Anele Xhola
Colorado Springs,CO
Summary
Red Hat Certified Linux System Administrator with an Active Secret clearance through the United States Air Force Reserves. Brings half a decade of experience working with CentOS 7&8, RHEL 7&8. Adept at communicating with clients to resolve tickets, relevant to adding users, file management, and storage management. Possess excellent communication skills, a strong collaborative work ethic, goal oriented and excel at working independently. Additionally, I am experienced at working in culturally diverse environments with an enthusiasm for learning and improving current skills. Natural communicator with strong motivational skills and the ability to support operation goals and meet business needs.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
2
2
Certification
Work History
Linux System Administrator
Jacobs Technology
COLORADO SPRINGS, IA
04.2023 - Current
- Oversaw Linux system administration and configuration maintenance governing user access, privacy and data integrity.
- Apply STIG recommendations: Implement STIG recommendations by aligning system configurations, access controls, logging, auditing, and intrusion detection mechanisms to enhance the security posture of Linux system
- Installed security software to protect networks.
- Provided effective resolutions to issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service.
Cloud Engineer
Avature Limited
St. Paul
02.2022 - 02.2023
- Solved internal customers' requests regarding Avature's systems infrastructure, responding to a wide range of service requests from development teams
- Worked on external customers' requests, which are passed on by customer-facing teams
- Monitored, analyze and troubleshoot all systems infrastructure incidents that may arise, to ensure continuity, evolution and reliability
- Decommissioned instances and deployed new instances, performed instance migrations
- Worked with cloud architect to generate assessments and develop and implement actionable recommendations based on results and reviews
- Provided 2nd and 3rd level technical support and troubleshooting to internal and external clients.
Linux System Administrator
Pro-Core Plus
St. Paul
09.2020 - 02.2022
- Provide critical support to clients in the resolution of network, server, and virtualization hardware issues related to over 300 Linux servers in dev, staging and production environments
- Continuous IT infrastructure monitoring with Check_MK and Nagios, as well as backup & recovery with enterprise_ level open-source software Bacula
- Collaborated with other teams and team members for configuration management with Ansible to provision multiple server environments and administer managed hosts efficiently, as well as perform regularly scheduled patches of dev, staging, and production environments
- Managed and install patches and software packages using YUM and RPM and creating YUM repository files for offline servers
- Management of vSphere 6.x server virtualization software by VMware through deployment and maintenance of RHEL 7/8, CentOS 7/8, and Ubuntu server operating systems
- Resolved issues and escalated problems with knowledgeable support and quality service.
Linux System Administrator
Air Force Reserve
Las Vegas, NV
11.2019 - 08.2020
- Daily use of the software Jira, to troubleshoot tickets related to Apache and Nginx Web servers, NFS shares, autofs, and identity management with FreeIPA
- Troubleshoot network connectivity issues and re-establish connection; troubleshoot services and applications through root cause analysis (DNS, LDAP, SSH, FTP, HTTP, etc.)
- Created and serviced over 150 administrator and user accounts on Linux-based systems using RHEL 7 & 8
- Deployed virtual servers using templates and Kick-start-files
- Diagnosed and executed resolution for network and server issues.
Rigging Technician
Mirage Hotel & Casino/Cirque du Soleil
Las Vegas, NV
11.2011 - 03.2020
- Implemented, documented, and ensured compliance with the rigging equipment safety inspection program
- Contributed to the modernization of the infrastructure
- Operated rigging equipment during performances and rehearsals
- Continuously learned new technical information and techniques through computer-based training
- Identified and automated recurring tasks and processes
- Resolved problems, improved operations, and provided exceptional service
- Performed complex mechanical alignments and calibration of equipment to quality standards
- Conducted tests of components and systems to evaluate performance and identify concerns
- Utilized control mechanisms and hands-on procedures to operate machines.
Education
Associate of Science - Information Technology
College of Southern Nevada
Las Vegas, NV01.2023
Skills
- Atlassian JIRA
- GitLab
- Incident Response
- Version Control Systems
- Permissions and Access Control
- Bash Scripting
- Linux Administration ( RHEL7&8, CentOS, Ubuntu )
- STIGS
- VMware ESXI
- Server Management
- Program Installations
- CompTIA Security Certification
- System Updates
- DNS Lookup
Certification
Security Plus COMP001021934065
Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator
Timeline
Linux System Administrator
Jacobs Technology
04.2023 - Current
Cloud Engineer
Avature Limited
02.2022 - 02.2023
Linux System Administrator
Pro-Core Plus
09.2020 - 02.2022
Linux System Administrator
Air Force Reserve
11.2019 - 08.2020
Rigging Technician
Mirage Hotel & Casino/Cirque du Soleil
11.2011 - 03.2020
Associate of Science - Information Technology
College of Southern Nevada