Name: BUSHRA SAADAT

Email: bushrasaadat7@gmail.com

SUMMARY
 8+ years of Strong Experience in LINUX/UNIX Administration, Middleware, Shell
Scripting with expertise in Red-hat Linux 3, 4 and 5, Solaris 8, 9 and 10. HP-UX 11.i,
Windows 2003,08,12 R2 Systems.
 Strong in troubleshooting, monitoring, training and 24/7 production support in mission
critical environments Worked with systems support team to define, architect and
maintain highly available production systems.
 Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Integration, Tuning, Backup, Crash recovery,
Upgrades, Patching, Monitoring System Performance, System and Network Security
and Troubleshooting of Unix Servers.
 Configured and used Jumpstart, Kickstart, Ignite and NIM to install OS.
 Worked on Solaris 10 Container Technology. Created and maintained local zones.
 Managed resources for zones using Solaris 10 container technology.
 Excellent working knowledge of JBOSS Application Server, middleware and
other JBOSS Components.
 Solaris Live Update Technology associated with an operating system upgrade or
maintenance.
 An accomplished Systems administrator with extensive experience in UNIX System
Administration in Red Hat Linux (RHEL 5/6/7/8), AIX, Solaris, Centrify, SUSE
10/11/12, CentOS 5/6/7 and DevOps technologies.
 Installing RedHat Linux using kickstart and applying security polices for hardening the
server based on the company policies.
 Experienced in Installation and Configuration Nginx and Apache Tomcat on Linux and
UNIX, Windows platforms.
 Proficiency in VMWare. Installation and monitoring Virtual environments with ESX
Servers and Virtual Center.
 Extensive experience in Installation, configuration, and administration of AIX
4.3/5.1/5.2/5.3/6.1, Red Hat Linux 8/9, RHEL 3.x/4.x/5.x, Red Hat Satellite 6, OEL
4/5.x and SUSE Linux 10.x/11 and day-to-day system admin tasks.
 Point of Contact in Operations team for Windows Server Platforms and
Applications/virtual platforms like Citrix XenApp and Xen Desktop and SFTP/Global
Scape technology
 Provide Systems Administration to core Corporate IT Windows Server Platforms and
Applications like Active Directory, MS Exchange Email/Messaging (On-Premise and
O365) and Lync/Skype Collaboration Application (as Primary), and Virtual
solutions/platforms like Citrix XenApp and Xen Desktop, SFTP/Global Scape
technology (as Secondary), Configuring Audits Reports.
 Expert in Installing, configuring and maintaining DNS, NIS, NIS, NFS, DHCP, TCP/IP.
 Expertise in implementation and designing of disaster backup and recovery plan.
 Expertise in Networking TCP/IP, Ethernet, FTP, NFS, NIS, DNS, DHCP and RAID
levels.
 Experienced in working with different teams such as Network Eng., Database team and
application teams to resolve the issues and provide Customer Satisfaction.
  Experienced with using Oracle RAC for clustering and high availability in Oracle
database environments.
 Efficiency in installing, configuring and implementing the RAID Technologies using
various tools.
 Expert in managing a cluster of servers using Red Hat GFS.
 Expert in Installing, configuring, and maintaining Apache/tomcat, samba send mail,
Web Sphere Application Servers.
 Implemented Open SSH based security for the RH-4.
 Experience in Installing and configuring Wireless network using SSL Certificate and
RADIUS authentication. Set up Linux firewall router to increase network protection.
 Excellent scripting skills in UNIX Shell, Perl, and python.
 Excellent skills in analyzing, designing, implementing and system integration,
Knowledge on Switches, Routers, Firewalls
 Configured and Trouble shooted TCP/IP network services
 Independently project manages, coordinates and facilitates basic and complex business
development projects (RFPs, RFIs, presentations, etc.) from initial receipt through
delivery in a timely and quality-driven manner, including acting as a lead writer
 Migrate data from traditional database systems to Azure databases.
 Expertise in setup High Availability and Recoverability of databases using with SQL
Server technologies including Always on Azure VM.
 Experience in dynamic orchestration schedulers, including Kubernetes or OpenShift,
Apache Mesos, Docker Swarm, or Hashi corp Nomad in a production environment
 Knowledge of PaaS or CaaS solutions or technologies, including Kubernetes, Cloud
Foundry, OpenShift, Mesosphere, and Docker Data Centre
 Experienced with the installation, configuration and volume/File system management
using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) and Solstice Disk Suite (Solaris Volume
Manager).
 Backup management and recovery policies using VERITAS Net-Backup.
 Experience in creating physical volume, logical volume, volume groups using LVM’s in
Linux/AIX, HP-UX and SVM, GFS (global file system) and ZFS in Solaris.
 Proficient in Networking, configuring TCP/IP, DNS, NFS, NIS, NIS+, SAMBA, LDAP,
SSH, SSL, SFTP, SMTP, SNMP.
 Experience in VMware Installed and monitored Virtual environments with ESX 6.x
servers
 Experienced in working with Storage Area Network (SAN), IBM XIV, EMC VNX,
CLARiiON CX, EMC Symmetrix DMX, HP storage and Hitachi data storage.
 Expert in Installation, configuration of Patches and Packages.
 Proficient in Installation, Configuration, Support & Maintenance of various Sun Sparc
Enterprise hardware’s and RedHat5.x Linux Servers located at Remote Locations.
Deployment of Application Software (E-Com/J2EE, B2B, B2C, Oracle, SQL Server, ERP
(SAP, Oracle Apps, People soft)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware SUN Enterprise- E5000/5500/6500, SUNFIRE 3800/4800/6800,

E10K/15K Series Servers, HP-9000, rx8640, rp7420, rp8420, N-Class, L-
Class, D-Class, K-Class, IBM e-Server Regatta P690, P570, RS6000,
 IBM/HP/DELL Blade Servers, SAN (EMC, Hitachi), NAS
O/S Solaris 10/9/8, HP-UX (11.00, 11.11, 11.23, 11.31), Red Hat Linux (RHEL
5/6/7), Windows NT /2003/2008/2012 R2 a, Windows, UNIX, LINUX
(RHEL 5/6/7, Ubuntu 12.04/16.04/18.04, OEL 5/6/7), Ubuntu, Debian,
Centos, Windows Server 2008/2012, VMware Esxi, AWS, Open stack,
Dockers, Azure, Container
Naming Services DNS, NIS, and NIS+
Backup Management Veritas NetBackup 6.x/7.0/8.0, Commvault Simpana, tar, dd, cpio
Script Languages Shell scripts, Linux, Ruby, PERL, Bash.
Third Party Software LVM, LDAP, SSH
Cluster Sun Cluster, HP Service Guard
RDBMS Oracle, MS SQL Server, Web logic, Web Sphere, Apache Tomcat, JBOSS.
Protocols NetBIOS, NetBUI, SMTP, SNMP, ICMP, TCP/IP, FTP, TELNET, UDP &
RIP, DNS, WINS, DHCP.
Configuration Puppet, Ansible, Chef, CI/CD, Gitlab & Gitlab Runners, Java, GitHub,
Management Jenkins, Docker, Git, SVN, Bitbucket and K8’s

WORK AUTHORIZATION – US Citizen

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Freddie Mac, McLean, VA.

Jan 21 – Present.
Linux System Engineer/DevOps

Responsibilities:
 Installation, Maintenance, Administration and troubleshooting of Linux Red Hat 5/6/7
and Windows Server 03/08/12 R2 Systems.
 Worked with Microsoft Exchange 2010, Office 365 Email including, troubleshooting,
provisioning Email accounts and administration.
 Worked on McAfee antivirus including adding servers to EPO, deploying agents and
managing policies for scanning. Worked on Isilon, involved creating SMB and NFS
shares, managing permissions, setup quota, etc.
 Worked on IBM XIV and VNX storage systems. Created storage pools and Volumes,
presented LUNs to hosts.
 Worked with VMware and created virtual machines, VM clones, templates, adding
storage, performing vMotion and P2V.
 Manage access control lists for domino/middleware software
 Work on Web domino/middleware projects as assigned, including sizing, planning and
implementation activities
 Perform L2 domino/middleware problem determination and problem resolution
 Resolved Remedy tickets and Request tickets such as share creation on NAS, resolving
permission issues, Server deployment etc.
  Deployed Java applications/Web-services using CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Puppet in
standalone and clustered environments. 
 Build CI/CD using Jenkins, GIT, saving the image in Docker private registry.
 Develop implementations for cloud & microservices architectures and frameworks;
regularly develop frameworks, pipeline scripts, cloud CLI scripts, how-to snippets (Java,
Spring, Kubernetes, Docker, etc.) as part of customer migration.
 Worked on NetBackup backup solutions. Created and managed Backup policies,
Installed NetBackup client on physical servers, Performed VM and file level backups
and restores.
 Monitoring and management of onsite and remote located servers using Traverse and
VMware vRealize.
 Experience with Citrix XenApp environment. Involved publishing and managing
applications.
 Involved in updating/applying patches to the servers using Red Hat Satellite server.
 Experience working with HP DL 360/380 Gen 8, C7000 Blade Servers.

Environment: Red Hat Linux /5/6/7 Enterprise servers, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 R2,
IBM XIV, EMC VNX, EMC Isilon, HP DL 360P/380P Gen 8 VMware Infrastructure vSphere 6.0.

Chase Bank- New York City, NY.

Sept 2018 – Dec 2020
Sr. System Administrator/Engineer

Responsibilities:
 Installation, Maintenance, Administration and troubleshooting of Linux Red Hat 6/7/8
systems, CentOS and Amazon Linux systems.
 Involved Installing RedHat Linux using kickstart and applying security polices for
hardening the servers.
 1+ years of experience working with AWS technologies such as EC2, S3, EFS, Glacier etc.
 Worked with infrastructure as code technologies, such as CloudFormation, Terraform
and GitLab.
 Worked on Atlassian tools suite including, JIRA, Stash, Confluence and Bamboo.
 Extensively worked with Puppet configurations, installed and configured puppet
agents, created and modified classes, modules and hiera yaml files to meet the
configuration requirements.
 Experience with Git development techniques such as create, pull, push, merge, and
rebase branches.
 Created Puppet module to deploy SSSD on Linux servers for user authentication with
Active Directory.
 Involved in deploying Splunk servers. Install and configure Splunk forwarders on nodes
to collects logs. Created alerts and triggers based on collected logs.
 Involved in creation of virtual machines and infrastructure in the AWS Cloud
environment
 Worked with VMware. created virtual machines, VM clones, templates, adding storage,
performing vMotion and P2V.
 Experience delivering CI/CD automation solutions in an agile software organization
  Experience building highly performance scalable, software in a CI/CD environment
 Implemented Spring boot microservices to process the messages into the Kafka cluster
setup.
 Created and regularly use the Confidential Cloud/Microservices Assessment asset for
identifying current level of best-practices adoption, gaps, and roadmap for adoption of
cloud/microservices practices
 Installed and configured WebSphere Network Deployment Manager 6.0, 6.1, used
Update Installer to update with fix packs and automated the tasks with shell scripts
using silent response files
 Expert level knowledge on working with applications and deploying them
on WebSphere Application Server and writing scripts to automate the troubleshooting
and reporting tasks
 Configuration, management and maintenance of middleware and platform stack.
 Experience deploying and managing RedHat Satellite 6, included content sync, creation
of content views, registering of RedHat systems and creation of patching schedules.
 Implemented Ansible to manage all existing servers and automate the
build/configuration of new servers.
 Wrote Ansible, terraform scripts to automatically update system components.
 Wrote playbooks and automated the administrative tasks, security patching and
upgrading on organization infrastructure.
 Applied Patches in SOA and ODI in middleware layers.
 Worked on Docker containerization, creating Docker images and handling multiple
images primarily for middleware Installation and domain configuration.
 Integrates, installs, configures, tests, and supports compute environment systems with
focus on the Linux platforms Redhat, and Ubuntu
 Resolved JIRA and HP ServiceNow tickets and Request tickets such as resolving
permission issues, Server deployment etc.
 Worked with Veeam backup solutions. installed clients on physical servers, Performed
VM and file level backups and restores.
 Monitoring and management of onsite and remote located servers using Solarwinds and
VMware vRealize. Created custom templates and alerts to poll non standard OIDs.
 Involved in updating/applying patches to the servers using Red Hat Satellite server 5.8.
 Experience working with Cisco UCS and HP C7000 Blade Servers.

Environment: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.8,5.10, Ubuntu, VERITAS Cluster Server, Veritas
Volume Manager, Oracle 11G, UX, IBM AIX, SAN, EMC VNX HP ProLiant DL380,560 Web
Logic, Oracle RAC/ASM, MS Windows 2003, 2008, 2012 server, IBM and AWS, Python, Puppet.

Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission – Laurel, MD

May 2016 – Aug 2018
Linux Administrator/System Engineer

Responsibilities:
 Installation, configuration, administration of RHEL 5, 6 and Solaris 9, 10 using Kickstart,
Jumpstart, custom configuration like package management, volume management of
servers.
  Applied appropriate support packages/patches to maintain system integrity.
 Configured volume groups and logical volumes, extended logical volumes for file
system growth needs using Logical Volume Manager (LVM) commands.
 Creating, installing and configuring Zones, LDOMs in Sun Solaris 10.
 Creating virtual machines, cloning, creating templates, adding storage, installing
Redhat, performing vMotion, adding ESX hosts on VSphere 4.0.
 Used puppet to configure servers manages profiles, push changes, writing manifests.
 Monitored Linux server for CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and Disk Utilization
for performance monitoring.
 Troubleshooting and configuring NAS and NFS mount points.
 Adding Oracle ASM disk to the server. Creating managing volumes using LVM.
 Installing, configuring Veritas Netbackup 6.5 on Solaris, Redhat servers, creating polices,
scheduling jobs.
 Installed and verified that all AIX/Linux patches or updates are applied to the servers.
 Preparing servers for Oracle RAC installation which includes tuning the kernel, agent
installation, adding NAS storage.
 Worked on resolving production issues and documenting Root Cause Analysis and
updating the tickets using BMC Remedy.
 Designing Firewall rules for new servers to enable communication with application,
Oracle 10g servers.
 Monitored server and application performance & tuning via various stat commands
(vmstat, nfsstat, iostat etc) and tuned I/O, memory, etc.
 Coordinated with the Storage, Network and Hardware teams on server provisions (HP
Proliant DL385/585 G5, G6 servers, and HP BL 465C G5 blade centers).

Environment: RHEL 5.x,6.x, Red-Hat Linux Enterprise servers (HP Proliant DL 585, BL
465/485, ML Series), Solaris 8,9,10, AIX 5.3, 6.1, SAN, BladeLogic, Veritas Cluster Server 5.0,
Windows 2003 server, Shell programming, Jboss 4.2, JDK 1.5,1.6, VMware Virtual Client 3.5,
VMware Infrastructure 3.5.

Bloomberg Industry Group – Arlington, VA

July 2013 – Apr 2016
Linux/Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:
 Installation, Maintenance, Administration and troubleshooting of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5/6 and Solaris 9/10 systems.
 Performed automated installations of Operating System using kickstart for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5/6 and Jumpstart for Solaris 9/10 Linux.
 As a Red Hat administrator, primary responsibility includes building of new servers
which includes rack mounting, installation of OS, configuring of various OS-native and
third party tools, securing of OS, installing & configuring, job scheduling.
 Remote monitoring and management of server hardware.
 Involved in Server sizing and identifying, recommending optimal server hardware
based on User requirements.
  Installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6 and Solaris 10 Operating System on servers and
Blades over the network.
 Works with CMIPS II Sr. Systems Engineer and Architect on issues related to
middleware infrastructure design and architecture, and assists with Proof Of Concept
testing.
 Used Puppet tool for managing system configurations.
 Installation, configuration and administration of VMware, Solaris Zones, Containers and
Ldoms.
 Planning and implementing system upgrades including hardware, operating system
and periodical patch upgrades.
 Extensive use of Bash shell for scripting.
 Expertise in Linux backup/restore with tar including disk partitioning and formatting.
 Involved in Planning, building and Administration of various High Availability clusters
and heart beat checking on Sun Solaris using VCS in heterogeneous SAN environment.
 Expertise in Linux backup/restore with tar including disk partitioning and formatting.
 Involved in development, user acceptance, and performance testing, production &
disaster recovery server.
 Set up user and group login ID's, printing parameters, network configuration, password,
resolving permissions issues, user and group quota.
 Creating and maintaining user accounts, profiles, security, rights, disk space and process
monitoring.

Environment: Red Hat Linux Enterprise servers, Solaris 9,10, SAN, BladeLogic, Veritas Cluster
Server 5.0, VMware Virtual Client 4.1, VMware Infrastructure 4.1, vSphere 5.5, WebSphere
application server.

EDUCATION
 Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from UIC graduated in 2013