Romeo Mbiawa
Hyattsville,MD
Summary
Distinctly motivated Linux System Administrator with the ability to go beyond the limits to provide high performance solutions for the growth any company.
Overview
2026
2026
years of professional experience
Work History
Financial Ops Generalist 2
Maryland department of labor
Linux System Administrator
Data Solution Consulting LLC
6 2017 - Current
- Create and manage users and service accounts on Linux and Windows systems.
- Deploy new servers through Kickstart (advance installation) base on different requirements on CPU, storage, memory, and virtual LAN.
- Schedule and perform monthly patch on Linux and Windows systems in order to enhance application and get rid of vulnerabilities.
- Manage filesystems and disk space using vgextend, lvextend to prevent run out.
- Analyze and take action on Nagios alerts on processes, services, block devices, and applications.
- Deploy IDM servers and clients for centralized logins.
- Control SElinux, Sudo, roles based access, and hosts based access through IDM.
- Employ Ansible and bash scripting to automate tasks to save company time and money.
- Implement strong password aging and complexity to make our environment more secure.
- Schedule tasks and migration using crontab jobs.
- Control role base access as well as Sudo polices using sudoers file.
- Engage Windows 2012R2 as our Active Directory and domain controller in order to manage users, group, organizational units
- Configure NFS and SAMBA to allow users on client machines to have access to directories and files.
- Assist database team to deploy and manage Mariadb and MYSQL servers.
- Perform containers management using commands such as podman, skopeo and configure to start automatically as a systemd service.
- Configure mail server and client in order to share messages in the system and through the network.
- Design ISCSI SAN/NAS to allow initiators connection to specific storage via network.
- Apply AWS services such as Billing, IAM, S3, and EC2 on different cloud related projects.
- Perform Teaming to combine 2 or more network adapters for fault tolerance and load balance.
- Troubleshoot Remedy tickets and escalate those that need specific attention to the right support.
- Keep smooth and respective relationship with customers as well as delivering projects in time and manner.
System Administrator
Nashtech Inc
1 2017 - 6 2017
- Deployed rhel/Centos servers from VMware ESXI and oracle virtualbox from templates or cloning for various projects.
- Assigned network parameters such as hostname, and ip, gateway, dns addresses.
- Troubleshoot issues related to hardware failure such as memory sticks, cpu, cpu's fan, video cards, and hard drive.
- Utilized top and ps commands to analyze resources such as memory, cpu load, and swap.
- Employed commands like kill and pkill to eliminate strange processes that can slow down or harm the system.
- Controlled access using special permissions such as setgid, setuid, sticky bit, and getfacl on critical files or directories.
- Fixed problems related to SElinux using tools such as ausearch and aureport.
- Registered all Linux systems to Satellite so they can receive monthly patch.
- Manipulated nfs, cifs, samba for filesystem sharing within servers and clients.
- Applied commands such as scp and winscp to transfer data safely from one server to another.
- Setup jobs scheduling using crontab to automatically perform recurrent tasks at a specific time.
- Established ssh public and private keys to create login trust among Linux servers.
- Built Apache or HTTP server and secure it with self-signed keys and certificates.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Economics
University of Douala
01.2016
Skills
- Troubleshooting
- Monitoring
- Ansible & bash scripting
- Backup and Restore
- IDM/LDAP/Apache
- NFS/Samba/CIFSC
- Cloud computing
- Mysql/Mariadb
- VMware/Vsphere
- Windows 2012R2
- Containers
- OracleVM/Virtualbox
- Mails
Timeline
Financial Ops Generalist 2
Maryland department of labor
Linux System Administrator
Data Solution Consulting LLC
6 2017 - Current
System Administrator
Nashtech Inc
1 2017 - 6 2017
Bachelor of Science - Economics
University of Douala
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