Rasheed Odutayo
Fort Worth
Summary
RHCSA certified, experienced, and quality-focused Linux System Administrator with 6 years of hands-on experience in Installation, Configuration, and Administration of highly secured and highly efficient Linux systems in on-prem and cloud environments.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Linux System Engineer
Sleks Technologies.
01.2020 - Current
- Administers Linux (RHEL/CentOS, 7&8), Windows 2016, Windows 2019, and Windows 10 environments along with assisting with configuration and server setup, creation and management of local filesystems using standard and LVM methods, and managing virtual Linux machines on VMWare ESXi and VMWare vCenter
- Installed VMware ESXi 8 on multiple enterprise-grade servers and centrally managed them with VMware vCenter
- Performed a motherboard replacement on a Dell PowerEdge R630 server, ensuring continued functionality and reliability of critical hardware infrastructure
- Monitored DELL server hardware resources and system health utilizing iDRAC (Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller) for proactive maintenance and troubleshooting
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues on Linux machines and network problems, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal performance
- Creating Ansible playbooks to manage system configuration and execute repetitive tasks
- Implemented and maintained a continuous delivery pipeline for the organization's custom application using Jenkins, automating integration, testing, and deployment processes to ensure efficient and reliable software delivery
- Utilized Atlassian Jira to create and resolve issue tickets
- Design, implement, and maintain a comprehensive monitoring solution
- Responds to vulnerability scans performed on Zabbix and if needed install, support, test, and troubleshoot various applications
- Creation and managing approved user accounts and groups both locally and centrally using Microsoft Active Directory
- Integrated Linux systems with Red Hat Satellite for package management
- Applying system patches and updates monthly as well as resolving critical vulnerabilities as identified by the cyber security team
- Prepares formal written server baseline and procedures using Atlassian Confluence and Microsoft Share-point including how to respond to vulnerability scans
- Administer backups and restores using the Veeam backup and replication tool
- Creating Docker containers, running Docker containers, and managing Docker images
- Maintaining system-level security using the firewall to allow only needed ports and services
- Setting up secure password-less key-based ssh authentication on servers
- Performing System lockdowns to enhance security
- Installed and configured applications such as Apache Web Server, Active Directory - Domain Controller, Red Hat Satellite & Zabbix.
Linux System Administrator
BML Global Investment.
08.2017 - 01.2020
- Provisioned server and administered server patches
- Troubleshoot and resolved TCP/IP networking issues
- Performed user accounts administration on local and domain-joined servers
- Disabled direct ssh root login on servers
- Maintained file systems and host security on Linux servers
- Customized user shell environment using shell initialization files
- Utilized cron to schedule and run jobs
- Offered various support to software developers
- Performed security hardening on dedicated servers by turning off unused services
- Configured RAID storage on physical servers for data redundancy and better performance
- Managed Password aging configuration on servers
- Resolved systems and processes issues reported by Prometheus.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Information Technologies
Lead City University
06.2015
Skills
- Operating Systems: Linux (RHEL/CentOS 6, 7 & 8), Windows 2016, Windows 2019, Windows 10
- Cloud Computing: AWS
- Applications: Apache Web Server, Active Directory, Domain Controller, Red Hat Satellite Server, Ansible Tower, Jenkins, Github, Zabbix, LAMP Stack, NFS, & Samba
- Programming: Bash/Shell scripting
- Monitoring Tools: Zabbix
- Networking: DHCP, TCP/IP, DNS, SSH & TCP/UDP
- Virtualization: VMWare VCenter, VMWare ESXi
- Automation: Ansible, Bash, Satellite
- Version Control: Git & Github
- CI/CD: Jenkins
- Containerization: Docker
- Others: iDRAC, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Outlook, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, Veeam, Qualys & Leapp
Certification
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), Active, 230-122-707
- AWS Cloud Practitioner, AWS, Active, CXSVEKT17EVE13C9
- AWS Solutions Architect, AWS, Active, ZVP9XTVK4MBQ1Y33
- Certified Linux Administrator (LPI), Active, LPI000560507
Timeline
Linux System Engineer
Sleks Technologies.
01.2020 - Current
Linux System Administrator
BML Global Investment.
08.2017 - 01.2020
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science And Information Technologies
Lead City University
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