Devops Engineer Software Development

Anam Noreen

Linux/DevOps Engineer

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/anam-noreen-8b8189356/

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

Phone: 716-***-****

Location: Buffalo, NY

Summary

Linux/DevOps Engineer with extensive experience over 7+ years in Linux administration, including system installation, configuration, system builds, server builds, upgrades, patches, migration, security, backup, disaster recovery, performance monitoring, fine tuning and managing networks in diverse heterogeneous environments and troubleshooting. Experienced in working under high pressure environments, large physical and virtual VMware and spinning VMs on the ESXi host. I am proficient in scripting languages such as Bash and YAML for task automation. Skilled in using configuration management tools like Ansible, Ansible Tower and AWX to manage server configurations. Experienced in containerization with Docker and Kubernetes for application management. Knowledgeable in Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes and tools like Jenkins for automating software development. Familiar with version control systems such as Git for effective code management. Experienced in cloud services including AWS. Strong understanding of networking concepts, including TCP/IP and DNS. Proficient in monitoring and logging tools like Nagios and Splunk. Implementing the least privilege access controls, firewall configurations, and intrusion detection systems. Conducting regular system audits and vulnerability assessments. Excellent problem-solving skills for diagnosing and resolving technical issues efficiently.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Operating Systems: Red hat 6, 7, 8 & Centos 6, 7 and 8

Patching: YUM, RedHat Satellite

Storage: SAN, NAS, DAS, NFS

Virtualization: VMware, vSphere, Hypervisor

Backup & Troubleshooting: Nagios Core, Nagios XI, Cloud Watch, NetBackup

Configuration Tools: Vcenter, ILO, IDRAC

Amazon Web Service: EC2, EBS Volume, S3 buckets, Glaciers, IAM, AMI, RDS, Cloud watch, Cloud

Formation, Terraform

Hardware: HP ProLiant, Cisco, HP ProLiant DL (360,380,420), Dell PowerEdge (R610,

R710)

Languages: Bash/Shell Scripting, YAML,

Database: SQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB

DevOps Tools: Ansible, Bash scripting, Git, Docker, Jenkins, BladeLogic, Ansible tower, AWX

Applications/ Servers: TCP/IP, DNS, APACHE, NFS, LVM, SSH, RAID, PXEBoot, Yum Repo

Dell Technologies, Texas Dec 2022-Present

Linux/DevOps Engineer

Responsibilities:

Provide system deployment, system administration, and troubleshooting for operational support of Linux based Prod and Dev servers.

Create, manage VMs (RHEL/ CentOS) and involved in virtual server maintenance.

Managing, installing, and upgrading software packages for servers using RedHat satellite repositories.

Preparation and execution of server patching and upgrading using ansible tower patching projects.

Configuration Management in different Linux flavors and configured various services such as DNS, NTP, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, FTP, DHCP and SAMBA.

SME In incidents management, change requests and service requests were performed Root cause analysis while solving network-related, performance, disk management and LVM management issues.

Improving Security (vulnerability) through patching of servers using local repositories.

Experience using ansible as configuration management tool. Writing ansible playbooks to install application stacks and patching. Using Ad-hoc commands as needed for administrative tasks.

Manage docker containers, starting, stopping, killing, running and expert in pulling docker images.

Exposure of Kubernetes to manage containers.

Experience working on AWS launching EC2 instances and configure their cloud environment.

Manage role, policies for S3 buckets and use S3 buckets/Glacier for storage and backup on AWS.

Respond to all LINUX system problems 24x7 as a part of on-call rotation and resolving issues promptly.

Experience in Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for the management of disk volumes.

Extensive knowledge of Performance Monitoring of CPU, Memory, Swap, Disk utilization, and monitor networking issues.

Automate repetitive tasks using Bash scripting. Also developing, automating, and maintaining scripts to streamline system administration tasks, monitor processes, and enhance workflows.

Experience working with GIT for version control and repository management involving, cloning, pushing, pulling, branching of repositories and used Source code management client tools like Git lab, GitHub.

Helped application team to deploy their code using CI/CD pipeline.

Extensive knowledge of MySQL database.

The New York Stock Exchange, NY Jan 2020 – Nov 2022

Senior Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

Installed, configured, maintained, and supported Enterprise RedHat Linux & CentOS 5, 6, 7 servers with PXE-boot and kickstart.

Installed and built physical servers and virtual EXSI (VMware).

Installation and upgradation of Package using YUM and RPM.

Setting up NFS server for file sharing and storage.

Creating logical volumes, extending the file systems included ext2, ext3, ext4 and XFS using LVM.

Setting up secure passwords with less access with SSH authentication.

Monitoring System Activities like CPU, Memory, Disk and Swap space usage to avoid any performance issues.

Performed scheduled system backups through NetBackup.

Monitored system logs through Splunk server and collected logs in order to analyze them.

Monitored system performance through Nagios core and configured newly provisioned servers to be monitored by Nagios server.

Worked with Bash scripts to automate daily tasks.

Creating and Managing user accounts through active directory.

Involved in the decommissioning process.

Performed regular incremental backups using TAR and RSYNC commands for data recovery in the Linux servers.

Used Nagios as a monitoring tool to identify and resolve infrastructure problems before they affect critical processes.

Investigated critical issues, determined impact to provide solutions and documented Root Cause Analysis (RCA) when required.

Experience of Raid levels (0, 1, 5, 6, 10) for improving performance and redundancy.

Reading and utilizing SYSLOG to troubleshoot system issues.

Experience in system administration, system builds, server builds, installs, upgrades, patches, migration, troubleshooting, security, backup, performance monitoring and fine tuning on RedHat Linux systems.

Costco, Washington Jun 2017 - Dec 2019

Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

Provide support for internally developed tools.

Delt with user management, group management, account creation, termination, and modification.

Worked on creating files and directories, setting up permissions based on service requests.

Maintained server hardware to ensure perfect functionality.

Configured and deployed new equipment and other peripheral accessories.

Built and provisioned servers BM using bootable device.

Racking and stacking of new servers.

Provided support in handling queries and issues related to computer systems.

Ensured end users satisfaction by monitoring and responding quickly and effectively to requests received.

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