Nana Akua Konadu Boateng
College Station
Summary
Linux and infrastructure administrator supporting research and production systems at Texas A&M; University. Experienced in complex, multi-system environments involving Linux platforms, virtualization, storage, automation, monitoring, and physical data center infrastructure. Regularly coordinate with engineers and project teams to support system integration, installations, upgrades, and reliable day-to-day operations.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Linux / Cloud Administrator
Texas A&M; University
College Station, TX
12.2023 - Current
- Install, configure, and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu systems across research, production, and test environments.
- Support HPC, virtualized, storage-backed, and containerized platforms used for research and institutional services.
- Perform hands-on data center duties including rack installation and removal, cable routing and management (power and network), disk replacement, hardware component swaps, and CMOS battery replacement during scheduled maintenance.
- Assist with system installation, rebuilds, and upgrades, including firmware updates and VMware ESXi lifecycle management.
- Coordinate system changes with storage, virtualization, networking, and application teams to ensure proper integration and service continuity.
- Participate in monthly patching cycles and change activities to reduce security risk and operational impact.
- Monitor system health using Nagios, SolarWinds, Elastic, NetApp tools, and iDRAC, performing root-cause analysis on alerts.
- Develop and maintain automation using Ansible and Bash to standardize configuration, patching, and application deployment.
- Manage NetApp storage including volume creation, migration between aggregates, encryption, and capacity planning.
- Deploy and maintain infrastructure services such as NGINX and Apache.
- Deploy and manage containerized workloads using Rancher, including services, ingress rules, and persistent storage integration.
- Document system configurations, maintenance activities, and change records using Jira and Confluence.
- Maintain records for disposed or decommissioned hardware, including disks and rack-mounted equipment, documenting serial numbers, removal dates, and disposition details for team reference and audit purposes.
- Provide technical support to users and project leads for issues impacting shared infrastructure.
Linux / Cloud Administrator
Inhibit IQ
01.2023 - 11.2023
- Supported Linux servers in production and development environments to ensure availability and performance.
- Installed, configured, and maintained Red Hat and CentOS systems.
- Assisted with HPC-related systems including backups, job scheduling, and parallel file system support.
- Responded to system alerts and incidents as part of a 24/7 on-call rotation.
- Developed and maintained procedures for system installation, patching, upgrades, and maintenance.
- Configured secure access using SSH and managed user permissions.
- Wrote Bash scripts to automate routine administrative tasks.
- Created and managed cron jobs in test and production environments.
- Provided basic AWS support including EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and security groups.
- Tracked and coordinated issues using Jira and collaborated with operations teams.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Valley View University
Ghana01.2016
Skills
- Systems integration and infrastructure support
- Linux systems administration (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS)
- Virtualization and platform support (VMware, vSphere)
- Storage systems (NetApp ONTAP, NFS)
- Automation and configuration management (Ansible, Bash)
- Monitoring and instrumentation (Nagios, SolarWinds, Elastic)
- Data center operations (rack, cabling, hardware replacement)
- Patch management and system upgrades
- Technical documentation (Jira, Confluence, Excel)
Certification
- Linux Systems Administration
- Power BI
- MySQL
- AWS Fundamentals
- NetApp ONTAP System Manager
- Customer Analytics Training
Timeline
Linux / Cloud Administrator
Texas A&M; University
12.2023 - Current
Linux / Cloud Administrator
Inhibit IQ
01.2023 - 11.2023
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Valley View University