Red Hat System Engineer

Mohammad A Jilani

Location: Michigan City, IN

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

Cell Phone: 1-586-***-**** US Citizen

Summary:

IT professional with eight plus years of experience in Technology largely supporting Linux & VMware environments. Worked as a Linux/Unix System engineer with expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x, 7.x, 8.x, 9.x Cent OS & Solaris 10, 11 systems. Excellent communication skills, a team player and contain some team management exposure. Work experience in Data Center & infrastructure support & have a clear vision to accomplish company goals.

Technical Skills:

Operating System: Linux (Red Hat ver 6.x to 9.x,), Debian 9.x, Ubuntu 18, Unix (Solaris 10, 11), open SUSE 9.x, Fedora ver 24, Centos 6.x to 8.x, Windows 10/11, Windows 2003/2008/2019 Servers, VMWare (Esxi) 6.0 to 7.0.

Computer Languages: UNIX Scripting in csh, ksh, Ansible 2.8 (Play-Book), Bash, Python

Applications: Ansible 2.8/2.6 (Python), Apache/Tomcat (RHEL), Apache(Solaris), Nginx 1.22.1, PHP 8.0, DNS/bind, NFS, SMTP, VMware (ESXI), Vcenter Servers, HPE Simplivity Omni stack, Active Directory, MS Office suite, RHN Satellite 6.6, Veritas Backup, AAEP 7.2.3, MPS 500, Citrix Client, Vsftp, NTP, Compellent SAN, MS Visio.

LAN/WAN: TCP/IP, DHCP, Ethernet, Wi-Fi Networks, SSH, NAT, IP Routing, ML Switching, Wire Shark. T1/DS3 & Fiber optic lines.

Databases: Exposure to MS Access, SQL, MYSQL, Maria dB 15.1.

Monitoring Tools: Nagios, SiteScope, BSM, PaMon ( in house built)

Ticketing System: Remedy, Service Now, HP Service Manager, Jira

Hardware: HP (DL Series) DL380 Gen 10, DL 385 Gen 10, DL360, IBM Blade HS22, Sun Spark T-4, Sun Spark T5120, Cisco Routers (3600, 2600, 2500 & 1600 series), Cisco switches (6509, 4507, 3550 & 2950 series), KVM Switches, Wi-Fi Routers, Cabling & Rack mounting.

Certification/

Courses: Linux System Certification

RHCSA Certified (Expired)

CCNA Certification (Routing & Switching) Expired

Experience:

07/23 – UpWork Remote, MI

Present Linux Consultant (Part Time only)

Freelance Clients such as Terns Pharmaceuticals & other Small Business Clients

Projects:

Deployed Plesk for a web hosting client in Azure in Linux & assist him creating correct form of partitions for their Plesk deployment.

Assist small Client from troubleshooting their network related issues as well as operating systems issues in windows & Linux as a freelancer.

Build the Sas application Server Solution in Rhel 8 in MS Azure Cloud environment.

Designed, Deployed and configured RHEL 9.2 Servers in Azure Cloud.

Installed Sas software and configure database for Sas application for a pharmaceutical Client and provide assistance on their project.

Document the entire process of implementation & follow Change Management Guide lines if required.

03/2017- M&C Associates LLC Hauppauge, NY

12/2021 Sr Customer Support Engineer

HPE Simplivity Implementation Project:

Involved in design & installation of HPE Simplivity Gen 10 deployment of medium Kit size on a two node VMware solution. Also was involved in purchasing decisions of hardware.

Build the complete VM infrastructure in HPE Simplivity Gen 10 servers.

Design & deploy VM’s based on Red Hat ver 6.8/7.7 & install Avaya experience portal software & Nuance speech server solution.

Responsible for applying updates to Simplivity Omni stack, upgrading ESXI & Vcenter servers & apply patches on Quarterly basis on HPE Simplivity solution.

Install & build VMware ESXI 7.0 solution on HP DL 385 Gen 10 Servers & responsible for managing all VM’s and updates.

Install & configure ESXI 6.5 & upgraded Vcenter server 6.0 to 6.5 & migrate all VM’s from ESXI 6.0 to ESXI 7.0.

Hardened all Linux servers by installing openscap on a master server & applied DISA Stigs to all the Red Hat servers in production & development environment

Install, configure & deployed Red Hat Satellite 6.6 Server in virtual environment & created the patching mechanism for all Red Hat servers for the organization.

Managed RedHat Satellite 6.6 & responsible for applying weekly Red Hat patches & Oracle patches in Solaris 11 environment.

Provide expert level technical services on Unix/Linux & windows Platform. Experience in supporting Solaris 10, 11 & RedHat version 6 & 7 in lab & production environment.

Administered & configure Avaya Experience Portal (AAEP 7.2.3)

Install & configured zones in Solaris 11 & implemented zone migration from one system to another using archiveadm tool.

Design, documented & implemented Solaris 11 Backup & restore procedure using zfs send & receive.

Work with security team, documented & implemented weekly auditing on Solaris 11 servers by running sol_stig_check script & provided compliance check for STIG version 1. Ensure STIGs are implemented and enforced.

Diagnose production problems on Avaya MPS 500 systems running in Solaris V240 systems & windows platform.

Install & configure Avaya MPS 500 system & configure TMS in windows 2008 environment. Performed upgrades on MPS500 IVR systems.

Install & configure Avaya Experience portal 7.2 in Physical & virtual environment.

Involved in Rack mounting of IBM 3550 & installed Microsoft windows 2008 r2 software on that server.

01/2016 – HP, ( Insight Global Inc) Remote, NY

03/2017 Linux Administrator

Project: HPE Helion Cloud Services

Administer & support Linux servers in HPE Cloud environment.

Executing a project for RE-IP & Domain name change on all Linux servers in VPC Labs & production environment.

Provide technical documentation & followed change management processes during project implementation.

10/15 – 12/15 Con Edison, (Eclaro IT) New York, NY

Linux Administrator

Performed Daily Administration and Management of Multiple Red hat Enterprise Linux servers & worked on projects to adhere audit & compliance on all Linux server environments

Created & extended Logical volumes to accommodate storage requests & provided disk space management using LVM

Installed & configured physical & virtual servers comprising Red Hat enterprise Linux ver 6.6 and resolved Linux related issues & manage tickets using HP service manager ticketing system

Performed physical to Virtual server conversion of Red Hat Linux servers using Vcenter converter

Installed & configured Samba on red hat enterprise server ver 6.x

Performed package installations, maintenance, periodic updates and patch management using Red Hat Satellite ver 5.6

11/13 – 10/15 Citi Bank, (Citi Group) Hauppauge, NY

Systems Analyst

Provide support regarding System Administration on primarily Windows & some Linux Servers.

Responsible for monitoring and troubleshooting banking applications mostly running in windows based environment.

Evaluated, installed, configured, monitored and troubleshoot existing & new Microsoft windows server 2008 & Red Hat Linux system v 6.6

Provided technical and end users related support in MS windows XP Desktops & monitoring Applications in MS Windows Servers.

Provide support to tellers & in-house staff as on needed basis.

Configured & troubleshoot issues related to network interfaces, routes, LAN, Network traffic etc.

Education: Associate Degree & High School Graduate

QUEENS BOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Associate (AAS), Major in Computer Information Systems

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