Shah Nawaz

Linux Systems/DevOps Engineer

862-800-6682 || Shahnawazpro95@gmail.com

SUMMARY
Committed, Consistent and enthusiastic Linux Systems Engineer with 7 years of diversified experience to
combat dynamic challenges with a creative and professional approach. Expert in handling daily
administrative tasks including deploying, configuring, managing, troubleshooting, and patching of Linux
based servers. Automated servers provisioning, app deployment processes by using DevOps tools for my
advantage. Expert level abilities to handle cloud-based technology (AWS) and Automation/configuration
management (Ansible). Left no stone unturned for effective monitoring of performance and proactively
fixing issues, to make infrastructure highly available.

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
� Ability to build effective working relationships with all functional units of the organization.
� Can work without lots of supervision and possess great customer service skills.
� Worked well under pressure and able to manage competing priorities.
� Met or exceeded expectations on process turnaround for assigned tasks and follow ups, and
issue resolution to closure.
� Understand SLA and supported tier procedures.
� Capable of working as part of a cross-cultural team including flexibility to support multiple
locations when necessary.
� Research and develop process improvements in dedication to continuous improvement.
� Excellent decision-making, team organization and administration.

CORE TECHNOLOGY

� Amazon Web Service AWS (IAM, ELB, EC2, S3, Glacier, CloudWatch,)

� DevOps Tools Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Jenkins, Terraform

� Automation Ansible, Bash Scripting, PXE with Kickstart

� Virtualization Oracle Virtual Box, VMware, vSphere, Vcenter

� Version Control Git, GitHub, GitLab

� Operating system RHEL/ CentOS 6, 7

� Storage SAN, NAS, DAS, NFS, LVM, RAID

� Servers NFS, PXE, DHCP, DNS, HTTPD, FTP, Apache

� Scripting Languages Bash, Python, Perl, Java, C++

� Package Management YUM, RPM, Red Hat Satellite Content/Composite Views, ZYpp,
APT-GET
� Ticketing tools ServiceNOW, JIRA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
FedEx, Buffalo, NY Dec 2019 – Present
Linux Systems/DevOps Engineer
● Linux Systems Engineer and Linux System Administrator background experience in conjunction
with DevOps practices such as Cloud computing, containerized, scripting, infrastructure as code,
and agile methodologies.
● Experience building CICD pipelines (Build and deployment of Azure Services and applications
based on Nodejs and python.
● Experience with Networking, Load balancers, DNS and Azure services.
● Hands-on experience and Knowledge with Docker and Azure Kubernetes deployments.
● Worked with a client facing ticketing system such as ServiceNow, working with
Change/Incident/Problem management process working with Service Level Agreement
● Providing effective technical leadership and knowledge-transfer to less-experienced team
members.
● Identifying opportunities for improving existing environment by enhancing capabilities and/or
reducing operating expenses
● Capable of troubleshooting issues quickly and efficiently, to provide outstanding support for
customers; determine root cause and implement permanent resolutions for more intricate issue
● Proficient in managing and deploying Hadoop cluster, with hands-on experience in HDFS, YARN,
and MapReduce.
● Collaborated with the dev team to create containers as micro services for their application,
reducing vulnerability of shared dependencies, also keeping the server updated from and
malware
● Working with management, provide guidance for the systems operation's technical initiatives with
clear outcomes
● Performing daily system maintenance and monitoring for Physical and Linux Private Cloud
Infrastructure
● Architected, provisioned, and provisioned RHEL server using Red Hat Satellite 6 – creating host
groups, server profiles, and pxe templates
● Expert level experience in Configuring Red Hat Satellite 6 Kickstart templates and lifecycle
environment to automate Linux OS Installation
● Working with application development team to monitor infrastructure, identifying bottlenecks,
providing, and developing solutions, then implementing the solution to relevant infrastructure or
applications on need basis
● Proficient in patching, upgrades, vulnerability/security management, and file system maintenance
● Automated configuration management and infrastructure automation by using Ansible.
● Creating playbooks, running Ad-hoc commands, creating host inventories
● Create Ansible playbooks to perform automation on Linux servers
● Utilize various Ansible module to perform user management, configuration management and
automate redundant tasks
● Extensive working knowledge with Ansible vault for security and compliance purpose
● Use Ansible roles, tags, and handlers to trigger playbooks according to file environment needs,
Eliminating manual intervention
● Creating templates from the GIT master server run jobs, schedule tasks in Ansible Tower and
deploy across the Linux environment.
● Experienced in the GIT command line interface to push/ pull and commit source code files such
as yaml playbooks from the master GIT server.
● Writing shell scripts to automate system administration task with bash and managing script
templates using GIT
● Provisioned and deployed Ansible Tower installation and then managed organizational users,
projects, job templates, and then managing dynamic Red Hat Satellite 6 inventory
● Wrote Bash, Python, Perl Scripting for Restful API tasks with 3rd party applications
● Built servers using AWS Cloud Formation importing volumes, launching EC2, S3 buckets
assigning roles and policies via IAM, implementing Auto-Scaling, load balancers (ELBs), Security
groups in the defined Virtual Private Connection (VPC)
● Configured AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users and groups for improved login
authentication
● Building S3 buckets and managed policies for S3 buckets and used S3 bucket and Glacier for
storage and backup on AWS
 ● Utilized Terraform as Infrastructure as Code tool to provision and deployment of cloud based
resources across Amazon Web Services organizational accounts
● Managed Terraform state file using S3 buckets and Git collaboration amongst the team in
practice with IaC
● Orchestrated and administered containerized applications using docker and on premise
kubernetes cluster using vanilla command line Kubectl utility
● Manage Docker containers including starting, stopping, killing, running, and mapping ports and
volumes
● Exposure to JVM and use of Tomcat to derive in-house applications during application
deployment using ansible roles
● Scheduled and performed patch management with application and developing teams,
troubleshooting and planning rollback strategies in case of kernel panics
● Integrated GitHub Actions workflows with testing frameworks, ensuring comprehensive test
coverage and early identification of potential issues in the codebase.
● Implemented GitLab CI/CD pipelines for automating the testing and deployment of applications,
reducing manual intervention and improving overall development efficiency.
● Collaborated with development teams to define and customize GitLab CI scripts, integrating code
quality checks, security scans, and deployment steps within the CI/CD pipeline.
● Implemented and managed Hadoop clusters, optimizing performance and ensuring seamless
data processing for large-scale distributed computing applications.
● Proficient in Hadoop ecosystem components such as HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, and Pig,
leveraging their capabilities to process and analyze massive datasets efficiently.
● Administered Linux-based systems, demonstrating expertise in system configuration,
troubleshooting, and performance tuning for optimal server functionality.
Yahoo, Lockport Nov 2016 – Dec 2019

Linux Operator/Administrator
● Primarily responsible for keeping the servers up and running as well as providing direct user
support for any technical issues related to Linux systems.
● Actively monitoring systems health using monitoring tools and responding to those tickets through
the ticketing platform
● Configuring, deploying, and maintaining supporting numerous Linux servers associated with the
production environment.
● Setting up secure password-less SSH authentication on servers using SSH key pair.
● Provided support with data migration using tools like tar and gzip followed by SCP for migration.
● Dynamically modify kernel Parameters as requested by clients
● Experience in installing, configuring, and implementing different RAID Levels (RAID 0, RAID 1,
and RAID 5) levels and Clustering
● Tuning and hardening Linux based OS with enhanced security layers of firewalls.
● Used Bash scripting for day-to-day automation tasks.
● Operated LAMP and APACHE for web development process
● Worked in a data center for the Racking and stacking of servers.
● Performed regular installation of patches using RPM and YUM
● Addressing complex network-connectivity issues by using tools such as ping, traceroute,
nslookup
● Monitoring performance and taking actions based on the alerts received from Nagios to resolve
the issue in a timely manner
● Managing users including creating accounts, controlling password, deleting users, adding users
in groups, and assigning permissions and privileges.
● Worked with daily system monitoring, verified the integrity and availability of all hardware and
server resources, and reviewed system and application logs.
● Monitoring and controlling system processes using top, renice, kill, etc.
● Worked with “directory naming” technologies (Active Directory (AD), LDAP etc.)
● Hands-on experience with incident, change, problem management and expert in leading
troubleshooting efforts and performing root cause analysis (RCA)
 ● Expert in network administration - Linux routing, network interface configuration, and
troubleshooting
● Monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing the virtualization performance of ESXI hosts and virtual
machines
● Conducted user management such as groups, and permission assignment through
Active Directory
● Implementing and taking part in administration of NFS, exporting file and directories, mounting
exported file systems, working NFS daemons and fixing any mounting issues.
● Configured and administered the transport mechanisms like FTP and HTTP.
● Used Zabbix monitor tool to examine the server's health.
● Configured NIC-bonding on new builds for fault-tolerance, load-balance, and redundancy.
● Managed LVM to create volumes on the volume groups, and file systems, extended logical
volumes and file systems as and when needed. Managed file systems like EXT3, EXT4, XFS.
● Setup cron jobs schedules for various backup and monitoring tasks

EDUCATION
High School Diploma – Abraham Lincoln
Associate Computer Science - Kingsborough Community College
Bachelor’s Computer Science - Brooklyn College

CERTIFICATION
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate (2021-Oct)