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Semira Mesfin

Summary

Determined, energetic and diligent professional with over 3 years of experience in UNIX/Linux system administration and AWS Cloud services seeking an opportunity to utilize my talents in a professional capacity, employing comprehensive knowledge and vast professional experience.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

System Administrator

Tata Consultant Services
Seattle, WA
08.2022 - Current
  • Installed important security and functionality patches to maintain optimal protections against intrusion and system reliability.
  • Established network specifications and analyzed workflow, access, information and security requirements.
  • Designed proactive preventive maintenance schedules to prevent unnecessary downtime and hardware faults.
  • Provisioned new software and hardware for use, following established security policies.
  • Migrated data from legacy system to Software databases.
  • Worked with users to determine areas of technology in need of improved usability.
  • Delivered Tier 2 and Tier 3 support for problem identification, diagnosis and issue resolution.
  • Implemented internet and intranet applications on multiple platforms.

AWS Cloud Administrator

Infosys Technologies
Seattle, WA
07.2020 - 06.2022
  • Manage Amazon Web Services - ELB, EC2, S3, RDS, SNS, Cloudwatch
  • Expertise in architecting secure VPC solutions in AWS with the help of Network ACLs, security groups, public and private network configurations
  • Create S3 buckets and also managing policies for S3 buckets
  • Experience in managing and maintaining IAM policies for organizations in AWS to define groups, create users, assign roles and define rules for role based access to AWS resources
  • Create snapshots and amazon machine images (AMIs) of the instances for backup and creating clone instances
  • Hands on experience in writing Ansible scripts for servers to install LAMP stack
  • Used JIRA to track issues and Change Management
  • Troubleshoot Nagios Alerts
  • Manage systems routine backup, scheduling jobs, enabling cron jobs, enabling system logging and network logging of servers for maintenance
  • Create and maintain user's accounts, profiles, security, rights disk space and process monitoring
  • Provide technical support by troubleshooting day-to-day issues with various Servers on different platforms

Software Engineer

Amgen
Thousand Oaks, CA
05.2019 - 09.2020
  • Reviewed project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
  • Worked with software development and testing team members to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements for functionality, scalability, and performance.
  • Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces.
  • Conducted regression testing and submitted observations to development team.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

University of Worship
Seattle, WA
09.2020

Skills

  • Scripting: Bash, Python(basic)
  • Web: HTMl/CSS,Cisco Equipment familiarity
  • Automation: Ansible
  • Backup: NetBackup, tar, zip
  • Networking:DNS, TCP/IP, DHCP, NFS, SSH, SAMBA, LDAP
  • Security: firewalld,
  • Monitoring: AWS Cloudwatch
  • Troubleshooting: top, free, ping, tcpdump, telnet, netstat, traceroute
  • Virtualization:VMWare, WebClient
  • AWS:S3, IAM, EC2, Route53, VPC, SNS, ELB, Cloudwatch, Auto Scaling
  • Atlassian tools: JIRA
  • System Upgrades
  • Hardware and Software Installation
  • Hardware Expertise
  • Web Security
  • Citrix XenApp

Timeline

System Administrator

Tata Consultant Services
08.2022 - Current

AWS Cloud Administrator

Infosys Technologies
07.2020 - 06.2022

Software Engineer

Amgen
05.2019 - 09.2020

Bachelor of Science - Information Technology

University of Worship
Semira Mesfin