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Overview
Work History
Education
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Summary of Qualification
Certification
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KWASI A. AMANING

Elkridge ,MD,MD

Summary

Dedicated multi Systems Administrator/Engineer with history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best enhance the organizational brand.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Systems Engineer

National Institutes Of Health, NIH
02.2019 - Current
    • Working with more experienced engineers to implement new storage and backup technologies as well as assisting in the upgrade of existing technologies within the enterprise environment.
    • Troubleshooting and resolving issues within the backup and storage domains.
    • Monitoring the overall health of the enterprise environment and responding to alerts and issues promptly.
    • Making recommendations to improve stability, efficiency, and capabilities as required.
    • Responding to requests received via the ticketing system.
    • Assisting in audits to ensure compliance with the policy.
    • Communicating status updates to affected parties when issues arose.
    • Configuring new systems and protocols according to strict company guidelines and employee preferences.
    • Providing day-to-day support to system users, educating employees on troubleshooting and problem-solving protocols.
    • Installing, supporting, and maintaining company hardware and software infrastructure according to best practices.
    • Racking Servers
    • Patching software and installing new versions to eliminate security problems and protect data.
    • Analyzing complex project server issues and working on large enterprise and business-critical applications.
    • Monitoring systems in operation and input command to troubleshoot areas.
    • Collaborating with outside departments to implement system-wide improvements.
    • Maintaining flexible schedule and responded to after-hours and weekend emergencies.

Linux System Administrator

Modest Technologies Solution
05.2017 - Current
    • Coordinating and consulting with end-users, application development, infrastructure, client services, vendors, and team members to meet and exceed customer requirements and end-user satisfaction
    • Responsible for monitoring dev, QA, and prod applications, middleware, and infrastructure, and collaborating with team members to develop automation strategies and deployment processes
    • Monitoring and maintaining multiple high visibility tools and applications to achieve 99.9% uptime
    • Using Ansible to automate tasks: manage users and services, install packages, and performed upgrades
    • Demonstrating expertise in configuring, managing, and troubleshooting various DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, and other networking issues
    • Creating, cloning Linux Virtual Machines, templates using VMware ESX 5.0, 6.5
    • Diagnosing and resolving issues with OS and hardware, including problems with CPU, memory, and disk
    • Administrating Linux servers for various functions such as Apache(web) server, Samba server, and DNS
    • Monitoring system activities and fine-tuning system parameters and configurations to optimize performance
    • Configuration Management and source code repository management using tools like GIT and SVN
    • Installing Servers and managing them on VMware, AWS
    • Creating users accounts and managing users and roles using IAM
    • Troubleshooting and resolving customer issues following a Jira ticketing system
    • Creating DR region in AWS for replication in case of disaster
    • Implementing Atlassian products like Jira and Confluence for collaboration
    • Creating Cron Jobs to schedule tasks in both Test and Production environment
    • Creating VPCs and subnets for Network utilization on different Availability zones
    • Monitoring Servers using Nagios and troubleshooting alerts as they are received
    • Creating NFS share to share files in various environments
    • Serving as Team Lead during monthly patching; this includes coordinating with other players and running of patch scripts.
    • Utilizing Ansible for automation includes patching servers in both test and production environment
    • Running 24/7 on-call rotation to monitor company servers and report issues through ticketing and phone calls
    • Use tools such as top, Nmap, ps, etc. for performance analysis, tuning for the betterment of the network, and various applications and services.
    • Hardening of servers to prevent attacks and hacking and also generating SSH authenticating keys to secure the environment

Systems Administrator

Home Depot
04.2014 - 05.2017
  • Helpdesk Support
  • Created users and gave permissions to users and files in different departments in our organization
  • Assigned tickets to various teams as they flow in our ticketing system
  • Troubleshot issues and resolved customer concerns
  • Building Linux servers on VMware and giving users privileges
  • Scheduled Cron Jobs
  • Kept documentation and editing of company wiki to ensure proper and uniform information sharing across teams

Education

Bachelor of Applied Science - Information System and Cyber Security

ITT Technical Institute
Hanover, MD
2016

Associate of Applied Science - Information Technology – Network System Administration

ITT Technical Institute
Hanover, MD
2015

Associate of Science - Business Administration

University of Maryland University College
Adelphi, MD
2007

Skills

  • Servers/Services: NFS, SSH, Apache, NTP, TCP/IP
  • Operating Systems: Linux (Red hat 7, Centos 7), Windows
  • AWS
  • Windows
  • General networking, and cabling
  • Virtualization
  • Technical Support
  • Hardware and software installation
  • Problem-solving
  • Varonis
  • CommVault
  • Microsoft - Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Access
  • Active Directory
  • Basic knowledge of Cisco switches and routers
  • Windows and Linux System upgrades
  • Data analysis

Summary of Qualification

With over 6 years of working experience using Unix/Linux as a base operating system, I have managed to acquire a vast experience in the IT industry and learnt a lot of skills that are outside my sphere. I have a specialty in working with the Linux command line and also using the GUI interface to execute projects. I have a lot of experience with Red Hat Linux and other distributions like Centos and Ubuntu. Below is a bulleting of some of my expertise

  • Ability to perceive and find solution to challenging problems
  • Installation of the Operating system, creating firewall rules, installing various services and applications and providing networking services.
  • Managing users and assigning permissions to files, creating of Bash scripts and scheduling of jobs for the smooth running of my environment
  • Administering AWS in an environment
  • Patching and of servers and scanning for vulnerabilities using the required tools
  • A high level of energy, commitment and the ability to combine keen strategic sense with enthusiasm
  • A great team player with good inter-personal skills and able to relate to all manner of persons

Certification

  • CompTIA Security+ ce Certification
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor® (CISA)
  • Certified Information Security Manager® (CISM)

REFERENCES

Available upon request

Timeline

Systems Engineer

National Institutes Of Health, NIH
02.2019 - Current

Linux System Administrator

Modest Technologies Solution
05.2017 - Current

Systems Administrator

Home Depot
04.2014 - 05.2017

Associate of Applied Science - Information Technology – Network System Administration

ITT Technical Institute

Associate of Science - Business Administration

University of Maryland University College

Bachelor of Applied Science - Information System and Cyber Security

ITT Technical Institute

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