The Linux System Administrator’s role is pivotal for any organization, as they take up some crucial task of installing, configuring and maintaining the system hardware and software. The key responsibilities highlighted on the Linux System Administrator Resume include these – installing server system, performing configuration updating tasks, operating and maintaining system hardware and software; troubleshooting and maintaining server, analyzing issues that hamper system performance, performing all other supporting tasks, writing and modifying scripts, and taking accountability for changing contents of the file.
To be a successful Linux System Administrator, candidates have to be an excellent self-starter, be highly motivated, and be willing to follow instructions; they should learn new things and apply the latest technologies in practicality; Linux System Administrators are even expected to have experience in virtualization technologies also. The minimum qualification for this post is a degree in Computer-related field along with a good understanding of Linux.
Objective : Results-driven Linux System Administrator skilled in deploying, configuring, and maintaining Linux environments. Successfully implemented automation scripts that reduced manual tasks by 40%, increasing operational efficiency and team productivity.
Skills : Microsoft Office, RHEL 5, 6, Centos 6
Description :
Oversee IT infrastructure and respond to urgent technical issues.
Monitor and report server issues as well as perform Desktop and server upgrades.
Maintain and update software as needed in Windows 7, Linux and Mac OS.
Respond to all incoming contacts (phone/email/online/ in-person) in regards to a multitude of technical issues.
Document technical incident/request specifics in the Incident Management System.
Resolve technical incidents through the use of experience, available documentation, and tools.
Create documentation for resolutions of technical incidents.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Executive
Education
BSc IT
Sr. Linux System Administrator Resume
Summary : Working as a UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator for about 3 years now. Offered a position as a Linux Systems Administrator at the institute that I graduated from (Trinitech Consulting). I worked on site at Trinitech Cosulting for about 2 years, and then moved to California a year and the half ago and working remotely until I got a new position with my current employer, Vubiquity, Inc.
Skills : Linux, Monitoring, Bash, Git, Salt
Description :
Set up, configure and trouble shoot TCP/IP, DHCP, Default Gateway DNS; FTP, Firewall SSH, IPTables, UDP, Samba, NFS and CIFS, in a multiplatform LAN.
Install and configure a Samba server on Solaris 10, RedHat Linux, and CentOS and mapping to the Windows 08 server.
Managing processes using the ps command, Local Disks and Devices (Installing, partitioning, formatting, and provision a disk in UNIX).
Experience in vi System Hardening (Maintaining and monitoring systems, disable vulnerability services, restrict user access, setup a password aging policy).
User and Security Management in Linux/UNIX (Change permission, create, modify, delete groups and user accounts in UNIX and Linux).
Perform multiplatform volume management using NAS; install and configure a LAN wide NAS (FreeNAS) used to create LUNs and attaching to Windows 2008 servers and to Solaris 10 using ISCSI.
Experience
10+ Years
Level
Senior
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science
Jr. Linux System Administrator Resume
Objective : Over 9+ years of experience as a Unix System Engineer / Administrator and Experience in System Administration, Server builds, Installations, Upgrades, Patches, Migration, Trouble Shooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning on Red Hat Linux, SuSe, Solaris, AIX, CentOS and Ubuntu platforms. Installation and configuration of Oracle RAC 11g on RedHat and AIX cluster nodes.
Skills : Linux OS Administration, Shell Scripting, Network Configuration, User Management
Description :
Installed and configured of Solaris and Linux servers using JUMPSTART and KICKSTART installation and periodic Patch Upgrading using live upgrade.
Installed and administered DNS, NIS, NIS+, NFS, and Sendmail for centralization and firewall setup with iptables on Solaris and Red Hat.
Performed many activities from the change/problem management systems.
Performance monitoring of servers using top, sar, iostat, vmstat.
Provided highly available data services to users using Solaris volume manager (SVM) and Logical volume manager (LVM).
Created and maintained user accounts and print queues, installed tools/compilers including GNU required by the environment and maintained their licenses.
Resolved config issues and problems regarding NFS mounts, NIS maps, user ids, rpminstalls, driver installs.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Junior
Education
BSc CS
Linux System Administrator III Resume
Summary : Smart and articulate Cloud and System Administrator with over 2 years of cognate experience in AWS, 5 years in different distros of Linux OS. Experience in Application Database, Virtualization, Data Management and Customer Service delivery.
Skills : Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Linux, System Monitoring
Description :
Managing system processes and scheduling processes with the cron utility.
Configuring the services for sharing the resources from UNIX such as remote login through TELNET, FTP.
Checking alert logs, trace files and file System maintenance.
Day-to-day functional administration tasks, as well as application-specific technical support Providing 24x7 enterprise hardware and software support in development, validation and production environments User management, Creating and managing user account, groups and access levels.
Controlling the System Logging services, and examining system Log Files of all system events.
Worked with application/database team to provide support for migration RHEL5 to RHEL6 Experience with remedy ticketing system.
Performed software troubleshooting and resolved NFS, and TCP/IP network issues Setup and deployed NetBackup policies Troubleshoot network connectivity issues Build, configure, deploy and optimize LAMP stack Disk configuration & Managing File Systems.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Management
Education
B.S. IT
Linux System Administrator II Resume
Objective : IT Professional with over 8 years of experience as a RHEL 3.x/4.x/5.x/6.x, CentOS, Ubuntu, Sun Solaris 8/9/10 SLES 10/11 & UNIX IBM AIX 7.x Power7, 6 platforms System Administrator/Engineer as well as worked as DevOps Engineer. Experience working on planning, installation, migration, upgrade of OS (AIX, Linux), as well as deployment and Production Support. Expertise in System administration, System planning, co-ordination, commissioning, setting up security hierarchy and capacity planning.
Skills : Devops, Jenkins, Automation Tools, Configuration Management, DNS Management
Description :
Strong understanding of VMware Networking concepts like creation of vSwitches, different types of port groups, NIC Teaming and VLAN Problem management VMware ESX 3.X and Virtual Center and vMotion.
Installed, configured and monitored VERITAS Cluster server, creating service groups adding resources and enabling features.
Experience in DNS, NFS, NIS, LDAP, Samba, remote access security management and troubleshooting in Red Hat Linux.
Installation, tuning and troubleshoot in various application servers: Apache, Tomcat, WebSphere and WebLogic.
Performed system-monitoring tune up kernel parameter, adding/removing hosts, users and disks on DNS/NIS domain.
Administered and created new users, groups and secured access and restrictions to files and directories.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Junior
Education
BSc CS
Linux System Administrator I Resume
Objective : 6 Years of experience as Linux/UNIX system administrator on Red Hat EL 5.x, 6.x, Debian, CentOS 4.x, 5x, Solaris 8,9, 10 and VMware ESXi environment. Extensive experience with RAID using Volume Management Software like Logical Volume Manager, Veritas Volume Manager, Solaris Volume Manager. Operating Systems Installation, packages and Patches, adding peripherals, maintaining user accounts, System Security maintenance, backup/recovery, performance tuning, troubleshooting at various levels etc.
Skills : Linux System Administration, Load Balancing, High Availability, Disaster Recovery Planning
Description :
Experienced in managing, supporting, troubleshooting, securing Solaris and Red Hat Linux servers for large enterprise network 1000 + users.
Worked on Solaris 10 container technology, created local and global zones, modified local zone parameters, created file systems on local and global zones.
Applied OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
Installation, configuration and administration on RedHat Cluster Server, Service Guard.
Configured new service group & resources for new application in High Availability environment.
Efficiency in installing, configuring and implementing LVM, and RAID Technologies using various tools like Veritas volume manager, Solaris volume manager.
Provided User management and support, User permissions and SElinux.
Installing, configuring Tivoli Storage Manager and Veritas NetBackup 6.5 on Solaris, Red hat servers, creating policies, scheduling jobs.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Junior
Education
B.Sc. CS
Linux System Administrator/Programmer Resume
Objective : Seasoned systems administrator with more than four years of experience in fast paced Unix/Linux environments and expertise in several flavors of Linux including Red Hat, CentOs and Ubuntu. Excellent installation, configuration, maintenance and system's users administration skills. Track record of achieving exceptional results in working technicians from various engineering disciplines to trouble shoot complex system-level issues and working with organizational and technical Linux (RHEL/CentOs 6/7).
Skills : Linux Administration, Lotus Notes Domino Client and Server, Docker, NFS Configuration, VPN Setup
Description :
Build, installed, configured Red Hat Linux servers in a data center environment.
Monitoring of web servers using nagios monitoring tool.
Implementation of package management, FHS systems and LVM management.
Administered local and remotely servers on daily basis providing weekly status reports to management Supporting data management through on-site & off-site storage and retrieval service.
Installation and configuration of puppet, and nagios monitoring tool.
Troubleshoot and resolve software and hardware problems, interface with vendor technical support to resolve problems and work with other technical staff on supporting their needs.
Respond to security alerts with risk evaluation and monitoring /report on unauthorized access attempts.
Experience
0-2 Years
Level
Entry Level
Education
B.S. CS
Linux System Administrator/Specialist Resume
Summary : Over 7+ Years of experience in Installation, administration, implementation, testing and maintenance of complex and heterogeneous networks consisting of Linux (Red Hat), Sun Solaris 8/9/10, IBM AIX, SuSE, Windows NT. Worked on Redhat Linux / AIX, Unix Administration for Mission Critical and Enterprise applications. Extensively worked on Installation, Configuration and Maintenance of Samba, Apache Tomcat, Web Sphere and Jboss servers in Linux environment.
Skills : Windows, Active Directory, MySQL, Linux, Microsoft
Description :
Extensively worked on User Administration, management and archiving.
Worked on Installation, Configuration and upgrade of Red Hat Linux (2, 3, 4, 5), SUSE, Solaris and HP-UX Operating Systems.
Installed Redhat EL using Kickstart/PXE and SuSe Professional desktop 10x.
Configured NFS, NIS, NIS+, DNS, Auto Mount & Disk Space Management on Linux SUN Servers.
Deployed Puppet, Puppet Dashboard, and PuppetDB for configuration management to existing infrastructure.
Installed and Configured LAMP Server (Linux Redhat, CentOS, Apache, Jboss, MySQL Oracle, PHP Perl).
Installed and Configured both Kickstart and Jumpstart Servers for the Infrastructure Server Deployments Involved in Monthly security patches deployment on 200+ Linux test and production servers.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Consultant
Education
B.Sc. IT
Linux System Administrator/Engineer Resume
Summary : Around 8 years of specialized experience in System Administration, Network Administration and Application Support working on RedHat Linux 4.x/5.x/6.x, CentOS 4.x/5.x/6.x, SUSE Linux 10 and Sun Solaris 8/9/10. Configuration of LVM (Logical Volume Manager) to manage volume group, logical and physical partitions and importing new physical volumes. Experienced in kick-start installations, support, configuration and maintenance of Red Hat Linux, CentOS and SUSE Linux.
Skills : Microsoft, Power point, Linux OS Administration, Shell Scripting, Network Configuration
Description :
Installation, Configuration & Upgrade of Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux operating systems.
Software package and patch administration, involving adding and removing software packages and updating patches.Extensively Supported 24/7 high availability of production servers.
Setup Environment for kickstart installation environment to automate the Linux installation process with pxe boot.
Configuration and Administration of DNS, NIS, NIS+, NFS, sendMail.
Created and managed VMs (virtual server) and also involved in the maintenance of the virtual server.
Installation and configuration of Netscape and Apache web server and Samba Server.
Configuration of Hardware and Software RAID.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Management
Education
B.S. CS
Asst. Linux System Administrator Resume
Summary : 7+ years of extensive experience in the IT industry with years of expertise in Splunk, Linux/UNIX, PLSQL, SQL DBA. Monitoring, Data Analytics performance tuning Troubleshooting and Maintenance of Data Base. Around 3 years of experience as Splunk Admin/Developer, performed activities including requirement analysis, design and implementations of various client server based applications using Splunk 5.
Worked as Unix Administrator in IT infrastructure environment providing server administration, application administration and automation solutions to support business objectives.
Administered a heterogeneous environment comprising MS Windows 2003 Server, Red Hat Linux and AIX.
Administration involved installation, configuration, evaluation, implementation and support of strategic Business systems in a heterogeneous environment.
Handling HP and IBM servers running on SuSe, Red hat.
Handling day to day administration jobs in SuSe Linux and Red hat Linux.
Installed OS using automatic installation using Autoyast and Kick start.
Setup LDAP Client services on Linux Servers.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Consultant
Education
BSIT
Linux System Administrator/Analyst Resume
Summary : 8+ years of experience in IT industry comprising of Development, Systems Administration and Software Configuration Management (SCM) Extensive experience includes SCM, Build/Release Management and Change/Incident Management performing duties such as monitoring, automation, deployment, documenting, and support and troubleshooting.
Skills : Operating System Linux, VMware ESX Protocols, System Monitoring, Backup and Recovery, Security Hardening
Description :
Implemented the Jumpstartin Solaris servers and Kickstartin Linux Servers to automate the server builds for multiple profiles.
Implemented and administrated of virtualization on Solaris 10 with zones and created containers using FSS.
Installed software and patches(yum, yast)-- Disk installation and maintenance - modify vfstab file for automatic mounting while booting, format disk and restoration of UNIX files and file systems Implemented file sharing on the network by configuring NFS on the system to share essential resources.
Performed systems log management, Data backup and restoration with UNIX native tools (tar/dd).
Monitored client disk quotas & disk space usage.
Set up mount points on Solaris servers for Oracle database and installed MySQL server.
Performed data management using native Solaris utilities for archiving and compression.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Management
Education
BSc CS
Linux System Administrator Resume
Headline : Skilled IT professional with 5 years experience providing critical Systems Administration solutions. Certified Redhat System Admin V6/7 RHCSA Use VMWare ESXi Server and VMWare VSphere for virtualization LVM management, LUN, NFS, iSCSI, SAN, CIFs, veritas volume management DNS management AIX volume management Background experience involves working with technical teams and clients to structure secure and maintain IT environments.
Skills : LINUX, UNIX, HPUX, Qlik, VMware
Description :
Involved in installing OS, software, monitor performance, applying patches and troubleshooting alerts.
Performed troubleshooting on the servers in rescue fc14 and fc6 environment and worked with reinstalling the servers.
Supported in virtualization VMware ESX and ESXi hypervisors, and vSphere and vCenter Server.
Performed Cold, Suspended and Storage vMotion migration between servers.
Performed troubleshooting with network tools like ping, netstat, traceroute, mtr, nslookup, etc.
Worked with hardware alerting /monitoring system and troubleshoot the faulty hardware in NOC and remotely utilizing the remote hand service.
Worked with JBODs and supported in replacing and recovery process on varies sites.
Experience
5-7 Years
Level
Executive
Education
BSIT
Jr. Linux Systems Administrator Resume
Objective : Professional, consistent work ethic, reliable and dependable. Exceptionally creative and innovative. Numerous accolades and rewards from providing top of the line industry service and professional standards.
Skills : UNIX, Linux, DNS, HP/UX, Postfix
Description :
Guiding all Linux Desktop development and deployment at GA-ASI.
Configuring, maintaining and patching wide range of Linux servers.
Installing and configuring a large number of Open Source tools in various environments.
Meeting with internal customers to satisfy internal demand of Linux and Open Source tools.
Problem solving on many levels, ranging from user tools to network performance issues in a wide range of environments.
Configuring and maintaining Kickstart and CFengine server used by hundreds of servers.
Securing and hardening of Linux servers and desktops.
Experience
2-5 Years
Level
Junior
Education
BSc CS
Unix/Linux Systems Administrator Resume
Summary : Secure a position as a software engineer where desire to develop innovative software technologies, and my ability to learn new software languages can be employed. Seeking a company that values career development and will allow to apply and enhance skills as a Computer Engineer.
Skills : IT Manager, IT Specialist, Linux OS Administration, Shell Scripting, Network Configuration
Description :
Managed a large development, test and production environment with over 200 physical and virtual servers.
Build and configured VMware virtual machine templates for Redhat 6, Debian and Ubuntu servers.
Deployed virtual machines/guest Operating system from templates.
Modified, configured and lockdown script newly deployed Guest operating systems.
Created, exported and Deployed virtual machines from ovf templates.
Responsible for installation, configuration and overall maintenance Linux servers.
Created a local Centos repository mirror on local network.
Used local mirror to patch all Centos based servers on the network.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Consultant
Education
B.Sc. CS
Linux Systems Administrator Resume
Summary : System Engineer with over Seven years of experience in the Administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x/5.x/6.x, IBM AIX 5.x/6.x, SUSE Linux Enterprise 9/10, HP-UX 10.x/11.x. Strong Knowledge in Implementing
Skills : IT Specialist, Systems Technician, File System Management, Backup and Recovery
Description :
Configured kickstart server and updating/applying patches to the servers using Red Hat satellite server.
Remote system administration using tools like SSH.
Planning and implementing system upgrades including hardware, operating system and periodical patch, upgrades.
Automation of day-to-day deployment task and build scripts using Chef.
Construction of chef recipes for automated deployment of configuration files across Linux environment.
Exposure to common DevOps tools like GIT, Maven and Jenkins.
Installation of packages, patch management, volume management on SUSE servers using YaST.
Experience
7-10 Years
Level
Management
Education
BSc CS
Linux Systems Administrator Resume
Summary : An experienced System Administrator with over 4 years of experience in Linux space. Very creative, agile and team oriented individual with deep interpersonal skills.
Skills : Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, CompTIA Networking +
Description :
Installation, configuration and maintenance of RedHat Linux servers.
Managed system processes and scheduling processes with the Cron utility.
Setup, administered and managed LAMP Stack, Implemented virtual host directives in apache 2.X.
Performed servers updates, patching, upgrade and package installations using RPM.
Upgrade and patching of Red Hat, CentOS Linux servers.
KVM configuration and management of resources Administer Apache web servers.
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