Khalwad Latif
Project Management
New York, United States
Skills
DevOps
About
Khalwad Latif's skills align with Consultants and Specialists (Information and Communication Technology). Khalwad also has skills associated with System Developers and Analysts (Information and Communication Technology). Khalwad Latif has 6 years of work experience.
Work Experience
Sr. Linux System Admin
Verizon Media
October 2020 - Present
- Responsibilities: Monitoring System Activities like CPU, Memory, Disk and Swap space usage to avoid any performance issues. Expert in installation of packages using Yellowdog Updater Modified and RedHat Package Manager on various servers and creating YUM repository server. Performed scheduled system backups through NetBackup. Monitored system logs through Splunk server and collected logs in order to analyze them. Monitored system performance through Nagios core and configured newly provisioned servers to be monitored by Nagios server. Worked with Bash scripts to automate daily tasks. Creating and Managing user accounts through active directory. Involved in decommissioning process. Performed regular incremental backups using TAR and RSYNC commands for data recovery in the Linux servers. Used Nagios as a monitoring tool to identify and resolve infrastructure problems before they affect critical processes. Investigated critical issues, determine impact to provide solutions and documented Root Cause Analysis (RCA) when required. Experience of Raid levels (0, 1, 5, 6, and 10) for improving performance and redundancy. Reading and utilizing SYSLOG to troubleshoot system issues. Experience in system administration, system builds, server builds, installs, upgrades, patches, migration, troubleshooting, security, backup, performance monitoring and fine tuning on RedHat Linux systems. Setting up secure password less access with SSH authentication. Cisco Systems--- California. Linux System administrator Responsibilities: Jan 2019 - Sep2020 Provide system deployment, system administration, and troubleshooting for operational support of Linux based Prod and Dev servers. Deploy and configure Virtualization technologies such as VMware ESXi. Create, manage VMs (RHEL/ CentOS) and involved in virtual server maintenance. Managing, installing, and upgrading software packages for servers using RedHat satellite repositories. Preparation and execution of server patching and upgrade using Ansible tower patching projects. Configuration Management in different Linux flavors and configured various services such as DNS, NTP, HTTP, HTTPS, TFTP, FTP, DHCP and SAMBA. SME In incidents management, change requests and service requests where performed Root cause analysis while solving network-related, performance, disk management and LVM management issues. Improving Security (vulnerability) through patching of servers using local repositories. Experience using Ansible as configuration management tool. Writing Ansible playbooks to install application stacks and patching. Using Ad-hoc commands as needed for administrative tasks. Manage Docker containers, starting, stopping, killing, running and expert in pulling Docker images. Exposure of Kubernetes to manage containers. Experience working on AWS launching EC2 instances and configure their cloud environment. Manage role, policies for S3 buckets and use S3 buckets/Glacier for storage and backup on AWS. Respond to all LINUX system problems 24x7 as a part of an on-call rotation and resolving issues promptly. Experience in Logical Volume Manager (LVM) for the management of disk volumes. Extensive knowledge of Performance Monitoring of CPU, Memory, Swap, Disk utilization, and monitor networking issues. Experience working with GIT for version control and repository management involving, cloning, pushing, pulling, branching of repositories and used Source code management client tools like Git lab, GitHub. Helped application team to deploy their code using CICD pipeline. Extensive knowledge of MySQL database
Linux Admin
L'Oréal
July 2016 - September 2018
- Accountabilities: Provide support for internally developed tools. Dealt with user management, group management, account creation, termination, and modification. Worked on creating files and directories, setting up permissions based on service request. Maintained server hardware to ensure perfect functionality. Configured and deploy new equipment and other peripheral accessories. Built and provisioned servers BM using bootable device. Racking and stacking of new servers. Provided support in handling queries and issues related to computer systems. Ensured end users satisfaction by monitoring and responding quickly and effectively to requests received.
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