Problem Solving Open Source

RESUME

NAME : MANIKANDAN KAJENDRAN Cell : +91-954*******

Linux System Administration Mail : ****************@*****.***

PROFESIONAL OBJECTIVE

To be associated with the progressive organization that will recognize and utilize my

skills fully and offer me a position requiring innovative and creative ideas where continuous

growth and learning are way of life. To support the freedom of open source technologies and innovations.

Technical Skills

11 years of working knowledge in Linux Operating System, RHEL.

Performing Interactive and non-interactive installation of Linux.

Disk and File system Management.

LVM for creating, building volume groups, creating and maintaining file systems.

Installing Packages and Patches.

Develop bash scripts for administration and automation of routine tasks.

Configurations of Servers like SAMBA, NFS, DHCP, FTP, SSH, YUM, DNS, NTP, APACHE, SYSLOG, Redshift and Mysql.

Rundesk and zabbix

Chroot configuration for various purposes.

Port knocking method to enhance security.

Configuration and management of proxy.

Configuring, managing and troubleshooting internal chat server

Knowledge in third party tools like Nagios monitoring tool – for monitoring the servers and their services.

Complete knowledge in Networking, Monitoring and Backup management commands

I have good knowledge on various backup tools such idera, veam, commvault, etc.

SELinux, iptables and Remote logging

Scheduling tasks using cron, managing login, logout & booting scripts.

Server Builds using manual methods in Windows and Linux environments in Vsphere 6.5, 6.6 an 6.7 as well as using rightscale cloud automation method and using Ansible.

RAID

Good knowledge in bash shell scripts to automate day today activities and tasks.

Skilled in troubleshooting and analysing various problems.

Knowledgeable about the different problems that might come into picture during booting and the ability to troubleshoot them.

Innovative ideas that can prove to be beneficial to an organization.

Excellent problem solving techniques.

Good Knowledge of understanding the AD and LDAP functionality.

Knowledge and good trouble shooting skills on various Linux servers

Kubernetes – containers

AWS certified solution Architect

Achievements:

Best team Player award in 2017

Top performer award in 2018

Good scripter award in 2019

Top performer award in 2020

Professional Experiences

Organization : Onemagnify India Pvt Ltd – Dec, 2021 to till date

Role : Senior System Administrator

Responsibilities:

Working on OS Builds, Patching and Upgrades

File system and Disk management

Patching upgrading using manual and automated ways

System security management and OS hardening

Automating tasks using bash shell scripting

Automating the system deployment and management using Ansible tool.

VMware tool for constructing virtual hosts

Open to open source and adequate changes in the environment

Problem solving and troubleshooting at production environment

Training team on adequately needed skills on production environment

Cloudera management and Ansible for server deployment management

Organization : eNoah iSolutions Pvt Ltd - April 2016 to Dec, 2021

Role : Consultant

Responsibilities:

Working on OS Builds, Patching and Upgrades

File system and Disk management

Batch upgrading using manual and automated ways

System security management and OS hardening

Automating tasks using bash shell scripting

VMware tool for constructing virtual hosts

Open to open source and adequate changes in the environment

Problem solving and troubleshooting at production environment

Training team on adequately needed skills on production environment

Achievements:

Top performer of the year 2019-2020

Organization : Citrine Business Software Solutions Pvt Ltd from October 2014 to Mar 2016

Role : L2 Engineer

Responsibilities:

Mentoring L1 team and handling escalated cases.

OS hardening.

Working on OS Builds and Upgrades

Updating servers by Applying regular OS Patches and firmware updates on Linux.

OS Administration, Performance Management and tuning

Administering Disk/File system and troubleshooting

Creating Physical Volumes, Volumes groups and Logical Volumes.

Configuration, administration and troubleshooting of Apache, MySQL.

Documentation – Installation guide, Check list and other process related documents.

Creating Idea Captures thus guiding to write rules that are implemented in production environment.

Writing scripts to monitor health check in production environment.

Configuring/managing FTP servers that aids in backup/restore.

Log parsing using syslog centralised service.

Securing Production enviroment using various Auditing tools and iptables along with TCP wrappers.

Deploying servers with consistent base configurations and continuous application deployment.

Achievements:

Good open source initiatives

Organization : India Property Online pvt lmt from May 2012 to Oct 2014

Role : Linux Administrator

Responsibilities:

Configuration and administration of LINUX and servers like NFS, DNS, DHCP, Nagios on top of it.

Implementation of LINUX system security for all servers and applications running.

Handling various flavours of LINUX like Redhat, CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu and attending helpdesk calls.

Ensures backup of all servers are carried out on regular periods as per policy.

Support day to day operations of LINUX systems and handling escalations from helpdesk team.

Ensures OS are hardened and apply necessary patch on LINUX servers as per policy.

Monitor servers and security logs and ensure necessary action has been taken to resolve the issue.

Problem diagnosis, service recovery and problem resolution to meet Service Level Agreements.

Responsible for maintaining SLA for all deliverables and completion of assigned tasks within specified time.

Ensure all the servers in stage and production up and running.

Using iptables, SQUID services to enhance and secure the stage and production environment.

Using Fortigate firewalls to secure the local network and bridging the branches using ipsec VPN and SSL-VPN

Achievements:

Setting up the entire office environment with minimal resources.

Academic Qualifications

Courses

Name of School/Institutes

Passed Out

Marks In %

MCA Hindusthan College of Arts and Science 2012 80

Bsc(IT&M) Arul Anandar Colllege of Arts and Science 2009 80

HSC St. Claret's Hr. Sec. School 2006 77

SSLC St. Mary Gorety's Hr. Sec. School 2004 92

Personal Details

CURRENT ADDRESS : P. Pudupatti, Vatakku Vasal Amman Kovil Street,

Kovilangulam Post, Madurai District, Tamilnadu,

Pincode : 625514

DOB : 03/06/1989

Nationality : Indian

Known Language : Tamil and English

Marital Status : Married

Manikandan Kajendran

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