ABDYRAKHMAN ABDILATIPOV
Linux Systems Engineer
Chicago,IL
Summary
Organized and methodical Systems Engineer with 10 + years of experience in IT ( Unix/Linux and Cloud environments) including analyzing, designing, installing, maintaining hardware, software, and networks. Ability to make timely decisions, work independently and be self-motivated.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Infrastructure Engineer III
JP Morgan Chase
02.2021 - 11.2023
- Deployed and setup HAProxy within EC2 with microservice by staging with Ansible.
- Implement and maintain monitoring solutions at the server and application level in order to increase visibility into day-to-day operations and issues, utilizing SCOM, Splunk, Solarwinds.
- Manage Control Tower to create AWS accounts with help of Terraform per request.
- Advanced Linux/Unix experience in managing, supporting and troubleshooting prod environment.
- AWS Performance Monitoring and Alerting.
- Utilize, maintain and support third party application Evolven to track changes on servers.
- Collaborated with executive team to define business requirements and systems goals.
- Automated LB VIP pointer to various environments with Ansible.
Systems Engineer
Inteliquent
03.2020 - 02.2021
- Build, administer, and troubleshoot all mission critical environments (Production, Stage, Dev, Test, QA)
- Elasticsearch cluster upgrade including staging all steps with Ansible.
- Installation and setting up Kubernetes cluster on AWS manually from scratch.
- Managed cluster and created reproducible build of the Kubernetes applications with Helm charts.
- Deployed Ubuntu machines from template and integrate with Ansible master server.
- Experience with physical servers hardening like HP ProLiant DL Gen9-10.
- Participated in systems and software requirement reviews to collaboratively develop hardware and connectivity profiles.
Linux Systems Engineer
TransUnion LLC
02.2016 - 03.2020
- Installation, setup and configuration of RHEL 6.7, 7 and Windows Servers and VMware ESXi.
- Building/Maintaining Docker container clusters managed by Kubernetes, Linux, Docker on AWS.
- Utilized Kubernetes and Docker for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test and deploy.
- Work with escalated tickets, adhoc, CTASK and RCA, troubleshooting.
- Involved in implementing Ansible configuration management and maintaining them in several environments on AWS cloud and VMware
- Migrated Linux environment to AWS by creating and executing a migration plan, deployed EC2 instances in VPC, configured security groups and NACL
- Using Splunk to monitor the system logs as well as notify the IM system upon exceeding thresholds
- Job Scheduling and automation using cron and Bash, Python scripting.
- Manage Bitbucket/Git repositories and permissions, including branching, merging and tagging.
Open System Administrator
TransUnion LLC
01.2015 - 02.2016
- Installing, configuring and support RHEL 5.1 to 6.7 and AIX servers
- Manage daily system administration cases and tickets using cloud based ticketing system ServiceNow
- Create incident tickets and RFC according to client requirements per priority
- Updating and recompiling the kernel of servers
- Setup a conference and technical bridge calls for our customers and off shores using Crisis Connect
- Experienced in monitoring tools/software like Zenoss, Splunk, and Nagios
- Coordinated with the Network, Storage and Application teams on server provisions (HP ProLiant, Cisco UCS B200 M2)
- Create TAC case with Cisco for replacement or troubleshooting Cisco products (UCS)
- Basic Infosec stuff like unlock user accounts, permission etc
- Job Scheduling using cron and Bash, Python scripting.
Linux Administrator
AXON Datacenters (no Longer In Business)
06.2013 - 12.2015
- Day–to-day administration on RHEL 4/5 which includes installation, upgrade & loading patch management & packages.
- Interacted directly with clients to diagnose and correct major system issues and address concerns.
- Performed hardware upgrades, installed operating systems and applications
- Performing backups using tar, rsync, dd and CommVault Simpana.
- Identified and reported problem devices and replaced defective parts.
- Performance monitoring with conventional tools such as top, sar, netstat, iostat, etc
Education
Bachelor of Civil Engineering -
Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transportation and Architecture (KSUCTA)
Skills
- TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- OS - Red Hat, Ubuntu and Windows
- Automation - Ansible, Helm and Rundeck
- Cloud – AWS (EC2, S3, ELB, IAM, Route53, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Control Tower etc)
- Version Control Systems - Bitbucket, Git
- Virtualization - VMware vSphere
- Containerization – Docker and Kubernetes
- Disk Management – LVM, RAIDs, NFS and Nimble
- Monitoring tools – SolarWinds, Splunk, SCOM and CloudWatch
- Scripting language - Bash, Python
Certification
AWS Cloud Practitioner. Lic. #SREDBTY22F111CGX. Aug 2018- Aug 2020.
Certificate of Attendance RHCSA training course.
Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA - LF-e6ldmdn3az. Sep 2020 - Sep 2023
Timeline
Infrastructure Engineer III
JP Morgan Chase
02.2021 - 11.2023
Systems Engineer
Inteliquent
03.2020 - 02.2021
Linux Systems Engineer
TransUnion LLC
02.2016 - 03.2020
Open System Administrator
TransUnion LLC
01.2015 - 02.2016
Linux Administrator
AXON Datacenters (no Longer In Business)
06.2013 - 12.2015
Bachelor of Civil Engineering -
Kyrgyz State University of Construction, Transportation and Architecture (KSUCTA)