN.

Monitoring and log management on Linux servers, including processes, crash and swap management, and performance tuning.

Created, managed and administered User accounts, managed User security, password recovery, aging and complexity using sudo privileges.

Used Ansible engine for configuration management (Infrastructure as Code).

Used Ansible adhoc commands in conjunction with bash scripts to provision virtual and physical servers on premises and on aws cloud.

Used ansible automation engine to automate software installation, configuration, maintenance, updates and patching from the ansible control node to a cluster of about 15 managed nodes.

Used ansible vault to manage passwords, certificates and private login keys.

Used ansible automation to provision user accounts, assign permissions, configure filesystems, set SELinux contexts on files etc.

Used ansible automation engine to provision logical volumes, volume groups, swap space, partition disks, extend volume groups and logical volumes that host database and web applications.

Used ansible automation engine to manage routine process via cron jobs that back up data, purge system logs, rotate logs and clear temporary files.

Used ansible automation engine to deploy and configure running systems like apache webservers, php, mariadb, enforce firewall rules, access control lists and to manage SElinux.

Used ansible galaxy to download roles, configure custom-made roles, install RHEL system roles that make it easy to reuse code in large environments.

Deployed RHEL 8 on AWS public cloud infrastructure

Provisioned, configured and maintained EC2 instances for RHEL 8 on AWS public cloud platform.

General understanding of cloud computing including cloud deployment models, types, advantages of cloud computing on AWS cloud including cloud AWS cloud services like IAM, EC2, S3 bucket, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, route53, AWS EKS, EMR, DynamoDB etc.

Used Docker and podman to manage containers, container images and container registries to deploy containerized applications.

Ran multiple services for container management using Docker Compose

Used Dockerfile to build Docker images and running containerized applications that are persistent throughout the application development cycle.

Environment: Red hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Vmware, vShpere, Powershell, Bash, windows server 2016, ansible, docker, aws

Go-Group Ltd (February 2018-March2020)-Remote

Data Analytics and Automation Support with Python

Combined Data Science tools such as Numpy and Pandas with advanced SQL queries to organize and migrate very large datasets from source to destination.

Used Python to leverage both cloud and Native APIs

Used python pandas package to cleanse, prepare and format raw data files to csv format for data analysis and visualization.

Used python pandas package to split cleansed data into training and testing datasets in order to perform multiple linear regression analysis using scikit learn, seaborn, matplotlib on Montgomery County government population, house price and median income data.

Programmatically extracted data from various sources and converted them into various formats using python.

Used multiple linear regression with python to investigate the relationship between GDP vis-a-vis population growth, median household income and median house price for Montgomery County Government-Maryland for over a 10-year period as part of my MS in Data Analytics capstone project.

Environment: Python, R, SAS, SQL, MYSQL, PostgreSQL, MS Excel.csv

Education

Colorado State University Global - Master of Science - MS, Data Analytics 2019 - 2021.

University of Buea - Bachelor of Science - BS, Accounting 2004 - 2007

Honors & Awards

Distinguished graduating student - Colorado State University Global Nov 2021

Graduated magnicum laude with a GPA of 3.7-MS in Data Analytics and Cybersecurity

Licenses & Certifications

· Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)

· CompTIA Security+ Certification

· Associate of (ISC)2-Systems Security Certified Professional

· SAS-CSU Global Academic Specialization in Business Intelligence and Performance Management

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