Linux Systems Engineer with 20+ Years Experience

Raymond Fagnon

St Petersburg, Florida, United States

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727-***-**** Saint Petersburg Florida

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Summary

A creative and logical Systems Engineer with 20+ years of experience in the IT support field. Recognized for top technical support performance in a variety of Linux/Unix operating systems. Clearance: TS/SCI

Experience

Linux/AWS Engineer

Forwardslope LLC

July 2024 - Sept 2025 (contract was not renewed due to D.O.G.E cuts) Created VPCs with private and public subnets in different AZs Setup vpc peering and routes so that the different VPCs could communicate each other Deployed and configured EC2 instances

S3 buckets, EKS, AWS Inspector, AWS Macie,

Provisioned S3 Buckets for Terraform state file and other items Used Trusted Advisor to save the Navy $5,000 a year which advised me of unused RDS Databases Setup EC2 scheduler which saved the Navy $29,000 a year Audited Snapshots and purges unneeded ones which saved the Navy $3,000 a year Audited EBS volumes and purged unneeded/unused volumes saving the Navy $18,000 a year Created Security groups

Created RSA Keys

Setup endpoints in VPCs so EC2s can be managed and accessed via System Manager Created AMIs with Packer

Joined Linux Instances to AD for authentication via SSSD and kerberos package Trained junior personnel on Linux System Admin tasks Stigged Linux EC2 Instances(Linux and Windows)

Assigned roles to IAM users and groups

Created roles and assigned to AWS EC2 and other services such as lambda Deployed applications in Kubernetes via helm chart Identified and remediated vulnerabilities via Teneble/Nessus Moved S3 data from from account 1 to account 2 S3 bucklet. Cross account S3 copy with AWS cli Setup EC2 Snapshot life cycle for daily, monthly, and yearly snapshots Setup AWS backup

Created Security groups and NACLS to secure EC2 instance Linux Engineer

Sentar/Peraton Inc.

Jun 2023 - July 2024

Onsite Linux Engineer for the SITEC III Project

Deploying Linux VMs from templates

Maintaining and supporting technical infrastructure, hardware, and system software components

Performing installation, maintenance, optimization, and support of system software and hardware Performing end-user support requiring System Engineer Subject Matter Expertise Performing high-level root cause analysis in support of service interruption recovery, as well as creating and documenting preventive measures

Staying abreast of emerging trends in information technology and helping shape the work for the Government

Working with the Government to understand their requirements and evaluate possible technical solutions

Migration Specialist

CACI International Inc

Feb 2023 - Jun 2023 (5 months)

DISA Security Technical implementation Guidelines (STIGs) for Windows (2012 to 2019) and Linux OSs(RHEL 7 and 8).

Cloud Operations Engineer

NexGen Data Systems, Inc.

Apr 2022 - Jan 2023 (10 months)

Laid off do to loss of customer

Cloud Operations Engineer AWS Gov Cloud

Cloud Engineer working on the Navy’s AWS GOV DC2HS project Creating and modifying NACLS for subnet access to internet and subnets in VPC

Security Group modification and creation for application communications. Deployed EC2 RHEL/Windows Instances

Provisioned VPC and Subnets

Configured ALB path based routing

Wrote basic terraform code for VPC, Subnet, Security group creation. Cloud Engineer

Chainbridge Solutions

Oct 2021 - May 2022 (8 months)

for CloudOne (Airforce AWS)

Cloud Engineer working on the Air Forces CloudOne AWS initiative. Creating and modifying NACLS for subnet access to internet and subnets in VPC

Security Group modification and creation for application communications.

Deployed EC2 RHEL Instances for Oracle DB using EBS for DB files Configured OS EC2 RHEL instances Kernel parameters, filesystems, and security for Oracle DB and Weblogic

Ran scap scans and stigged OS per DISA requirements Mounted S3 buckets on RHEL instances

Mounted EFS on multiple EC2 instances for file sharing Deployed ALB, configured listeners, and created listener rules for redirects to target and urls.

System Engineer

Harmonia Holdings Group, LLC

Sep 2020 - Oct 2021 (1 year 2 months)

System Admin for Linux systems supporting the DOD

Installation and support of engineering applications Wrote simple ansible playbooks and roles for installation of software and Linux configuration

Implemented STIGs on Linux servers and workstations. User management via FREE IPA(LDAP)

RedHat Satellite 6

VMware admin for linux machines. Built templates for server deployment. Built vSphere cluster that housed Linux servers System Engineer

Foot Locker

Aug 2020 - Sep 2020 (2 months)

Lead engineer for the AIX DR exercise. I was in charge of making sure the systems came back up at the DR

site in the shortest amount of time. I utilized AIX tools such as savevg and restvg to accomplish this task.

By using the native AIX commands I beat the time line by 2 days. System Engineer

Insight Global/Atos

Jun 2017 - Aug 2020 (3 years 3 months)

Migration Engineer. I was hired to migrate physical and virtual systems into Data Centers for various customers. I used tools such as storage, VMware convertor, Veeam, and other P2V/migration tools.

Deployed new AIX LPARS with NPIV.

Wrote VMware PowerShell scripts to automate importing of VMs, ESXi configuration, Vmotion, storage Vmotion, and storage configuration. Deployed Azure Linux vms from marketplace that housed web-based applications. Part of a team that Migrated customers from VMware to Azure using Microsoft appliance.

Provisioned Ubuntu, Centos MySQL servers in Azure and AWS. Wrote AZURE cli scripts for automated deployment of VMs. Used Device42 appliance to inventory customers physical and virtual footprint Senior VMware admin on vSphere 5.x and 6.x

Upgraded customers from vSphere 4 & 5 to 6.x.

Used virtual and physical NetApps with Snapmirror to migrate VMs from source to destination datacenters.

Senior Linux Engineer on Redhat 5.x 6.x and 7.x

Windows administration and configuration of networking, users, applications in a VMware environment.

Calculated network throughput for snapmirror process on NetApps NetApp storage admin for on-tap 7mode.

Added Vlans to Cisco UCS and uplinks

Created BIOS policy in Cisco UCS

Converted physical windows and Linux machines into VMs using VMware convertor Wrote Ansible Playbooks to install software, patch systems, add/delete users, copy configuration files to a destination system, and edit files.

System Engineer

Mindtree

Oct 2015 - Jun 2017 (1 year 9 months)

On site L3 consultant. I was hired to help deploy new server equipment, analyze the virtual environment, and help stabilize the virtual and physical footprint. Deployed new AIX LPARS with NPIV.

Setup Linux standard and developed Vcenter template for Linux virtuals. Deployed Azure Linux vms from marketplace that housed web based coupons. Provisioned Azure Splunk servers

Provisioned Ubuntu, Centos mysql servers in Azure. Discovery of customers physical and virtual footprint and document apps and purpose of servers.

Vmware admin for Vsphere 5 and 6.

Was a team member in migrating applications and databases from AIX to Linux VMs and physicals.

System Engineer

Brooksource/ATOS

Jul 2012 - Oct 2015 (3 years 4 months)

Work with a team of engineers to consolidate and migrate customer data centers into a VCE VBLOCK. Using NetApp, VMWare vSphere, AIX and Linux. Built virtual Oracle RAC clusters in vSphere 5.x, configuring multiwriter mode in VMware for the RAC to be able to ASM share physical VMDK disks.

Used NetApp arrays with NFS and snapmirror to migrate vm’s over a WAN from Iowa customer DC to Texas DC.

Discovery of customers physical and virtual footprint and picked physical candidates for virtualization Built RAC cluster on cisco UCS and troubleshot installation and other RAC related install issues.

Built virtual RAC and Oracle DB server Templates in VMware for quick deployment Provisioned Storage on the IBM Nseries array (rebranded NetApp) running ontap 8.0 7mode. Built luns to be used to clone OS for Oracle RAC DB server on UCS blades. Built a RedHat satellite server to deploy, monitor, provision, and manage all the RHEL 5.x and 6.x servers/virtuals.

System Engineer

Amscot Financial

Mar 2012 - Jul 2012 (5 months)

Onsite Senior System Engineer for Amscot Financial Services. Main responsibilities are to maintain the transaction, billing and customer service database, that is running on VMware, AIX LPARS, and HP/ IBM

physicals with a GPFS clustered file system.

Maintained AIX 5.x and 6.x servers that ran the financial processing system. Integrated GPFS so the reporting servers could generate real time data. Managed and maintained VMware 3.5 Vsphere5.x environment. Tuned vmware environment for the customer LAMP database, this included adding new blades, performance analysis using Vcenter.

Installed RHEL 5.X and 6.x configured, tuned and added to reporting cluster via GPFS Provisioned Storage on the IBM Nseries array (rebranded NetApp) running ontap 8.0 7mode. Worked with developers to fix performance issues related to code. Built a RedHat satellite server to deploy, monitor, provision, and manage all the RHEL 5.x and 6.x servers/virtuals.

Senior System Engineer

Health Plan Services

Sep 2011 - Mar 2012 (7 months)

Onsite Senior System Engineer for HealthPlan Services. Main responsibilities are to maintain the LAMP billing

and customer service database, that is running on VMware with a GPFS clustered file system. ● Maintained and tuned the GPFS clustered file system. Led migration effort to move our customer data from EOL array to the new DS8700 using GPFS clustered file system.

Tuned vmware environment for the customer LAMP database, this included adding new blades, and performance analysis using VCenter.

Installed RHEL 5.X and 6.x. Configured, tuned and added to the LAMP GPFS cluster

Worked with developers to fix performance issues related to code. Built a RedHat satellite server to deploy, monitor, provision, and manage all the RHEL 5.x and 6.x servers/virtuals.

System Specialist

TEKsystems/American Express

Jan 2010 - Sep 2011 (1 year 9 months)

Onsite Engineer deploying Oracle RAC11 with Oracle ASM,on Linux and; GL servers for payment card processing. While working on the Linux team I was teaching myself NetApp OnTap and Cisco MDS fiber switch. I was asked to join/become the storage team. Storage provision dropped from 2 weeks to 4 day turn around.

Installed, configured, and provisioned NetApp Filers with OnTap 7.x and 8.x. Zoned storage on Cisco MDS Nexus.

Created Igroups, fc aliases, luns, volumes, nfs exports on NetApp filers Installed and configured NetApp 7.x and 8.x.

Built LUNs on NetApp, added to IGROUPS for ISCSI and FC storage. Used RedHat Satellite to build and provision servers via PXE Install. Built, configured Vsphere Clusters on UCS and Flex pods. Configured NFS storage for VMware datastores on NetApp filers. Install, configuration and troubleshooting of Linux servers on HP X86 servers. Integrated Linux servers into AD via SAMBA winbind. Built Oracle Enterprise Manager server on VMware virtual. Setup disks for Oracle ASM and imported into ASM.

Setup Linux multipathing for Oracle ASM .

Install and configure OnCommand and InSight balance for array and server monitoring. Used InSight Balance and OnCommand for storage trending and capacity planning.

Licenses & Certifications

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner - Amazon Web Services (AWS) CompTIA Security+ - CompTIA

Skills

● AIX ● RHEL Based

Linux

● HACMP ● VMware

● Oracle ASM ● Vsphere ● ESXI ● AWS

● Kubernetes ● Storage ● Networking

protocols

● SELinux

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