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Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexevs67b0a11ab
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
● More then 15 years of cross-platform experience in system administration, including analyzing, installing, maintaining, and repairing hardware, software, peripherals, and networks.
● Superior troubleshooting and technical support abilities including network connectivity, security and database applications.
● Excellent communication and troubleshooting skills.
● Highly motivated, self driven and eager to learn new technology.
● Intermediate level of English skills.(correspondence)
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
Networking:
● General network technologies (TCP/IP, Services, Protocols,..)
● Layer 2+3 Switching
● Firewall & VPN Administration
Linux/Unix/Virtualization:
● RedHat/CentOS/Ubuntu/Slackware etc
● Virtualization (XenServer, KVM, OpenVZ, Docker)
● Bash Scripting
● LAMP, EasyApache, LightHTTP, Nginx
● DNS (Bind, PowerDNS)
● Real time monitoring (Nagios, Centrion, Monit, Checkmk)
● Optimization of highly loaded systems
● Troubleshooting of Web, DNS, FTP and databases servers.
● Advanced knowledge of hosting control panels (Cpanel/WHM, DirectAdmin, ISPconfig)
Backup and Recovery:
● Backup and disaster recovery, implementation and troubleshooting.
● Knowledge of Bacula, Cpanel/WHM backups, R1soft
● Basic knowledge about SAN ( iSCSI, )
Software:
Nagios, Monit, phpMyAdmin, pgMyAdmin, Sendmail, Exim, Postfix, Bind, PowerDNS, Mysql, MariaDB, Postgres, iptables, ConfigServer Security & Firewall (csf), Config server exploit scanner (cxs), CMSs such as Joomla, Wordpress, phpBB, Magento etc., Docker, Redis, Git
● Basic software development skills.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Freelance Sept 2020 – until now
WizerBrand May *************** – Senior System Administrator/DevOps
● Providing systems administration support for Unix systems including server installations, configurations, upgrades, backup and disaster recovery monitoring
● Providing systems administration support for Unix systems including server installations, configurations, upgrades, backup and disaster recovery monitoring
● Support for development team with database optimizing, configuration development environment
● Creating and support development team docker environment
● Support AWS services
Quadranet.com Sept *************** – Senior System Administrator
● Providing systems administration support for Unix systems including server installations, configurations, upgrades, backup and disaster recovery monitoring, user account setup and security administration.
● Providing online support to customers in HelpDesk tickets. Troubleshooting customer questions, issues and complaints and providing accurate and appropriate information in response to customer inquiries.
● Providing systems administration support for Unix systems including server installations, configurations, upgrades, backup and disaster recovery monitoring
● Detecting abusive accounts and providing monitoring services to keep servers’ performance on the appropriate state with maximum functionality and availability.
● Installation and configuration new servers, including hardware and software RAID, Linux, Windows system, configuration network settings
● Recommending new updates and changes required by the clients.
● Immediate reaction regarding monitoring problems
Namecheap Nov *************** – System Administrator, Techops
● Providing systems administration support for Unix systems including server installations, configurations, upgrades, backup and disaster recovery monitoring, user account setup and security administration.
● Providing online support to customers in chats and Helpdesk tickets. Troubleshooting customer questions, issues and complaints and providing accurate and appropriate information in response to customer inquiries.
● Creating proactive procedures for problem preventions and resolutions, analyzed issues, and designing solutions.
● Detecting abusive accounts and providing monitoring services to keep servers’ performance on the appropriate state with maximum functionality and availability.
● Conducting periodic performance and security tests on existing servers.
● Recognizing and providing sales team with any possible upsell opportunities.
● Maintaining the timely backup of important data and management resources.
● Recommending new updates and changes required by the clients.
● Immediate reaction regarding monitoring problems
“StudBud” Inc., Ukraine, Kharkov May 2007 – Oct 2011 chief system administrator
● Assisting in the installation of the server, network infrastructure, and software applications and patches.
● Analyzing server and application performance.
● Identifying and fixing vulnerabilities.
● Implementing highly available and disaster recovery solutions for clients and employer.
● Configuring and managing a sophisticated DNS environment.
● Deploying and configuring Nagios monitoring systems.
● Deploying and configuring corporate mail and jabber system
● Investigating and solving complex issues. Providing support for customers including installation, configuration, patching, network configuration, backups, system monitoring etc.
● Creating proactive procedures for problem prevention and resolution, communicate with software developers, analyzing issues and providing solutions.
● Creating unified local network via VPN between remote corporate offices (Windows AD, corporate phone system)
● Performing system backups and updating virus data bases on workstations and servers.
● Creating daily reports on activities.
Bitlab (tech department skcg (www.skcg.ru (http://www.skcg.ru/))), Ukraine, Kharkov May 2006 - May 2007 System administrator
● Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance more than 20 highly loaded web and database servers.
● Administering and maintaining security equipment, providing alerts to staff and managing daily data backups.
● Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance email system and Internet server, meeting employee **********.
● Responsible for hardware and software installation for workstations, servers, and network data communications. Collaborating with executive management and department leaders to assess network capacity needs.
● Creating proactive procedures for problem prevention and resolution, communicate with software developers, analyzing issues and providing solutions.
● Managing all software installation and implementation projects for servers, switches, and other network resources.
The State Administration of Kharkov, Ukraine, Kharkov 2002-2006 chief specialist of computer and information department
● Performing all levels of hardware and software systems support for user computers and printers.
● Coordinating and supervising the daily activities of the staff and provided technical training.
● Responsible for hardware and software installation and maintenance of workstations, networking equipment, etc.
● Responsible for installation, configuration and maintenance of Win2000 servers, mail servers based on Slackware, proxy (squid) database servers that are MS SQL Server 2000
● Configuration and maintenance of BGP networking
Education:
National Technical University of radio electronics in Kharkov, 1995-2000