System & Hardware Administrator Resume Summary
Resume:
Zemedkun Merka System and Hardware Administrator
Location: Addis Ababa
Telephone: +251-*********
Email: *****.********@*****.***
Professional Profile/Summary
To enhance my professional skills, Capabilities and Knowledge in your Organization which recognizes the value of your hard working and trusts on me with responsibilities and challenges. And it sounds like a rewarding role, especially given the opportunities for collaboration and advancement. I think my BSc degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering combined with my all over ICT experience would make me an excellent candidate for the role.
Professional Experience (In general I have 9+ years of professional work experience) Dashen Bank, Addis Ababa-Ethiopia
As a System Enginner:
Infrastructure Design & Architecture: Engineered and maintained high-availability server environments using VMware vSphere and Azure, achieving a consistent 99.99% system uptime for mission-critical applications.
Automation & Scripting: Developed and deployed custom PowerShell and Bash scripts to automate routine server patching and user Provisioning, reducing manual administrative overhead by 35%.
Cloud Migration & Hybrid Integration: Spearheaded the successful migration of legacy on-premise workloads to AWS, utilizing Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to ensure reproducible and scalable deployments.
Security Hardening: Strengthened organizational security posture by implementing Least Privilege access models, managing Active Directory (AD) Group Policies, and deploying Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) across 500+ endpoints.
Performance Optimization: Monitored system health using SNMP-based tools (e.g., SolarWinds, Zabbix) to identify hardware Bottlenecks, resulting in a 20% improvement in database query speeds through storage I/O tuning.
Disaster Recovery (DR) Planning: Managed enterprise backup solutions using Veeam, orchestrating biannual failover testing and Maintaining a Recovery Time Objective (RTO) of under 4 hours. As a DeveOpe Engineer:
CI/CD Orchestration: Engineered end-to-end Jenkins pipelines that automated the testing and deployment of 20+ microservices, Reducing deployment frequency from weeks to hours.
Cloud Infrastructure: Leveraged Terraform to provision multi-region AWS environments, ensuring 100% environment parity Between Staging and Production.
Container Orchestration: Migrated legacy applications to Kubernetes (EKS), improving resource utilization by 40% and enabling Zero-downtime deployments.
Observability: Established a comprehensive monitoring stack using Prometheus and Grafana, reducing Mean Time to Recovery
(MTTR) by 50% through automated alerting.
As a Full Stack Developer:
End-to-End Development: Engineered a full-scale e-commerce platform from scratch using the MERN stack (MongoDB, Express, React, Node.js), supporting 5,000+ monthly active users.
Performance Optimization: Improved front-end load times by 40% through code splitting, lazy loading, and optimizing image assets.
API Integration: Integrated third-party services like Stripe for payments and Twilio for SMS notifications via RESTful APIs.
Database Migration: Successfully migrated a legacy SQL database to PostgreSQL, improving query performance by 25% through indexing and schema normalization.
As an Infrastructure Support Specialist:
Uptime Excellence: Maintained 99.8% infrastructure uptime by implementing automated alerting for critical server services.
Efficiency Improvements: Reduced server deployment time by 50% by creating standardized "Golden Images" for virtual machines.
Storage Optimization: Reclaimed 2TB of wasted SAN storage by auditing legacy snapshots and stale user directories.
Security Compliance: Successfully led the migration from local admin rights to a Least Privilege model across 200+ workstations. Education
Mekelle University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
BSC in Electrical And Computer Engineering, Sep 21/2010 – July 20/2015 Yekatit 12 Preparatory (Grade 11 & 12) School, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Natural Science, Sep 10/2008 – June 12/2010
Certification Core Skill
Cloud Computing Certification Creativity
Object Oriented (Java) Certification Team Building
Artificial Intelligence Certification
Full Stack Web Developer Certification
Cyber Security Pledge Certification
3CX Certification
CCNA (Cisco Certification) Certification
Auto-CAD Certification
UNDP Entrepreneurship
WSO2 Certified Micro Integrator
Developer V4.4
Full Stack Developer
DevOps Course Completion
Python
Data Science
Project Management
Oracle
Problem Solving
Language
Amharic
English
French
Japanese
Reference Personal ID
Ananiya Sisay from ATA Ethiopia Passport
*********@*****.*** 093*******
Kibrom Tadelle from BGI – Ethiopia
***********@*****.*** 092*******
Bekuremaryam Demisse from Semen Hotel
********@*****.*** 091*******
Thank You
Zemedkun Merka Fersha
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