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If you are looking for a dedicated and expert Linux system administrator, then this is the right profile you are looking at. I am an IT professional with 7+ years experience in Linux and Unix administration and engineering. I am looking for both long-term and short-term work to help with implementing, configuring, monitoring, troubleshooting, and/or scripting/automating systems, deploying applications, or just helping find solutions to fit the clients needs. As a Systems Engineer, I am good at troubleshooting, Amazon Web services, Red Hat Linux, Cloud, doing research and learning about new tools/technologies to achieve the requirements efficiently. Automation is one of the vital skills that I possess and have employed throughout my career as an administrator/engineer, using various tools (mostly Bash scripts and Ansible). ====================================== Linux Skills [ Red Hat, CentOs, Fedora, Debian ] ====================================== - Complete ISP setup - SSH and security - Apache & Nginx - Bonding and Teaming, Link Aggregation, - LDAP server, Integration with Active Directory, Identity-management (IPA server) - Dynamic and Power DNS - Bash scripting - Automation - Routing Protocols (ospf,bgp) - Docker - MariaDB & MySql - Puppet - Monitoring Tools (Nagios, Cacti) - Scripting ============================================== Linux Security ============================================== - Firewalld, Iptables - POSIX access control lists -­ Udev rules - Implementing SELINUX booleans and contexts - File system encryption - Implementing 'Advanced Intrusion Detection Environment' - Implementing 'Pluggable Authentication Module' - System Auditing ============================================== Bare metal Virtualization ============================================== - RHEV Hypervisor - RHEV manager - Storage Support with Fiber Channel ================ Red Hat Openstack ================ - load-balancer-as-a-service (LBaaS) in OpenStack Neutron - Ceph block device (RBD) and Ceph object gateway (RADOSGW) - ceph with glance and swift - Object storage, Persistent block-­level storage, - Virtual-machine provisioning engine and image storage, Authentication and Integrated networking - Ceph integration with Openstack - VXLAN, VLAN and GRE ================== Hybrid Cloud Storage ================== - Install and configure Red Hat Storage Server - Create and manage different volume types - IP failover for file sharing servers - Geo replication - Swift - Hadoop plugin ======== Clustering ======== - Pacemaker and Corosync - GFS2 file systems - Configuring High Availability Clustering and fail ­over Clustering. ====== CISCO ====== - Cisco SOHO and branch office routers: Cisco 800, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2800, 3600, 3700, 3800 series - Cisco service provider routers: Cisco 7200, 7300, 7500 - Cisco Catalysts switches: 2950, 2960, 3550, 3560, 3750, 3800 - Cisco ME series switches: 3400 Experienced in configuring: =========================================================== - Routing: IGP (EIGRP, RIP, OSPF), BGP, NAT, PAT, PBR, MPLS (MPLS-VPN, EoMPLS, VPLS) - Switching: VLANs, VTP, dot1q, q-in-q, Rapid PVST+, MSTP. - Network security: VPNs (IPSEC, IPSEC/GRE), ACLs, Layer 2 Security Features (port security, - High Availability: HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, Etherchannel, IP SLA. - WAN: PPP, PPPoE, PPP Multilink, HDLC. - QoS: Traffic policing and shaping, traffic prioritization. - Cisco PIX: NAT, Failover, Remote VPN, ACLs. MikroTik Router ============= - Installation - Mangle and Firewall - Bandwidth Distribution - Hotspot - Filtering