ANELE XHOLA
Colorado Springs
Summary
Highly enthusiastic Linux System Administrator with a proven track record of implementing STIG recommendations and overseeing BMDS tests and exercises. Skilled in collaborating with diverse teams and organizations to seamlessly integrate system components, enhance security posture, and provide critical support. Adept at deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting a wide range of Linux-based environments. Possesses CompTIA Security+ and Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator credentials. Passionate about leveraging expertise to support the mission and drive the growth of the company.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Systems Integrator
Apex Systems
Colorado Springs
10.2023 - Current
- Wargames and Exercise Efforts: Spearhead wargames and exercise initiatives as an Exercise Team Integrator within the C2BMC National Team
- Directly collaborate with MDA organizations to seamlessly integrate C2BMC, BCM, BOA, and FOXSIM into exercises
- Demonstrate proficiency in multi-system Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) tests and exercises
- Characterize C2BMC performance and facilitate the development of Warfighter Tactics Techniques Procedures (TTP) to enhance BMDS capabilities
- Interact with diverse external organizations, including other NT Functional Areas, NT Government customers, MDA Elements, Joint Analysis Team, NATO BMD personnel, and Multinational Warfighter personnel
- Ensure seamless integration and coordination for successful test/exercise events
- Apply System Engineering processes to meticulously plan, document, and execute test/exercise events
- Develop detailed procedures, integrate resources, and oversee real-time analysis of performance
- Provide oversight for in-depth analysis of results and effectively communicate findings to diverse audiences
Linux System Administrator
Jacobs Technology
Colorado Springs
04.2023 - 10.2023
- 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
Remote
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
Remote
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
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
Education
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Charter University
Online07-2024
Skills
- Ansible
- Apache
- Atlassian
- Atlassian JIRA
- Bash
- CentOs
- Configuration
- Data integrity
- DNS
- ESXI
- Gitlab
- JIRA
- LDAP
- Linux
- Linux administration
- Nagios
- NFS
- Nginx
- Red Hat
- RHEL
- SSH
- Ubuntu
- VMWare
- VMware ESXi
- VSphere
Affiliations
- Air force, Snowboarding, Soccer, Rugby, and Travel
Timeline
Systems Integrator
Apex Systems
10.2023 - Current
Linux System Administrator
Jacobs Technology
04.2023 - 10.2023
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
Bachelor of Science - Information Technology
Charter University