Belmond Atanga

9813 Hellingly Place, Gaithersburg, MD. 20879

Mobile Phone: (240) 672-2334 e-mail: belmondatanga@gmail.com

CAREER SUMMARY
RHEL certified with 5 years experience with Linux OS (RHEL & CentOS) with emphasizes on system
administration and engineering using the CLI. Strong background working with DevOps and Technical teams
providing problem solving, high performance solutions and maintaining systems for production environments.

PERSONAL STRENGTHS
Effective combination of systems administration, high technical inclination and communication skills.
Ability to work in a team environment, emphasizing team goals over personal goals.
Strong initiative and drive with the ability to absorb technical information/knowledge quickly.
Highly efficient in working with minimal supervision, effective time management.
Self-motivational and efficient adaptability to environments.

TECHNICAL STRENGTHS
System, Backup & Restore, Storage Administration.
Unix/Linux/ Windows based OS & Virtual Environment.
Data Center Migration, & Consolidation, Development & Production Support.
Network Configurations and protocols.
DNS, DHCP, LDAP, IDS/IPS implementations.
Firewalls and SELinux Management.
IPv4, IP resolving and troubleshooting.
Protocols and services FTP, NFS, TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, SSH and SSL.
SAN, LAN resolution, configuration and management.
Syslog and security protocols, DNSSEC Key, DNS.
MySQL database.
Virtualization (KVM).
Shell Scripting (BASH).
Kick-start installations.
System automation with Puppet Master and Puppet Agent.
Source coding with Git/GitHub.

OPERATING SYSTEMS/SOFTWARE
PLATFORM: Linux (RHEL) Enterprise, CentOS, AS 4, Linux 2.6
VIRTUAL: KVM, Oracle Virtual Box.
MONITORING: Nagios.
PROTOCOLS: DHCP, DNS/DNSSEC, HTTP, FTP, SMTP, NFS
DevOps Tools: Puppet, Git/GitHub, Jenkins, AWS, Python

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 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Employer: Lolubyte IT Consultants

Title: Linux System Engineer/DevOps Support
Duration: 07/2013-06/2016

Diagnosing and analyzing application problems associated with protocols like: DHCP,
HTTP/HTTPS, NFS, FTP, SMTP and TCP/IP.
Achieving system solutions with effective usage of system and network tools.
Installations, configurations and deployment of Puppet automation tools for administration and
management of multiple servers.
Configuration of MySQL servers, administering, provisioning and implimentation of data tables.
Use of SQL command languages DDL, DML, TCL and DCL.
Effective use of Syslog and log rotate utilities for tracking and logging system messages
improving incident management and detection.
Client provisioning and Continuous Integration/Continuous Development with Puppet Resources.
Implementation and deployment of services, DNS, DNSSEC, SSH, SSL.
Monitoring and efficient diagnosing using Nagios, Netstat, PS, LSOF.
Writing and customizing SHELL scripts using BASH for task automations and reduction of
repetitive tasks.
Server build, installation and configuration of MySQL Data base. Creation and management of
data tables and user configuration.
Boost Data redundancy and disk performance by implementing Hardware/Software RAID levels.
Build and configuration of servers like Apache http/Tomcat webservers, NFS file servers,
Postfix mail servers both physically and remotely.
Periodic system Backups and Process scheduling using Crontab.
Administer User/Group accounts, permissions and authentications for file/directory collaboration.
Consolidate Linux Boot Processes and Kernel Management using System Log files.
Troubleshooting and analyzing networks, workstations and server issues.
Manage Disk partitions using LVM and administering disk usage with quotas.
Level I-III (Tier I to III) support to both internally and externally clients/users with follow-ups.
Upgrading and patching software applications and package management, maintaining repositories
with YUM and RPM tools.
Establish NAS, SAN and DAS devices and servers for data storages.
Set up Access Control List (ACL), LDAP for user/group authentication.
Build, Installation and configuration of multiple servers and workstations using customized
Kickstart scripts/files.
Source and Version control using Git/GitHub and BitBucket.
Identify security solutions associated with Linux Firewalls, Iptables and SELinux, TCP Wrappers
configurations.
Provisioning, deploying and automating configuration using DevOps tools.
Collaborate with teams in achieving production goals, discuss procedures and processes with
management for environment needs and solutions.

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Employer: Trustech Institute of Technology, Buea, Cameroon
Title: System Administrator
Duration: 2009-03/2011

Build, installed, configured Red Hat Linux servers in a data center environment.
Implement advance disk configuration such RAID 5 using Linux Software RAID program.
Install new servers using kick-start installation & configuration method.
Monitoring of web servers and analyzing performance.
Provide technical and administrative support to clients and engineers.
Implementation of package management and LVM management.
Administered local and remotely servers on daily basis providing weekly status reports to
management.
Supporting data management through on-site & off-site storage and retrieval service.
Troubleshoot and resolve software and hardware problems, interface with vendor technical
support to resolve problems and work with other technical staff on supporting their needs.
Respond to security alerts with risk evaluation and monitoring /report on unauthorized access
attempts.
Monitor security logs to determine security problems.
Optimize system performance by tracking daily system utilization, to determine if problems are
imminent.
Monitor and provide daily reports on system performance to pinpoint performance bottlenecks
and on an as needed basis, select various system options and parameters.

PERSONAL ON-GOING PROJECTS

- Private Home Lab/Test Environment for

Jenkins
- Monitoring multi-builds using shared repositories and SCM
- Build development, automation, testing and deployment
AWS clouding computing
- EC2 Instances for server hosting and high availability
- VPC Networking, grouping EC2s
- S3 (Simple Storage Service) for high scale and availability
Python scripting
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 - Test scripting
- Automated deployment scripts

RedHat Certified System Administrator

RHEL 7
160-177-424

EDUCATION:
Montgomery College, Rockville, MD
2012-12/2015
A.A. Business

Belmond Atanga