Ihide Ehikhamenor
Laurel,MD
Summary
Linux systems engineer with 9 years of experience in infrastructure development for cloud computing platforms. Detail-oriented IT professional with team lead experience and analytical problem-solving skills. Well versed in Linux security, operations, patching, and maintenance. Proficient in utilizing cloud infrastructure to mitigate pitfalls inherent to on-site computing. Active secret clearance holder. Recently acquired the AWS Cloud Practitioner certification and working to secure AWS associate, professional, and specialty certifications relating to architecture and security of the cloud.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Systems Engineer
American Systems
04.2018 - 07.2023
- Responsible for administering and supporting all Linux operation systems
- Lead maintenance windows for Linux servers and Sonarqube, GitHub, AHLTA, Jira, and Confluence applications
- Patch management for RHEL 7, Ansible Tower, Ansible Automation Platform, VCSA, HPSM, AHLTA, and Oracle
- Start and stop application processes for AHLTA servers
- Performed log administration to detect system errors
- Used Linux Logical Volume Manger (LVM) to manage drives
- Provided technical services to projects, user requests and data queries
- Performed file system migrations
- Responsible for creating and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring in Red Hat Linux
- AHLTA and Linux user account management
- Installation and management of virtual servers using VM Ware
- Patched VM templates used in creation of RHEL 6 and RHEL 7 servers
- Hardened servers to ensure they are compliant with STIG and other government protocol
- Installation, upgrade, and management of packages via RPM and YUM package management
- Installed kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning, and smoke tests
- Provided support for both physical and virtual environment
- Responded to all Linux systems problems and resolving them on a timely basis
- Monitored system logs and activity on all servers via Nagios and root's email
- Documented SOPs, technical procedures, system configuration, version updates, and processes on Confluence
- Cross-training with colleagues (Linux and Windows) to prevent single point of failure in the environment
Systems Engineer
Epichirtech
05.2015 - 12.2017
- Responsible for administering and supporting all Linux operation systems
- Built and configured VM linux servers
- Estimated AWS costs and identified cost control mechanisms
- Designed and implemented both the front-end and back-end systems that run on AWS on par with organization compliance and security policies
- Designed and deployed scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS
- Implemented AWS Cloud Services EC2 and VPC
- Performed file system security and maintenance on RHEL servers
- Configured general networking principles, DNS, and firewalls
- Patch management
- Start and stop application processes
- Performed log administration to detect system errors
- Used Linux Logical Volume Manger (LVM) to manage drives
- Performed TCP/IP and Network configuration on the servers
- User account administration and customization of their environments
- Implemented forwarder configuration, search heads, and indexing for Splunk
- Performed file system migrations
- Responsible for creating and managing user accounts, security, rights, disk space and process monitoring in Red Hat Linux
- Installation and management of virtual servers using VMWare
- Installation and configuration of Nagios for monitoring
- Installation, upgrade, and management of packages via RPM and YUM package management
- Provided support for both physical and virtual environment
- Responded to all Linux systems problems and resolved them on a timely basis
- Managed systems routine scheduling jobs and enabling cron jobs
- Analyzed and monitored incident management and incident resolution problems
- Resolved configuration based issues in coordination with infrastructure support teams
- Implemented password aging on Red Hat servers
- Installed, configured, and supported Apache on Linux production servers
Linux Administrator / Application Support
Epichirtech
04.2014 - 04.2015
- Daily administration of RHEL 6, which included provisioning, patching, configuration, and troubleshooting servers as per enterprise standards
- Installed system-wide applications, confirming compatibility with Linux-based software distros.
- Web server administration (Apache); administering and troubleshooting Apache
- Daily maintenance routine on Linux servers, which included monitoring system access, managing file space, and tuning the system for optimum performance
- Provided 24x7x365 on-call support to troubleshoot and resolve production issues
- Kernel re-configuration & parameter tuning
- Created disk groups, volumes, volume groups and RAIDs
- Involved in preparation of functional and system specifications
- Estimated storage requirements for applications
- Involved in creating shell scripts for automation of processes
- File system management
- Monitored logs to troubleshoot technical issues
- Created cron jobs on Linux servers
- VMware linux server administration
- Monitored root's email for important messages such as errors, warnings, and server failure errors
- Provided training to Junior Staff regularly
Education
Bachelor of Science - Biology With Minor in Chemistry
Howard University
Washington, DC05.2016
Skills
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- AWS
- Ansible
- VCSA
- VMware
- Nagios
- Jira for ticket coordination
- AHLTA
- HPSA/HPSM
- MAC, Apple OS
- Windows 2000 professional, Windows XP, Windows 10
- Apache, Tomcat, SSH
Certification
- CompTIA Security+ (2018)
- Ansible Automation (2020)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2023)
Timeline
Systems Engineer
American Systems
04.2018 - 07.2023
Systems Engineer
Epichirtech
05.2015 - 12.2017
Linux Administrator / Application Support
Epichirtech
04.2014 - 04.2015
Bachelor of Science - Biology With Minor in Chemistry
Howard University
- CompTIA Security+ (2018)
- Ansible Automation (2020)
- AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (2023)
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