Red Hat Azure Cloud

Operating Systems:

Linux distros (Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora,

Ubuntu)

Hardware/Virtualization:

HP, DELL, Cisco routers and switches, UCS

Central Blades, VMware vCenter

DevOps/Automation:

Terraform, Ansible, BASH scripting, Jenkins,

GIT, Red Hat Satellite 6 Cloud

Platforms:

Amazon Web Service, Azure Cloud

Other Utility:

TCP/IP, UDP/IP, FTP, Apache, Nginx,

Ext2/Ext3/Ext4/XFS, Telnet, OpenSSH, NTP,

SFTP, SCP, NIS, NFS, SSH, DNS, YUM, RPM,

kickstart, vSphere VMware, Traceroute,

TCPDump, Netbackup, Logical Volume

Manager (LVM), YAML, Python, VPC, EC2,

TOP command, SAN, NAS, Red Hat GlusterFS,

Red Hat

IDM, LDAP, AD, Microsoft Office Suite,

Tomcat, Jboss/wildfly, HammerCLI, BASH

shell, PXE-boot, Red Hat Content Delivery

Network, Splunk, Disk/Capacity

Management, SELinux, GRUB, System-V,

System-D, IPMP, ICMP, netstat/SS, Network

Manager CLI, LAMP Stack, Nagios, Putty,

Mobaxterm, Sysctl, LAN/VLAN,

Iptables/firewalld, GNU, TAR, Oracle RAC

Cluster, Pacemaker, NFS-Ganesha, WinSCP,

ASM, Multipath, McAfee Foundstone,

Sophas-AV, JXplorer, Symantec SEP, CRON,

Rsyslog

Proficient in package management including Install, remove and update and querying packages using RPM tool. Excel in Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery,

Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning on UNIX Red Hat Linux Systems. Adept in installing firmware upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration on Unix/Linux systems.

Excellent installation, configuration, maintenance and system's users administration skills.

Effective combination of systems administration, high technical inclination and communication skills Strong initiative and drive with the ability to absorb technical information/ knowledge quickly.

Proactive, and results-driven professional equipped with broad-based experience in designing, implementing, and supporting various Linux systems. Well-versed in managing server infrastructures and data center operations across multiple platforms. Effectively plan, install, configure and optimize the IT infrastructure to consistently achieve high availability and performance. Experience in professional system support and solution- based IT services for Linux OS (CentOS, Fedora, Ubuntu), Amazon Web Service, Azure Cloud. Proven track record of successfully managing large-scale deployments and monitoring systems to proactively identify and address potential bottlenecks. Excellent team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills, capable of collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve project objectives. Fluent and professional work ethic showcasing a unique set of DevOps methodologies to fulfill the needs to achieve a stable and high performing infrastructure. Excel in configuring and optimizing Linux-based systems to ensure maximum performance and uptime. LINUX SYSTEMS ENGINEER

HONEYWELL

AUG 2018 - PRESENT

Participate in team activities as a member of the Linux / UNIX System Administration. Set up and administer user and groups accounts, setting permissions, Web servers,

file servers, firewalls, and directory services with ability to diagnose basic Apache Issues.

System and Application troubleshooting and other related issues. Provide management of system process in areas like boot process, startup and system shutdown.

Install, configure, maintain and administer Linux / UNIX operating systems and components.

Diagnose and resolved problems associated with DNS, DHCP, NFS and Apache. Directly supporting the day-to-day running operations. Lifecycle management from deployment provisioning via Red Hat Satellite 6 to decommission and all in between maintaining OS patching, troubleshooting/break and fix to meet organization’s needs, eliminating infrastructure downtime. Construct Terraform templates accordingly with what is requested amongst AWS. Manage and maintain infrastructure as code pipeline via Jenkins and Terraform with Terraform templates hosted on GIT server.

Proficient understanding of Ansible Plays with best practices approaches and understanding all the different utilities within the Ansible architecture structure. Installed and configured Ansible Core/Engine along with AWX/Ansible Tower to manage and deploy projects/templates within different environments of the infrastructure (DEV, UAT,PROD).

201-***-**** SAJJAD ARIF

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DEVOPS ENGINEER / LINUX SYSTEM ENGINEER

Available upon request

kings borough college

Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals

Certified AWSSolutionsArchitect Sep 2023

Maintained Terraform templates on AWS within S3 buckets and modified the existing templates to implement changes for further future deployments. Easy understanding with past experience of working with Amazon Web Services such as, IAM, EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, ELB, CloudWatch. Manage AWS Identity Access Management for user roles and security polices granting access to AWS resources. Launch and configure Amazon EC2 (AWS) cloud servers using AMI, custom AMI made by the developing team using HASHI Corp. Packer.

Tested before implementation of Terraform LI templates within my own sandbox environment using T2.

micro-AWS instances Use Ansible for infrastructure configuration management of internal applications and lifecycle applications.

Implement Infrastructure pipeline using Jenkins, GIT to terraform templates and Terraform for deployment on cloud platforms. Maintain overall lifecycle management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers versions 6, 7, and newly rollout RHEL 8. LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

SCIVANTAGE – NY, NY

SEP 2014 - AUG 2018

Very confident with DHCP, NFS, DNS, LAMP stacking on Linux infrastructure systems Strong knowledge of Database, monitoring, and Web server design/built utilizing the

Linux Operating System. Excellent knowledge of network concepts and protocols, including TCP/IP. Monitored script generation using the BASH/PYTHON scripting languages. Used Microsoft Outlook and ticketing systems, communicated with internal customers and provided updates on service requests. Worked with departmental teams like SAN, Networking/Firewall, Project Managers, and application administrators to debug bridge calls. Racked and stacked bare metal HP servers installing VMWare hypervisor ESXi. Configured hardware RAID for boot file redundancy on bare metal servers to maintain operating system HA.

Delegated on organization’s behalf and between 3rd party vendor hardware support. Participated on patching bridge calls coordinating amongst application owners,

perform patching and validating the patches have been applied Utilized OS utilities such as iostat, vmstat, free, uptime, top, htop, and OS logs such as messages, and secure – along with application logs to further diagnose culprits. Performed network diagnostic using ping, tcpdump, tracerouter, nslookup/dig, rpcinfo.

Edited fstab, appending entries of file systems and nfs mounts for boot persistence. Delegated with storage SAN admins to allocate space needed for bare metal servers. Planned and worked along SAN admins to achieve storage migration, decommissioning old storage blocks

Cultivated and edited Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and documented various of performed tasks within organizational guidelines and procedures. Worked alongside VMware admins to perform increase of virtual machines specs as requested and suggested by application requirements to enhance performance. Worked alongside application admins to install middleware such as jobs and prerequisites.

Performed and provided technical support for linux servers, problem resolution and operational support for servers.

Tuned kernel parameters for enchaining kernel and library calls. Provided 24/7 on call technical operational support for debugging and resolving issues. Worked in a large environment of application server, web servers, and Oracle database RAC clusters.

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