Shaik Anees Ahamed

Driven Systems Administrator with 4.2 years of experience in software implementation and maintenance. Proven history of managing complex infrastructures and data center operations. Expert in solutions-oriented business application problem-solving and dedicated to providing best-in-class service. Skilled at troubleshooting, communication and collaboration.

• RHEL
• SUSE LINUX
• VMWARE
• AWS

• Date of Birth: 01/15/95
• Gender: Male
• Nationality: Indian
• Marital Status: Single

Aventiv (USA):

Working on RHEL, SUSE LINUX Server builds project, incidents and changes as part of day to day BAU operations.

Providing on-demand UNIX deployment solutions for clients, which includes troubleshooting problems with network performance, routing issues, link down and speed issues and hardware related issues, etc.

Designing and managing disk space using Linux LVM (Logical Volume management), Strong technical skills on Linux LVM and troubleshooting, Hands on experience in Ansible scripts for servers patching, LDAP, Quest installation, configuration and maintenance on UNIX servers, Performing migration from one Data Store to another, Performing ESX migrations to different ESX hosts and clusters.

Implementing resource changes of VMware Servers, Performing Unix/Linux Servers mass patching through Ansible,.

Working on Hardware related issues.

Working on installing or updating VM ware tools, Adding and removing rpms, patches, fixes and packages. 

Installation and Configuration of Linux 6.x. Updating RHEL Ver. 6.4 to 6.8 etc, Configuring NFS on the Servers, working with NFS mounts and related issues.

Create S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets.

Expertise in secure VPC solutions in AWS with the help of Network ACLs, security groups, public and private network configurations, 

Experience in managing and maintaining IAM policies for organizations in AWS to define groups, create users, assign roles and define rules for role-based access to AWS resources.

Create snapshots and amazon machine images (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances.

Provide technical support by troubleshooting day-to-day issues with various Servers on different platforms.

                                             Tools :  Service Now, Splunk, Dynatrace, JIRA.

PAYPAL Break fix:

Providing Remote system administration support for around 10,000+ servers which are in various data centers

Server builds, Migrations and file system configuration.

Deploying new servers in Cloud and troubleshooting OS level issues

Updates, migrations of Redhat Linux Operating Systems on physical and VMware virtual machines.

Planning hardware maintenance activities on server and storage boxes.

Capacity addition from storage arrarys like DELL EMC and Infinidat.

Firmware updates of lenovo and HP sevres.

Manage Amazon Web Services - ELB, EC2, S3, RDS, SNS, Cloudwatch.

Create snapshots and amazon machine images (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances.

Used JIRA to track issues and Change Management, Troubleshoot Nagios Alerts.

Manage systems routine backup, scheduling jobs, enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging and network logging of servers for maintenance.

Create and maintain user's accounts, profiles, security, rights disk space and process monitoring.

                                          Tools :  Service Now, IRIS, Grafana, JIRA.

BELL TELECOM (USA):

Providing Remote system administration support for around 10,000+ servers which are in various data centers, 

Creating User, Group and working on user security settings, password administering. Provisioning SUDO access.

Working on builds, post build checks after completion of the server build, Monitoring and transferring the application File System space issues to respective teams.

Monitoring Dashboards built for High priority servers, troubleshooting issues and escalating alerts to respective team.

Creation and Managing User/Group accounts and setup a user's work environment

Working on Various Server down Alerts. 

Worked on Various User Level issues.

Managing File system using Logical Volume managers like Linux LVM.

Troubleshooting Network related issues

Working on OS patching as per scheduled periods, Working NFS mount issues, checking file system integrity, running fsck in maintenance mode on rootvg Logical Volumes if any corrupted LV’s in vg.

Troubleshooting at server level issues when server is down/not responding.

Creating User, and working on user security settings, password administering.

Provisioning SUDO access, Taking backup and restore the data by using Gzip and Tar.

Creating Soft links and Hard links

AWS Certified solution architect