Support engineer available for hire.

[tuxandrew]

Hi,

Email : tuxandrew[@]aol[.]com
Skype: tuxandrew

I am looking to be hired as a full time/part time Server Administrator. I have more than 9 years of technical experience in Web hosting server support. I have worked as remote dedicated technician for various datacenters and well known webhosting companies in different geographic locations.


My skill set:

* Linux/Unix OS: CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu. AWS instances.
* Control Panels : WHM/Cpanel, CWP, Direct admin, Plesk
* Virtualization : OpenVZ
* Loadbalancing Technologies : HAPROXY
* Scripting Technologies : Bash
* Databases : MySQL

Cloud operations:

- Creating and managing AWS instances
- Installing and managing control panel like CWP,cPanel etc in EC2 environment.
- Creating Snapshot backup
- EBS upgrade
- Kernel upgrade
- Security Group
- Route 53 operations
- Autoscaling Groups
- Application Load balancing

Cloud Network operations

- Creating Managing VPC, public/Private subnets, VPC EndPoints
- Internet Gateways, NAT Gateways,Route tables

Web servers used.

- Apache, Litespeed webserver.

- Worked with Nginx & Tomcat

Server Hardening/Management:

- Expert in Virtual Private Servers (VPS), worked with OpenVZ, Virtuozzo

- Performance Monitoring and Server Optimization

- Manual Kernel recompilation.

Sever auditing softwares used.

- CHKRootKit
- RootKit Hunter

Sever malware scanners used.

- Maldet
- clamAv

Software firewalls used.

- ConfigServer Firewall (csf)
- Advanced Policy Firewall (APF)

WAP

- Immunify360
-mod_security
-Mod_evasive

OS troubleshooting.

- Kernel upgrade
- OS recovery
- Brute Force Detection (BFD)
- ClamAV Anti-Virus for Email.

Dos prevention.

- Mod_Evasive
- Mod_Security
- Failban
- cPHulk

Sever security.

Security vulnerability assessment, Server Audits and application of patches and Installation and configuration of server monitoring Scripts, O/S Security Updates, server log analysis.

- Disable Unnecessary Processes
- Remove Unnecessary Packages
- Secure Temporary Directories
- Secure Directory Permissions
- SSH Hardening
- Daily Security Audit
- PAM Resource Hardening
- Sysctl Hardening

Windows:

- Web servers: IIS
- DNS, Firewall
- Mail Server: hMailserver
- FTP Servers
- MSSQL
- Control Panels : Dotnet Panel

Handling emergency situations.

- Hack investigation
- Handling Server/OS crash
- IPMI / Spyder KVM based trouble shooting
- Server Recovery mode based troubleshooting
- Perform reboots

Migrations.

- cPanel to cPanel
- cPanel to others
- Normal server migrations

Service ethics:

- Good and timely response to each problems, always keep employer specified SLA.
- Good knowledge in cPanel and Plesk Server Administration.
- Good experience in cPanel server migration.