Senior Linux System and Network Engineer
I have more than 13 years of experience as Sysadmin and Network Engineer, deploying, managing and troubleshooting hybrid and diversified corporate setups. For the last 4 years I am managing a tier 3 data center built upon opensource IaaS cloud technologies that provides opensource solutions to the software needs of a fast growing engineering university. My areas of expertise are Linux, Virtualization, Storage, Network/System administration and opensource infrastructure software solutions.
Core Skills:
System Administration: Ubuntu/Debian, Centos/RHEL, Gentoo
Distro Customization: Centos/Ubuntu Branding, Custom ISOs, LiveCD and Live USB Images
Creating Customized APP LiveCDs and ISOs
Full infrastructure life cycle management
LDAP: OpenLDAP, OpenDJ deployment and troubleshooting
Dedicated Server Management
Server Migrations, Physical-to-Virtual (P2V), Virtual-to-Physical (V2P)
Cloud Migrations
LAMP administration
Mysql Performance Tuning and High Availability
Plesk Management, Migrations and Disaster Recovery
Kerberos, Radius, SAML, simpleSAML, Single Sign On (SSO) Deployments
Postfix: postgrey, spamassasin, sympa, imapd, horde, DKIM, RPF setup
RPM and DEB compile from source tar.gz packages
Load Balancing Failover and High Availibility configrations (HAProxy, Keepalived)
Citrix Xenserver deployment, management, migration and troubleshooting
Microsoft HyperV
Vmware VSphere
High Availability Network Design using Cisco, HP, Dell, Juniper, networking gear
pfSense and Snort advance HA deployments and customization
OpenVPN, bind, dhcp, StrongSwan IPSec VPN
Firewalls: iptables, pfSense, Endian, Untangle, Netscreen, SRX, ASA
Cloud Technologies:
Amazon AWS
Microsoft Azure
Google Cloud Platform
Digital Ocean
Certifications:
CCIE-R&S (Written Exam)
CCNP-R&S
CCNA-R&S
JNCIS-ER
JNCIS-ES
JNCIA-ER
JNCIA-ES
Work Terms
I can be reached on skype at : koky_pk