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Phone: PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLEEmail: EMAIL AVAILABLEObjectives:A knowledgeable, detail-oriented, and performance-driven Linux system administrator with over six years of experience. Who is eager to work with any company that will allow me to address and solve technical needs by applying my knowledge, experience, and skills in system administration and ability to complete a deadline-driven project.Technical Proficiency and Expertise:Servers/Services: NFS, SSH, Apache, NTP, SMTP, TCP/IPOperating Systems: Linux (Red hat 7, RHEL, Centos 7), Unix, AIX, WindowsLVM, SAN storage managementAWS (EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, CloudWatch)NFS managementVMWARE ESXIActive DirectoryWindows Machines on AZUREEnterprise Networks (DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP)Atlassian products like JIRA and CONFLUENCE for collaborationSummary of Qualification:Having over 6 years of working experience using Unix/Linux as a base operating system, I have acquired vast IT industry experience and learned many skills outside my usual sphere of expertise. I have a specialty in working with the Linux command line and using the GUI interface to execute commands to accomplish the requested procedure or projects. I have much experience with Red Hat Linux and other distributions like Centos and Ubuntu. Below is a bulletin of some of my expertiseAbility to think of novel and outside-the-box solutions to challenging problemsInstall the Operating system, create firewall rules, install various services and applications, and provide networking services.Onboarding and offboarding users and assigning permissions to files, creating and managing Bash scripts, and utilizing Cron in the scheduling of jobs for the smooth running of the environmentAdministering and configuring AWS Instances in an environmentPatching of servers and scanning for vulnerabilities using the industry-specific toolsWorking knowledge and applications of Batch scripts,Self-driven, committed, and able to combine these keen strategic senses to achieve the desired outcome.A great team player possessing good interpersonal skills and able to relate to all manner of individualsMaintained and configured storage using LVMCreated Windows Machines on AZURE.Professional Experience:Edge Total Intelligence Inc (Contract)April 2019-PresentLinux System Administrator/Cloud AdministratorInstalling Servers and managing them on VMware, AWSTroubleshooting and resolving customer issues following a Jira ticketing systemImplementing Atlassian products like Jira and Confluence for collaborationCreating Cron Jobs to schedule tasks in both Test and Production environmentMonitoring Servers using Nagios and troubleshooting alerts as they are receivedUtilizing snapshots and creating Images of servers for backups before major works for business continuityBuilding of EC2 Instances based on customer specificationsDocumenting best practices in the environment and making sure our internal wiki is up to dateCreating NFS share to share files in various environmentsServing as Team Lead during monthly patching; this includes coordinating with other players and running patch scripts.Utilizing Ansible for automation consists of the patching of servers in both test and production environmentRunning a 24/7 on-call rotation to monitor company servers and report issues through ticketing and phone callsUse tools such as top, Nmap, ps, etc., for performance analysis, tuning for the betterment of the network, and various applications and services.working closely with vendors, Operations, and Maintenance teams to support Standard Operations ProceduresHardening of servers to prevent attacks and hacking and also generating SSH authentication keys to secure the environmentInstalling Active Directory and adding users and groups for authenticationAsiliant technologiesApril 2014 April 2019Systems AdministratorCreating user-profiles and giving permissions to users and files in different departments in the organizationAssigning tickets to various teams as they flow in our ticketing systemTroubleshooting issues and resolving customer concernsBuilding Linux servers on VMware and giving users privilegesScheduling of Cron JobsKeeping documentation and editing of company wiki to ensure proper and uniform information sharing across teamsCreating user accounts on Linux servers for the Engineering departmentAuditing and ensuring all servers are up to date with current users in the environmentEducational Background:Bachelors, University of Ghana, GhanaREFERENCES:Available upon request |