Ahsan M. Akhtar Akhtar.Ahsan101@gmail.

com 769-241-1235

Summary:
IT professional with over 7 years of experience looking for an exciting environment where my
knowledge will be an asset and to expand my horizons with cutting edge technologies.
Technology Summary
Operating Systems:
RedHat Linux 5/6/7/8, CentOS Linux 5/6/7, AIX, Solaris.

Hardware:
Dell, HP, M3000, M4000, M5000, HP ProLiant DL 350, 480, IBM/Lenovo G4, G5, G6 & G7

Network & Applications:

Ext2, Ext3, Ext4, XFS, DNS, DHCP, NFS, RPM, NIS, YUM, LDAP, AutoFS, LAN, Samba, WAN, Firewalls,
Apache Server, Nagios, Pxe-Boot with Kickstart, TCP dump, traceroute, ping, Mtr, top, sar, vmstat, iostat,
iftop, Wireshark, Netbackup, Ansible, MacAfee Found stone for vulnerability management, MS Outlook,
Skype Business, Slack, MS office 365

Virtualization:
VMware ESXI 5.x, 6.x, VMware V-Sphere, V-Center, V-Motion

Protocol:
TCP/IP, UDP, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, SNMP, SMTP, SSH.

Education:
Associates in Business administration from Kingsborough Community College January 2013
Bachelors in Finance from Brooklyn College.

Training:
RedHat System Administrator (RHCSA)
SR Linux System Administrator - Production support
Bank of New York Mellon, Nashville April 2018 - Present Responsibilities:
Unix/Linux Environment
● Maintenance of Linux servers and troubleshooting.
● Knowledge of security/Cybersecurity practices, operations, risk management processes, principles,
architectural and engineering requirements as well as threats and vulnerabilities, including incident
response methodologies, tactics and strategy to protect, detect, respond and recover from attacks
● Experience patching RHEL 5, 6 and 7
● Configuration Automation Experience via Bladelogic and Ansible.
● Configuring ansible playbook for patching.
● Monitoring of server health and service monitoring; generation of reports related to server health (CPU,
Memory, SWAP, FS) for solving problems and decision making
● Using Linux logical Volume Manager (LVM) to manage the storage.
● Involved actively in Vulnerability Management – Applied patches to address the security vulnerabilities
on all RHEL Unix/Linux and AIX servers
● Install and harden Linux operating systems for applying security and recommended patches on a
regularly scheduled basis
● Troubleshooting OS and software issues in RHEL 5, 6, 7; Solaris and AIX
 ● Assisted with disaster recovery exercise
● Identify problems, isolate root causes, and apply corrective action to restore and activate services ●
Demonstrated System Administration skills supporting mid-range servers in a mission-critical
environment on Dell, Cisco hardware and VMware or equivalent platforms
● Provide technical subject matter expertise wherever required
● Automation experience for a program automating Linux into the environment
● Assigned systems include enterprise networking environment with major impact on delivery of
services to customers internal to state government and to the public.
● Experience with patching, applied patch using BladeLogic and Ansible.
● Worked on the ticketing tools like Remedy, ServiceNow and JIRA
● Prepare daily reports
● Daily review and resolution of Remedy tickets. Involved in change management and Incident
reporting.
● Knowledge of Veritas Cluster services
● Experience in using VERITAS Volume manager
● Experience automating manual processes using scripting language (Bash, shell scripting)

Linux Systems Administrator

GAP Distribution Center FishKill, NY March 2015 - March 2018
Responsibilities:

● Administered NFS servers and shares. Setting up directory shares with NFS servers, and configuring
clients as NFS clients.
● Used LVM for creating physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes and snapshots.
● User account administration and management.
● Worked with performance monitoring tools - such as vmstat, iostat, top, tcp dump, ethtool, trace route,
ifconfig, kill, nice, sar and ping.
● Implemented PXE-boot server with customized kickstart files to automate server deployment process.
● Monitored system performance of system checks such as memory, disk and CPU utilization using
Nagios tool.
● Monitored critical servers.
● Monitored system logs and activity on all servers.
● Maintained DNS, DHCP, Telnet, FTP, SSH, HTTP, HTTPS, SAMBA and NTP.
● Managed systems routine backups, hardware maintenance, performance tuning, testing and capacity
planning.
● Setup secure passwordless ssh authentication on servers using ssh keys.
● Schedule and maintain cron jobs.
● Implemented Nagios XI industry standard Open Source monitoring tool.
● Responding to Nagios alerts and taking actions in a timely manner to resolve issues.
● Ticket assessment/prioritization on daily basis on remedy.
● Setup and configure iDRAC/ILO for remote access.
● Created and managed instances of multiple VM's (VMware hypervisor)
● Configured different RAID levels on different hardware. (raid levels 0,1,5,6)
● Tuned Linux kernel parameters and kernel modules as requested.
● Identified and troubleshoot issues, escalate to the appropriate technical team if
needed.
● Enhanced system security by implementing iptables and selinux policies.
● Expert levels Linux (RHEL / CentOS) support experience.
● Configuring and adding new services as necessary.
 ● New hardware & software installation and configuration.
● Effectively resolving any networking related issues.
● Monitoring installation & troubleshooting Operating System. [RedHat].
● Adding users to NIS, AD and resolving logon issues.
● Worked on Vmware Vcenter for administering ESXi hosts clusters, migrated from P2V and V2V using
Vmotion and Vcenter standalone converter.
● Documented server baseline and procedures
● Performed file system backups and restores using local archiving utilities to include tar, gzip.
● Sends weekly report to management on overall system performance and health checks
● Available for on call 24/7 support.
● Resolving TCP/IP, UDP related networking issues on RHEL systems.
● Setting up nrpe conf file to get immediate response to remediate fail overs.
● Fixing corrupt init ramfs in single user mode.
● Removing packages, no dependencies to maintain the health of the system.
● Port masquerading for systems security.
● Adding users to sudoers with limited permission.
● Installing openSSL and TLS certificates
● Created file system and configure to available network through NFS. (created auto share using auto
mount using nfs)
● Performed server updates, upgrade, and package installations using RPM and YUM.
● Configuration of network yum repository as well as local repository.
● Good knowledge in product deployment in servers, mail servers, monitoring tools, shell-scripts,
networking, and SQL/MySQL.
● Administered SMTP and DNS infrastructure.
● Configured Network Concepts DNS, NIS and DHCP, troubleshooting network problems such as
TCP/IP, providing support for users in solving their problems.
● Maintained apache and mail logs to troubleshoot web server, and mail server related issues.
● Creating Templates, Snapshots, resource pools and clones on VMware Environment.
● Installing/upgrading Ansible configuration/automation tool
● Using Ansible for managing the infrastructure, configuration, user management, file system
management, monitoring, server provisioning with manifests, preventing from doss attack.
● Configuring and managing VSFTP and FTP servers
● Working with different file systems such as ext3, ext4, xfs and partitioning using fdisk, parted to create
different partitions, creating and fixing file systems.
● Installing Linux and Windows OS on desktops and servers.

Junior Linux Systems Administrator

Micfo LLC Atlanta, GA February 2013 - February 2015 Responsibilities:
● Duties spanned System administration, maintenance and monitoring various day-to-day operations.
● Administered and troubleshooted user management by creating, modifying User's accounts and
groups and setting up permission related issues.
● Performed network OS installation using PXE boot and Kickstart to automated the provisioning
process.
● System efficiency, Performance monitoring, Disk management and Network usage.
● Creating, extending and reducing physical volumes, volume groups and Logical volumes.
● Worked on file systems such as Ext3, Ext4, and XFS.
● Package management using yum and rpm
● Implemented and managed local yum repository server
● Configured, Administered and troubleshooted NFS server and client issues.
● Configured, Administered and troubleshooted Telnet, SSH, SSH keys and FTP related issues.
● Configured and managed of Swap space.
● Viewing and controlling the Processes running on the system and automating repetitive tasks.
● Troubleshooted issues related with disk utilization, CPU utilization, Memory consumptions etc.
● Performed server hardware provisioning and configure Hardware Raid level.
● Configured and Managed remote management IDRAC/ILO for internal and external configuration.
● Monitored system performance using Nagios.
● Supported Data center operations, Racking Stacking Cabling, Labeling and inventory
management.
● Performed inventory audits, Inventory upgrades, and managed data destruction.
● Provisioned BM and Virtual servers, and also decommissioned of servers.